oldfart
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- Comment on 3D Print Anything Without Supports - Non-Planar Slicing & Core R-Theta Printer 22 hours ago:
Amazing work, I wouldn’t come up with that bending algorithm if my life depended on it
- Comment on The Llama 4 herd 2 weeks ago:
Huh, intereating to see MoE went mainstream!
- Comment on WhiteWind is a blog that uses the AT Protocol 3 weeks ago:
I clicked this looking for ATDT+blogposts amd left disappointed
- Comment on How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact 4 weeks ago:
Am i fucked if i haven’t posted on facebook since like 2014?
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 4 weeks ago:
So the web is a corporate war zone now and you can choose feudal protection or being attacked from all sides. What a time to be alive.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 4 weeks ago:
So now the adtech companies need to hire a minimum wage person in the EU, and I can write them a letter requesting they remove my anonimized data, doxxing myself in the process. Oh and now I know they’re sharing with 395 partners, as if that wasn’t obvious from uBlock before. And I get to sign a permission to process my data if I want to see a doctor.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 4 weeks ago:
What did GDPR solve? Did we get rid of advertisers sharing data?
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 4 weeks ago:
Woah holy shit I thought it was the usual Drew DeVault crying wolf, but it looks actually terrible. I wonder why my webservers never experienced this. Too insignificant?
- Comment on A look at Europe's options for building a “European Cloud”, which is likely to be more difficult than the €15B Galileo satellite system, and potential issues. 5 weeks ago:
I’m not in the tier 4+ space but I know Scaleway has solutions there, I haven’t seen them mentioned.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
Yeah, of course, it would be better in many ways if the firmware wasn’t closed.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
Open source stack will not prevent this. It’s not even a backdoor, it’s functionality that these researches think should be hidden from programmers for whatever reason.
Open source devices would have this functionality readily available for programmers. Look at rtl-sdr, using the words of these researches, it has a “backdoor” where a TV dongle may be used to listen to garage key fobs gasp everyone panic now!
- Comment on Is there anything the internet can't do? 1 month ago:
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 1 month ago:
What do your people ask then? “Does it come in red too?”
- Comment on CalDAV Server Without Exposing Server? 1 month ago:
Unless you live a very dynamic lifestyle that requires your calendar to be 24/7 synced, you can just use whatever server software you like, make it listen in LAN only, and have your devices sync when they’re at home.
DecSyncCC and Syncthing is another option.
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 1 month ago:
Maybe use a filesystem and syncthing this way? github.com/39aldo39/DecSync
Or you could use the free tier of some PaaS like
render.com/docs/free if you prefer a traditional approach - Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 1 month ago:
Balls, said the Queen, if I had two I’d be a king!
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 1 month ago:
If you remove the fishes, replece the cat with a baby, and add a dollar on a fishing hook, it’s literally the same.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 1 month ago:
Has there been any progress in self-hosting sync server since Mozilla abandoned the old version a few years ago and created a behemoth with some exotic database that requires lots of resources?
- Comment on Email provider for home server alerts 1 month ago:
Install dovecot and set up your email client to connect to it. Email is trivial if you’re not sending to other hosts.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 month ago:
In mine, the keys stopped working reliably, but it was still my favourite Android phone so far
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 months ago:
And recaptcha. And Google-hosted Javascript libraries. And youtube embeds.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 2 months ago:
It’s source-available
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 2 months ago:
Yeah they fucked up v30, i updated from v29 a few weeks back and had to restore it and now I’m back at 29
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 2 months ago:
Something p2p like Tox or Briar, both annoying for daily use.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 2 months ago:
We went full circle to the early 2000s, slapping PGP on top of public messaging platforms!
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 2 months ago:
Hetzner’s S3 is immature, they just started beta last year, and are rough at the edges
- Comment on Odin - a self-hosted FOSS streaming service. 3 months ago:
So it’s like Seren, but for Android instead of Kodi, and with a mandatory server part?
- Comment on heat your body, not your house -- using an infrared heat lamp 3 months ago:
Happy to see I’m not the only one. I tried many things for personal heating and they were only making discomfort a bit lower.
The best one I think was a 2 kW quartz “garden” heater, but it’s 2 kW, I could heat my whole home with a gas furnace for a similar price.
- Comment on Zero to Hero 5 months ago:
I made good brussels ONCE. I have the recipe and tried to do it many times, never could make them good again, always too bitter. I know it’s possible but I’ll wait a decade for stars to align again.
- Comment on JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?) 5 months ago:
For that one time when systemd-logind crashed on every boot on an unmodified CentOS install because of an OOM.
