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Maybe not about your main employment, but I don’t understand why some people feel forced to do some other things:

• They love web advertisements, get attached to specific products, prefer using company names instead of general words
  • e.g. “I’m in Zoom call”; just say “a voice/video call” or whatever, why do you have to advertise the company and perpetuate the mentality that “voice calls” → "Zoom calls“ and that there’s only one product people should use
  • same with sodas, medicine, browsers, search engines, tissues, copy machines, cleaning products, etc
• Social media posts: they feel the need to advertise themselves (I’m not just talking about work-related stuff); some people can’t just post a nice vacation photo, and need to use it as an opportunity to act as influencers etc
• I would say that some types of “I have to do a bad thing to someone else, otherwise they will do it to me” could be classified as capitalistic as well; no, Bob, no one is forcing you to undercut your coworker (except if you work in a company that uses KPIs etc maliciously)
• The mentality that your hobbies can/should be used for profit, and that profit is the main reason anyone would do something that requires some time to do
  • I’ve written some open source stuff (code.gkak.la), and when I mention something I made to some people, their first reaction was “that’s great; so how are you going to sell it?”; and when I try to explain about open source (especially for personal scripts etc), they just can’t comprehend why would anyone do something like that, if not for profit
  • I’ve seen the same mentality online, around people being makers (e.g. knitting, 3d printing)
• People adding advertisements to their super low-traffic personal blogs, and people arguing about the “lost income opportunity” or sth (??)

I don’t know about this one specifically 😅 but people probably have the need for these debates anyway, so it’s just better to express them (on the Fediveree)! 😁

It’s like, how in some movies and shows people have “meaningless” discussions in a bar about random trivia etc; if people don’t behave in a toxic way, it’s just a way to connect and share ideas!

And in some (most?) cases, the discussion might be more important than the result of it, since you see in practice more about how people can approach this type of curiosity about a subject, which might apply to many other topics we think about every day 😁

More importantly though, where am I supposed to go to debate if water is wet, if not to the Fediverse? 😄

Do you mean that you’re trying to reproduce it? 🤔 If so:

• hello

• • one
  • two
  • three

• world

is

* hello
* > * one
  > * two
  > * three
* > world

(Btw also, you can check if your client has the option to show the source of a comment 😉)

TL;DR:

Price:

“Under $100”:

After [the preorder], it will go up to $99.

Battery is not rechargeable:

And what happens when the battery runs out? You just send the ring back to be recycled.

Runtime:

The integrated battery will power the device for 12–14 total hours of recording. The designers estimate that to be roughly two years of usage if you record 10 to 20 short voice notes per day.

• “Roughly two years” = lets say that’s 20 months
• 12 hours = 43.200 seconds = 72 seconds/day
• “10-20 short voice notes” = 3.6-7.2 seconds per note

Features:

• Records only while pressing the button

• The recording is converted to text and fed into a large language model (LLM) that runs locally on your device to take actions. The speech-to-text process and LLM operate in the open source Pebble app, and no data from your notes is sent to the Internet. However, there is an optional online backup service for your recordings.

• A model small enough to run on your phone has to focus on specific functionality rather than doing everything like a big cloud-based AI

• • Create or add to notes
  • Set reminder
  • Create alarm
  • Create timer
  • Play/pause/skip music track (via button press)

• also designed to be hacking-friendly. The audio and transcribed text is yours […] You can route it to a different app via a webhook, and the LLM supports model context protocol (MCP), so you can add new functionality that also runs locally. The AI model will also be released as an open source project.

https://lemmy.zip/comment/19712446

Reminder of this:

https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/

And that mailu.io (and other similar projects) makes self-hosting email almost trivial 😁 (at least for people that can run a pre-configured docker-compose.yml and buy their domain etc)

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SchildiChat + Element (Matrix)

AI models sometimes resist shutdown

No they don’t, they don’t have free will to want to “resist” anything

attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions

Researcher: asks autocomplete software to write a poweroff script, the script turns out to be wrong (big surprise :p)

The “researcher” and the media: “AI SABOTAGES ITS OWN DESTRUCTION”

No

self-select its own advancement

It’s a program that writes text, that’s why it’s called a “Large Language Model”; “AI” is just a hype term.

It’s not self-aware, it can’t make arbitrary decisions, and it doesn’t have free will

(PS I’m interpreting “AI” as "LLM"s, since other kind of Machine Learning models have been used for many years before we came up with the LLMs we have today)

For people who have difficulty reading this (small screens, larger screens, screen readers, etc)

Hi @everyone!

