vhstape
@vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org
I make computers
- Comment on I wrote a simple tool chain for creating HTML pages for my self-hosted website. I released it publically under GPL3. Source linked inside 3 hours ago:
Very cool. Reminds me of the Madness markdown server.
- Comment on Does Cloudflare provide anonymity? 2 days ago:
According to W3Techs, Cloudflare is used for 80.9% of all known reverse proxy endpoints which account for 19.8% of the entire Internet. It’s safe to say it’s used to host both legal and illegal content with that broad of a scope.
They are an American company and must cooperate with law enforcement when abuse is reported. If you’re planning on hosting pirated content, that most definitely violates their terms of service and will get you in trouble.
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 1 week ago:
The Music app (also called Apple Music, formerly iTunes) is a library manager at its core. You don’t need an Apple Music subscription to use it. It runs on macOS and Windows.
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 1 week ago:
If you’re an Apple household, Apple Music (iTunes) is still great. I don’t pay for streaming services; I buy music on iTunes/Bandcamp and rip CDs.
Apple Music has a fantastic interface for managing metadata, creating playlists, and performing complex batch jobs with AppleScript. I sync my iPhone and iPod Nano every time I add a new album, and I host my media folder on NextCloud for listening on other devices.
- Comment on retiring the pigeon homelab 1 week ago:
Thanks! What kinds of things do you intend to do with your lab? I felt that the Pi was suitable for most everything except media pipelines.
- Comment on retiring the pigeon homelab 1 week ago:
Love the evolution! How are you measuring the power consumption of your devices? I’d be interested in profiling my build as well.
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- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 weeks ago:
If you’re fortunate enough to live near a well-funded library, you can peruse their new arrivals section for CDs. That’s how I discover new artists
- Comment on Bandcamp Clubs [new Bandcamp feature] 3 weeks ago:
I’m hoping this takes off!
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 5 weeks ago:
Do you plan to offer a browser extension for those who would enjoy the Fediverse integration but don’t want to run a custom fork?
- Comment on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal 1 month ago:
I also experienced screen tearing on every Pebble unit I owned. If they fix this, I’ll absolutely buy a new one
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 1 month ago:
So the administration wants to win the AI race through deregulation, except they want to regulate its social compass. Make it make sense
- Comment on Immich Flatpak 2 months ago:
My understanding is that Flatpaks are generally reserved for GUI applications and not command-line tools or servers. I’m not sure it’s the ideal format for Immich.
That said—and I’m probably going to get hate for this—there is an Immich snap package that does just what you’re looking for.
- Comment on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps 2 months ago:
The word you’re looking for is douchebag
- Comment on How China's new auto giants left General Motors, Volkswagen and Tesla in the dust 2 months ago:
Their point about the streets may actually be valid. I don’t know anything about the roads in China, but many European cities are notoriously hostile to automobiles.
- Comment on Playing with Hate: How Far-Right Extremists Use Minecraft to Gamify Radicalisation 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, online gaming spaces seem to have always been a breeding ground for all kinds of toxic behavior
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah… I won’t even lie, I think at some point it’s for the best we hand the keys to society to the machines. Maybe not the current generation, but eventually 😂
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 months ago:
It’s because the morons running the country don’t think that constitutional freedoms apply to non-citizens. No freedom of speech if your speech hurts their feelings. Fuckin aye
- Comment on China New Internet ID System a Threat to Online Expression: Netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long. 2 months ago:
Fuck that noise
- Comment on Why Marijuana Prevention Matters—Especially for Teens and Young Adults 2 months ago:
Like others have said, the key to protecting the safety of children while also protecting the freedom of grown adults from enjoying a recreational drug is education. That means lifting legal barriers so that we may study the plant in academic and clinical settings.
I agree that sometimes in our effort to promote progressive legislation on cannabis, we paint a very pretty picture. But I think the risk profile is rather low. And much like with other legal recreational drugs like alcohol or tobacco, young adults need good mentors to equip them with the information and resources to explore responsibly. Because they will explore.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It helps to be accustomed to cognitive dissonance
- Comment on DeepSeek's distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
On my Mac mini running LM Studio, it managed 1702 tokens at 17.19 tok/sec and thought for 1 minute
- Comment on DeepSeek's distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
the Chinese AI lab also released a smaller, “distilled” version of its new R1, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, that DeepSeek claims beats comparably sized models on certain benchmarks
Most models come in 1B, 7-8B, 12-14B, and 27+B parameter variants. According to the docs, they benchmarked the 8B model using an NVIDIA H20 (96 GB VRAM) and got between 144-1198 tokens/sec. Most consumer GPUs probably aren’t going to be able to keep up with
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 3 months ago:
On one hand, it’s inane how hard Anthropic is trying to anthropomorphize Claude with these experiments and scenarios. It’s still just a chatbot. On the other hand, as these products inch closer to demonstrating true intelligence, we’ll be glad someone was at least thinking about the implications during the early stages of development.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 4 months ago:
You can easily sync your personal music collection to your iOS device using the macOS “Music” app in tandem with the Finder, or using iTunes on Windows. I’ve not explored the options on Linux, but I suspect they’re out there.
I’ve got a personal collection that’s growing steadily, mostly from CDs and digital purchases. I do not use steaming services, and my iPhone is my primarily listening device.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 4 months ago:
I am generally opposed to the integration of generative AI in consumer hardware, since it doesn’t have much practical utility at this point.
However, the features described in this article mostly have to do with extracting information from images. This is actually quite useful! For example, macOS allows users to select text and automatically mask objects from images. It’s a feature I use heavily and wish other operating systems had good support for.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
In a world where unfettered Internet access has completely eroded our ability to form connections with others, the solution to loneliness couldn’t possibly be anything but more screen time 🤦🏽♂️
- Comment on “The Gang has a Mid-Life Crisis” 4 months ago:
Human innovation scales up quite well. Some people were lucky enough to have a say on the design of this systems that changed the world. It’s unfortunate that they let greed erode their humanity.
- Comment on 42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet 5 months ago:
Yeah. Maybe, in this fantasy world, you can port your address to different branches the same way you might transfer your phone number between carriers. My phone number area code reflects where I lived when I got my first phone. It does not correspond with where I currently live. The same could be true of email addresses in this scenario.
- Comment on 42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet 5 months ago:
I sometimes like to imagine a future where your local library provides email addresses to card holders