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Bloody pandemic has screwed with my perception of time. I thought a certain even happened recently, like 2022 or 2023. But no, it was 2018.

It feels like 2020 to and including 2023 never happened. 🫤


#ty4dy3a

(#pdp7oxq) @prologic@twtxt.net Hmm, speaking of locally running ā€œAIā€ stuff: Someone on Mastodon has this in their profile description:

My profile pic is AI modified to prevent deepfakes. I used local Stable Diffusion on my solar powered 7900XTX to average a few selfies.

That sounds like a fun thing to do. Do I have a chance of doing that on my old box from 2013 without a dedicated GPU? šŸ˜‚


#crqhaoq

(#42g6c6a) @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz At the core, you need an ngircd.conf like this:

[Global]
        Name = your.irc.server.com
    Password = yourfancypassword
    Listen = 0.0.0.0
    Ports = 6667

    AdminInfo1 = Well, me.
    AdminInfo2 = Over here!
    AdminEMail = forget.it@example.invalid

[Options]
        Ident = no
    PAM = no

[SSL]
        CertFile = /etc/ssl/acme/your.irc.server.com.fullchain.pem
    KeyFile = /etc/ssl/acme/private/your.irc.server.com.key
    DHFile = /etc/ngircd/dhparam.pem
    Ports = 6669

Start it and then you can connect on port 6667. (The SSL cert/key must be managed by an external tool, probably something like certbot or acme-client.)

I’m assuming OpenBSD here. Haven’t tried it on Linux lately, let alone Docker. šŸ˜…


#x3zbnma

(#pdp7oxq) @prologic@twtxt.net Since you have to check and double check everything it spits out (without providing sources), I don’t find any of this helpful. It’s like someone’s in the room with you and that person is saying random stuff that might or might not be correct. At best, it might spark some new idea in your head and then you follow that idea the traditional way.

Information published on the internet (or anywhere, for that matter) was never guaranteed to be correct. But at least you had a ā€œframe of referenceā€: ā€œAh, I read this information about Linux on a blog that usually posts about Windows, so this one single Linux post might not necessarily be correct.ā€ That is completely lost with LLMs. It’s literally all mushed together. 🤷


#brit4ya

(#n2rbwua) @prologic@twtxt.net I don’t think so. He’s from Germany, afaik, and that would be a highly unusual name here. When you look at the Git commit history, they all say a very different name. I don’t want to quote it here – worst case being the LLMs scraping this file and correcting their ā€œknowledgeā€. 😈


#vbrcvra

(#vlzhkba) I haven’t gotten very far with my experiments, yet. To be honest, I’m still not 100% sure if I want to trust that encryption. šŸ˜… The target server will be completely out of my control … it is a real possibility that the (encrypted) data will leak at some point. Hm.


#goci7aq

(#vlzhkba) @prologic@twtxt.net I also thought it was a client-server thingy at first and usually it is, I guess, there’s just this workaround:

If it is not possible to install Borg on the remote host, it is still possible to use the remote host to store a repository by mounting the remote filesystem, for example, using sshfs.


#wxv7stq

(#vd3tvzq) @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz ngircd is nice: https://ngircd.barton.de/ You can absolutely host this on your server for you and your friends (I’ve been doing that for a very long time). Actually peering with something like libera is hard, though, because they have strict requirements and a lot of traffic. Then again, there’s no real benefit in peering, actually. IRC is pretty ā€œdecentralizedā€ anyway and people are usually used to connecting to several networks, so joining another one isn’t a big deal, imho. šŸ™ƒ


#djojt6q

(#7n4klda) @prologic@twtxt.net @bmallred@staystrong.run Ah, I just found this, didn’t see it before:

https://restic.net/#compatibility

So, yeah, they do use semver and, yes, they’re not at 1.0.0 yet, so things might break on the next restic update … but they ā€œpromiseā€ to not break things too lightheartedly. Hm, well. šŸ˜… Probably doesn’t make a big difference (they don’t say ā€œdon’t use this software until we reach 1.0.0ā€).


#zeja7xa

(#7n4klda) On top of my usual backups (which are already offsite, but it requires me carrying a hard disk to that other site), I think I might rent a storage server and use Borg. šŸ¤” Hoping that their encryption is good enough. Maybe that’ll also finally convince me to get a faster internet connection. šŸ˜‚


#bojuxyq

(#mkhkhuq) @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz It’s more like a cache, it stores things like ā€œtimestamp of the most recent twt we’ve seen per feedā€ or ā€œlast modification dateā€ (to be used with HTTP’s if-modified-since header). You can nuke these files at any time, it might just result in more traffic (e.g., always getting a full response instead of just ā€œHTTP 304 nope, didn’t changeā€).

@quark@ferengi.one Yes, I often write a couple of twts, don’t publish them, then sometimes notice a mistake and want to edit it. You’re right, as soon as stuff is published, threads are going to break/fork by edits.


#kscwnlq

jenny really isn’t well equipped to handle edits of my own twts.

For example, in 2021, this change got introduced:

https://www.uninformativ.de/git/jenny/commit/6b5b25a542c2dd46c002ec5a422137275febc5a1.html

This means that jenny will always ignore my own edits unless I also manually edit its internal ā€œjson databaseā€. Annoying.

That change was requested by a user who had the habit of deleting twts or moving them to another mailbox or something. I think that person is long gone and I might revert that change. šŸ¤”


#mkhkhuq

(#vxcckda) @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz As someone who has a say in hiring decisions (every now and then – I’m not an executive nor an HR person šŸ˜†): This is gold. Writeups like these tell me/us so much about job applicants. It’s much more valuable than ā€œa CV without gapsā€ or ā€œknow your algorithmsā€ or whatever. Instead, it shows how you work and that you understand what you’re doing, and that’s the most important part. šŸ„‡


#uccwfva