hoppolito

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am fairly sure this is the actual point of the campaign. The selection bias for a ‘poll’ like this (one that instantly on-boards you to the ai-disabled version of your product if you click answer negative, no less) is so great that I don’t believe the suits/analysts at ddg ever envisioned a different result. Polls and comment sections lure the extreme viewpoints and the ddg crowd already skews privacy-conscious so this was a highly expected outcome.

  What the campaign does instead is:

  1. Show that you ‘care’ and ‘listen to feedback’ (by a response to the poll somewhere between disabling the ai by default to making the no-ai button a little bit bigger)
  2. show that you have the ability to turn off ai on your product in the first place to those who care
  3. like I said above, directly onboard people onto their preferred search strategy so that when relatives/friends send this around people get a little taste, and realize this exists

  It’s quite clever imo, and there’s no real bad outcome for what I assume is a pretty inexpensive campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made a JSON database operated with basic API. Making it very flexible, interoperable, and simple to use. Supports local, S3, MinIO, etc...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey this seems neat but I think you might have more success with the post over on !selfhosted@lemmy.world or !opensource@lemmy.ml as community suggestions that are generally more open to individual project promotions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A fantastic resource, thanks for posting this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I had no clue rdr2 had such an active modding scene!

  Towards the end of last year I started playing red dead redemption 1 a little, since it’s just about what my machine manages to handle :-) Got about 10 or so hours in and I liked it okay although some of the gameplay was just a little too arcade-y for me. Like the horses feeling kind of like driving a gta car still, and other characters always going at full speed through the landscape. But the atmosphere was really cool and seemed to be one of the main drawing points for me. Not sure if I’ll ultimately go back for more though.

  Do you know if the first one also has similarly active mods or any suggested gameplay improvements?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SOMA, off the backlog after nine years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you speak to how Talos 2 is compared to the original? I thought the puzzles were neat but loved the somber atmosphere and some of the thought-provoking terminal messages, they’re what I remember most fondly. Has that been kept similar in the second one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a Self-Hosted Music Server with Discovery & Recommendation Features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lidarr is configured with folder C, which is a mergerfs volume consisting of folder A and B. Folder A is read-only, and any writes on C go into folder B. This way Lidarr can “see” all my existing music, while any automated downloads go into folder B, keeping them separate from my organized files.

  That is so dang clever I definitely have to steal the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nametag […] launched this past week and filled the void left in many of our lives by Monica

  I think I’ve been out of the loop here, what happened to Monica?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youlag (v4.1.0): Modernize FreshRSS for viewing YouTube and articles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No I think the OP is confused. tt-rss forums was a largely horrible community which prided itself on being edgy and toxic. FreshRSS never had anything to do with them, except for also being an rss reader. It is (or at least was? Not sure nowadays) instead loosely connected to the framasoft people, who are cool and doing nice things for the open source community, and not at all toxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascinating read, I should definitely also make way more use of sqlite for little side projects.
  Thanks for the link!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While a full ‘deletion’ of such an issue is certainly unfortunate, I can kind of see how it gets to such a decision point.

  You’re creating some software in the open, decide to ping some communities on reddit/lemmy and all of a sudden it seems like a disgruntled brigade is breaking down your door while you just wanted to show them the garden.

  What for us looks like earnest sleuthing can feel like abuse/harassment from the other side simply due to the asymmetrical nature of the internet.

  Would have probably still preferred a closed issue instead, but having a couple ‘niche-successful’ repos on github myself - I can at least certainly empathise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the misunderstanding, didn’t consciously see the ‘used’ hardware in your post above. That makes a lot more sense!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  pcpartpicker.com/list/XpFtXR

  That setup would currently run for around $1730? Without investing into a monitor, or any peripherals like keyboard, mouse, etc and picking a relatively cheap psi/case/cooler combo.

