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- Comment on if you're a landowner, then you defacto own the people on your land because people are categorically defined as existing in a time & place and you literally own the place so you own their existence 3 hours ago:
Only if you have a sign posted, reading “All ye who enter here forfeit thine selves – body, mind, spirit, and soul – to the owner of these lands, until such time as ye leave or are slain,” with the sign carved from stone by hand, with a willowbark dagger, blessed under the light of a blood moon, approximately eight feet tall, flanked by two shrubberies – that look nice and are not too expensive – and visible to all who enter, lit eternal by the captured light of the new moon.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 6 days ago:
Can’t you turn on Developer Mode to enable third party slicers?
- Comment on Frustratingly bad at self hosting. Can someone help me access LLMs on my rig from my phone 6 days ago:
I believe you set env vars on Windows through System Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables.
- Comment on Frustratingly bad at self hosting. Can someone help me access LLMs on my rig from my phone 6 days ago:
I believe you just need to set the env var
OLLAMA_HOSTto0.0.0.0:11434and then restart Ollama. - Comment on Frustratingly bad at self hosting. Can someone help me access LLMs on my rig from my phone 6 days ago:
What OS is your server running? Do you have an Android phone or an iPhone?
In either case all you likely need to do is expose the port and then access your server by IP on that port with an appropriate client.
In Ollama you can expose the port to your local network by changing the bind address from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0
Regarding clients: on iOS you can use Enchanted or Apollo to connect to Ollama.
On Android there are likely comparable apps.
- Comment on Choosing my first printer is driving me mad. 1 week ago:
I think of the Bambu P1S as the inexpensive alternative to the Bambu X1C or a comparable printer from Prusa, at least in terms of print consistency and ease of use.
My Bambu was my fourth 3D printer (second FDM printer) and it took 3D printing from a frustrating, time consuming hobby to just a thing I do to enable other hobbies. I don’t have to spend time tweaking settings to get a decent print, because the default settings are already good enough. Instead, I can focus on designing models or working with finished prints.
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 1 week ago:
I’ll have to check out both OpenSCAD and Code Comic. Some completely non-CAD DSLs that you might be interested in, since you mentioned GraphViz:
Mermaid.js does something very similar to Graphviz. There are a couple other similar tools like that out there, but Mermaid is supported in a lot of places natively or as an easy to use plugin, like GitHub Markdown (and other git forges like Forgejo), Hedgedoc, Obsidian, SilverBullet, etc…
I’d also argue that LaTeX counts, and to a lesser extent, Markdown - compare using them to using Word.
And reveal.js is an equivalent for slide deck creation that would normally be done with PowerPoint.
- Comment on Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement 1 week ago:
For reference, Anthropic is currently valued at $183 Billion and their annual recurring revenue is currently $5 Billion (up from $1 Billion in 2024). So this will cost them roughly 30% of their current annual revenue.
- Comment on localhosting: selfhosting to the min 3 weeks ago:
I’m a professional software engineer and I’ve been in the industry since before Kubernetes was first released, and I still found it overwhelming when I had to use it professionally.
I also can’t think of an instance when someone self-hosting would need it. Why did you end up looking into it?
I use Docker Compose for dozens of applications that range in complexity from “just run this service, expose it via my reverse proxy, and add my authentication middleware” to “in this stack, run this service with my custom configuration, a custom service I wrote myself or forked, and another service that I wrote a Dockerfile for; make this service accessible to this other service, but not to the reverse proxy; expose these endpoints to the auth middleware and for these endpoints, allow bypassing of the auth middleware if an API key is supplied.” And I could do much more complicated things with Docker if I needed to, so even for self-hosters with more complex use cases than mine, I question whether Kubernetes is the right fit.
- Comment on YSK that you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions. 3 weeks ago:
While police may resent offensive words, they cannot use their authority to punish individuals for lawful, protected conduct.
Factually incorrect.
