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BlueEther ,
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come on, clicked through and auto logged in to slashdot...

but my last comment was (oh shit) 17 years ago

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I like it, lots

I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp. (www.adobe.com)

I expected ridiculous propaganda from Adobe, but they give absolutely no reasons why Photoshop is better than Gimp and list a bunch of things that Gimp can do too....

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I was usig both in the early 2000's, at that stage there wasn't too much difference in the UIs. Gimp just seems to have stuck (more or less) with mid 2000's design concepts in the UI

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

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I'm currently on Neon on the desktop (and macOS on the mac). On the servers it nearly all debian and a couple of BSDs

Over the last almost 25 years i've almost exclusively ran KDE when not being stuck with windows (for various reasons). Ive heard good things about Arch, but I'm getting far too old to be bothered with a semi-complex install (yes I have run Gentoo for several years, so I think it is an age thing).

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Um lemmy exposes it as well, at least for admins

https://no.lastname.nz/pictrs/image/4f74c6b0-8f5d-4e15-aa90-f270f36cc928.png

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i've seen it here as well, just not very often

BlueEther ,
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https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy used to work well, not sure if it is maintained still @ubergeek77 ?

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Well it works well enough for my small instance, so a thimbs up from here.

I'll also point out that it was easy to configure and chang for my needs

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What licence are they using? Do you know something everyone else does not?

Just because Llama Group want to control what goes into FreeLlama? Just like every other open source with a leadership?

Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version

If I release project qwtop as open source I still retain ownership of my code and make the decisions about what makes it into the main release; how is this different so far, when we haven't seen the licence?

<edit: see post below>

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thanks, there was nothing about a licence with the original post that i saw

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The fact that there isnt one is useed as proof of a flat earth, I wonder what they will come up with when this goes in?

BlueEther ,
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Or the fact that you have to lay a cable some 9,000km through some of the roughest / windy seas. It's not called the Roaring Forties for nothing

Edit misread your comment

Problems with creating my own instance

I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn't work with the default config and throw's a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...

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I switched to using https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy by @ubergeek77

BlueEther ,
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I just wonder how up and downvoting would work since that would go very differently from Lemmy.

how so?

BlueEther ,
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then try on a mac

I created a board game alternative for evil people (lemmy.today)

Guys, I have something to brag about. After almost a year of hard learning, I finally created my first mobile game! Storiado is a board game alternative that will make you wonder what's wrong with your friends. Play by answering simple questions, mix all the answers, and generate the most twisted story you've ever read. And then...

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we have been playing a game like this eith the kids. could you make an under 13 version?

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and then, us as the consumer will pay for the fine as well

BlueEther ,
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I’ve used influx and grafana in the past

There are some good options here for further reading

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Yeah, I saw the 4Mil BTU on another page, that's a lot of heat output

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What I really want is something like hybrid of wordpress/lemmy/mastodon...

BlueEther ,
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I would like less micro-blog and more old-school blog with the really good threading/comments of lemmy, and the communities of lemmy (maybe magazines of Kbin/Mbin)

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Well the documentation is very nice and filled out.

I think I'll spin up a test container for a project that my Mrs is starting on that I was going to put on wordpress with federation.

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I had my home setup like that for years. ONT <-> Switch <-> Opnsense <-> Back to Switch

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https://no.lastname.nz/pictrs/image/0dfd2e47-d33d-4cfb-a8e3-65f1f5bd6a10.jpeg

BlueEther ,
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I managed to get partial prompts out of it then... I think It's broken now:

https://no.lastname.nz/pictrs/image/5523f9ee-7a62-4d72-9d47-5eba2f8d9a4d.png

BlueEther ,
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fuck, that sounds like New Zealand, except may the children dying of cancer where that would be covered (mostly)

BlueEther ,
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or it's watched all of "Real Civil Engineer's" polly bridge videos?

BlueEther ,
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All for a better country and future

BlueEther OP , (edited )
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The problem is I'm in the arse end of the world in New Zealand and server gear is not cheap, otherwise I may go with an Xeon Gold.

The M4 already has E5-2650 v2

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Also I'll just add that ZFS/FreeNAS doesn't need ECC anymore that any other file system

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interestingly my instande says fedirated while it is blocked

Ingenious ways to measure power draw

So I wanted to get myself a Kill-a-watt. Being who I am, I wanted information regarding its accuracy, especially at low power draws. I found a comparison with a industry grade equipment (Fluke is about the best out there in handheld electrical meters). It’s not encouraging, so I thought about a more proper meter, but it’s...

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if the draw is so low, does it matter?

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As a beekeeper of 30 odd years, that hurts

ps welcome

Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly. (blog.benjojo.co.uk)

The author examined the distribution of instances in the fediverse. Given that many instances are hidden behind CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly, the author employed ActivityPub's functionality to discover the actual hosting locations of servers. More than half (51%) of the fediverse is hosted within a single hosting company. The...

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And it will take me all of 60 seconds to turn off cloudflare on my instance I I ever have to and 5 min for TTL on the DNS to expire, bit in saying that I have moved from a small indipendent VPS to a much larger provider for cost saving (Mostly for storage, but also double the core count).

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f and r are doing me [edit], but you are right e is an eye sore

BlueEther OP ,
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It looks like it was a Plex scan that tied it's self up in knots and locked up the SMB share and it just happened that it was the QBT container that I noticed it on first.

BlueEther OP ,
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It looks like it was a Plex scan that tied it's self up in knots and locked up the SMB share and it just happened that it was the QBT container that I noticed it on first.

Some of the logs did mention Plex was soft locked as well.

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (www.bloomberg.com)

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO::Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.

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I've been on reddit, I don't know that I would like to use a LLM trained on much of the content there (excluding tech/DIY space)

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I work with 365 and have to create docs from yesterday's version (or last weeks etc) all the time. Auto save can be a real pain in the arse.

Turn it off, save as <yyyy-mm-dd-DocName>, oh hell auto save is back on...

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I suspect losing a LaTeX doc hurt more than a 'word' doc

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It has been a few years (shit near 15 years) since I used LaTex, and I didn't use it that often so it wasn't ingrained. But even then it was much easier than trying to get publisher for format things

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No, I’ve used them all up in the last 3 years

BlueEther ,
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I'm currently off work with a broken shoulder, have you just given me a project?

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All doable, you might need a managed or smart switch though

I have 4 bland at home plus untagged all through proxmox and a smart switch

  • one for wan
  • one for web facing servers
  • one for iot
  • one for guest wifi
  • rest of lab is untagged
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vlan tags, they make vlans work

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Anyone have an interesting blog that uses the WordPress ActivityPub plugin?

If so, please leave a link/handle as a reply to this post.

(And even if you don't, please boost this thread on so it can reach people who do.)

@pfefferle @fediverse @asklemmy @technology

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testing @homeschool

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