Stephen304

Hmm funny to see Hetzner mentioned - I tried to rent a dedicated server from them and placed the order and gave payment details, about 6 hours later I got an email that they have decided to deactivate my account and cancel all products and orders because of "some concerns". Email support can't give me any reason because the info was anonymized and couldn't give me any information on how to avoid having my account randomly deleted besides don't break tos.

Law enforcement officer, or police.

It seems to just not work in Firefox for me, it's the same for me on FF Android but in Chrome it's beautiful! Constant text size while zooming and it's super smooth.

Edit: It also weirdly doesn't work on Chrome on Linux for me either, only Chrome on android. Oh well, hopefully they can bring support everywhere eventually.

Hmm I tried the shortbread layer and while it looks nice it still pixelates when zooming in until it loads the new zoom level

> If it’s the former, a vacation seems like a totally legitimate use

Imo hiding that the funds were used even in a legitimate case makes it improper. If it was intended to be paid as a salary then they should have disclosed that $x were paid out as a salary. As I understand it, the only reason we know that the funds left the project was because one of the founders revealed the use of funds by the other founders, not through a planned, transparent, or regular process. In other words, the revelation that funds were being used seemed to be an anomaly as opposed to a regular practice.

The original open letter states essentially as much: "It's fine for developers to be reimbursed for their hard work, but it should be done in a fair, transparent and accountable way."

> If such a change happens in the future, they can fork then...

Did such a change not already happen with the addition of Kayak affiliate links without any community consultation? It seems to me that there has already been enough to justify a fork.

Not to mention, there was a promise of electing and changing boardmembers which has never happened, and hiding the use of OrganicMaps project donations for personal vacations as alleged by the initial open letter.

Not some of the effects heavy custom beatsaber maps. Also vivify hasn't been ported to quest beatsaber afaik so they're still missing out on all the crazy new maps with custom unity assets and environments.

Also check out briefsky. Like merrysky it supports the pirate weather API but it's open source / self hostable (at least I don't see any link to merrysky's source) and it supports several other weather APIs as well. I found switching it to the tomorrow.io API was much more accurate for beach weather.

I've been using briefsky which is similar to merrysky but open source. Both use pirate weather which is a recreation of the dark sky API. It's not as accurate (and I sometimes also switch briefsky to the tomorrow.io API) but it gives me that familiar UI and fills the role well enough for now.

It seems the free version only let me upload 2 images before it told me to come back the next day, so there's one thing.

Revolt's UI looks super nice, I just wish it was connected to Matrix on the backend so I could use it with all the communities I participate in on matrix.

I hope they add that ability, I'm pretty fed up with onlyoffice and nextcloud office (collabora) frequently breaking and having terribly buggy/laggy UIs.

This happens to be one of the pipe dream roadmap milestones for bitmagnet: https://bitmagnet.io/#pipe-dream-features

I used to use magnetico and wanted to make something that would use crawled info hashes to fetch the metadata and retrieve the file listing, then search a folder for any matching files. You'd probably want to pre-hash everything in the folder and cache the hashes.

I hope bitmagnet gets that ability, it would be super cool

At least now you can solve the existing spam problem if you want by disallowing people from using your number to message you in the privacy settings and randomizing your username after anyone new adds you - that way your username is like a one time password to add you, kind of like what lots of people here wish existed for phone calls.

For their fiber gigabit pro (2+1 gigabit symmetric service) they lease you something like a juniper acx2100, so presumably something similar with an SFP+ port would be used for higher speed fiber plans.

Granted that's just a handoff so I'm pretty sure you're just on your own when it comes to picking something that can route at 10G. I just went with a decisio opnsense appliance and called it a day.

I had gigabit pro for a few years, they gave me a half off promo that made it worth it at $150/mo, which is not much more than the close to $100 after miscellaneous fees that the regular gigabit down 35Meg up HFC cable plan costs, not to mention the fiber reliability is so much better - no brief outages and I even had Comcast business proactively reach out to replace gear when their monitoring noticed the fiber switch starting to fail.

I think they also discounted the install and activation to be $500 total.

I split it among around 8 housemates which included the upstairs unit of our house, so it ended up being very affordable and there was always extra bandwidth to go around. The main benefit I enjoyed being greater than 35Mbit upload speed.

I have needed to resort to using reddit to sell some homelab stuff lately and I was pleased to find that the revanced manager patcher has adblock patches for the official reddit app (as well as twitter, which is nice for the occasional visit), not to mention patches for various 3rd party apps that allow you to substitute api keys

They seem to mean exactly what you quoted - a lower risk tolerance means they tolerate less risk, meaning they are more cautious. Doing an avoidance maneuver if the risk exceeds 1/100K instead of 1/10K is being more cautious because 1/100K is a lower threshold than 1/10K.

I also use nextcloud, but I've been planning on trying out immich. I used to use google photos and the migration to nextcloud left a lot to be desired. There doesn't seem to be a way to "free up space" the same way google photos could automatically delete already backed-up photos, so i have to do that manually periodically. But crucially the scrolling / thumbnail performance of the nextcloud photos timeline is terrible even with an SSD cache in my synology as well as running NC previously on an overpowered rack mount server, of course using redis with NC and all the usual optimization tips. Thumbnails take a few seconds to load making it near impossible to track down photos from more than 6 months ago.