First, consider that regardless of whether they are prohibited from arresting people for insulting them, they do. Those charges are often dropped or thrown out, sure - albeit with no consequences for the police officer - but I would consider having to deal with that hassle “punishment” that they can inflict purely because of their authority.
But there’s also institutional support for an officer to punish you for lawful, protected conduct. If you upset an officer and in response, he cites or arrests you for a minor but legitimate offense that he’d have otherwise not cared about, you’re very unlikely to get that technically legitimate charge thrown out of court. It may be that police are technically prohibited from doing this, but in practice, “He only arrested me for — insert random crime here, let’s say jaywalking — because I called him a pig, said I’d engaged in coitus with his mother the previous night, and asked if he’d like to watch next time or if he had a night in with his partner’s nightstick planned” isn’t going to suffice to get the charge thrown out, even if the judge believes you, if you were actually breaking the law in question. And since pretty much everyone is breaking laws all the time, this means that as long as the police officer can find one that you’re currently breaking, you’re fucked.
- Comment on Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds 4 weeks ago:
Summary of my comment: the study showed that the AI tool in question was an effective tool for the task, nothing more.
I didn’t read this particular article, but I recently read a different one about the same study. I also clicked into the study itself and read the abstract and everything else that was freely available. The study was paywalled, but as far as I could tell:
- Performance immediately displayed a sustained increase of 24% relative to baseline while using the AI tool in question
- Immediately after the tool was taken away (after using it for three months), performance was 20% lower than the baseline
- The study did not check to see what level performance returned to after three months without it, nor when it returned to baseline levels
- The study also did not compare performance drops after returning from a three month vacation
- The study did not compare performance drops when losing access to other tools
This outcome is expected if given a tool that simplifies a process and then losing access to it. If I were writing code in Notepad and using _v2, _v3, etc for versioning, was then given an IDE and git for three months, then had to go back to my old ways with Notepad, I’d expect to be less effective than I had been. I’ve been relying on syntax highlighting, so I’m going to be paying less attention to the specific monochrome text than I used to. I’ll have fallen out of practice from using the version naming techniques that I used to use. All of the stuff that I did to make up for having worse tooling, I’m out of practice with.
But that doesn’t mean that I should use worse tools.
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 1 month ago:
I’m a millennial and I did it more than once on hardware older than I was, but because I wanted to, not because there were no other options.
- Comment on How do I manage docker&Traefik behind a reverse proxy not on docker. 1 month ago:
This is what I would try first. It looks like 1337 is the exposed port, per github.com/nightscout/…/Dockerfile
x-logging: &default-logging options: max-size: '10m' max-file: '5' driver: json-file services: mongo: image: mongo:4.4 volumes: - ${NS_MONGO_DATA_DIR:-./mongo-data}:/data/db:cached logging: *default-logging nightscout: image: nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor:latest container_name: nightscout restart: always depends_on: - mongo logging: *default-logging ports: - 1337:1337 environment: ### Variables for the container NODE_ENV: production TZ: [removed] ### Overridden variables for Docker Compose setup # The `nightscout` service can use HTTP, because we use `nginx` to serve the HTTPS # and manage TLS certificates INSECURE_USE_HTTP: 'true' # For all other settings, please refer to the Environment section of the README ### Required variables # MONGO_CONNECTION - The connection string for your Mongo database. # Something like mongodb://sally:sallypass@ds099999.mongolab.com:99999/nightscout # The default connects to the `mongo` included in this docker-compose file. # If you change it, you probably also want to comment out the entire `mongo` service block # and `depends_on` block above. MONGO_CONNECTION: mongodb://mongo:27017/nightscout # API_SECRET - A secret passphrase that must be at least 12 characters long. API_SECRET: [removed] ### Features # ENABLE - Used to enable optional features, expects a space delimited list, such as: careportal rawbg iob # See https://github.com/nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor#plugins for details ENABLE: careportal rawbg iob # AUTH_DEFAULT_ROLES (readable) - possible values readable, denied, or any valid role name. # When readable, anyone can view Nightscout without a token. Setting it to denied will require # a token from every visit, using status-only will enable api-secret based login. AUTH_DEFAULT_ROLES: denied # For all other settings, please refer to the Environment section of the README # https://github.com/nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor#environment
- Comment on How do I manage docker&Traefik behind a reverse proxy not on docker. 1 month ago:
To run it with Nginx instead of Traefik, you need to figure out what port Nightscout’s web server runs on, then expose that port, e.g.,
services: nightscout: ports: - 3000:3000
You can remove the labels as those are used by Traefik, as well as the Traefik service itself.
