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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think EA was still worse. At least in my perception.

  I think EA actually bought studios just to get the IP and immediately get rid of the employees. I also think they tried to milk a few of the IPs before letting it go downhill.

  MS, from what I can tell, gave studios quite a lot of freedom to do what they do best. I don’t think they intentionally wanted to fuck over studios, but they rather sacrificed them.

  Don’t get me wrong: that’s still bad. But there’s a difference between fucking studios over with intent and reacting badly to changed circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Now you're playing with power!*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “So I have this ultra portable gaming device…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The British?! Pro-colonialism?! That can’t be. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine it’s rather licensing. If they have to provide the software at some point, they can’t use components they are not allowed to distribute. And I agree, that this will impact development costs. But with the law in place, this is not an unexpected cost but one that can be factored in. Might be, that some live services are then no longer viable… but I don’t care. There are more games than anyone could play and games are cancelled or not even started to develop all the time for various reasons. One more or less is just noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same for the “online only design” argument. The moment they decide it’s not viable anymore and they want to shut it down: what does it matter to them, what players do with it? As long as they offer the service themselves, no one is bugging them. (Although I would absolutely be in favor of also getting self hosting options right from the start, I am realist enough to accept, that this would indeed lower economical feasibility of some projects.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want to know more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it make a difference, if that setting uses a trailing slash? Might be it redirects you to the path without, which triggers caddy to redirect you again, and so on and so forth.

  You could also, instead of redirecting, rewrite it. Then it is handled serverside without sending the client somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are all the *arr services aware that they are expected to have a certain basepath?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you go for subscription, you accept that the stuff is temporal. Or at least you should. So it should make no practical difference if a game vanishes because it gets pulled from the catalog or if you decide to cancel the subscription because you consider it too expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it fits your gaming profile, it’s a pretty good deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Drive alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, ok, fair 😁

  You should in any case consider your backup strategy. If you have reliable backups, your fuckups can’t be as bad anymore. If you don’t have reliable backups, a “raw” storage doesn’t help you either. Maybe even the contrary: you won’t notice, if individual files get corrupted or even lost until it’s too late. (Not talking about disk corruption, against which the right filesystem can guard you… but I am not sure you trust filesystems either 😛)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Drive alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does the storage layer of seafile scare you? Are you also scared of databases and prefer storing things in raw txt files? The difference is the same. You get certain features in return:

  • Versioning is possible (so each file can have a history you can roll back)
  • Sync is very fast
  • It can sync incremental changes even of big files

  You still have access via:

  • Web
  • Synced locally using Seafile Client
  • WebDAV
  • Mounted as network filesystem anywhere using SeaDrive.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like the syntax, the runtime environment (which runs interpreted) and for PHP more than many other languages (aside from JS), a lot of code out there is hacked together horribly which makes me completely distrust the community.

  Personally I stay away from anything that doesn’t have a compiler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in the same boat and therefore my nextcloud instance was mostly running for backwards compatibility with a few setups I have, while I mostly use seafile, immich and sogo. But a few days ago I updated to nextcloud hub 10 (I think that’s with nextcloud 31 under the hood) and damn does that run smooth. I was so impressed I got motivated to finally setup the high performance backend for nc talk.

  I still dislike PHP, but nextcloud just won back my heart a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reevaluating my password management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On mobile I indeed also had that issue once. However I made sure they can’t lock me out completely. The db is stored using the opensource sqlcipher, so one can open it and extract everything manually, if absolutely necessary. As long as they don’t change this, I am fine. In the worst case that would still be a lot of effort for me, but not impossible.

  The export has also improved a lot. You can now also export to JSON which includes all the data one could need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reevaluating my password management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t have a hard requirement of it being fully (!) OpenSource, then I would recommend Enpass. Relatively pleasing UI that runs native on Win, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. It has browser plugins for Chrome and Firefox that talk directly to the running fat client (so no multiple authentication with different browsers necessary).

  The password db is completely local, but it offeres several sync mechanisms like WebDAV or Dropbox or also iCloud; basically whatever can store files. If it’s a NAS in your home, it simply will sync once you are back home.

  It also offers “WiFi Sync”, in which case you designate one machine running Enpass as the server and link other clients to it, then you don’t even need to run a separate hosting for it (but that machine needs to be on and running Enpass when you want to sync, obviously).

  It’s basically a less open but much more convenient and beautiful KeePass(XC).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for an html-based secure message service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think CryptPad has delete-after-view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True.

