voracitude
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- Comment on Availability issues 1 week ago:
You’re assuming it’s impossible to change the config in memory to MITM the keys.
It’s not.
- Comment on Availability issues 1 week ago:
Doesn’t the old maxim go
If they have physical access to your machine, you’re already compromised
?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I did; we’ll see if they read it I guess.
In the meantime, I built my changes into my own repo, and I included an install script for anyone who wants to run this with Cosmos (cosmos-cloud.io) handling the container management and reverse proxy. I’ve tried to handle as much of the setup as possible - you only need a domain with a couple of subdomains, and optionally you can enter SMTP credentials during setup if you want the script to configure that for you too (alternatively, just add your credentials to your revolt.toml later).
If you want to give it a go you can find the initial release here: github.com/dorkian-gray/stoatchat_cosmos
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m not sure they fully read what the changes do… Because right now it’s not even just a worse provider, it’s straight up broken for self-hosters. Maybe the stoat team are doing this just to force everyone into a subscription in the end, so they aren’t interested in making it any better for self-hosters? Maybe they actually just hate self-hosting, or are really really into hardcoding values? No idea 🤷♀️
My branch is still available on my own repo though, if anyone wants to try building from that.
- Comment on Want to migrate away from discord ? I made a helmfile for stoatchat (previously revolt) with experimental video sharing support 1 week ago:
Adapting from another comment: Alrighty, I spent the last 8 or 9 hours on this.
So I heard about Klipy from this thread, and it sounded great: built as a drop-in replacement for Tenor. And it would be drop-in replacement, if I was satisfied with leaving a bunch of crap hardcoded in Stoat. But no, I’m a frackin’ madman and I decided that if I was gonna do this I was gonna do it right and put the gif provider config in env vars, replacing all the hardcoding, and then also putting in valid link construction for gif search, and actually putting it into chat. So far it only works with Klipy, as far as I’ve tested… but it does work.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I thought you’d like to know, I spent the last 8 or 9 hours on this:
It would be drop-in replacement if I was satisfied with leaving a bunch of crap hardcoded. But no, I’m a frackin’ madman and I decided that if I was gonna do this I was gonna do it right and put the gif provider config in env vars, replacing all the hardcoding, and then also putting in valid link construction for gif search, and actually putting it into chat. So far it only works with Klipy, as far as I’ve tested… but it does work.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Legend, I appreciate the heads-up (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉 I’m checking out the docs now!
- Comment on Want to migrate away from discord ? I made a helmfile for stoatchat (previously revolt) with experimental video sharing support 1 week ago:
Legend. I just got the admin panel working with my domain last night in cosmos-compose. Had to replace all the hardlinks in the source 😅 I was planning on replacing tenor with Giphy this weekend. Would that be helpful to share, if I get it working?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Neat, I’ll keep an eye out for that; ideally they’ll implement something less centralised than Giphy. In the meantime I got their admin panel running in my environment too, by fixing the source, so Giphy is next on my list. I want my users to be able to do gif searches 🤷♀️
- Comment on Mods recommendation for elden rings 2 weeks ago:
I think it sounds like you’re letting other people tell you what you are and aren’t capable of, without realising it. Most games are difficult for new players, you have to learn them; maybe you’ll find out you’re really good at this one! Just jump in and play. If you’re having a lot of trouble in one area, just run off and find a different area to explore. You might find a powerful weapon or armour, and you’ll definitely find enemies to kill which will make you stronger when you level up. The game gives you ways like that to make it easier, without mods or difficulty sliders 😊
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Keeping an eye on this. I got stoat chat up and running, and it’s great so far, but it was a big pain to get rubbing on my environment, it doesn’t have video calling yet or screen sharing, and it’s still using the Tenor API which just got deprecated some time in January 2026 so GIF search doesn’t work (I have vague plans to try and switch that to Giphy, and submit it to the team for review if I can get it to work).
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. No joke, if they had a web interface I’d always have a license and I’d be running that instead.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I used teamspeak with my friends back in the day for Counterstrike, Starcraft, Warcraft, DoTA (yeah, the mod), and it was great. TS6 does look awesome, and I like the new interface even. But none of that is relevant, read what I wrote: I didn’t say “I have a problem with using clients”, or even honestly “I have a problem with all closed-source software”. I said “I am done trying to get people to install another app” and because I can’t get anyone to install another app, “clients are a nonstarter for my use case”. That’s it, that’s the reason.
Shit man, you just said
If I could convince my communities to swap
So you fucking get it. I’m not going to pay for a license for software that nobody’s going to use because of the bullshit excuse that they’d “have to install another app”. Instead I spent a few days of my time learning some stuff (which I’d have had to do for TS6 anyway) and got Stoat up and running in my environment, and now I have a web app for voice calls. They don’t support video or screensharing yet, but that’s not a nonstarter for me because those features are on the roadmap.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Well just try not to get it in my eye this time, it stings
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s a bit weird to get erect for being charged money and not controlling the software you pay for, and weirder to tell us all about it, but okay.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
I ain’t here cause I know something wrong
I’m here cause reddit doesn’t have a good app
And they used to, didn’t they? Can you remember what happened to those apps, and why? That’s right, they stopped working, because Reddit closed off their API, which can’t happen here.
