Dran_Arcana

Dran_Arcana , 11 days ago to Technology in Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse

Yes you are correct, I had the two reversed in my head.

Dran_Arcana , 11 days ago to Technology in Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse

Hangouts was built on xmpp, and used to allow federation. Yes xmpp still exists but it's functionally dead.

Dran_Arcana , 11 days ago to Technology in Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse

I believe google hangouts and xmpp would like to have a word with you. There was probably a universe where federated xmpp was as ubiquitous as sms, but in this universe, google federated, brought users over with cool features, and then defederated when they had all the users.

If you want another example from the same company in modern times, look at chrome and http/css/js. Google's chokehold on the web ecosystem with chrome means that whatever they do, everyone else has to follow suit or not be compatible with the browser that something like ~75-90% of users use

Dran_Arcana , 1 month ago to Technology in Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection

There are a multitude of established, studied, simple changes that could be made to make things safer for pedestrians with relatively little needed in the way of sacrifice from car designers

Can you share some of these? I had a small stint in the auto design industry and am genuinely curious.

Dran_Arcana , 1 month ago to Technology in Hello GPT-4o

I am not joking lol but I do sometimes forget most people don't live in this space the same way I do. I think people use these names because the programs themselves are forked often and the software names are very unspecific otherwise. I meant to imply that I was using the main branches of these softwares.

https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Dran_Arcana , 1 month ago to Technology in Hello GPT-4o

I have this running at home on a used r630 (CPU only). oobabooga/automatic1111 for LLM/SD backends, vosk + mimic3 for tts/stt. A little bit of custom python to tie it all together. I certainly don't have latency as low as theirs, but it's definitely conversational when my sentences are short enough.

Dran_Arcana , 2 months ago to Technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

Small fediverse lol

Dran_Arcana , 2 months ago to Technology in TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out

I would guess that it goes off of the lowest common denominator between IP address geo-location & billing address. If either of those say US, google/apple would probably be required not to distribute it.

Dran_Arcana , 2 months ago to Technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

It is possible to both be anti-chinese government and also want comprehensive privacy laws in the US. Like, I absolutely buy that the Chinese government has access to tiktok data. I, however, don't think forcing a sale is the right way to deal with any of this. Comprehensive privacy and data collection laws would go much farther towards making it so it doesn't really matter who owns what.

Dran_Arcana , 2 months ago to Technology in TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out

Not sure if you could get updates to the app over VPN though, that depends on how the stores handle regions.

Specifically, app stores would be required not to host it, so you'd likely have to do updates through some sort of side-loading

Dran_Arcana , 2 months ago to Technology in TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out

unless the bill has changed since the last time I read it, there were fines for hosting the service in US datacenters, and fines for companies allowing US data to exist in non-us datacenters. I don't think you could interpret the bill as imposing a civil penalty to a user using a vpn and accessing it.

Dran_Arcana , 2 months ago to Technology in Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees

costs only an email address and a promise to sign up for a 37% APY credit card.

Dran_Arcana , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

You would expose a single port to multiple vlans, and then bind multiple addresses to that single physical connected interface. Each service would then bind itself to the appropriate address, rather than "*"

Dran_Arcana , 2 months ago to Technology in Here's the full text of the “PROTECTING AMERICANS’ DATA FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES ACT OF 2024” currently in in the resolving difference phase before the POTUS signs it. UPDATED 4/24 for Accuracy

I thought tiktok came out of music.ly? I didn't think it had roots in vine.

Dran_Arcana , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Self hosted remote storage for VPS?

You should consider reversing the roles. There's no reason your homelab cannot be the client, and have your vps be the server. Once the wireguard virtual network exists, network traffic doesn't really care which was the client and which was the server. Saves you from opening a port to attackers on your home network.