hendrik

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tested putting my printsheet in the dishwasher⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if it’s really gritty. Seems it is to a degree. But more like table salt. I stirred it for a bit and it was pretty scratchy for a while but dissolved entirely after about 2min. I think it’s more water pressure and chemicals doing that job. It sure seems abrasive to coated surfaces, though. I used to put my non-stick pan into the dishwasher. And it wrecked the surface over the course of several months or a year or so. Now I’m not doing that any more and the pan after that lasted me longer. Just my anecdotal evidence, not science… But I’m positive that’s why we’re not supposed to put these things in there. I guess putting a non-stick pan in 5 or 10 times wouldn’t make a noticeable difference, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get a certificate for an internal domain?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If that traffic is going through an encrypted Wireguard tunnel, I don’t see a reason to encrypt it a second time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well known in the industry how you don’t assess programmers by lines of code. You kind of want them to be efficient and clean. Spend their day thinking and design clever solutions… Not pump out lots of unmaintainable low quality stuff. But yeah, guess every aspect of this aligns well. You should be using Linux by now. Or at least do the swich in the near future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. I think the main damage is done by other factors. I mean even before AI, everything turned into subscriptions and services. We use Office365 these days and the documents are in the cloud. There isn’t much need for Free Software Office Suites or mail clients anymore. Operating systems have less impact because honestly only old people use computers. Everyone else does their stuff on a phone. And then we finally crossed the barrier into a post-privacy world and people don’t care. And sure, on top of that large companies take the nice database projects, libraries etc and monetize products with that. Or they train AI and sell that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting with a seven year old⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think educational activities work best once they have some application to someones life. So it’d be something within the realm of a 7yo. And it’s not fun unless there’s a sense of achievement every now and then, along with all the stuff to learn. So probably not too steep of a learning curve.

  Sadly they discontinued Lego Mindstorms. I think robotics is a great hands-on topic. People can grasp what they’re currently doing, why they do it, and what it’s good for. It has a tactile aspect, so you’ll train dexterity as well and gently connect the physical realm with the maths.

  But other than that, I bet there’s a lot of things you can try. Design a website (and deploy a small webserver). Maybe some easy to use photo gallery if they have a tablet or camera. Maybe a Wordpress for them to write a Blog? Kids love Minecraft, so maybe a Luanti server if you’re into Free Software. But learn how to add NPCs and animals, that is (or used to be?) a complicated process in Luanti and the world feels boring and empty without. A chat server to their loved ones could motivate them to read and write text (messages). Or skip the selfhosting aspect and do the kids games available for Linux. Paint, LibreOffice…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A comprehensive absolut beginner's guide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you just want something simple that does the job, you can try a turnkey solution like YunoHost. There’s several other ones out there. Some with containers, some with more or less pre-packaged software… If you want to learn more during the process, maybe don’t and do it yourself because these things don’t teach you a lot. There’s some resources in the sidebar of this community. But I think for installing services you’d mainly look at the specific documentation of the specific service you’re just about to tackle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe @WhiteHotaru@feddit.org would like to do that for us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Yeah those would be great in an awesome-webhosting list. But as far as I know you’re supposed to stick with a topic with those awesome lists and not make a random list of random projects… I’ve filed a bug report: https://github.com/ccbikai/awesome-homelab/issues/24

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. Why isn’t Forgejo in Development but some predecessors? And why is a tower defense game listed under Automation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lower Decks is awesome. That and The Orville were some of my favourite “Star Trek” moments in modern times.

  By the way, there’s a bit of a story arc going on at the beginning of Discovery and some things don’t make sense until that gets revealed during season 2. The show changes some of the tone and atmosphere over time. But if you don’t like it, maybe it’s just not for you. It’s not classic Star Trek for several reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if this translates to the content creators. There’s many of them whom I really like to watch who do (or did) Youtube as a business model. Tom Scott being one example or Derek Muller (Veritasium). I’m subscribed to many more. Simplicissimus and their yet better second channel (in German). We wouldn’t have those without monetization. The platform of course went shit over time. Fortunately my Ad blocker still works and thanks to Sponsorblock my experience is fairly alright… But I’m personally split on this. We had quite the amount of entertainment before monetization but I think a large amount of quality content also arrived after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any VPNs that support dedicated IPv6 addresses?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I did is connect to the smart home (Home Assistant) and the NAS running at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sesame Seeds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roasted sesame oil ftw!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know it uses the B.A.T.M.A.N. mesh protocol. On a channel within the regular 2.4GHz wifi spectrum. All people communicating to each other obviously need to agree on a channel. It comes with some hierarchy where I’m at. There are local chapters who make up some config and who also operate nodes and exit nodes into the internet. These are necessary because Germany has stupid laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s Freifunk as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you handle junk email?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 🤪⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.