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eleitl ,

Quarter century for me.

eleitl ,

My first one was a random floppy distribution off an ftp server. I then tried SuSE off a CD-ROM and then went with Red Hat for a while. Then Debian, now Ubuntu. Tried FreeBSD but didn’t stick. Probably Debian again next. I always prefer Debian on the server though.

Selfhosting lemmy with no pictrs (sh.itjust.works)

Hi all. Due to the news of the illegal images being hosted on lemmy, I shut down my instance. I read some comments from people stating that they were able to selfhost lemmy without pictrs, they just can’t upload or cache photos. I think this is what I am interested in doing at this time....

eleitl ,

Pictrs should have been an optional microservice by default. Commenting here to keep track of this thread since this is useful.

eleitl , (edited )

My primary consideration is all the expensive storage filled up by vapid image macros. 80 GB goes a long way for just text.

eleitl ,

Many people run rented servers with capacity to spare.

eleitl ,

Expect this to come to the EU in a few years.

eleitl ,

Silent SMS are working as designed. There is a reason they are called silent.

eleitl ,

You can’t keep on track what is long over. At most you can return to Moore scaling, for a short while, but this is not telling you how exactly.

eleitl ,

About one order of magnitude more expensive than the fossil kind.

eleitl ,

The issue is more that we’re currently running out of extractable fossils (net energy peak for oil liquids is projected to peak as early as 2025 and the decline into nonextractability is rapid) so it’s a question of having liquid fuels and synthetic stock, at all.

What kind of life style we can expect where hydrocarbons and energy in general is expensive is an interesting question. See e.g. surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com for analysis of that.

eleitl ,

Sorry, I haven’t started memorizing Fediverse handles yet. Tim Morgan measures ECoE in percent, and real GDP is GDP minus debt, or x units of debt produce a fraction of that in GDP. Plus ECoE accounting. His model is proprietary, so nobody exactly knows how it’s computed but he himself.

That IRENA model seems to link some large spreadsheets and notes on that page. No idea how complete that is.

As to investments necessary, some two decades ago I estimated we’d need some 3 TUSD/year, inflation-adjusted, for the next 40 years to transition. As a rough estimate that’s as good as any other guess, not facturing in extraction of progressively depleting resources.

eleitl ,

There is biochar which can be scaled by providing cheap pyrolysis retorts and training how to bioactivate it. Incentive is increased agriculture productivity long-term. Capture should be done directly from flue gas since not needing enrichment. There are also carbon-negative concretes which have good potential for capture.

Synfuels from 100% renewable are at least carbon neutral, which is as good as it gets.

eleitl ,

Don’t forget lubricants, polymers and chemical feedstock in general.

eleitl ,

VPN is a network device level service, while the browser is an application. Are you looking for an admin interface for your VPN tunnel?

eleitl ,

Oh, you mean a proxy. Yes, that would work with an application. Since not at network/device level.

eleitl ,

And run 2 or 3 uplinks to different ISPs so that you’re never offline.

eleitl ,

Yes, that’s called StarLink. Definitely a good option, if you make your own power.

eleitl ,

Nice. Where is power port on a hooker? Eh, nevermind.

I use photovoltaics, but not insular blackstart-capable battery buffered so when the grid is down I also have no power. Next year, though. Seems it’s 2000 EUR minimum.

eleitl ,

I’m only missing a hole in the wall to do the same – and I could be running a 2x 40G link!

But the switch idles at 80 W and a starting jet noise level, so the hole in the wall will wait.

eleitl ,

You don’t mention your performance requirements and I’m unfamiliar with that CPU. Are you trying to saturate your 1G presumably NIC? Reads or writes?

eleitl ,

How Google-free can you make GrapheneOS? Like Lineage OS sans gapps? Better?

eleitl ,

You don’t need 120 Hz. I also like the OLED on my Samsung Lineage OS tablet.

eleitl ,

I was wondering how many connections to Google servers GOS is making, and be it just for GPS ephemerides. You can configure DNS freely, too?

eleitl ,

Thanks. What are the services, where are they hosted, and which of them are self-hostable?

