lyralycan
@lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Bitwarden 100% price increase 5 days ago:
I set up a simple sync service with FolderSync (similar to Syncthing) on Android for my family, that preserves their mobile files on a server hosted SMB share. You can’t underestimate a simple yet effective solution, sometimes so simple it flies under the radar.
- Comment on Bitwarden 100% price increase 5 days ago:
They put a couple things behind the paywall: the ability to securely share files instead of just text, and to host TOTP authentication. As it is I prefer using other services for sharing And while TOTP auth is nice I use Aegis
- Comment on Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature 5 days ago:
The victim of this overreach was a piece of shit and a chronic bad troll by the sounds of it. Even though this was likely special treatment because they messaged the Director of the FBI’s girlfriend, it’s hard to be anti corpo-state surveillance when assholes like that get picked off so easily. But we here all know that it starts with the scum and power always gets misused.
- Comment on Luckily work paid for this tank full... 5 days ago:
You know how English is a default language, a base for many multinational conversations? Everyone refers to it? Well, Euro is the easiest to refer to because it is so widely used and stable. It’s not English. It’s like the ‘English language’ of currency.
- Comment on Luckily work paid for this tank full... 6 days ago:
Oh yeah, situational awareness comes first, something that doesn’t seem to come naturally to everyone. There’s a mild need for c/LostLemmings
- Comment on Luckily work paid for this tank full... 6 days ago:
Which is one reason why I’ve taken to referring to currency with nation included, e.g. US$, AU$, JP¥, GB£… The Euro is the only easy standard, arguably the ‘English language’ of currency
- Comment on who would win 1 week ago:
Or quit the fucking company come on
- Comment on Had a chuckle 1 week ago:
You need to be 18+ to buy broadband or mobile contracts in the first place 😫
- Comment on metube: Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites 1 week ago:
I like that. The machine I use to host ytdl-sub is called ourtube
- Comment on betrayal 1 week ago:
but the advancement
- Comment on New kink unlocked 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It is indeed rather complex.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think you got a downvote for promoting mailcow, users can be fickle
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This is good, I use Mailcow Dockerized and it uses 10% of one 3.7GHz core, but 2GB of RAM. Seems to have one instance of rspamd for each mailbox, they and ofelia are the biggest users of RAM according to top
- Comment on 4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster 1 week ago:
4chan is scum… But the real criminals authorised that fine, while not fining the soon-to-be trillionaires.
- Comment on Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers 1 week ago:
- Comment on Fookin Ghosties 1 week ago:
Did they try to anonymise its origin or something? O.o
- Comment on Yes way 1 week ago:
Cursed Chaplin moustache
- Comment on What to self host with a GTX 1060? 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm what another user said, that Intel iGPU would be better in your case.
I’ll let you know now – if it runs Windows kill it. My server was originally Windows running Docker Desktop. It hosted three services: Minecraft server which lagged like a bitch; Samba folder share; and Emby. Whenever Emby playback froze I knew Windows, whose antivirus kept running the HDD under constant load, had fucked the i6 6100 to 100%, which happened at least twice a day.
Moving on, now I run Proxmox. I host 25 services with the CPU at ~35% idle and 24GB RAM at 75%. Nothing lags.
Before I plugged in the GPU my server drew 25W consistently, going to 35W under load. With the GPU, an RTX 3060 11GB (used), it uses 85W idle, so make sure it’s worth it. For my case it not only transcodes for Emby and resumes streaming in a second, but also handles voice inference for Home Assistant in under a second, and mid-sized Ollama LLM responses. Would recommend a high VRAM Nvidia card (for CUDA) in that scenario, as my model Gemma3 7B uses 6GB VRAM and 2GB RAM. But a top model, say Dolphin-Mixtral 22B, needs 80GB storage, 17GB RAM and… Well I don’t have the RAM but you get it. LLMs are intensive.
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 2 weeks ago:
Cloudflare only just started redirecting to the Archive if a site they protect goes offline. Which I feel is a 200IQ feature.
