h3ndrik @ h3ndrik @feddit.de

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Yeah, that was kind of my point. I think the meme picture means people throw it at everything. No matter what. And the next logical thing would be to strip the computer scientist out of the picture. We have Github Copilot now ;) Let AI decide if AI is the proper tool.

I don't think that was the point. The thing is, people replace calculators with that...

• User: Assistant?
• Assistant: BEEP
• User: What is 21 divided by three?
• Assistant: 52, my master.

Thing is, they only get some results right and hallucinate others. And you're doing billions of matrix multiplications just to calculate 2+1.

Sure. You can go to a construction site with only your one favorite tool. And use it for everything. And it's impressive to open a glass bottle of beer with a hammer and such. But I can guarantee you, you'll be slower digging that hole than the guys using a proper tool like an excavator.

I think I first saw that on Fedora, years and years ago. I'm currently running Debian (testing) on my laptop. There was definitely some change at some point.

Well. It's more, I click shutdown and because Linux has been 500% reliable for me, immediately shut the lid and throw the thing into my backpack. And instead of a shutdown, it tries to reboot, apply the updates and then do the shut down. But that fails because I use full disk encryption and it just sits at the password prompt until I pull it out again. Just heating my backpack from the inside and depleating the battery. So technically it doesn't turn on on its own. It just doesn't turn off as expected.

Ahem, I don't need a seedbox at all. I use my VPS to host Jitsi-Meet, PeerTube and a few experiments. The *arrs are for the people over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

You're likely doing security wrong. But I'm keeping relatively quiet, as requested.

Please read up on how to set a partition noexec, use AppArmor, firewall, how to keep things patched, hardened and actual security measures if you want to protect the server. Also make sure not only fail2ban is working but every login on exposed software on that server is protected against brute force. ClamAV and similar are to protect your windows clients of your mail and storage server. They will not help with linux viruses. And you got to protect your servers against security vulnerabilities, not malware. The server won't randomly execute an executable file on its harddrive on its own. Think about how did that malware get there in the first place. And why is the file executable... Don't be offended, you can install whatever you want, including ClamAV, just make sure you did the 95% of protection first if security is your concern.

Yes we did. I miss the old system.

Also I don't like my laptop rebooting in my backpack to install updates, after I've tried to shut it down.

I'd agree with mainly the developers. And maybe sometimes me, when there isn't a packaged version available.

But you'll certainly lose the benefits your distro's maintainers provide. They coordinate all the software and make sure it works together. Give it some polish, keep things updated, patch things when there's a vulnerability. Strip tracking libraries and change default settings so it fits into your distro's politics. And a flatpak doesn't use the distro's libraries which get maintained painstakingly by the maintainers. And distros oftentimes promise to maintain software for a certain timespan and not abandon it. (Of course in case you use a distro that does these things properly.)

You're now at the mercy of whoever made that flatpak.

And like mentioned in this post you now have multiple sources of software and you have maybe 3 things to keep up to date instead of 1 that does this on its own.

And if there is a vulnerability in some library like there was with webp this week... The distros are likely to do something about it. And if you have several independent other versions of that library on your system, maybe you'll stay vulnerable until a developer chooses to release a new version with a new or patched library. Some library package managers will show you open vulnerabilities while programming. But I'm unaware of such a thing being included into flatpak, snap etc. Your distro will have a mailing list or something like that.

Richard Stallman listed four freedoms essential to software users: freedom to run a program for any purpose, freedom to study the mechanics of the program and modify it, freedom to redistribute copies, and freedom to improve and change modified versions for public use. To implement these freedoms, users needed full access to the source code. To ensure code remained free and provide it to the public, Stallman created the GNU General Public License (GPL), which allowed software and the future generations of code derived from it to remain free for public use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

In my words: It gives back control to the consumer. Instead of the big corporations effectly being in control of your computer, smartphone, the internet platforms, what videos you get to see. And which updates from your friend's will result in a notification and which of your friends to drop. And they'll happily sell your personal data, track you, show massive amounts of advertisements to you and program their software so you get manimpuated into staying longer than you would have wanted on their platform and manipulate you into buying and doing what they like. The Free Software movement is trying to give control back to you, so you can't be exploited.

There are ways to combine free software with making money. For example by selling additional services, consulting and maintenance. There are more and it's a complicated topic.

And there are other challenges. For example our way of using technology today, mainly 'the cloud' makes things even more complicated.

