Companies attacking security researchers always goes so well for them.

I run my own instance that has just two users. I Federate with who I want (including most instances you named). I subscribe to low drama instances like startrek.website and mander.xyz. I subscribe to communities from MOST of the instances you mentioned, but not a single one has drama (for example, no one on the lemmy.ml cybersecurity or selfhosting communities argues about politics… they just post and talk about those things).

I experience almost no drama. Two years ago, it was different, but I left those communities (but not even those instances) and just avoid engaging with those users (and it was honestly only a few very vocal users).

In my daily life, I’m involved with a number of protest and mutual aid organizations and I can tell you, the whole left is full of very vocal “my leftism is better than your leftism” people. But MOST people aren’t actually like that… just the loud ones. If you challenge them in their spaces, not only will you end up on the receiving end, they’ll turn you into one of them (I have been down that road a couple times). Not that they’ll convert your politics, necessarily, but they’ll convert your behavior. They create and feed off drama triangles and “I escalate, you double down, you escalate, I double down” feedback loops. This isn’t unique to Lemmy. You can experience the same thing in your local hacker space co-op (ask me how I know).

Historically, leftist political and social discourse has always been like this, for all of history. It’s not something special about Lemmy, it’s in the nature of collective groups of humans interested in free expression, positive social change and social justice. We’re angry, we’re trapped in an abusive relationship with the Right and we all think we have the answers. The Left’s greatest strengths and values (diversity, creativity, expression) are its greatest weaknesses. Same is true of the Right (conformity, hierarchy, rigidity).

Truth.

I feel like Calvin can probably be placated with Minecraft.

For many years I’ve had at least one Windows machine and at least one OSX machine (and then everything else runs linux). As MS started pushing this (and as Proton and Lutris got good enough to support almost any Windows software I would need to run, mostly games) I finally made the jump to zero Windows machines about a year and a half ago. Don’t miss it.

I’m gonna upgrade the redis instances I’m responsible for, but it looks like this only effects instances that are internet exposed. All my redis instances run on the same machine as the front end (I use them as a local cache, with $SQL as a remote source of ultimate truth).

The right is ramping up attacks on Wikipedia for “partisan bias” right now. If you think Wikipedia has partisan bias, it’s a really good indicator that your beliefs are out of line with reality.

You can federate Matrix using Synapse.

I think if Matrix were easier to deploy, it would have a lot more adoption for this kind of thing. Once Matrix is set up and running, it runs great! Put energy toward improving Matrix deployment (and don’t give me yet another ansible playbook or docker file… it should be as easy to set up on bare metal as forgejo or you’re doin’ it wrong) instead of building something new from scratch.

My absolute favorite thing about LLMs is how when they do that they explain the problem with “my code” to me.

Too real.

Meh. I’ll be impressed when it plays Aria Math.

(j/k, this is awesome, I love it)

Everything works fine. It’s super handy having such fine control over my router.

OpenWRT.

Second Forgejo. Easiest deploy I’ve ever done.

Australians soon engaging in wider spread adoption of VPN and tor usage.

Yeah! Postgres is great!

• Mutters something under his breath about MariaDB.

My experience working with a vibe coder hired by one of our clients is actually that’s it great for MAXIMUM VP, as in a viable product made up of just under 40k lines of typescript, plus 90+ Node libraries for an app that amounts to a login page, a Square payment gateway and a user settings page (it’s seriously just a signup page for a coastguard and weather alerts service that the rest of our team built in Python and Rust). It crashes if it can’t talk to a database server that hosts no actual databases. It crashes if it doesn’t have the Square API secrets as envars, but the LLM also hard coded them into the API calls. It actually crashes if you try to run it any way other than “npm run dev” (so I srsly set up a service that runs it as npm run dev, as the ubuntu user).

Well yeah, they can’t keep training their models if all the available data is slop from their models.

A future is coming where it can just be your job to let an LLM observe your life 24/7… And that might be the only job available.

The way laws and bylaws describe the jobs of CEOs and CFOs, the most qualified people to do those jobs are sociopaths. Empathy is practically a disqualifying personality trait.

I mean, I didn’t bother reading the OpenAI ToS or privacy policy.

I just assumed they were recording everything I did and would probably sell it given the opportunity.