A lot of folk decry Cloudflare as a terrible corp (and their AI push now involves the login page shunted to the side while 70% of the screen is a relatively blank section with some sentence about using their AI), but what is the non-3rd party alternative? Does one rely on sharing the IP instead? It is impossible to have public (non-family) traffic without a Cloudflare/Google DNS resolver right?

Being on a standard ISP I cannot use a higher-level rDNS.

Reminds me of Death & Taxes (I don’t know the game aside from this song)

Nice that’s similar to my setup! As for a website hub yours looks neat, mine is plain as hell unless you’re a family member, thanks to Authelia – but making public info is on my todo list – I tried custom-building a website many years back and adapted that. (If anyone discovers security flaws please lmk, but I’m preeetty sure I did good)

Gonna share mine :3

• i3 6100 (2 cores, 4 threads), iGPU passthrough to a LibreELEC VM so I could finally replace the Google CCwGTV 4K*)
• 24GB of RAM (16GB+8GB, mobo is ITX so that’s it)
• RTX 3060 12GB (handles GPU-accelerated processing with GPU passthrough to Emby and LLM LXC’s)
• 256GB Samsung 850 Evo SATA SSD for everything but media
• SATA HDDs for media:

1. Shucked Barracuda Pro 10TB
2. Ironwolf Pro 20TB
3. Ironwolf Pro 24TB

• Proxmox 9.2.3, kernel 7.0.6-2 (not quite sure why it’s not using .14)

Once I can upgrade my 2017 flagship to a 2027 midrange I’ll be transferring the i7-7700K and the other half of the 2x16 RAM, and I’m in dire need of more storage so a 30TB Ironwolf is in my sights (but fuck, it’s 2x its pre AI-pocalypse price (aka Sep 2025).

I just discovered this YouTuber, Stephanie Sterling, and this video, thoroughly commentating a similar opinion – YouTube: The Online Predator’s Best Friend

I’m here like Caroline in Portal 2, “Yes, Yes!! They’re saying what we’re all thinking!”

Interesting, I figured people would use MySQL instead if possible.

Fart Fuckerburg

I snorted 😂

You can fucking curse, people on TikTok and Facebook, Xitter, Reddit can curse… The idea that profanity (etym. Latin, “Outside the Temple”) is unsociable or wrong is inherently, in the Western hemisphere, a Victorian English invention from the middle-class, as an attempt to distance themselves from the working class. History lesson aside, the only reason cursing aka emotionally descriptive terminology is avoided, as with critical terms such as “sexual assault”, “rape”, “paedophile”, “Covid” apparently, is because many media platforms have automated algorithmic shadowbanning scanning systems to suppress the free speech of content creators. What we do here, and on all the networking sites - discuss things - is not content. We Are Free Here. The only time these penalties come into play is when someone gets paid by a corporate-owned platform to create, and doesn’t want to jeopardise the money they receive in return in order to live a bit more comfortably. Put simply:

• Do you get paid a sizeable, but not comfortable, amount of money by any social platform to create media content, and in turn, traffic for them?
• Does your life or lifestyle depend on the amount of views you get on a centralised, corporate, regularly audited social media platform for a reason other than financial?

If the answer to either of these questions is “No” then you can cunting swear, on any platform, not just the libre (etym. Latin, “free” and “freedom” and “unrestricted”, see also ‘liberal’ and ‘liberation’) ones. Because Lemmy is open-source, non-profit, and ad-free, there are no corporate sponsors to appease.

Fuck censors. And like I mentioned above, victims of rape or other forms of traumatic abuse are being taught that they can’t openly talk about it, despite zero laws against it, and this severely damages the already dire issue that is victims that do talk get blamed, harassed and demonized, while convictions are very, very low. Talk about that with the fucking states that impose speech monitoring for child safety. If they wanted that they’d enact some actual fucking consequences for child rapists and sex traffickers.

I’m emotionally charged by this topic and vehemently defend a person’s right to be free of oppression. You can tell because I’m allowed to express it.

If you’re not sure, see the individual instance or community guidelines. For reference, neither mastodon.world, lemmy.world (both owned by the same foundation) nor c/[email protected] have rules against certain forms of speech.

Diary of a (Missing) Wimpy Kid

Megacaps before icecaps era

My legal fight is paid for entirely by my government, which is great because it’s their fault I’m in it

I’m surprised nobody mentioned romance up til writing this comment.

If you mean sexually attracted, the most immediate label to suit the situation may be bisexual. But if you mean romantically, and body type/genitalia doesn’t matter much, then you would fall under Ace - Asexual, but there are many predefined labels if you wanted to use them. Demisexuals’ sexual attraction is tied to their romantic interest, for example.

For a while now i have identified as panromantic, omnisexual and in a queer relationship. I allow myself to be defined because that is my preference for now.

Yeah I used to have a ROM game from a series called Galaxy of Games. And then Good Old Games (now gog.com) the game distributor. Maybe another GoG site, unless I’m remembering a Good Old Games mirror

The only thing I know about apparmour is that it breaks some permissions for a couple of my machines, and I have to disable them in the container config in order for the containers to boot

AI be making the prices Apple puts on RAM and SSD upgrades look reasonable

I use Adguard Home and my browser has uBlock Origin and I can read it just fine, but I suspect it’s a regional thing. Some countries may allow blocking because of an adblocker whereas some don’t. Most of my country’s news outlets now say “accept ads and cookies or reject and pay money”, and they’re starting to be able to block the reading mode workaround.

Welcome to the club! It looks like the other recommended solutions have a UI for browsing as well, which is cool. As it is my ytdl-sub feeds into a library for Emby so I personally don’t need another UI, but it is tempting. Only issue I could see is the same one I had to fix: Some videos only had AV1 available, and support for AV1 encoding only begins at the very recent Intel Core Ultra and AMD 7040 CPUs. Without those even 720p playback is laggy af… I have an RTX 3060 at my disposal for HW transcoding but who knows if those YouTube archiver/players support it

Edit: Just did some research, it seems that the other services don’t have support for HW transcoding or multiple users. And they are much more resource-intensive than ytdl-sub + Emby

Nope, it’s yet another fucking article on social media comments, which in turn discuss technology… Kind of.

Last year I generated 8 images during a day of experimenting with Google’s Gemini Image model. Running this same test on my own images:

• 5/8 were verified using Google’s own embedded SynthID;
• After running the failures through once again, one verified, making the successful total 6/8. Two remained ambiguous according to the AI.

Of these images:

• 5 were generated with just a prompt (4*/5), including the image that was not recognised at first
• 2 were generated using personal images alongside a prompt (1/2), the recognised one of a human, the other of a rabbit
• 1 was generated using sourced imagery alongside a prompt (0/1)

Conclusion: Hilariously, it seems the in-house watermark method is absolutely not accurate.

Only login options are a Google portal, and a mandatory phone number with 2FA check and a checkbox about marketing in which the prompt is too ambiguous to tell whether you should tap it or not

That’s a unique art style. Can’t decide if i like it