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• There are genuinely two most prevalent groups of hackers in my hackerspace:

  • The respectful hackers with a goal in mind (mostly men)
  • The cuddle pile on the couch

  We never had any sexual activity on this couch!™®

  on nerds irl rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago

• You’re just angry they get laid and you don’t.

  on nerds irl rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago

• “too literal” is inherently subjective. Too literal to whom? What if my friends group is also neurodivergent as fuck, does this invalidate me then because it’s the new neurotypical?

  I conclude that we need tests for what’s usually thought off as “normies”. If they know about their rhetorical precision deficits surely they can get therapy to solve that issue and integrate better into society.

  on autism rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago

• There are parental controls, but it’s rare. FOSS projects usually aren’t very keen on building systems of authority, even parental ones.

  For smartphones check out /e/OS (Murena Smartphones). They added parental controls recently, not sure how good those are though.

  For computers your best bet’s probably a Linux with Gnome. They also added something recently.

  You might be able to combine both with a custom DNS service, surely there’s something out there for that usecase (NextDNS?). But that’s already getting pretty complex.

  on Is there a self-hosted Family Link server? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• Mullvad’s CEO finances fascists, please don’t.

  on Is there a self-hosted Family Link server? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• I mean, they “plan” to publish that info, right?

  I’d bet they used at least CommonCrawl (with it being the majority of data), arXiv, Wikipedia and the set containing all of Github. Probably not a lot of distillation.

  CommonCrawl is one of the reasons small websites and social instances get DDoS’ed by rules-ignoring AI crawlers. Wikipedia data basically always gets used without paying them. Github… well, it’s a prime example of how they broke millions of licenses.

  There’s also other stuff commonly used. Don’t get me started on the training sets for image generation. It’s beyond disgusting (and I’m not even talking just about theft and cultural destruction at this point).

  This stuff is a bottomless pit, and if those (F)OSS models really aim to be up at the top they’ll have to break every possible moral, ethical and legal rule just like everyone else. Even more so if they omit closed-source training sets.

  on is K2 horizons historically significant as the first actual open-source LLM, or am I falling for hype? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• My question would be if it uses stuff like CommonCrawl as training material. Given their size I assume they used anything incl. unethical training data, but at least admit it?

  The only models I ever found that even tried to only resort to ethically obtained data, being FOSS etc. were the tiny ones from PleIAs. And as expected they’re completely useless.

  So far I concluded that an “ideologically sound” LLM is impossible due to lack of training data. Unless your ideology allows to steal stuff.

  on is K2 horizons historically significant as the first actual open-source LLM, or am I falling for hype? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• Go to Haiku. Maximum incompatibility but still with a slither of daily usefulness.

  on A Head-to-Head Comparison of Windows vs Consoles vs Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026

• The Pinephone is utterly, utterly underpowered. It already was when it released, at this point it’s just obsolete.

  The only ready-to-go Linux phone with reasonably modern hardware I know of is this one.

  on Darth Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 Sep 2026

• Also FuriLabs. If their FLX1s phone didn’t just have a 1600x720 screen I would’ve already bought one, but that’s a dealbreaker for me. Still a good phone though it seems.

  on Darth Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 Sep 2026

• Not just that, companies are using “smart” devices as AI scraper botnets to utilize private, basically unbanable IPs. There are only very few companies who I might believe them not doing it (AllenAI and maybe Mistral - tell me if I’m proven wrong pls). But OpenAI, Anthropic, fucking Google and Meta, they all treat your network as their personal internet extension. It’s reasonable to assume any “Smart” device with wifi access that isn’t FOSS most likely being your enemy.

  Our family Nextcloud already got taken down by OpenAI swarming it… overloaded and crashed php-fpm within a minute. At least one client blasting all endpoints still advertised themselves as OpenAI crawler.

  on AI bot hacking/scraping Home Assistant in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Why does this remind me of the common argument made against democracy and for e.g. China… “it moves fast, less resistance, faster results”…

  And yet it’s still worse.

  The whole argument doesn’t hold up either. Your company - or the people behind it, if it’s new - just can’t be known as the usual profit-driven asshole. I mean, look at how the relations between the Community and Valve is. Nobody would argue Valve being perfect, but they’re known not to be the usual assholes and thereby cautiously welcome.

  If you or your company can’t deal with society being vigilant (especially in capitalism) then they’ve no place in said society. This vigilance is the only reason Linux still feels made for the user(advanced ones, but still). Fuck anyone who wants to destroy that with means of accelerationism and alike.

  DHH and Omarchy are just cultural cancer. What you correctly described is basically one aspect of how unfettered capitalism manipulates people and destroys healthy communities for the sake of growth.

  on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

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  on Bluefin Server — Cloud-native home infrastructure from Project Bluefin [AIP] in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• 1 out of 49 isn’t part of our polycule.

