scrubbles

scrubbles , 4 hours ago

Someone gave you an honest, well thought out comment and you went to "there is no where left on the internet".

The saying stands. You you smell shit while walking around, there was probably some shit around. If you smell it all day, check your shoe.

scrubbles , 4 hours ago

People who don't like paying for labor declares new technology will finally let them automate people away. More at 11.

I remember decades ago when I was working at mcds as a greasy teenager when they told me that I only had a couple years left there, that our jobs would probably be automated soon. That stores without humans at all were just around the corner.

Any engineer who has worked with AI directly knows what it's great at (a slim number of finite tasks), what it appears to be great at (many many tasks), and what it is not good at (everything else). Corporate America sees no distinction.

scrubbles , 1 day ago

WD Red has always been my go-to, and in the last 8 years of homelabbing I haven't had a single one fail. Blues and Greens are not build for NAS operations, and you'll see them fail. Toshibas I haven't had a single one make it past a year, except for their gaming drives.

If you want the shortcut, the WD Elements usually go on sale at Best Buy regularly, and they're always a WD Red or White, which will also work. All of my drives have been one of those. You just shuck the internal drive out of the enclosure

scrubbles , 1 day ago

midwest.social has a few for the midwestern states

scrubbles , 1 day ago

It's all done by committee now, with marketers and lawyers in there cutting back anything that might remotely shy away the most tamest of movie goer.

Can't have that plot! You might upset them! Can't go that route, that's untested, we don't know how audiences might take it.

So we get these boring bland flat characters and storylines because there was zero risk taken in making the film. Nothing risked, nothing gained, movie industry. Then they wonder why no one cares about going to the movies anymore.

scrubbles , 1 day ago

Unfortunately both 0.19.4 and 0.19.5 are hanging for me when spinning up my containers, getting some weird issue with inbox timeouts. Opened a bug here

scrubbles , 1 day ago

You exist because we allow it - you will end, because we demand it

Sovereign Nature

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Boooooo.

Also if it's not called "The quest for more money" than they should all be ashamed. More than they already are.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Goddamn do republicans love to forget history. They hear "They used to be left" and then think that's the end of the story.

Republicans and Democrats switched sides during Lincoln's time. So anything that was "Left" around that time is now the right. Republicans love saying now they were the party that freed the slaves because of Lincoln, but really the democrats then have flipped.

So, to say "Weren't they left wing" is a bad notion, because those "wings" meant completely different things back then. The fact is that the KKK and racists have always been on the wrong side of history. Right now they label themselves Republicans. In Civil War era they called themselves Democrats, who at the time were anti-big government, pro-slavery, and dominated most of the south.

scrubbles , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

(instance admin here, but for a small one) woof well, for me, I agree, but I wouldn't use that wording.

Lemmy for sure isn't a plug and play site. Setting it up took leaps and bounds, learning way more about nginx than I ever really cared to, and figuring out documentation that was very clearly out of date. Very little logging or error messaging exists to help with that problem.

Very little errors exist at all, it's very much a "happy path" project. That's why we get constant spinners everywhere, because when an HTTP error occurs there's no actual error message. (Come on guys, just add it to your standard HTTP messages, if statusCode < 200 || >= 300 then show a toast message).

But yeah, the moderation tools have to be the worst. Lemmy has an amazing development group that's separate from the main developers who have patched together a good set of tools, from automods to CSAM and illegal scanning, huge props to them - but these issues are routinely ignored by the main devs. I was shocked, honestly shocked that when we were under CSAM attacks that there was not an immediate roundtable of the head devs to try to solve the problem officially. Here was a problem that 99% of countries would immediately and gladly throw us, the instance admins, in jail over and they just handwaved it away. In fact, I don't know that there was ever an official post about it, or even that there are things coming to help with it.

I love Lemmy and being here, and the devs have done a great job at building this platform for us, but we're at a critical point right now. It's no longer software that is just fun side projects and building stuff that looks cool, it has some real issues now that it has a real userbase. I'm definitely one to say "But it's FOSS, and other people can pick up and submit a PR" - but it also says something when the head devs just completely ignore a massively huge issue with it.

Bugs and caches and that sort of thing I can overlook. Those I can wait on and see them get smoothed out over time. Actual issues that could land me in jail or get the feds to beat down my door? Those I kind of expect a fast response.

So, I'll say I'm extremely conflicted. I want to host lemmy long term, and I'm happy to bring the fediverse to a few more people, but the csam attacks really altered my view of the devs.

