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irmadlad

@ irmadlad @lemmy.world

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  • Sometimes, when I am all alone i like to fantasize...

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  • I have a good stack of 2.5" and a stack of 3.5" HDD, but most are in the 1 to 2 TB range with a couple that are 500 GB. They're salvaged drives that I've just been collecting. I guess I could daisy chain them all together, LOL, but I've been just saving them for emergencies. I have an old Seagate ST-225 20MB, but I framed that one in a shadow box as a curio.

  • [AIT] Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife

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  • I'm not trying to throw shade on your project nor am I trying to discourage you in any way. I think it's a noble ambition. I hope you make a mint doing it. If I live long enough, I'll be able to tell people 'Yeah, I met the dude on Lemmy before he was so successful.' But if 71 years of experience has taught me anything, it's that it has to be so easy a cave man could do it - as if it just fell in your lap, and it has to be work and trouble free. Otherwise, the average Joe Schmoe citizen isn't going to spend the time. Having a secure network takes work. Keeping up with updates and making sure they aren't going to make the wheels fall off, takes work. Work is where the vast amount of people fall off the wagon.

    I bookmarked your project and I'll give it a serious look see. I will tell you that the demo site: oasis.circuitforge.tech, returns a bad gateway Error code 502 from Cloudflare.

    Rock on with yo' bad self.

  • I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot?

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  • Alright man. Best of luck. Give it a go. You'll never know how it will turn out unless you try.

  • [AIT] Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife

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  • Saying it’ll never happen and giving up won’t make that 2% get any bigger

    Again, you get a standing ovation from me for your drive. Emphatically, I hope you and others with your drive succeed. I'm just giving my perspective of being involved with people and their computers since the mid 70s. I'm no IT guy by any stretch of the imagination, but I like helping others with their digital devices, because it is my desire for everyone to use said digital devices in the most safe, private, and anonymous manner possible. If any morsel of my experience can help someone, then I'm all about it.

    However, and for instance: It's been back at the beginning of the year, I had almost a 2 hour 'training session' with a friend on how to effectively use UBlock Origin. Something so very simple but quite effective. But you have to 'train' it to get the most out of UBlock Origin. Three weeks later I'm over at his house and he's disabled UBlock Origin because it was annoying. Work, yes it takes a little work to learn how to drive the bus, and that's where most people fall by the wayside for just about anything, not just digital devices.

    If you want to help beta test, I’m working on an appliance-level automated installer for provisioning home cloud servers.

    I'd be willing to take a look at it. I've got a couple empty boxes around here. Back when Microsoft released their Home Server edition, I thought 'Finally! I hope this catches on'. But they killed it. I've always thought some bright, young, entrepreneur could take a couple of small ThinkCenters, construct a server environment, put it in a box, with almost a fool proof, one touch button that went out on your network, connected all devices to that one small central server, deploy apps etc, and everything would be jippity jippity. The problem, however, with making things fool proof is that fools are quite ingenious little buggers.

  • Sometimes, when I am all alone i like to fantasize...

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  • Do we need to dim the lights?

  • [AIT] Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife

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  • Decouple people from big tech

    I'm not making fun of what you've said, and I'm not talking down to you. That said, I like where you're going, but that will never happen. You can mark it on the calendar: 'That irmadlad asshole said - never happen'. On the one hand I applaud you loud and clear. On the other hand, we live in a global consumerist society. Corporate is just giving them their fix. That's their plug.

    My entire stack runs off a 14kw solar array

    I have solar too. Hell I have solar on two barns. I like it. I often think about how far along we might be here in America if a lowly peanut farmer had not been ridiculed beyond belief for putting solar on the white house. Now, they were not what you'd call efficient, but it was a start. I think the next presidency took them down.

    but your techiest uncle could host the entire family in a privacy cooperative, for instance

    Oh no doubt. I've long since been a promoter of the notion of a server in every home. We live in a digital society. We have digital assets. These need to be centrally housed on a very secure server and backed up.

    However, self hosters and homelabbers make up <2% of the world's population. It gets even less if you differentiate between consistent homelab/self hosters and those who were just experimenting. Yeah, we do it, but not on a massive scale to even make a ding. Again, I like where your head's at, but it's not us we need to convince, it's them. And they like their crack. Corporate likes their money.

    I mean, I'm not saying give up. Keep pushing. But realistically, we're in a script.

  • I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot?

