chagall

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[–] chagall@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m not really convinced scientists is a leopards my face moment. Most American scientists would not have voted for the current president.

[–] chagall@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Corruption.

This includes government officials, private industry and the general mass movement of money from the middle and upper middle classes to the multimillionaire and billionaire classes.

Ultimately, it’s always about money.

[–] chagall@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can’t see the video? If you can’t vpn it then I’ll post it elsewhere so you can see it.

[–] chagall@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

You are me, 3 years ago! I'm diagnosed with ADHD and what you described is exactly how I felt when I was starting out. I even bought a RaspberryPi 4B+ CanaKit which sat in the box for over a year, just like you.

3 years later I have the Pihole, OPNsense router & firewall, Jellyfin, Traefik reverse proxy, and a bunch of other stuff too. My advice would be to start super small so you don't feel overwhelmed. It is incredibly easy to get overwhelmed with all of this.

For what it's worth, before I started hosting anything, I started with NextDNS. I just set up my iPhone and computers (then mac, now mostly linux) to use that service. It comes with super easy-to-use instructions and you can start for free. If you don't like it, you can always just delete the account and it'll be like you never used it at all. Very low risk but doing this will teach you about DNS. From there you can begin to move to a Pihole and Docker, if you're comfortable.

Feel free to DM if you want. It's a great community here and we're all a pretty relaxed group.

[–] chagall@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I can’t even specify the allowed IPs for a connection

Funny. This was the exact use case which cemented my pf/OPN sense decision. I used to use pf, now use OPNsense. And as you probably know, the IP specificity issue is not just regarding Wireguard, it's also regarding your reverse proxy, if you're running one.

As an aside, I have OPNsense handling DHCP which broadcasts two PiHoles (redundancy) as the DNS to my networked machines/devices. Then for upstream DNS, I have those two piholes pointed at a dedicated technitium dns box -- it's it's an authoritative dns server, not just a recursive one like unbound. As I said in my previous comment, there are probably better or fancier setups but this one, for my needs, is sufficient.

[–] chagall@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I've always been flummoxed by Ubiquity products. I'm no sysadmin but I understand my way around networking and I absolutely agree with your "halfway implemented" critique. I installed Ubiquity at my parents' house so that I could more easily do remote troubleshooting when something their network goes down. But for myself, I just stick with OpnSense at home. It's not perfect but it suits my needs.

This was a fun writeup to read. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

[–] chagall@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago

This also made me chuckle. 10/10 comment.

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Seen in a SF Muni station

Edit to add: Jeez, relax. I was on my way home from a doctor’s appointment and saw that ad. It made me chuckle so I posted it here.

If seeing this post really upsets you, take some deep breaths and keep scrolling. With any luck, you’ll have fully healed in a couple of days.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by chagall@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

A beta version of uBO Lite (uBOL) for iOS and macOS is available through TestFlight: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/327

For details of uBOL, see the project page: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

 

What do you like about it?

What do you not like about it?

Is it a completely bonkers proposition to buy a refurbished M2 Mac only to wipe it and put Asahi on it?

 

I don't consider myself very technical. I've never taken a computer science course and don't know python. I've learned some things like Linux, the command line, docker and networking/pfSense because I value my privacy. My point is that anyone can do this, even if you aren't technical.

I tried both LM Studio and Ollama. I prefer Ollama. Then you download models and use them to have your own private, personal GPT. I access it both on my local machine through the command line but I also installed Open WebUI in a docker container so I can access it on any device on my local network (I don't expose services to the internet).

Having a private ai/gpt is pretty cool. You can download and test new models. And it is private. Yes, there are ethical concerns about how the model got the training. I'm not minimizing those concerns. But if you want your own AI/GPT assistant, give it a try. I set it up in a couple of hours, and as I said... I'm not even that technical.

[–] chagall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Plot twist: they only interviewed people in Scandinavian countries between the months of June and July.

 

Most shows that have Dolby Atmos don’t really do a great job of leveraging its capabilities but some do an amazing job.

Which movies/shows do you think have scenes where Dolby Atmos really adds to your viewing experience?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by chagall@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world
 

I should begin by mentioning that I am (was) a moderator of three subreddits: one large subreddit, one NSFW subreddit and a medical-related subreddit. After u/spez's calamitous AMA, I joined Lemmy and haven't looked back. I am really enjoying the Lemmy/KBin vibe. It is very much an alpha (almost beta) product and the ad free, corporate free, decentralized nature of the fediverse has a thrill of its own.

Over the past couple of months, Reddit has done everything it can to show its moderators that they are low-value and easily replaceable. They've done this by removing technical tools, killing off third party applications, crippling API changes and jaw-droppingly bad public relations. Heavily used products like /r/toolbox are no longer being actively developed. When Reddit API implements a breaking, non-backwards compatible change, that tool will also die.

Yet the moderators of Reddit continue to moderate. They stay and help Reddit build Reddit. They continue to work for free; to allow Reddit to make money off of their work despite being abused. When I see things like the comment section on this post, I no longer feel sorry for the Reddit moderators still on the site. I see them as a sad, sorry group who cling to the false hope of a corporate turnaround. They could leave Reddit. They should leave Reddit.

These moderators are in an abusive relationship with Reddit, Inc. I might understand the argument, "we built this community, we can't just abandon it". But would you give the same advice to someone else in an abusive relationship? I get that the analogy between the mods and the corp is an imperfect one, yet it is similar enough to be valid, in my opinion.

Moderating is really hard. It is hard and thankless and never-ending. Finding good moderators who can handle the marathon nature of the gig is incredibly difficult. If Reddit moderators were to delete their moderating bots, downgrade their automod "code" and dial back their modding efforts to 5 min/week or less, it would materially hurt Reddit as a product.

The sunk-cost fallacy is a real thing. If the Reddit mods understood this, they'd take their talents elsewhere. But as long as they continue to help Reddit build Reddit, one shouldn't feel sorry for them.

They could leave. I did and I've never been happier.