Time for a pretty big update! Behind the scenes, we’ve been quietly cooking up something exciting, and we’re finally ready to share it: the Jellyseerr and Overseerr teams are merging into one team called Seerr! This has been in the works for quite some time, and we couldn’t be happier to officially join forces.

What does that mean for you? A single unified codebase where all the latest Jellyseerr features will make their way in, plus the combined effort means we can move faster on new features and keep things more up to date.

We’re sharing this news a little early because we need beta testers before our first release. If you’d like to help shape the future of this project (and move us towards a quicker first release), now’s your chance!

To test, you can switch from our official image to fallenbagel/jellyseerr:preview-seerr

We do not recommend using this on a production instance, but if you do, please back up your data before switching. For any questions or feedback, please post in our ⁠#seerr-beta channel!

source

You could try sudo dua i /:

1. sudo: Without it, it might miss some files
2. dua: helps a lot with browsing directories and checking for their contents

I’ve been wondering about this for a while, what do people recommend for FOSS imgur alternatives (or just simple image hosting)? 🤔

(Of course the UK should just allow free access to information, but I would still prefer to be able to use something FOSS anyway)

Even better: stay away from xx.10 releases as well!

I’m not a gemini user, but this seems like a nice tool!

I just came to share this blog post, written by the developer of curl about their opinion on gemini, for anyone interested :D

(PS: thank you for using codeberg instead of centralized alternatives!)

(They changed the name apparently)

https://l.opnxng.com/r/selfhosted/comments/14pdu0m/introducing_crackpipe_your_decentralized/

Embracing “alternatively obtained” games

we want to prevent others from profiting off our hard work by selling our software without our consent.

TIL; for people like me who just found out:

https://gamevau.lt/blog/2023/07/13

For a self-hosted app like GameVault, we believe it’s crucual to disclose the source code. We want you, our users, to have full transparency and control [?] over the software you use on your servers.

our desire to protect our code from unauthorized use and commercial exploitation. While we absolutely encourage you to copy, modify, and share our code for personal use […] we want to prevent others from profiting off our hard work by selling our software without our consent.

As a small business with just two members, we strive to provide you with a valuable product but cannot continue to do so as volunteers indefinitely.

(I’m a AGPL kind of guy, but) btw at least there are licenses specifically for software:

https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/12070/allowed-uses-of-a-software-licensed-under-cc-by-nc-license

Copyright and the CC-BY-NC license do not regulate mere use, such as executing a program.

Ok proprably we’re at least allowed to run it (That’s not a given, e.g. iirc if someone publishes their code on github without a license, it doesn’t mean that people can fully and legally use it, except for what some Github ToS clause defines that you agreed to)

I was interested in checking it out for personal use; anyone has any experience with alternatives? (I can look them up, I’m just curious about peoples’ recommendations)

For a simple links-only page I’m using Linkstack, and there’s also littlelink

Buy less of small’s less; less is more, but small less is less more than regular less

Thanks for posting, it would be great if you could publish it on GOG as well! 🩵

https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/Toll-Booth-Simulator-Schedule-of-Chaos

Yes, it’s pretty good! I’m a DevOps engineer, and have experience with Ansible, Docker, etc, but I just couldn’t find time to deploy services the best way that I wanted™ for my personal server

So, even though it e.g. doesn’t even use Docker, yunohost really helped me start using the many services I wanted/needed, which otherwise might take e.g. a few hours to a couple of days for each of them to research and configure

So I have one “production” yunohost server, one “testing” yunohost server to test services that I don’t know if I’ll use yet (and I wouldn’t want them to interfere with production e.g. by using too many resources)

and one server without yunohost for mailu, Docker, traefik, etc, which I can use to deploy services the correct way™ as I figure out the services that I really use and find the time to migrate them one-by-one

Even when using yunohost, there are so many things to do after deploying a service (e.g. DNS, configure the server and client software), so it has been really useful to save time when deploying and configuring.

I think it gets you ~80% there, makes self-hosting accessible to everyone, and helps democratize the Internet a bit 💚 It’s more important to have many people setting up e.g. Immich or Nextcloud for their family photos, than only a few Linux people being able to learn how to do it perfectly (Docker/kubernetes high availability, reverse proxies, etc) and have everyone else to need to resort to using centralized services