Shimitar
@Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu
- Comment on how is lemmy funded? 1 day ago:
My single user instance cost almost zero.
Self-hosted on my hardware that already used to host other stuff. Cpu overhead seems negligible, and network bandwidth is free (=already paid for). Disk space is nothing compared to my Linux ISOs collection.
- Comment on How many projects involve LLM-written code now? 1 week ago:
Llm is just a tool and it usage will only increase over time.
There is nothing intrinsically bad in that, as with any tool, it’s not bad per se, but how we use it.
So, push for ethic and proper usage of AI, rather.
Projects will use AI more and more, nothing bad in that. Provided it’s used properly, vetted, tested, verified and such.
- Comment on Dashboard for my servers 1 week ago:
I also wrote mine, a bit of JavaScript that load a json file and populate the page.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
AFAIK Joplin is FOSS, but be aware that it’s markdown format is not compatible with… Markdown. Funnily enough.
- Comment on Why are flat earthers so badly harassed and ridiculed by globers? 1 week ago:
Because it’s like now somebody came to you and asked to discuss about babies being brought in by birds instead of being born from mothers. How would you react?
I have traveled a lot in my life. I have seen the round earth from airplanes, i have experienced time zones first hand and have been flying all around the pacific ocean as well.
I can assure you, proof that earth is a globe is not required. What is required is get out of comfort zone and check it yourself if you don’t believe science, physics. It takes a nice clear day high altitude (commercial jet i mean) flight, and if you still are not convinced, well, take an airplane like i did from Europe to far east, then to French Polynesia, then to Easter Island, then to Chile. Woah, man, it’s round and connected! i did myself, i am living proof of that. You even get to experience the fun of living the same day twice when you spend your Saturday night in Auckland, NZ, then fly to Papeete and spend AGAIN your Saturday in Tahiti… Fun stuff.
But i was already sold on the “globe” thing when, almost 30 years ago, i did my first overseas trip to US and was phoning my parents with a -9 hour time difference, and it was actually real.
/s Now, see, back to that “babies brought by birds” thing, i read on the internet that all this about mothers giving birth is a big conspiracy to keep the woman enslaved… /s
- Comment on Why are flat earthers so badly harassed and ridiculed by globers? 1 week ago:
Supposing you are serious, you cannot argue with somebody that defies logic and science to a level such as believing the earth being flat.
To be clear: nobody ever really believed earth to be flat, not even in ancient times since both Greeks and Romans knew its a globe.
Even in the middle ages earth was known to be a globe, despite common idea that middle wages where dark times.
Flat earthers are a modern thing and this says it all.
- Comment on Cheapest 14x4tb NAS 1 week ago:
Yes, more redindancy is good and indeed worth having. Still 5 12tb drives are probably yet more energy and heat efficient than 10 4tb ones.
Even if I had 10 4tb for free I wouldn’t use them. Maybe a couple for backup reasons or cold storage, but not active 24/7 for a domestic raid environment.
I actually have 4 6tb hdds that I dismissed for the 4 8tb sdds, and I use two for local backup and keep two spares to replace them when they will fail.
4 8tb in raid5 provide 24tb total space that its far more than I need, and the risk of a double failure is mitogated by a proper 3,2,1 backup strategy in place.
- Comment on Cheapest 14x4tb NAS 1 week ago:
10x4tb = 40tb can be achieved with 4 12tb drives (actually 36tb in raid5) .
Doubtfully those 12tb uses much more power than the 4tb ones, each. So the 28€/m probably cut down to 14,€/m counted in excess.
Considering 120m (10y) of uptime, you should save enough to justify cutting down from 10 to 4 drives.
- Comment on Cheapest 14x4tb NAS 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t use more than 4 or 6 disks in a home environment. Specially with mechanical drivers, power consumption 24/7 would get me very worried.
I run 4 x 8Tb SSDs, not cheap, but solid, low power AND low heat (even more important).
Consider also heat dissipation as most likely at home you don’t have a constant temperature and humidity, so many spinning disks can suffer from heat, and that will kill them faster
Longevity… With so much space I would expect to keep it running a decade or more… So factor in 10x365x24 hours of operation, energy consumed, heat dissipation and failure rate.
- Comment on What is Radicale and how do I use it? 1 week ago:
Yes, I was trying to be funny… Don’t worry… ;)
- Comment on What is Radicale and how do I use it? 1 week ago:
Was it… Made with AI?
- Comment on What is Radicale and how do I use it? 1 week ago:
Thanks! Tomorrow will see to upload to my wiki…
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- Comment on What is Radicale and how do I use it? 1 week ago:
Ahahah I like the “zero AI” logo idea, maybe will use AI to create one… :)
Yes I am that bad with graphics
Anyway check the main page of the wiki I explain why I did it.
