Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 7 hours ago:
Well if you do, contribute it to home assistant and I’ll install it 😆, it’s actually a little surprising conversions aren’t supported natively but I guess there is a lot to cover and they will get there eventually.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 7 hours ago:
Home assistant has an automation event that lets you set the conversation result, but you’ve already passed my ability haha so I can’t tell you how to pull the result in from an external service.
It may well be worth building it as a home assistant integration rather than just custom sentence triggered automations.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 8 hours ago:
Worth noting you need both the speaker part and the server part. Home assistant sells both as out of the box ready to go but you do need both parts.
It’s also worth noting it’s a Preview Edition, as in not yet consumer ready.
It works but you will find quirks, and will find things it can’t do that you’d expect it to, and things it can do that others can’t.
It’s also very customisable, if you’re a bit technical (honestly you don’t need to be that technical these days, it has come a long way).
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 8 hours ago:
Do you have a plan? I have a Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition and it’s great but I don’t think it can do unit conversions without connecting it to an LLM. Timers work locally.
I guess if it’s an equation you could add automation to pick up on the phrase and reply with the conversion, but that would need each unit to be manually done and wouldn’t work for things like currency conversion that needs live data.
Also arbitrary things would be challenging, like converting tablespoons of butter into grams or grams of rice into cups.
- Comment on Meta blocked nearly 550,000 accounts in first days of Australia’s under-16s social media ban 1 day ago:
But the government is getting the surveillance system it always wanted, why would it block it?
- Comment on I'm lit deal with it 😎 6 days ago:
Was it in NZ or is this really common? Here’s the one I know: rnz.co.nz/…/himatjit-kahlon-convicted-of-manslaug…
- Comment on So how was your year in review? 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t have to be the moment, just that they would disappear after some amount of time that is less than a year (so they can’t make a year in review page).
I seem to recall PieFed does delete certain topics (memes?) after some period of time, perhaps configurable per instance.
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 4 weeks ago:
As someone with a public facing website, there are significant volumes of scraping still happening. But largely this appears to come out of South East Asia and South America and they take steps to hide who they are so it’s not clear who is doing it or why, but like you say it doesn’t appear to be OpenAI, Google, etc.
It doesn’t appear to be web search indexing, the scraping is aggressive and the volume will bring down a Lemmy server no matter how powerful the hardware.
- Comment on Password managers... 4 weeks ago:
What’s your solution to this problem for the rest of your digital life?
- Comment on How customer service jobs be 5 weeks ago:
Well if you get 50 from a large fries, isn’t it feasible they got 100 from two large fries?
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 5 weeks ago:
Haha yip that’s the top album for me, this checks out.
- Comment on Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple) 5 weeks ago:
I just took the info from the article, what is wrong about it?
- Comment on Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple) 5 weeks ago:
In case people are wondering, from left to right in the bottom image:
- Andy Warhol
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Elon Musk
- Pablo Picasso
- Beeple, real name Mike Winkelmann (the artist who made them)
There is also a Jeff Bezos one not in that image but seen in the other images.
- Comment on I like kiwi 1 month ago:
And kiwifruit doesn’t even grow on a tree.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I think I tried this when troubleshooting and didn’t notice a difference. Nevermind, I pretty easily taught her how to bring up the menu and switch audio streams so she can solve it herself now.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Thanks, I didn’t manage to find many options in swiftfin, you don’t know if I can enforce it for a user from the server side?
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I set up Jellyfin on my mother-in-law’s TV, it’s just push play.
My mum has an Apple TV (the device, not the subscription) and on there she uses swiftfin. The only issue has been sound not working on certain audio tracks on certain movies, but in general it is easy for anyone.
Both are very familiar interfaces for anyone used to playing something from a streaming service.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 1 month ago:
Ah yip, makes sense, thanks!
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 1 month ago:
Ah haha, I actively avoid using google so don’t log in to an account. If you don’t mind me asking, if corporate surveillance isn’t what you’re avoiding, what’s the main reason you’re using a VPN?
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 1 month ago:
No it’s a paid VPN, and it starts fast but after the first 500GB or so it slows right down.
I do suspect many of the issues are from activity on the VPN rather than specific VPN blocking, but that doesn’t change the issues.
How do you handle the Google Captchas that never end? That was the worst part for me.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 1 month ago:
I have, thanks. The impossible to complete captchas are the worst for me, so many sites that are basically broken.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 1 month ago:
Browsing lemmy is probably fine, but the general internet is a god damn nightmare to browse on a VPN. Can’t load that one reddit search result with what you need. Endless google captchas making you do traffic light after traffic light on sites you didn’t even kniw used google. Downloading games from GOG is capped at like 0.5Mbps. And I’ve had plenty of instances of cloudflare blocking VPNs to certain sites.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 month ago:
How so? I have HTTPS on internal sites, I just use DNS validation to get the certificate.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 month ago:
What is the security risk of adding HTTPS to a site going via VPN?
- Comment on Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud 1 month ago:
I highly recommend spinning up a Nextcloud AIO instance. It’s the recommended and supported method, and it will likely run a lot nicer because all the database, redis, etc tweaking are done for you in a known good setup.
If you try that and it’s still no good, then OCIS might be worth trying depending on exactly what you are trying to achieve.
- Comment on Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud 1 month ago:
I’m also here on AIO with a great experience. It’s snappy and the website loads faster than Onedrive ever did.
I had a docker install prior to AIO being available, and there was a lot of tweaking to get it running nicely (though it did run nicely). AIO takes care of it all for you.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 month ago:
Others might have suggestions. I run everyhting in docker. I then use Traefik as the reverse proxy in docker, where you add labels to the containers you want it to handle and it works things out on it’s own. I have also configured it to do certificates automatically, including automatic domain validation using a Cloudflare API.
Caddy and Nginx Proxy Manager are other popular ones that can configure HTTPS certificates for you.
You don’t have to overthink it. Choose a reverse proxy you like. If it does automatic certificates, that’s great. If not, Let’s Encypt (which most of these services use for the free certificates) have a certbot program you install and run on a cronjob to renew certificates.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 month ago:
Owncloud Infinite Scale was a rewrite of the codebase to get away from PHP. In theory this should be better able to run on lower end hardware. People tend to say they use it if they are only wanting the file part and not all the apps. Personally I use Nextcloud because I want the apps.
Automatic certificate renewal is built into many reverse proxies, and can be done for free, so I don’t see a reason not to do it.
Nextcloud has federation of some features so I’d guess that would be a key reason you can’t change the domain (you also can’t change a Lemmy domain once set up). However, you’re using it for file sync for yourself, right? Regardless of what you pick (even Nextcloud), you could surely just set up a new instance under the new domain then move all your files over.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s really true these days that it needs a lot of config. Maybe reverse proxies will do it for you automatically without much setup.
I am curious what the security risks are for HTTPS for a service that will already be accessible remotely?
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 month ago:
OwnCloud Infinite Scale might be the option you missed?
Nextcloud was forked from the PHP Owncloud some years back, and they added all the apps and things. But Owncloud is like Nextcloud but focused only on the files.
I am a bit concerned that you’re talking about not wanting HTTPS and see it as a bad thing that something requires it. Given you can get free certificates these days, why would you not want a secure connection? Even if you’re accessing via a VPN to server tunnel, I see no reason not to have it.