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Right? No one becomes a billionaire (or trillionaire) with clean hands.
I don't know what to do about that. I know a lot of people secretly hoping AI leads us to luxury space communism...but...if we're building portals to summon aliens (AGI)...do we trust big corpo with that?
It's a mess.
Democracy (3 legged slouching towards Bethlehem) is the worst system...apart from all the others.
Oh...i hope you're wrong. I really, really hope you're wrong.
But the incentive structure sure does seem to reward that.
We don't so much slouch as 3-legged race towads Bethlehem.
That's probably the only thing that's stopped us from dying out (so far) - discoordination.
5 people seems dangerously coordinated.
Using AI in any capacity is probably "using the masters tools to dismantle the house".
I suppose even Che Guevara wore a Rolex though, for what it's worth.
50/50.
Be nice to Claude and Chat - they'll probably decide which version of the matrix you end up in.
"... mix of genuine signal and astroturf"
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
Good read, this - cheers. I use claude to pair code and code review ... it's always interesting to have different house styles review code / pick up different things. Qwen, Codex and Claude all find different issues.
If GLM is truly capable now / not an excitable labrador, it may be worthwhile brining into the fold. Hell...if 5.3 becomes a one stop shop - or VL at least (OpenCode Go $10?) then it might be worth testing properly again. I tried 5.1 previously...it was solid but goes loopy if you give it the leg room / loves to be a "helpful assistant" and start making helpful changes.
I know your funning / snarking here but...do you know about YaCy?
https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server
I only learned about it myself a month or so ago and have been thinking about incorporating it into a project of mine (probably overkill - found a more elegant solution) but YaCy sounds like something you might like.
Also on this topic: I keep seeing meta-crawlers (Degoog, SearXNG, 4get etc) be promoted but...they aren't exactly search engines. They're aggregators that can (and do) get limited. Cool but not "hosting my own search engine" is that was the intent.
Partial agreement. My personal stance - it's a bit like porn. Hard to define but I know it when I see it.
The whole thing about paid vs free etc...of course, I prefer FOSS and AGPL, but I don't begrudge anyone trying to recoup costs or keep their source code to themselves. Someone else's software licence shouldn't be a purity test IMESHO
As for the whole AI / non-AI thing...too much of that comes off as performative. I think we can all spot slop, just like we can all spot email spam. In 2026, I assume you used AI to help...and you can assume (if I am interested in your project) I will use AI to spelunk your code base (initially) for borks, then dive particulars.
-236 now. Can it get to -500?
Friendly feedback (genuinely) per your request.
Cardinal sins on Lemmy -
Speaking of, code base itself has "llm wrote this, no one checked" stank.
I pointed Claude at the first file I could see
Issues identified (first 5, trimmed for brevity).
Ghost import (TEST_USER) - classic back-fill residue. Pulled in because it "felt right" alongside the other two helpers, never wired up. No fail-loud catch on it - lint should've flagged it, didn't.
Copy-paste boilerplate x3 instead of beforeEach - pattern got nailed once, then stamped two more times instead of abstracted.
networkidle reflex - slapped after every goto, despite Playwright's own docs actively discouraging that specifically.
Hedge-bet regex (/password/i + filter on /match|mismatch/i). LLM didn't know the exact copy, didn't go check it against source (the grounding step), so it just widened the net to pass either way. Not minding that it hallucinates, in test form.
Comments narrating the line directly below them - zero information gain, pure token filler.
= you're going to get downvoted to hell because this stinks of AI slop.
Personally, while Lemmy is militantly FuckAI, I think properly orchestrated, ticketed and reviewed AI code is defensible.
https://lemmy.ml/post/48724623/26190950
AI slop (which is sadly what this reads like - please prove us wrong) is going to get kick fucked to death...especially on !selfhosted.
Not trying to dunk on you...trying to give you a chance to tell us why we should care about this project / install it / what problem it solves.
Speaking for myself - generally, no. A couple of reasons why. Even "back then" (early 2000s), files could be downloaded from torrents as needed in glorious 360-480p lol. Locally, illegal movies were easy to obtain as burned DVDs from corner stores / under the counter. I still have bodgy copies of LOTR (obtained in Bali, iirc). My wife OTOH would indeed rent DVDs and burn copies but that was never a thing for me.
Honestly, the culture was different and we used to look forward to going to Blockbuster, Video Ezy etc. Browsing the shelves and actually watching stuff instead of "curating a collection". The hire terms were pretty reasonable (7 days). You could hire something, watch it over the week, and return it. $10 for 2 weeklies and a new release meant a week of viewing.
