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- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 6 hours ago:
Thank you, I will check these out!
If anything came from this conversation, then at least one more pair of eyes is away from yt.
Now if only I could figure out how to use peertube…
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 8 hours ago:
I’m sure these are accurate statements, but the fact remains that I’ve never heard of dropout or nebula. At all.
And the only reason I’ve heard of floatplane is via LTT and Jeff Geerling, and I don’t actually use the platform itself.
That’s what I mean about inertia, google has it now and can coast for years on people just being lazy and staying with YouTube. That alone will be a loooong hill to climb for any other platforms.
LTT seems to have enough clout and has worked out a survivable business model, but notice that they remain on YouTube to capture and keep new views.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 18 hours ago:
You are correct. Websites, the stack to supply video encoding, even scalability is a solved problem.
The hard work isn’t technical, it’s getting people onto your platform in the first place (marketing), getting people to continue using your platform (retention) and the perennial problems of SaaS evolving with other SaaS platforms (how many dev hours are you willing to eat trying to keep up with the Joneses?).
SaaS, and in this case, SaaS offering content, is a losing game. You will either lose your shirt, sell your business, or become entrenched in a position whose inertia is difficult to break. How much of any of those you are willing to take a firehose of is the question.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 21 hours ago:
The lift of running your own platform is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to creating your own video hosting platform.
- Comment on I'm the creator of Seedit and I'm here to share how it works and clear up some Concerns/FUDS 4 days ago:
As with any new thing, it’s not the technology, it’s the implementation.
- Comment on I'm the creator of Seedit and I'm here to share how it works and clear up some Concerns/FUDS 5 days ago:
I don’t think anyone is triggered by blockchain on its own (although reading the room would suggested making blockchain a part of your product is dumb).
But calling blockchain and crypto “p2p” is like saying highways are social hangouts just because there are lots of people on them at any one time. There is no equivalence there, because the makers of this product are not making a social platform.
Sharpen your scam-detecting skills, my friend, for your own safety.
- Comment on Splitting comic books into panel 1 week ago:
This isn’t a thing because there are many comics that don’t adhere to “frames”. They overlap with others, use the whole page, etc.
But beyond this, decompress your CBR/cbz files and use imagemagick to find frames and isolate them.
- Comment on It's Gonna Be A Good Day, 'Tater 1 week ago:
ELK stack
Lolol yes, elastic was a pig for me too
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
That’s a good point, and it’s one that isn’t solved yet in the foss space.
There are some success stories like Blender, and other projects like Thunderbird and KDE who have recently made their model work through voluntary donations, albeit by hiring competent management of such donations. And there are lots and lots of projects somewhere in between.
The interesting questions to me aren’t so much about Plex, but the infrastructure behind all the tools we use: NTP on Linux, build tools, ffmpeg libraries, etc. Lots of other companies make products that make money, yet kick back nothing to these.
Would a royalty system work? I dont know.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Yes, you got this bang-on. Plex made the decision long ago.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
There are a few ways Plex could have played this:
- By attrition. Stop the sale of plex pass, but leave those users and their access alone. New sign-ups get new rules about features/$.
- By using some of their revenue to paywall Premium features, keep a cut-down but functional version for non-paying plebs. It doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing, even for streaming outside your network (which you could cap at X number of hours per month)
- Start making Plex features a-la-carte, meaning, $2/mth for HDR, 4$ for streaming, etc. Or bundles.
The point is there are lots of companies who do this right and don’t have such a blatant disregard for the user. In the long run, this will not help Plex, it will help other streaming service helpers who are actually willing to respect users.
I know you’re not defending Plex and I acknowledge that. However, I see a lot of “How are they supposed to make their money?” arguments here, hence my description above of just a few models Plex could have chosen instead of f**king the customer.
- Comment on Got any security advice for setting up a locally hosted website/external service? 2 weeks ago:
The most important thing is to use your common sense, think about it an extra minute before punching holes in your fw, and keep those holes documented and to a minimum.
- Comment on I got a free HP DL380 G5, so I blogged about it ! 2 weeks ago:
Oh, wow, you weren’t joking. Jeez.
- Comment on Small NAS home server woes 2 weeks ago:
I have a jonsbo n1, do not buy it.
- Cooling is insufficient. Something about the case layout makes the motherboard area not get enough ventilation and the supplied fan can’t cool 5 disks, the chassis holding the disks doesn’t allow enough air through.
- Only room for half-height expansion card.
- Cable routing is abysmal, with sharp edges.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 2 weeks ago:
You misread that.
The database was from prior to 21.x, because installed NC 8 years ago at v14 and have upgraded since then. I’ve been upgrading the same system since late 2016.
