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- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 8 hours ago:
So… just making sure I am understanding this properly: centralized service monopoly by one government backed provider…? Doesn’t that got quite a communist ring to it?
I guess it also makes it easier for the one government backed provider to require facial recognition for a centralized authoritarian policed state.
Oh, right, I forgot this is Lemmy, that’s exactly the goal of the vocal minority. Never mind. Carry on!
- Comment on Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards 1 day ago:
They’ll try to pull out of Apple Pay/Google Pay. At least that’s what Walmart did / is doing for the longest time in favor of their CurrenC or whatever thing in the US.
- Comment on Problems with creating my own instance 4 days ago:
If memory serves, the default docker compose expose the database port with a basic hard coded password, too. So imagine using the compose without reading too much, next thing you know you’re running a free Postgres database for the world.
- Comment on [Repost] Reliable alternatives to AWS Deep Glacier for ~5TB? 5 days ago:
No multi-region unless you roll it yourself. Their offerings are primarily web hosting centric, so you’d need to do the heavy lifting yourself if you want more infra. Also worth noting that they’re definitely not in the same league as the big players, they’re just an old vendor that isn’t likely to disappear on you.
- Comment on [Repost] Reliable alternatives to AWS Deep Glacier for ~5TB? 5 days ago:
BuyVM has $24s/yr KVM server that you can attach storage at $5/TB/mn. So 5TB should set you back $325/yr all in. They’ve been around for quite some time — I’ve been client since 2011 — so they’re not likely to disappear anytime soon.
- Comment on Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors [using generative AI] 5 days ago:
Siri was already behind the competition from its initial launch.
Apple Siri release date: October 4, 2011
Microsoft Cortana release date: April 2, 2014
Amazon Alexa release date: November 6, 2014
Google Assistant release date: May 18, 2016
Apple generally adopts technologies later than others so they could build on top of others learnings; things here was the exact opposite where they started years before others, and ended up paving the way to allow others to build better products based on their learnings.
- Comment on Apple Unleashes the M4: A Powerhouse for the New iPad Pro 6 days ago:
There is no “hard” limitation differentiating guzzling down a gallon of gasoline vs a gallon of red wine; nor is there any “soft” limitation of deploying your own OS.
Vast majority of people do not possess knowledge to extract consumable ethanol from gasoline, doesn’t mean it is impossible.
Vast majority of people do not possess knowledge to attempt to deploy their own OS onto an iPad, doesn’t mean it is impossible. Very talented individuals have been hacking iOS boot loader since original iPhone (no version, no suffix) days.
If one are so inclined, there’s plenty of places to learn, and expand one’s knowledge to attempt what most aren’t able to do. The alternative? Bitch whine complain and repeat until a multi-trillion company give a damn. I ain’t holding my breath.
- Comment on Apple Unleashes the M4: A Powerhouse for the New iPad Pro 6 days ago:
Both 87 grade gasoline and typical red wine contains about 10% in ethanol. The limitation isn’t the ethanol. Let the users decide whether they want to consume it…? No! Just like the gasoline refineries did not make it with intention for human consumption, Apple designed the iPad hardware for a different use case than what you’d like.
Just like how the gas station attendant will tell you that you cannot consume gasoline at the gas station, Apple will tell you that you cannot run macOS at the Apple Store. If someone wishes to attempt it, there’s nothing preventing them from buying gasoline, taking it home, and attempt to consume it in their home. If someone wishes to attempt running macOS, there’s nothing preventing you from buying it, taking it home, and attempt to hack macOS onto it.
Gasoline isn’t the product for someone wanting to get drunk; just like how the iPad is not a product for you because it doesn’t fit your use case, and that’s fine. You can always wait for when they inevitably release the M4 variant of MacBook (or MacBook Air if weight is a concern), which will fit your use case better.
- Comment on Traefik conditional certificate for same URL 1 week ago:
There’s two ways around the symptoms you’re trying to treat:
- Don’t bother with internal vs external. Always route through external which gets encrypted by the origin cert to CloudFlare and then CloudFlare to your browser. This is simplest in that you don’t need to manage two sets of DNS records and you don’t end up with different certificates for the same domain (in the odd event where you end up needing to do something like certificate pinning). Or;
- Just add the origin cert to your systems’ trust store. You know the certificate, it will encrypt the traffic anyway, also you’re accessing the service via intranet so there’s really no attack vector here.
