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- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 1 month ago:
You’ve probably read about language model AIs basically being uncontrollable black boxes even to the very people who invented them.
When OpenAI wants to restrict ChatGPT from saying some stuff, they can fine tune the model to reduce the likelihood that it will output forbidden words or sentences, but this does not offer any guarantee that the model will actually stop saying forbidden things.
The only way of actually preventing such an agent from saying something is to check the output after it is generated, and not send it to the user if it triggers a content filter.
My point is that AI researchers found a way to simulate some kind of artificial brains, from which some “intelligence” emerges in a way that these same researchers are far from deeply understanding.
If we live in a simulation, my guess is that life was not manually designed by the simulation’s creators, but rather that it emerged from the simulation’s rules (what we Sims call physics), just like people studying the origins of life mostly hypothesize. If this is the case, the creators are probably as clueless about the inner details of our consciousness as we are about the inner details of LLMs
- Comment on Noob stuck on port-forwarding wile trying to host own raw-html website. Pls help 1 month ago:
You’re probably behind a CGNAT, check out the other comments
- Comment on Noob stuck on port-forwarding wile trying to host own raw-html website. Pls help 1 month ago:
Glad I could help :)
- Comment on Noob stuck on port-forwarding wile trying to host own raw-html website. Pls help 1 month ago:
Your ISP might make you go through another layer of NAT. Can you find the WAN IP address of your router and compare it to your public IP address from a website such as ipinfo.io ?
If they do not match, you’re probably out of luck and will need to forward your port from an actually public IP in order to achieve what you want
- Comment on Starlink with self hosted? 2 months ago:
I wish people would stop recommending cloudflare in self-hosting communities
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- Comment on Open-source and self-hosted enterprise? 4 months ago:
I can recommend some stuff I’ve been using myself :
- Dolibarr as an ERP + CRM : requires some work to configure initially. As most (if not all) features are disabled by default, it requires enabling them based on what you need. It also has a marketplace with a bunch of modules you can buy
- Gitea to manage codebases for customer projects. It can also do CI but I’ve not looked into it yet
- Prometheus and its ecosystem (mostly promtail and grafana) for monitoring and alerting
- docker mail server : makes it quite easy to self host a full mail server. The guides in their doc made it painless for me to configure dmarc/SPF/other stuff that make e-mail notoriously hard to host
- Cal.com as a self hostable alternative to calendly
- Authentik for single sign-on and centralized permission management
- plausible for lightweight analytics
- a mix of wireguard, iptables and nginx to basically achieve the same as cloudflare proxying and tunnels
I design, deploy and maintain such infrastructures for my own customers, so feel free to DM me with more details about your business if you need help with this
- Submitted 5 months ago to privacyguides@lemmy.one | 0 comments
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 6 months ago:
They told me about hosting their own tile server earlier today. I’m really impressed by how fast they moved !
A pull request for a privacy page during the onboarding is in the works, and I’ve been working with them to update the settings page and documentation (with the goal of providing an easy way to switch map providers). They are also working on a privacy policy, and want to ship all of this in a few weeks as part of a single release.
Once again, I’m really impressed with how well they’re handling this
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 6 months ago:
With all the botting going on on Reddit, this whole Google AI deal makes me think of the recent paper that demonstrates that, as common sens would suggest, deep learning models collapse when successive generations are trained on the previous generations’ output
- Comment on Lots of dead Lemmy/Kbin domains have CNAME records pointing to a domain parking company 6 months ago:
never stopped POSTing, even though I configured nginx to always respond 403 to anything from them for about a year now.
Lol, there are definitely some stubborn stuff out there. I’ve been serving 418 to a bunch of SEO crawlers - with fail2ban configured to drop all packets from their IPs/CIDR ranges after some attemps - for a few months now. They keep coming at the same rate as soon as they get unbanned. I guess they keep sending requests into the void for the whole ban duration.
Using the 418 for undesirable requests instead of a more common status code (such as 403) lets me easily filter these blocks in fail2ban, which can help weed out a lot of noise in server logs.
- Comment on Lots of dead Lemmy/Kbin domains have CNAME records pointing to a domain parking company 6 months ago:
Your sensitive data and logins are tied to email addresses, which are tied to domains. Lose your domain, someone can access everything.
I recently stumbled upon an article showing how bad this can be when the expiring domains are used for important stuff
- Comment on Lots of dead Lemmy/Kbin domains have CNAME records pointing to a domain parking company 6 months ago:
I think they do get marked as dead after the Bodis subdomain does not act as a Lemmy instance. But I was wondering if a large number of instances “waking up from the dead” and acting maliciously could cause some trouble. Or would such “undead” instances pose no more threat to the fediverse than the same number of newly created malicious instances ? I’m mainly thinking about stuff like being in a privileged position to DoS most instances at once, or impersonation of accounts that used to actually exist on these “undead” instances
- Submitted 6 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on [HELP NEEDED] Unable to figure out directory permissions 6 months ago:
Is
namedactually running as thebinduser inside the container ? Maybe aUSER bindline below theRUNlines will help. - Comment on Why do so many people use NGINX? 6 months ago:
I’ll probably look into newer fancier options such as Caddy one day, but as far as I remember Nginx has never failed me : it’s stable, battle tested, and extremely mature. I can’t remember a single time when I’ve been affected by a breaking change (I could not even find one by searching changelogs) and the feature set makes it very versatile. Newer alternatives seem really interesting, but it seems to me they have quite frequent breaking changes and are not as feature rich.
That being said, I’d love to see side-by-side comparison of Nginx and Caddy configs (if anyone wants to translate to Caddy the Nginx caching proxy for OSM I shared earlier this week, that would make a good ad useful example), as well as examples of features missing from Nginx. This may give me enough motivation to actually try Caddy :)
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 6 months ago:
I don’t use nginx-proxy-manager, but if you want to share what you tried, I will try to help you figure what’s not working
- Comment on Immich relies on a third-party service that seems shady to me 6 months ago:
It’s the clients (web/android app, probably iOS too) that are making these requests.
To the best of my knowledge, the Immich server inside the container is not making requests to the outside. It is merely sending a
style.jsonto the client displaying a map, which then fetches tiles from the Cofractal URL inside this JSON. - Comment on Immich relies on a third-party service that seems shady to me 6 months ago:
Or you can quite easily configure nginx as your personal caching proxy with an arbitrarily long TTL/retention duration (you can check out my follow-up post for instructions on doing that)
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 6 months ago:
I used to wonder what kind of nerd notices this kind of thing, now I’m one of them
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 6 months ago:
I don’t use Traefik myself, but [this documentation page seems to suggest that Traefik only allows in-memory cache (which would eat RAM and not persist across reboots). You can probably run Nginx with this config inside a container for the caching, then use Traefik to handle requests to
immich.your-domain.tld/map_proxy/*with the caching proxy container. - Comment on Immich relies on a third-party service that seems shady to me 6 months ago:
What do you mean ? Can you give me the exact link that’s not working ?
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 6 months ago:
At this point, I’ll just assume you are trolling and stop replying
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 6 months ago:
How does an nginx config fit as a “diff” when the Immich repo and docker images do not include nginx (or any other reverse proxy) ?
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 6 months ago:
Blocking the DNS was the first thing I did. This is intended to restore the map feature without having to trust a random company I’ve never heard of.
What do you mean by “a diff of a code fix” that would be simpler ?
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 6 months ago:
You can, but you would not be able to display the map. Might as well disable the map server-wide
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 6 months ago:
Not yet, but I will probably submit a PR to include this guide in the docs
- Submitted 6 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 27 comments