hendrik

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you handle junk email?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I think several clients have open feature requests. The Stalwart documentation has a list of projects. There is on command line client as of now. But I’m not switching to a cli mail client or proprietary software, so I’ve postponed it. We’ll see where this is going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you handle junk email?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately JMAP isn’t supported (yet) by a lot of email clients. I don’t think there’s a good open-source email suite for computers available… But I’ve tried Stalwart as well and it’s really sleek and seems to come with good defaults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will lemmy add live stream feature so that i can stream football cup for free for everyone? And thus this platform will grow more?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. I think FIFA demand a pile of money from people integrating the live streams into their platforms. We should start the fundraiser soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to mirror corporate social media to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. And I’ve seen people do really weird (and worse) stuff, like re-post questions. And if you’re unaware of that, you’re bound to take 10mins out of your day to answer the product or Linux or life question and later find out you were ripped off. At least that’s how it feels to me if people fabricate that kind of activity. And it kills the mood to write comments for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to mirror corporate social media to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright. And for your information, the Peertube function is a bit broken. I think the Peertube developers did their best. But Youtube has a lot of datacenter IP address ranges blocked. And they do rate-limiting and force people to sign in after downloading a few videos. Plus yt-dlp (which it relies upon and Youtube are playing this cat and mouse game… So it’s disabled on most instances because it doesn’t really work. I was able to make it work on my instance, but I had to jump through several hoops. Configure a SOCKS proxy and tunnel it over my home, residential internet connection. And I think I transferred my login cookies as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to mirror corporate social media to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  PeerTube has that built in. You can set up a channel and have it import or mirror a Youtube channel. For Lemmy there’s several bits and scripts. As other people said that’s what lemmit.online is about.

  Be a bit careful when rolling this out. Several people don’t like it. They’ve left Reddit for a reason and this is drowning them in bot activity. And usually these posts are low engagement, Reddit users can’t see the comments, so you’re not getting a lot of answers. I think it’s good practice how we here have separated that to dedicated instances, so users can just have genuine conversations everywhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, is that better or worse than a president making up tariffs with Grok AI? And police force experimenting with these predictive policing technology?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s more low quality than just the basic print with all the wrinkles and creases in it. For once the head is “painted” realistically, the shirt is another style and then the hands and legs are yet another style. There’s some obvious AI artifacts and it didn’t fool people, seems they were able to tell.

  And then with most of art there’s some layers to it. It’d have a deeper meaning, tell us something about the people depicted, or society at times. Or there’s an entire interesting story about the artist, what kind of struggles they had… And I don’t think there’s any of that with this picture. That’s just the “empty plate” in-your-face meaning. Some children don’t have food. But doesn’t seem to me like it tells more to the audience in itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be performance art. But people did that before. Sneak into a museum and put something up. So it’s not an original idea.

  “The work isn’t about disruption. It’s about participation without permission,” he said.

  And I think the “without permission” holds true on several levels. I mean on the one hand they just put it up. And doing it with AI adds another level on top. I mean the AI companies are known for not asking for permission when they train their generative AI models. But I don’t see this being discussed in the article. It’d probably be the only thing turning this into some form of art. An AI picture in itself certainly isn’t art. Also like how the paper is wrinkled and it doesn’t look good at all and “empty plate” is just a shallow in your face meaning and even I can tell how there isn’t any art or deeper meaning to it. And most people I know who are close to art, and they’re musicians or properly draw stuff as a hobby aren’t really pro AI, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them use AI or mix it into their works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People think AI creations are real and real stuff is AI 🤪⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Super weird to me as well. And then we discuss if we should ban teenagers from using social media, but it’s really half the population who need protection, basic (media) literacy class and touch grass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think the fediverse needs Android like hardware packaging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the encryption and signing on a hardware level for? I mean dependent on what’s that good for and who controls it, it’s trusted computing, or treacherous computing as Stallman calls it…