Edit - because my favorite manager said "Bring me solutions, not problems" a few things that would really help immediately -

• Integrate db0's CSAM checker natively, more or less a plug and play option, or a checkbox. His checker sits at an endpoint. The admin page of lemmy could easily have you plop in the endpoint and it would start checking
• Have an image management portal, with capabilities to:
  • Auto remove images after X time (to help with ballooning storage costs)
  • Perma-delete images and users (maybe blurred too if the CSAM checker flagged it, so I don't need eye bleach) (Edit again, 0.19.4 might have fixed this, I need to upgrade so I'll see)
  • Federating image purges, so one purge on one server will force purge it on everyone else's
  • ~~Disabling of caching other server's images ~~ (Edit again, I see 0.19.4 just dropped which has this, so this is good). This way I'm only responsible for my own users.
  • View images that are not related to a post (DM'd messages that I'm hosting, or people just uploading images to my site)
• Bring in a logging system into the UI itself, so I can keep tabs on the error logs. I can pipe them somewhere, but this would be a major plus as an admin

scrubbles , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

I was not handling it fine, it was generally chaotic, and in the Matrix chats I remember it being chaotic, for both attacks. Luckily by the second one we had db0's tooling to help a bit more, but there still many of us who were exposed to the images. We lost a lot of instances during those two attacks from admins who justifiably didn't want to take on the risk.

I completely understand how crazy it was, but the lack of response from you guys was disheartening, it really did make me wonder if I should continue hosting or if I should bail out. Ultimately, I decided to stay obviously, but had to do some hard extra steps, like reducing privacy and registering with the feds for CSAM.

So like I said, I'm torn. I respect you guys for everything you do, but that was a moment where all other development should have stopped to immediately address a real problem, and while you think a roundtable would have just been feel good, I think we could have kept a lot of instances online if it had been done. Assurances that yes, new changes are coming, and official suggestions like "Here are the endpoints to delete the images", or nominating db0 or someone as the person in charge of the outbreak. It was honestly a scary time, and for us owners who accept a lot of risk, for many of them it was too much.

Anyway, I have a habitual case of foot in mouth disease, so it was immediately after posting that comment that I heard about 0.19.4, and immediately felt stupid. I tried it last night but I kept getting timeout errors and something about "Could not get user's /inbox" or something, I'll try 0.19.5 today. Thank you for bringing additional mod tools, they've been hugely needed. I know they're not glamorous to make, but they keep the communities healthy and strong.

Edit: 0.19.5 also failed. I wrote up a github bug on it, until then I unfortunately have to stay on 0.19.3
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4850

scrubbles , 1 day ago

I fully understand that, and I explained it in my reply to nutomic. It's not that I wanted to just pile on, but rather at an emergency like that, an all-stop would have been justified in my opinion, to stop all work and go into emergency "What can we all do to stop this and prevent it". All other issues were secondary in that moment compared to stopping CSAM, and it didn't feel that way. They added it to the pile of issues, and I'm glad to see changes came out, but in that moment I didn't see much if any support from them

scrubbles , 1 day ago

This is what excites me the most. There are huge potentials for plugins, and I think it'll ease some of the strain from the core engineers. Most of the "ideas" I see posted really could be plugins. Things like badges on posts, verification of links, etc etc could all be plugins that individuals could make. The problem with developing against the core repo is that you have to learn and understand the core repo, so you don't fuck up something else in some other place accidentally. Plugins are a neat way where we can say "I'm a function that does one thing, just do the thing here, and then do what you need to with that data"

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Fully agree with it, but they're still extremely popular, and people will gladly keep handing over their money.

For me, I say "Ok" to them wanting us to get used to not owning our content - followed with "Then I'll pay rental prices. Which means I'm not buying at $60+ dollars, if all I get to do is rent it then I'll pay <$15 going forward."

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Big companies will constantly work against open standards.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

The all feed. They knew mods in communities were removing their spam posts, so they created communities they could post constantly to and all viewers would see them

scrubbles , 2 days ago

ah your instance has debugging enabled. Message your instance admins to remove it.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Same here, and I get weird dirty looks. I've heard of people getting verbally assaulted wearing them, my go-to line ready is "I'm sick, I didn't want to get people like you sick, but if you don't care..." starts to pull down mask

scrubbles , 2 days ago

I always wear them in airports. Airplanes I have stopped caring, but airports have so. many. people.