Then just point Nginx to that port (e.g., 3000) on your local machine.
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Traefik has to know the port, too, but it will auto detect the port that a local Docker service is running on. It looks like your config is relying on that feature as I don’t see the label that explicitly specifies the port.
- Comment on YSK about StopICE.net to send and receive alerts about ICE raids in your area 2 months ago:
PSTN is wiretapped.
It’s a good thing that the website itself supports sending and receiving alerts, then.
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 2 months ago:
I thought Hue bulbs used Zigbee?
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 2 months ago:
The up arrow moves through the letters, e.g., A->B->C. The down arrow moves to the next character in the sequence, e.g., C->CA->CAA. If you click past the correct letter, you’ll have to click all the way through again. And if you submit the wrong letter, you have to start all over (after it takes twenty seconds attempting to connect with the wrong password and then alerts you that it didn’t work, of course).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Depends on your e-reader! If you have a Kindle, Kobo, or Nook, yes, that’s true. However:
Boox has e-readers that run Android and you can install Hoopla. The Palma 2 is phone sized which is great. The Page, Leaf2, and Go 7 are all in the 7” form factor, plus they have 6” versions. And they have tablet sizes, too. They have both traditional black&white and color e-ink displays.
I have the Boox Air 3C and the original Palma and both are great. I’ll likely get a Boox as my next standard sized e-reader, too (whenever I replace my Kindle Oasis). Though unless the technology drastically improves before then, it’ll be one with a black and white screen. (The color is nice in the tablet sizes, though.)
Some other options that I’m less familiar with include:
- Bigme has Android 7” color e-readers, as well as tablets and e-ink smartphones.
- Meebook has e-readers that run Android (and Android e-ink tablets)
- The MuSnap Aura C is a 10” Android e-ink tablet
- XPPen has an 11” Android e-ink tablet
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s incredibly compatible. Capitalists want laborers to work hard. It encourages laborers to work hard so they can one day be capitalists themselves.
It also encourages them to vote for politicians who don’t serve them, but politicians, because someday they’ll benefit from their pro-business policies.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The American Dream is capitalist propaganda, not anticapitalist.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 months ago:
The products currently on the marketplace have architectures that are far more sophisticated than just an LLM. Even something as simple as “Deep Research,” which both Anthropic and Claude have available, is using multiple interconnected systems to provide a single response.
Consider Agentic AI, like Claude Code, where they’re using tools, analyzing the results of those tools, iterating, possibly calling out to MCP servers to do other things, etc… The tools allow them to do things like read or modify files in the working directory, execute programs (i.e., your linter, installing dependencies, running your app), querying against your app itself, and so on.
And of course note that the single “Claude” box in that diagram has an architecture that’s more sophisticated than just being an LLM. At minimum, consumer facing LLMs generally have a supervisor that censors problematic inputs and outputs; this doesn’t make the system more competent but the same concept can be applied to any other sort of transparent wrapper.
It seems to me that we already have consumer systems that are doing what you described, and we’re already working on enhancing their architectures further.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 months ago:
OP is also in the allegedly ultra rare camp of “successfully configured Jellyfin and lived to tell the tale.” Not what I’d expect of someone unable to configure Plex correctly. I’ve not set up a Plex server myself but my guess is it wasn’t clear that it was misconfigured - it did work previously, after all.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 months ago:
If they’re calling it remote streaming when you’re on the same (local) network, that’s not exactly intuitive. I’d say OP’s phrasing was fair.