So I guess you are here because you know that something is wrong with reddit, after all. You said so yourself.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with your view of Valve, but their reputation isn’t the point.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Can you link the repo you used, to sate my curiosity?
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
But TeamSpeak 6 requires a client, and a subscription, that is a nonstarter for my use case.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 2 weeks ago:
Dammit, where are my glasses… I need to find my pearls so I can clutch them
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
These guys have been at it for several years now. Check out their GitHub, look at the components.
I’m trying to modify their dockerfile a bit so it runs in my container manager and uses my reverse proxy, instead of the one they included, and it creates more containers for this one application than I have for all my other projects combined.
All of which is to say: “pretty hard” is the answer. It is pretty damn hard to build this stuff.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Just move back to the flood plain every time your house gets swept away, rebuild on the side of the volcano every eruption, and keep moving to proprietary platforms every time one enshittifies. Right?
Wrong. You’re here on the fediverse because you know that’s wrong. We need an alternative, but right now they’re all pretty tough to set up by ourselves. For example, I’m once again working on getting revolt/stoat running, and it’s pain (probably mostly due to my environment, I might give up and put it on its own machine).
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
The more reason to abandon them, IMO, when they try to hold those communities hostage. Discord needs us, not the other way around. Without them, we find other ways to talk to our people. Without us, they don’t have a business.
- Comment on Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die? 4 weeks ago:
So you get a notification, spacelord suggested Hereditas: github.com/ItalyPaleAle/hereditas
Not sure if it’s the same one OP is thinking of, though.
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 5 weeks ago:
Hahahahaha okay, buddy. Spoken like someone who’s never been held to account for the actions of others over whom you have no actual authority or power. When I was in the military, I was put in charge of the supply closet and I had to keep it in order to the Staff Sergeant’s specifications. However, my entire Flight had access to that supply closet, and they fucked it up relentlessly. Whose ass, at the end of the day? Mine. How was I supposed to stop it? Fuck you, that’s how.
If I am willingly commissioning crimes through my business, lock me the fuck up. If someone does it in my name and I had no idea, is what the law is there to protect me from. What am I supposed to do if someone does crimes in my business in my name? Fire them, right? So what, you think that being fired is a deterrent from anyone doing crimes? No, of course not. So I ask you again, what actual consequences could I bring to bear on someone who did that?
Let me ask you this. If the rule was that you are responsible for the crimes of your subordinates, no matter what, would you ever risk starting a business or hiring anyone? Most people wouldn’t. How is an economy supposed to flourish under those conditions?
Yours is actually one of the dumbest takes I’ve read on the internet. You sure as shit won the Dumbass Take Of The Day award, and the competition wasn’t even close.
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 5 weeks ago:
Yes, that is indeed the fact I was downplaying as “minor”. I have an even bigger target on my back, and I’m a lot less mobile with all my answers tied up like this.
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 5 weeks ago:
The law is a funny creature. I own a business myself (just started, actually!) and it would suck to be brought up on charges I have no idea about but I’m being held personally liable for. I’m grateful for the LLC protection in that case. Of course, I’m also not planning on committing any crimes, nor having my business commit crimes, so it’s a minor worry. Really only important in the event the law gets weaponised against the people, say for example by a foreign asset in high office… 😬
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 5 weeks ago:
Limited liability companies are “limited” in the sense that there are limited on the responsibilities of the members of the corporation. The CEO can’t be held personality liable for the actions of the company, for example; their underlings could have been responsible and kept the leader in the dark.
However, there’s this interesting legal standard wherein it is possible to “pierce the corporate veil” and hold corporate leadership accountable for illegal actions their company took, if you can show that by all reasonable standards they must or should have known about the illegal activity.
Anyway Elon has been elbow-deep in the inner workings of Xitter for years now, but his own annotation, right? Really getting in there to tinker and build new stuff, like Grok and its image generation tools. Seems like he knows an awful lot about how that works. An awful lot.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s a very nice concept to be able to dump a shitload of knowledge into a folder, look at “processing…” for a few seconds, then ask questions to get exactly what you’re looking for out of it rather than having to go digging through the mound of information and without having to worry that the computer just threw in a few made up facts for giggles. The idea is that the dumping happens over time mostly, allowing you to quickly find buried information from years ago with a few relevant queries.
One thing I’d do with this is dump all my emails into it, from across all my accounts. That might save me having to search keywords in 8+ accounts over 4-5 different platforms every so often…
It also might have been useful in a lawsuit I prosecuted a few years ago. Instead of going through two years of encrypted messages by hand to pull out relevant excerpts with context, I could have exported the lot and just asked for the information. If it worked it could have saved me months (I spent a few hours after work every night screenshotting, dating the screenshots in chronological order, then I’ve that was done I kept a spreadsheet that I filled with relevant excerpts and links to the screenshots, by reading every single screenshot… it was a lot).
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Exactly what it says, what’s confusing about it? The problem with LLMs is that they bullshit; the problem with LLMs bullshitting is that you have to check everything they say, they are not trustworthy - severely limiting the utility. So, don’t trust LLMs. God meanwhile is assumed to be the paragon of honesty, and thus completely trustworthy, so would be the only entity to be trusted implicitly.
This works even if you don’t believe in god, like me: trust nobody, everyone must bring data if they want me to trust what they say.
