lambalicious
@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Plex has paywalled my server!
Skill issue tbh.
- Comment on If you can afford it, PeerTube is having a fundraiser for its mobile app 1 week ago:
Platform.
Optional.
It’s on us (all of us).
Apparently.
Posting media.
Fediverse.
Yes.
- Comment on Open Source Paid Remote Desktop 1 week ago:
Shittiest post of the week in the Fedivere, up there ↑.
If you are going to be this shitty, dismissive and misinformative, you can head back to Twitter.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
a decent chunk of coding is stupid boilerplate/minutia that varies
…according to a logic, which means LLMs are bad at it.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
Well, the first and obvious thing to do to show that AI is bad is to show that AI is bad. If it provides that much of a low-hanging fruit for the demonstration… that just further emphasizes the point.
- Comment on Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
[Features][features]
- [Proceeds to list social credit features]
No thanks, if I wanted that I’d go to the CCP, Reddit, or Twitter.
- Comment on Now that PewDiePie is on his Linux/engineering arc, could he help boost the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
You skipped like, three towns ahead and one to the right, mate. Actively defending against specific bad people in the world is not an “echo chamber”.
- Comment on Using DNS4EU in North America 2 weeks ago:
The only task of a DNS server is (or should be) to tell you how to get to a resource you’re looking for by name. So, the only thing that is going to be reallistically affected is your (initial) connection times. And – since this is c/selfhosted – if you are setting a decent DNS cache in your local network, that should be even less of an issue.
The only borderline scenario that I could see feasible, since this is c/selfhosted , is that some software you are setting up that requires nanosecond DNS resolution or somesuch sillyness is going to fail or report false errors. But why would you even do that?
- Comment on Now that PewDiePie is on his Linux/engineering arc, could he help boost the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
The last thing we want is for the fediverse to be promoted by Nazi association.
Well, not the last last, but still bad enough.
- Comment on Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc 2 weeks ago:
Fortunately someone else at work already set up a redmine one (they did it by mistake, actually, long story; but at least we already know it works). So I’m taking a look at this (slash or OpenProject) in conjunction with kanboard first to see what sticks.
- Comment on Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc 2 weeks ago:
Took a look at this and might not end up using it for this, but might use it for a different non-work related project instead that’s far more focused on time and task management.
- Comment on Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc 2 weeks ago:
Looks good at a first glance and is among the first I’ll try.
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- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 3 weeks ago:
A much fair point.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 3 weeks ago:
Lol. I download a library or program to do a task because I would not be able to code it myself (to that kind of production level, at least). Of course I’m not gonna be able to audit it! You need twice the IQ to debug a software compared to the one needed to even write it in the first place.
- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 3 weeks ago:
Would you be okay with a US instance then, for example? They have couped, bombed or invaded only 48 countries so far (including mine). Or perhaps an European instance! They invaded both Africa and America and particioned them nicely as well as exercised a bit of genocide, as a treat.
- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 3 weeks ago:
Why? There are awesome communities there. Also Firefox, but they’ve long since fallen below “awesome”.
- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 3 weeks ago:
You can just unblock it temporarily.
Or connect from an account in another instance (or directly from an account in .ml).
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 3 weeks ago:
on devices running Android 13 or later.
Sounds easy then: stay on the latest Lineage that does not incorporate A13.
While I wouldn’t say Google is actively hostile towards these power users,
Author is obviously sold out. Are they even trustable?
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 4 weeks ago:
This tbh.
I don’t understand why is this not he standard for Lemmy and the Fediverse. We got here, among other things, to get away from the kind of crap enabled by JS-first web.
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 4 weeks ago:
Which further emphasizes the question. If things are bad enough in Switzerland that you have to consider leaving, where to?
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 4 weeks ago:
Still too problematic, as what is legal and not in the EU depends on the trendy neo-nazi party du jour. Check Germany, for one, where apparently showing any disapproval of Israel gets you Gestapo’d, or that’s what Lemmy administrators in Europe seem to fear. Or Italy / Spain, where any attempt to liberate sports transmissions gets half the internet shut down.
Oh, did I even mention Turkiye?
