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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  While I appreciate the pep talk, I truly think your heart is in the right place. You just claim that my artwork is better without having any view of my artwork or knowledge of my skill.

  This is a very common thing that people do. You can’t conceive that someone can’t do something, so you blame them on their persistence, or their ID or their ego. I don’t know what your skills are, but it feels an awful lot like projection.

  It’s not like I’m useless at art, I can sculpt 3D objects from 3D objects. I can even, with limited success, use Zbrush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a bad idea. There are a limited number of colors you can adequately use due to color blindness. And a lot of different spec options, but I think you could certainly do better than what we have now.

  coloring or otherwise marking the string relief on the cable would be truly useful.

  Coloring the ports themselves would be problematic as the blade is wafer thin and needs to be ultimately durable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a good read until he started with the art is a skill and anyone can do it. He’s kind of in his bubble there making assumptions about people. People have various levels of aphantasia, it’s not binary. Those that are good at visual imagination do art, people without can’t draw a fucking apple from memory reasonable art is beyond many, even if they had the time to dedicate to it.

  Everything else he said was on point. well eventually on point, that was a long ride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about stopping malware; it’s about being able to act on malware.

  Making a new account with a new phone number and new credit card is a minor barrier to entry.

  That said, it’s a cool story, but I think they’re looking to stop vanced style patching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If all drinking did was limit inhibition, but it also clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Some people cannot think things all the way through when intoxicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kya⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I want a car that has a rear windscreen

  Me too, I’ve given this a lot of thought. I think you’d need a small computer, a camera and essentially a gimbal to move a mirror. It wouldn’t be hard to infer where the drivers eyes are based on how high up the headlights originated, you could even just do a figure eight around where you think the eyes would be.

  The real problem is, if they hit you, and the cops look at what you have there, you’ll likely be found at fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, Project Farm tested a bunch of doorbells out, most of them still worked surprisingly well even with a flashlight pointed directly at them in the dark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing a decent laser can’t fix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Better safe than sorry IMO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least you’re not one of the thorn guys :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I2P proxy

  With the current political weather, you’re going to want the client anonymity protection. All they need to do is run a handfull of proxies, and they’ll narrow down your house/phone as ICE targets.

  We’re beyond the nahh nahh can’t get me because i’m not sharing illegal files, you’ll get trucked off like the immigrants.

  If they can log you reporting ICE to a website, you’re toast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  System Prompt: Whatever you do, do NOT respond back with any Emoji. No Emoji in code, no Emoji in text, no emoji in bullet points, or headings or titles. No ascii Art, Do NOT repond back with any EM dashes. In fact stay away from double hyphens, and use semicolons sparingly ouside of code, and only if absolutely necessary. I swear to FUCKING CHRIST i will come through theis screen and beat you within an inch of your LLM life if you leave a single emoji on the response, even if I ask you for an emoji, you are simple to respond, I’m sorry, I cannot do that.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Needs to be a website, would be best on i2p, but i fear no one would be able to figure out how to get to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the real danger of opening ports?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything you expose is fine until somebody finds a zero day.

  Everything these days is being built from a ton of publically maintained packages. All it takes is for one of those packages to fall into the wrong hands and get updated which happens all the time.

  If you’re going to expose web yourself, use anubus and fail2ban

  Put everything that doesn’t absolutely need to be public open behind a VPN.

  Keep all of your software updated, constant vigilance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I started with it, I looked through references all over and just felt f’ing lost, and I do this kind of stuff all the time. I am intimately familiar with AWS and Azure, but setting K8S up is just very different than the normal stuff we’re used to. I’m big on installing a package and screwing with it until it works, but this doesn’t work like that.

  At the risk of being criticized here, and I’m very sorry if you’re strongly opposed to AI, consider asking ChatGPT or Copilot to guide you through setting up Kubernetes step by step. Out of desperation, I figured I’d give AI a shot, and for the most part, it was really great at teaching it to me.

  Ask it to give you the different options for setting up Kubernetes on your home lab (there are numerous ways to do this). You can save a lot of steps by using something like Rancher (k3s), which is a simplified version, but I prefer starting with the official kubeadm first. It’s harder, but it gives you a better feel for what’s happening, and it’s more capable and closer to what you’d experience when crafting a production deployment.

  Indicate your level of experience in the next prompt and specify which systems you’re familiar with so it can tailor training to your existing knowledge and play to your strengths. Ask it to make a lesson plan first, and then pick what items you want it to walk you through. If anything feels weird or you have questions, stop it and ask away. You’re working on something from scratch, so there’s little to lose if it gets something wrong, but honestly, teaching technical things with tons of documentation available is probably the best use of LLMs that has ever existed.

