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Avid Amoeba

@ avidamoeba @lemmy.ca

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  • I made a project that can install/configure/orchestrate 115+ applications on your homelab using Ansible!

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  • As someone who's done cloud infrastructure professionally, this is the right way to make a project for setting up self-hosted applications. Not writing a bunch of bash scripts and putting them behind some web UI. We have well established infrastructure/config-as-code systems that are the gold standard which runs most clouds out there. Ansible is one of them. That's the right tool for this job and a ton of professionals understand it and therefore can easily contribute improvements for the ones who don't to use. I'm unfortunatrly invested in SaltStack but I wouldn't feel worried to deploy a (well reviewed) project built on Ansible. Then slap a web UI on it if you like but that should be another project that hooks uses this one.

  • Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

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  • This is much needed.

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • Err, that's not true on the last fee devices I've used, Pixels and a Fairphone. Installing apps from APK files doesn't require me to enable dev options. In fact trying to install an APK from say Files brings me straight to the permission setting. It's also per-app. It can be accessed under Settings > Apps > Special app access > Install unknown apps.

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    Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?

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  • Yes, but self-hosting does whatever the HOWTO, YouTube vid or AI slop the user follows tells them to do. If the user doesn't know the basics, how could they know what an instruction for activating UPnP does or opening a NAT port does and why that might expose their data? Laymen don't even understand what making theie stuff publicly accessible means. It might simply mean "Yay I can access my stuff on the go." 😄

    If on the other had the user learns the basics, they can tell when a doc instructs them to do something dangerous and they can do something about it to avoid disaster.

  • Nextcloud plans to invest over €250 million in digital sovereignty by 2030

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  • high-performance

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    Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?

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  • You bury your lede by mentioning "your project" at the end.

    Basically means the user has to trust that project to do the right thing and be maintained to keep their setup secure.

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    Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?

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  • Same. No WAN ingress without VPN.

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    Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?

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  • "If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting."

    If this is an example of gatekeeping, I think you are misjudging.

    Whenever self-hosting there's a very real risk of exposing your private data to the internet. Potentially a lot more private data than you'd otherwise expose via cloud providers. This risk necessitates a basic understanding of some of the importand bits and how to operate them securely. If not for that, then anything would go.

    Understanding docker, reverse proxy, and YAML which is used to configure those is part of probably the simplest way to get to secure self-hosting. I'd add a self-hosted VPN to access local resources. I'm not aware of a magic UI solution that does it all and securely. Docker compose files are very accessible. A couple of those followed by docker compose up -d and you have a basic env up and running.

    Generally the lack of knowledge in X or Y doesn't mean there's necessarily an easier path than learning X and Y and that you're being gatekept by being told you have to learn X and Y. Some things are harder than others. Buying Apple Cloud and setting it up is easier than self-hosting Nextcloud. I don't think that should be the case, but today it is as far as I'm aware.

  • Contacted by the US Secret Service & the AI Surveillance Center Dystopia

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  • Same boat. I guess brother in law is gonna have some GN coasters too. 😆

  • Contacted by the US Secret Service & the AI Surveillance Center Dystopia

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  • Also the new retro coasters are fabulous:

  • iPhone Pocket: $229.95

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  • Oh I'm not at all reacting to the usefulness. I'm reacting to the price of the item. Pockets on women's clothes are a bit of a disaster.

  • iPhone Pocket: $229.95

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  • What the actual fuck.

  • Deal to end government shutdown in reach

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  • But with blackjack and hookers!

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • That's the only way the 1% could eliminate poverty. If it were at all possible.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • There's research that shows the process of accumulating so much wealth both selects and creates sociopaths. This is why they're very overrepresented in the upper class. Sure, not all of them are. Maybe you'd be the exception. I also think I'd be the exception but I'm not too confident. :D

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • The only important indicator. Everything else is window dressing.

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • We'd likely have to go through socialism before that anyways so it'll be a while indeed.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • It may be even better than sliced bread.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • You make Karp sad. Why won't you buy his profit-driven narrative?