Free and Open Source Software jherazob • 4 months ago • 100%

I am very out of the loop with related recent tech, but once in a while i wish i had subtitles for internet clips, and i understand there's good tech out there for this these days. Is there something i can download in a typical headless Debian machine that i can then point at some MP4 clip to get subtitles? Even if imperfect it's better than trying to type that from scratch

Free and Open Source Software jherazob • 6 months ago • 100%

A couple weeks ago [Discord announced their plans to go down the IPO route](https://www.techspot.com/news/102186-discord-claims-more-than-200-million-monthly-active.html). This means that there is now a ticking clock until the platform goes full-on enshittified like so many others before them. Last time i checked last year there weren't many options to migrate to, mostly Matrix communities (which are not quite the same thing) and [Revolt Chat](https://revolt.chat/) (which is a non-federated but FOSS and self-hostable drop-in replacement for Discord). Revolt sounds like the logical route as it's clearly designed for just this exact role, but it seems it's still early in development and not yet ready for the average Discord user (looks like the voice functions in particular are still in development) Has this changed or improved since then? I feel like the use case of "IRC servers, but modern!" should have been solved years ago but feels like it hasn't, i have lots of non-technical people who heavily use Discord who I'd love to rescue from it before it starts actively burning, a replacement that isn't complicated and has all it's features would be welcome.

Technology jherazob • 7 months ago • 98%

First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ jherazob • 7 months ago • 100%

The AnimeBytes outage from yesterday was because of this, DNS registrar seems to have gone down with all it's .tv domains, and this has taken down lots of sites

Trackers: ꜱʜᴀʀɪɴɢ ɪꜱ ᴄᴀʀɪɴɢ jherazob • 7 months ago • 90%

Initial reaction from one of the main admins was that if in 12 hours there had been no news they'd nuke the servers, seems like they're not gonna do it anymore. Many domains registered by one admin were seized at the same time, so might not even be aimed at the tracker. Waiting for more news. Update: Looks like the DNS registrar itself was the one that went down and took lots of sites with it, TorrentFreak article: [100s of Pirate Sites Go Dark as .TV Domains Placed on ServerHold - TorrentFreak](https://torrentfreak.com/100s-of-pirate-sites-go-dark-as-tv-domains-placed-on-serverhold-240221/)

Gaming jherazob • 8 months ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

Well shit...

Technology jherazob • 8 months ago • 100%

futurism.com

Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI. For the interested, [here's the place where you can request your personal data and delete your account](https://drive-thru.duolingo.com/)

Privacy jherazob • 8 months ago • 95%

[Twillio just announced they're discontinuing the Desktop version of their popular Two Factor Authentication client](https://support.authy.com/hc/en-us/articles/17592416719003-Authy-for-Desktop-End-of-Life-EOL-). Their proposed solution is for users to move to the mobile app, which of course doesn't fulfill the use case of people who explicitly chose Authy because it had a desktop client. If you use Authy and depend on the Desktop client you will have to consider migrating to something else.

Free and Open Source Software jherazob • 11 months ago • 97%

Today somebody in a group I'm in which has some accessibility issues was yet again complaining that their Dragon Speaking software was not playing nice with Firefox, which led me to see if there was an alternative, and surprisingly i found none workable at the plain user level beyond Dragon, and upgrading for that person might actually be costly (From what they say it starts at nearly $200 but apparently can go as high as $700? Not clear yet). So, obviously now I'm checking about the FOSS side of things, a search has been inconclusive as i see stuff for developers, multiple different projects (which is a marked improvement from a decade ago when i last tried and failed to do this), but so far haven't found anything at the user level. Have i overlooked something? Or is it that we're many years later still at the "building libraries" stage without actual user-level stuff people can just apt-get or download? Quick edit: I must insist, is there something for ***USERS***, not ***DEVELOPERS***, that i have overlooked? APIs or commandline programs or learning models are not a software i can hand to my non-programmer friend to install on their computer to replace Dragon to help them write on Firefox

Free and Open Source Software jherazob • 11 months ago • 100%

So, a relative that all she plays in her tablet is solitaire, saw ads of some mobile crap full of microtransactions and now wants some of those. I said i'd check if there was games kinda like those (all puzzles of some sort), and would highly prefer if they're all FOSS to avoid or at least highly reduce the chance they're gonna turn into microtransaction-laden crap or start syphoning all the data in the phone or something. But given that i don't really play in mobile i have no idea what's available. Checking on F-Droid it just lists every game in the "games" category, "Show all 467 packages", not separated by genre or with ratings or anything Is there a place to look up this kind of thing?