- Comment on It's a classic 2 weeks ago:
Yep, now we have CCTV in Palestine of pedestrians being blown to pieces -_-
- Comment on Any good selfhosted instant messaging? 2 weeks ago:
Here you are :) it’s a Github link
- Comment on Any good selfhosted instant messaging? 2 weeks ago:
My install must have been broken then 😭 and my experience is from around early 2025, and I didn’t keep it around, so my intel is also dated…
- Comment on Any good selfhosted instant messaging? 2 weeks ago:
Ooh they upgraded? Yeah my information is based on early 2025 when I tried it aha
- Comment on Any good selfhosted instant messaging? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, and if you wish, it’s a bit old now but no doubt useful, I have written installation guides on both, based on Linux containers.
- Comment on Any good selfhosted instant messaging? 2 weeks ago:
As someone who’s tried both, it depends on what you want. Your choice of Matrix server depend on any political and ethical values – some say Synapse is too corporate, being maintained by Element who are for-profit and obtain funding from corps and governments, so some prefer others such as Conduit ( – until maintaining slowed to near abandonment and it was superseded by Conduwuit – until the owner got bullied so hard she quit the project and it was superseded by Continuwuity) or Dendrite. I recommend Continuwuity.
Then there’s clients – the only mature matrix client for mobiles is Element, and there are two apps, Classic and X, who offer different pros and cons, and imo are not good enough on their own, both are in a kind of beta stasis. But it’s the best they have. If you really don’t need calling, then Element X, FluffyChat or Schildichat is your app and Element Web for desktop access (available on Github). However, when exchanging encryption keys to trust another of your devices, or a contact’s device, only Element offers simple QR scanning.
In short, Matrix is very good as a privacy-focused server with partially working, modern looking clients.
Then there is XMPP. Again there are different backends to choose from and I am inclined to recommend Prosody. XMPP just works out of the box for me, calling included, and is relatively stable. However, there are large caveats – several pieces of user data are stored unencrypted on the server, which is fine for you as the owner, but it’s a lot harder for someone else using your service to trust that. And, while XMPP uses OMEMO encryption keys, handshaking with devices is far more manual than Matrix’s Olm/Megolm and involves a multi-step process, and migrating to a new device is a pain because messages are not backwards decrypted, so they must be transferred from the first device. Finally, clients are very rough. The best desktop clients still look like they were built in 2001, and while mobiles have Monocles, Cheogram and Conversations, they all look very similar, as the former are very slight modifications of Conversations.
In short, XMPP may lack some comforts of modern messengers, but it is simpler to set up than Matrix, and offers many of the same features. However, the manual key sharing process might scare off all but the most avid privacy enthusiasts, especially that if you migrate to a new device without sharing message history from a previous verified device, messages are lost.
Choose Matrix for polished software, inviting many contacts, and, with Element X featuring (eventually) Element Call, complete E2EE. Choose ol’ faithful XMPP for an easier initial setup, if video calls are important, or if you don’t like Element the company.
- Comment on Gaysadilla 2 weeks ago:
Is Loona considered a monster?
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 weeks ago:
We can’t play games unless we play exactly as the developers intended (constant bug fixes, online requirement, anticheat etc. for non competitive games), but Nvidia can ensure games are portrayed differently, entirely shoving a middle finger in artists’ faces? And you raise a valid point –
AI is trained on what, exactly, because AI filters always enhance facial definition, add makeup like shadow, blush and lipstick, and full body upscaling adds flat stomachs with abs, perfectly symmetrical D cup breasts, in this case blonde highlights are apparently more appealing than the original… It all stinks of the generic 2010’s Western white heterosexual man’s idea of the perfect woman’s body. It’s like every beauty filter is made by Jack Black’s character from Shallow Hal.
- Comment on "Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead 2 weeks ago:
AFAIK Nintendo lost
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 2 weeks ago:
Well I’d agree but I have standards… If you catch your neighbour burning your shed down for the eighth time, eventually you’re going to decide they can’t be trusted in your garden. The Zionists have fucked with Palestinians for decades recently, and centuries past, and seem incapable of refraining from murder.