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 3 months ago:
You got the idea!
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 3 months ago:
We’re in c/shower_thoughts. “What if my grandma was a bike?” would fit right in
- Comment on Social nuke 3 months ago:
It was already known before the whistleblower that:
- Siri inputs (all STT at that time, really) were processed off device
- Siri had false activations
The “sinister” thing that we learned was that Apple was reviewing those activations to see if they were false, with the stated intent (as confirmed by the whistleblower) of using them to reduce false activations.
There are also black box methods to verify that data isn’t being sent and that particular hardware (like the microphone) isn’t being used, and there are people who look for vulnerabilities as a hobby. If the microphones on the most/second most popular phone brand (iPhone, Samsung) were secretly recording all the time, evidence of that would be easy to find and would be a huge scoop - why haven’t we heard about it yet?
Snowden and Wikileaks dumped a huge amount of info about governments spying, but nothing in there involved always on microphones in our cell phones.
To be fair, an individual phone is a single compromise away from actually listening to you, so it still makes sense to avoid having sensitive conversations within earshot of a wirelessly connected microphone. But generally that’s not the concern most people should have.
Advertising tracking is much more sinister and complicated and harder to wrap your head around than “my phone is listening to me” and as a result makes for a much less glamorous story, but there are dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of stories out there about how invasive advertising companies’ methods are, about how they know too much, etc… Think about what LLMs do with text. The level of prediction that they can do. That’s what ML algorithms can do with your behavior.
If you’re misattributing what advertisers know about you to the phone listening and reporting back, then you’re not paying attention to what they’re actually doing.
So yes - be vigilant. Just be vigilant about the right thing.
- Comment on Social nuke 3 months ago:
proven by a whistleblower from apple
Assuming you have an iPhone. And even then, the whistleblower you’re referencing was part of a team who reviewed utterances by users with the “Hey Siri” wake word feature enabled. If you had Siri disabled entirely or had the wake word feature disabled, you weren’t impacted at all.
This may have been limited to impacting only users who also had some option like “Improve Siri and Dictation” enabled, but it’s not clear. Today, the Privacy Policy explicitly says that Apple can have employees review your interactions with Siri and Dictation (my understanding is the reason for the settlement is that they were not explicit that human review was occurring). I strongly recommend disabling that setting, particularly if you have a wake word enabled.
If you have wake words enabled on your phone or device, your phone has to listen to be able to react to them. At that point, of course the phone is listening. Whether it’s sending the info back somewhere is a different story, and there isn’t any evidence that I’m aware of that any major phone company does this.
- Comment on It's easier to inform language with language than with experience. 3 months ago:
Sure - Wikipedia says it better than I could hope to:
As English-linguist Larry Andrews describes it, descriptive grammar is the linguistic approach which studies what a language is like, as opposed to prescriptive, which declares what a language should be like.[11]: 25 In other words, descriptive grammarians focus analysis on how all kinds of people in all sorts of environments, usually in more casual, everyday settings, communicate, whereas prescriptive grammarians focus on the grammatical rules and structures predetermined by linguistic registers and figures of power. An example that Andrews uses in his book is fewer than vs less than.[11]: 26 A descriptive grammarian would state that both statements are equally valid, as long as the meaning behind the statement can be understood. A prescriptive grammarian would analyze the rules and conventions behind both statements to determine which statement is correct or otherwise preferable. Andrews also believes that, although most linguists would be descriptive grammarians, most public school teachers tend to be prescriptive.[11]: 26
- Comment on It's easier to inform language with language than with experience. 3 months ago:
You might be interested in reading up on the debate of “Prescriptive vs Descriptive” approaches in a linguistics context.
- Comment on What do I actually need? 3 months ago:
You can run a NAS with any Linux distro - your limiting factor is having enough drive storage. You might want to consider something that’s great at using virtual machines (e.g., Proxmox) if you don’t like Docker, but I have almost everything I want running in Docker and haven’t needed to spin up a single virtual machine.