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- Comment on Alternatives to Mattermost 3 days ago:
Of the ones I’ve tried that are fully open-source is the best ons regarding UX functionality.
For example, Matrix is a UX nightmare, with many different clients implementing different features, or having issues if a non-default login mode is used, ending in people getting locked out after the browser logged them out because they forgot to copy a key when they were logged in.
Others like rocketchat are opencore like matter most, which means they can do the switcheroo.
The things I would care the most when checking this kind of service are:
- UX: how easy it is to use for nontechnical users
- how well-backed is the project, socially and financially, to ensure it lasts a long time
- how easy it is to get the (public) conversations out, as an exit strategy, if the one above isn’t looking so good.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 4 days ago:
What’s not changing though is that most of their focus will be on integrating AI which most people don’t want.
I agree that AI chatbots are absolutely useless and have no place in a browser, but out of the three ML features in the screenshot, one is great for blind people, and another one is great for making the web more multilingual, so their usefulness is quite self-evident. Regarding ethics, at least for the last one it’s using a local model, and was trained using open-source datasets.[1]
What makes so-called “AI” bad is not the amount of users that can benefit from it, but how useful it is to the people that do use the feature, which usually means having experts tailor machine learning unto a single purpose.
I personally use the translation feature at least once a week when looking at news article that are not in English, and now I’m using a lot to translate Japanese webpages to plan a holiday there, so I’m very happy that Mozilla has invested time abd collaborated with universities to make this feature, I wish other people were less flippant about it just because it has “AI” in its name.
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 6 days ago:
There’s a relatively new latex replacement, which is much easier to use, although its ecosystem is not as complete (obviously)
(The CLI tools are OpenSource and independent from the GUI thing they sell)
- Comment on Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed 2 months ago:
Reads like an infomercial for Epic to me
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #145: Agentic 2 months ago:
Vates demoed on kubecon an ARM workstation running XCP-ng, a xen-based virtualization platform.
xcp-ng.org/blog/…/xcp-ng-on-arm-with-ampere/
It’s still early days, but I’m hoping it can reach homelabs, the big question being hardware enablement, which is difficult on ARM baseboards due to lack of standardization.
Disclaimer: I work with Vates, and prepared some component to compile under ARM to prepare the demo.
- Comment on LeFTIsTS just can't handle our glorious Trump's truths!11!1!!! 4 months ago:
And with a very american name, artem
- Comment on Simplify home hardware for selfhosting 4 months ago:
I know, yes. But I’m talking about virtualization, not containerizarion
- Comment on Simplify home hardware for selfhosting 4 months ago:
Personally, I want to properly isolate the services with virtualization. The main reason is I expose some of the services online, and I don’t t want to only rely on keeping all software up-to-date at all times. This allows me to limit the damage if one of the services is compromised.
I wouldn’t use MacOS as the virtualization platform, and instead use something else, like BSD, Linux, or xen-based for my servers
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 9 months ago:
Did Synology just hire some brain dead Broadcom executive?
Well, Citrix got their CEO.
And DOGE as well: crn.com/…/citrix-parent-ceo-krause-on-doge-role-w…
- Comment on Performance comparison between various Hypervisors 11 months ago:
Xcp-ng might have the edge against bare metal because Windows uses virtualization by default uses Virtualization-Based Security (VBS). Under xcp-ng it can’t use that since nested virtualization can’t be enabled.
Disclaimer: I’m a maintainer of the control plane used by xcp-ng
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 11 months ago:
But the individual network packets are usually at most 1500 byes long, and applications encrypt the content. Hashing doesn’t prevent jack squat. It’s more likely to be DNS + IP blocks