  Maybe I misunderstood but seems a far cry from €850.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally, while technically imbued with ‘meaning’, even the number 420 itself is somewhat meaningless and was originally used to delineate those who knew from those who don’t. It’s just that it got famous enough that we now almost all know.

  In that sense I would argue it filled more or less the same function as 67.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say, I think the perpetuation of leetspeak and most of its use falls squarely into the millennial generation’s early 90s into the early 2000s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some unique Games to host server's of?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It might get a little simpler to host and busier to play again in the not too distant future if the announced free fanmade re-release works out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know that’s generally what is often done, but it’s a surprisingly hard problem to solve ‘completely’ for two reasons:

  1. The more obvious one - how do you define quality? When you’re working with the amount of data LLMs require as input and need to be checked for on output you’re going to have to automate these quality checks, and in one way or another it comes back around to some system having to define and judge against this score.

     There’s many different benchmarks out there nowadays, but it’s still virtually impossible to just have ‘a’ quality score for such a complex task.

  2. Perhaps the less obvious one - you generally don’t want to ‘overfit’ your model to whatever quality scoring system you set up. If you get too close to it, your model typically won’t be generally useful anymore, rather just always outputting things which exactly satisfy the scoring principle, nothing else.

     If it reaches a theoretical perfect score, it would just end up being a replication of the quality score itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting with a seven year old⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Luanti and Minecraft are two distinct, if similar-looking things.

  Luanti is an open-source voxel game engine implementation which allows running a wide variety of different ‘games’ on it (including two which mimic Minecraft very closely).

  Minecraft is the closed-source game owned by Mojang.

  The two don’t interact and servers for the one are completely unrelated to the other as well.

  So, to answer the question - yes, they still need a Minecraft license if they want to play Minecraft. But this is disconnected from having a Luanti server, for which you don’t need any licenses but which will in turn only allow you to also play Luanti stuff, not Minecraft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommended email providers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good but it’s also been bought out by, at least to me, an ‘unknown’ early this year. Since then, there’s been a couple outages though nothing too drastic. New owner also promised to only make changes that are ‘thoughtful and focused on making your experience better’ but I am still cautiously eyeing other options since then - I’ve learned never to trust those words by new owners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud logs me out whenever I leave and rejoin my local network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It might turn out to be something different - but just in case it does log you out after a system restart (but maybe not after network disconnect) it would probably have something to do with kwallet (the key ring which has your credentials) not unlocking correctly.

  If that’s the case this or this might be pointers in that direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you really nailed the crux of the matter.

  With the ‘autocomplete-like’ nature of current LLMs the issue is precisely that you can never be sure of any answer’s validity. Some approaches try by giving ‘sources’ next to it, but that doesn’t mean those sources’ findings actually match the text output and it’s not a given that the sources themselves are reputable - thus you’re back to perusing those to make sure anyway.

  If there was a meter of certainty next to the answers this would be much more meaningful for serious use-cases, but of course by design such a thing seems impossible to implement with the current approaches.

  I will say that in my personal (hobby) projects I have found a few good use cases of letting the models spit out some guesses, e.g. for the causes of a programming bug or proposing directions to research in, but I am just not sold that the heaviness of all the costs (cognitive, social, and of course environmental) is worth it for that alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it feels good for you, it is probably good.

  text on top saying ‘me: why to do I always have back pain? Also me:’ underneath which two stick figures are drawn sitting in very unhealthy positions on an office chair in front of their pc, curled up in a spine-breaking manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Holyy, thanks for this. I can finally put a name to it. Was wondering with my partner for ages what sometimes suddenly befalls us, especially if we’re lying in a weird position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching for eBook reader solution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been exclusively reading my fiction books (all epubs) on Readest and absolutely love it. Recently I also started using it for my nonfiction books and articles (mostly pdf) as an experiment, and it’s workable but a little more rough around the edges still.

  You can highlight and annotate, and export all annotations for a book once you are done, for which I have set up a small pipeline to directly import them into my reference management software.

