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- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
Use lemmy.ml how you want to use it, and if you want to participate in other political leanings, go to a different instance. No one is really stopping you, and that’s the whole idea of the fediverse. And there really isn’t any value lost, because this isn’t a “choose one and only one” situation. You’ve got all of the fediverse at your fingertips.
Until you make the mistake of replying with the wrong kind of comment to the wrong sub, and get banned from the entire instance and lose the ability to post on many of the largest subs on this side of the fediverse.
Admin overreach and abuse is a major issue for the fediverse because it affects more than just the user in question. Admins of large instances get to decide who has access to the users and communities on their instances, and very often the users of the instance aren’t even aware of it. Mastodon recently implemented a notification for when blocks and defederation remove your follows or followers. Users deserve to know when they are impacted by decisions such as these.
I love the fediverse and want to see it thrive, so we need to stop putting our heads in the sand on this issue. It’s always discussed as if it’s an issue with a few problematic instances rather than the systemic issue in need of a solution that is is.
Admins need the tools to protect their instances from real abuse, but we need to balance that with the right of the users to know what’s going on and not be unfairly deprived of the social aspect of this social media experiment, especially without knowing.
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- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 6 months ago:
I’m gonna keep it real with you, I’ll take “weirdo CEO and optional AI tools” over “corporate entity so powerful that society has literally warped around it, whose primary business model is psychological manipulation” any day of the week
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 6 months ago:
I’ve switched to Kagi recently and honestly it’s better than Google ever was. You can assign weights to sites to see more or less of them in your results, it automatically cuts the listicle crap out, it has various built in filters for specific things like forums or scientific studies.
Downside: it’s $10/mo. But I’m at the “I’d rather pay with money than data” stage of my life.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 7 months ago:
Refurbished drives get their SMART data reset during the process, they absolutely had more than that originally.
- Comment on Mini PC with Intel N100 and 6 x 2 5 GbE LAN ports 7 months ago:
I’ve got a Protectli VP2420 running OPNSense at home, which has 4x Intel i225-V 2.5gbe running on a weaker Celeron J6412, and I was able to get the expected iperf performance of ~2.35gbps from some brief testing between two directly connected machines. I didn’t really do any deeper testing than that though, and I’m not currently doing any crazy threat detection stuff.
- Comment on Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk) 9 months ago:
“Because I feel like it.”
So in other words, because she wants to? As in, “because it’s her body and she can do whatever she wants with it”?
- Comment on This Week in Self-Hosted (8 December 2023) 11 months ago:
If you’re waiting for Jellyfin to run some kind of relay like Plex, you’ll be waiting a long time. That takes a lot of money to upkeep, and the demand for people who self-host FOSS and then want to depend on an external service is very minimal, certainly not enough to sustain such a service. I’d recommend just spending a weekend afternoon learning how to set up Nginx Proxy Manager and being done with it, the GUI makes it very easy.
- Comment on Simplest For End User Wiki/Knowlege Repo for the end user 11 months ago:
I chose Bookstack for the same situation. It’s dead simple in usage and maintenance. No issues yet!
- Comment on Which controller did you start with? 11 months ago:
That was for the VMU, the visual memory card. It stored your game saves but also some games had minigames you could play directly on it, often with bonuses in the main game. In the Sonic Adventure games you could take care of chao and such on it. That thing ate batteries like candy though.
- Comment on Tv box recommendations? 11 months ago:
I have an old Xiaomi Box and it’s absurd how over the years it went from a purely functional media device to a complete shit show covered ads. Genuinely disgusted me every time I turned the TV on. I couldn’t stand it anymore, I had to tear out the launcher with ADB and replace it with FLauncher.
- Comment on Tempo - an open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android 11 months ago:
Recently started using Tempo with Navidrome. Haven’t had more than a few days of use yet, but everything has worked exactly as expected! Can’t ask for much more than that.
- Comment on Offsite Backups with Slow-ish Upload? 11 months ago:
I very recently started using borgbackup. I’m extremely impressed with how much it compressed the data before sending, and how well it detects changes and only sends the difference. I have not yet attempted a proper restore from backup, though.
I have much less data I’m currently securing (~50gb) and much more uplink bandwidth (~115mbps) so my situation isn’t nearly as dire. But it was able to compress that down to less than 25gb before sending, and after the initial upload, the next week’s backup only required about 100mb of data transfer.
If you can find a way to seed your data from a faster location, reduce the amount you need to back up, and/or break it up into multiple smaller transfers, this might be an effective solution for you.
Borgbase’s highest plan has an upper limit of 8TB, which you would be brushing right up against, but Hetzner storage boxes go up to 20TB and officially support Borg.
Outside of that, if you don’t expect the data to change often, you might be looking for some sort of cheap S3 storage from AWS or other similar large datacenter company. But you’ll still need to find a way to actually get them the data safely, and I’m not sure if they support differential uploads like Borg does.
