Fedditor385

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted something that has OnlyOffice integration and basically an selfhosted Google Drive, so tried Nexcloud as the most popular solution… but… it was a pain to set up, its internal workings make handling reverse proxying a pain and it feels extremely slow.

  I will try out Seafile, they seem to have just the 2 things I need and nothing more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude… what the fuck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually wouldn’t mind AI in everything, if there was a simple one switch so I could easily turn it off if I don’t want to use it. The problem is only in forcing it into peoples faces.

  I guess they poured to much money into AI for it to fail, and now they must force people to use it to in order to justify the investments.

  If it was a good product, people would ask for more themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want cheap and simple - Time4VPS. I am with them for a couple of years and for the price there is nothing really to complain about. If you take 2y contract, the cheapest plans are like €2.5/month.

  If you do decide to maybe go with them, it would be appreciated if you could use my affiliate link, otherwise… just type Time4VPS into google. They are based in Lithuania.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People will pay for solutions to their problems, and most people and companies don’t seem to want to hear - that we have the problem of AI being in everything.

  The next BIG THING will have a single marketing label - no AI inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off-grid hosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, you just need to make sure your power supply, however it is set up, needs to provide constant power over long term that the system needs at minimum. That means for ex. if you use solar, you need to have a big enough battery and array so that it can charge batteries throughout the day even when it’s cloudy so the system can be up overnight when there is no power generation happening. If you have for ex. a raspberry pi and a smartphone as a hotspot, you can probably have enough energy with an average UPS and one solar panel to make sure it will never go fully empty overnight, regardless how cloudy the day was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Government can get the similar effect with a ban, without spending a dime. Kids will grow up to be normal people who can actually work, be normal, and pay taxes. Same thing, but cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kids aren’t stupid

  Well, they ain’t smart either… Even adults know better but still many end up in situations that are preventable if you have just some small amount of rational thinking. Also… you first need to know it yourself, to be able to educate your kids. Most parents didn’t grow up with TikTok nor do they use it themselves. How to educate your kids about dangers you yourself don’t know or understand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite a lot of kids and teenagers have the same reaction to taking away their phone, as addicts have when taking away their drugs. I don’t think education can solve problems that are already affecting peoples mental and physical state. Not giving kids TikTok is same as not giving kids to much sugar. In small doses and controlled yes, but nothing you would give them free unlimited access to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The government is not wrong tbh. Young people are addicted to social media and scroll endlessly all the time, and I have myself came across, mildly put, disturbing content. I deleted most of my social media and use the bare minimum to only keep up with some remote friends.

  I also don’t buy the argument that it’s censoring because it’s just one of many many channels people can freely communicate. TikTok alone does not mean democracy. Also, the same way it can support democracy, so can it be used to demolish it by repeating false claims to make them appear truthful. And if you add AI on top which can generate convincing images and videos of whatever…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Example #3194 for blind people enjoying Mastodon/the fediverse BECAUSE many people post with picture/video description⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there are people who encourage others to add alt text, and there are those who want to force everyone to add alt text. I saw both…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Example #3194 for blind people enjoying Mastodon/the fediverse BECAUSE many people post with picture/video description⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also a seemingly toxic side to this, as people call out the ones who do not add alt text to their pictures. While it is helpful and inclusive, it is not a requirement and people who don’t do it (be it unknowingly or otherwise) should not be treated badly or called out for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Setup fail2ban

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You would need to do some research yourself, I am no expert in this… ogg/vorbis was an option for me, and it checks my requirements (high quality, acceptable size, supported on android).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am literally just now downloading my entire Spotify collection as high quality OGG Vorbis files. Ready for the future, however it will look like.