Probably worth calling out that although 1 feels like there’s more hops (and there absolutely are), with any decent internet, you’re probably not going to feel it. This is because the edge server is probably situated very close to your ISP (that’s how they make sure everything responds quickly) so your over all round trip should only be affected by a negligible amount of time that you most likely won’t notice.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 1 week ago:
The RAID rebuild time is going to be longer than the OEM warranty… love it!
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 1 week ago:
You’d be very hard pressed to find bandwidth pricing from 16 years ago.
The point is the claimed issue is really a non issue, and there are much more effective ways to stress websites without needing the intermediary of fediverse.
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 1 week ago:
AWS charges $0.09/GB. Even assuming zero caching and always dynamically requested content, you’d need 100x this “attack” to rack up $1 in bandwidth fees. There are way faster ways to rack up bandwidth fees. I remember the days where I paid $1/GB of egress on overage, and even then, this 100MB would’ve only set me back $0.15 at worst.
Also worth noting that those who’d host on AWS isn’t going to blink at $1 in bandwidth fees; they’d be hosting else where that offers cheaper egress (I.e. billed by megabits or some generous fixed allocation); those that are more sane would be serving behind CDNs that’d be even cheaper.
This is a non-issue written by someone who clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about, likely intended to drum up traffic to their site.
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 1 week ago:
Or 4) Ignore noise and do nothing; this is a case of user talking about things they don’t understand at best, or a blog intentionally misleading others to drum up traffic for themselves at worst. This is literally not a problem. Serving that kind of traffic can be done on a single server without any CDN and they’ve got a CDN already.
- Comment on What should I run and why? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re feeling that it will take too much time to maintain something you’re deploying, then there may also be toolset/skillset mismatch. Take Docker/K8s that you’ve called out for example; they’re the graduated steps to deploy things in the industry. Things deployed via Docker drastically reduces the amount of time to get up and running by eliminating large swaths of dependency management, as well as gives option to use tools on platform to manage self updates if that’s something desired (though this could potentially introduce failures by manual upgrade steps where required). You’d graduate to k8s as your infrastructure footprints start to grow. Learning the correct tools could potentially reduce the barrier to entry and time requirements on the apps front.
Having said that, it is probably better to ask the inverse: what is it that you’re trying to achieve and why?
Without a reason that resonates well with you, you’re not going to find time in your allegedly already life to maintain to keep it working. Nor will you be willing to find the time to learn the correct tools to deploy these things.
- Comment on App Idea: Location History 2 weeks ago:
I played with it forever ago, but from memory, that is most likely due to the way it is designed to conserve battery. The app waits for significant location update notifications from the OS and then sends the updated location to the tracking server. It doesn’t (or I should say it didn’t as I don’t know about now) actively poll the location on fixed intervals.
- Comment on App Idea: Location History 2 weeks ago:
Have you seen OwnTracks?
- Comment on Traefik 3.0 GA Has Landed: Here's How to Migrate 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily just yaml — there are things yaml cannot do well, but even ignoring that, traefik can also use toml, or container labels — but rather, the entire concept of infrastructure as code is way better than GUIs. Infrastructure as code allows for much better linting, testing, and version controls thereby providing better stability and reproducibility.
- Comment on Is it that difficult to run Mastodon over Docker? 2 weeks ago:
Most providers offer some kind of OS reload and you may be able to use custom ISOs for the process. However, that doesn’t change the fact that if you don’t want to change OS (especially if you’re already using something more commonly seen in production environments like Debian), then you shouldn’t change the OS.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s not the protocol, it’s the users. There’s a vocal group that would rather stay small, niche, and remain in obscurity away from the rest of the world. They fear that they’re going to lose their pedestal and megaphone because their quirky skewed view of the world will be drowned out by mainstream worldviews. They’ll then mask it with claims of “privacy”, “EEE”, or “anti-blahblahblah_that_I_dont_like”.
Big companies did wonders for Mastadon’s adoption, and will likely do the same here. The lack of users and content will be resolved when it happens, and I just hope I can hold out long enough until that happens.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 2 weeks ago:
Phones learn from what you’re typing. The more you type (typo) something, the more they will recommend it to you. Vicious cycle if it auto corrupts it for you, and you miss it/ignore it thinking the other party will understand you fine. Eventually it learns the ironic typos as actual words and then you’re stuck with them when you type. I kind of wish there’s a way to review / manage the autocomplete dictionaries, but I haven’t tried hard enough to find out yet.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 2 weeks ago:
Tin foil hat: Spy phone/app/browser looking at what you’re reading and adding it to your keyboard hints. That particular company was mentioned in a recently linked article about the company triggering an earthquake from fracking in northern BC, as well as being sued by the state of California.
