Okay I’m done with you.

Where is the difference between „dedicated“ and „commitment paired with skills“???

One are paid to do the job, the others are assumed to be doing the job.

Sure, Debian and alike are up-to-date as are ArchLinux or Void. Oh, boy!

You’re mistaking “up-to-date” with “patched in a timely manner.” The two are not the same. But you’re an Arch derivative user (btw) so I have low expectations. Suffice it to say that Ubuntu / RedHat / etc. back-port security patches to the packages they manage. They don’t need to be running the latest version to be patched.

Being a “rolling release” has absolutely nothing to do with it. They still need to update their repositories and add patches to it.

No, the size of its dev team does not necessarily mean that they are behind with patching security issues. it depends on the commitment and skills of devs, and the community.

Sure - a one-man-band supported distro could do all that. But a larger distro with a dedicated security team will definitely do it better.

It doesn’t scale. Lemmy is tiny so it’s manageable.

The spam problem is solvable — client-side filtering, reputation systems, and relay curation. The protocol shouldn’t filter; the clients should. That’s the right design.

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Oh wait, you’re serious?

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Hey whatever the fuck you want.

Do you always go home from work and remember to charge your laptop? Never forgetting, consistently every day doing this?

Yes…?

Do other people really have a problem doing this?

Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence

In February 2025, the court granted summary judgment that such copying was not fair use, emphasizing that the purpose of ROSS’s copying was to build a directly competing product

Bartz v. Anthropic

The court granted summary judgment for Anthropic that training LLMs on copyrighted materials is fair use.

Kadrey v. Meta

Judge Vince Chhabria denied plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment on fair use and granted Meta’s cross-motion and granted Meta’s motion for partial summary judgment on the DMCA claim.

UMG v Udio

Settled - no judgement.

Those are the settled ones so far. This is 4 years into AI existing. Lawsuits, especially copyright lawsuits, tend to take up to a decade in the US, because the US legal system is shit.

Here’s 118 currently in progress. Because AI is copyright infringement.

Having lawsuits is not winning lawsuits. The AI companies have been winning on fair use. Same as Google back in the 2000s when they were sued for for various search products (news, books, etc.).

So where are the winning lawsuits of all that copyright infringement then?

Already installed on most distros.

And they are called… ?

So you’ve just thrown away your phone and computer? You posting from a library or something?

Unless you have a specific need there is no reason. So long as the domain resolves then you’re probably good. I use AWS so I can easily update the IP since I have a dynamic IP address. Some may use Cloudflare because it’s necessary to use other services or because there’s a ‘free’ option or something? I’m really not sure - I’m not familiar with Cloudflare but I see lots of people using their low-end free services for things.

The tutorials I’d been looking at were showing them overriding the DNS servers at the domain registrar with servers from Cloudflare or elsewhere. Is that just because there may not be an automated way to update the IP dynamically with the domain registrar, but there is for Cloudflare?

Probably because those tutorials are using Cloudflare for DNS services. I actually use Amazon AWS Route53 for my domain (purchased through 123cheapdomains (yes - really)) and I update it through the AWS APIs with a small script.

It’s captured when you press a button and only handled locally. This is exactly the sort of thing you want for accessibility. Not everybody can type or type well.

Well “reasoned” argument there. You’ll go far in MAGA.

Nothing AI is free. Unless there’s a chain of custody for all of the training data, it’s still unethical even if it’s used for a good thing.

This is the weirdest sort of AI bullshit I keep coming across.

And there are non-AI ways to accomplish this that are just as good that would require almost comically less resources.

And… Where are they?

I admit I don’t know the details, but the title makes it seem like there is a “product” there, by a “company”, probably in it for the profit.

You don’t know more than the details - you don’t know anything about it.

And since there is a huge problem with datacenters as it is, why would we encourage more? Most of you AI enthousiasts are blindly walking us into a pit of regret.

Guess you’ll want to research what “offline” means. I doubt you have any idea what any problems with datacenters are either given your… we’ll call it “knowledge” of the situation.

I was curious what distro you folks might recommend for this purpose.

This is a bit like going to an automotive forum and asking “what’s the best car to buy”. You’re going to get a lot of “I’m running <blank>” and people telling you their preferences, which is NOT the answer to your question. The answer to your question is that literally any of them would be fine for your purposes. If you’re happy with Bazzite then stick with Bazzite. There’s no reason to switch.

If I have to manage it entirely by command line, it will take 10 times longer for me to do anything I want to do, and I’d really prefer a GUI.

Then use a GUI. The extra memory used is trivial and your system will be way over-powered for a reverse proxy to a home network anyway. In Linux land there’s really no such thing as a “server distro” and a “desktop distro” for the most part. I use Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora as servers. They can all have desktops on them too.

You may find, however, that as you manage more than one system it becomes tiresome/tedious to have to use RDP for remote administration and may start learning the CLI over time. Especially since it’s often a lot easier to give somebody a list of commands to run on a forum than to say “open your network manager, which is different on Gnome from KDE, click the button that says…”.

I need something that can sit there without updating until I tell it to

Are you going to update frequently? You want to be sure you’re keeping security patches up-to-date. Auto-patching can be very good unless you have the discipline to keep up with it.

I need a domain for that, and a lot of tutorials just skip on past this step in the domain configuration screens where you “enter your DNS servers” as though I know why I’d need other DNS servers,

You’ve got a bit of reading on how DNS works. But basically there are “root DNS servers” that everybody knows by IP address that then know about other DNS servers by IP and forward traffic to them to resolve names. When you register a domain you are asking one of those DNS providers to resolve your hostname to your IP address. You can see this a bit by running dig +trace some.host.name and it will show the requests made. Your DNS servers would be the ones where you register your domain.

BUT your IP address may change. So you generally need a way to update it if it does. There are providers like dyndns.org and others (search for dynamic domain service or something) that will give you a sub-domain for free/cheap and tools to auto-update it. Something like “mysite.dyndns.org”.

The “price” of a free offline speech to text AI model? Three of them, actually, to work with varying levels of compute resources available?

You anti-AI folks are friggin’ ridiculous.

I love little distros, but it does break my heart that they cannot give the same reassurance on potential malware as Mint would.

Don’t forget their ability to patch critical security issues in a timely manner.

You don’t like accessibility?