hendrik
@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
- Comment on Selfhost an LLM 1 day 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on Does Cloudflare provide anonymity? 3 weeks ago:
Sure, email is bad and we don’t have any worthy successor. I can only deal with the most problematic aspects. Keep my inbox stored somewhere where people can’t just easily go through all my stored mails and I guess it’s transport encrypted more often than it’s not… But yeah, it’s only a little bit and “secure” shouldn’t be in one sentence with email, I guess 😟
- Comment on Using Tylenol(acetaminophen) during pregnancy may increase children’s autism and ADHD risk 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately anti-intellectualism is big these days. I think it’s one of the major issues of society and we better find ways to deal with it, because people are getting hurt by this.
- Comment on Using Tylenol(acetaminophen) during pregnancy may increase children’s autism and ADHD risk 3 weeks ago:
It certainly got posted in the context of the current debate.
- Comment on Using Tylenol(acetaminophen) during pregnancy may increase children’s autism and ADHD risk 3 weeks ago:
Fake news and political propaganda warning!
- Comment on Does Cloudflare provide anonymity? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for your insight. Reading these stories always makes me feel data should stay on own premises with extra security measures. And yes, on my VPS, imaging the storage is one click and I believe it’s done online without any interruption of service. Not that I do a lot of illegal stuff on the internet. But with the current situation in the US and the general overboarding surveillance, I think i’d like to keep their government and agencies out of my emails and personal stuff…
Though I didn’t ask about privacy here, but anonymity. And I guess selfhosting stuff at home isn’t an option either. Everyone can tell my ISP and location to like 30km with that.
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- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
I don't see how that post would be a good example to advocate for the approach. It has 23 comments, quite a lot compared to other posts. So it'd stipp end up with a high ranking and it wordn't really change the overall picture...
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Good suggestion, that's what I do.
- Comment on Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed - PieFed (2024) 3 weeks ago:
Oh, hey! I suppose technically you're on MBin? But yeah, now that I'm aware... I regularly see kbin.earth pop up somewhere.
- Comment on Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed - PieFed (2024) 3 weeks ago:
Btw, this is a very old article. PieFed is lightyears ahead from where it was one and a half years ago. KBin ceased to exist. And I didn't follow Lemmy's development so I can make any statement there.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 3 weeks ago:
I don't think you read what I wrote. The debate is if and how cloud office solutions can be used according to law. Obviously that's about the GDPR because that's that part of the law.
And the second thing: That's what I wrote?!
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 3 weeks ago:
Well, for once you need a commissioned data processing contract with Microsoft to let Microsoft (a third party) process your users private data. And probably a case-by-case study as Office365/Teams/... consists of a wide variety of different services and products and has lots of configurable options as well. And then we had the Datenschutzkonferenz come to the conclusion Office365 is not allowed in 2022. Then a big debate. The EU and several German states and different institutions doing reviews and coming to different conclusions. And the law concerning data safe harbour / EU data boundary got updated. But then we have 2025 now and the situation in the US changes daily. On the upside I believe they've all renewed the Data Privacy Framework certifications so it's legally possible to use the services. But I don't think the debate is entirely solved and over yet. And you'll get some 50+ pages PDF instructions on how to configure your company/organization's cloud office to be in line.
I suppose it's similar for Google? But I see less professional use of their cloud services, I believe it's more popular with smaller organizations and individuals. Honestly I don't know much about that one, I've never considered Google for data that need protection, as that company is one of the largest data leeches on earth.
In any case OP needs to qualify for their NGO programs, as both Google and Microsoft cost about $1,000 a year for like 15 people and that's well above their weight. And I think GDPR compliance and commissioned data processing is a business feature, that's not in your average private Google account.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 3 weeks ago:
I believe cycling and constantly discharging and charging a battery is even worse than letting the built-in charge controller do its job and keep the charge. I'm not an expert on battery chemistry, though. All I can say Thinkpads and other laptops have configurable thresholds for quite some time now. And despite me using that for the last 2 laptops, the batteries still go bad eventually. It's supposed to help, and batteries got better, but it's still a thing to factor in.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 weeks ago:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Or just the average sense of impending doom?
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but there's 2 sides to that story. It's a free UPS and that's really nice. But then I've seen old batteries degrade and swell. People call it the spicy pillow syndrome. And with two of my older devices, batteries got recalled by the manufacturer. So I'd advise against running these things 24/7 unattended. Either know what you're doing or rip it out before it burns down the building. As a minimum that includes a location made of concrete or bricks and mortar and no burnable stuff in the vicinity. And regular checks on the state of the battery.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 4 weeks ago:
I personally would advise against gsuite and office356 as well as it's currently debated whether they can be used in accordance to the GDPR. That's not stopping institutions and organizations... Both are very popular products, but I'd be a bit cautious and not put any sensitive stuff or personal stuff or pictures there.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 4 weeks ago:
I don't think the BSA compare to the major German scouting associations. Different organization structure and substantially different ideology. But I suppose idiots are everywhere, at least that's my general life experience 😅
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 4 weeks ago:
Idk. Really depends on what you put there. And Nextcloud does file sync. Even if the server coughs up and becomes unavailable, you'd still have your directories and calendar on your devices. And creativity and problem-solving are core scout skills, so I guess bulding that thing for no money would be an interesting exercise in that. Though you're right. At some point you'll have to think about maintainability and reliability. I guess that wouldn't stop me from starting the project, but everyone has to decide for themselves.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 4 weeks ago:
Asking for a discount is a great idea. Some companies do this. And in rare occurences the boss is an old boy scout themselves and they'll give you a 100% discount on some smaller favours...
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 4 weeks ago:
Good luck, though. I believe first-hand experience with living a self-determined life - including online services - aligns nicely with scout ideals. And trying to convey the media-literacy that allows people to make informed choices.
And I can see some benefits with having documents available to everyone, templates and collaborate on the paperwork...
Glad to hear other groups in the area have success with Nextcloud... Another idea would be to somehow unite and share the hosting bill for a slightly bigger Nextcloud... But I still think my old laptop idea might be promising... depending on the network situation in the building and whether you can make port forwards and all the things that need to be done.