i_stole_ur_taco

@i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rest in pepperoni⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too late. He died today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapest way to back up a *lot* of data?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good compromise. When I was tight on backup space, I just had a “backup” script that ran nightly and wrote all the media file names to a text file and pushed that to my backup.

  It would mean tons of redownloading if my storage array failed, but it was preferable to spending hundreds of dollars I didn’t have on new hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, this has every cert I’ve ever generated or renewed since 2015.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that was fun! I’m confident this project isn’t malicious. It’s for sure coded using AI, and I think that’s what triggered a smear campaign. This removed Reddit post looks like there is just a downvote brigade out to get the project because the author admitted to using AI.

  The only network traffic it’s made when I monitored it was local. Certainly nothing went to Asia.

  I think it tries to solve a neat problem. There’s so many features packed in that it’s obviously vibe coded. That’s probably a huge turn off for AI detractors. If you don’t care about that, I think you’re safe to give it a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so I ran the repo through an LLM to look for any suspicious requests, and it came back clean.

  But it’s hella suspicious that the repo owner edited away the issue and closed it without a response.

  It’s also hella suspicious that the user that reported that issue created their account yesterday.

  I think I need to go the nuclear option: pop a gummy and monitor the network traffic of the container and see what it’s doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohh that’s suspicious. I’m going to kill mine for now and take a look later tonight. I’ll report back if I find anything interesting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the author literally released it like 2 days ago which is why there’s no issues or prs yet.

  I installed it yesterday and have only fiddled around a little bit. I like that it pointed out a bunch of health issues with my Lidarr library and have been stuck on a side quest dealing with those.

  If you want to explore it and see if anything seems malicious to you, I’d focus on code making requests, and review the sub-dependencies to see if any look sus. It should live entirely in your network and shouldn’t be making any external requests outside your server apart from the connections you set up (like last.fm).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are they for real?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean they gave it to me a few years ago and I sure didn’t deserve it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you manage your home server configuration?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just using Unraid for the server, after many iterations (PhotonOS, VMware, baremetal Windows Server, …). After many OSes, partial and complete hardware replacements, and general problems, I gave up trying to manage the base server too much. Backups are generally good enough if hardware fails or I break something.

  The other side of this is that I’ve moved to having very, very little config on the server itself. Virtually everything of value is in a docker container with a single (admittedly way too large) docker compose file that describes all the services.

  I think this is the ideal way for how I use a home server. Your mileage might vary, but I’ve learned the hard way that it’s really hard to maintain a server over the very long term and not also marry yourself to the specific hardware and OS configuration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨☪️⛎♑️☦️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I highly doubt the car fired any shots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do backups with a Raspberry Pi with a 1TB SD card and leave it on all the time. The power draw is very small and I think reasonable for the value of offsite backups.

  My personal experience with WOL (or anything related to power state of computers) is that it’s not reliable enough for something offsite. If you can set something up that’s stable, awesome, but if your backup server is down and you need to travel to it, that suuuucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I be explicit and dirty on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The question as asked: you can do it anywhere. Right here. In worldnews. Lemmyshitpost. Gardening. Whatever.

  But I think you’re asking: where can I say whatever I want without consequences?

  And that’s harder. Because if you have the right to subject other people to your opinions, that gives them the right to subject you to their opinions.

  If you want to avoid being banned, create your own community. If you want to avoid your community being nuked by admins, create your own Lemmy instance. If you want a safe space for yourself, free from criticism about what you say, don’t federate your instance. You will be safe and able to howl into the wind without anyone troubling you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another one! Take a guess! This one is pretty easy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lester (the croc) on a molester.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!@$& Homelab Networking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “So what was the problem in the end?”

  “Man, I don’t fucking know.”

  • me, every goddamn time
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what they spent paying people to implement and communicate this change.

  At 600k for a company that size this cost them more money than just paying the extra 4 cents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G GG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also g gg if you’re feeling frisky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨suckadickf@ggots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You drew it backwards and your fire went out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CF doing the world a solid...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “It stinks!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨open source is a cult but it doesn't have to be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t test your hobby LLMs in production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨so every shitpost sub is going to be swamped by American politics? please can politics be banned⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Waddaya mean “or”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become unrecognizable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  14.1 would be ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wandering the desert?

  Nay, vibe travelling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t release their methods, so I can’t be sure that most of those aren’t just frustrated users telling the LLM to go kill itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping that MFer on its toes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always think of this when someone tells me to water my plants regularly and not always let them dry out and subsequently overwater the shit out of them to compensate.

  No, motherfucker, we live in uncertain times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That game is too memorable. I tried replaying it a while back after not touching it in 15 years.

  Five minutes in and nope, this whole story is seared into my long term memory and there’s nothing fresh yet.

  I’ll try again when I’m 80.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Half my visits to Wikipedia are because I need to copy and paste a Unicode character and that’s always the highest search result with a page I can easily copy and paste the exact character from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have (had?) a fairly generous free tier that works well for people starting out.

  I ended up buying a license after evaluation because the UI provides everything I reasonably want to do, it’s fundamentally a Linux server so I can change things I need, and it requires virtually zero fucking around to get started and keep running.

  I guess the short answer is: it ticks a lot of boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no idea what this is about⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They could have just not had the monkeys. They added nothing to the story and were the most egregiously bad CGI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You mean there's a better way‽⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t they teach this shit in school?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insuranace is a joke⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can appeal a total loss settlement. They’re supposed to take into account the cost to replace the car at local rates, so unless that 16k model you’re looking at is in dramatically better condition or has way way less mileage on it, they need to justify that.