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- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 3 hours ago:
Voron, band if that’s too much work, Sovol. They’re based on Voron.
- Comment on Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal 15 hours ago:
Actual headline: “Intel says what they were told to say to avoid antitrust after US government pushes AI agenda and gains ownership in Intel.”
- Comment on FOSS App to Edit videos ? 1 day ago:
No Shotcut love? I found it pretty easy to use ot after Premiere.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 2 days ago:
Linode has good, cheap VMs, and are a better deal than the AWSs of the world.
Also, when you set up Nextcloud, also set up something like
samba-domainwith LDAP for users. That way you have central user management as you add new services. - Comment on A little memorial at the local dump 1 week ago:
IMO he and others like him are attacking the word empathy because they think how it is being taught will make boys act weak, along woth all they believe that leads to.
- Comment on A little memorial at the local dump 1 week ago:
He understood empathy. They all do.
They understand since they were kids, it’s started being taught in schools to have empathy for others not as fortunate as you. They understand young kids strive to get the Empathy award in Kindergarten.
Can’t have “certain” kids (theirs) growing up that way.
- Comment on emergency remote access 1 week ago:
I made an 8 outlet box with relays connected to each outlet (might post a how to). That’s connected to a Pi via GPIO.
The Pi runs PiKVM, but also has a service that:
- Checks if the router can be pinged
- Checks if the internet can be pinged
- Checks if the router webUI is up
If any of those fail, it toggles the plugs for modem and router.
I run OpnSense on a 5V miniPC. I have a second one and will be setting up CARP, too.
- Comment on Attaullah Baig, ex-head of security at WhatsApp, sues Meta for allegedly ignoring critical security flaws, claims Meta staffers could access sensitive user data 1 week ago:
The timeline on this is s great of you read the article. No way Meta wins this one.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 week ago:
Overall I agree, but not requiring users to change password when the hashes were taken is a bit too soft IMO.
It will also be interesting to see if they make a public disclosure about the specifics of who and how. They also don’t specifically define if media watched data was included or excluded.
Either way, happy I migrated to Jellyfin.
- Comment on Mandatory self-reflection hours 1 week ago:
My annoyance is the rule of three.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
How wonderful would it be if he was messing with you the whole time.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 week ago:
Since no one is actually answering your question. This was published about 2 weeks ago: arxiv.org/abs/2508.18519
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Wrong. Flat Earthers do think the Earth is round.
The rest of us think it’s spherical.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
I think you can run ADB on another Android device, so maybe an Obtainium+ADB device that stays at home.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
Easier communication. Thousands of people each living far apart had no way to amplify each other. Immigrants were mostly centered around cities, thus the rural divide.
- Comment on Lumo: the least open 'open' AI assistant 2 weeks ago:
It get worse, and the model weights is a bit inaccurate with the Sept update:
The only open source code we have found is for the Lumo mobile and web apps. Proton calling the Lumo AI assistant open source based on that is a bit like Microsoft calling Windows open source just because there’s a github repository for Windows Terminal.
The models listed on Lumo’s privacy policy page are “Nemo, OpenHands 32B, OLMO 2 32B, and Mistral Small 3”. OpenHands is a QWEN fine-tune, and Nemo and Mistral Small are both Mistral models. Since Proton has open-sourced neither the Lumo system prompt nor the mysterious routing methods that decide which model will handle your query, you never know what you are going to get.
So if the server isn’t open source, and the server does all the work, this system is simply not Open Source.
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 2 weeks ago:
Barring them from offering exclusive deals, which allows competitors to get in the mix at places like Mozilla.
I did not come up with this idea, this was one of the remedies the Judge chose. @Squiddork@lemmy.world Telling them to drop Chrome was just flashy talk.
- Comment on How to relax and most importantly stop thinking about the things i could be doing? 2 weeks ago:
You are not alone, soooo many people, myself included, are like this. As are many with ADHD.