Sysadmin jherazob • 11 months ago • 100%

Somebody I’m helping has an ancient, and i mean ancient (like 3 major versions before latest or so) install of Rundeck doing stuff for them. Might help them upgrade it to the latest (more like reinstall and configure from scratch, it was built years ago with assumptions no longer true), but before i commit I’d like to know if there’s decent replacements/alternatives for it these days. In case you don’t know Rundeck, it allows you to set it up so that a number of users, with various privilege levels, are allowed to execute scripts on remote machines, with whatever privileges the given script needs, giving them parameters from an allowed set you configure. That’s all, no more, no less. Sounds like something that should be common, but when you look for alternatives it gives you everything that’s ever been touched by the word DevOps, from Ansible and every “configuration engine” software ever made, to automation libraries and the like. I just want something that does this and no more, let people run scripts while preventing them to break stuff. If it’s something commandline friendly (Rundeck wasn’t as far as i can see) much better, and doubly so if it’s user friendly (have tried AWX and feels like it wants to be able to run the whole of Google from a browser window, dislike it in general, far too convoluted, and not user friendly at all for the not very techie office workers that use Rundeck today).

Technology jherazob • 11 months ago • 98%

[Original comment](https://bungle.online/notes/9krv9o0gnc ), copy-pasted for convenience: >why do so many projects start with a discord and not with a wiki, or github, or web presence? > simply, discord is the fastest, most frictionless way to do the following: > - garner a community of support ensuring that there is an audience for the project > - provide access to idea validation for the creators of that project. rapid feedback for their project = rapid progress > - provide the easy creation of (not necessarily accessible nor good, but) quick resources for the project > forums, websites, hell even github can only hope to match the value proposition of discord, and it's something people fail to take into account when they criticise the move to discord as a file host/forum/wiki/project website > if you want people to make a file host/forum/wiki/project website, they're directly competing with the frictionless, fast, yet unsustainable and frankly web-shit discord. the fast, frictionless nature is enough for people to use and accept, hell, even to make infrastructural to their project > a platform that could create a non-webshit, easy way to provide the value that discord provides, all while being just as fast and frictionless if not faster/more lubricated, would absolutely blow discord out the water I am a sysadmin and my level of tech friction tolerance is different from the people referenced here leading projects, but I'd like to gather opinions on this, the fact that this regularly happens as described suggests there's a whole lot of truth to it, but i feel like it's overstating the friction, am i wrong here?

Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. jherazob • 11 months ago • 100%

We have a machine running some stuff on Docker, and little by little it has started to become important to keep an eye on it. However, looking for information on monitoring a Docker server it always seem to assume you're running it in Swarm mode, which is not and WILL NOT be the case of this machine, Swarm adds a layer of complexity unneeded in this case. What do you recommend for this case? I for one would love if the thing didn't just give you a view of the things running on it but also gave you notifications if something went wrong (like if a container had to be restarted, or if one suddenly started eating all the CPU or something unusual).

Technology jherazob • 1 year ago • 99%

The much maligned "Trusted Computing" idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is *DEFINITELY NOT* worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google's ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google's hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.

VIM - Vi Improved jherazob • 1 year ago • 100%

Seen a few ways but all seem to be with deprecated/abandoned methods or tools

Technology jherazob • 1 year ago • 98%

Linked but also posted as a screenshot for the lazy :P 

Fediverse jherazob • 1 year ago • 97%

ploum.net

This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance

Technology jherazob • 1 year ago • 100%

Ideally one that can use more than one disk so that i can expand it later when i can. Have some minimal experience with Synology since there's one at work and i have interacted with it a couple times and like the interface, but am not married to any brand as long as it works. Located in EU if it makes any difference.

