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poVoq , 6 hours ago (edited 6 hours ago)

I think that CPU only supports up to 8GB RAM. Also the m2 is only for Wifi cards I think.

I have a somewhat similar ASUS board and it is quite ok otherwise, but don't expect wonders from that CPU.

A bit annoying will be that you need to either use one of the four SATA ports for the system drive, or find some way to boot from the PCIe 1x port. The similar ASUS board that I have does not support booting from NVMe drives though, so even if you added an adapter for this it probably wouldn't work (maybe if there is an BIOS update for it).

You could boot from a USB3 drive... not ideal but workable. Or add more SATA ports via an PCIe 1x extension card... but those might be hard to find, usually they require a longer (4x?) PCIe port.

P.S.: if you end up buying that board I can sell you 2x 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs that I have currently no use for :p

poVoq , 16 hours ago

The problem is that the so called privacy community is full of security LARPers that have no idea what their threat model is and in addition many snakeoil vendors trying to sell you (usually unnecessary or even counter-productive) VPNs etc.

So it's understandable that people get tired of these grifters and stop bothering.

poVoq , 3 days ago

You realise that the government can (and does) just make new money? There is no need for the government to borrow any money (but it does it anyways for other more complex reasons). And if done in moderation the resulting inflation is in effect identical to taxes, except that it automatically "taxes" the rich more and incurages further investments.

And with sufficient inflation, businesses will have no problem to attract investments as people will want to have investments that retain their value, no interest needed.

Similarly, investing money in houses is sound business when inflation is relatively high, both individually and for housing companies.

But the real problem is anyways not basic interest, but compound interest that forces the borrower to repay the lend amount many times over and still be in debt afterwards.

poVoq , 5 days ago

Impossible to say without providing more details. But somewhere between 10€ and 200€ a month depending on your setup and how you calculate in hardware costs.

poVoq , 5 days ago

Well, I am paying less, but if you realistically calculate the costs of hardware over its lifetime, this is certainly not unrealistic for many homelabs.

poVoq Mod , 5 days ago

You can do something similar, but much easier with btrfs and btrbk.

Of course ZFS is even more advanced than btrfs, but unless you are doing professional datacenter level stuff btrfs will likely be sufficient.

poVoq , 6 days ago

It's relatively popular in DACH countries.

I use it sometimes. It has its fair share of issues, and the back end is not open-source, but it is OK for the most part. Main benefit is that you don't need a mobile number to sign up.

But if you are looking for an alternative IM to use with friends and family, I would rather suggest XMPP, specifically Snikket.

poVoq , 7 days ago

It works nicely, but for some weird reason spammers really like it, so never open registrations on it.

poVoq , 8 days ago

Gogs started it originally, but was forked into Gitea years ago and hasn't seen much development since.

Forgejo is a newer fork of Gitea after the IP rights to Gitea were (secretly) transferred to a for-profit company and some of the developers started to turn the project into a commercial open-core one.

poVoq , 8 days ago

Not yet, but they are the ones actively working on it, so it will likely arrive there first. Still a few months out though.

poVoq , 8 days ago

I recently looked this up again and it looks like the person who started the federation work in Gitlab got a new job and isn't really working on it any more. So sadly this seems to be on hold as Gitlab the company is not themselves investing staff-hours into federation.

poVoq , 11 days ago

The original project was called Owncloud and was made largely by the same people, but they split over a disagreement in management.

poVoq OP , 18 days ago

You have a lot of unlearning to do 😊

poVoq , 18 days ago

Funded by a (somewhat controversial) tech billionair, see a recent interview with him here: https://youtu.be/5UHF84gyVWg

poVoq , 18 days ago

Some of the views he expressed in the past sounded a lot like Elon Musk before he went full bonkers recently. But I guess it could be worse.

poVoq , 17 days ago

The very fact that the developer's livelihood now depends on the investor is enough to influence development significantly.

poVoq , 18 days ago

The problem is structural. Encouraging more left-leaning people to join these institutions will just make them very unhappy and likely to quit later. Furthermore, you can't really abolish a broken institution from within.

poVoq , 21 days ago

Sure, works great.

There is even an integration with Lemmy that server admins can use to give every account on their Lemmy server also an XMPP account with the same handle/address.

poVoq , 20 days ago

You need an Ejabberd server and this auth script: https://f-hub.org/Solarpunk/ejabberd-auth-lemmy

poVoq , 22 days ago

This is nice for the file syncing part: https://github.com/kd2org/karadav

poVoq Mod , 23 days ago

Many student dormitories (at least used to when the internet was still very slow) have such hyper-local intranets for sharing movies and other stuff. A local IRC server with p2p file-sharing was also common. Local network game-servers with games like Minetest might also be popular.

poVoq Mod , 23 days ago

Maybe worth asking someone over at the IWW Brussels: https://industrialworker.org/iww-methods-score-major-victory-for-healthcare-workers/

poVoq , 23 days ago

I briefly talked with the responsible person at the EDPS during last year's CCC congress, and "money" isn't the real issue.

The EDPS overstepped their mandate when setting up this pilot and due to the typical bureocratic clusterfuck no other organisation wants to take responsibility for the necessary infrastructure.

poVoq , 23 days ago

It has a very opinionated default configuration and many of the relevant settings are hard-coded in the containers and thus are not easy to change permanently.

It's probably possible to get working with ConverseJS, but I think it is better to wait for an officially supported web-client to be added to Snikket or alternatively configure your own XMPP server without the ready made Snikket containers.

poVoq , 23 days ago

Its not specific settings but the overall setup that is not intended to be modified.

poVoq , 22 days ago

XMPP doesn't use HTTP for the most part, so Traefik isn't going to work. Just open the right ports in your firewall.

poVoq , 25 days ago

If you run things on your own server and have no federation there is no point in e2ee.