- Comment on What is Radicale and how do I use it? 1 week ago:
Yes it is, written by me by hand 100%…
Zero AI too… Just old grumpy bashing
- Comment on What is Radicale and how do I use it? 1 week ago:
My experience with radicale
wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aradicale
I currently use it, from android with dav5x (F-droid)
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 2 weeks ago:
NVIDIA Corporation GA104GL [RTX A4000] (rev a1)
From lspci
It has 16gb of VRAM, not too much but enough to run gpt:OSS 20b and a few other models pretty nice.
I noticed that it’s better to stick to a single model, I imagine that unload and reload the model in VRAM takes time.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 2 weeks ago:
I plugged in an NVIDIA gpu in my server and enabled ollama to use it, diligently updated my public wiki about it and now enjoying real time gpt: OSS model responses!
I was amazed, time cut from 3-8 minutes down to seconds. I have a Intel Core7 with 48gb ram, but even an oldish gpu beats the crap out of it.
- Comment on If you took a box of Kleenex back to the medieval time period, they'd probably think that you're a witch 2 weeks ago:
Why?
People had less technology but where not less smart than today. If all, they where used to be smarted than us actually because they had less tech.
Its just paper towels, that pull out one after the other with a stupid fold trick. Anybody even 600y ago would spot that after a brief looking at it.
No, they would probably be curious about the paper itself, but that would be it.
- Comment on Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant 2 weeks ago:
I use ZigBee and have lots of the sonoff trv’s. I tried a few Chinese ones and definitely DO NOT recommend.
Buy the sonoff ones, they still get firmware updates after two years. Batteries last about 1 year in my experience which is good too
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 2 weeks ago:
I installed openwrt capable APs on each floor of my house (three) because sognal wouldn’t travel well between those.
OpenWRT because you want something that let you roam between APs (fast transitioning) without your device to disconnect and reconnect between APs.
Also disable dhcp, flatten the network and link each ap with an Ethernet cable.
More details here wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=networking%3Awifipla…
- Comment on Rate limiting 2 weeks ago:
Keep it private only to yourself? I do this, and never been rate limited.
- Comment on Opnsense, tailscale and headscale 2 weeks ago:
No experience with tailscale, but I have opnSense on a firewall appliance like yours and run two wireguard networks one from the opn itself and one from my home server, which is in the DMZ. They all work just fine…
They have different scope and remote peers, but both use my VPS as enter gateway since I am CGNATted.
- Comment on Continuwuity v0.5.6 2 weeks ago:
I run Continuwuity since day zero, actually since Conduwuit. Works great, super stable and very lightweight.
- Comment on What is the current state of 'should degenerate' lists? 2 weeks ago:
Since I am on a single user instance, the instance receives only stuff from the communities I subscribe to.
This means that I just select what I am interested in.
So far after over 1 year I never seen a single “dangerous” piece of stuff, so I think the risk is a not overstated.
The downside is that my “all/everything” feed is identical to my subscribed feed, bummer.
- Comment on What is the current state of 'should degenerate' lists? 2 weeks ago:
I done defederate. Seems censorship and contrary to the concept of the fediverse.
But I also run my one user instance, so well…
- Comment on Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP 2 weeks ago:
Are there bridges to WhatsApp and telegram?
- Comment on Ideon: I'm building a self-hosted project cockpit on an infinite canvas (v0.5 update) 2 weeks ago:
I am with you my friend, all the way
- Comment on Ideon: I'm building a self-hosted project cockpit on an infinite canvas (v0.5 update) 2 weeks ago:
Refreshingly not an ai made thing…
Nothing bad about using ai but
- Comment on Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps? 2 weeks ago:
Pure water is not good for you… You need your water to be contaminated with minerals at very least.
Also, our systems don’t like stuff to be too stesole as well, since that will make our defenses decrease over time. Being esposed to a reasonable level of bacteria and viruses is what male you stronger and build your defense.
I mean “reasonable” of course. And tap water is reasonable (at least, in developed countries so places like USA might not apply, right Flint?) clean to fit that description.
PS: there are stuff that will make you seriously sick in river and stream water, against which it’s pointless to build defences… So please don’t do that and always drink controlled water.
Fun fact, in the Alps every small village has a public fountain, where water is NOT controlled or checked, but still perfectly fine to drink specially of you have been drinking ot from young age, like I did. Others who grow up without drinking it, might feel some mild consequences if they drink too much.
- Comment on My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution 3 weeks ago:
I use both dokuwik and, more recently, also wiki.JS.
Dokuwik is great and gets the job done but it’s a piece of an old world. Maybe it’s why I love it. Yes it’s ugly and hard to theme. It’s good old php all the way down.
Wiki.JS I love how consistent and easy it is to use and install. Has other drawbacks like require nodejs and store pages in a database, but uses markdown and feels modern and nice to use.