Corgana

Corgana , 1 month ago to Privacy in The Bitcoiners were wrong: a blog post about privacy and bitcoin, and how they failed to design a cash alternative

How much energy is used by our current financial system?

Orders of magnitude less than Bitcoin requires, which is the criticism.

Corgana , 1 month ago to Privacy in The Bitcoiners were wrong: a blog post about privacy and bitcoin, and how they failed to design a cash alternative

A better comparison would be energy utilized per user, in which case the energy requirements for Bitcoin are miles and miles ahead of what the average person produces using a computer in the same amount of time. Even a gamer, playing 4k 120fps ray traced games 12 hours a day would use a fraction of the energy of someone mining bitcoin.

Corgana , 1 month ago to Fediverse in New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)

Is this using ActivityPub? I notice that the lead dev shares a username with a lemmy.world admin.

EDIT: yes it is I missed that it is already federated with Lemmy instances

Corgana , 2 months ago to Technology in Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch

It seems like we agree on the facts, and I certainly won't disagree that it's worse now, but I would characterize Twitter's (pre-Musk) response to extremism as "measured, lacking and lethargic", before I would use "imperfect", which still implies "pretty good" and from my perceptive it was not good enough to make me want to use it. I think maybe we just have a different tolerance for hate speech.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Technology in Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch

They absolutely were, without question. That said, there's nothing this guy can do to make that happen on Mastodon instances he doesn't own.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Technology in Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch

How so?

Corgana , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Building my Homelab!

While TrueNAS is great I found it to be significantly more NAS-oriented than a general "home server". It's certainly capable just very into the weeds with permissions, users, groups, etc. It's not very noob friendly. If you aren't primarily dealing with a ton of data, you might want to look into something like CasaOS or Homarr which make sharing data on the network very "set it and forget it" and are more focused on apps.

Also recommendations include PiHole, Immich, Qbittorrent, Plex (or Jellyfin) obviously, SyncThing, Duplicati, Home Assistant (although you probably want to run that in a VM) and Tailscale and NGINX proxy manager for accessing outside the house.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

it’s always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again.

The biggest hurdle for widespread adoption of open platforms, imo.

Corgana , 2 months ago to homeassistant in Warning: HAOS may become unbootable after upgrade from 12.1 -> 12.2

"Add-ons" is a separate category of thing, and more substantial than integrations/Lovelace stuff. If you haven't noticed any missing you're probably fine. But some popular ones are DuckDNS and Mosquitto Broker.

Corgana , 2 months ago to homeassistant in Warning: HAOS may become unbootable after upgrade from 12.1 -> 12.2

You can't restore a backed-up config in docker, also no add-ons.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com

They are very noisy. Lots of clicking and whirring. Enterprise drives are not the same as consumer drives. As others have said this is a great price but I would not recommend using them in a room you are trying to focus in.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com

They generate a LOT of noise. Not a dealbreaker for most but something to be aware of for sure.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Technology in Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

Yeah, it's easy to see, but I don't have to respect it.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Technology in Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100

HOW DID THE TRUCK GET INTO SPACE??

Love that episode though.

Corgana , 2 months ago to Technology in Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100

I’m curious, is there actually so many 42’s in the system?

Sort of, it's not actually picking a random number. It does not know what "random" means. It is analyzing the number of times the question "pick a random number" was asked and what the most common responses to that question looked like.