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  • Hosting a matrix server with synapse, how do you handle registration?

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  • Don't get me wrong, suggestions are appreciated, but you're answer is absolutely typical of a Stack overflow "huhuh well don't do it wrong then" comment. You could have, for example, said you don't use Synapse but this is why you like Continuwuity. (edit: not prescribing speech, giving an example of how your comment could have read better)

    As well, I take issue with the idea that people can only ask for help in sanctioned forums. This is a self-hosting community, after all; I am here not only to learn but to share what I learn, which I thought was the whole point.

  • Hosting a matrix server with synapse, how do you handle registration?

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  • What is this, StackOverflow? You didn't answer their question and instead just told them to use a different solution.

  • Argument over how to carry out Trump’s deportation ‘master plan’ got so heated that officials had to ‘clear the room,’ report says

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  • We are in emergency mode and fascists kicking in your door without a warrant and disappearing you should be met with due force.

    Due force is exactly what you ridiculed the other guy for saying he'd use, and if you won't meet a home invader with what you call due force then your "should" here loses a lot of weight. The rest of your comment is answering something I didn't say; your limits are your own.

    But yes, it's bananapants fuckballs insane that this is relevant conversation in America right now.

  • We need a Fediverse cat of the month.

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  • Never gonna happen. Every time you try to judge, everyone just end up looking at pictures of cats all day.

  • Argument over how to carry out Trump’s deportation ‘master plan’ got so heated that officials had to ‘clear the room,’ report says

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  • You think the fascists literally kicking in your door to take you and/or your family away is anything other than "nothing left to lose" territory?

  • Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

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  • I believe I have a counterpoint: Rubber duck debugging is old. Older than coding, older than the Industrial Revolution. If talking to an LLM is just rubber duck debugging, where have all these solutions been, for the decades and centuries before AI came about? If it's all smoke and mirrors, then the fact that we hadn't solved those problems already would be pretty embarrassing, wouldn't it?

  • Are we building an alternative to billionaire platforms or just a quieter version of them?

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  • What gives you’re instance of anything any importance.

    As in, why would anyone sign up on my instance? Why would anyone come see my content?

    Answer me this: Why would they have to sign up, or come to my instance, to see my content? If I'm not broadcasting objectionable shit, my instance will remain federated, so everyone will see posts from me and my instance on their preferred instance. And I'll see all their content, on my own instance.

    The problem you're imagining is already solved. Even if a big popular instance gets bought, or taken over by fiat, defederation works as a solution; the content is posted by users, so there'll just be an explosion of content from a different instance as everyone moves.

  • Make It Myself [XKCD]

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  • This is the real reason I do so much DIY. I don't save a lot of money, at least on the initial outlay, but I learn.

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • Ah, I'll put in a zoom feature, that's a good idea!

    Remind me of the hardware you're running on? 22 hours for a 4k HDR movie sounds about in the ballpark for converting on CPU. I've just switched to Linux (Mint, not Cachy) and I think there's an issue with detecting GPU on Linux, so this'd track (or you have Precision Mode enabled) - if you see "libx265" or "libx264" in the top right, you're on CPU. I'm looking into this one.

    Can I ask which version you downloaded? I'll look into the DVTools/MP4box issue.

    Also, yes, I removed the codec and container selection boxes - it's HEVC/MKV by default unless you go for "Compatibility Mode" in which case you get H.264/MP4. "Preserve AV1" of course preserves AV1 which is incompatible with MP4 so they're mutually exclusive.

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • So... How's it working? 😅 (Just realised it's been a while since I've touched HISTV and this came to mind, I've been working on my business and day job)

  • Appearances can be something

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  • LLMs will never be people

    Boy oh boy, you're not gonna like this one bit: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution

    (To be clear, I understand you think you covered this with "computers may be" but my point is different: the law is often dumb and you would be amazed at what politicians who don't understand tech - or get paid not to understand it - will pull off)

    Edit: Downvotes from people who missed the point. You can't say "LLMs will never be people" because you simply can't guarantee your/our lawmakers won't be that stupid.

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • Ah, what version did you try? This is due to issues with the renderer, but I just got this fixed by disabling GPU drawing for the form last night. Give 2.5.9 a go 😊

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • If you saw a mushroom cloud, what would you say?

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  • Yes, it does imply it. It's the most common association for mushroom clouds in our media since the bombs were dropped. Doesn't guarantee it of course, but to act as though "they're unrelated and anyone making the association is ignorant" would be an indefensible position.

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • Sweet as, lmk if you have any questions or run into any issues! 😊

  • People who have been on Lemmy since the very initial reddit API debacle, or before even that, how much do you think it has changed?

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  • This is how I know I'm old. I consider the "Reddit API debacle" recent history.

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • Whether it's an alternative depends on what you use Handbrake for. HISTV can't convert ISO or rip discs, it only converts video files. If you just use Handbrake to get smaller videos, HISTV will work for you without having to use more controls than it would take to launch the space shuttle 😅

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • Thanks for your patience, took me a minute to get my VM up and running so I could test the Flatpak, but it's working and with no permissions: https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases/tag/v2.3.6

    By which I mean "Replace source" works out of the box with no permissions; in order for "Place next to source" output to work, you'll have to give permission to the folder via flatseal (as you noted).

    I've got a few more updates to make - I'm simplifying the UI a little, and I'm adding the ability to transcode AV1 - and then I'll work on getting it building entirely offline in order to submit it to the Flathub store for review. Great suggestion, I appreciate it! (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • Ah-ha, thanks for the update on Docker! Saves me going down that rabbit hole 😅

    On the files on the NAS: yep, that's by design. My files are across the WAN, not LAN, so I built it to stage remote files locally before transcoding. It currently pulls a file, transcodes it, and moves it wherever you chose for output. This does mean that going over a network is slow, because you have to wait for the staging and cleanup before doing another file. That's deliberately conservative though; I wanted to avoid saturating networks in case the network operator takes exception to that sort of thing. A secondary benefit is that the disk space required for operations is just twice the size of the source file - very low chance of having to pause a job because the disk monitoring detected there's no room.

    I'll look at putting in an override that disregards the network and treats remote files as local for you!