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  • I kinda think we are probably doomed

    Consider this: When I was a young man we were engaged in the War Bay of Pigs, we had the Cuban missile crisis (there was a lot more going on in that area than most people realized), the very real possibility of global thermonuclear destruction, Vietnam, the violence and upheavals of the 60s, the 70s, and into the 80s, etc.

    In 700 BC, Hesiod lamented the Iron Age as an era of constant toil, strife, warfare, and moral decay. He wishes he hadn’t been born in such a degraded time, describing how fathers and children will be at odds and people will dishonor their parents. He portrays the younger generation as greedy, restless, and lacking the virtues of earlier ages. Socrates too, chimed in.


  • What I can do is have tiny influence on the people I speak to.

    Tho it may seem defeatist, I gave up trying to save the world back in the 60s when I came to the stark, yet liberating realization, that I cannot save the world, nor does it want to be saved. The very best I could possibly do is to influence a handful of people relatively speaking, and hope, in turn, they do the same.


  • Worst thing for the environment since cars

    …and yet, we get in our cars and go to work, play, vacations, and never think much about it. Economies would crash if there weren’t necessary means of transportation. I don’t disagree that cars are pollutive, even tho we have made great advances in controlling and mitigating a lot of the pollutive aspects, and I don’t deny that AI contributes to carbon emissions. Which is why I keep saying that AI needs heavy regulation, much like we did with the early years of automobiles to present day. Another consideration is that the internet displaces carbon emissions with people who work remotely at home, streaming vs physical media being produced, etc.

    It’s better than billions underreacting

    Oh, it is always wise to educate yourself, take steps to mitigate pollutive aspects in our lives. But I don’t think that throwing the AI baby out with the bath water is conducive, much like we’re not going to stop using transportation. So in order to get the best of both worlds, there must be regulation, as much as I dislike regulation.

    So, like transportation, AI isn’t going away. There must be regulation. For example: If company xyz runs an AI data center, it must be powered by renewable energy sources by x %. And why not extend that to all data centers? During COVID, about 557 million workers, or 17.4% of global employment, worked from home. COVID should have been an eyeopener globally. Skies over cities cleared somewhat and in some instances, significantly. Animals returned to their native habitats in the absence of humans. We have the technology to do better. We are just greedy and shortsighted.



  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldCodeberg bans vibe coded projects
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    It means if the guy running Codeberg doesn’t like it. This is his fiefdom, not a public square. Make your own fiefdom for AI coding. You could call it Vibeberg.

    LMAO! That’s hilarious and true. Look, until you own your own platform, with your own rules for said platform, or are a significant investor in said platform, then you are subject to the whims of that platform.




  • Wow! That is a very intriguing question, and one that I have never considered before. Just spitballing here but you could possibly use trad apps like Lynis, Greenbone, Nikto, etc. These apps often produce rather verbose and sometimes cryptic output, i know Lynis sure does. So, you could use a prompt like:

    ‘You are a security analyst. Review the following Nmap scan results. Identify services running outdated or potentially vulnerable versions, suggest likely CVEs, and prioritize findings by risk.’

    Then use something like llama3.1:70b, mistral-nemo or deepseek-coder-v2, and pipe your security scans into your local AI. You could feed it your NGINX, docker configs, pFsense firewall rules in and ask the model to audit them.

    IDK, that’s a very good question I think. It’ll be interesting to see what others have to comment.


  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world[AIT] paperless-ngx 3.0.0
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    I wonder if there’s a blogpost or something somewhere summarizing the main changes.

    I bet you could use AI summarize all the changes. LOL

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    Breaking changes

    The biggest upgrade risks are removal of API v1 compatibility, dropping support for API version 9, dropping Python 3.10, removing support for document and thumbnail encryption, removing pybzar as a barcode reader, and changing the pre/post consume scripts so they no longer accept positional arguments.

    There’s also a change that decouples OCR control from archive file control, plus a refactor of advanced database settings to allow more user configuration. Search and indexing

    A major headline item is replacing the Whoosh search backend with Tantivy, along with unifying text search around Tantivy.

    The release also adds a number of search-related improvements, including better fuzzy matching, highlighting in title/content searches, better handling of special characters and CJK text, and fixes for date/query compatibility during the migration. AI and document intelligence

    Paperless-ngx v3 adds a larger AI feature set: Paperless AI, remote OCR with Azure AI, support for Ollama embeddings, direct LLM language selection, LLM timeout and context settings, and a revamped AI vector store approach.

    It also includes fixes and safety improvements around AI indexing, chat, embeddings, and permissions, suggesting this area was a big focus of the release. Documents and workflow

    The release introduces document file versions, sharelink bundles, a document parser plugin framework, and several workflow enhancements like more actions and trigger filters.

    There are also new or improved document-management behaviors such as moving to trash, password removal actions, better merge dialogs, live document updates, saved view sharing, and more detailed document attributes. UI and tasks

    The task system was redesigned, with a new Tasks UI, task summaries in system status, and better monitoring access.

    On the frontend side, the release updates Angular to v22, moves toward zoneless reactive behavior, improves mobile search behavior, refines thumbnails and image loading, and generally modernizes the UI. Performance and storage

    Performance work is a major theme: there are database indexes for common query patterns, SQLite tuning, faster imports/exports, memory reductions in document importing, and indexing optimizations.

    The release also standardizes checksums on SHA256, improves bulk operations, and adds a variety of backend and file-response fixes that should help reliability and speed. Practical impact

    For a fresh install, v3.0.0 mainly means newer architecture, better search, and more AI/document features. For an existing install, the main things to watch are the breaking changes around API compatibility, Python version, encryption support, and the search/index migration from Whoosh to Tantivy.





  • Finally, these things can cause literal harm to a device

    Unpack that a bit more. What are you using to determine the harm to the device? I understand the concept that heat kills, however, as someone who watches temps closely on my server and especially on my old PC, I can’t confirm that a site causes a dramatic rise in temps. I have openhardware monitor on my desktop that remains ‘always on top’ and I see very little variation from site to site as far as temps are concerned. Just curious as to how you came to that conclusion. Perhaps it’s because I lean heavily on my standalone pFsense firewall to filter traffic.


  • People don’t like Cloudflare, I assume, because it’s concentrating your data into one channel. They have control much like a lot of major data centers. So it’s 6 of this, half dozen of the other, and those idiosyncrasies are justified differently by different selfhosters. I would hazard a guess that all major banking institutions use Cloudflare. It’s just that ubiquitous. I use Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust and I absolutely love it. Cloudflare is unavoidable on the internet.

    ETA: To answer your question directly, yes lemmy.world does employ Cloudflare.





  • Melisearch is integrated into Linkwarden. That’s about my extent of knowledge.

    And have you found a way to have it search within PDFs?

    I did look at melisearch briefly to see if I could use search engine databases in creating my own search engine just as a project because I’ve often toyed with the idea of having my own search engine, but it seemed a bit over my head. Smithsonian Libraries publish some of those databases.