xcjs
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- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 1 hour ago:
I mean, do I want to give money to a billionaire? Not exactly.
On the other hand, if we don’t start supporting premium software services and open source projects, the enshtiffication trend will get worse.
I have to choose among my principles, and I’m strongly against user-hostile UI/UX paradigms, enshittification, and other downard quality trends in software/services.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 3 hours ago:
Honestly, if this reduces user-hostile UI changes for paid accounts, and I can get a chronological feed of just friend activity with original content, I’d pay it at this point.
(I know there is supposed to be a friends-only feed now, but it’s not even close to being friends-only still.)
- Comment on How do you manage your home server configuration? 1 month ago:
Ansible!
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 month ago:
I second GitLab CI/CD - it’s a CI/CD system that just makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its complexities depending on your needs, but I’ve overall enjoyed my time working with it.
- Comment on selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images 1 month ago:
Sorry for spamming in this thread, but if you rely on Watchtower, there’s a maintained fork I recommend: github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower
- Comment on selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images 1 month ago:
Not for the latest and future versions of Docker.
This fork works, though: github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower
- Comment on selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images 1 month ago:
There’s a maintained fork, fortunately!
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 months ago:
I have a similar perspective. I built my own in-home AI server because I assumed if the technology had any staying power, I better learn how it works to some degree and see if I can run it myself.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
“Free”
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 3 months ago:
Thank you! That is exactly my point.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 3 months ago:
That’s not quite the same - that gives you the appearance of being a local device, which is enough to fool the restriction.
Their policy and technology enforcement is to charge for remote access, not relaying.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 3 months ago:
They charge for remote access whether it’s through their relay service or not, and you can’t opt out of fallback to their relay service.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 5 months ago:
It’s the official survey form from the Android Developer page on the matter: developer.android.com/…/guides
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 months ago:
Who knows anymore? But I’d rather say something than accept it silently.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 months ago:
Let Google know what you think: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/…/viewform
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 5 months ago:
That is my hope as well.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 5 months ago:
Let Google know what you think about this: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/…/viewform
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 5 months ago:
Let Google know what you think about this: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/…/viewform
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 5 months ago:
Let Google know what you think about this: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/…/viewform
- Comment on [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source 7 months ago:
That’s not how distillation works if I understand what you’re trying to explain.
If you distill model A to a smaller model, you just get a smaller version of model A with the same approximate distribution curve of parameters, but fewer of them. You can’t distill Llama into Deepseek R1.
I’ve been able to run distillations of Deepseek R1 up to 70B, and they’re all censored still. There is a version of Deepseek R1 “patched” with western values called R1-1776 that will answer topics censored by the Chinese government, however.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 8 months ago:
The client is open source and can be administered using the open source Headscale server. I use it with Keycloak as an auth gateway.
- Comment on Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead 1 year ago:
If it wasn’t better than that, no company would want arbitration cases.