I feel there is a general sentiment to fight each other (online), right now. It is one of the current topics which get people riled up, but not the only one. Not that fighting, trolling and hating on something (or being stupid) is a new thing... All of that has a long tradition on the internet. But I think we need to think hard about what we envision this place to be... Or become. A nice place to talk and maybe have an argument every now and then? Or a place where extreme opinions are very loud and drown out constructive discussions and push people to the side... And I think we need to be super careful once the hate turns not just against things, but people. Most of this is not healthy, neither for the individual users, nor for this online-space. And these storms in a bottle don't create anything and they change nothing about the world. It's just making everyone miserable once it dominates the atmosphere.
(And I don't think we need to discuss the facts, or what AI is and what it does. From my experience, nobody listens to that or is interested in facts. That's not what the confrontation is about... Or at least people have a predetermined stance anyway and arguing facts does nothing to settle this.)
Edit: But the example you gave serves other "controversial" topics as well... I'm not really surprised that it's people with strong oppinions who gather there. And then it's a meme and the entire community advertises with shitposting and being anti-imperialist. So I'd say that one specific post had it coming. And both sides are argumentative and escalate.
I don't think that's affected. It sounds more like political propaganda which gets allowed. I bet this will still be censored and lead to demonetization just as it is today.
Technically, a project can upload all kinds of files there. But the main point is use for development purposes. Developers share the resources and program code there and use it to collaborate. It's often not aimed at the end-user.
If you're lucky, you'll find a link to the project website either in the README further down, or in the description at the right, close to the top. That website is usually meant for the general public. Some projects also release binaries / executable files. It's also on the right in the "About" description or if you click on "Tags" and then "Releases".
Other than that, a lot of open source projects don't provide executable files. You'll have to install it with the package manager of your Linux distribution, or follow the instructions to build it yourself.
What kind of AI? An LLM? Because I can see how hindsight would be hugely beneficial for stock trade. And if they used a model with knowledge from 2024 on data on 1990...
I think I'd rather do something constructive than in-fight on the Fediverse. Sure, Lemmy isn't perfect. Not at all. I'd say love it for creating this online-space and pioneering the threaded conversations to some degree, hate the bad things about it. But don't make this about hate itself or fighting. Instead, focus on constructivism and to create something positive. Focusing on the negativity (and even attracting such people by naming things a certain way) isn't a good approach for that, if you ask me. I think it's the wrong way of thinking. I mean this also needs to be discussed somewhere... But be careful with this. We have enough negativity on the internet. And this isn't the idea behind Piefed.
You'll find a different prevailing mood in different communities here on Lemmy. The people in the technology community (the example you gave) are fed up with talking about AI all day, each day. They'd like to talk about other technology at times and that skews the mood. At least that's what I've heard some time ago... Go to a different community and discuss AI there and you'll find it's a different sentiment and audience there. (And in my opinion it's the right thing to do anyway. Why discuss everything in this community, and not in the ones dedicated to the topic?)
It would be great if people could just talk online, discuss things... without turning every topic into a fight. I wish these rules weren't necessary and they weren't there. Thanks to the vast majority of nice, respectful and constructive people here, and to the moderators.
I'd just set up the reverse proxy on the VPS and make it forward everything via IPv6. But you could also use a tunnel/VPN, everything from Tailscale to Wireguard or even an SSH tunnel would work. And there are dedicated services like Cloudflare, nohost, neutrinet, pagekite...
I run Windows software such as games with Proton, I used Wine before. The frontend to launch it doesn't matter a lot to me. Lutris, Bottles, Steam... they mostly all work. But honestly, I don't pirate many games these days. I'm more for older games and since we got Steam sales and Humble Bundles, I get a lot of them there. At least the Windows games. I haven't found a legal source for old console games, but we have a lot of emulators for N64, PSP, Arcade machines ... as well. And great frontends like Emulationstation.