My story is I was in Denver, sitting in a chair. This was long before covid. The only chair left was one by those moving walkways in the middle of their concourses. I was sitting there reading and some guy literally turned to his right and just sneezed directly in my face. Wet drips literally down my cheek. He just casually rolled away on it, never said anything. I was sick the next day.

Fuck that guy, fuck gross people. Mask won't protect me against that, but ffs if your sick just wear one.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

people so easily triggered that a person wearing a mask makes them have to yell at someone

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Yeughh, I'm sorry, it's the absolute worst. I begudgingly understand if you need to fly when you're sick, after all - what if you get sick while on vacation? Most people can't just not go to work for an additional 2 weeks while you recover, and buy a hotel room for that long. At the very least though get a mask and just keep it contained.

Sure I have an immune system, it doesn't mean I want to use it when I'm going on vacation!

scrubbles , 2 days ago

I agree with this. I pass by a theater regularly and my spouse and I just haven't seen any need to go. Personally, I blame their marketing teams. All the trailers are the same, they either give away the whole story or they don't tell us anything about the story. It's all action scenes, they all blend together, and just blech. So I don't go to the theater anymore.

Then the theaters are gross now, people are rude, staff have just given up, it's not a fun experience for me anymore. Even Dune 2 I just waited until it was out and watched it at home, and had a much better experience.

So I agree, theaters aren't dead, but they have fallen into a rut of corporate complacency and aren't trying hard enough to get out of it.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

The story you can't miss with a huge twist at the end

Oh great! I love twists when I know they're coming! It wouldn't be fun if I didn't know it was coming!

Then they are shocked when I don't see the point in spending my money on it

scrubbles , 2 days ago

Bingo. And now that they bought Alamo drafthouse even the good theaters are slipping away.

Fully agree, I have an OLED at home, a good sound system, a giant couch, and I can make a lot more popcorn for pennies compared to them. I'm very happy waiting for something and watching it later.

scrubbles , 2 days ago

This is how I see it too, there's the trope that it's only neckbeards who can't get any, but really I see it as the future of pornography. Sex work is real work, they deserve to get paid for it. Creators have said that it is leaps and bounds better than the standard porn industry in terms of how they're exploited and treated, because they're their own Boss

scrubbles , 3 days ago

Waiting can be good if there is something on the horizon, but often with tech if you wait for the next thing you'll find there's another new thing on the horizon then. You do kind of have to decide that you're putting your stake in the ground at some point

scrubbles , 3 days ago

Then whenever you're ready. Just do a table of price per TB and go then. Best Buy usually has WD Elements on sale every other week where you can pick up an external for cheaper, then just shuck it and you get a WD red or white you can just pop into your NAS. I did 16TBs not too long ago and they were the cheapest per TB

scrubbles , 3 days ago

Thank you for what you do though, it's not glamorous work I'm sure but average person like me appreciates what you do

scrubbles , 3 days ago

I'm sure they will be slightly inconvenienced for the duration of a single meeting

scrubbles , 3 days ago

My only point here would be I'd switch from actual ownership to more of an "option" ownership option. Similar to stock options, every time you pay rent you get more of the "options". When a sale event happens, you can exercise your options and have a chance to buy the property there. Or, if they want to exercise now they can and they'd own shares of the building there. Once it tips to 50% then the shareholders own it.

Every year you receive more options, you are under no obligation to exercise them. However, every year you rent you receive more options. If you leave and you did exercise your options you get the value you put in back, but if you didn't the options go back into the pool.

I think this is similar to co-ops in large cities, where there is a contract that the owners can start owning the building themselves over time.

scrubbles , 3 days ago

It was just a thought, I don't have all the details worked out. But essentially yes, just like a co-op except since in a co-op you own, these would be options, where they unlock every year on renewal, giving you the option to own. There would have to be a whole new concept for it, a normalized thing similar to a corporation but specific to land ownership, because yes pretty much any rental property would be one, every building

scrubbles , 3 days ago

Thank you. You're not there because you're winning an Oscar, you're there to make a quick buck and have a bit of fun while you do it. Cate Blanchett I guarantee didn't go into Thor because she thought it was going to be some revolutionary experience.

scrubbles , 3 days ago

I saw his show! Absolutely deserved, the whole cast did an amazing job. I don't know how much longer it's on, but if you can make it to new York it's worth seeing!

scrubbles , 6 days ago

rclone is my go to for backups I run regularly. It is very nice and scriptable.