- Comment on Nintendo vs. Garry's Mod: Dissecting the 'Fake' Domain Behind All the Chaos 3 weeks ago:
You are advocating piracy, and were never going to spent a cent anyway.
Like it or not, this is how IP laws work. Direct your attention at your local law makers to abolish outdated IP laws.
- Comment on Nintendo vs. Garry's Mod: Dissecting the 'Fake' Domain Behind All the Chaos 3 weeks ago:
I received DMCA from Nintendo in 2015 from
dmca@millernash.com
which was also confirmed to be legitimate as authorized agents.Big companies like Nintendo doesn’t have to use their own in house corporate counsel for this kind of enforcement. They can and often do task it out to firms that’ll take on both discovery and take down based on given directive on an agreed rate that’d be cheaper than them doing it in house, so they don’t need to train up an entire department on the skill set required.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 4 weeks ago:
Sure that’s an entirely valid option; but not the one the producing team and the deceased’s family opted for… and they had a much larger say in it than you and I combined.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 4 weeks ago:
Having done something before doesn’t mean they shouldn’t find ways to make it better though. The “deepfake”-esque techniques can provide much better quality replicas. Not to mention, as resolution demand increases, it would be harder to leverage older assets and techniques to meet the new demands.
Another similar area is what LLM is doing to/for developers. We already have developers, why do we need AI to code? Well, they can help with synthesizing simpler code and freeing up devs to focus on more complicated problems. They can also democratize the ability to develop solutions to non-developers, just like how the deepfake solutions could democratize content creation for non/less-skilled VFX specialists, helping the industry create better content for everyone.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 4 weeks ago:
Say you’re a movie studio director making the next big movie with some big name celebs. Filming is in progress, and one of the actor dies in the most on brand way possible. Everyone decides that the film must be finished to honor the actor’s legacy, but how can you film someone who is dead? This technology would enable you to create footage the VFX team can use to lay over top of stand-in actor’s face and provide a better experience for your audience.
I’m sure there are other uses, but this one pops to mind as a very legitimate use case that could’ve benefited from the technology.
- Comment on Used NetApp 6TB SAS for 38€??? 4 weeks ago:
NetApp is big in enterprise DAS space; think big server rack with highly redundant components to provide block storage devices to multiple workstations in the office. If I remember correctly, they’re also the ones where their drives are formatted with 520 bytes per sector, and you’d need to reformat them using
sg_format
to 512 bytes per sector before you can use them with some systems. - Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
At least from the nerd side of Lemmy, communities pertaining to technology, self-hosting, etc. — which I’d imagine to be the larger drivers due to how complicated it is to join compared to a traditional centralized setup (see also same hurdle for mastodon vs Twitter; which doesn’t gain adoption until Thread and BlueSky started to attract the less technical users), I’m seeing troubling signs of slowing down and shrinking.
If people actually want Lemmy in these areas to grow, it is important to be a lot more inclusive, and understand when to not participate in order to foster better community growth.
What I mean on the inclusive side is those FOSS advocates need to back off with the “You don’t understand FOSS, and go make your own instance” comments so other users don’t just bounce right off and leave after being bored with nothing to interact with.
What I mean by understand when not to participate is literally don’t participate in niche communities that doesn’t apply to you. So many Android users commenting irrelevant anti-Apple sentiments in Apple Enthusiasts community, for example. This is driving away actual users who are interested in discussions.
The charts don’t lie. Lemmy is shrinking, not growing. After getting a new lease on life with 0.19 due to what is essentially clever accounting, the community is still slowing down/shrinking. And for the nerdier side of the userbase, unless the community by and large start to interact more inclusively, the whole thing is sadly going to be just a small blip that’ll soon fizzle out.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
0.19 counts active users differently; prior to 0.19, the count is only if the user posted, after 0.19, all interactions results in the user being counted as an active user. This inflated the active users hugely as all lurkers are counted.
The active users is dwindling. You can see the steep drop off prior to the change and a slow but continued decline after the update.
I do not know the reason for the number of posts falling off, but that doesn’t look healthy either to be honest.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that’s the usual preventive wear clicking sound that’s just part of newer drives’ design…?