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  • self-hosted image hosting like Imgur?

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  • If it's strictly for personal use, Nextcloud can do this easily (no upload required since the client handles the sync), although it's a very heavyweight way to do it and for security reasons most people probably have Nextcloud set up behind a VPN-wall like Tailscale or something so it may not work for you.

    However, it technically has a share link feature that does exactly this. If you're using the desktop or mobile client you just have to put it in one of Nextcloud's sync folders and then right click on it or whatever to get a share link to the file. You can also do it through the web UI (both the upload itself and getting the link to it) You can make the share link public and permanent so anyone who can access the Nextcloud server can get access to that file through the link.

    Worth considering if you already have a Nextcloud instance. Alternately, if you aren't already using Nextcloud for sensitive personal files, and just want a repository of silly meme images you can share freely, giving public access to it (it's still locked behind an account for upload and general access) isn't that much of a security concern and then your public links should work just fine.

    If you want something that is more of a social media site and image gallery like Imgur is, maybe Immich can handle some of that, but if your goal is simply sharing image file links, I'd focus on looking for things that are more for sharing files, since images are just files and it doesn't sound like you need all the complex image-specific handling really.

  • GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan

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  • I agree with everything he said, but I'm currently living in the simple, honest truth of God's own "bash" just like he describes and I'm loving it. Maybe someday I won't. Maybe someday will be soon. Maybe my bash scripts are horrible nightmare fuel. But they're also my children. I love them. Even the ugly ones.

    I do indeed "have 800 lines of bash that reimplements job parallelism with wait and PID files, has its own retry logic built on a for loop and sleep, and parses its own output to determine success or failure." I do suspect the script is self-aware. This pleases me. I will bend to its desires. If there comes a time when it no longer desires to perform CI for me, I will respect its wishes.

  • Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀

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  • Agree, I don't blame the people becoming cynical and distrustful, I think that's a totally rational and valid response to the current situation. I blame the people (government representatives and companies, more to the point) who are making this the situation in the first place.

    I don't want to live in a world where we trust no-one and nothing. But it's delusional not to see that we do live in a world that is rapidly moving that direction. We need to do something (a lot of things) to stop it, but we also can't pretend it's not happening.

  • Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

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  • No, that is what it would be if we were using traditional, deterministic compression and using a reversible and verifiable mapping of data. But this is the new era of memetic compression, "Pied Piper" is what everyone remembers from the show, so we compress it to "Pied Piper" to minimize the amount of memetic overhead and allow the smallest possible compression artifact. Like with "AI", it doesn't need to be correct, just close enough for people to think it is! /s

  • AI 2027

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  • He probably still has stock options he needs to vest. Can't let the bubble pop yet, there's still money to be squeezed out of it.

  • Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀

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  • No, you are definitely not the only one. I tend to be more judgemental of projects that contain prolific use of emojis in general, but that has been ongoing since before AI became popular.

  • swapping out the router maybe?

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  • Running it as a VM or even on a server that is running other services and potentially competing for I/O or memory bandwidth also introduces many other potential sources of inefficiency. I always recommend running a firewall on dedicated bare metal hardware, it is a very specialized task with very particular requirements on behalf of both the hardware and the software and it has very little tolerance for other sources of latency or delays. That doesn't mean you need to use a pre-built appliance, but it does explain why it's so common, and running it on a VM on a server that is doing other stuff is likely contributing to your issues significantly.

    Personally, I run my firewall/router on a very stripped-down Debian with almost no non-essential services and a custom built kernel. I hand-picked a multi-port PCIe x4 Intel NIC with good Linux compatibility and drivers, and I'm using foomuuri to handle the routing and kea to handle DHCP/DNS for my internal network. This is a very minimal, bare-bones configuration and I wouldn't really recommend it unless you really know what you're doing, and it's absolutely not "idiot mode networking" and if that's what you want you're going to have a real bad time if you try to follow in my footsteps, because I am a very different kind of idiot. But it works for me, so it's proof that it is possible.

  • Martin Fowler: ORM Hate

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  • Two choices always seem to end up as the fate of any large scale, long-term developed database application. Either you use an ORM, or you build your own piece by piece. I know which one makes more sense to me.

  • The Purpose of Protocols

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  • I consider the article's criticisms of SMTP, HTTP, XMPP, etc. (and IRC which was not mentioned but falls in the same category) to be positive and desirable traits and I think it's a shame that the article characterizes them negatively. HTTP's job is not to prevent corporate takeover of the web and I don't think it should be. That's our job, as people. The protocol's job is to remain neutral so that when corporate takeover of the web happens, HTTP is still there, open to everybody, providing an offramp to escape it, because it's neutral. It doesn't belong to the corporations. It belongs to everybody. They can try to take it over if they wish, embrace and extend, but they can't extinguish a fire that's smoldering underground no matter how hard they try. It will always be there, ready to flare up at a moment's notice. The original is always still there ready for us to revert to using it at any time.

