hendrik

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd say if it's as power hungry as people say, it'd maybe make a good on-demand backup solution. Install some NAS distribution and power it on once a month, make backups of your *arred collection and your laptop/workstation and shut it off again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedi-plays live stream⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He's stuck 🙁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of influence are you referring to? On how the internet gets shaped in the future? Or society and politics, or as part of the Five Eyes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, the Brits are really killing it. (The internet.) First smaller forums having to shut down, the Fediverse needing to defederate and block UK users (at least technically). And now they also disable cloud encryption... But I guess they've always lead the way with surveillance tech, porn filters on residential internet connections etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd say this is just like a nice e-mail provider that provides you with email and a bit of cloud storage and a place to sync your addressbook and calender for like $5 a month. We could do the same with social media and the Fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm with netcup.com and I've been happy. But some people complained their support isn't the best and sometimes doesn't answer. I'm not sure about the details as I've never needed support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨which softwares can I self host without public IP?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you can host anything. It's just not reachable from the outside. And Fedivers ir anything that gets data pushed in, won't work. The common thing to handle this is to use some tunnelling solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Print An Instant Camera⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice video!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay 6.84€ a month for a VPS plus 4.65€ a year for the domain. That gets me a VPS with 4 cores and 8GB of RAM so in addition to Matrix, I can also fit a few Fediverse services, Nextcloud, ...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Btw, Christians, Muslims and Jews worship the exact same God.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You need a lot of practice. Maybe read a tutorial or watch a Youtube video on how to solder, and how to see if a joint looks alright. Several pople made great tutorials and videos about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we started uploading YT videos to PeerTube?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things to consider:
  * It's likely illegal to take other people's content and re-publish it on your own terms
  * Peertube admins have to pay for storage. So don't dump random noise there. It has to be useful / worth it. Especially if you make someone else pay for the server space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it's just like fighting fire with fire, isn't it? I suppose if someone tries hard enough, while simultaneously avoiding thinking about any consequences, they might be able to convince themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker in LXC vs VM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think the internet gave particularly good advice here. Sure, there are use-cases for both, and that's why we have both approaches available. But you can't say VMs are better than containers. They're a different thing. They might even be worse in your case. But I mean in the end, all "simple thruths" are wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. I guess we can skip the other options then, at least for your case. The replacement isn't very thoughtful. For technical reasons, you can't have it your way either. A platform with tree-style comments or replies can't have a comment in-between deleted entirely, or the rest of the tree will collapse. So there needs to be some empty placeholder. Or you just can't use platforms which allow users to reply to each other, but that's more a you-problem. I agree though, if you delete it, it can't have your username or content or timestamp left behind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn leechers. And doubly so, first they steal the books, and then they don't even give anything back to the pirates. And it's not like Anna's Archive or Libgen weren't struggling already. So Meta is just harming everyone involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. Question is: How can we improve that? Is this a symptom for another missing feature? Or do we want to not address it and just provide one nuclear option? Would you for example like a feature for ephermeral comments, which auto-destruct after a week or so? PieFed has something like that for posts. Or the ability to categorize comments so you can find them later on? Or an option to (regularly) wipe your history, so you don't have to delete the whole account...

  That's why I ask for exact reasons, and not just a vague feeling about how the platform is bad... I mean it is for some edge-cases like this. And I don't see how Lemmy would improve on this in the near future. Seems some of the groundworks still don't work properly. But this doesn't have to apply to other Fediverse software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. And I sometimes find myself in the position where internet enshittification and content vanishing harms me more than it helps. So I'd like to balance this with the other side of the medal, where people might have legitimate interest to do so. But so far the argument has been "just because". And for me, that argument doesn't tip the scale to their direction. I still have tangible arguments not to over-delete. While the other side seems to be very theoretical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tl;dr: Yes, it's complicated.

  Hmmh. I think 1) just means it has to be implemented properly. But you're right. That sounds exactly like something a developer would do. Unlink the information and at the same time add a timestamp that immediately links it again 😅

  And I'm not sure about 3) I'd have to read the GDPR again. Afaik it just mandates the user is provided with the ability to do so. Not that it needs to be the default.