For me, I found listing out the things I want to do for each project (the details, not the name of the project), and putting them all low priority works. Then I move a few to high priority and tell myself those are my “tasks” for the week.
That stops me from going down the rabbit hole pretty well, while still enjoying my time. I find the number of tasks fluctuates, mainly because after a while of shifting between TV, games, and reading in the gaps, I get that feeling of wanting more productivity being fun back. Which sounds like the feeling you want.
- Comment on We are stopping shipments to the US - Kiwix 2 weeks ago:
The only good thing about this is hopefully slowing down the disposal clothing fad from Temu.
If this had to happen, I really wish there was a reasonable DM, even $50, and then a requirement to not split shipments to stop business import abuse.
- Comment on How to selfhost with a VPN 2 weeks ago:
Not that I think you need it for this, but a DynDNS implementation would give you a hostname you can dynamically change to your VPN ip, thus solving the SSL host issue.
- Comment on Emotional support 2 weeks ago:
I forgive you.
- Comment on A bit.. bigger. 2 weeks ago:
Oh no worries at all. And I watch many of them as well. Great to see the types of things I’ve enjoyed for years hit more mainstream.
- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 2 weeks ago:
Some suggestions from an older internet rando:
Don’t dwell on the past, embrace it.
You worked your way up to a D3 runner, due 100% to your hard work, and despite the adversity of those who didn’t believe in you. Look back on that time as a challenge you overcame, and what brought you to the environment you are in today. Congratulations.
Consider telling your parents how you feel.
Right now, they are going around thinking that they pushed you hard, and that pushing is what got you where you are today. They are proud, of you for sure, but also of themselves as parents. Everyone, even your parents have the ability to learn where they were wrong, so consider opening up to them about how you appreciated their honestly, but their methods of delivering it hindered vs helped.
If you decide to do this, treat the conversation like your parents are the children, staying calm and informative, and you might be surprised how “adult” they treat you. And if they don’t, their loss.
Forgive, and move forward.
They did teach you to be reasonable, and try to remember it’s unlikely they meant purposeful harm. Regardless of if you discuss it with them, try to recognize it is your life now, and you get to choose how intactions go from here. Good luck in your races!
- Comment on A bit.. bigger. 2 weeks ago:
If by business you mean I spend way too much time doing things to learn, write up How-Tos, or even just to see it if I can when I could be monetizing that time, thennnn yeeeessssss?
But no, this is all extreme hobby. I should probably start a YouTube channel haha
- Comment on A bit.. bigger. 2 weeks ago:
Well, I make lots of things, you can see some of them on my site: nowsci.com
While many prototypes and prints (I’d say 90%) will be done on the V0, there are some larger ones I’m trying out soon.
One will be a slim 19" custom server rack for mini PCs, built out of 2020 alluminum and large 3D printed trays I’m designing. Others will be monitor alignment brackets, parts for campervans, mass printing custom Pegboard mounts, etc.
I’ve also used 3D printing for furniture making, but only for mounts to join metal to wood. I may attempt some other methods for frame stays now.
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 2 weeks ago:
Yea, should say: FDM 3D printing a screw with PLA vertically in vase mode.
But thats a bit long winded.
- Comment on YSK 4get is a privacy respecting proxy search engine that can be self hosted 2 weeks ago:
This is not the good kind of competition. Take a look at the other comments hah
- Comment on YSK 4get is a privacy respecting proxy search engine that can be self hosted 2 weeks ago:
That FAQ… This project’s devs are so far out of the realm of what a common Lemmy user would want to support.
Take a look at SearXNG, it’s run by sane devs, and it’s a better project, too.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
But this process impacts other stores, too, like FDroid.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 2 weeks ago:
But the desalination process is powered by the energy manufacturing, the water is not shared between them. I was more thinking about the safety and capability of the energy manufacturing, as fallout makes other systems much more difficult.