Stop picking fights with strangers.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what gave you the impression I don’t follow the official procedure, I do follow the official upgrade procedure, and always have through its many stupid iterations for the last 8 years.
Example error, from last week:
Devs did not test with NC instances created before v21.x, so the SQL db is broken when going through the official upgrade if your nc has tge old structure and I had to manually modify it to work.
This kind of shit happens about twice a year. Mind you, this exact literal thing happened from v18.x to 19.x also, you’d think they has learned their lesson.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, I’ll try radicale.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (6 June 2025) 3 weeks ago:
That YouTube strike for Jeff geerling scares me… Twice in 6 months? For just mentioning libreelec?
We are all being driven underground by the profiteers who are ruining what was at one time a great free platform. I hope we find a way to keep our freedoms alive.
Fuck the yt police, and fuck their moms.
- Comment on Backup for important files/pictures? 3 weeks ago:
I rsync nightly to an old synology box. It’s in an out building, so if there’s a fire, it comes with me.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 3 weeks ago:
It is a bit of a different approach than proxmox, but well worth the small learning curve.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been using NC for about the same amount of time and I will say I’m no longer as happy with it as I once was, primarily because it’s a mess of PHP, gum and popsicle sticks held together by me going in there every 3 upgrades to fix ‘occ missing indices’, add a sql table or some such error.
The caldav integration did allow me to break free from google some more, and it works well, but I’ve since moved file sync to syncthing and I’m looking for a standalone caldav solution.
- Comment on What CLIP Machine Learning Model can I use for Immich? 3 weeks ago:
OpenVino is about your only option here. It is not super efficient and will increase system load during those jobs.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 3 weeks ago:
Really great. Passing through hardware is a lot easier, settings can be defined in profiles (containers that should start with boot, which should have uid/gid mapping, privileged, etc), and overall system memory usage is way lower.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 3 weeks ago:
I used to run proxmox, but I wasn’t using most of its functions. I now have migrated to a couple of low power Debian machines on zfs with lxc. I use incus and ansible to manage everything, including backups.
- Comment on My first seccam, now the Frigate mystery in LXC 3 weeks ago:
Docker seems to have gained more ground than LXC
They aren’t really competing in the same space. LXC is more comparable to jails or openvz in that they provide an os layer, Docker does not.
I recently saw docker described in a web comic where some poor dev was bemoaning that his software “worked on his machine”, and his teacher says “then we’ll ship your machine”, meaning Docker sets up a software environment for a project to work, nothing more.
Docker was at first based on lxc, but has since moved to its own libcontainer.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What… Is everything profit to you?
- Comment on How can I contribute processing power to the community? 3 weeks ago:
You’re saying law enforcement can easily fingerprint you?
Yes. The days of Maltego are behind us, law enforcement now just file requests directly with Google.
- Comment on My first seccam, now the Frigate mystery in LXC 3 weeks ago:
You have a few questions here, which ones do you want answered?
To configure the camera, you should have defined it in the config. That you don’t know this means you should go back to the docs and read the setup section start to end.
I write my frigate clips to an NFS share. I mount it on the host and bind Mount the path in my container. You can also mount NFS directly in a container, but it comes with extra steps.
LXC is not a proxmox-specific thing. You can run lxc containers on almost any Linux and you can manage multiple containers with other software (lxd, incus, etc). At one time, docker was based on lxc, but both docker and lxc have evolved significantly since then.
LXC and docker are indeed similar, but one aims to provide an OS-level environment and the other simply a software environment.
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 3 weeks ago:
Really? You think it’s the “last note taking app” comment in the description?
You don’t think maybe it’s the shoehorned AI into a project that has no real plan for how it is implemented?
Or maybe it’s not the ai implementation, maybe it’s the fact that “respects your privacy” is incompatible with openai’s terms of use (openai can train on your notes if you supply them)?
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 3 weeks ago:
I want to believe you have given this some thought, but for someone with as long a sea log as yours, you seem to have forgotten what happened when we “gave it time to sort itself out” for other services that are now completely entrenched in our lives and have made them worse for it.
- apps for everything
- not raising more complaint about the erosion of our privacy by private corporations
- not defending open standards like PDF and now PDFs are a security and compatibility nightmare
- "hey, maybe subscription models can be applied to printer ink"
- etc, ad nauseum
AI itself is fine, and its been used for good (solving protein folding).
But AI in just about everything else is awful. It wastes energy and water. It is actively making people dumber. I’m fighting a losing battle at work with fools who wholesale believe AI answers on any question and others who literally vibe code.
If you truly believe ai is going to be better in the long run, you have not been paying attention to the last 30 years of technology becoming trash.