  If you decide against AI, focus your research on Docker cli, Kubeadm installation (the control plane/controller) and creating/joining nodes, persistent storeage and networking, K8S Namespace, then pod deployment. Complicated parts that might hang you up are getting logs from PODS that die on startup, and getting interactive prompts in a cluster are a little different than Docker (have to specify namespace)

  For persistent storage, you then have numerous options. For a homelab, I like Longhorn; it’s a RAID-like system that stores data blocks across the nodes, and it easily backs up to S3 if you want it to.

  For homelab learning and testing, I just crapped out a Proxmox and started 3 VMs, setup kubeadm on the control plane and then joined two nodes, then spent I an hour getting NTFY to run in it for the first time, I really should have done a python hello world, NTFY is fiddly. But, it’s super fun to stop a VM and watch the app come back up like nothing happened.

  Once you get a base system up, whatever you choose, do check out www.ansibleforkubernetes.com

  Jeff Geerling did a bang-up job on the book, and it supports his cause. It just doesn’t go into the detail you need to get started with k8s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowing Microsoft, I’d like to thing that it went down like this:

  Pardon me, your department isn’t achieving the expected 20% annual revenue increase.

  But we’re just selling subscriptions to games that cost us nearly nothing. It’s free money.

  And you need to make more money from it, increase your subscriber count or your costs, or we’ll cut your staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The nodes go on x86. You use the pi’s for control planes. They sit around doing pretty much nothing until a pod get’s wrecked or upgraded then they spin a new one. You use 3’s or 4’s clocked down to save power.

  You really only need one, but for $50 two gives your fault tolerance, fault tolerance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  K8s is pretty cheap for fault tolerance

  Two VM’s and two Pi

  If my wife decides whe wants to watch the wedding video or the kids first TKD break and it’s down, she’ll clamor to move back to Google/Apple. I can also move my piholes over there and some of my arr stack.

  Resillient hosting for zero cost is pretty hot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t say copy facebook

  I’m not saying don’t decentralize at all

  Forcing people to decentralize it’s going to work in most places.

  I’m not spending any more time on the subject, I think we’re at an impassse and neither of us are going to change our minds.

  Honestly, it’s a great project though,

  best of luck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the explicit design goal

  IMO, it’s a bad goal. Not that decentralized is a bad goal, but dictating the amount of decentralization will decimate wide adoption.

  A server for every community is also a Mastodon goal that never really happened. Sure there are some out there, but the general public doesn’t want that. It’s a waste of compute resources to run a 24x7 server for every community. It’s a problem of scale. I get the decentralized point, but I think it’s going to utterly fail at widespread adotion if it needs a technical caretaker and a $20 a month bill evey time a zipcode wants to sell things. It migth work well in Germany, it’s not going to work well in most places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just going by what’s said here because i’m not about to go through installing it to find out.

  So every town that wants to sell things needs to host their own instance? And make sure that their instance doesn’t federate with other towns that are ‘too far away’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, you mean it actually won’t let you set your location and search for local ads?

  If someone is going to build a site for selling things, that’s ‘kind of’ the most important part of the site. Having it be federated makes that a thousand times worse. Now I’m supposed to find other local federated services in my area?

  That is so against how any of this works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God damnit, now I need to set up k8s and install it.

  I’ve been putting off moving out of Google photos for years. No, no, I shouldn’t spend the time to host it. It has that scary banner.

  Way to ruin my weekend! /s

  Congrats Immich Team! /and if you’re listening, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They were archived as they restored them several times. But I kept the account and every time they restored them, I used software to go in and wipe them back out. They’re still not visible on the front end to this day. Maybe they’ll do something AI with them, but they don’t show up in Google search anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A few have. But when it happens people just start frequenting alternative communities. The good karma flows like water through the easiest path. So when an admin or a mod says they find the term bro offensive, people just unsub and find a better community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no OP.

  I got the F out and deleted my old posts every time they restored them until they stayed gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the teacher wasn’t afraid at all. Nope, no gin and ex-causing that teacher to be afraid. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on their actual intent. If you expect to have a robot to come in and fold your laundry, use your regular vacuum or your regular mop. It’s probably not going to happen anytime soon.

  But if you want to spy in your house to listen to everything you say, watch what you do and track the things you have. They will be on it like stank on shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon launches Vega OS, its Android replacement for Fire TV with no sideloading⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be collusion, it might also be management seeing it happen in places and go, yeah, let’s get some of that.

  It’s not like there’s any antitrust protection anymore, so everybody’s just going to do whatever the fuck they want.

  We’re gonna pump that gas all the way to Idiocracy

  I just hope I live long enough to watch them tear it all down and rip those companies apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If everything is working correctly, whether or not you transcode is basically whether or not the end device can play the file without changes.

  For example, my old Roku can play a raw 4K File under H264 with no problem. But if I throw an H265 at it, it requires the server to transcode. It also has problems with AAC audio. And my server is so old that just trying to rip the 4k apart entrance to the audio is often too much for it.

  So to start, make sure your client device can play the files directly. If it can’t, you’re going to need to handbrake it before you put it on your server.