eleitl ,

Thanks, that’s good to know.

eleitl ,

The actual bummer is that you can’t install alternative firmware.

eleitl ,

I only buy hardware I can install community maintained Android forks on.

eleitl ,

This is why we are using Lemmy.

eleitl ,

Great. Now we only need a decent SBC you can buy.

eleitl ,

I’d settle for a headless box with roughly rpi4 performance and decent NIC and storage I/O for less than 200 EUR. We don’t seem to be quite there yet.

eleitl ,

YaCy indexes http content, so if your documents are all reachable via a http interface they can be indexed.

eleitl ,

Asking for ID works. Some national IDs can be verified online cryptographically.

eleitl ,

Proctored tests would work.

eleitl ,

If you want to tell humans from machines it’s the only method that reliably works. If you want to prevent humans cheating with machines use proctoring.

eleitl ,

Challenge-response. There is no validation after the fact unless it’s been already notarized. Which involved id validation.

This assumes that nation-states issuing the id have no incentive to cheat. Often not a safe assumption.

eleitl ,

In school and university, these are still widespread. Ditto physical proctoring vs remote as some IT certification rely on. If you thought cloud certs are annoying, try Red Hat.

eleitl ,

There is an existing realtime, interactive online validation process for those IDs that can’t be verified cryptographically. No, you can’t deepfake that right now. Nor anytime soon.

CHROME (google) is planing to implement DRM (kinda) into their browser (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )...

eleitl ,

I rarely use Youtube, but this would help boost free/libre alternatives. I use Gmail web, which means Thunderbird-only or switching back to my own mailserver. Drive, there is Nextcloud. Maps, I mostly use Osmand. Search, I use ddg but here’s good point to use p2p and speciality search engines. Android, guess why I’m using Lineage OS. OS X, guess why I’m using Linux, or could switch to *BSD.

Google can continue to devolve into a shittier version of a walled garden that is Apple.

eleitl ,

Can I flash alternative firmware on it?

eleitl ,

That would be nice. China makes some good cheap kit, my Poco X3 pro was a removed to unlock but is well supported by Linage OS and performs adequately.

eleitl ,

Wow, the female dog was deemed too offensive by the automod. I’m not sure I want to be a part of community that cares to police mild expletives to the point of friendly fire.

eleitl ,

I see removed. Maybe lemmy.ml admins run a word blacklist. Not the smartest policy.

eleitl ,

I definitely have a problem with language nazis attempting to police how others use language. Do you know the technical term for a female dog in dog breeding? What exactly do you consider “otherwise discriminatory”? I find casual use of opaque blocklists without any second thought to their impact disturbing.

eleitl ,

I remember that discussion. dessalines still seems to think a crude filter like that is helpful to keep enabled on lemmy.ml, my first account instance.

The more reason to plan running my own instance, for the sake of sanity. Unreasonable people are rarely unreasonable in just one domain.

eleitl ,

What are you, some kind of terrorist?

eleitl ,

Poland is a major supply hub and has lost plenty of boots on the ground. Art 5 isn’t automatic. US won’t risk nuking for expendables. All Europe is expendable.

eleitl ,

Russia has no interest in attacking Europe. US/NATO is the executive arm of longterm geopolitical interests that strive for total global dominance. They utilize sophisticated multipronged longterm strategies attempting to bring the rest of the planet under their control. Russia is a small part of that parcel.

The ultima ratio regum part of it considers some geographies more expendable than others. Egress of core industries from the EU is deliberate part of the strategy. Vassals are ruled by compradors, so populations are captive. It’s direct oligarch control on the other side, so it’s simpler.

MAD still applies. Both sides go to great lengths to avoid it, since the outcome is deterministic and global. Which is why the US would be a second target, if not already part of first strategic strike.

Wars are confusing places, so potential for fatal mistakes is exponentiated.

eleitl , (edited )

If you think you understand the conflict, you are not understanding the conflict. I have spent decades and lately far too much time on sources inaccessible to most, and I still feel underinformed.

I noticed I commented on world news. My mistake. Lemmy keeps dropping the subscribed filter.

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