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 Sep 2026

• Ewww, AI slop.

  on enjoy in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026

• 100% that. Only a few selected people as well as emergency apps are allowed to send any notifications. Nothing else is important enough to drag me out of whatever I’m currently invested in.

  on Silence Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026

• And the previous commenter mentioned ownCloud, I just wanted to point out that feature isn’t unique to that. I wasn’t talking to OP.

  on Any good file sync server with web interface other than Nextcloud? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Yeah, and the worst thing is that environmental policies might be to blame (to my knowledge).

  Larger vehicles have less strict emission rules. And because “the market” also wants cheap stuff and just making the car bigger is easier than reinventing the engine… a cynic might call this shift malicious compliance by the manufacturers.

  We can only hope this trend is reversable once EVs become dominant, those benefit from less size and weight.

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026

• For example, it has file versioning, and companion apps on major OSs that help with managing local and cloud stored files.

  Nextcloud also got both.

  on Any good file sync server with web interface other than Nextcloud? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Europeans also don’t tend to have the headlights 1.50m or more above ground level, because anyone who isn’t 'Murican still builds comparably normal cars and no useless “Trucks”. Even though they also get worse and worse (fuck SUVs).

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026

• A mastodon.social account with a green website link to the official page is already sufficient. Only the owner of said website can do that, that’s the way public people and companies are able to publicly verify the accounts authenticity.

  It’s neither hard nor do we lack the management software for social media accounts supporting Fedi. Those companies just rely on falsified data telling them there’s no alternative to those big networks and ~vibes~.

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 Aug 2026

• Imagine if tomorrow every single authocrat passes away.

  on Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 Aug 2026

• No, that would be arch-update.

  Shelly is a really handy GUI. Also manages AppImage and stuff, I think the only thing they didn’t include are Snaps.

  on Rule in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Another commenter just made me aware that the maintainer moved back on his hiding of Claude (because it “apparently is a big deal”… yeah, what tipped you off Sherlock?), which is good. But it’s still being used, so… still bad.

  on Cool... I guess. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• Thanks for the update, so at least he doesn’t hide it anymore. I wouldn’t call that “reversing his stance on AI” though, he didn’t say he’d stop using the slop cannon. Just that he doesn’t hide it anymore, which quite frankly is the absolute bare minimum.

  on Cool... I guess. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• The concept suffers a little bit with graphical applications. They don’t exactly have equivalents to stdin, stdout and stderr which you could pipe or read/write willy-nilly.

  RetroArch isn’t far off from the philosophy I think, those emulation cores are pretty much independent projects plugged into a frontend. Unfortunately that default frontend is pretty clunky and doesn’t come with sane defaults for known ROMs. Or even sane menu navigation tbh, main menu and game menu looked way too similar last time I used it…

  on Cool... I guess. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• It’s kinda sad. I felt the maintainers feeling of being overwhelmed and underappreciated, but that whole discussion in the issue and the later statement to just hide AI use was such a phenomenal PR debacle he’ll probably never get rid of.

  Lutris was pretty good…

  on Cool... I guess. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Usually electricity.

  on Human Question: What kind of RULEr is pow-er-ing this Com-put-er???? in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026

• I still know it as Layer 8 issue.

  on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• “weird” is not the first word that comes to mind for me about this.

  on Big mistake rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026

• The funniest thing about this is that it needs a single Bash script and a cronjob to solve (unless they got a REALLY bad hoster).

  That bash script probably exists a bazillion times already… so even an LLM could spit it out for them.

  Their organisational structure must be abhorrent for nobody to feel even remotely responsible for this.

  on Happy Manjaro Certificate expiration day! To all who celebrate! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Sounds like quitter talk to me. It’s not like AI is an evolutionary process that just happens somewhere, it’s a localized tool - and even if it spreads itself, that would be by far the most humonguous virus ever. I think those authors just write down their own fears.

  on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Real developers know LLMs are basically just a tool for finding examples and helping with syntax.

  Your words on gods ears. I also found it to be reasonably useful when you’re stuck in the documentation of a library clearly written by and for people who already know it.

  Unfortunately people who do not understand code are blissfully ignorant at what garbage they have the machine spit out. Of course until the LLM nukes their whole project folder or even disk because the probability engine unfortunately picked “clean slate” as the most probable next thing. Not as if that ever happened at companies, lol.

  on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Mmh… but this concept only fully works on Open-Source hardware, doesn’t it? Otherwise the microcode or CPU itself could still be an attack vector to infect the bootstrapped compiler?

