I think the whole point of free speech is… you can just make a website and publish whatever you want on it.

Looks like LW censors those, you can see the original here: https://lemmy.max-p.me/post/lemmy.max-p.me/2187683?thread=0.4269246.4278724

LineageOS’s default music app, Twelve, supports Jellyfin as a source:

People went there days before the actual ban, but I do wonder how many more came due to those influencers. Would explain why it’s gotten kinda meh since sunday.

For the most part, this happens because those programs check if stdout is a pseudo-terminal (pty) and automatically disable color output because if you’re doing say ls -l and try to parse it, you’ll have all the ANSI escape sequences mixed in, so for safety and predictability they disable color.

It is unfortunately a per-program thing. It is possible to fake it using script or unbuffer according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/32981392

Looks like socat can also be used for that: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/157463

Wasn’t Facebook and Twitter also parroting all this, including members of congress? Vaccine deniers were everywhere during covid, not just on TikTok.

You’re looking for the Nazi Bar

I tried it myself with my IRC server. No rules, you can say whatever you want to say, unless the majority wants you out then you get kicked out, just to sprinkle some absolute democracy too.

The end result was basically no messages that didn’t contain at least one of faggot, nigger, retard, or at least a very offensive joke of some kind. Like sure free speech is cool, but it was getting very uncomfortable, nobody was interested in joining anymore because of it, and people were also leaving because it’s just plain unpleasant. Naturally the majority remained the problem until I had to put my foot down and shut down the server because I just don’t want to be hosting that shit anymore.

You can have free speech without being an asshole and shouting it everywhere possible. That is enforced via rules and moderation. It’s a balancing act.

As someone that admins hundreds of MySQL at work, I’d go with PostgreSQL.

7 days currently, 30 days on the previous boot. I had to open it up to install extra drives.

It’s not federated identity, it’s federated content.

Your instance can in theory access all the content including Mastodon, but there’s some software incompatibilities preventing that from quite working right because the way Lemmy does things is quite different than how Mastodon and other microblogging services do.

Sometimes it’s like that, especially if they grew up in poverty, even if they’re pretty well off now. It sticks, you’re just conditioned to save as much as possible. Which they very well could be: they could have plenty of income but be far behind on their retirement accounts and would rather put money for their upcoming retirement if they can. There’s a lot of factors there.

I wouldn’t say normal, but also not uncommon especially if you’re someone that’s good with tinkering.

Basically if the furnace is fairly old, parts start wearing down and requires replacement or fixing. So you get to a point where you have to fix things more often because all the parts have reached end of life. Often it’ll be a small thing like maybe you need to clean the flame sensor, and then after that your negative pressure sensor goes out so you have to fix that. Those are all safety measures, so the furnace might be working perfectly fine but the control board thinks it’s unsafe, and shuts down, which is the correct thing to do. There’s a possibility the wire juggling is bypassing some of those.

But a lot of those items you can do for basically free or really cheap, so it’s not appealing to throw $2500 on a whole new one or to get a professional in to charge you $300 for the same fix. Furnaces also need to be services regularly, ideally yearly to check everything is good and prevent failures at inconvenient times, which many just can’t afford or don’t want to spend the money on. If $2500 is a lot of money for your parents, it’s just a small tradeoff that yeah it might go out every now and then and you fix it for so much cheaper.

That feels like complaints about lemmy.ml specifically more than Lemmy as a software. There’s a few instances that defederate lemmy.ml out there.

As for alternatives, I’ve heard lots of good things about Tailscale (or headscale if you want to self host).

If them connecting to you is an option, WireGuard is also stupidly easy to set up and very reliable. If you need to also forward layer 2 traffic (old LAN games and weird local protocols), you can use OpenVPN for that. A bit hard to set up but also quite capable.

Unfortunately that trace isn’t very useful due to the lack of debug symbols. One would have to decompile and analyze the binary to really gather some information as to how that happened, and it’s probably against their TOS.

hamachi will occasionally disconnect *and then ask for my password to restart the service. *

The GUI is probably trying to restart the daemon for you which causes this, because that’s not standard behaviour. You can probably fix that but just allowing your user to do that passwordless, although it’s dumb:

# /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-hamachi.rules
polkit.addRule(function (action, subject) {
    if (
        subject.user === "YOURUSERNAMEHERE"
        && action.id === "org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units"
        && action.lookup("unit") === "logmein-hamachi.service"
    ) {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
})

You’ll want to change your username in there and also adjust the service name if it’s different.

He says that like other countries aren’t also a democracy. If the people wantes liberated they literally would just vote that kind of government in!

The idea that GPT has a mind and wants to self-preserve is insane. It’s still just text prediction, and all the literature it’s trained on is written by humans with a sense of self preservation, of course it’ll show patterns of talking about self preservation.

It has no idea what self preservation is, even then it only knows it’s an AI because we told it it is. It doesn’t even run continuously anyway, it literally shuts down after every reply and its context fed back in for the next query.

I’m tired of this particular kind of AI clickbait, it needlessly scares people.

This post will probably get taken down, it doesn’t belong to AskLemmy. You might want !selfhosted@lemmy.world or one of the programming communities like !webdev@programming.dev.

That said, it’s fairly easy to just rent out a cheap VPS for like $5 to get started, get NGINX, MariaDB and PHP running on it and then install Wordpress or Drupal.

I personally would wait for the Wordpress drama to settle before commiting to that platform.

The problem with hosting services dedicated to say, Wordpress, is the lack of control. If you need other apps to run you have to pay for another service, whereas your own VPS/server you can do whatever you want. Need ElasticSearch for something else? Sure, no problem, as long as the server is big enough.

To kind of visually see it, I found this thread of some guy that took oscilloscope captures of the output of their UPS and they’re all pseudo-sines: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/so-i-bought-an-oscilloscope.2413789/

As you can see, the power isn’t very smooth at all. It’s good enough for a lot of use cases and lower end power supplies, because they just shove that into a bridge rectifier and capacitors. Higher end power supplies have tighter margins, and are also more likely to have more safety features to protect the PC so they can get into protection mode and shut off. Because bad power can mean dips in power to the system which can cause calculation errors which is very undesirable especially in on a server. It probably also messes with power factor correction circuits, which is something cheap PSUs often cheap out on but a good high quality one would have and may shut down because of it.

As you can see in those images too, it spends a significant amount of time at 0V (no power, that’s at the middle of the screen) whereas the sine waves spends an infinitely short time at 0, it goes positive and then negative immediately. All the time spent at 0, you rely on big capacitors in the PSU to hold enough charge to make it to the next burst of power. With the sine wave they’d hold just long enough (we’re going down to 12V and 5V from 120/240V input, so the amount of time normally spent at or below ±12V is actually fairly short).

It’s technically the same average power, so most devices don’t really care. It really depends on the design of the particular unit, some can deal with some really bad power inputs and manage just fine and some will get damaged over long term use. Old linear ones with an AC transformer on the input in particular can be unhappy because of magnetic field saturation and other crazy inductor shenanigans.

Pure sine UPSes are better because they’re basically the same as what comes out of the wall outlet. Line interactive ones are even better because they’re ready to take over the moment power goes out and exactly at the same spot in the sine wave so the jitter isn’t quite as bad during the transition. Double conversion is the top tier because they always run off the battery, so there’s no interruption for the connected computer at all. Losing power just means the battery isn’t being charged/kept topped off from the wall anymore so it starts discharging.

Latest (0.19.8). 0.18 is very old, over a year old, later versions dealt with a lot of scaling/performance problems.

That sounds very typical of YunoHost to have wildly outdated software