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- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up to date, selfhosters? 4 hours ago:
Like for example a finance management software that can hook into my bank
What software would that be? I’ve been looking for a viable self-hosted alternative to Mint (and now Monarch Money) since forever.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up to date, selfhosters? 4 hours ago:
I just upgraded my Proxmox to 9 last night, too!
…from 7, 'cause that’s how long I’d been neglecting it. 😅
I’ve also been trying to get my old dual-Opteron server working again, after having abandoned it a couple of years ago due to what I thought was a bad motherboard (IIRC, it wasn’t turning on at all). I was gonna buy a new motherboard since I happened to run across a cheap Ebay listing, but I decided to double-check the existing one first, and lo and behold, it booted!
Then I tried to update the ancient Proxmox on it from 6 to 7, and now it still turns on but doesn’t successfully boot.
Also, I can’t get it to boot from a flash drive for some reason, so I think I might have to take out the SSD, reinstall Proxmox on it from a different system, and then put it back in.
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 14 hours ago:
Medieval-style bloodletting…
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 15 hours ago:
Gotta educate them on pop culture so they can understand the memes.
- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 1 day ago:
Are you saying that because of the sliding function or are you saying it about miter saws in general? My non-sliding miter saw doesn’t scare me as much as even a handheld circular saw, let alone my table saw.
- Comment on Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them 2 days ago:
I’ve never understood why people think they need a motorized desk when they could just get a desk that’s fixed in the high position and a stool-height office chair.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 2 days ago:
GPU passthrough might help?
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 2 days ago:
The last version I’ll ever install was 7, so I guess they’re back to lying!
- Comment on How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone? 2 days ago:
Does the US count as a “modern-day developed country?” 'Cause if so, it’s apparently still possible because my tech-illiterate Boomer parents manage it.
(Okay, they technically have smartphones, mainly because I’m trying to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century, but they basically use them for nothing but phone calls and maybe an occasional text message or email.)
- Comment on how do i make my own limitation free ai? 2 days ago:
Do you actually need the webui stuff or can you just use ollama on the command line?
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 4 days ago:
When mainstream media starts asking if something is a bubble, it’s not only already been one for quite a while already, but it’s about to pop.
- Comment on Can’t put solar panels on your roof? Plug-in ‘balcony solar’ may be for you. 4 days ago:
The thing you saw: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbDfi7Ee7k
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 5 days ago:
So what you’re saying is that we need federated git.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 1 week ago:
WDYM, “still?” That implies they’re trying to make it something else, but they’re not.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 week ago:
You say that as if it won’t be in every other Stellantis vehicle momentarily, and from there spread to the rest of the industry.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
That only works if there are only two parties. I’d prefer a solution that works with electoral reform, not against it.
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 1 week ago:
No, I think the ones persecuting women for murder for seeking an abortion would be a different agency. ICE will be the ones using this data as a way to target pregnant brown women for deportation.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
In order to do that, we need a rigorous definition of gerrymandering that isn’t just “I know it when I see it.” Even if we try to adopt some sort of strict mathematical criteria and algorithm for redistricting (such as optimizing for “compactness” using a [Voronoi algorithm), there would always still be some amount of arbitrary human input that could be gamed (such as the location of seeds, in this example). Even if we went so far as to make a rule that everything must be randomized (which would possibly be bad for things like continuity of representation, by the way), we could still end up with people trying to influence the outcome by re-rolling the dice until they got a result they liked.
It’s a hard (in both the computational sense and political sense) problem to solve.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 week ago:
But the article is about these sites breaking Florida law, and they are.
No, that’s not true. You cannot break a law when the government in question has no jurisdiction over you. The sites are not breaking Florida law because they are not subject to Florida law in the first place.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 week ago:
Why should any website operator be held responsible for complying with every stupid law in every podunk shithole jurisdiction everywhere in the world? By this logic, every site should comply with whatever unhinged BS North Korea and Saudi Arabia insist upon, too – is that what you want?
If Florida doesn’t like these websites that are not hosted in Florida, that’s Florida’s problem, not the website operators’, and Florida can do its own damn geofencing itself.
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 1 week ago:
Are they exceptions?
(I didn’t mean for that to be read as a leading question, BTW. I wasn’t necessarily expecting Spain or Portugal to be different from Britain and France; I just asked about them because they were the other major colonial powers but weren’t mentioned.)
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 1 week ago:
You get carbonic acid when carbonating water and some people like that taste, for some reason 🤷♂️
I’m one of those people but I couldn’t tell you why either. I just like sour, I guess.
- Comment on Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries 1 week ago:
Never kill yourself for something that’s somebody else’s fault.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 1 week ago:
At scale? None. If we assume that (a) the number of queries are constant (i.e. that the slow response doesn’t drive away users) and (b) that the efficiency is the same whether it’s fast or slow, then having computers that take longer to calculate each response just means you need to have more of them working in parallel to service the demand.
Now, for a home user running AI locally, you could maybe save some energy by using more efficient silicon since you only need it to process one query at a time (assuming lower-spec parts actually are more efficient, which may or may not be the case), but that’s not really what we’re talking about here.
- Comment on The actual nonsense being posted r/conservative Reddit 1 week ago:
Fun fact: if you try to report the misinformation, the mods will suspend your entire account for “mod abuse” and the admins will uphold it.
Reddit is a fascist platform. All of it, not just r/conservative.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 week ago:
Biden squeaked by while Trump was right in the middle of catastrophically fucking up the pandemic response. The notion that his gender had anything to do with his win is nothing but historical revisionism.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 week ago:
Fuck-the-working-class neoliberalism was her platform.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 week ago:
Yawn, more neoliberal apologia. It must be misogyny because it couldn’t possibly be their complete and utter disregard for the working class, right? 🙄
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 1 week ago:
It was Europe’s fault for getting the US to replace its utilitarian “to promote the progress of science and the useful arts” basis for copyright with ‘droite d’arteur’ moral rights (via the Berne Convention treaty) in the first place.
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 1 week ago:
On other issues like immigration or racism, they are on a MAGA-level. There is no big controversy because it is widely taken for granted that European nations are ethno-states. This is less so in the former colonial powers Britain and France. But they have their own baggage that gnaws at them from within, just like the history of racial segregation undermines the USA.
What about Spain and Portugal?
