Jason2357
@Jason2357@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 19 hours ago:
Yeah, it’s great, fast, works with lots of local clients and has lots of plug ins for whatever esoteric need you might have. I can fly through the days articles very quickly with a handful of key presses.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 2 days ago:
Such a weird argument, but how about this one: show me a laptop that holds 80Tb or so in RAID? You can do that on a home server and stream to and from it at a gigabit (when you are at home). If you are home more than remote, storing that data in a data center will be both costly and slow to access.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 3 days ago:
Big surprise, running 50 year old plants lead to lower bills than new infrastructure. Now do new coal plants.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 3 days ago:
Widely distributed solar + nuclear produces a generation curve that matches demand better than any other combination, minimizing battery or dirty on-demand generation needs.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 days ago:
That’s how signal started way back. Doesn’t work well - sms is terrible.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 3 days ago:
Indeed, it’s the top issue for number of comments: github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/12614
That and this one are really what keeps me stuck in “evaluating”: github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/165
Right now, immich just points at a read-only copy of my pictures for trying things out. Nextcloud copies the pictures off device and then deletes them locally -necessary for family who always take long sports videos.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 3 days ago:
Hard drives are so variable and failures so unpredictable, I bet you can’t find that information. Most of the actual data about hard drive failures, like Backblaze’s reports, are for drives that don’t spin down.
That said, spin-down has always been used for saving power, not drive lifetime. I would generally assume spinning down never extends lifetime. Even in the case of an external hard drive you plug in once a month - it is very likely going to fail earlier than the drive spinning 24x7.
Also, I wouldn’t shy from keeping the database on the same, fast storage as the OS, even if that’s flash. Move to an external SSD when you can. HDDs have such long seek times.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 3 days ago:
This isn’t about what you use, it’s about what the majority of the voting public uses and the influence on them.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 3 days ago:
Yeah, it’s insanely inept. They could have restricted the AI from answering “any question about a public figure and dementia” or even “the health information about a politician” or whatever if they were genuinely concerned. But they blocked only specifically Trump and dementia? It’s almost intentionally obvious.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 3 days ago:
The various local options -like FB marketplace - don’t have anything. When shipping things, yes Ebay has a really decent dispute process (leaning in favor of purchasers). Something like this would be best to aim for the local market first rather than shipped items that are harder to manage.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 3 days ago:
I agree that it is certainly debatable. However, my experience has been that information extracted about, say what may cause a strange error message from some R output, has been at least as reliable as random stack overflow posts - however, I get that answer instantly rather than after significant effort with a search engine. It can often find actual links better than a search engine for esoteric problems as well. This, however is merely a relative improvement, and not some world-changing event like AI boosters will claim, and it’s one of the only use-cases where AI provides a clear advantage. Generating broken code isn’t useful to me.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 days ago:
This is the smoking gun. If the AI hype boys really were getting that “10x engineer” out of AI agents, then regular developers would not be able to even come close to competing. Where are these 10x engineers? What have they made? They should be able to spin up whole new companies, with whole new major software products. Where are they?
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 days ago:
They are statistical prediction machines. The more they output, the larger the portion of their “context window” (statistical prior) becomes the very output they generated. It’s a fundamental property of the current LLM design that the snake will eventually eat enough of it’s tail to puke garbage code.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 days ago:
Those happen so often. I’ve taken to stop calling them hallucinations anymore (that’s anthropomorphising and over-selling what LLMs do imho). They are statistical prediction machines, and either they hit their practical limits of predicting useful output, or we just call it broken.
