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utopiah

@ utopiah @lemmy.ml

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  • Inside Denmark’s struggle to break up with Silicon Valley

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  • Please feel free to help right now. You can still move to the EU if you want to but if you take for example NLNet they fund open source work for anybody anywhere in the World, you "just" have to propose something that is new and needed with a focus on the Internet.

  • Should I delete my existing bad social medias accounts or just let them die by stagnation?

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  • Send an email to people you care about with your new email, they reply or not it's OK you still have their email address anyway, no big deal.

    Source : I've migrated away from GMail.

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    DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice

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  • It's a VERY specific tool that needs

    • a lot, like World scale, amount of data and that has repetitively been done WITHOUT permissions from authors of that data
    • huge amount of data must be processed and this is done in enormous datacenters that consume radically MORE than traditional ones without GPUs
    • energy and cooling for those very specific new datacenters that then becomes unavailable to the local community, energy produced that is often rushed and typically more polluting

    So I think it is fundamental to distinguish

    • "AI" as a theoretical researcher field, public research focusing on processing CERN data, weather forecast, genomics, medicine, etc that is indeed a tool that might produce results that helps us all

    versus

    • commercialized for-profit "AI" with GenAI and LLMs as blackboxes mostly used for spam, scan, low quality code, etc.

    When one amalgamates one with the other, knowingly or not, they do the marketing for the later.

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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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  • Because dockers record with regards to security is questionable

    Works with Podman

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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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    • stop the container (safer)
    • scp only its mounted directory once to the target, via ssh key (no password)
    • next time rsync instead to add only the new files, ideally via a crontab script
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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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  • I can recommend Storage Box by Hetzner starting at 1TB for ~4EUR/month. Been using it for a year or so.

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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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  • On the RPi microSD, on a USB stick, on a SSD,... entirely up what you have available and what you need.

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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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  • Immich fits on a RPi so not sure one needs a lot of memory for that.

  • Drag and Drop is an absolute mess

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  • Funny I have the opposite experience.

    I use KDE Plasma, Firefox, konsole, etc and sometimes, no idea when and why, I just pick a file then drop it somewhere else, including ON the terminal... and it works?! Like it brings the full path for that file and then I can compose with CLI tools, amazing!

    I'm quite used to the terminal so I rarely use drag&drop (mv, cp, scp, rsync, etc just work) but when I do I'm actually often positively surprise that totally different software made with different interaction paradigms (e.g. GUI vs CLI) do work well together. Overall I think https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ is quite impressive.

  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • Gosh... wish I could upvote twice. Feels like we just gave a low cost (for now) chainsaw to anybody who wish they had a pocket knife then say "There, you can cut anything with that!" and somehow they forgot they can just buy some OK stuff from Ikea or a nice artisan. The need to "build" anything without taking a minute to know, not even the state of the art, whatever already exist out there and "fix" it by "personalizing" it is nuts.

    Let's not "vibe code" anything when reliable solutions already exist!

  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • Is it just me, or does anyone else wish there was a federated, decentralized alternative to YouTube Music?

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  • There are actual radios, like FIP.fr or plenty of other ones that just give you the m3u8 and their playlist. It's not federated but it's less centralized than most platforms like SoundCloud or Apple Music.

    If you do want a specific song and album you can pay for it via BandCamp and get the actual file, DRM free, to play on any device.

    If you do want a song or album it BandCamp does not have, or you already have a copy of, e.g. physical CD, and you want something less centralize SoulSeek still works.

    PS: I have been running my own PeerTube instance for years now but I don't use it for music, just videos.

  • Is there a way to automate ad-free podcast downloads?

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  • Is there a way to automate ad-free podcast downloads?

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  • I'm listening to podcast on a daily basis. I'm using Escapepod on a deGoogled Android phone.

    Basically I pay for premium feeds, this way the author of the podcast get money and I don't ads. One example is "Tech Won't Save Us" via Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/techwontsaveus/posts?vanity=techwontsaveus and another is 404 Media.

    How it works is that premium podcast feed have a uniquely generated URL that I then use on my podcast client. It then downloads the episodes from the feeds, no ad. It's very straightforward.

    No need for YouTube (terrible, part of Google/Alphabet) nor Apple (terrible as it's doing everything possible to grow it's closed ecosystem) to have quality content.

  • Sometimes, my computer is very slow and sometimes really fast. Fedora 43.

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  • It's all just speculations, both what you suggested and what others said.

    You are on the right path with your screenshots but you might not be measuring the right thing.

    So, you need a (paper) notebook to record objectively (not your biased feeling assuming a pattern that might not exist) when it happens and for how long. Only from then can you backtrack to WHAT causes it. Sure you can have some hypothesis (update related, screen attach/detach, BIOS, RAM, etc) but that should NOT lead to your data acquisition.

    So you htop is nice but AFAICT it's just about CPU and memory, it's not about e.g. IO so consider instead iotop, in particular if one process is some indexing (e.g. locatedb). Theoretically if it's not CPU/memory (which you are saying it's not the case) then it basically just leaves IO, that can be again indexing, some heavy process that is bottlenecked on disk access, but can also be a bug, e.g. BT pairing/unpairing that happens faster than you can notice.

    Think of this as a fun investigation that leads you to better understanding of your setup, good luck.

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    ‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’

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  • Recommendations for GPU with good Linux support, 8GB or more VRAM, and ~150W TDP or less?

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  • play around with local LLMs and image upscaling

    FWIW I did that for a bit https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence and I stopped doing it. I did it mostly from FOMO and that, maybe, truly, it wasn't just hype. Well I stopped. Sure most of those (then state of the art) models are impressive. Yes there are some radical progresses on all fronts, from software to hardware to mathematics underpinning ALL this... and yet, that is ACTUALLY useful in there? IMHO not much.

    Once you did try models and confirm that yes indeed it makes "something" then the usefulness is so rare it make the whole endeavor not worth it for me. I would still do it again in retrospect because it helps to learn but... honestly NOT doing it and leaving others to benchmark, review, etc or "just" spending 10 bucks on a commercial model will save you a LOT of time.

    So... do what you want but I'd argue gaming remains by far the best usage of a local GPU.

  • Doorbell anxiety

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  • To clarify I listed here behaviors that I believe is common. I'm NOT listing behaviors that somebody privacy conscious is. That same person could around the neighborhood with a hoodie, glasses, hygiene mask just the same way.

    What I was trying to highlight wasn't extreme behavior, one way or another, but rather typical ones.

  • Doorbell anxiety

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  • Yes, I didn't say this was OK. What I'm saying rather is trying to highlight the lack of novelty.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    I made 3D printable cryptography bracelets, cipher/decipher on the go!