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- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
For ~$30 a month, that’s a complete and utter rip-off.
Even here in Neuland Germany you get at least decent internet with no caps for that price.
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 4 weeks ago:
as an independent voter that feels continually ignored by the by the right and left
A party in the U.S. of any relevance that could be described as “left-wing” would be news to me.
You’ve got a corrupt conservative party and an extremely corrupt "pro"gressive(regressive?) anti-democratic party.
third parties can be an attractive choice for some
Third parties are never an attractive choice for anyone in a first-past-the-post voting systems with two extremely dominant parties, regardless of what any of those parties stand for. The only sensible choice is the (in your opinion) least bad option that still has a realistic chance of winning.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
I know that part.
The other fork has existed for a long while.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Your work dictates what you are allowed to install on your personal phone? That’d be a serious overstepping of bounds.
Perhaps you can sneak in f-droid via
adb installand give it app installation permissions via ADB too though. - Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
What’s the history behind this? Why could the changes be done upstream, necessitating a fork?
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- Comment on AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful 6 months ago:
Oh I’m sure your health insurance would love to know the condition of your teeth to increase your rates.
- Comment on [Question] If I selfhost a privacy frontend on cloud, wouldn't the original service get my server IP and track back to me? 6 months ago:
Yes, yes they will. If you’re the sole user, they’d identify you from your behaviour anyways.
I don’t think internet proxy won’t help very much w.r.t. privacy but it will make you a lot more susceptible to being blocked.
- Comment on What would happen if all of humanity don't need to work any more ? 8 months ago:
Depends on how much of our needs would be covered. Not needing to work to survive is different from not needing to work to live a comfortable life which is again different from living a luxurious life.
- Comment on Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs? 8 months ago:
You probably could. Though I don’t see the point in powering a home server over PoE.
A random SBC in the closet? Sure. Not a home server though.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
10% worse efficiency > no refrigerator
- Comment on Linux distro for selfhosting server 8 months ago:
If you’re using containers for everything anyways, the distro you use doesn’t much matter.
If Ubuntu works for you and switching away would mean significant effort, I see no reason to switch outside of curiosity.
- Comment on What's the deal with Docker? 8 months ago:
The operating system is explicitly not virtualised with containers.
What you’ve described is closer to paravirtualisation where it’s still a separate operating system in the guest but the hardware doesn’t pretend to be physical anymore and is explicitly a software interface.
- Comment on What do you think about Abstract Wikipedia? 8 months ago:
Somewhere inside that abstraction you’ll need to have the pieces of info that Spanish “leche” [milk] is feminine, that Zulu “ubisi” [milk] is class 11, that English predicative uses the ACC form, so goes on.
Of course you do. The beauty of abstraction is that these language-specific parts can be factored into generic language-specific components. The information you’re actually trying to convey can be denoted without any language-specific parts or exceptions and that’s the important part for Wikipedia’s purpose of knowledge preservation and presentation.
you’ll need people to mark a multitude of distinctions in their sentences, when writing them down, that the abstraction layer would demand for other languages. Such as tagging the “I” in “I see a boy” as “+masculine, +older-person, +informal” so Japanese correctly conveys it as “ore” instead of “boku”, "atashi, “watashi” etc.
For writing a story or prose, I agree.
For the purpose of writing Wikipedia articles, this specifically and explicitly does not matter very much. Wikipedia strives to have one unified way of writing within a language. Whether the “I” is masculine or not would be a parameter that would be applied to all text equally (assuming I-narrator was the standard on Wikipedia).
Even the idea of “abstract concept of milk” doesn’t work as well as it sounds like, because languages will split even the abstract concepts in different ways. For example, does the abstract concept associated with a living pig includes its flesh?
If your article talks about the concept of a living pig in some way and in the context of that article, it doesn’t matter whether the flesh is included, then you simply use the default word/phrase that the language uses to convey the concept of a pig.
If it did matter, you’d explicitly describe the concept of “a living pig with its flesh” instead of the more generic concept of a living pig. If that happened to be the default of the target language or the target language didn’t differentiate between the two concepts, both concepts would turn into the same terms in that specific language.
The same applies to your example of the different forms of “I” in Japanese. To create an appropriate Japanese “rendering” of an abstract sentence, you’d use the abstract concept of “a nerdy shy kid refers to itself” as the i.e. the subject. The Japanese language “renderer” would turn that into a sentence like ”僕は。。。” while the English “renderer” would simply produce “I …”.
A language is not an agent; it doesn’t “do” something. You’d need people to actively insert those pieces of info for each language, that’s perhaps doable for the most spoken ones, but those are the ones that would benefit the least from this.
Yes, of course they would have to do that. The cool thing is that this it’d only have to be done once in a generic manner and from that point on you could use that definition to “render” any abstract article into any language you like.
You must also keep in mind that this effort has to be measured relative to the alternatives. In this case, the alternative is to translate each and every article and all changes done to them into every available language. At the scale of Wikipedia, that is not an easy task and it’s been made clear that that’s simply not happening.
(Okay, another alternative would be to remain on the status quo with its divergent versions of what are supposed to be the same articles containing the same information.)
- Comment on What do you think about Abstract Wikipedia? 8 months ago:
Languages simply don’t agree on how to split the usage of words. Or grammatical case. Or if, when and how to do agreement.
Just for the sake of example: how are they going to keep track of case in a way that doesn’t break Hindi, or Basque, or English, or Guarani? Or grammatical gender for a word like “milk”? (not even the Romance languages agree in it.) At a certain point, it gets simply easier to write the article in all those languages than to code something to make it for you.
