Chewy7324
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- Comment on Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices 3 months ago:
I guess it’s similar to how people use iMessage because it’s the pre-installed messaging app. Both fall back to of SMS/MMS if the other party isn’t using the same closed ecosystem. I.e. Google’s proprietary end-to-end encryption or iMessage.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 4 months ago:
I really don’t think there’s any viable business model for Mozilla. Browser development is too expensive and no one pays for a browser. Google finances itself through ads, Microsoft isn’t even developing their own engine anymore and sells it as part of their whole OS anyway.
Other browsers are irrelevant because they are mostly a new UI on top of Chromium.
Donations won’t ever be enough unless some billionaire sees internet freedom as important or countries start to see an open web as a part of public infrastructure. Both are highly unlikely, so hopefully the deal with Google doesn’t decrease too much with shrinking market share.
- Comment on Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services 4 months ago:
I’ve enabled auto redirect from twitter to nitter and never bothered to disable the no longer working redirect. Hopefully people switch to some platform with open API access (or rather, a federated platform)
- Comment on 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives 5 months ago:
I feel like most of these “10 alternatives to xyz”-articles are basically a summary of alternativeto.net. Or they’ve just listed all projects they’ve found with a quick search. I’m almost certain they didn’t install them most of the time.
This also applies to “comparison” sites, which usually are a list of Amazon affiliate links. At this point, I don’t trust websites with affiliate links anymore, as they’ve never actually tried the products. Sadly those spam sites make it difficult to find actually good reasearched tests.
Back to itsfoss, they write many articles, and some are good, but they still are blog spam.
- Comment on Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140k for sending 80M+ spams | Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people 5 months ago:
If I’m cooking, I make enough for a few meals. Takes a similar amount of time and it can be stored for a while in the fridge. I don’t think hello fresh is able to have lower prices than supermarkets, and it’s easy to find recipes online. I won’t be surprised if those services go bankrupt in a few years.
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 5 months ago:
ff2mpv is awesome. It supports many video sites (I believe everything youtube-dl does) and opens the video on a page/link in an external mpv window.
This helped me mirror a video without downloading to read the embedded subtitles (why uploads a mirrored video with subtitles?). Also playback speed and all other advanced features mpv supports are really useful
- Attack of the week: Airdrop tracing – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineeringblog.cryptographyengineering.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on What CardDav and CalDav server do you use? 5 months ago:
Or simply set up wireguard.
At least I suffered from terrible battery life with Tailscale, while 24/7 wireguard isn’t even showing on the battery stats.
- Comment on Nextcloud zero day security 5 months ago:
Wireguard is awesome and doesn’t even show up on the battery usage statistics of my phone.
With such a small attack surface I don’t have to worry about zero days for vaultwarden and immich.
- Comment on What's the point of a reverse proxy and does cloudflare give all the benefits of one? 5 months ago:
The DNS-01 challenge [1] allows for issuing SSL certificates without a publicly routable IP address. It needs API support from your DNS provider to automate it, but e.g. lego [2] supports many services.
I personally leave my Wireguard VPN always on, but as its only routing the local subnet with my services, it doesn’t even appear in my battery statistics.
- Comment on Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse | The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year.’ 6 months ago:
It would be difficult to connect you to a Meta account to serve ads to because they only have your user name, profile pic, server IP, and server domain name. In most cases it’d be impossible. You’re pretty well protected because Mastodon servers treat all remote servers as untrustworthy and don’t give them any info.
Facebook already creates “shadow profiles” for people not on Facebook and stores data about them. This means Meta won’t directly monetize the fediverse, but use the data available for their ad business anyway. (Maybe even connect other accounts through posts, but I don’t know how well this works with the info and amount of a users posts.)
Nothing stopping them from doing it now, anyone posting to the fediverse has to accept that their posts can and probably will be used to train someone elses LLM. It’s public afterall.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 6 months ago:
I’d love it if Discord federated with Matrix. Then I wouldn’t have to try to convince my friends to use matrix. Which I don’t, which is why I seldomly use matrix.
- Comment on Immich is awesome 6 months ago:
Unless the container follows semver and only auto update minor versions.
- Comment on Useful apps to self-host 6 months ago:
Never used Plex, but if being open source is a feature Jellyfin is better than Plex.
Not requiring an external authentication server is the biggest drawback of Plex. I don’t want Plex to have my watch history and info about my media library.
With Findroid supporting the intro skip plugin I’m fine since I don’t need many platforms.
- Comment on Useful apps to self-host 6 months ago:
As long as it’s set to keep copies. Else it’s just a way to sync your accidental file deletions.
- Comment on Threads is making moves for Mastodon integration 6 months ago:
It’s always an arms race, and I fear it’s near impossible to detect LLMs from just a few sentences. Longer texts, sure, but how often are the same few words written in a short social media commen?