If you already have an XMPP server, maybe add an easy to use Movim web-client to it. People that are used to Discord seem to have little trouble adapting to it, but it isn't a full feature equivalent to Discord obviously.

poVoq , 25 days ago

That is what transport encryption does.

poVoq , 25 days ago

Mumble is the go-to solution for that these days. Even has a nice Android client.

poVoq , 25 days ago

No. I don't think any of the here proposed solutions other than Mumble (and Teamspeak) does. Maybe Revolt?

poVoq , 25 days ago

Then just don't?

poVoq , 24 days ago

Uhm, honestly that's a you issue if your own friends and family don't trust you even that much.

poVoq , 24 days ago

Sorry, but you are making excuses and you know full well that other online services are not any more secure, but less so. If something like your totally made up example would actually happen then you would need to have a stern talk with your dad about not uploading stuff like that to a remote computer, period.

E2EE is a band aid at best and mostly used to justify using commercial services that are inherently untrustworthy.

poVoq , 24 days ago

Seen by them and any random employee, and in addition actively searched through by robots to sell data to advertisers or insurance etc.

And no, I have not lived a sheltered life, but I am telling you that if your friends and relatives do not trust you to not snoop on their stuff that tells me more about you than it tells me about them. Maybe something you should reflect on instead of finding excuses.

poVoq , 24 days ago

I don't think its wired to critique someone for having a widely different interpretation of what happened than multiple others that were directly involved and then taking this very peculiar subjective interpretation to make wide sweeping (and IMHO wrong) conclusions about what we should learn from it.

My impression is that Bevin started out with a preconsived notion and then kinda made up a retrospective narrative of these protests to fit to that.

Many of his conclusions as a result are so much besides the point that they are not even wrong.

poVoq , 24 days ago

Ok I guess I need to start from the basics 😒

His core thesis is exactly what I meant with preconceived notion. These protests might have been illegible to him and government authorities, but that is exactly why they worked. The entire premise that protests need to be legible and that these protest failed to achieve what they set out to do is IMHO false.

Maybe the Brazilian ones had a certain aspect of appealing to Rusoff, but from what I gathered most people involved in the core did not consider that aspect especially important and I suspect Bevin failed to understand their point and summarized it as "they didn't know either" or something along those lines to fit it in his grand narrative of these protests failing somehow to articulate specific demands.

Anyway, maybe I am wrong about the Brazilian protests, but the Egyptian (and Tunisian) ones certainly did not want to appeal to the dictators in power, they wanted to get rid of them, and that worked very well. Being illegible to the state apparatus was a successful tactic for them and they mostly used social media to spread disinformation to intentionally confuse the state apparatus. Bevin completely fails to see that and just parrots the western media narrative that social media was somehow instrumental in mobilizing the masses.

Now you can argue that the successes of the protest in Egypt (and to a lesser extend Tunisia) where later rolled back, but that is muddling a multi year struggle with very different actors and a shift in public opinion. The initial protests where a resounding success in achieving what they set out to do, but later after the Muslim Brotherhood rose to power through democratic elections, many of the original urban liberal supporters turned back to the military as the lesser evil. In Tunesia it played out slightly different, but it is also wrong there to say that the initial protests failed to achieve what they set out to do.

Similarly for Brazil I think Bevin is muddling the initial protests with ones that happened many months later and which ultimately helped Bolsenaro to be elected as the president. But that is a bit like how MLs like to muddle the original soviet revolution with the later brutal take-over by the Bolshevik.

poVoq , 24 days ago

He means that they cannot participate in state power as an institutional apparatus, be it as reformists or revolutionaries.

You realize how funny it is that you post this in an Anarchist community?

Anyway, I do get that point by Bevin, but it is the typical false argument MLs like to make, which is why I stopped reading the book when it became clear that this is really all he has to say.

poVoq , 24 days ago

Ok sorry, I did get a bit carried away, because usually here on Lemmy you get to discuss with hardened MLs that really do deserve all the ridicule they can get.

That said, sorry but no. That analysis is completely incompatible with Anarchist thought. Participating in "state power as an institutional apparatus" is exactly what Anarchist warn against, because as soon as you do that you have lost. The state apparatus, regardless of the ideological paintjob is gives itself, has one primary goal, that is perpetuating its own existence no matter the cost.

And that there "is no more legible act to the state than organized violence" is exactly why it is so easy for states to instrumentalize violent protests and turn them against themselves. Violence and the threat of it can be a necessary tool, but it needs to be done in a way that makes it illegible to the state, otherwise it will not work as the state is the master of violence and will always win in an open confrontation.

poVoq , 24 days ago

Indeed understanding legibility is important to become illegible. Which is exactly why Bevin's interpretation is so incomplete and misguided. He genuinely seems to believe that this was a problem for these protests when in fact it was a defining feature that led to their (relative) success.

poVoq , 25 days ago

Well, I don't disagree with your specific points, but you are missing that the founding idea of FOSS was a copyright hack to ensure that software remains modifyable/fixable by its users. A mandatory CLA that allows relicensing partially circumvents that not only for the users but even the contributors.

Sure you can argue that technically the already released code can not be relisensed, but that's really missing the point that FOSS software intends to be open now and in the future.

Anyways, a good related read is: https://opensource.net/why-single-vendor-is-the-new-proprietary/

poVoq , 25 days ago

I guess we can all agree on the FSF being out of touch lately 😅

poVoq , 21 days ago

Yes, if you mean the Slidge Discord transport.