  I think the overall idea is nice, though. We had these project ideas since the SheevaPlug. Or the FreedomBox. There are some niche hardware projects as well like the Home Assistant Green. But none of those match exactly with your proposal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Btw, the proper place to mount filesystems is either /media or /mnt. I wouldn’t create a directory called /Volumes in Linux. And pay attention, these are case-sensitive and most (not all) system directories have agreed on using lower-case letters only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"butter" beer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a plethora of recipes in some HP recipe books, unlicensed magical meals books and on the internet. All I can say start with small batches. The two or three variants I tried over the years weren’t great. …at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say that depends on exactly what you’re trying to protect. They’re both large American companies with control over your data and your data and metadata will end up in their respective clouds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am curious about hosting my own lemmy/mastodon server⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always a possibility of someone posting arbitrary content when a platform combines content from many sources. I mean we do have moderation here and illegal content is supposed to be removed or flagged. However as the operator of some internet service, you are ultimately responsible for what’s on your instance. So you definitely do need to make an effort to stay in control. Btw, there are possible compromises, such as using an allow-listi of instances you federate with, so you don’t pull content from sources you don’t trust and didn’t approve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and super weird to write something like this about Star Trek of all the fiction out there. I can’t remember any episode where stupidity is portrayed as good or acceptable?! I mean the whole point of TOS is all the characters who are lined up on that picture, being clever in very different ways and combining that to have some fun in outta space…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the reasoning in the article has nothing to do with the audience being conservative. It’s: Star Trek has a mainly male audience. Males are conservative. Then they show some picture how males went more conservative some 50 years(!) after it aired for the first time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hilarious. The Republicans are watching progressive shit promoting liberalism, equality and ethics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini pc for home server?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they should be roughly in a similar range for selfhosting?! They’re both power-efficient. And probably have enough speed for the average task. There might be a few perks with the ThinkCentre Tiny. I haven’t looked it up but I think you should be able to fit an SSD and a harddrive and maybe swap the RAM if you need more. And they’re regularly on sale somewhere and should be cheaper than a RasPI 5 plus required extras.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a bit below 20W. But I custom-built the computer a long time ago with an energy-efficient mainboard and a PicoPSU. I think other options for people who don’t need a lot of harddisks or a graphics card include old laptops or Mini-PCs. Those should idle ad somewhat like 10-15W. It stretches the definitiin of “desktop pc” a bit, but I guess you could place them on a desk as well 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhost an LLM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s another community for this: !localllama@sh.itjust.works

  Though we mostly discuss the news and specific questions there, beginner questions are a bit more rare.

  I think you already got a lot of good answers here, LMStudio, OpenWebUI, LocalAI…

  I’d like to add KoboldCpp that’s kind of made for gaming/dialogue, but it can do everything. And from my experience it’s very easy to set up and bundles everything into one program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to set up a decentralized game/chat server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. I mean for me the equation might be a bit different, I’d pay about 200€ a year in electricity to run 3 efficient computers. And my VPS is only 73€ and I never have to pay for replacement parts (SSDs, harddisks) which I had to replace at home and they have gigabit network, a proper IP address and that’s all way better than what I have at home. So it’s a no-brainer to go for that. But your cost calculation might be different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to set up a decentralized game/chat server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But doen’t that require some software-defined networking or a special network setup? I’m pretty sure with the avergage home internet connection, you’ll fail over to the replica at your friend’s home. But that has an entirely diffetent IP address and the game client will not handle that gracefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to set up a decentralized game/chat server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rent a small VPS for $10 a month and split the bill. As far as I know that’s how most people do it. It’s going to have >99.9% uptime, a fast datacenter internet connection at some central location… The Kubernetes approach adds a lot of complexity, you’ll have your games disconnect anyway if it fails over, and there will be some additional traffic between the locations to keep everything in sync. Unless I’m mistaken about how Kubernetes works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must my Jellyfin server be able to AV1 videos?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the safe bet. Though I think my 8th gen Intel does AV1 decode as well. But it’s not hardware accelerated and full hd is the limit, it can’t do 4k or reltime av1 encoding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Tunnel?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems some people here advocate for a VPS, and I do it as well. I pay roughly 7€ a month for a small(ish) server with 4 cpu cores, 8GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. That allows me to host a few services there, for example some websites and matrix chat, which I don’t want to go down if there’s an issue at home. And it allows me to do the reverse proxying there, so I have the entire chain under my control. But there’s many ways to do it, and several other tunneling solutions (boringproxy.io, nohost.me, pagekite, ngrok, …) that I heard of.

  And a lot of home internet connections allow port-forwarding. Notbsure what your provider does, but I can simply open ports in my router and make them accessible from the outside, no VPS or Cloudflare needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Tunnel?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fairly sure what you mean is, traffic is decrypted in the middle and the re-encrypted before it gets sent your way. Otherwise they couldn’t do proxying or threat detection/mitigation for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Tunnel?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare is very popular, there should be plenty people around with experience. And Cloudflare is convenient and fairly easy to use. I wouldn’t call them “secure” though. I mean that depends on your definition of the word… But they terminate the encryption for you and handle certificates, so it’s practically a man-in-the-middle, as they process your data transfers in cleartext. But as far as I know their track-record is fine. I have some ethical issues because they centralize the internet and some of their stuff borders on snake-oil… But it’s a common solution if you can’t open ports in your home internet connections, or you need a web application firewall as a service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unifying the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, diversity is the central idea behind the entire Fediverse… We get many different perspectives on the same content. That includes many individual instances and individual software. The opposite of that would be one platform and one software, like Reddit or most big commercial services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Cloudflare provide anonymity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I rarely see this being discussed. Cloudflare terminates the encryption, hopefully re-encrypts it on the way upstream, but they have access to all the content in the forwarded traffic. Not sure about the password managers, though. I believe most of them encrypt stuff on the device itself before sending it over the network, and there are no cleartext passwords transferred or stored on the servers.