splendoruranium

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do a presentation of the Fediverse to my college students and will soon be giving short workshops to organization as well. I realize that a viable, decentralized altenative to Facebook is IMO the biggest missing piece of the puzzle. We need something that offers some kind of central platform for networking, events, groups

  Well, there’s Mattermost and there’s just a plain old Matrix server. Both are better-suited to collaboration projects than Facebook ever was. I’d argue the only reason it ever morphed into that role in the first place was because everyone was on there, it had little to do with features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any decent GPT-detection tools that can be run locally?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically what the title says. I know online providers like GPTzero exist, but when dealing with sensitive documents, I would prefer to keep it in-house. A lot of people like to talk big about open source models for generating stuff, but the detection side is not as discussed I feel.

  I wonder if this kind of local capability can be stitched into a browser plugin. Hell, doesn’t even need to be a locally hosted service on my home network. Local app on-machine should be fine. But being able to host it as a service to use from other machines would be interesting.

  I’m currently not able to give it a proper search but the first glance results are either for people trying to evade these detectors or people trying to locally host language models.

  In general it’s a fool’s errand, I’m afraid. What’s the specific context in which you’re trying to apply this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhost an LLM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read about OLLAMA, but it’s all unclear to me.

  There’s really nothing more to it than the initial instructions tell you. Literally just a “curl -fsSL ollama.com/install.sh | sh”. Then you’re just a “ollama run qwen3:14b” away from having a chat with the model in your terminal.

  After that you can make it more involved by serving the model via API, manually adding .gguf quantizations (usually smaller or special-purpose modified bootleg versions of big published models) to your Ollama library with a modelcard, ditching Ollama altogether for a different environment or, the big upgrade, giving your chats a shiny frontend in the form of Open-WebUI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it called when the internet makes something small and minor seem bigger and worser than it actually is?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In general: a mismatch between media reality and reality - that’s pre-internet terminology, mind you, but it applies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the fall of Rome this stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The decline and fall of the Roman empire was something that took place over the course of centuries, involved events largely out of the control of individuals and affected very large areas and very diverse and different cultures.

  I simply may not know enough about it, but I wouldn’t call it “stupid”. It’s just not a word that I can see applying here. It wasn’t a historical even, more like some kind of plate tectonics process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do boycotts work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like do they actually, reliably effect change in the way the activists intend?

  Have they worked against Israel? Did they work against Apartheid South Africa? Could they work against Trump’s America?

  My hunch is that they don’t, really, but can be a useful promotional tool for other issues. Like don’t buy American is a simple message. >If people will listen to that, they may listen to reasons why, which maybe could build a movement.

  But on the whole I am very sceptical, and would be interested in any reasons for or against boycotts.

  Try to look at it the other way around: Every single one of your actions is a vote for how you want the word to be. By the very act of visiting a country you declare that country to be worth visiting, by purchasing a product you endorse it, by using a service you support the continued existence of that service and all things connected to it.

  Now why wouldn’t the reverse be true?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this game! So happy to see someone else linking it.

  It’s a powerful didactic tool and I’m happy to reference it whenever I have the chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trust is something that depends on repeat interactions - it’s earned and built, not freely given. Turn off the phone, the TV and the computer for a while each day and focus on the people around you. Your local community, your friends your family. The more you directly interact with somebody, the more potential is there for you to build up trust - maybe even mutual trust!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?

  If it aint broke, don’t fix it 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apples and oranges.

  Package managers only install a package with defaults. These helper scripts are designed to take the user through a final config that isn’t provided by the package defaults.

  Whether there’s a setup wizard doesn’t have anything to do with whether the tool comes from a package manager or not. Run “apt install ddclient”, for example, it’ll immediately guide you through all configuration steps for the program instead of just dumping a binary and some config text files in /etc/.

  So that’s not the bottleneck or contradiction here. It’s just very unfortunate that setup wizards are not very popular as soon as you leave Windows and OSX ecosystems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s literally no good reason to replace it with a shell script on a website.

  I fully agree that a package manager repository with all those tools would be preferable, but it doesn’t exist, does it? I mean… content is king. If the only way to get a certain program or functionality is a shell script on a website, then of course that’s what is going to be used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On a boat, possibly in the tropics, without spoiling? Doubt.

  Huh, “sailors” indeed. I can honestly say that I hadn’t noticed this was about boats up until now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  apples aren’t notorious for large quantities of it anyway.