Honestly, I’ve always been of the opinion that projects that are intended to be truly international need to build up to some sort of “all humanity” jurisdiction or international waters jurisdiction. Since it’s not like the UN is going to provide any sort of aid here.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
The Distilled announcement post says the company made the choice to shut down these products because “it’s imperative we focus our efforts on Firefox and building new solutions that give you real choice, control and peace of mind online.” It also says the choice will allow Mozilla to “shape the next era of the internet – with tools like vertical tabs, smart search and more AI-powered features on the way.” Which is what everyone wants: more AI bloat in their browsers.
(The monkey paw turns, and) we got our wish.
We did, internet! We killed Pocket!
- Comment on Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government 4 weeks ago:
When you are [old / young] enough, Windows 95 feels like it would be retro. It’s at just about that right age where it works both ways.
- Comment on Alpine Linux intro 5 weeks ago:
The attack surface yes, but not the attack volume. No matter if the app is containerized or native, it has access to the data that it has to operate to. That’s literally part of computer nature.
But a containerized app, assuming the container service itself is kept up to date, has less hooks to break into other stuff than a native app does. For starters, a native app can read everything that’s world-readable, which in a shared system might be lots of stuff but in a containerized app might be quite minimal.
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 5 weeks ago:
Two out of three. I read the post and that’s exactly what the admins of F.O say will do. It’s them who are stirring up shit.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 5 weeks ago:
You don’t, or you wouldn’t have asked that. If your excuse to not eat food is that “it’s not digested yet”, that’s the problem eating the food helps solve in the first place.
Or go be a chick of bird. You get pre-digested food for free.
- Comment on InlineStyle, open fediverse based cloud 5 weeks ago:
static personal site hosting
name the thing “inline style”
Pretty good catch there!
Other than that while the overall idea sounds good, there are a few concerns, I’d like to have your feedback on these even if it’s not a definitive word - sometimes, “I don’t know” is the correct answer!
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.itdomain is kinda worrying given their recent stance on blocking or deleting parts of the internet to support the shareholders. Well, at least it’s not Spain, but do keep an eye on that.The idea is to keep it sustainable with a simple support plan (€1.90/month)
Are there any considerations towards a one-time life payment on the horizon? It’s what ultimately drew me to SDF compared to the rest of the enshittifying internet, and they do provide similar services to what your roster seems to be so far.
📝 Docs and Drive via Collabora/NextCloud
May I recommend also Cryptpad? From my understanding NC+Collabora is a PITA to set up and prone to random failures (tho I would disclose the last time I tried the combo myself was on 2022). Cryptpad, while a lot simpler and less-featured, provides a leaner experience that approaches that of eg.: a pastebin.
Others
Some comments have mentioned chat. A XMPP server, like Prosody or ejabberd, is quite cheap and simple to run compared to “nu-protocols” like Matrix, and without having to go too far back into the 90s with something like IRC. Has good support for clients across the board as well, on Linux, Android, web, etc.
Other than that the only differentiating factor I could think of offering that I have seem almost no one else do, is some sort of “math service”, something like an Octave or Maxima online if such thing exists, or like what Wolfram Alpha has online, where people can run calculations, plot function graphs, perhaps with support for spreadsheets and charts too, which would also function as an alternative to google charts and the like.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Pretty much anything so long as Palworld doesn’t have 1.- a backbone and 2.- a dictionary at hand. Because it is as simple as finding a picture of any of a long list of animals that can glide, state the words “previous art” and they should be free from this ridiculous demand.
Mechanics that already exist in nature should not be copyrightable. Can you imagine if the first videogame company ever patented “character walking”?
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 1 month ago:
Then again, maybe there are ways to make that burden smaller.
Yes: encode on lower resolutions.
Most of the videos on Youtube don’t ever need to be 4K. They don’t even need to be 1080p. Heck, most don’t even need 720p! Things like music videos, where what’s important is the music, orthings like old TV broadcasts or play rips of old consoles, where the source barely gets to 360p, can be encoded to 360p or even 244p without any suffering (I played Monster Hunter on the 3DS for years and I can attest 244p can do great works of magic).
This mixes wonderfully with Peertube’s idea about hosting your own instance. If you are hosting your own video storage, you’ll want to maximize the amount of stuff you can throw into it. If someone complains that your videos aren’t 1080p, tell them to go to
/donate.phpand do their part.