Haui @ Haui @discuss.tchncs.de

**Autistic tech enthusiast and entrepreneur**

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I like this take. Thanks for elaborating.

Sad times indeed.

Okay! Thanks for explaining! Thats very helpful.

Looks promising! Will check it out. I‘m a little wary of lemmy integration since I see lemmy as a forum, kind of. Mastodon makes more sence to me for a blog.

I tried to make a subreddit for a project in the past and it didn’t work at all. It’s just not the best fit for a forum imo except if the project is highly adopted already and discussed. For news and updates, a blog makes more sense.

Yes. It absolutely depends. Not only on the subs but also on the time (more recent are the more confrontational outcomes from what I hear) and the type of person you are. Someone who is very accustomed to fitting in will probably have no problem on reddit. The same goes for every other situation in life.

It’s the individualists, minorities and other not-too-adjusted peeps that get problems because we tend to think different, sometimes speak our mind without seeing that it’s the wrong situation to do so.

Yes, most likely but the picture it gives is completely accurate. You have to either submit to the totalitarian reddit rule or you will regret it (not literally but you will at least get negative karma, autobanning you from a lot of subs).

As a mod on reddit, I have a always tried to keep it levelheaded but I have gotten my posts removed on subs for simply correcting someone. So evidently not every mod is good at being civil.

I think the overall representation of this post is spot on. :)

Yes I am. I now chose to just change it in the config, restarted telegraf and it works now. Thanks :)

Thanks for answering so fast! :)

I'm not deep enough to know if telegraf can do this. It has "plugins" that work okayish. Not a lot to configure. I suppose I could start going into the nitty gritty but I would abolutely love to avoid it. I have like 10+ services running on my server and I can't go this deep without an IT team and with a job. :)

In this special case, it is uptime I'm after and influxdb throws a table at me that looks like this:

then I use this to get the data into grafana:

    
from(bucket: "telegraf")
  |> range(start: v.timeRangeStart, stop: v.timeRangeStop)
  |> filter(fn: (r) => r["_measurement"] == "system")
  |> filter(fn: (r) => r["_field"] == "uptime_format")
  |> aggregateWindow(every: v.windowPeriod, fn: last, createEmpty: false)
  |> yield(name: "last")

  

And what turns up is this:

Now, having worked with SQL before, there is a way to just show the "2 days, 18:02" bit instead of two values and without manually selecting the host each time in SQL, I just don't know how to do it in flux.

I hope this makes sense. Have a good one. :)

Chiming in to repeat the same as before commenters:

Nextcloud is only an option if you are trying to selfhost something that google and apple are giving you for free in exchange for your data. Is it secure there? somewhat. Is it private? Well, not so much but they’re not breaking any laws as far as we know.

Now there‘s nextcloud. It is only as private as you make it and only as secure as you make it. If you host it on a sketchy server out in the open, you can bet you will be compromised (your data lands in someone elses hand) or you will lose it alltogether.

So, think of nextcloud as the privacy twin of icloud and google cloud for the tech literate. If you‘re not ready to self host it, pay for the host or the electricity or don‘t know how to harden it against attacks, please use a big tech option.

Thanks! That’s good to hear.

Here. I quit after so many subs went dark and they started kicking mods out. I‘m a mod on reddit myself and thats the only reason I open the app every couple of days, just to check my queue.

Thank you very much! I will definitely check it out. 5th gen would be awesome but 6th gen is very much optional. :)

Thats an awesome explanation! Thank your very much!

So, from this and many other comments and some independent reading on my side, we‘re technically just walking batteries getting fed by the sun, being buried under ground after dying and becoming coal so to speak.

So, theoretically, we would need to build some way to exhaust the excess heat into space (and could also get work done in the form of electricity) if we wanted to use the current overheating earth to our advantage while cooling it off. Thinking of a giant ac at this point. :D

But jokes aside, this means that the average laypersons idea about „energy“ is false. We need „work“, not energy. Because the dissipated energy can not perform work anymore. Correct?

Makes a ton of sense but how does that translate to burning coal for example? You just set it on fire and it churns out tons of energy. I suppose its stored „organized“ energy which then gets released and is allowed to increase its entropy.

That was quite an awesome read. Thank you very much! :)

Another nc user here. I have the recognition app and my photos are tagged. If I need to find them I search for the specific tag. It’s quite neat.

Whoops! Now that really was news to me. I default to closed source for profit and this was the first time I got it completely wrong. Sorry and thanks for correcting me.

But I already told you I have no knowledge of signal. So I guess my fault was to jump to this conclusion when prompted.

But now I have to ask. How does the backend of signal work? I just saw the frontend/client to download but I cant remember there being servers. How do you find your grandma on signal? That must be going to some kind of server, right? Also, signal got hacked at some point and lost 10k+ phone numbers of users which is unfortunate. And there is the benefit of matrix again. You can host your own server with your 10 friends and as long as you update regularly, you‘re a very bad target (small and up to date).

I think matrix is absolutely not at the stage where you can compare it to something as polished as signal. I just checked wikipedia and they made 8 digits a year. So, I get that they‘re not making billions and not selling data but people „work“ there in stark opposition to matrix (bar element). I‘ll say that signal is probably a very good product and overall trustworthy. Although I have to say that it’s not a competitor to discord, unlike matrix. Which was my actual claim.

Ok. Thanks for elaborating. Always entropy getting in my way! :)

Yes, thanks. That makes a lot of sense.

Hi! I‘m pretty sure we are misunderstanding each other. At least partly.

What I‘m saying is that meta for example has evidently sold and leaked userdata far and wide (and paid a joke of a fine for it compared to the estimated earnings). So honestly, I‘d rather join a crack dealer‘s social media than this one.

Because you‘re assuming someone compromises a fediverse server (which is open source and issues are fixed together with hundreds of bright minds), while meta is a closed system and source which evidently does not need to be compromised (also evidently has happened) to do you harm. I think you’re reaching while I have evidence. Can you see that?

I didn’t bring up signal since I don’t have a lot of experience with it (used it a couple times but no ongoing relationships), thats all. I heard that some people say they‘d be spying, which I don’t know about and I‘m not gonna assume but they are closed source and for profit, which the fediverse is not (technically, matrix is not federated afaik but I use it the same as the others so it feels like the fediverse to me).

Whatsapp i brought up since it also is actively spying on you (i may have formulated it wrong or easy to misunderstand) and the same goes for instagram (and threads).

So, as I said: if someone uses whatsapp or discord, matrix makes sense imo while its not an insane improvement (imo) from signal. Same goes for telegram btw. I have no knowledge what they are or arent doing so I wont warn anyone about them. For meta I have enough evidence to suggest burning all bridges that lead there.

Thanks for being so polite btw. I appreciate it.