Power captures power. Money is a form of power, but there are many forms and the powerful tend to try to grab more power no matter the situation.

Perforated galvanized plumbers strapping. While most of my equipment is wall mountable, I used exactly this sort of thing for all the power supplies.

Likely similar to whatever you’re planning to use with the plastic strap, but more metal is more betterer

I’m not opposed to intellectual property because there’s an argument for providing a limited time monopoly to the creators of works to provide incentive to make works public. Without any such incentive, it’s entirely possible that the monetization structures for different works change, for example locking content behind restrictive systems that don’t allow for personal use at all.

The key is “limited time”. If you can’t make your money back in 15 years, then maybe it’s time to make a new thing? The idea that someone should own a thing you made after you’re dead is stupid – how exactly will that promote you to create new works? If you’re dead, your creating days are over except for creating plant food out of your bones and organs.

I put my money where my mouth is, and the legal page of the graysonian ethic specifically lists that the book is put into the public domain or license after Creative Commons CC0 license after 15 years from the date of first publishing.

On a lark I went to check out if animesuki was still up. I used to use that all the time back in the day.

Nope, dead since 2019.

RIP

Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.

I have a feeling you’d end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.

Warning you, I’ve had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn’t want to mix ssds and hdds.

I found mxroute, it works very well for me. I can’t say much about specific features since I just wanted a simple email host.

I think I set that up successfully on a vm under windows.

It’s obviously a level worse than chatgpt but it worked surprisingly well otherwise. Poorer answers but still not bad.

Not sayin nothin’, but back when I was partaking in that sort of thing, sinvr was pretty amazing. It’s 3d, but it’s also reactive based on your movement rather than just a prerecorded video, so it reacts to you moving your hands around and touching things.

It does. I can vouch for it’s behavior in practice. My servers basically sit with the swap file unused, which isn’t the case when I set swappiness to a non-zedo value

There’s people who make dumb arguments that go “but what if you run out of ram?” And then someone else says “I have enough ram” and then someone else goes “but what if you run out of ram?”

I have a small amount of swap, a few gigs, and enough memory for the application. Moreover I also have my swappiness set to 0 because I don’t want stuff swapped out of memory. If I need more memory I need more memory.

I’m using a name brand external HDD for mass storage. Still using the internal ssd for everything else but I’m not interested in the cost of a multi-terrabyte SSD to do it internally.

Just have a backup plan in place because drives fail.

Liberapay works well, I donate to a few projects using it

Many ads are malicious. Many try to install software you didn’t ask for on your computer, or they try to trick you into pressing a “download” button on a download site that isn’t for the thing you wanted but for their software, or they fake error messages to trick you into installing malicious software.

Back when I was younger, all those sort of activities would fall under the banner of “cyber-terrorism”. Therefore, installing an ad blocker is an act of counter-terrorism.

I started with fbxl.net, the domain I’ve owned forever. It started with social.fbxl.net, then video.fbxl.net, then lotide.fbxl.net, and now lemmy.fbxl.net. I’ve also got a matrix home server and a nostr relay.

If there’s a piece of advice I can give you, it’s to plan to self host more than just one thing. Once you have one thing, you’re going to find out it’s kind of addictive having your own thing to go to and you might want to host other things. Subdomains are a nice way to give you that chance.

Second nextcloud. The apps make it an amazing swiss army knife.

Nextcloud news has become my preferred way to read many news sites.

Nextcloud music lets you stream from your server to your phone, and also lets you manage podcasts.

Nextcloud deck lets you manage tasks using kanban methods.

Nextcloud mail lets you access your mail from one spot.

There’s mastodon integration that shows your last few notifications and the last few posts on your timeline.

There’s a huge number of apps that can do a shocking number of tasks, in addition to being a Google drive replacement with as much disk space as you want to add.

Your lemmy instance starts off blank. Then you create local communities and maybe post there. To connect to other communities, you search for the URL of that community using the search function. At that point, it pulls the current posts but none of the comments, and if you subscribe then you start seeing the comments on the posts.

One thing, joining a bunch of remote instances takes some time at first since it’s a manual process. Soon you have a really solid timeline though.

I’m on Lemmy 0.18.0 right now. I host a number of other kinds of software too, I’ve been all-in on the fediverse for a few years.

If you’re using godaddy, you can use a script to do your own dynamic DNS:

https://www.instructables.com/Quick-and-Dirty-Dynamic-DNS-Using-GoDaddy/

If you right click on the image, then click inspect, then you can see the url for the image. Often it’s coming from somewhere else.

