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lemmyvore ,

The article is ok (summary of the current state of things) but the title is completely out of place.

lemmyvore ,

I wonder how much of this stuff may still be around on harddrives somewhere. Random blogs probably not because they were using shared hosting that would overwrite and reuse the space when the blog went down, and typically destroy the drives when the servers got decomissioned. But maybe large platforms like Geocities might still be archived somewhere.

lemmyvore ,

That might take a while.

lemmyvore ,

Site owners haven't figured that out yet. They still cling to the notion that search optimization works. And it still does, to some extent.

Like, if you're a small business owner providing local services in your city and you get customers that find you through Google, what can you do except continue to optimize for Google?

lemmyvore ,

If it's any comfort I've spent about a year getting away from Gmail and I can report it is in fact doable.

Finding another email service and using a domain of my own with it was the easy part. The hard part was painstakingly replacing my address everywhere I was using it with new addresses.

Way more doable than YouTube, which I don't foresee being replicated any time soon.

Secure portal between Internet and internal services

I thought I was going to use Authentik for this purpose but it just seems to redirect to an otherwise Internet accessible page. I'm looking for a way to remotely access my home network at a site like remote.mywebsite.com. I have Nginx proxy forwarding with SSL working appropriately, so I need an internal service that receives...

lemmyvore ,

The only catch is that some ISP or workplaces filler public DNS entries that point to private IPs because they can be indications of certain attacks.

lemmyvore ,

If it's resolved only on a private DNS server then it's ok.

lemmyvore ,

It was Wayland. 👹

lemmyvore ,

I switched to using a NVMe SSD (M.2) in an USB enclosure. Bit larger than a stick but otherwise day and night. Make sure the enclosure chip is Realtek or Asmedia not JMicron.

lemmyvore ,

I turn Tailscale on at their computers and ask them to turn on VNC when I need to assist them on the desktop. Or you can use anything else, there's plenty of remote desktop apps once you waive the security requirement (because it's private anyway due to Tailscale).

lemmyvore ,

DOS wasn't a very complex OS and has already been reverse engineered more or less completely. Apps like DosBox already exist. It might cause a couple of minor revelations if/when the source is finally opened but I doubt it will have a big impact.

lemmyvore , (edited )

They trickle out versions over the years. This time they published version 4. The versions up to 6.22 (standalone) and up to 9 7-8 (part of Windows 9x-ME) are yet to be published.

lemmyvore ,

You're right. I'll correct it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#MS-DOS_7/8_(as_part_of_Windows_9x)

lemmyvore ,

They don't really have a choice. Classic website search will be useless in the near future because of the rapid rise of LLM-generated pages. Already for some searches 1 out of 3 results is generated crap.

Their only hope it's that somehow they'll be able to weed out LLM pages with LLM. Which is something that scientists say it's impossible because LLMs cannot learn from LLM results so they won't be able to reliably tell which content is good.

The fact they're even trying this shows they're desperate, so they will try.

lemmyvore ,

And turtles?

lemmyvore ,

TBF it's nice that they allowed it for everybody. Usually when a company is forced to do something in the EU they only do it in the EU.

lemmyvore ,

Don't use them as the only storage maybe. There's stories about Hetzner flagging accounts for false positives and they basically offer zero recourse. They close everything related to the account and cut all communication.

lemmyvore , (edited )

See I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic because there are some manic distro hoppers out there that are actually like that.

lemmyvore ,

Support is moving to discord which sucks massive ass.

It sucks but can you blame them? It's a natural response when people see that the old method (public posting and indexing) is being corrupted and grows increasingly irrelevant.

We're going to see more and more knowledge becoming insular and/or gated behind manual curation.

This doesn't necessarily have to mean Discord, can be private forums of any kind but private nonetheless. Discord may be the wrong tool but the problem it's being applied to is real.

lemmyvore ,

It makes sense if the issues being discussed are time-sensitive. Sometimes people need a solution now, not to open a bug report and hope that it will get a response an unspecified amount of time later.

lemmyvore ,

Pretty soon search engines won't be able to return anything anymore. At which point we might be looking for communities where live people can help with our issue. And if that happens Discord won't look that out of place anymore.

If you can go somewhere and have your problem solved do you really care that some schmuck later won't be able to find the solution written somewhere and will have to go through the same process?

lemmyvore ,

Do you mean federated? And what would federation solve?

The only way you're separating humans from LLM will be by asking for government ID but that would eliminate anonymity. And even so people could sneak in LLMs under their credentials.

lemmyvore ,

Wait, how can it find all your past comments? I thought Reddit only have you a list of the most recent 1000 or something like that?

lemmyvore ,

Nah, that person can just ignore/block you.

I didn't say it was a perfect setup. 🙂

And tbf there's lots of people who don't read the FAQ even if you shove their face in it.

lemmyvore ,

Discord could solve this particular issue by simply adding a wiki.

We're going to see a lot of changes in online community tools and in the way people use those tools. Lemmy is not exactly revolutionary either, it's modern but it's still a forum at its core.

Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction

Hey hello, self-hosting noob here. I just want to know if anyone would know a good way to host my writing. Something akin to those webcomic sites, except for writing. Multiple stories with their own "sections" (?) and a chapter selection for each. Maybe a home page or profile page to just briefly detail myself or whatever, I...

lemmyvore ,

A static site generator (Hugo would be great for your needs) and host the files on a CDN like bunny.net. It costs $1/month for 100 GB transfer included and you pay 1 cent/GB above that. But I sincerely doubt a small personal website that's mostly text will serve more than 100 GB/month.

Hosting on a CDN is amazing because they have dozens of redundant distribution points all over the world, can easily scale to traffic spikes, you never have to worry about consuming too much CPU or RAM or about security issues etc.

lemmyvore ,

If you're risk averse don't update automatically. Some of the minor releases can be buggy.

lemmyvore ,

I wish there was some kind of place where we could croudsource impressions and fixes for new versions of docker images.

Manjaro does something like this for their releases. They also have a survey that indicates how well things went (although it's participant biased to some degree since folks who had a problem tend to vote more than people who didn't).

It would be amazing to be able to pop in and see that jellyfin had a couple of new releases, that one of them does much better than the others in terms of overall quality, and what kind of issues there are (and how to fix them).

lemmyvore ,

Yeah. Why say lot word when few word do trick?

lemmyvore ,

Let's start with one and see how it goes.

lemmyvore ,

Yes but like OP said the labor is the problem. You have to have shops willing to work on them unless you're willing and ready to work on them yourself.

lemmyvore ,

They could mean that they have swap but it's not being used.

lemmyvore ,

There's also a plugin that scrubs metadata. But you have to use it manually from the tool menu.

lemmyvore ,

You're attempting to run the qb container in the gluetun network stack. You need to give it time to start. When they're in the same compose file they can be ordered properly but when they're different files it doesn't care.

Check out the full options (long form) to depends: and see if you can add a delay and a health check.

lemmyvore ,

I'm also using Radicale and I've landed on the Calengoo app because it can do both events and tasks in the same app. It's amazingly customizable and it can sync directly if needed, bypassing the Android account system. If you buy it directly off the website you get a perpetual license that doesn't depend on Google Play.

lemmyvore ,

It's not good looking out of the box but you can customize it extensively. Give it a chance. I'm glad I put in the time, I ended with a calendar app that's more suitable to my taste than anything else I've used before.

lemmyvore ,

I have no idea what the people who recommend CPU are smoking. The difference between a GPU with hardware support and doing it on the CPU is huge.

lemmyvore ,

"Sign-up works without non-free JavaScript" is a super weird criteria for selecting an email platform.

lemmyvore ,

I'm still trying to understand what "proprietary JavaScript" means.

lemmyvore ,

What I don't understand is how they can tell. There's no mechanism (that I'm aware of) for signalling the licensing of deployed (minified!) JS code. The development code has licensing and versioning and so on but none of that makes it into production. As far as the client is concerned it's all proprietary.

lemmyvore ,

Are we sure this deal is about answering new SO questions with LLM? It's more likely to be a deal where SO sells access to its database to OpenAI so they can use human-generated content for LLM training, and SO gets to use LLM as a more efficient search through its human-generated content.

It's possible they could also choose to delegate the duplicate decision to the LLM but let's be honest, that decision is currently crap anyway.

lemmyvore ,

That's SO's problem going forward. OpenAI already got what they wanted – legal access to SO's database up to this moment, when it's still mostly human.

I didn't say this was a good deal for SO.

lemmyvore ,

There are often individual apps for various cities and transport organizations.

Traffic has always been a mixed bag. Yeah it's nice to be able to see that street A is more busy than street B. But so can everybody else, and they're all going to use street B now.

lemmyvore ,

The app doesn't control what people do, it just makes recommendations based on busy segments, based on data which is already obsolete by the time it's being used. Ultimately the lemmings will do whatever their lemming brain tells them to.

(That is, assuming the app doesn't actually try to spread people around the various routes. But I doubt that any app maker wants to assume responsibility for that.)

Ultimately traffic apps are mostly useless. You can't "solve" traffic congestion with apps any more than you can make water flow faster through a pipe. Congestion is constrained by available road space and choke points. Google Maps is mostly an excuse for Google to collect location data, with a thin layer of features on top to make it seem worthwhile.

lemmyvore ,

If that would be the case all the small streets around main roads would be full too.

They are. If they aren't then your city is not really that busy. It's actually a major problem in some cities for the residents of small residential streets that suddenly start getting lots of traffic because their street gets recommended on Waze or Maps.

lemmyvore ,

And Google also trusts that data because it's collected at OS level.

If an open project tried to collect location data they could not trust it. There's no way to prevent malicious users from sending bogus data.

lemmyvore ,

No, that's the magic of the reverse proxy. You can transport all HTTP services through just one port. It will route them to the correct service on your service based on the domain (which is passed through the HTTP headers).

It won't work for non-HTTP services, for those you'll have to make a separate ssh tunnel per port.

lemmyvore ,

Check all the steps individually then:

  • check that the ip resolves to the VPS IP at the location you're testing this
  • set up the tunnel to bypass the proxy (connect it directly to jellyfin)
  • check that jellyfin works directly
  • check the proxy directly, with curl connected to the proxy with the header "Host" set to the domain
  • check that the VPS firewall didn't block port 80
  • normally you wouldn't be able to forward port 80 with a normal ssh user but I see you're logging in as root so it should be working
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