melmi
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- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 1 day ago:
The free version of ChatGPT is 4o or 4.1-mini at this point. You can’t even access 3.5 without paying, ironically, since it’s legacy now.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
Ever heard of Bitmoji? Or Apple’s Genmoji thing? People do create stickers of themselves doing gestures or facial expressions, it’s fairly popular… And most of Instagram is people posting thirst traps and selfies. Not sure why you’re singling out furries here…
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Be that as it may, the Plex official guide for setting up “remote streaming” walks you through port forwarding. That implies that when they say remote streaming, they mean port forwarding by default. I then had to go digging to find mention of the Relay service which seems to be a fallback. (Apparently it isn’t even supported by all clients)
Surely if they meant they’d start charging for Relays they’d mention that explicitly, and not use the term “remote streaming”?
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
It’s the confusing mess of subscriptions and seemingly locking basic functionality behind a paywall that’s skeevy, not paying for software itself. I have happily paid for software before and would again. Plex has never appealed to me though, and they’re certainly doing nothing to make themselves more appealing.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a source for this claim that the new pricing scheme only applies to the Plex Relays? As far as I can tell it applies to anything they consider “remote access”, regardless of whether it goes through their servers or not.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
It seems deeply opposed to the spirit of selfhosting to have to pay for the privilege of accessing one’s own server. If the software itself cost money, that would be one thing, but this whole monetization scheme is skeevy.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
It seems like multiple things are being conflated here and I’m not sure what the reality is because I’ve never used Plex.
Some people claim this has something to do with Plex needing to pay for NAT traversal infrastructure. Okay, that seems sort of silly but at least there’s the excuse that their servers are involved in the streaming somehow.
But their wording is very broad, just calling it “remote streaming.” That led me to this article on the Plex support website, which walks people through setting up port forwarding in order to enable “remote streaming”! So that excuse doesn’t really seem to hold water. What exactly is being paid for here then? How do they define what “local streaming” is?
- Comment on Everyone uses 4d chess as the example of more intense gambits when 3d chess should suffice because chess is a 2d game 2 weeks ago:
If you think this is annoying to play, try simulating 4D chess by lining up four of these 3D chess sets
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 2 weeks ago:
Classic
- Comment on AceCoding.social - Vibe coding on the social web based on the semi-formalic language ACE (Demo) 5 weeks ago:
The cursed LLM thing uses buttplug.io on the backend, I just wanted to share it because the premise is very funny to me.
- Comment on AceCoding.social - Vibe coding on the social web based on the semi-formalic language ACE (Demo) 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do I securely host Jellyfin? (Part 2) 5 weeks ago:
Tailscale is just a bunch of extra fancy stuff on top of Wireguard. If you don’t need the fancy stuff, using raw Wireguard can be more lightweight, but might require more networking knowledge.
The biggest thing Tailscale brings you the table is NAT traversal. On top of that it uses direct Wireguard tunnels as necessary instead of creating a mesh like you usually would if you were using raw Wireguard. It also offers convenient bits of sugar like internal DNS, and it handles key exchanges for you so it’s just generally easier to configure. When you do raw Wireguard you’re doing all the config yourself, which could be a pro or a con depending on your needs—and you’ll be editing config files, unlike Tailscale which has a GUI for most things. It also supports some more detailed security options like ACLs and I think SSO, while Wireguard is reliant on your existing firewall for that.
Here’s what Tailscale has to say about it: tailscale.com/compare/wireguard
I’ve messed around with Tailscale myself, but ultimately settled on running Wireguard. The reason I do that though is because I trust my LAN, and I only run Wireguard at the edge. Tailscale really wants to be run on every node, which in turn is something that raw Wireguard theoretically can do but would be onerous to maintain. If I didn’t trust my LAN, I’d probably switch to Tailscale.
- Comment on How do I securely host Jellyfin? (Part 2) 5 weeks ago:
A lot of people have suggested Tailscale and it’s basically the perfect solution to all your requirements.
You keep saying you need ProtonVPN which means you can’t use Tailscale, but Tailscale actually supports setting up an exit node which is what you need. Put Protonvpn on the Raspberry Pi, then set it up as an exit node for your tailnet. There’s a lot of people talking about how they did this online. It looks like they even have native support for bypassing the manual setup if you use Mullvad.
As long as every client has the ability to use Tailscale (I.e. no weird TVs or anything) this seems like it checks all your boxes. And since everything is E2EE from Tailscale, TLS is redundant and you can just use HTTP.
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus 1 month ago:
I kinda of lean towards the idea of “private posts” being a bad idea as a result, just because it creates a false sense of security.
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus 1 month ago:
The issue is that if you don’t default to federation, it becomes essentially impossible for new instances to join the fediverse. A potential new instance would have to go around to every single existing instance and ask to be allowlisted, which is onerous for both the new instances and for the large server admins who would be getting tons of requests. It would also essentially kill selfhosting as a result.