Incidentally, my soapbox instance is different then lemmy – it acts as a proxy, so it soaks up all the images and then hosts them from my one server.

I don’t think lemmy typically does. I’m often on networks that block a lot of the Internet, and even thumbnails on posts from other instances or their community images get blocked when I can’t communicate with them.

Right now, your profile pic for example is coming from aussie.zone, and the community pic is coming from lemmy.world, but I’m on fbxl lemmy a completely different instance from either of them.

I’m not familiar with lemmy, but I did pick up on the lotide code a bit recently (a similar project)

As I understand it, the text or html of the post end up in a sort of mailbox, then your server goes out to pick up the latest posts from there. It gets brought over to your instance, and then it lives there. Whatever happens, the posts your server collected are on your server, that’s how they’re displayed.

Then when you go to write a post, it’s stored locally and if it’s on a local community then it’s stored there and a copy is sent to the mailbox for others, and if it’s a remote community your server will reach out to the other server and drop the post there.

My lotide instance has some older posts from servers that stopped existing a long time ago because although it can’t get in touch with the remote community, the posts it did receive are still there.

One caveat to that would be the DMCA, where liability protection as a service provider I think is contingent on there being a DMCA process available so infringing content can be removed.

I don’t know enough about how that all works with the fediverse, however.

I’ve seen image posts I make on other instances, but the image is hosted on my own instance and just linked to the other instance.

If you’re in the US, The Communications Decency Act Section 230 has a couple powers.

1. It removes liability to service providers for user generated content when active moderation is practiced, and

2. It removes liability to service providers for any moderation actions taken to to moderate to reasonable community standards.

Prior to CDA230, the jurisprudence centered around 2 different cases. In one, an actively moderated system had illegal content and didn’t remove it in time, and in another case, a non-actively moderated system had illegal content and didn’t remove it in time. At that time, the actively moderated system was held to be liable for the illegal content, whereas the non-actively moderated system was held not to be liable for not removing the illegal content.

What’s happened with invidious suggests it’s already starting in that regard.

Protip: On Peertube (at least for now), you can sync channels really easily so you can get a full archive of a good channel.

The ideological diversity the fediverse allows is one of the coolest parts about it. There are instance admins, but there’s no such thing as a single fediverse admin so everyone can have their little corner of the fediverse and it has its own attributes.

Completely correct.

On the Mastodon part of the fediverse, we’ve seen big instances shut down or defederate. It didn’t really change much because everyone else could still do what they wanted if they weren’t actively on those instances. On Lemmy/ it would hurt a bit more since those communities would have to find new instances to use (but if you’re smart you’re already signed up to a bunch of different communities anyway)

This is.something I saw on a community here and was surprised it works reasonably well.

I mean, the fundamental platform is the fediverse, so there’s that.

Hey bud, think you got a bit jumpy on the submit button (has happened to me before too)

Mind deleting like 6 of these?

The nice thing about the fediverse is that if you find something else federated that you like, then you can just use it. You move to the new instance running the software you actually like, and resubscribe to the communities you like on the original instances.

There’s already kbin as an alternative (the largest instance of that is at https://kbin.social/), I believe you can subscribe to lemmy and kbin communities using friendica, and I can already see a lot of other options coming down the pipe.

OTOH, I’ve been here for years. I chose to go all-in on the fediverse a couple years ago.

Itt: people pulling an obiwan Kenobi “now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… A long time…”

Over time you’ll realize Chatgpt has giant holes.

As a developer you do use tools every day – you probably use a rapid gui tool, you use a compiler, you use APIs, and they’re things you probably couldn’t build on your own. Even under MS-DOS, you’re using bios or msdos interrupts. The PC also handles lot of stuff.

So it’s just another tool, and it doesn’t do everything so you need to use it as one thing in your pouch. Don’t rely on it too much, and be mindful of IP concerns – ai is like a monkey with a camera legally, you can’t copyright whatever it creates.

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but I remember youtube being a great source.

There’s no question in my mind, letsencrypt is a major boon the the entire Internet.

Unfortunately you’re not wrong. Even my tiny lotide Instance got piled in by strange Thai advertisers, it’s only a matter of time until the nice corner of the world starts getting hit in ways we can’t ignore. :/

That’s where the criticism that it’s too complicated for people to understand rings hollow to me – people understand email, and that’s federated in a sense.

I consider the video part of the fediverse, the lemmy/lotide/kbin part of the fediverse, and the peertube part of the fediverse to be interoperable but their UIs are quite mutually exclusive, so I run sites for all 3.