Elvith Ma'for

Double Tap really drives it home.

Also I love how some of them are “quick scribbles in Paint” while others are much more detailed and polished

Too bad, that the normal price for that is now a 4-digit sum and will the cost you still $500+…

One important tip from that community to be more successful:

Do not use the “original” link, but link a YouTube short. Why?

1. It’s not the known link (“XcQ”)
2. Shorts do autoplay
3. Shorts are ad free
4. Shorts are optimized for mobile and usually start playing quickly

Where as the original link will probably just dump you to 1-3 pre roll ads and the rickroll is only seeing the title and closing the tab/app…

!rickrolltactics@lemmy.world will be having a field day, when that happens.

By the way, the data is subject to the privacy regulations of the country we (or our partners) have built our servers in, so good luck trying to understand what exactly our interpretation of your rights are is.

FTFY

Here you go

https://github.com/mrshmllow/affinity-everywhere?tab=readme-ov-file

The wearers of these glasses probably don’t want that footage seen by third parties. And the contractors sure seem like they’d rather not watch it—though they risk losing their job if they decide not to label something. “You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” an employee told the papers. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”

We at $COMPANY value your privacy and will process your data with the utmost care.

Every. Privacy. Policy. Ever.

Also I want it to be rechargeable with hay bales! …wait

The only somewhat valid use case for “driving 1.000km without a stop” would be several people in the car taking turns on the driver’s seat. While you’d technically need to stop to switch drivers this in itself is way quicker than even a quick charge on paper.

BUT: considering traffic jams, speed limits and such - a 1.000km trip would take around 10+ hours anyway. You’re not going to tell me that you do not even stop to pee or stretch a bit for 10+ hours, do you?

Agreed. The US can access/subpoena any data it wants from US companies, even if the servers they host the data on are in Europe or Asia or…

It doesn’t matter where the servers and the data is located. It matters who posses (or controls the access) to it.

Yeah, but if I understand that correctly, that’s just for the app itself the LLM is very likely still a proprietary one (ChatGPT, Grok,…)

non-commitment like “I can’t do that” or “that’s against policy” or “that’s not my dept”

Ok, I’m not a native English speaker but… I have the feeling that they don’t know what non-commitment means. Unless it’s commitment to fuck the customer, but then, why bother to offer a call center?

Time for a classic: The Case of the 500-Mile Email

Edit: The site seems to be overloaded, but it’s also on Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20260220060645/https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what’s worth running

Maybe Nextcloud (not only for storage, but also calendar, video conferences, office, when combined with Collabora,…)? Also Immich (basically Google Photos) comes to mind. Your own instance of SearXNG.

Any kind of ToDo-list, Kanban board, …?

A ticketing system?

A Wiki to host your documentation? Note, that you may want to access it if the server fails, so…

Some stack of components around Grafana or such to visualize some data? Since you mentioned Hetzner, I’m guessing you’re from Germany. You could build a small container, ingest the gas prices that the gas station are required to publish and build a dashboard for the gas prices in your area? (Hint, here’s an API licensed under Creative Commons - https://creativecommons.tankerkoenig.de/ )

Delays - if you use the internet and request an answer from an LLM, you won’t notice if it’s 300-500ms slower than usual. But if you deploy and run a software stack, a delay of 5ms betweenntze app and the database can make the difference between a usable application and an inperfomant one.

How do I do that on Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed,…?

^/s

lp0 on fire

My journey:

Had some form of Linux for a long time. Either in a VM (Oracle Virtual Box, then switched to S HyperV for compatibility reasons as I had Windows Pro anyways) or sometimes as dual boot.

Then came WSL which eased some things and complicated others. What this makes really easy is to start and play around with docker containers on your PC.

Then I experimented with Linux in a VM and put docker and other software there to practice.

Up until here, there were no costs involved (besides having Windows Pro, but depending on where you get your windows key, there’s not a real difference between pro and home anyways…).

After that I got my own VPS. As much as I don’t like AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Azure and such, they usually offer a very small VPS for free and these can be a good point to start. If you want to really go and host things, it can be beneficial to look for a hoster that isn’t one of the big 3 cloud providers and pay for a VPS there.

For hosting at home: You could start with a raspberry pi, but looking at current prices, you usually get more flexibility and bang for the buck by buying a refurbished mini PC or repurposing an old notebook/PC. You can just put Yunohost or Proxmox on it and get going.

Im using SchildiChat on Android