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  • allow additional users it will not be fully open

    Just for trusted friends or randos? If randos, have you ever been a mod? Never set up a Lemmy instance, but I have been a mod of quite a few Reddit subs. It's a headache I will never engage in again.

  • I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot?

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  • Just in general or because you're setting up a Lemmy instance?

  • Anyone know a good Selfhosted yt-dlp manager?

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  • If you're using Firefox, then there are a plethora of cookie copiers. I used one, don't know which now, a while back. Seemed to function for my purposes.

  • [AIT] Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife

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  • Oh you'll smoke a turd in hell for your insolence. That would make sense. It's much easier to complain.

  • Rayfish is working on my phone!

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  • Me too.

  • [AIT] Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife

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  • This whole internet could run on a tiny fraction of what it current consumes, with no drop in service levels

    But it doesn't.

    … if the extraction of profit from every single interaction was not prioritized.

    But it is.

    So, now what are we going to do? Give me real world solutions that will actually fix the issue, which would be implemented by real world corporations and real world data centers. I'm not problem hampered, I'm solution based. So let's fix it.

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  • I use both Song Sleuth and Smart Bird ID (iOS). Fairly decent. I wouldn't bet any significant bet on it's accuracy 100% of the time. I'm no birder, but it seems to work well enough for my purposes.

  • Rayfish is working on my phone!

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  • Do what works for you OP. Don't let 'em give you shit about your pony tail.

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  • Listen, everything that they are doing by scorching the planet and turning the tap water brown, could be achieved on CPU or much smaller GPUs on local machines

    Didn't downvote you however, are you saying if I ran an AI model local, that scorching the planet and turning the tap water brown is ok with you, just because it's local?. Because that's exactly what we're are doing when we access the internet. Throw AI out of the scope, and we're still pumping massive amounts of carbon in to the air, still turning the water brown. There are 8.4 billion people on this planet. Approximately 6.3 billion of them are online. That's just individual humans. That doesn't include the hundreds of thousands of data centers that aren't even connected with AI and all the energy production to make them run.

    So, who will be the first to actually practice what you preach and shut down your servers and internet devices? C'mon...make the first step towards a cleaner planet.

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  • If you're speaking of audio analysis ML or AI models, they are quite efficient. As a mediocre musician, who is clinically deaf and cannot hear some frequencies with enough clarity to make a judgement either way, I lean on AI assisted audio mastering. I haven't dabbled in AI generated music, but with the right DAW and a handful of plugins, some keyboards and instruments, you can do a lot right in the comfort of your home.

  • Issues setting my first Home lab as a total total beginner (no programming, coding, etc. related knowledge)

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  • I'll bump you an upvote. I have used AI for a lot of things around the lab. For one, it makes a very concise search engine. This is just for my personal use, and it works fairly well. Sometimes I'll make the same query to several AI platforms just to get an overall view of how to proceed. It's a tool, might as well use it.

  • [AIP] Fathom v0.11.0: now on Android and Android TV (experimental), plus many more updates!

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  • Damn son...you busy! LOL

  • Self-Host Weekly (7 August 2026)

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  • I don’t think you’re overexaggerating the potential backlash at all; especially on Lemmy.

    I don't either, like you said, 'especially on Lemmy.' The thing is, AI assisted anything is unavoidable. Even in the case of longstanding, well established projects, we're seeing AI being involved to some extent or the other. Like you, I've used AI to create a small handful of things for my server. One would be when I log in via SSH, there is a banner that pulls a random song from Navidrome's playlists and displays it on the MOTD. For instance, today's is:

    🎵 SONG OF THE DAY

    Blues Garage by Marco Tansini

    I did make my code available here with the stipulation that it works on my machine, buyer beware, as it were. But I'd never purport to maintain it even tho I released it. For one, I don't have the patience to wade through mounds of criticism, and requests for other options. That patience left me decades ago.

    instead they’d rather sit on the internet and criticize other people’s methods of coping with overload.

    Preach it! Dev toils away at creating an app. Dev releases it to the public for free with no obligations whatsoever, to even consider it. Dev gets hammered for a variety of things including AI. Go make your own app and release it to the public and see how that goes. It's a mote/beam kind of thing.

  • Self-Host Weekly (7 August 2026)

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  • I think vibe coded projects need at least 6 months to a year of history before they replace anything critical in my stack.

    Reasonable. I do the same with updates. I wait for all the early adopters work out all the bugs, and when I feel comfortable, I update.