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hperrin

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  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • There are plenty of easy to set up open source servers. I use a bunch of them. Here’s a few that come to mind:

    • jellyseerr
    • navidrome
    • jswiki
    • homeassistant
    • docmost
    • rustdesk

    Those are all ones that only require three or fewer services in a Docker Compose stack. And the docker-compose.yml files are short and easy to understand.

    There are plenty that are hard to set up, like:

    • jellyfin
    • nextcloud
    • wordpress
    • immich
    • mastodon

    I’ve installed all of these, and they were not as straightforward, but not too bad.

    Matrix is the only one that has taken me more than a day. And I couldn’t even get everything working. Element Call still doesn’t work after trying to set it up for two days.

    There is a lot of variance in how difficult these servers are to set up, but Matrix stands alone as the absolute hardest, most convoluted setup process I’ve ever experienced.

  • DIY

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  • AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.

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  • Because the performance gain was basically negligible. That was their explanation in the issue.

  • AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.

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  • Bondi Accidentally Outed Undercover FBI Agent in Epstein Files Blunder

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  • That’s because their main (only) focus is protecting the rich people who committed all of these heinous crimes.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • Not to my knowledge.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • Apples to oranges.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • It’s the most popular one by a huge margin, and it’s the reference implementation from the protocol devs.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • If you set up your community on an existing server, like Matrix.org, it’ll be really easy. And it’s pretty easy to join as an end user.

    But if you have your own domain, and you want to host your own Matrix server (mine is matrix.port87.help), be prepared to spend at least a day trying to get everything to work. There are six different services you need to run:

    • synapse
    • postgres
    • element
    • coturn
    • jwt
    • livekit

    And there’s no guide for just setting up everything easily. You have to follow several different guides that sometimes have conflicting information. Not all the guides are exactly comprehensive, too, so be prepared to read a lot of documentation. You’ll also need to forward a bunch of ports, and then a port range (thousands of ports, for coturn).

    It’s very easy to mess something up, and sometimes it’s very hard to tell. For example, I was running federation on 8448, like you’re supposed to, but my server was advertising that federation was on 443. This caused some rooms on other servers to be unjoinable. It gave me a cryptic error message about it, and I had to read through a few Stack Overflow posts and GitHub issues to finally figure it out.

    Synapse will complain about Postgres’ collation and encoding, and that’s quite difficult to fix. You have to add some arguments to the startup command to force the right encoding.

    Synapse will also log fucking everything, so make sure to set log level to “ERROR”.

    None of this is meant to scare you away from running your own Matrix server. If you want help, I’d even be willing to zip up all my docker compose files and send them to you. This is more meant to indicate that the Matrix team should focus on making this process easier.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • I’m in the process of switching my two communities to Matrix. It’s not bad from a user point of view, but running your own server is such an enormous pain in the ass. Like, way harder than it should be.

  • Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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  • Why does the notepad app do anything but edit text?

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • I highly doubt that when you start a “Discord server”, there’s any new machinery spun up. There is a near 100% chance it’s just an entry in a database. Nobody’s running a server just for him. So I don’t think there’s even reason to be charitable.

  • Stop Closing the Door. Fix the House.

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    • What AI is good for (boilerplate, tests, docs, refactoring) and what it’s not (security critical code, architectural changes, code you don’t understand)

    Incorrect. AI is only good for boilerplate. Letting it write tests will give you broken and incorrect tests. Letting it write docs will give you incorrect docs. Letting it refactor will give you bugs. AI is passable at generating boilerplate.

    Well, it’s also good at writing code to use as the “Incorrect” part of a Correct/Incorrect example.

    I asked Gemini to write just the most basic use case for my tokenizer library the other day (checking to see if a search query is found in a set of already computed tokens), and it couldn’t even get that right, but boy was it absolutely certain that it did. Pathetic. If it were an unpaid intern it would be fired.

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • I’ve been dragging my feet to migrate my support servers for SMUI and Port87 from Discord to Matrix. I think now is the time.

  • What was the last instance where you struggled to explain something to someone because they belong to a different generation to you?

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  • Trying to explain to my boomer relatives that no matter how hard we work, we can’t buy a house like they could.

  • I wish I installed Plasma on my Ubuntu sooner

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  • True! Everyone gets to use what they like. :) It’s one of the many reasons I switched from winblows.

  • I wish I installed Plasma on my Ubuntu sooner

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  • Yeah, I meant that I don’t use Gnome on my virtual PCs, because it’s not as easy without the mouse corner stuff. KDE is easy even without the mouse corner stuff.

  • I wish I installed Plasma on my Ubuntu sooner

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  • Yeah, I have. It’s a huge improvement over 5. I use it on my virtual machines, since flinging the mouse into the corner isn’t really an option there, I just can’t get used to it on my main machine.

  • What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?

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  • My whole work and home networks are all Unifi stuff. I absolutely love them. Way more reliable than anything else I’ve ever tried.