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sj_zero , 3 days ago to selfhosted in Electricians of fediverse, should I have my selfhosting box grounded?

The most important risk you face is if somehow mains voltage ends up contacting somewhere you get electrocuted and die.

There are 2 purposes of an earth ground: First it can be used as a reference for certain signals, such as microphones. Second, it can be used to protect against turning yourself into a sparker.

There is a clear separation between mains voltage and system voltages so it's typically not going to be a problem, but if a little wire ends up contacting the power supply case it can become energized and things start to get really bad.

Most of the electrical code where I live focuses on grounding as "Bonding", which is purely safety related for giving dangerous voltages a safe place to go.

sj_zero , 9 days ago to selfhosted in Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.

It's subtle, but they changed a lot of minor things, I think maybe because it's using a different UI framework. Scrolling is worse (the scroll bar acts nuts and the scroll wheel usually doesn't work very well, I these days tend to use the keyboard to scroll the middle plane) and the frame on the right doesn't reset between stories.

It's little things, but it makes reading through the days news a bit tougher.

sj_zero , 1 month ago to selfhosted in Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.

I live by nextcloud news, but I don't like the new interface.

The other nice thing is it syncs with apps on every platform.

sj_zero , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately

The most important thing for everyone to remember is that if you don't fully own the thing such that you can install and run it without asking permission, or if it isn't simply free and open source, then it can go away at any time.

sj_zero , 4 months ago to patientgamers in Another Patient Recommendation: Saints Row IV

I think the fact that it doesn't have the same gravitas GTA has is part of the reason why it's so good.

sj_zero , 4 months ago to patientgamers in Anti-doom-and-gloom post

Gaming journalism has been dead for so long the body's nothing but bones.

sj_zero , 4 months ago to programmer_humor in Junior Dev VS Machine Learning

The key to "AI" is having a human there to take algorithms and apply them to the right problems.

This is what most people don't understand because many of the demos are quite impressive and narrowly tailored to prevent the fact from being obvious unless you know what you're looking for.

sj_zero , 4 months ago to programmer_humor in Junior Dev VS Machine Learning

COMPILE ERROR - LIBRARY CALCAREA.H DOES NOT EXIST

goddamnit you acid tripping LLM...

sj_zero , 4 months ago to programmer_humor in What's stopping you from coding like this ?

About 200 pounds.

sj_zero , 4 months ago to selfhosted in PSA: Update your docker installation. Leaky Vessels flaws allow hackers to escape Docker, runc containers

Honestly, if you're running public facing services, you should run the latest everything you can. There's a risk that stuff breaks, but at least you're not having to worry about patched exploits.

sj_zero , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Have you tried LocalGPT PrivateGPT or other similar alternatives to ChatGPT?

I've been using a number of different tools which I interface to my nextcloud.

My main nextcloud has a llm plugin which was really easy to install, you just install the plug-in, make sure that you are configured properly with python in your path, and then run an OCC command to download one of a few models.

https://localai.io/

I also hosted localAI, which was a little bit more involved, but the website did a decent enough job of explaining exactly all the things that you needed to do in order to get all the different types of AI model working. Besides LLMs, it also supports text to speech, speech to text, and image generation.

Two things that are important: first, if you are server doesn't have a pretty advanced video card then you're going to be using the CPU exclusively for AI, and that'll be pretty slow. Second, I found it very quickly that the amount of RAM you have is critical. My main server is a core i5 4th gen, and so I put AI software on another one of my servers which is a core i5 7th gen. You would think that the latter would work a lot better, but it had half the ram, and it basically wasn't even able to get started.

Besides hosting ai, if you have a desktop computer or gaming laptop you can run local AI models. There's a fantastic piece of software called Faraday that works pretty well on my laptop. You can get more and more sophisticated models depending on how much memory you have.

https://youtu.be/aLy_vVLUHZk

Krita has AI dal-e support for image generation available as a plug-in. I haven't used it yet because I just got it started downloading last night before I went to bed, but the installation process has defined in the video seems accurate and was extremely easy and mostly automated.

https://youtu.be/AU8NDSBIS1U

sj_zero , 5 months ago to fediverse in Where did the exploding-heads people go?

They went to nostr or other parts of the fediverse because the lemmyverse is toxic and they were constantly facing attacks of various types. Same thing that happened to wolfballs before it.

Some of the users might lurk on other servers, but I have my doubts. The point was to have a place they could be free to talk about things the establishment were censoring. Most of the colonizers from Reddit don't realize those servers existed long before most of what are considered the big Lemmy servers today even existed.

If the goal was just to troll redditors, there's always reddit.

sj_zero , 5 months ago to fediverse in Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end?

By that standard it seems to me like most of the internet should be shut down, particularly establishment outlets that are more than happy to tell you who to hate.

sj_zero , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times

Perhaps ironically, lemmy. I had the database catastrophically fail early on, and ever since then federation has been broken with most major instances. I kind of prefer lotide anyway, much more minimalistic, less of a focus on upvotes and downvotes, and the code base is simply enough that I've been able to hop into it and make changes.

sj_zero , 5 months ago to startrek in Walter Koenig was bitterly disappointed about his role in Star Trek VI

As for the story of the war and some of the characters stories... The age of heroes like Kirk in their prime is over, the federation is losing the war. Younger crews weren't properly mentored and so lack the knowledge of the aging heroes and so are not doing well at all, and the older crews dont have the vigor to engage in total war. Meanwhile the Klingons seem to be doing just fine, being both vigorous and wise, hence why they decided to start a war sensing a weak federation. Kirk would slowly over the course of the movie learn that it's not so bad mentoring top people. Bones would struggle after watching the young men come into the sickbay dead realizing in just a few years his final destination would be upon him, and he'd be making mistakes and cracking. Spock would share his struggles with his grandfather dying and would speak logically about death like nimoy did in "I am Spock" and it would help McCoy put death into perspective. Scott would learn he drank because he didn't think he had anything better in his life until he saw the new batch of engineers trying really hard to keep the ship running but lacking know-how and one of the engineers would come to him with personal problems and he'd realize he had more to offer than just work. Spock would do some brilliant work as a seconded science officer and later would use his skills as a diplomat to help end the war with the Klingons once the Enterprise becomes the focal point of a passing of the torch where the old crews realize they need to build up the new ones which makes the Klingons realize their time has passed to attack (with a little prodding). Uhuras work as a communications officer ends up front and center as she is a second diplomat working with Spock near the end of the movie. Checkov would realize that while he isn't happy with his past all he can do is move on to his future. Sulu would have a whole b-plot where he talks at desks about strategy and helps see several ambushes by the Klingons in advance which is part of what helps end the war.

Ok but that's it...