Try finding out if it received an IP address, if the driver is loaded or if there are any error messages in dmesg. You might also want to give more information. Which ethernet card? Which version of Linux are you running? And there seem to be some similar reports on Reddit and in some Linux forums. I couldn't find a solution, though. Maybe you just want to buy a cheap new network card.
You could run multiple mail servers. Or download from Sharehosters in parallel. Or download more Youtube videos before the rate limit stops you. Or use virtualization or containers to launch some more virtualized servers.
Sure, I have an old PC with an energy efficient mainboard and a PicoPSU and I wouldn't want anything else. I believe it does somewhere around 20W-25W though. And I have lots of RAM, a decent (old) CPU and enough SATA ports.... Well, I would go for a newer PC, they get more energy efficient all the time... But it's a lot of effort to pick the components unless some PC magazine writes something or someone has a blog with recommendations.
You'll want to look up the QNAP as well. I've seen reports with quite some variety on the power consumption. Depending on the exact model, it could be somewhere in the range from 25W to 55W... So could be less, could be the same. And have a look at the amount of RAM if you want to run services on it.
And I guess if you're in front of the computer, you could just press the reset button or unplug it at that point (after it sucessfully synchronized the disks). no need to let it sit, there is no harm or data to be lost at that point.
I think Radicale, Baikal, SabreDAV or NextCloud are the most common choices. I read those names a lot.
But I believe only one of those isn't written in PHP.
I'd really recommend digging into the "hacking" though. Unless you learn from your specific mistakes and avoid that in the future, you might run in to the exact same issue again. And I mean it could be a security flaw in the program code of the WebDAV server. But it could as well be a few dozen other reasons why your server wasn't secure... (Missing updates, insecure passwords, missing fail2ban, a webserver or reverse proxy, unrelated other software... There are a lot of moving gears in a webserver and lots of things to consider.)
I can't remember the exact details, but I believe the attackers also targeted instances? So it's not just that it happens with certain problematic instances, but everyone could have that uploaded to their media storage. And it can come from arbitrary places. I believe that adds to the problem. And it kind of requires to shut these things down for everyone. Or at least everyone except a few excellent hand-picked instances who cooperate closely, and the moderation tools actually work.
Yes, they've done an excellent job. I just wish they wouldn't have to deal with these things.
(And I also think some of the child protection agencies should finally offer some open-source tool to scan content. Afaik there are still no image classifiers or hash tables I could use for my projects.)
I think they would need to find a way to address the problem first. Reportedly, these images have been a huge problem here on Lemmy. Several times now.
Alright. I mean I haven't used local models for coding. This was ChatGPT, AIstudio and Grok I tried. I can't try Claude, since they want my phone number and I'm not going to provide that to them. I feel DeepSeek and a few other local models should be able to get somewhere in the realm of commercial services, though. At least judging by the coding benchmarks, we have some open-weight competition there.
I feel there is a general sentiment to fight each other (online), right now. It is one of the current topics which get people riled up, but not the only one. Not that fighting, trolling and hating on something (or being stupid) is a new thing... All of that has a long tradition on the internet. But I think we need to think hard about what we envision this place to be... Or become. A nice place to talk and maybe have an argument every now and then? Or a place where extreme opinions are very loud and drown out constructive discussions and push people to the side... And I think we need to be super careful once the hate turns not just against things, but people. Most of this is not healthy, neither for the individual users, nor for this online-space. And these storms in a bottle don't create anything and they change nothing about the world. It's just making everyone miserable once it dominates the atmosphere.
(And I don't think we need to discuss the facts, or what AI is and what it does. From my experience, nobody listens to that or is interested in facts. That's not what the confrontation is about... Or at least people have a predetermined stance anyway and arguing facts does nothing to settle this.)
Edit: But the example you gave serves other "controversial" topics as well... I'm not really surprised that it's people with strong oppinions who gather there. And then it's a meme and the entire community advertises with shitposting and being anti-imperialist. So I'd say that one specific post had it coming. And both sides are argumentative and escalate.