Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196
So let’s clarify the rules then, I’m all for it.
First, sorry to make your job harder. Second, my biggest issue is civility, supporting, and helping. Yes, I can, like everyone else, go low. I don’t like to, I’d much rather be cordial and helpful. I am inclusive, not exclusive, I’m all about agreeing to disagree and call it a day. No need to curb stomp anyone.
write your post in chinese and then use deepl to translate it
Honest question: What would be the difference? DeepL uses AI language models and machine learning models for translation. I guess there would be a lack of em dashes so the text doesn’t offend delicate sensibilities.
DeepL isn’t just a translator—we’re a comprehensive Language AI platform that enables organizations to communicate effectively across languages, cultures, and markets. ~ https://www.deepl.com/en/whydeepl
BookOrbit
That was mentioned here the other day in another thread. I’m going to have to check it out. It looks so much more polished than Calibre, which is not bad, just blah.
Interesting article.
The company’s CEO, Or Lenchner, said a device in its network “is a device whose owner said yes, understood what they were saying yes to, and can say no again at any moment with two steps.”
That’s part of the problem. Most casual users of technology don’t know what they are saying yes to. They just want to do face swaps on sketchy apps. Even as a ‘more aware’ user, I have always considered my phone and TV to be the weakest links in my network.
I have blocked much of the Digital Ocean IP space
Over the years, I have blocked the entire probably Digital Ocean spectrum, a ton of Linode, clients.your-server.de, a long string of them. It used to make me paranoid I was setting up something wrong. I’d fire up a brand new, untouched server, and boom! Here they’d come. Then I thought, maybe it was a few Docker containers pushing analytics to a collector. Upon blocking them tho, nothing seemed to malfunction. So instead of trying mitigate each and every offending IP, I switched to a deny all until something complains posture, and block by ip ranges. I can still see them trying to gain access, but as long as I can keep them out on the edge, everything is golden.
Some ISPs basically advertise to criminals about their ability to evade take down orders and unwillingness to work with law enforcement.
There are Russian ISPs that advertise VPS services and such by the hour. I’m sure there are other ISPs in other countries that do the same. Nothing good could be coming out of that. When you consider that the internet gobbles through 14,000,000+/- petabytes per 24 hours, and 40%+/- is bot traffic, the picture gets a bit clearer, because that’s a shit load of bots, and they are sophisticated bots at that.
How about a clarification to what Rule 1 actually means. If we are going to abide by the downvote system, and if we are to be cival, supportive, and not be insulting, and if we are all indeed adults, then rule 1should kick in somewhere I would assume.
Then exit the thread, and downvote if you must, but do it like a civil adult. What good does it do to denigrate and outright trounce another user if you just so happen to not agree with their product or how they do something? Hive mind leads to gatekeeping, and gatekeeping leads to reddit.
If it’s AI, it’s 2026 and AI isn’t going away. It is a safe assumption that at some point in the production chain, AI was used in some form or fashion. But it doesn’t give me clearance to rail on the OP and be downright insulting. Just exit the thread and hit the button. No need for the hatred and anger. Let the mod be the mod if need be. How much more civil and adult can that get? There have been a few outright adverts for paid for services. But again, those should fall under the downvote system and not the bullying system.
Does it read like a post from a person?
I think sometimes we forget that others do not natively speak the English language and use AI to help them communicate coherently much like Americans think that there is only America. Gosh I know I would would if I were addressing say a Korean forum.
How old is the account?
If you want to go that route then say so in the sidebar. Something to the effect of new users must participate in threads before unveiling their project. I’ve been to many forum that had that encoded into the forum itself where you had to participate in x number of posts before you could start your own post.
It’s not really that hard to be nice.
(Yes i’m new to the community lol)
That’s totally cool man.
So in a nutshell, the reason for my network is rather multi-faceted. I dig on privacy, anonymity, and security so I run my network. It’s also a learning platform, as I do indeed love to learn new things that I didn’t know. I also just totally love technology, so selfhosting clicks with me. I also like dabbling in automation, minor programing. Additionally, I use things like Readeck because I’m always ‘clipping articles’ to read later, things that catch my fancy. I am a prolific reader. I selfhost my on Navidrome instance so I can listen to my own personal collection of music wherever I am. It’s really just a huge playground for an old soul.
No worries mate.
but i’ll try fixing my arr stack first ! it’s a mess
I can’t help with the *arr stack as I don’t run it, however there are quite a few here who do and I’m sure they’d be willing to help
Did I say you did so on this account?
OK you got me. I joined a year ago, made a fistful of accounts, just for this very day. Even though, if you rifle through all of my posts and comments, you’ll pretty much see, I have no programming skills and I have nothing to sell. But again, you are welcome to your own opinion.
Your long reply
I’m— sorry—I—used—too—many—sentences.
I’m very aware that you don’t consider it an ad, but it’s an ad in my eyes
I’ve very aware that you do see it as an ad. So, here we are. I’m about to fire up a bowl, do you partake? It’s some gnarly gas for sure. I like to share what I’ve grown with my own two hands. No strings attached. You don’t have to put 5 on it.
I do consider it an ad to recruit people to do beta testing for a paid product.
Fair. You do, I don’t.
Now that is quite hilarious. What paid products am I advertising? I’m not a dev, and frankly I would never be a dev. For one, I’m not that well educated in the area of programming. Two, I wouldn’t be confident enough to release it to the public. Three, I wouldn’t put up with all the bellyaching that goes on, demanding that a dev do this or that with something he wrote. Hard pass.
I’m aware, and don’t think that ads to provide free labor for a paid product belong here.
I honestly think, that the OP/Dev in question acted in good faith. I do not view his thread as an advertisement to buy his product. IMHO, he solicited beta testers for his product that integrates with the *arr stack, which the vast amount of selfhosters deploy early on in their selfhosting journey. Where else would be a better place than a selfhosting community?
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I am unsure how you would go about that without AI. You could probably write a python script that hooks in with AI, that ranks by focus, brightness, saturation or other such criteria. However, I suspect that there would have to be a fair amount of manual labor to do that. That’s an interesting request. I’ll watch the thread and see what the outcome is.