I don’t know what the WMF is planning here but what you’re pointing out is precisely what abstraction would solve.
If you had an abstract way to represent a sentence, you would be independent of any one order or case or whatever other grammatical feature. In the end you obviously do need actual sentences with these features. To get these, you’d build a mechanism that would convert the abstract sentence representation into a concrete sentences for specific languages that is correctly constructed according to those specific languages’ rules.
Same with gender. What you’d store would not be that e.g. some german sentence is talking about the feminine milk but rather that it’s talking about the abstract concept of milk. How exactly that abstract concept is represented in words would then be up to individual languages to decide.
I have absolutely no idea whether what I’m talking about here would be practical to implement but it in theory it could work.
- Comment on What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets? 8 months ago:
A really, really cool solution for problem nobody has.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 8 months ago:
Do you have a media center and/or server already? It’s a bit overkill for the former but it could work well as the latter with its dedicated GPU that your NAS might not have.
- Comment on [Question] Rate my upgrade! 8 months ago:
Glad I could save you some money :)
- Comment on Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin 8 months ago:
NixOS packages only work with NixOS system. They’re harder to setup than just copying a docker-compose file over and they do use container technology.
It’s interesting how none of that is true.
Nixpkgs work on practically any Linux kernel.
Whether NixOS modules are easier to set up and maintain than unsustainably copying docker-compose files is subjective.
Neither Nixpkgs nor NixOS use container technology for their core functionality.
NixOS has thenixos-containerframework to optionally run NixOS inside of containerised environments (systemd-nspawn) but that’s rather niche actually. Nixpkgs does make use of bubblewrap for a small set of stubborn packages but it’s also not at all core to how it works.Totally beside the point though; even if you don’t think NixOS is simpler, that still doesn’t mean containers are the only possible mean by which you could possibly achieve “easy” deployments.
Also without containers you don’t solve the biggest problems such as incompatible database versions between multiple services.
Ah, so you have indeed not even done the bare minimum of research into what Nix/NixOS are before you dismissed it. Nice going there.
as robust in terms of configurations
Docker compose is about the opposite of a robust configuration system.
- Comment on Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin 8 months ago:
This is a false dichotomy. Just because containers make it easy to ship software, doesn’t mean other means can’t be equally easy.
NixOS achieves a greater ease of deployment than docker-compose and the like without any containers involved for instance.
- Comment on [Question] Rate my upgrade! 8 months ago:
I would not buy a CPU without seeing a real-world measurement of idle total system power consumption if you’re concerned about energy (and therefore cost) efficiency in any way. Especially on desktop platforms where manufacturers historically do not care one bit about efficiency. You could easily spend many hundred € every year if it’s bad. I was not able to find any measurements for that specific CPU.
Be faster at transcoding video. This is primarily so I can use PhotoPrism for video clips. Real-time transcoding 4K 80mbps video down to something streamabke would be nice. Despite getting QuickSync to work on the Celeron, I can’t pull more than 20fps unless I drop the output to like 640x480.
That shouldn’t be the case. I’d look into getting this fixed properly before spending a ton of money for new hardware that you may not actually need. It smells like to me that encode or decode part aren’t actually being done in hardware here.
What codec and pixel format are the source files?
How quickly can you decode them? Try running ffmpeg manually with VAAPI decode,-c copy, and a null sink on the files in question.What codec are you trying to transcode to? Apollo lake can’t encode HEVC 10 bit.. Try encoding a testsrc (
testsrc=duration=10:size=3840x2160:rate=30) to AVC 10 bit or HEVC 8 bit. - Comment on Is there a way to preserve my comments before closing my instance? 8 months ago:
Have you considered using Oracle’s free VPS tier? Should be more than powerful enough to host a read-only Lemmy instance.
It’s not ideal but if you’re short on money, it’s better than having your online data rot.
- Comment on Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android 8 months ago:
Must’ve gotten infected when eating the Android sweets.
- Comment on A visual, interactive guide to bloom filters 8 months ago:
Excellently written, thank you @samwho@hachyderm.io!
- Comment on How do I figure out a fair price for a used bike + accessories? 8 months ago:
All bicycle helmets I used had no functional padding to speak of. There were strips a few mm thick at the places where your head touches the helmet but I don’t think that’d be significant in a crash.
- Comment on How can modern video/audio codecs such as AV1 and Opus deliver high quality at lower bitrates? 8 months ago:
WDYM by “add more AV1s to my jellyfin”?
As in have AV1-encoded source files and have jellyfin transcode from AV1 to more compatible formats or to have jellyfin transcode existing videos (no matter what format) to AV1 in real-time?
For the former, you shouldn’t need any special GPU whatsoever as a CPU can decode AV1 just fine but a GPU capable of AV1 decode could help. That’s Ampere, Navi 2 and tiger lake or later.
The latter isn’t very useful right now as a device capable of decoding AV1 must be quite modern and those are usually in a position to just decode the original without any need for any transcoding.
- Comment on Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible 9 months ago:
The simplest solution to following a singular user is probably RSS. No additional software services required; only a generic RSS reader on your client device.
For Mastodon it’s
instance.tld/@user.rss. - Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 9 months ago:
If they weren’t comfortable with not getting YT ad revenue, they wouldn’t be uploading their content to alternative sites.
Relying on YT as the gatekeeper to your entire livelihood also has a cost. It’s not trivial to calculate but I imagine it’s greater than the loss of AdSense money. There’s a reason many people who rely on video content creation to survive hedge through the likes of Nebula, Floatplane or, indeed, Odyssey.
- Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 9 months ago:
Parents do exists
Phew, was scared there for a second.