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@gkaklas@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just checked and all the components are here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  After building it, we realized we should have checked the dimensions on the website more carefully

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about this one specifically 😅 but people probably have the need for these debates anyway, so it’s just better to express them (on the Fediveree)! 😁

  It’s like, how in some movies and shows people have “meaningless” discussions in a bar about random trivia etc; if people don’t behave in a toxic way, it’s just a way to connect and share ideas!

  And in some (most?) cases, the discussion might be more important than the result of it, since you see in practice more about how people can approach this type of curiosity about a subject, which might apply to many other topics we think about every day 😁

  More importantly though, where am I supposed to go to debate if water is wet, if not to the Fediverse? 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean that you’re trying to reproduce it? 🤔 If so:

  • hello

  • • one
    • two
    • three

  • world

  is

  * hello
  * > * one
    > * two
    > * three
  * > world
  

  (Btw also, you can check if your client has the option to show the source of a comment 😉)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR:

  Price:

  “Under $100”:

  After [the preorder], it will go up to $99.

  Battery is not rechargeable:

  And what happens when the battery runs out? You just send the ring back to be recycled.

  Runtime:

  The integrated battery will power the device for 12–14 total hours of recording. The designers estimate that to be roughly two years of usage if you record 10 to 20 short voice notes per day.

  • “Roughly two years” = lets say that’s 20 months
  • 12 hours = 43.200 seconds = 72 seconds/day
  • "10-20 short voice notes" = 3.6-7.2 seconds per note

  Features:

  • Records only while pressing the button

  • The recording is converted to text and fed into a large language model (LLM) that runs locally on your device to take actions. The speech-to-text process and LLM operate in the open source Pebble app, and no data from your notes is sent to the Internet. However, there is an optional online backup service for your recordings.

  • A model small enough to run on your phone has to focus on specific functionality rather than doing everything like a big cloud-based AI

  • • Create or add to notes
    • Set reminder
    • Create alarm
    • Create timer
    • Play/pause/skip music track (via button press)

  • also designed to be hacking-friendly. The audio and transcribed text is yours […] You can route it to a different app via a webhook, and the LLM supports model context protocol (MCP), so you can add new functionality that also runs locally. The AI model will also be released as an open source project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will be great, they said...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.zip/comment/19712446

  Reminder of this:

  poolp.org/…/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-b…

  And that mailu.io (and other similar projects) makes self-hosting email almost trivial 😁 (at least for people that can run a pre-configured docker-compose.yml and buy their domain etc)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🩵

  One time I went to a local shop with cheap electronics etc, and they sold… UItraFire batteries, with an i instead of an l! Double fake 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  not some smelly euro village either

  ??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI self-selecting through the stock market?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No

  self-select its own advancement

  It’s a program that writes text, that’s why it’s called a “Large Language Model”; “AI” is just a hype term.

  It’s not self-aware, it can’t make arbitrary decisions, and it doesn’t have free will

  (PS I’m interpreting “AI” as "LLM"s, since other kind of Machine Learning models have been used for many years before we came up with the LLMs we have today)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For people on small screens:

  Hi @everyone!

  Time for a pretty big update! Behind the scenes, we’ve been quietly cooking up something exciting, and we’re finally ready to share it: the Jellyseerr and Overseerr teams are merging into one team called Seerr! This has been in the works for quite some time, and we couldn’t be happier to officially join forces.

  What does that mean for you? A single unified codebase where all the latest Jellyseerr features will make their way in, plus the combined effort means we can move faster on new features and keep things more up to date.

  We’re sharing this news a little early because we need beta testers before our first release. If you’d like to help shape the future of this project (and move us towards a quicker first release), now’s your chance!

  To test, you can switch from our official image to fallenbagel/jellyseerr:preview-seerr

  We do not recommend using this on a production instance, but if you do, please back up your data before switching. For any questions or feedback, please post in our ⁠#seerr-beta channel!

  source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Stop using Imgur for now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been wondering about this for a while, what do people recommend for FOSS imgur alternatives (or just simple image hosting)? 🤔

  (Of course the UK should just allow free access to information, but I would still prefer to be able to use something FOSS anyway)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a simple tool chain for creating HTML pages for my self-hosted website. I released it publically under GPL3. Source linked inside⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a gemini user, but this seems like a nice tool!

  I just came to share this blog post, written by the developer of curl about their opinion on gemini, for anyone interested :D

  (PS: thank you for using codeberg instead of centralized alternatives!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameVault Update: Introducing the brand-new Web UI!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (They changed the name apparently)

  l.opnxng.com/…/introducing_crackpipe_your_decentr…

  Embracing “alternatively obtained” games

  we want to prevent others from profiting off our hard work by selling our software without our consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameVault Update: Introducing the brand-new Web UI!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL; for people like me who just found out:

  gamevau.lt/blog/2023/07/13

  For a self-hosted app like GameVault, we believe it’s crucual to disclose the source code. We want you, our users, to have full transparency and control [?] over the software you use on your servers.

  our desire to protect our code from unauthorized use and commercial exploitation. While we absolutely encourage you to copy, modify, and share our code for personal use […] we want to prevent others from profiting off our hard work by selling our software without our consent.

  As a small business with just two members, we strive to provide you with a valuable product but cannot continue to do so as volunteers indefinitely.