  Yeah, I’ll concede that.
  But again, long storage is not just feasible but relatively trivial - a cool basement, harvest before ripe, many months of apples to be had. Maybe it depends on the cultivar? Either way, for most of human existence in seasonally cold climates, storage simply was the only way for having access to fruit during winter and early spring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your body only needs tiny amounts of Vitamin C and you can easily store fruit like apples for more than half a year without refrigeration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I just create my own drive format?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  or pinged a satellite at a predictable distance as part of a timing system…

  Isn’t that just GPS in reverse? I mean, same equation, different dependent variable 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I didn’t regret reading the article, I’ll probably even recommend it to others…

  It would be strange if we were having a big national conversation about limiting YouTube watching or never buying books or avoiding uploading more than 30 photos to social media at once for the sake of the climate.

  … but I’m certainly a bit amused over how often the author just stumbles into a natural segue to an anti-consumerism rant and then just… takes a U-turn 🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a lot of people like buying used drives but the ones for sale are usually loud enterprise edition drives which won’t work for me. Should I buy the drives now or wait until BF for a possibly better sale?

  HDD prices haven’t really moved in any meaningful way over the course of the past years and I don’t recall them ever moving significantly even during special promotions (short of pricing errors). I strongly suggest to treat high-capacity hard drives as the luxury consumables that they are and just buy them as needed. Unless you particularly enjoy bargain hunting as a passtime I really don’t think it’s worth the effort and opportunity costs in this particular context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped to retag and rename music files. Right now I prefer them to be as original as possible because preservation reasons.

  Aren’t you then just preserving some random music ripper’s organizational preferences or default settings?
  Either way I don’t see any issues with adding more tagged information. More information always more good 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mITX boards on amazon any good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IPMI and ECC are not on your wishlist, correct?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would they use more energy in one direction versus another? This doesn’t really make sense to me. Heating and cooling is just swapping which element is the condenser and which element is the evaporator.

  The gradient determines that. Moving heat energy from inside ambient 25°C to outside ambient 30°C is easier than moving heat energy from outside ambient 5°C to inside ambient 20°C, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  10k? 100k? A million?
  I am not talking about calculating with numbers, but rather the point where numbers stop being comprehensible, or “no longer mean anything”.
  Try visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.

  You’re quite optimistic. I recall from old Psych classes that visualization breaks down even before double digits, so the 5-7 range. Don’t have any references at hand so I might be misremembering it, but now I’m curious too and see if I can find anything in my notes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there gospel music minus the gospel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a condo, not a house!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet OP didn’t.

  I really don’t think there’s much point in speculating what other folks think. They’ll tell or they won’t - all I can do is offer my input. As I said, it’s already hard enough to fully make yourself understood even when you want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any decentralized place like this one is, ideally and intentionally, just a network of many small clubhouses. There might be overarching themes and attitudes, but each clubhouse has their own agenda and makes and enforces their own rules.

  I wouldn’t expect most any clubhouse to throw you out if you argued any point with dligence, compassion and respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never. There’s always more to do. Once you can produce food, shelter and entertainment with zero effort

  We’ve been able to do that for about 100 years now. All of humanity’s technological problems have been solved - on paper - for generations. There’s unfortunately never been a magical consolidation period where all the hungry were fed and all the exposed were sheltered. That’s not something that automatically happens.

  The technology and production capacity to raise Somalia to the same literacy, living standard and life expectancy Denmark exists. It would just require surplus growth and production capacity to go to Somalia and not Denmark for a few generations. Example nations are arbitrary, adjust as needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if you’re worried about thoughts, what do you suppose will create a safer environment for your offspring? De-stigmatization of problematic urges, allowing the afflicted to openly participate in society and receive assistance, or active and violent ostracization and persecution, forcing each and every afflicted person into immediate, life-long and hopeless secrecy?

  Just like anyone else you have the ability to act against your immediate instincts, because sometimes, as exemplified by the topic of this whole thread, instincts are just shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck anyone who thinks abusing children is fine and normal. Fuck you all so hard to hell. Get the absolute fuck away from my kids.

  I’m pretty damn left, but I have zero empathy at all for anyone who is thinking sexual shit about children. I’m livid. Holy shit.

  Abuse is a choice. Sexual attraction isn’t. You’re worked up about abuse, not about pedophilia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a question.

  Looks like some kind of advertising account with either a product or an idea to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it hurts discoverability. How can you have a community without people?

  I’d like to ask it the other way around: How many people would it need until you’d say “Yep, that’s a community alright.”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The alternative is no morality at all. And in that case, you’re either following the law out of love for your state and/or fellow human, or because you don’t want to be sent to prison for breaking the law.

  You’re going in a circle there. If individually define moral action as “an action that cannot be derived from anything but some kind of supernatural being”, then yeah, you can dismiss anything else on normative grounds. But then what’s the point of asking “How can something be morally wrong if there is no God?”?