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rako

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  • [META] Should AI disclosure tags [AI], [NOT AI] be mandated when sharing projects?

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  • Then failure to disclose can be condemned, for instance by temporary bans

  • Blackblaze B2 status and alternatives

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  • Any self-hosted option for real time location sharing?

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  • If not hosting anything is ok for you, deltachat allows you to share locations to people in a chat. It's fully e2ee. You can use it with existing relays, but if you want you can host one that will be useful to everyone: https://chatmail.at/

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  • I think there are 2 levels here: basic federation, where you can follow a channel on another instance and comment there, is opt-out like the rest of the fediverse. In fact you can even comment from Mastodon. The platform-level following is another thing, that enables other uses.

    The issue of search is unrelated to that, it's the same as with other fediverse platforms: search only searches on the current platform. But peertube also allows you to search on global indexes:

    https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/search#global-search

    And, of course, you can use Sepia Search, a curated index of instances by the people behind peertube:

    https://sepiasearch.org/

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    Eurosky has setup a relay

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  • no, I was talking about the initial mistake that many people do, which is the fediverse/mastodon mixup

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  • I'm talking specifically about calling the network, ie the interconnection of independent softwares, as "mastodon". It's not about explaining how mastodon works, it's implying everything works this way. This very platform we are using is definitely not mastodon, but is definitely part of the fediverse

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  • calling the network "mastodon"

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    Eurosky has setup a relay

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  • calling the network "mastodon"

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  • fediverse and atproto support, let's not make the same mistake as fediverse/mastodon (edit: calling the network "mastodon" when it isn't. Bluesky has many problems and should be avoided but there's other parts in this network that are building independence: see blacksky, or microcosm.blue)

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    I built a self-hosted affiliate tracking platform — here's why I think self-hosting affiliate software actually matters

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  • Do people actually discover projects by randomly wandering on github though

    I mean, it's all links, a link to github or a link to codeberg won't change much

  • Using AI for image transcripts, yay or nay?

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  • I'm sorry but you are just showing you don't know what AI is about. AI isn't a shop-bought meal. It's paying a white supremacist who pinky-promises you he'll feed people you just have to give him money. The white supremacist chooses what he wants to do with the money: maybe he'll feed people because they're white, maybe he'll beat people because they're black, but one thing is for sure: he will always work for his own benefit. Not for others, not for you, and certainly not for disabled people.

    The correct comparison with AI is not, as many people say, a neutral tool. AI is a political project aiming at domination of a large part of the population. The apt comparison is slavery. Yes, it can be very useful ! It's free workforce, you don't need to argue with it, concede anything, and things just get done. Slavery is fine if you're part of the dominating part of the population, just like AI is fine if you're part of the dominating part of population. If you're on the other side you will always be exploited, dehumanized, tortured (yes, subjecting people to constan horrors in the name of "training" is torture)

    Let's redo your analogy now:

    I've been cooking for the homeless but I'm getting tired. Is it ok to ask slaves to cook meals for me so I can give the meals to homeless ?

    Slavery, and AI, isn't going to help the homeless or the disabled. Destroying the earth, appropriating others' art and work and knowledge for personal profit is not helping, it's actively hurting.

    What is at stake here, really, is your own appreciation of the goods vs the bads of AI. If the literal anti-democratic project is acceptable because it makes you feel like a good person ("I'm helping people !") then there is a big work to be done to unravel that. When your personal opinion of yourself is more important than the actual good you might do, something is wrong.

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  • There is a huge difference between not taking care because it's not important to you, and not taking care because you can't. It's a cop out to mix up both.

    It's completely ok to acknowledge that you can't do it, and to ask around for others to relay you. That's society at work doing good things for all of us, and that's how we get out of all this mess. It's perfectly fine !

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  • Using AI for

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    I find it tiring

    The problem with disabled people isn't the disability, it's the behaviour of non-disabled people putting them under, willingly or not. You being tired of that ir actively putting them under. Yes, it's tiring to take care of people, it's work. There's no goind around that. Treating people as equals requires taking care of them, and until you take that as normal (just like brushing your teeth or doind the laundry or sweeping the floor at your place is work, but you still do it) you will be belittling them.

    The change needs to happen on your side, on your conception of humanity and society. AI is not going to help you

  • Anti-AI fedi pact?

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  • Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans

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  • it's called capitalism

  • How does a chatmail relay work basically ?

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  • A chatmail relay is a standard email server you'd find anywhere else with some specificities:

    • any account is valid. To "create" an account just login with it and your password in your usual mail app and the account will be created. Of course if it already exists you must have the correct password, so you can't "steal" an account
    • messages are automatically and unconditionally deleted after a certain amount of time. Inactive accounts are deleted after a certain amount of time. Each relay publishes their setting, I think the default is something like 30 and 90 days, respectively
    • incoming and outgoing messages must be pgp-encrypted. Any plaintext message will be dropped
    • Only dkim is setup, other mechanisms aren't so you might have trouble with some of the stricter checks of other servers

    A chatmail relayis just a box to receive and relay messages for the deltachat apps, but since it uses completely standard protocols it interacts with the rest of the email ecosystem

  • Lessons For Round Two..or three.. or-

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  • Be at peace with the mess. All the software you're using have beend developed on their own, each has a different setup, maintenance work, they don't fit with each other they just kinda not bother each other. Unless you're using all the software included in a bsd or 9front base install, where everything is made to carefully fit, it'll be crappy to look at.

    Be at peace with the mess, which also means be at peace with burning some/all of it and starting fresh when something new comes up or you want to "simplify" a part.

    The selfhosting, much like art, isn't so much in the output: it's in the process of trying, failing, succedding with a crappy solution, and then goind on with the learning. If you wanted a robust beautiful stack you'd be paying professionals to do that :)

  • Want to sync files from Linux PC to Android phone

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  • While you are technically correct, you're implying that the "natural" state is a good enough state and nothing should be done about it.

    My house has walls and a door; it doesn't mean anyone can do anything they want with this. Even if the windows are clear, you're not supposed to install a camera that watches my bedroom. Even if the door is open, you're not supposed to open. A a society it has been decided that we should respect each other, respect each other's privacy. We have created rules, some written down and some implicit, for how to interact with each other.

    That is the point of OP. The "natural" state of whatever exists with the technical means, but that doesn't mean it's ok (or not ok): do we want to respect each other ? To take care of each other ? I very much want that, because the technical means should be only a means to an end, and in that end I want respect. The technical means, to me, must adapt to the end, not the other way around.