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- Comment on Political discourse 14 hours ago:
Regardless of online / offline, this can be attributed to a method of gaining and maintaining political power called divide and conquer.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 day ago:
Now that I think about it, that has been one of my two blanket explanations for rich people being assholes.
The other one being the mix-up of correlation and causation (or even just the direction of causation). Money arguably does make you a worse person, but also being a bad person usually can make you a lot of money in the first place.
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 1 day ago:
Sure, why not
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 day ago:
Could as well be the case. Would fit to the general theme of the series lol.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 day ago:
Can someone find an excuse for how this behaviour is not just extremely short sighted and just plain stupid? Never heard of the guy before, but he seems to behave like a petty little child throwing a tantrum for something that is obviously his or some of his near colleagues fault. Comparable level of stupidity to “Do you guys not have phones?” lol.
I think they would be better of by just ignoring or at least appeasing the crowd with something.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 4 days ago:
Fahrenheit 451
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 1 week ago:
As if LinkedIn hasn’t been enough of a toxic wasteland.
- Comment on The Last Days Of Social Media | as AI slop and sexbots kill mass social media, "a billion little gardens" rise in its place| NOEMA 2 weeks ago:
That was a great read. Let’s hope the author is right with most of it, especially the part where they predict an upcoming focus on teaching media/information literacy as a tool of societal resilience.
- Comment on Best Practice Ideas 3 weeks ago:
I always point people here: youtu.be/uPYjJYQEFSg
Hard to give you hints when we don’t know what your background is, so here is some basics:
For starting selfhosting I’d recommend getting comfortable with the linux command line at first (this may help: www.linuxcommand.org). Set up a VM in Virt-manager / VirtualBox / VMWare / whatever hypervisor you want, install a Linux image (I’d recommend plain Debian without desktop environment). Now you have a sandbox where you can toy around. If you’re on windows you can use WSL2. If you’re already on a linux desktop, toy around there.
If you already got some hardware like a raspberry pi or old Laptop, get that up and running with a distro of your choice, plug it into your network and SSH into it, then you have got your playground there. Get the basic commands in like ls, pwd, cat, tail, touch, mkdir, rm, … And some things you can do with them. Check out their respective man-pages.
After that, install some packages, change configs (I’d recommend nano over vim for starters). From now on, there are no boundaries of what to do. Set up your first basic webserver with apache / nginx / caddy, install docker / podman and containerize / get some images, set up pihole, nextcloud, jellyfin, do whatever you like… Congratulations, you are now “self hosting”.
Maybe some day switch that Raspberry pi out for a thin client as seen in the picture from OP and install a hypervisor like Proxmox on it. If you got all that, which may take a while, you can consider networking and firewalls IMHO (you could get a cheap router that supports OpenWRT to learn about these things). Don’t open ports to the internet as long as you’re not 100% sure what you are doing. You can set up a VPN with DynDNS on most modems / routers connected to your ISP though, opening up your self hosted services only to you / anyone with access. Or use something like Tailscale / Twingate.
I could go on, but like I said, self hosting and home labbing is kind of use case / requirement specific.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 4 weeks ago:
Great, another one to stress about!
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 4 weeks ago:
We will probably do at least experimental forms of geoengineering the next years as well. Also those super volcanoes that should have blown up couple hundred years ago will hide the sun for some years once they pop. Also also, fucking with the climate (or trying to save it) could become some kind of climate warfare in the near future as well I guess. Good times ahead!
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 4 weeks ago:
Remember when they told you a google query uses the power of a light bulb burning for an hour? We’ve come to a full circle guys.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 5 weeks ago:
A lot of younger folks in IT, like myself, have been on the brink of exhaustion since 2022.
Sure, there was the “obsoletion” of PHP, Java, plain JS, etc. before, in favor of one of the JS frameworks that get released every other day, etc.
But this one feels different. They are trying to sell you the idea of everything related to sw development and programming will get “outsourced” to a computer. The problem is, LLMs can’t do the necessary thinking to build resilient systems as they can’t “think”, neither effective nor efficient. They can be great tools when used the right way, but that’s about it.
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 5 weeks ago:
Crying in amdgpu
- Comment on Life Expectancy is the age at which 50% of the of the population is expected to die before. 1 month ago:
Sorry for being nitpicky and thanks for naming them all. I just assume the term average is equivalent to mean average in peoples heads. For uneven distributions, like wealth or life expectancy are I assume, it just wouldn’t be a good measurement.
- Comment on Life Expectancy is the age at which 50% of the of the population is expected to die before. 1 month ago:
From Wikipedia:
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
What you described would be the median, not average.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 month ago:
Shout out to yt-dlp, the absolute unit of software beneath lots of media scraping tools.
You can also use MPV Video player, should be able to play many URLs you throw at it.
- Comment on Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds 1 month ago:
Today I read a thread of people using the photo mode of death stranding to prove they are Norman Reedus. While this certainly won’t be the end to the story, it’s kind of funny this iteration of a clearly unfinished age verification system got out there. Makes me wonder how good they are going to protect their “customers” data.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Nothing a good ol’ plowing and seeding won’t fix… No wait
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 1 month ago:
You absolutely want your accounting software to be entirely deterministic.
This always bugs me with all the use cases LLMs get shoehorned into. Letting these do anything unsupervised is literally begging for chaos to happen.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 months ago:
Of course not! I will only get organic / grass fed computers with a OS preinstalled by the vendor. They only do this to protect the users and not for the fuckton of money MS shoves into their throats.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 months ago:
inb4 Linux users sweepingly get declared as criminals for some flimsy reason. There was some news of Facebook filtering out Linux content because it seemed harmful to them.
- Comment on Where to find a girlfriend like her!? 2 months ago:
Got a DM from a chill young woman named Nicole right here on Lemmy!
- Comment on Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner? 2 months ago:
I actually plan on putting hardware related stuff on an extra pi since I only run a single proxmox node right now. Would be home assistant and nut tools for the ups but I might put pihole and unbound on that as well.
I am worried about the performance though because of home assistant. And it is pretty comfortable to have everything on one host that is far from being used to capacity anyway.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 2 months ago:
Human music, I like it!
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 2 months ago:
I recently watched a (german) video about the exact development of McDonalds depicted in the meme and it made me realize how much of the experience had been catered towards children and how i felt when i was there more often (or at all) when i was younger.
- Comment on Good boy 2 months ago:
Might as well give him a fetish over time.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 months ago:
Will they though? Facebook has already created undisclosed bot accounts themselves before. A Platform where real users and such bots are indistinguishable (for the user) sounds like a social media corpos and governments wet dream to me. Also reminds me of the attempts to disguise ads as natural content.
- Comment on RIP Thomas 2 months ago:
Not OP, but I actually downloaded all of my saved posts when I left Reddit with the apicalypse. Maybe I should dig that up and start cooking 🍝
