A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.
I think it’s a waste of time. It doesn’t really add anything. If you don’t want to lose your subscription in the unlikely event that your server/instance goes down forever, just use the export feature to make occasional backups. You can always create a new account after something happened. No need to invest that time otherwise.
You’re free to use sockpuppets though. Or if you’re moderating stuff or participate in instances/communities who don’t federate.
Hat Freud vor 120 Jahren auch schon gesagt.
Well, it’s a mass-produced, embedded device, designed to do one specific task. I guess lots of the video related stuff is assisted by hardware and they usually strip down the embedded Linux to the minimum needed. Because every Megabyte of storage costs extra and they need to hit some 99,- or 89,- price point. Furthermore, they don’t want it to boot for 20 seconds, so these devices generally don’t contain any extras. Similar things happen on wifi routers, the ones below $100 usually contain similar amounts of memory (or less). At least the last time I bought one.
Google the product name and Linux. If nothing turns up, you need to find the name of the SoC / processor and google that. Find out if it’s supported by Linux and what other people did to install Linux. You might need additional hardware though, like a serial or JTAG adapter and a soldering iron. Plus the required expertise. And I must warn you, that thing has 1 GB of RAM and 256MB(!) of flash storage. You won’t be able to do much with those specs. Like a slow FTP server or one small website or a few other tiny services which don’t use a lot of resources.
I think so, too. We’ve seen the big tech companies jump forward to lick the new US government’s boots. While the nonprofits haven’t done the same. So it seems to me they’re still with the people. This also doesn’t come as a surprise to me, since they want to do good, or at least something else than make record profit by ripping off people. I’m still using their Free Software. But I will cut down on relying on services hosted in the USA. I mean even if they’re a benevolent foundation, they might still be forced to cooperate with law enforcement and I don’t want to see my private data end up in Elon Musk’s AI or something like that. So I’m either hosting services myself or going to choose a provider and datacenter within the EU. (And I’m not using that many cloud services in the first place.)
Sure, go ahead. Technically it’s not 100% correct. I mean lemm.ee wouldn’t be your provider, it’d be the people operating the server who provide the service to you… But I think it’s close enough. Only issue I can see is the term “provider” usually being used with commercial services. Like a cellphone provider or ISP. So I’m not sure if people start to think this costs $10 a month or something and is run by for-profit businesses… But we also use the word “provider” for free things, so I’m not entirely sure about that. But generally speaking I think we use different terminology because we don’t think of the Fediverse as a product.
Is memory that small, connected externally, or does that SoC just end up being a large package, with that much RAM on it?
Make Lemmy a nice place with a nice atmosphere, nice people and meaningful information and discussions. Once it shines, people will want to come here.
I really don’t think this place is about bot warfare. Usually our system works well. I’ve met one person who used ChatGPT as a form of experiment on us, and I talked a bit to them. Most people come here to talk or share the daily news or argue politics. With the regular Linux question in between. It’s mostly genuine. Occasionally I have to remind someone to tick the correct boxes, mostly for nsfw, because the bot owners generally behave and set this correctly, on their own. And I mean for people who like bot content, we already have X, Reddit and Facebook… I think that would be a good place for this, since they already have a goot amount of synthetic content.
Lemmy and Fediverse software have a box to tick in the profile settings. That shows an account is a bot. And other people can then choose to filter them out or read the stuff. Usually we try to cooperate. Open warfare between bots and counter-bots isn’t really a thing. We do this for spam and ban-evasion, though.
I use OsmAnd and Open Street Map data as well. That’s crowd sourced and not under control of any company. Though, as other people pointed out, it doesn’t do recommendations. It’s map data, navigation and sometimes opening times, accessibility etc of a place.
Also ich wäre dafür, dass man Leute bezahlt für den Job. Das ist ja in anderen Branchen auch so üblich. Dabei gewinnt man auch noch mehr Vorteile. Man muss sie nicht zwingen, man kann sie länger und besser ausbilden… Ich denke das ist keine kognitive Dissonanz. Leute mit 18 einziehen und die 9 Monate hauptsächlich herumpimmeln und saufen lassen, so wie es früher üblich war, ist halt nur nicht die Optimallösung.
Seems the Admin took some action over at the community and banned them for: sockpuppet account, disposable email, vote manipulation, ban evasion
If anything, this leads to more control, more tracking to enforce bans and less privacy for everyone. And adds toxicity. So my final verdict is: No. This takes away privacy.
Idk. The last accounts I suspect to be that person are:
I don’t see the point. We could go some more through the comicstrips community and the modlog and puzzle the pieces back together… But I really don’t see what kind of privacy this offers. I mean this strange behaviour kind if draws more attention, not less… Maybe they’d like to chime in to tell us.
Could also be a person with behavioural pecularities, or they’re high on drugs.
I think as written, I’d say these words are more FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt)
And I’ve been running servers for quite some time as well. SearXNG seems rock solid. And it’s tested. And when I had security issues in general, it was because we didn’t do timely updates. I haven’t really ever been affected by zero days in my hobby linux endeavours. Okay, we had a few nasty things in some more fundamental building blocks and sometimes people using slower distributions had been fine… But I don’t think it applies here. With these kinds of things, the latest stable release is your best bet. Not a previous version with bugs in it, which have been fixed since. And especially not an unmaintained project.
I see. What an asshole. It’d be best if you brought that up with the sh.itjust.works admins. Maybe they would like to ban them for stalking people, ban-evasion or whatever. And/or !fediverselore@lemmy.ca if you want more attention and drama.
I’d say this is unacceptable behaviour.
I highly doubt this kind of behaviour makes Lemmy a better place. We have other places for these kinds of things linke anonymous imageboards.
They’re likely referring to the sentences outlining the differences between searx and SearXNG in searX README (archived Github repo). I think it was about some feature to report bugs to the project. And NG having a faster pace of development.
Ja, deswegen verwunderte der Artikel mich etwas, der wie früher, komplett auf frühkindliche Ereignisse fokussiert ist. Wenn sich seit Freud etwas getan hat, fände ich es ganz nett das irgendwie einzuordnen.