I know. You pretty much need to know what you're doing. And do the maths. Know the reliability (MTBF/MTTF) and price. Don't forget to multiply it by two (as I forgot) because you want backups. And factor in cost of operation. And corresponding hardware you need to run to operate those hdds. My hdd spins down after 5 minutes. I live in Europe and really get to pay for electricity as a consumer. A data center pays way less. My main data, mail, calendar and contacts, OS, databases and everything that needs to be there 24/7 fits on a 1TB solid state disk that doesn't need much energy while idle. So the hdd is mostly spun down.

Nonetheless, I have a 10TB hdd in the basement. I think it was a bit less than 300€ back when I bought it a few years ago. But I can be mistaken. I pay about 0.34€/kWh for (green) electricity. But the server only uses less than 20W on average. That makes it about 4€ per month in electricity for me. And I think my homeserver cost me about 1000€ and I've had it since 2017. So that would be another ~15€ per month if I say I buy hardware for ~1100€ every 6 years. Let's say I pay about 20€/month for the whole thing. I'm not going to factor in the internet connection, because I need that anyways. (And I probably forgot to factor in I upgraded the SSD 2 times and bought additional RAM when it got super cheap. And I don't know the reliability of my hdds...)

I also have a cheap VPS and they'd want 76,27€/month ... 915.24€ per year if I was to buy 10TB of storage from them. (But I think there are cheaper providers out there.) That would have me protected against hard disk failures. It'll probably get cheaper with time, I can scale that effortlessly and the harddisks are spun up 24/7. The harddisks are faster ones and their internet connection is also way faster. And I can't make mistakes like with my own hardware. Maybe having a hdd fail early or buy hardware that needs excessive power. And that'd ruin my calculation.... In my case... I'm going with my ~20€/month. And I hope I did the maths correctly. Best bang for the buck is probably: Dont have the data 24/7 available and just buy an external 10TB hard drive if your concern is just pirating movies. Plug it in via USB into whatever device you're using. And make sure to have backups ;) And if you don't need vast amounts of space, and want to host a proper service for other people: just pay for a VPS somewhere.

Me, yes. But it's still selfhosting if you do it on a VPS. And probably easier, too. I mainly do it at home, because I can have multiple large harddisks this way. And storage is kind of expensive in the cloud.

(I'm sorry. I'm also reading the same discussion over at the other post with Linux at the workplace.)

Is anything on that list relevant in the wild? That is, are those viruses 'in theory', or have they inflicted some damage and actually spread back then? I'm looking for some news articles or actual numbers.

Yeah. Linux is also optimized to run well. Has a capable community and a few good design choices. Many people use it to run it on servers so I wouldn't be surprised if it performed well well on servers.

Also there is a well known fork that is used on millions/billions(?) of ARM phones. So it'd better be a good choice for that use case.

Isn't metadata leakage a problem that this messenger shares with nearly every other (popular) messenger out there?

In case you actually want some useful info on that topic: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/

I don't think it's just Linux. I've been told MacOS also works very well on ARM. Maybe it's just Microsoft doing a bad job.

Idk. I had a look at their 'About us' section on their homepage. It's not my project. Write them another bugreport, let them know their community dislikes this. And also write a paragraph about being Hippocrates writing about 'openness' and then not sharing their data for years.

They write all the knowledge is Public domain and CC0. So it is .

thx. forwarded it. happy pirate sounds

Where is the piracy? (Asking for a friend.)

I agree and disagree.

If it's one or the other I'd also say we don't need growth. But truth is: We have to be of a certain size so that talking about niche topics works. Currently there are communities that just don't work because it's just one person or a very few active people and it's not enough for a conversation. It's just, we need to grow in a healthy way. In certain places and we need to attract just the right people.

But altogether it's what i've been saying about free software and/or platforms for years now. We don't need to compare ourselves to something else, we don't need to clone something else... This is our little cozy place. If i wanted everything to be like on reddit, I'd just go there and not spend my time here and complain.

One thing I disagree is that Lemmy is becoming like Reddit. I met a few nice people here. And it did and still does feel different. And maybe this place is big enough to be a home for all of us. From people who are 'toxic' in other people's eyes to people that just want to talk about 80s computers. I think we need a few things to change and a technical solution to the problem so that people can get along. We already have federation and some servers de-federating others because of fundamental disagreements. I think moderation has to be enhanced. And we need to stop showing the 'ALL' feed per default. That just contains silly memes or lots of low quality content. That'd be a good start.