  (I’m a AGPL kind of guy, but) btw at least there are licenses specifically for software:

  www.mongodb.com/…/server-side-public-license

  …stackexchange.com/…/allowed-uses-of-a-software-l…

  Copyright and the CC-BY-NC license do not regulate mere use, such as executing a program.

  Ok proprably we’re at least allowed to run it (That’s not a given, e.g. iirc if someone publishes their code on github without a license, it doesn’t mean that people can fully and legally use it, except for what some Github ToS clause defines that you agreed to)

  I was interested in checking it out for personal use; anyone has any experience with alternatives? (I can look them up, I’m just curious about peoples’ recommendations)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a simple personal homepage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a simple links-only page I’m using Linkstack, and there’s also littlelink

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big small doesn't want you to know that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy less of small’s less; less is more, but small less is less more than regular less

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for posting, it would be great if you could publish it on GOG as well! 🩵

  gog.com/…/Toll-Booth-Simulator-Schedule-of-Chaos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Securing a 'public' service for family⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I probably wouldn’t go with a relatively new project that isn’t guaranteed to stick around long-term

  Oh of course, I just shared it because I don’t think I’ve seen anything similar and simple, just in case anyone wants to check it out and experiment etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Securing a 'public' service for family⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh also a friend of mine is developing this, that uses passwordless magic links or passkeys github.com/dzervas/magicentry I haven’t looked much into it though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Securing a 'public' service for family⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also check kanidm.com and goauthentik.io as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  pine64.org/devices/pinetime/

  The charging base is just breaking out the 5V of the USB to the pogo pins!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Humble Indie Game Is On Sale If You Want It⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks cool! Any plans to publish on GOG or other similar platform? 😁 (DRM-free, StopKillingGames, etc)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Each server has its own users and communities (but they still all talk and subscribe to each other!)

  Usually I see usernames written in the form @user@lemmy.zip, while communities !InterestingSubject@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the platform!

  • You signed up for the lemmy.zip server (=“lemmy instance”), but you can see posts, post comments, and talk to users from any other server. Just like you can send email from your personal email to your work email, it’s still just email! Other than the fact that usernames have a i.e. “@lemmy.zip” part, you shouldn’t really need to think about it 😅 (But when you want to login to your account, you can’t login to another server, you need to login on lemmy.zip)
  • No need to learn much more to get started, you just participate in any discussions you want etc 😊
  • You can find some communities to subscribe to at sub.rehab and lemmyverse.net/communities . To subscribe to a community, you can search for the community’s full name on your server, lemmy.zip
  • Here you can find a mobile app to download: join-lemmy.org/apps/ . You can download whichever you want! You can just try them and pick the one you like the most, and you can have a couple of them at the same time and they still access the same content
  • Lemmy.zip also has a list in the sidebar, “Useful links”, these four are just alternative websites you can use to access the same thing; again you can just pick whichever you like the most!
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone tested yunohost?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s pretty good! I’m a DevOps engineer, and have experience with Ansible, Docker, etc, but I just couldn’t find time to deploy services the best way that I wanted™ for my personal server

  So, even though it e.g. doesn’t even use Docker, yunohost really helped me start using the many services I wanted/needed, which otherwise might take e.g. a few hours to a couple of days for each of them to research and configure

  So I have one “production” yunohost server, one “testing” yunohost server to test services that I don’t know if I’ll use yet (and I wouldn’t want them to interfere with production e.g. by using too many resources)

  and one server without yunohost for mailu, Docker, traefik, etc, which I can use to deploy services the correct way™ as I figure out the services that I really use and find the time to deploy them one-by-one

  Even when using yunohost, there are so many things to do after deploying a service (e.g. DNS, configure the server and client software), so it has been really useful to save time when deploying and configuring.

  I think it gets you ~80% there, helps democratize the Internet a bit, and make self-hosting accessible to everyone 💚 It’s more important to have many people setting up e.g. Immich or Nextcloud for their family photos, than only a few Linux people being able to learn how to do it perfectly and everyone else to have to resort to using centralized services

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to self host⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could try something like yunohost to get started! It’s kind of a one click deployment platform for self-hosting, ready to use with user management, reverse proxy with SSL, somewhat preconfigured services, etc.

  Ideally you can also learn the tools needed like Docker, Ansible, etc, but with yunohost and a SBC (e.g. RaspberryPi), or a €5/month VPS (easier if you want to access your services publicly), you will have a ready-to-use boilerplate that you can start building on.

  Learning all the individual technologies at the same time might be overwhelming at the beginning, but something like yunohost will allow you over time to learn all the stuff around the deployment itself, e.g. how domains and DNS records work, how the SSL certificates are generated, which services you would like to set up and use, the configuration needed for these services individually, etc. And at the same time you can start using a few useful services!

  Then, as you start learning, you could start setting up services one-by-one manually with e.g. Docker, either at the same server or a new one.

  Don’t forget to look the admin documentation for each software you’re setting up (Nextcloud etc). And look for “awesome-selfhosted”, it’s a list of more resources and software to use and deploy!

  Good luck and have fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is controllable now: guy has moving robot messing with stuff in his house and blabbering TTS under internet control⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for posting this, this is fun! 😊