After many days i finally received my GDPR data request, which i supplemented further with [reddit-user-to-sqlite](https://github.com/xavdid/reddit-user-to-sqlite/), so i have a nice full local copy of my account. Now I'm torn on whether to fully shred the data of the account or just delete it: * On one side, i *highly* dislike the idea of willingly contributing to [a Wisdom of the Ancients scenario](https://m.xkcd.com/979/), although it might be a moot point anyway since it looks like Spez wants to wall off Reddit after all * On the other, fuck Spez and i don't wanna contribute a single cent to their profits * And as an additional point, it's rather unsettling the amount of info you can gather of somebody from their Reddit posts, just from a privacy point of view What are your opinions on this? Edit: Just deleted my RemindMeBot reminders, somehow that felt like it had almost the same finality as deleting my account somehow... [Edit...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR2XYraqyqs)

Fediverse jherazob • 1 year ago • 96%

That [and his previous statements](https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110567561923047973) say that he's not in it, good!

Fediverse jherazob • 1 year ago • 91%

Apparently there was a secret meeting between admins of big Fedi instances and Meta, closed under an NDA, and of course they're not saying anything. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110548174843564104 (Now deleted even from Internet Archive) https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/110548129223290575 https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110521648872299829 [Somebody already made a pact to publicly commit admins to block Meta](https://vantaa.black/pact) Now we see why concentrating users on big instances is a liability Update: Supernaut [directly stated that he hasn't been contacted or attended a meeting](https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110567561923047973), and went further to [set up a page to visualize instances entering the Anti-Meta Fedipact](https://fedidb.org/current-events/anti-meta-fedi-pact)

Reddit Migration jherazob • 1 year ago • 100%

[Announcement on /r/gifs](https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/14bfcps/from_now_on_only_gifs_of_john_oliver_may_be/) and [on /r/pics](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14bai7s/henceforth_rpics_will_feature_only_images_of_john/). The most Reddit way to protest 🤣

I mean, those of you who used to have 10+ years old accounts that then went and overwrote them using something like Shreddit or Power Delete, how long did it took for it to go through all that?

Programming jherazob • 1 year ago • 100%

After [the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier](https://beehaw.org/post/567170) i checked [the Lemmy repo](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues) to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon's that people mentioned Lemmy doesn't yet have. Not only i didn't find it, i also saw that there's about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it's maintained mostly by the two main devs, [the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/contributors). This is normal and in other circumstances it'd grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don't have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I'm a sysadmin, haven't coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven't ever touched Rust, so can't help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that's PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.

Fediverse jherazob • 1 year ago • 96%

cohost.org

The core phrase of the blog post: "no one has done an especially good job explaining why the fediverse is better than centralized solutions". Feels to me that it's all growing pains, we *WOULD* benefit for a federated auth system instead of an account on every service, and we need lots of bug fixing, i just wish all these social media shitstorms had happened a couple years later and not at this point...

Fediverse jherazob • 1 year ago • 100%

Now that i'm getting used to being in Fedi long term i've started looking beyond Mastodon and Lemmy to the other services. And now i've started to see that some of the services, like Pixelfed, Friendica and others don't seem to have a public timeline. Seems specially absurd for Pixelfed since you *WANT* your photos to be visible to everybody but haven't found any instance yet that does it (maybe i'm unlucky, dunno). Is there a reason why this happens? Seems counterproductive for people who might or might not want to join the given server, you want to know what you're getting into.

Was it through a PM? To your email? How?

Beehaw Support jherazob • 1 year ago • 100%

Been just linked to [this post](https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-about-your-privacy-everything-is), that claims that on Lenny: * Messages are never deleted, only hidden, a GDPR violation * Deleted usernames are also not deleted, only hidden, same thing * Stuff remains on federated servers even if you delete it * There's no way to delete yourself from the network if you choose to do so Gut feeling says none of this is true or is only half truths, but want to be sure before i invest myself heavily on this platform.

Piracy jherazob • 1 year ago • 100%

Have tried and failed to find [the Spanish filmed version of the 1931 Universal Studios movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021815/) in the usual places and have not found it even legally (save for some *VERY* overpriced VHS tapes i cannot even use), have you seen it anywhere?

Beehaw Support jherazob • 1 year ago • 100%

Earlier accidentally opened [a post i had answered to](https://beehaw.org/post/379066), not located on Beehaw, on the original instance. To my surprise [it has a lot of comments on the original instance](https://lemmy.ml/post/1002117?scrollToComments=true) that don't show up here. Is it that i'm doing something wrong, or is this some kind of actual bug or tech issue?