  Although in Germany for example it can also be an issue when recording. If you have a security camera pointed at a public space (that can include the sidewalk infront of your house), passersby can sue you to take it down and potentially get you fined. Even pretending to constantly record such an area can yield that result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, buzzer WRONG.

  Quite arrogant after you just constructed a faulty comparison.

  If I say my name is Doo doo head, in a public park, and someone happens to overhear it - they can do with that information whatever they want. Same thing.

  That’s absolutely not the same thing. Overhearing something that is in the background is fundamentally different from actively recording everything going on in a public space. You film yourself or some performance in a park and someone happens to be in the background? No problem. You build a system to identify everyone in the park and collect recordings of their conversations? Absolutely a problem, depending on the jurisdiction. The intent of the recording(s) and the reasonable expectations of the people recorded are factored in in many jurisdictions, and being in public doesn’t automatically entail consent to being recorded.

  See for example www.freedomforum.org/recording-in-public/

  (And just to clarify: I am not arguing against your explanation of Twitch’s TOS, only against the bad comparison you brought.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 332 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My impression of Starfield (after release, at least) was, that it was a bunch of pretty well intended and implementation subsystems (as is, to my knowledge quite common in game development; each team works on a different one), but they just don’t fit really well together. All the subsystems are good parts of a theoretically good overall big picture, but the complexity seemed too high for them to actually flesh out the big picture.

  Technically it all works, but IMO you feel the conceptual gaps whenever you transition (UX wise) from one gameplay mechanic to the next. It just doesn’t (or didn’t) feel like a cohesive game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I keep that private to minimize the information I leak about what I host, sorry. (I also don’t do git-ops for my server; I back the mentioned directories up via kopia so in case of recovery I just restore the last working state of data+config. I don’t have much need to version the configs.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I did to get rid of my mess, was to containerize service after service using podman. I mount all volumes in a unified location and define all containers as quadlets (systemd services). My backup therefore consists of the base directory where all my container volumes live in subdirectories and the directory with the systemd units for the quadlets.

  That way I was able to slowly unify my setup without risking to break all at once. Plus, I can easily replicate it on any server that has podman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any experience with Pangolin?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, since at the moment it wants to manage certificates, but I don’t intend to run pangolin as my main reverse proxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any experience with Pangolin?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pangolin is the most user friendly self hosted alternative to Cloudflare tunnels. There are dozens alternatives, but none with that feature set and such a UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would rather bet that most people have no clue what an operating system is and that the one they (unknowingly) use is made by Microsoft. On the other hand if they play games (on that PC), they will know Steam, because they actively had to install it and click it’s icon frequently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Calendars, Contacts and Files in Stalwart | Stalwart Labs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. You can simply not expose SMTP at all and just use the IMAP/JMAP part. Unless you need also JMAP, I am not sure it brings you a lot to the table you wouldn’t also get from a good old dovecot. IMO the big advantage of Stalwart is the all-in-one package it delivers plus the good defaults. It also shines when you want a multi node deployment. For a single node IMAP only it might not be the best choice, in my opinion. But it would work, if you want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Calendars, Contacts and Files in Stalwart | Stalwart Labs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can ask, but the indicators are there:

  • it has roadmap with bigger features that slowly shrinks as they get implemented
  • new versions still bring big reworks (I think this is the third time now that the data structure is being migrated)
  • optimizations happen between the versions
  • benchmarks are still on the horizon
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Calendars, Contacts and Files in Stalwart | Stalwart Labs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It aims at both, otherwise it wouldn’t ship with sqlite and rocksdb. Stalwarts default is clearly for single node setups and expanding it to clustering takes further steps. So while it supports large scale deployments, it should not be limited to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Calendars, Contacts and Files in Stalwart | Stalwart Labs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a 0.x release. It makes sense building the intended features first before optimizing heavily. There’s no point having an optimized data structure that then falls flat once you need to add new features that brings new requirements to the data structure.

  Once they label it 1.x (i.e. feature complete and production ready) I would expect it to be optimized. If it isn’t, criticism is warranted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting email, FLOSS, Python ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well exactly as you say: it’s a single service instead of having to combine multiple. In my case dovecot was a lot faster for my mailboxes, but postfix was a piece of shit and I was happy to get rid of it and the many components (rspamd, dkimproxy, etc.) it required. It has far too many footguns, and I shot myself multiple times with them over the years. So the most important part (SMTP) is significantly simpler and IMO better with stalwart. And the mailbox part hopefully evolves as well (it already has JMAP, so that is already an advantage over dovecot as well).