- Comment on Threads is making moves for Mastodon integration 6 months ago:
Is it really so bad that people (or rather instances) are allowed to choose who to federate with? Currently instances with spam and other unwanted commenters get constantly defederated with. Threads will just be another one of them, while some people are happy to get more content. Or am I missing something?
- Comment on Threads is making moves for Mastodon integration 6 months ago:
The good thing about the fediverse is that instances can choose with whom they want to federate.
In my opinion, there should always be choice and people with terrible opinions should be allowed to express them – just like others should be allowed to laugh, ignore and block them. Whether we like it or not, the fediverse includes everything from left-wing to right-wing extremists. But we can choose an instance which excludes all those unwanted posts, just like we’ll be able to block surveillance corporate instances. The actual highly illegal and inexcusable instances will get taken down by authorities, just like any other webservice.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 6 months ago:
To 1:
We’re starting with the ability to follow threads users from activitypub clients, but we will get to the ability to follow accounts from activitypub servers on threads as well
If 2. will actually be a problem some instances will defederate, while many users will choose an instance which allows them to follow who they want. I’m all for interoperable social media/messaging, because it gives users the choice.
I’m curious when they’ll add inbound federation. It could lead to massive amounts of spam, so they’ll probably block instances or inbound traffic quite quickly.
Hopefully it won’t end like email, where it’s really difficult to start federating to the big providers (Threads). But even then, we’ll still be able to choose any of the current instances and continue without them.
- Comment on Integrating f-droid to lemmy 6 months ago:
I do think rating apps or install numbers would be great to better sort apps according to their usefulness. Number of installs/delivered updates are off the table because of how against telemetry the community is.
Ratings aren’t necessarily useful since almost all apps on F-Droid are quite good at the thing they set out to do. The question is whether it’s what I searched for. The biggest problem are outdated apps, which is pretty natural since life happens.
Comments are difficult because of spam and other unwanted content being posted. The F-Droid community are all volunteers and they have already enough to do.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Thanks for naming desec.io! I’ve read about it in c’t a few years ago, but didn’t find it a few months ago.
- Comment on Port Forwarding Alternative? 6 months ago:
I’m behind CGNAT with months between IPv6 prefix changes. Having a separate publicly routable IP for each host is awesome.
Tailscale causes heavy battery drain on my phone (Pixel 4a GrapheneOS) so I’m now on always on plain Wireguard, which only needs 1% of my battery.
Sadly my mother doesn’t have IPv6, so accessing e.g. Jellyfin is not possible.
- louislam/dockge: A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented managergithub.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on leng - a fast DNS server with adblocking, built for self-hosting 7 months ago:
This is awesome. I’ve been looking into DNS servers with ad blocking and this seems to be a perfect fit. And it is packaged for Nix, so I’ll definitely give it a go.
- Comment on What to use as offsite backup? 7 months ago:
I’ve also been using hetzner storage boxes. They are as cheap as it gets and my internet connection is the limiting factor anyway.
- Comment on Question on SSL traffic between podman containers and clients (should I run k3s?) 7 months ago:
Thanks for the long reply. Sadly I don’t know enough about unix sockets and docker/podman networking to help you.
I’ve only used unix sockets with postgresql and signald. For both I had to mount the socket into the container and for the postgres I had to change the config to use unix sockets.
- Comment on Discord file links will expire after a day to fight malware 7 months ago:
It’s an annoying change for anyone using discord to share files outside of it’s closed platform but doesn’t affect most people.
I wonder whether bridges for matrix have to be fixed or if they’re already editing messages bridged to matrix to the new url.
- Comment on Question on SSL traffic between podman containers and clients (should I run k3s?) 7 months ago:
Nothing wrong with asking LLM’s about topics, I’d even say it’s a good idea instead of directly asking on a forum. Just like searching before asking, asking an LLM before asking humans is good.
And mentioning where you got the recommendation for k8s is also helpful. I’m not knowledgeable about k8s, but I guess the “wtf” was about the overkill of recommending k8s when simpler solutions exist.
Unix sockets have permissions like any file, so it’s simple to restrict access to a user/group and thus process running as the user. If it’s unencrypted http on a server other processes could listen on localhost, but I’m unsure about that part.
- Submitted 7 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Any experience with Zen 1 idle power consumption running Proxmox? 7 months ago:
I have a server with a Ryzen 3 3200G with a B450 mainboard. The system has 16GB RAM, a boot SSD and a 16TB HDD. With proxmox and a few VM’s installed with low CPU usage I’ve read 25-30W from a power meter.
Keep in mind that the system relies on the integrated GPU. If it had an dedicated GPU the power consumption would probably increase around 10-30W.