  It works pretty well with local storage (though I don’t believe it does ‘auto-imports’ of new files by default) and I’ve additionally been using their free hosted offering to sync my book progress. It’s neat and free up to 500mb of books, but you’re right that I would also prefer a byo storage solution, perhaps in the future.

  The paid upgrades are mostly for AI stuff and translations which I don’t really concern myself with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journiv self hosted journal: Now with markdown and inline media support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Been seeing the posts pop up recently and I really like the look of your software, bookmarked for future jrnl integration possibilities.

  But what a missed opportunity to not have a Journiv Ahead in your second headline :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Open source/selfhost projects 100% keep track of how many people star a repo, what MRs are submitted, and even usage/install data.

  I feel it is important to make a distinction here, though:

  GitHub, the for-profit, non-FOSS, Microsoft-owned platform keeps track of the ‘stars of a repo’, not the open-source self-host projects themselves. Somebody hosts their repo forge on Codeberg, sr.ht, their own infrastructure or even GitLab? There’s generally very little to no algorithmic number-crunching involved. Same for MR/PRs.

  Additionally - from my knowledge - very few fully FOSS programs have extensive usage/install telemetry, and even fewer opt-out versions. Tracking which couldn’t be disabled I’ve essentially never heard of in that space, because every time someone does go in that direction the public reaction is usually very strong (see e.g. Audacity).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨**How** should I properly document my homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, so Metal3 is basically kubernetes-managed baremetal nodes?

  Over the last years I’ve cobbled together a nice Ansible-driven IaC setup, which provisions Incus and Docker on various machines. It’s always the ‘first mile’ that gets me struggling with completely reproducible bare-metal machines. How do I first provision them without too much manual interference?

  Ansible gets me there partly, but I would still like to have e.g. the root file system running on btrfs which I’ve found hard to accomplish with just these tools when first provisioning a new machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tutorial series for self hosting beginners?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was stumbling on some of his output it unfortunately felt very click-baity, always playing on your FOMO if you didn’t set up/download/buy the next best thing until the other next best thing in the video after.

  In other words, I think he’s cool to check out to get to know of a thing, but to get a deeper level of understanding how a thing works I would recommend written materials. There are good caddy/nginx tutorials out there, but a linux networking book will get your understanding further yet.

  If it has to be video, I would at least recommend a little more slowed down, long-form content like Learn Linux TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Headscale vs Netbird vs Pangolin - How do you like selfhosting them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using NetBird for quite a while now. It has grown from an experiment in connecting to the server without exposing it to quite a stable setup that I make use of every day, and even got my partner and some of my family to use. That is the hosted offering, however, not me self hosting my own server component.

  For a couple of months now, I’ve been eyeing pangolin though. It just seems like such an upgrade concerning identity and SSO - but equally a complete overhaul of my infrastructure and a steep learning curve.

  I am itching to get it running but would probably have to approach it step-by-step, and roll it out pretty slowly, while transferring the existing services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 481 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was mind blowing to me on a technical level back then though. I just remembered the footprints in the snow, the slow-trudging animations in the deep snow, the free-running along trees, all that was really cool.

  Sidenote: thanks for always posting some interesting games to learn and/or reminisce about. Haven’t been posting much in your threads but they are always a joy to read when they pop up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 481 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked the game well enough when it came out, had a good friend at the time whom I always traded little game design insights and fun facts about the AssCreed games with.

  But the one thing nowadays I always remember about this one is that the ‘opening’ part is looooo(…)oong - until you really swing you sword and hidden blade about it takes hours of grand opening, shipping to America, learning the controls, doing little ‘preview’ missions in a restricted zone, then

  Spoiler

  finally switching to the actual main character only to have to do a new tutorial intro all over for a couple of hours.

  It felt somewhat compelling the first time round but on subsequent playthroughs it really stretched your patience - imo, of course.