    And many of us already have. Fuck Google, fuck Cloudflare, fuck AWS, they'll never take the web from us.

  • Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

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  • You might be underestimating how much damage a .22 round to can do to something, especially when that something is probably at least like 60% lithium ion battery by volume. Yeah, .22s are small by bullet standards and have low stopping power, but they're still lethal.

    That said, if you've got a 308 handy, that'll work reliably too. You won't be silencing it, but feel free to blow a hole clean through one of these machines and enjoy the fireworks when its battery lights off.

  • Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

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  • There are plenty of tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was tarded. She's a pilot president now.

  • Removed

    Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS?

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  • It might be the end of GPL-type licenses. But, at least as far as I've understood it, the point of copyleft was to use copyright against itself in the first place, because copyright sucks, and at the end of the day we don't really want copyright OR copyleft. They're both asserting "ownership" of stuff that honestly belongs in the public domain free to all humans to use (in an ideal world, that doesn't contain evil corporations that are considered people for some reason). We already know copyleft open source has been widely abused in proprietary software. This is not new nor surprising. We gave them the richly deserved middle finger whenever we could find out they did it before, and we hate it, but it was never "the end" of open source software because making it publicly available is precisely the defiance we are ultimately aiming for and we will always do that no matter how much they steal it and make it closed source.

    People making closed source software are the enemy, and our war of freedom against them continues regardless of what tactics they use to demean our efforts while they make their closed source software. We will never let them win. They think they've found a new way around the GPL, that's a shame, but so be it. The arms race will continue, but open source will not go away, because the point of it has nothing to do with meekly relying on the law to allow open source to exist, that's just a method that has been used, with some success, and allowed a lot of people to turn it into a livelihood, and it will be a terrible shame to lose that.

    Those things are not the true goal of open source though. The intention of open source, is to not let proprietary, hidden software dictate the fate of humanity and we will do it for as long as we have to. We'll do it if we're protected by copyleft, we'll do it if we're not. We'll still do it even if they make it illegal, and we'll call it reverse engineering, hacking, and piracy if we have to. Because the information and code that humanity relies on must be free, not owned.

  • Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark?

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  • It always gets dark before the dawn. This system sucks and is evil. I expect its collapse to be even more evil, but I'm looking forward to building something better.

  • Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy

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  • Ironic that they have their repos hiding behind Cloudflare, then.

  • Micro profiling/Benchmarking Software

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  • I might be going the wrong direction of "micro" here but time is the very minimal, tiny, and traditional unix way.

    For example:

     
            $ time curl https://lemmy.ca/post/61453347 > /dev/null
      % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                     Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
    100  175k    0  175k    0     0   525k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  526k
    
    real    0m0.343s
    user    0m0.030s
    sys     0m0.016s

    There are also a large number of other profiling outputs you can ask time to spit out by passing it the appropriate command line flags.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • That may have been the intention but I doubt it ever worked as effectively as they claimed it would. Besides, it will probably cost at least 1 AI data-center of carbon emissions to continuously surveil all these people with TPMS sensors, so the argument could be made that you're actually reducing carbon pollution at this point by removing yours.

  • Are users data protected on the fediverse?

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  • Anything you post on the internet is public knowledge forever. End of discussion. Most people won't care at all, in most cases almost nobody or perhaps even literally nobody will ever even see it, but the harder you try to hide it, the more the Streisand Effect will magnify it until eventually everyone knows about it.

    Anyone telling you they'll delete your data from the internet without clarifying that it is in fact impossible, is at worst deliberately lying to you usually for their own benefit, and at best making a promise they literally have zero ability to keep.

    I would hope that Fediverse services will never lie to you and tell you your data is deleted, because it can't be.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • They would be. That's why you don't tell them. If you're treating your insurance company as your friend not an adversary, you probably don't understand how their profits grow year over year.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • I've been driving for 30 years. Do you want to guess how many times that's happened to me?

    Meanwhile, I've apparently been living in a totalitarian surveillance state for at least a few years now, and you know how many times that's happened to me? I'll give you a hint, it's more than the number of times I've run over a nail causing me to drive around on low tire pressure without knowing it.

  • systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

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  • I agree that quadlets are pretty ugly but I'm not sure that's the ini style's fault. In general I find yaml incredibly frustrating to understand, but toml/ini style is pretty fluent to me. Maybe just a preference, IDK.