  And 2) is kind of my question. I suppose a user who is about to delete their account, might not be super relaxed and ready to deal with the intricate details. I mean they could be pissed and want out. Or something happened and they need it to happen quickly. Either way, it's probably not the right time to bother them with 500 questions and make them learn about the consequences. Though... They need to do the right thing. Once their account is gone, and it turns out they would have liked to delete more (or less), that's not really possible any more (without manual admin intervention). So maybe it's down to: delete everything in any case, and accept that it has a negative effect on the content on the platform.

  It also has to be balanced with handling abuse etc since malicious actors use the same features to cover their tracks.

  But I'm probably getting way ahead of where we are. OP said deletion doesn't even propagate through the federated network correctly. So realistically, we probably don't need to bother with the details several steps down the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Heheh. Sure. If I'm not at home, my sex-toys are up another stranger's bum. It made no sense for us to own anything anymore. My brain implant keeps me indifferent and drugged. And consuming the services...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good use-case. Would it suffice to "unlink" the information in that case, instead of deleting it? I think that'd solve both problems. The posts and comments would stay in place for everyone to keep using them, but it'd say "by [deleted user]", so it's forgotteh that you (or someone) wrote it.

  I'm not sure. And we somehow need to present that to the user without overwhelming them with several options, delete account without data, delete account and unlink content, delete account and content...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmh, not sure if I'm experiencing a Déjà vu, or if this is just because I've talked to some people who were complaining about some aspect of the platform and saying they're going to quit. Anyways, I wish that you're somehow going to find what you're looking for. Whether it's on this platform or somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, and I happen to already be aware of it. It doesn't have any of that. And it's more complicated to hook it into other things, since the good old postfix is the default case and well-trodden path. I think I'll try Stalwart anyways. It's a bit of a risk, though. Since it's a small project with few developers and the future isn't 100% certain. And I have to learn all the glue in between the mailserver stuff, since there aren't any tutorials out there. But both the frontend, and the configuration and setup seem to make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity: What's a reason to delete all the content? I don't want to imply you shouldn't be able to do so... But I often find it very annoying when people delete large quantities of stuff. Because that also deletes the comments I made, which took me time to write. It deletes my bookmarks. And sometimes people regularly wipe their history which removes technical questions along with the correct answers and other material that might prove useful to other people, if it weren't deleted...

  I'd like to understand the perspectives and two sides of that coin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I've always been looking for an all-in-one mailserver with a few added features like mailing lists and something like AnonAddy (anonymous mail forwarding). Sadly there doesn't seem anything like that out there. So I have to configure postfix and dovecot myself. Or make ends meet with a bit more basic features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe try McDonald's workers for further research, if it's the constant and annoying beeping of machines. Or any Japanese store where you get 3 songs blaring at the same time from different aisles, then there's some offering on a seperate stand, of course also blinking and begging for attention with additional sounds...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok 3 released as "truth-seeking AI".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey @Cat@ponder.cat I think you're dumping too much AI news into the technology communities these days. I've been annoyed a bit lately, since it's mostly posts from you, and most of the articles aren't even particularly interesting. And I'm not even sure if they're interesting to you, because you don't seem to engage in the discussions below your own posts, if there is any. So IMO this just spams the place. Same applies to the technology community at LW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Does ChatGPT “Delve” So Much? Exploring the Sources of Lexical Overrepresentation in Large Language Models.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be super interesting to follow up on that research and break it down by domains. Find out how medical papers compare to physics, to economy...

  But comes to no surprise to me. The amount of papers written it the currency in science. Main part of their job is to push papers, to pull in funding, to advance their career... So, they turn to tools which make it easier to push many papers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wear a mask. Or a helmet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you run backups on your system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most backup software allow you to configure backup retention. I think I went with some pretty standard once per day for a week. After that they get deleted and it keeps just one per week of the older ones, for a month. And after a month it's down to monthly snapshots. I think that aligns well with what I need.