  (Genuinely curious, I have no clue)

  on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• With sufficient (usually stolen) training data they could probably do it to a state where it’s kinda usable in an assistive manner.

  Though since these LLMs often struggle with anything that doesn’t exist in truly abhorrent abundance in its training data as well as the actual engineering part (i.e. structuring the code sensibly and consistently, which I’d wager is crutially important with Assembly to not end up with spaghetti) trying to have it generate something from scratch would probably end up in a huge mess.

  on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• The ending is rather unsatisfactory.

  on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Not sure if they allow custom domains, but posteo is great. I also heard good things about mailbox.

  on Software For(ule)ge in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 Aug 2026

• It’s genuinely sad the information landscape for Linux is so bad due to time and lack of documentation (all hail the Arch Linux wiki), big LLMs got a higher hitrate.

  Unfortunately if they miss they might tell you to dd your disk as a speedtest.

  on linux_irl in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

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  on Eepy Ahh in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 Aug 2026

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  on scripts? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026

• Phew, to run such a model - even just 27B quantized - at a reasonable speed requires some serious GPU Power.

  Best thing I have is a 7800 XT 16gb (so ROCm it would be), don’t think that’s realistic and I’d rather invest the necessary amount of money for new GPUs into sth. more useful like a small electric vehicle than a slop cannon 🥴. Happy to hear actual useful things can be retained after the bubble finally crashes though. Oh please, let it crash tomorrow… together with the housing market…

  on How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026

• Interesting. I tested ChatGPT and Mistral and oh my god, ChatGPT was abysmal. Hallucinated way harder. Mistral is okay if being used on highest settings.

  Did you create an account with Mistral? Without it they only expose a low-end model to the web, which isn’t properly declared last time I checked. Can be the free plan, I guess they just want to avoid their infrastructure being hammered.

  Personally all those Silicon Valley pricks can offer whatever, I don’t even have a Google account anymore and couldn’t be happier with that. Not saying Mistral is optimal, but at least they’re not part of the current US swamp. And I at least somewhat believe they actually read the damn GDPR. I’m totally fine with it not being the “cutting-edge”, especially given the cutting-edge cuts straight through culture and people’s lifes on purpose and with maximum brutality, and I seriously liked to see their image generator being way worse as well as Mistral refusing to open sites that banned it in the past (if they changed that behaviour please let me know). Not to mention their site isn’t even remotely as infected with trackers and other junk as the others, at least that’s what I’ve read (forgot to bookmark that hackers’ analysis I’ve read a year ago unfortunately).

  on How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• Quick mention about Chatbots: In general they can be useful if you already have a grasp on something, so you can detect potential nonsense better. Additionally they can act like a drug especially on lonely people, and any company tries to sell them to you as awesome code generators. Yet Mistral AI already generated an answer to me telling me to dd my encrypted root hard drive for a speed test, even doubling down on it being safe.

  Not saying they can’t be useful for OP. Just that they’re like a handheld circular saw*, a powertool better only used by people who already know sufficient basics about wood.

  *where the salesman got rid of the safety handle and tells you to “just let it go on its own”.

  on How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• I’m simply not seeing the benefit over a well maintained degoogled Android ROM such as Graphene or /e/OS. The amount of work I have to out in to relearn stuff is next to none, support is higher and you know hardware support lasts long (thinking of e.g. the Murena Fairphone 6). Sailfish looks like just another corporation with partially closed Source and bumpy track record, and with hardware such as Fairphone (and many other phones) you at least got some digital mobility to move to something else if your distribution of choice goes down the drain.

  I get that having a third option is always better even if all three are questionable, but I don’t see that in Sailfish either.

  on In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• Plot twist: Your snapshots were mounted when you did that and are now also very accessible.

  on If it ain't broke, don't fix it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• Fuck EFI SHELL.

  All my Amish brothers and sisters use a Typewriter.

  on I can't use Linux! It's too hard! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• I thought we were talking about open phones. Sailfish OS is not fully open, and I see no reason to go from “open but Corpotrash” to “partially closed with a little bit less (?) Corpotrash”.

  Until they finally Open-Source their libraries Jolla is just one among many.

  on In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026

• A new hobby. 🙃

  on In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026

• Couldn’t have said it better.

  On mobile we got the different Linux Phone OSes, unfortunately none of them come pre-installed (not counting the obsolete phones from Pine or Librem) and they’re still very much beta software. But they too get consistently better, both Plasma Mobile and Phosh make great strides.

  on In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026

• Is that the Knoppix logo? To my knowledge it’s unmaintained (still offering kernel 2.6?) and last time I tried downloading it years ago the .iso contained a virus. That one is definitely dubious at best.

  on OS Tier List in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026