- Comment on AI facial recognition scanned millions of driver licences. Then an innocent man got locked up 1 year ago:
The computer didn’t get it wrong; the computer did exactly what it was programmed to do. Blaming the computer implies that this can just be solved with better code, when it was the humans who actually carried out the action. It was the humans who were supposed to exercise their judgment that got it wrong.
- Comment on Is it possible to run Nextcloud and Wordpress on one low-spec server? 1 year ago:
Convincing argument, but unfortunately a cursory Google search will reveal he was right. There is very little CPU overhead. The only real consideration is a bite extra storage and RAM to store and load the redundant dependencies of the container.
- Comment on Addressing Changes to pfSense Plus Home+Lab 1 year ago:
Never trust corporations. If you’re not profitable, they will abandon you.
- Comment on Good server OS for Jellyfin 1 year ago:
Proxmox is completely different from Docker. Proxmox is focused on VMs, and to a lesser extent LXC containers. If you think you will have a need to run VMs (for example, a Windows VM for a game server that doesn’t support Linux) Proxmox is great for that.
I run Docker on a dedicated VM inside Proxmox, and then I spin up other specialized VMs on the same system when needed. The Docker VM only does Docker and nothing else at all.
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
Never ask ChatGPT to write code that you plan to actually use, and never take it as a source of truth. I use it to put me on a possible right path when I’m totally lost and lack the vocabulary to accurately describe what I need. Sometimes I’ll ask it for an example of how sometimes works so that I can learn it myself. It’s an incredibly useful tool, but you’re out of your damn mind if you’re just regularly copying code it spits out. If you don’t know the syntax well enough to write it yourself, how the hell do you plan to error check it?
- Comment on I am God's greatest programmer 1 year ago:
These are scripts that manage stuff on a few hundred user endpoints and a few servers. They were doing basically everything manually until I got here, and the only way I could get them on board with my slow introduction of automation is to let them see it.
- Comment on I am God's greatest programmer 1 year ago:
I write a lot of fairly simple scripts in Bash and PowerShell that should be easily understood by anybody else with moderate experience in the language, but I leave a lot of obvious comments because my coworkers don’t write any code and are extremely skittish about my automations. I add them basically to quell their fears.
- Comment on My new favourite password manager 1 year ago:
because of the check against darkweb leaks or whatever type feature when you pay. That’s seems like an anti privacy thing. I understand it’s a good idea albeit seems to expose a lot of information about you
For the password leak checks, your passwords are never transmitted. They are one-way hashed locally, and then only the first few characters of the hash are checked against the API provided at haveiveenpwned.com which is run and designed by Troy Hunt, one of the most respected people in the cybersecurity industry. He collects major password breaches and makes them available to check against without actually exposing the data. It’s perfectly safe and secure.
- Comment on Standard Notes change license 1 year ago:
If they push AGPL, then the code is still open
My understanding is that they are only applying AGPL to the current version and going forward all versions will no longer be AGPL. However if they have accepted contributions that were not covered by an agreement to transfer copyright, this is illegal without obtaining explicit approval from all contributors.
Copyleft with commercial restrictions is basically the whole FSF vibe.
No, I don’t think you understand the free software movement at all. It has never been strictly noncommercial. Open source has never been a vow of poverty.
Honestly for people like yourself this is exactly what you want for privacy software. […] This is much ado about nothing; previously the code was unlicensed on GitHub which is much more restrictive than AGPL.
BY-NC-SA is considered non-free by everybody, including the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, and even Creative Commons themselves.
creativecommons.org/public-domain/freeworks/
www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
opensource.org/licenses/Furthermore, Creative Commons strongly warns against using these licenses for software for this very reason.
creativecommons.org/faq/#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Com…
“Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software?”
"We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software. Instead, we strongly encourage you to use one of the very good software licenses which are already available. We recommend considering licenses listed as free by the Free Software Foundation and listed as “open source” by the Open Source Initiative. "
“Unlike software-specific licenses, CC licenses do not contain specific terms about the distribution of source code, which is often important to ensuring the free reuse and modifiability of software. Many software licenses also address patent rights, which are important to software but may not be applicable to other copyrightable works. Additionally, our licenses are currently not compatible with the major software licenses, so it would be difficult to integrate CC-licensed work with other free software. Existing software licenses were designed specifically for use with software and offer a similar set of rights to the Creative Commons licenses.”
- Comment on The New 8bitdo Retro Keyboard shipped early. Small-ish Male Hand for scale. 1 year ago:
I really wanted this, but they have no software support for Linux, so instead I went with the Lemokey L3. Should be shipping next month.
- Comment on Recommended hard drive monitoring (Ubuntu server) options? 1 year ago:
Cheers for this, I just bought a stack of new hard drives myself and this is exactly what I didn’t know I needed.
- Comment on Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail 1 year ago:
Fennec on F-Droid is just Firefox minus telemetry and some little proprietary bits. It’s otherwise exactly the same.
