hendrik

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"butter" beer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini pc for home server?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fake news and political propaganda warning!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Cloudflare provide anonymity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• Does Cloudflare provide anonymity?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good suggestion, that's what I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed - PieFed (2024)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.