rsync might be what you're looking for, a bit more verbose and... determined? for a large job like that.

scrubbles , 6 days ago

It doesn't combine them (because different people are subbed to different communities, although what you bring up has been discussed on the github for a while). The biggest thing though is discoverability, where your post is shown in multiple communities easily. Another added benefit is that there are less duplicated posts, your app/device can see that it was crossposted and show you only one in your feed rather than 3,5, 10 duplicate posts (and then you can tab between them)

scrubbles , 6 days ago

I do something similar to op, however, running llms is what finally convinced me to switch over to kubernetes for these exact reasons, I needed the ability to have gpus running on separate nodes that then I could toggle on or off. Power concerns here are real, the only real solution is to separate your storage and your compute nodes.

What OP is suggesting is not only not going to work, and cause damage probably to the motherboard and gpus, but I would assume is also a pretty large fire hazard. One GPU takes in an insane amount of power, two gpus is not something to sneeze at. It's worth the investment of getting a very good power supply and not cheaping out on any components.

scrubbles , 6 days ago

I read two paragraphs and stopped. Annoying writing.

scrubbles , 6 days ago

This is the same guy who said full auto driving out of beta in 2 years 10 years ago and that we're going to be living in Mars in 2. Skeptical is an understatement

scrubbles , 7 days ago

and god help you if you ever use any of them, obviously you have time to play games you don't have enough work to do. It's all for show.

I remember a Meta recruiter reached out to me. We had a couple of talks, and then on one of them I asked "So how's the work life balance"

Oh it's great! We have a 24/7 cafeteria here, so if you ever need a snack it's always available. We have sleeping pods, so you can easily sleep, and even 24/7 laundry services, so it's all around a very relaxing place.

Uhhh yeah man. I'm not some kid fresh out of college. I own a home, and I'm very aware of my work time vs my personal time. Hard pass all around. Kids, if the company sounds too good to be true, there's an ulterior motive. Those things sound super great..... but they're of course all meant to keep you working around the clock, meeting deadlines. The companies aren't "hip" or "cool", it's all to attract you, and then work you to the bone. A strict 40 hour work week is better than foosball anyday.

I know I'm preaching to the choir but for the people interviewing for their first software gig - well maybe one of them will read this.

scrubbles , 6 days ago

Homer Simpson, the scene where his brain explains how 25 dollars can buy many peanuts, but made into a meme that says "25,000 dollars can buy many sneakers"

scrubbles , 5 days ago

Money can be exchanged for goods and services

scrubbles , 7 days ago

I would urge caution for using it. I already see too many of my juniors starting to rely on it.

The problem (when it works perfectly - and it doesn't all the time), is that you don't learn anything from using it. You aren't learning why it's picking the way to write a specific piece of code. You can ask it to explain it, but you have to go out of your way to do that in standard gpt, in vscode it won't. This is incredibly important when trying to get code to fit within an organization or team's code, where there are already standard patterns, worries about things like runtime, or scalability. You need to understand line by line what that code is doing.

So, I won't say don't use it, but don't depend on it. Learn why it made the choice it did, and dig deeper into the ramifications. Ask it for alternatives and why it chose that one. Ask it for runtime information, how it performs at scale, if it's concurrent and thread safe, anything you can. I use it to help me think outside the box, and it's great at that, but I wouldn't want an engineer working for me who didn't understand what the code was doing.

scrubbles , 7 days ago

I am shocked.

scrubbles , 8 days ago

I tried things like character AI to play with talking to "celebrities". It was novel, it was fun. For about 15 minutes. Then... Eh. It's not the person, and your brain knows it's not them. It's always an imitation. I got bored talking with people I've always wanted to talk to.

I can't imagine it being a lived one who has passed. It would feel hollow, empty, and wouldn't make the pain leave. Idk, it just wouldn't be good at all

scrubbles , 7 days ago

Can confirm, have a bad dad, father's day passes by without a word every year. That's a long term message. Last few years I didn't even realize it was father's day. If I got him anything it would mean I'm thinking about him

scrubbles , 6 days ago

I've had this argument with other people, but essentially at this point there is no licensing beyond server ownership here, and most servers don't have any licenses defined. Even if they do, then sure they did something wrong... but how would you ever prove it or enforce it? The only way to actually disallow them is to switch from open federation to closed - which goes against what we're trying to build with federation.

scrubbles , 7 days ago

Vertical integration