I think the next 10 years are going to be all about learning what LLMs are actually good for, and what they are fundamentally limited at no matter how much GPU ram we throw at it.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 days ago:
If it wasn’t for all the AI hype that it’s going to do everyone’s job, LLMs would be widely considered an amazing advancement in computer-human interaction and human assistance. They are so much better than using a search engine to parse web forums and stack overflow, but that’s not going to pay for investing hundreds of billions into building them out. My experience is like yours - I use AI chat as a huge information index mainly, and helpful sounding board occasionally, but it isn’t much good beyond that.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 6 days ago:
Seems like a weasel around the requirement to get rid of the actual benefit of 3rd party stores.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 week ago:
When the USSR collapsed, it made some well-connected millionaires into billionaires. When the USA collapsed, it makes billionaires into trillionaires.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
You would have to script something based on whatever service is actually being used, or maybe node red? In the past, way back, I used something like this that is just a simple web page that the user has to click a button to start the machine - there are a bunch of these github.com/Trugamr/wol - the web server is on the lan with the NAS so can send the magic packet, but the page can obviously be served over the internet.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
Relaying gigabytes of traffic per user costs serious money. Rely on them to do it, and they are either going to charge you or are just waiting to charge you when their VCs come knocking.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
Alpine Linux can boot in a few seconds. Stick to something extremely simple like nfs or samba and nothing else in the boot. Or use suspend to ram with your regular OS.
- Comment on Linkwarden v2.13 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀 1 week ago:
Not that I know of. I still use wallabag just for my “read it later on kobo” button.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 1 week ago:
Does the app clear storage space on your phone ever? Last I looked, it only mirrored pictures to Immich, so everyone’s phone eventually fills up storage. Had to stick with Nextcloud because it deletes after uploading.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
Most motherboards support wake packets sent over Ethernet. They only work on your lan, but they will start a machine or wake it from sleep. Sending a packet from another machine is fairly simple, it’s old tech. I’ve seen simple web servers that have a “send wake” button, but you could probably trigger it from a variety of things
- Comment on Linkwarden v2.13 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀 1 week ago:
Yes. It archives a copy of the page locally that you have access to forever.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Standard is fantastic! The books are better quality than what they charge for on “marketplaces” and can be read for free or downloaded wholesale for a song. Add to that they host an opds catologue that fbreader can browse and you have incredibly convenient public domain books right to the ereader.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And let’s leave off the 60hz flicker. That used to bother me so much.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
That, and most traditional dairy consuming European cultures never actually drank milk. They made cheese and butter, then poured the remainder in the pig trough to turn those calories into pork.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
For privacy reasons, I have finally fully disabled dynamic dns updates and closed the last holes in the home firewall, moving to 100% proxying via a VPS for publicly available stuff, and a tailnet (headscale) for everything private. The only real cross-over is Nextcloud - mountains of private data, but I want it publicly available for file shares. Fortunately, Nextcloud has a setting to whitelist IP addresses that allow log-in, so I can restrict that to just the non-VPS tailnet addresses. From the public internet, only public shares are accessible.
I set up a L4 proxy so that the encryption for Nextcloud happens at home and the VPS just passes encrypted packets. Then it occurred to me that a compromised VPS could easily grab a SSL cert for my Nextcloud subdomain via a regular-old http-challenge and MITM access to all my files, defeating the point.
Then I found a neat hack that effectively disables http-challenge certs for subdomains by requiring a wildcard certificate - which can only be created with a dns-challenge. I was able to also disable all other certificate authorities. Obviously, I have /some/ trust in the VPS I administer - it’s on my tailnet network - but no longer have the concern that it could easily MITM Nextcloud. naut.ca/…/mitigating-http-mitm-possibilities-with…
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
I understand that COW file-systems can do snapshots at “instantaneous” points in time and KVM snapshots ram state as well, but I still worry that a database could be backed up at just the wrong time and be in an inconsistent state at restore. I’d rather do less frequent backups of a stopped VM and be more confident it will restore and boot correctly. Maybe I’m a curmudgeon?
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
Do you actually need 100TB instantly available? Could a portion of that be cold storage that can be booted quickly from a WOL packet from the always-on machine when needed? With some tweaking, you could probably set up an alpine-based NAS to boot in <10 seconds, especially if you picked something that supported coreboot and could avoid that long bios post time.