clif
@clif@lemmy.world
Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 day ago:
It took three years but we’ve almost rooted it all out.
There’s still one ancient product that will (theoretically) decommission in mid 2028. It makes with money to cyber the Oracle licensing but isn’t worth reworking to migrate.
Knowing how decom goes, I’m sure it’ll still be running in 2035 with that one last client who “can’t move to the newer, better, easier project because… Reasons (I don’t wanna)”
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 1 day ago:
Reinstalled Dropbear for remote LUKS unlock after a SSD failure.
SSD failure was two weeks ago or I’d say rebuilding the server from backups and further polishing my Ansible playbook.
- Comment on Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions 1 week ago:
Second for Pangolin.
They have a cloud hosted free tier you can try but it’s time/ transfer limited. If you like it, you can self host on your VPS with no subscription since it’s all FOSS software.
Also, thank you for addressing the native app vs Pangolin auth layer challenge. I’ve been wrestling with that myself.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
“the 1900s”
: /
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 week ago:
I recently picked up a 2024 model moto g power 5g. The main reason is that I needed the cheapest smart phone I could find locally to test a new provider (phreeli) before committing. That, and to serve as a ready backup if one of ours dies. $115 at a big box store.
It’s… fine. Even after debloating I get about half the battery life of my galaxy s20 which is now 5 years old. I haven’t been able to figure out what’s eating it, or maybe it just has a smaller battery… I should check that.
- Comment on Simple inexpensive cloud backup? 1 week ago:
Does borg need an entire python venv?
I was looking at “modern” backup tools while back and when I saw borg was python I decided not to bother.
Instead I focused on restic for a little while and then rsync was already there and I already knew the commands so… Rsync. Though I still have restic on my list.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 1 week ago:
I learn something new every day, thanks bud.
- Comment on One for the ignition and one for the trunk 1 week ago:
I took a turn too fast in a 1990 S-10 and the keys flew out of the ignition… That’s how I learned about this.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 1 week ago:
They’re not supposed to put chicken shit on the sandwich unless you specifically request it.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 3 weeks ago:
Looks like you called it. Seems the container image(s) default to a subscription plan (“Starter”, free for <50 users) but apparently you can revert to the “Community Edition” which gets rid of it.
Found this post over at the place we no longer speak of :
Hello, I’m Gabriel Engel, the founder of Rocket.Chat. I want to clarify that there is no new limitation for community use. We’ve recently introduced a plan offering all enterprise features for free to groups with fewer than 25 users. For those with more users, you have the opportunity to try the enterprise features. After the trial period, the system will automatically revert to the community version. However, you have the option to bypass the trial in the admin settings. I emphasize that we are not imposing any restrictions; instead, we’re providing the enterprise version free to small teams and inviting larger teams to experience it. Let’s view this as the positive initiative it is. For more details, please visit our forum: forums.rocket.chat/t/…/18736
In the admin settings for your instance you can go to the “Subscription” panel and down at the veeeery bottom is a “Cancel Subscription” button (I’m on the free “starter” subscription, apparently). I’m assuming that’s how you back out of it.
Once I have a chance to warn users that I’m about to do something potentially dramatic, I’ll test it out and see what happens.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 3 weeks ago:
RocketChat is pretty easy to setup with docker. I couldn’t get it to work in podman after many, many hours of trying despite the documentation saying it does. They have a dedicated podman doc page but I just hit problem after problem after problem. I was trying to do it with the containerized mongo add a PoC though - a lot of problems came from that. Maybe I’ll try again with a “real” db server. Root cause seemed to be networking differences between docker and podman.
I found it really odd that your server has to get a registration key from their server… That part weirds me out.
- Comment on no, I don't have ig 4 weeks ago:
O shit. What year is it?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
There are times when things need to be broken. But I also definitely understand your angle.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 4 weeks ago:
I appreciates that but unfortunately it is under a different identity and I don’t want to cross the two.
- Comment on Alternatives to Mattermost 4 weeks ago:
This sounds like exactly my research arc over the last few months. I went with rocket because the 50 user limit is probably fine… Doesnt work with podman regardless of the docs.
Curious to see where you land
- Comment on Best gas masks 5 weeks ago:
Did Mira used to be Avon?
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 5 weeks ago:
I switched.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 5 weeks ago:
I started a blog specifically to make me document these things in a digestable manner. I doubt anyone will ever see it, but it’s for me. It’s a historical record of my projects and the steps and problems experienced when setting them up.
I’m using 11ty so I can just write markdown notes and publish static HTML using a very simple 11ty template. That takes all the hassle out of wrangling a website and all I have to do is markdown.
If someone stumbles across it in the slop ridden searchscape, I hope it helps them, but I know it will help me and that’s the goal.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 5 weeks ago:
But what about videos of DOGS farting?
- Comment on YSK that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best engineering school in the world. You can take free courses at MIT online. 5 weeks ago:
We should start using “my friend Anna” similarly to “friend of Dorothy” but for books.
- Comment on Day 555 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
I recently picked up MCC on Deck for the nostalgia. It’s been at least 15 years since I played the original and I don’t think I played any of the sequels.
MCC is weird on Deck - you have to install the games through the Steam DLC menu, not the “install games here like the instructions say” inside of MCC.
I was super pissed I needed a Microsoft account to play, and that the login screen glitched repeatedly, but I eventually got in.
… Single player only for me.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 month ago:
It’s being pushed very hard by management where I work and I’m consistently seeing the same as above. I mentioned on another thread recently that I’ve heard “I don’t know why Claude did that” multiple times over the past few weeks.
It’s infuriating.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 1 month ago:
One example I like to use is to ask it for the lyrics of an extremely well known song. It just makes shit up based on the title you give it.
The online ones (Claude, chatgpt, copilot, etc) now refuse to do it for ““copyright reasons”” but the offline ones still happily oblige. I assume the online ones added that block because it was such an obvious way to prove they don’t “know” shit.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 1 month ago:
I’d agree with this. I’m a dev, I can make things work, I can’t do art/graphics/assets/etc for shit. Give me 5 or 6 hours and I might be able to get you one image that is semi passable if the intended artistic style is “3 year old with crayons”
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 month ago:
Glad to see this comment on the chain. I haven’t tried it myself (yet) but I’ve got a friend that does and says it works great.
It’s on my list. Unfortunately, it’s a really long list.
- Comment on Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence 2 months ago:
Hey, me too!
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 2 months ago:
I’m still running spinny disks for my big-ish data. I can’t afford a 16TB SSD…
I know that’s off topic, but HDDs are still a thing too.
- Comment on There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see" 2 months ago:
This.
Some of my favorite movies are “bad” movies. I’ve got a friend who feels the same way and we SMS each other single line movie titles and just know the other will understand.
A recent SMS was “poultrygeist night of the chicken dead” … It was fantastic
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
Went to a wedding shower that was nature themed awhile back and the attendance prize was a small jar of local honey with one of these attached. I’ve never used one so I am curious to give it a try.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
Biggest rock is best rock.
I still use this joke any time rocks or size comes up in conversation but it’s so old that nobody ever gets it and they just look at me like I had a stroke.