Notices by eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 23:48:17 JST eliseo
@SuperDicq
You can waste your own power and hardware cycles, but I'd bet you didn't, and still a waste nonetheless. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 23:43:07 JST eliseo
@SuperDicq
I don't think the waste of power and water required to find out that a garbage printer does indeed print garbage is worth it. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 23:41:27 JST eliseo
@xorsch
> "Les aplicacions compilades, no descarregades. "
I find it very difficult that you can compile proprietary, binary-only software and drivers required by all those GPUs to be functional.
You still need to download the source code to be able to compile it as well. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 23:06:25 JST eliseo
@hfaust
Rust itself is arguably proprietary already due to the compiler and the usual corporate trademark shenanigans. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 19:19:12 JST eliseo
@hfaust
Security nuts do not understand that when you run free software only, "memory safety" is an afterthought, most of us would rather stick with a truly free, matured, reliable and performant software written in C than adopt proprietary, slow and unreliable Rust codebase. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 19:45:07 JST eliseo
@SuperDicq @phnt @silhouette
Organizations and companies that have a dedicated budget with dedicated administrators can cope with redundancy overhead if they scale VMs and when you wanna run so many services you will want to start virtualizing anyway, personal users normally do not deploy dozens of VMs to host multiple different webservers but it still simplifies management a lot. In my case I deploy a GNU+Linux VM and then passthrough all physical drives to it, excluding two for backups, then from there I just mount filesystems through NFS or SSH to the rest of guests, which most of the time are containers that have torrent seedboxes, routers, VPNs, etc. Each one has its own IP as well so you don't need to worry about conflicting TCP/UDP ports, so if my niece asks me to start the Luanti server so she can play with her buddies I simply right click and start, or I invoke a single command, and I don't need to keep track of any other container I started months back that might interfere with it. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 19:45:06 JST eliseo
@SuperDicq @phnt @silhouette
There's also the fact that if you have to forward through clearnet for a VPN router, for example, you'd rather expose a container or a VM than bare metal directly, in the possible scenario that a state funded scene cracks SSH security, through some vulnerability to make it part of a botnet or some-such, when you find out you'll simply have to rollback to a backup, apply upgrades and don't need to worry about having to reinstall everything and start over. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 18:53:54 JST eliseo
@SuperDicq @phnt @silhouette
If you're familiar with it then why do you claim that such is a massive overheard to the extent that your server would waste resources in a meaningful way? I am familiar with Proxmox, I have multiple servers running it and I think it saves resources and time if anything, as deploying LXC containers and VMs is trivially simple, and I can afford spending a couple extra dozen of hundreds of bytes of memory in a web frontend to remotely manage everything in a machine that has several millions of bytes of RAM. You don't need that much maintenance either, everything works on its own most of the time, it updates packages and backups everything automatically every week. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 18:41:15 JST eliseo
@SuperDicq @phnt @silhouette
Do you have any personal experience with Proxmox? -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 21:46:22 JST eliseo
@Suiseiseki @privateger
I'm fully aware that dav1d is a very efficient decoder but the issue is the CPU speed rather than software bloat. If your bitrate is too high (or if it's 1440p or higher in resolution with well mixed bitrate) you're not going to enjoy the view. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 20:00:38 JST eliseo
@Suiseiseki @privateger
In my experience any software codec is reasonably fast on my Core 2 Quad Q6600, what greatly influences speeds reencoding is the bitrate, a too high bitrate will stall the reencoding process, it shouldn't be too high either since the CPU itself will struggle with playback if you lack hardware that can decode it, as is most likely the case with HEVC or AV1. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 12:00:53 JST eliseo
@Xhuul
It's amazing how you've picked three choices that strongly suck and yet you forgot or deliberately omitted GNUSocial and Pleroma. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 21:48:52 JST eliseo
@Suiseiseki
You'd probably want GNU/Linux-libre realtime specifically for robotics. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 23:19:46 JST eliseo
@Suiseiseki @mistergibson @Savvyhomestead
So Signal is essentially a western Telegram on everything Telegram sucks about. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 23:15:53 JST eliseo
@sun
Money itself ain't real either so the fact degenerate politicians do this doesn't surprise me. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 22:44:06 JST eliseo
@mistergibson @Savvyhomestead
I recommend XMPP as a Signal replacement. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 22:44:03 JST eliseo
@mistergibson @Savvyhomestead
As for why I avoid Signal. Other than the obvious things such as mandatory phone number requirements which is discriminatory against people that doesn't have phone number and also paradoxically very privacy unfriendly, the founder has a strong opinion in favor of centralization and has repeatedly showed an anti federation discourse over the years, given how Signal is designed it seems consistent with the kind of culture the project has as "convenient solution to a complex problem". I don't trust snake oil sellers, their clients being free software (which I doubt, requires investigation) means nothing if the server is in hands of a single company or organization. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 01:58:06 JST eliseo
@sun
That one has ten times less RAM, I imagine you'd need to compile a custom kernel to literally remove everything other than the most essential hardware support and then cross fingers it has enough RAM left to boot, start runit and reach the user login screen. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 01:53:30 JST eliseo
@sun
I wonder what kind of graphical userspace you can get with 20MiB of RAM on GNU+Linux. -
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eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 01:49:11 JST eliseo
@sun
Would you run AmigaOS on that thing?