The thing that stood out to me about immich was how when I first saw a show-off post on /r/selfhosted, it included a video showing how instant the thumbnails loaded as well as some background on how they were focusing on optimizing the scrolling performance and ensuring blurred thumbnails would be available asap when scrolling. I was impressed at how it stacked up to the experience of using google photos.

I'm surprised if you had something like plain plex on a bare debian install break. It's been rock solid ime. And many people do do it, *arrstack has a huge community. I think lots of people experience some sysadmin-type issue and then extrapolate that adding all these extra apps will linearly scale up the likelyhood of breaking. But the extra apps are dead simple and do not cause additional issues ime. There is practically no startup config for most of the stuff (sonarr/radarr/prowlarr) save for a config volume mapping - the docker-compose for those looks extremely bare. And all the addon components are widely updated automatically in the community and I've never so much as seen a complaint of a failed update (I'm not even sure if there are any kind of schema migrations, never seen anybody get a corrupted DB). Sure plex DB does get corrupted for some people but I suspect there is some exacerbating factor since I have never had a plex DB issue - perhaps it's more prone to issues for people using DVR, plex plugins, etc. I just use a stock plex setup with movies and TV shows and the default metadata settings. Never had an issue.

I guess to put it more concisely, adding the *arrstack doesn't really add many (hardly any?) additional failure modes. All the reasons it might break are the same reasons that the plex or the whole system would break. If your system runs out of storage, it might break. If you change the file permissions of some config or data folder, plex might break, and so would arrstack if you chmoded the config files so it couldn't read it. If you can keep plex running on a bare OS, adding arrstack is not really more work other than the initial setup.

I love revanced, the main thing I miss though is the ability to cast to chromecast through the patched app. So for now I keep both apps installed and switch if I need to cast.

I think you might be missing that federated systems are not supposed to be fully decentralized. Federated is a pit stop along the spectrum between centralized and fully decentralized that makes trade-offs in order to reap some benefit of decentralization (no single owner of the entire network, allows some measure of user choice), while not having to deal with the problems of a fully decentralized model (no central authority brings moderation challenges, how to handle spam when each account is fully independent and not tied to a blockable instance that likely has no account verification enabled, there's nobody to appeal to if you lost account access / password reset challenges, among other things)

Being federated doesn't solve the problem of decentralization because it's specifically a middle-ground. It's supposed to be a compromise with some benefits of both centralization and decentralization - and I think a lot of people are happy with that compromise.

On a similar note, the Boost dev who previously said they were not interested in making a Lemmy app seems to have changed their mind, their Play store account now has Boost for Lemmy available for pre-registration (waitlist essentially).

There's nothing stopping you, the source code is freely available to edit when you start up your instance. It would probably limit the appeal of your instance to many people and maybe some very ideological smaller instances might defederate, I doubt the other major instances would care much since only those signed up at or browsing through your instance would see the ads.

What requires maintenance though? It's not like there's going to be a breaking change to bittorrent protocol that requires you to update. Most of the pieces of the process are connected just by files in directories (if you don't use a transmission-api compatible torrent client, any client that can watch a folder for .torrent files will do the job), the arrstack picks up completed files from a specific location and drops them where plex can see them. The most important thing to update is the torrent feed aggregator (prowlarr) so new torrent sites will be available, but I just enabled 5 or so reputable-looking sites about 2 years ago and haven't needed to go into the UI since so even then you can just let one version run for a long time and it'll be fine. It's very low-touch after the initial setup. In the years I've used it, the only time I needed to touch it is when I'm impatient and want to check when the digital release for something is, which is usually approximately when stuff shows up on torrent sites - give or take a couple hours for popular content and give or take a day or two for less popular content.

Seeing this made me curious to test my pitch accuracy after a few years of not playing music and I've discovered that my mind's A4 is now closer to 423 rather than 440 and it's driving me nuts. Feels like the Berenstein/stain Bears thing all over again

I'm on kbin.social and participate in communities across ~20ish other instances regardless of whether they've turned off registrations temporarily or permanently. Disabling registrations only prevents new accounts on that instance, it doesn't stop people from posting and commenting from other instances.

Most of those things seem to be true. The 3dprinting mod did endorse those 2 alternatives, and they seem to be the mod of one of them, they also seem to be doing a terrible job moderating the instance they created, and the users of r/3dprinting seem to be spamming it because they disagree with how the mod handled things, and I'm guessing the mod didn't get buy-in from the users of the sub before trying to migrate.

I don't think that necessarily makes sub.rehab dodgy, they are accurately communicating alternatives both mod-endorsed and not.

It doesn't really matter whether the entire world agrees, only that each community comes to an agreement. Mastodon.social collectively agrees on one definition that excludes explodingheads that involves one view on hate speech and spam, and explodingheads collectively agrees on another definition that excludes mastodon.social and involves censorship and free speech. Both groups are happy.