WhyJiffie

@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  now its another thing to determine whether a server you are looking at has set up support for Element call, or is still on the older calling method not supported by the new apps…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  the better solution is to ban porn from the platform. that’s it. there are some people who won’t like it, but they will find another porn platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  convert them to vorbis. much better quality at mp3 sizes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  do you happen to know if shucking is an option and whether it is viable in larger capacity drives? 12, 16 TB or so. for upgrade, not starter server of course

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WebIntents - Universal Follow Button for the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  what’s more, that dozen one-attribute classes could have really just been a single class for the button type… and while I’m at it… 10 KB, after minification and compression?? why the fuck does a follow button need so much code?? oh! its because its made with sloppy coding just like in this example!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  why did you disable that for it? genuinely interested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  guess what, you don’t need to install 2 foss apps into separate android accounts for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  it just seems like they have no clue how to use their phone. or they created dozens of android user accounts, one for each app they use, which does not make any sense but really thwarts using the clipboard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  the parent can only do that on devices they own. they can’t do that on classmates devices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t just do “ollama run” and expect good performance, as the local LLM scene is finicky and highly experimental. You have to compile forks and PRs, learn about sampling and chat formatting, perplexity and KL divergence, about quantization and MoEs and benchmarking. Everything is moving too fast, and is too performance sensitive, to make it that easy, unfortunately.

  how do you have the time to figure all these out and keep being up to date? do you do this at work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used it regularly before I got a keyboard that turned out to have a useless Fn in its place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the compiler stops you from compiling most of incorrect code. unless AI learns to use unsafe blocks liberally, it will still prevent memory corruption bugs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously the problem is that office was not written in a safe language. rewrite office in rust!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  and onedrive has all your documents too in original form

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  joke on you! google’s recent requirement is that all phone vendors make the power button open an AI menu instead of the shutdown menu! on most phones it can be fixed, but it’s often hidden very deep in the settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  that doesn’t make them bad people, just addicted people.
  what makes some of them bad people is when they are actively campaigning against Linux to cope with their insecurities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploring Options to add NVR⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard blue iris can be run with wine on linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orion Browser⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  jpeg xl! wow! that’s cool!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  separately, part by part. if they had a laptop they would have needed to buy at least 6 complete laptops by that time, or more realistically, give up on upgrades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but how will we discover the compromised servers when the company running it did not announce it loudly?

  and even then the bigger problem could be the advertiser users. lots of moderation capacity would be needed, or some kind of flagging automatism, but as we seen with Piefed people are hating even just milder such things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is trying to log off U.S. tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s why I believe that in a normal world, renting should only be needed for temporary hardware. a temporary home, a temporary vehicle, a temporary server, temporary storage…

  but with homeservers you could have your own once you can afford it, and you could request help from contractors for the urgent type of maintenance. replacing failing disks in the array, minimal monitoring so that they can keep an eye on when that happens, maybe critical updates…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is trying to log off U.S. tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  who cares about trump here. he’s just the catalyst that started the process we long needed. american big tech has for much longer been parasitic and anticonsumer, and that’s not on trump. every administration before that was fine with it too.

  yes you violated, and that’s out of question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s peertube too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich 2.5 Released With Free Up Space, Web Backups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s just google sans, they use this placeholder elsewhere too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, LXC containers! I see. I never used them because I find LXC setup more complicated, once tried to use a turnkey samba container but couldn’t even figure out where to add the container image to LXC, or how to start if not that way.

  but also, I like that this way my random containerized services use a different kernel, not the main proxmox kernel, for isolation.

  Additionally, having them as CTs mean that I can run straight on the container itself instead of having to edit a Docker file which by design is meant to be ephemeral.

  I don’t understand this point. on docker, it’s rare that you need to touch the Dockerfile (which contains the container image build instructions). did you mean the docker compose file? or a script file that contains a docker run command?

  also, you can run commands or open a shell in any container with docker, except if the container image does not contain any shell binary (but even then, copying a busybox or something to a volume of the container would help), but that’s rare too.
  you do it like this: docker exec -it containername command. bit lengthy, but bash aliases help

  Also for the over committing thing, be aware that your issue you’ve stated there will happen with a Docker setup as well. Docker doesn’t care about the amount of RAM the system is allotted. And when you over-allocate the system, RAM-wise, it will start killing containers potentially leaving them in the same state.

  in docker I don’t allocate memory, and it’s not common to do so. it shares the system memory with all containers. docker has a rudimentary resource limit thingy, but what’s better is you can assign containers to a cgroup, and define resource limits or reservations that way. I manage cgroups with systemd “.slice” units, and it’s easier than it sounds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the PRC is not nearly an alternative to the US empire, its a replacement to it, with different but overlapping trade-offs. what about neither? It’s seriously like instagram users fleeing to tiktok, then to upscroll or whichever other corporate platform.

  the bad of the US does not make the PRC good. I want change, big changes, but definitely not that kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.ml is just like that, maybe you want to look for a new home instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  just know that sometimes their buggy frontend loads the analytics code even if you have opted outm there’s an ages old issue of this on their github repo, closed because they don’t care.

  It’s matomo analytics, so not as bad as some big tech, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  unless you have zillion gigabytes of RAM, you really don’t want to spin up a VM for each thing you host. the separate OS-es have a huge memory overhead, with all the running services, cache memory, etc. the memory usage of most services can largely vary, so if you could just assign 200 MB RAM to each VM that would be moderate, but you can’t, because when it will need more RAM than that, it will crash, possibly leaving operations in half and leading to corruption. and to assign 2 GB RAM to every VM is waste.

  I use proxmox too, but I only have a few VMs, mostly based on how critical a service is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, this is the kind of response that actually makes me want to stop self hosting. Community members that have little empathy.

  why. it was not telling that they should quit self hosting. it was not condescending either, I think. it was about work.

  but truth be told IT is a very wide field, and maybe that generalization is actually not good. still, 15 containers is not much, and as I see it they help with not letting all your hosted software make a total mess on your system.

  working with the terminal sometimes feels like working with long tools in a narrow space, not being able to fully use my hands, but UX design is hard, and so making useful GUIs is hard and also takes much more time than making a well organized CLI tool.
  in my experience the most important here is to get used to common operations in a terminal text editor, and find an organized directory structure for your services that work for you. Also, using man pages and --help outputs. But when you can afford doing it, you could scp files or complete directories to your desktop for editing with a proper text editor.