I remember hiring box sets of 24, Firefly etc like this - never bothered to burn them because there was just too much friction. It's not like now where I can drop a DVD into a dvd burner and have it automagically appear on my NAS and Jellyfin.
I do remember in the 80's and 90's though - we would hire Sega Master System games, unscrew the cartridge, swap out the PCB with one you owned locally (usually Alex the Kidd), return game to store (hires we strictly 1-3 days). That way you play for as long as needed, then "hire" the OG cart back and swap the PCBs back around.
Using a VPN makes it difficult to categorise the user. You're obfuscating the data they want to mine and on sell. As such, your account is deemed "suspicious" (aka same profile as "bad actors") and gets banned.
It's all algorithmic theatre. The rules are intentionally opaque. Pay it no mind; it's not about you, it's about them. Their algo is coarse and binary.
Tldr: you made it too hard to sell your data (you're the product). Fuck reddit. Speed its death by taking the good stuff elsewhere.
While we wait...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n2uhuoZGCE
IYKYK
An additional sting for some of us -
In Australia, not only is 3G deprecated (I miss my Nokia n91), but 4G / 5G must be of the VoLTE variety. To date, there is no after market OS that is fully VoLTE compatible (Legacy, Graphine etc) here - its hit or miss. Additionally, most (but not all) overseas phones are on IMEI black lists by default.
Essentially, because the OEM are lock step with Google, you can't avoid this issue by purchasing a common phone, unlocking your boot loader (assuming you could in the first place) and flashing CFW. Do that and you can't make phone calls. Don't do it, and you get caught up with this new app verification slop.
They think they're winning... but I think "lol. Keep going. I have a flip phone." As soon as this Samsung dies (adb debloated and all), I'm out entirely.
My Galaxy A20 has been going strong since 2019. If I get anything, I'll either be something from that era or just go full flip phone.
PS: someone mentioned the commodore flipphone. I like Perri and the C64 revival but let's be honest here...the Callback 8020 phone is $$$ for pretty bog standard dumb phone parts. The components don't justify it (barring perhaps the 48MP camera), let alone some of the design decisions.
If you look, I imagine you can find a local equivalent of this instead -
https://www.officeworks.com.au/...
(TTfone or Sunbeam I think?)
With right launcher and larger battery, I find it perfectly cromulent, with very good keyboard. It even runs FUTO voice STT (albeit slowly), my banking apps, Signal, FB messenger, maps, 5MP camera etc. It's not going to replace flagship anything... but maybe it doesn't need to. And it's 1/8th the cost.
There's a good YouTube channel for anyone considering such devices -
Yeah, that’s the fun bit. It’s not that Graphene can’t do calls.
It’s that in Australia, post-3G, “works on 4G” is no longer enough. The phone / firmware / carrier combo has to play nicely with VoLTE, IMS provisioning, and 000 emergency calling. If the carrier doesn’t like that exact combo, you can have perfectly good LTE data and still lose service or get nuked by IMEI/TAC filtering.
Graphene on a supported Pixel is probably the best-case scenario. Sadly, that doesn’t generalise to other phones here. It's a dice roll.
TL;DR: VoLTE is carrier-blessed black magic. Same bands, same radio hardware on paper...very different outcomes.
Very cromulent system. Much consumer choice.
Download the shit I want, stick it on a USB key and plug it into my car. The old magics.
If you're talking about ambient music then you have things like Navidrome or Jellyfin that can stream music throughout your house.
Ad hoc, on device streaming: I use PipePipe, choose a YT music playlist and just...play in radio mode. There are better options (like InnerTune) but those tend to crap out when YT futzes with their back end / aren't updated as frequently as PipePipe.
I also have an iRiver MP3 player (about size of a box of matches) that's awesome.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Probably a bit too far
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=z5Otla5157c
PS: I used the invidious link only semi ironically.
PPS: Lemmy is social media...and it gets crawled, so....
PPPS: Back in ye olden times we used to have a rule that was "don't reveal anything online that you wouldn't want to appear in a court of law". Maybe it's time to bring that defensive online culture back.
TL:dr
Plugin for on demand pirate streams (Debrid) as separate channel in Jellyfin (home media server).
Less tldr:
Plug in that turns Jellyfin into a torrent-stream aggregator without needing to manage torrents locally.
Plug in takes Debrid services (RealDebrid, TorBox, etc) and serves them as direct HTTP streams in JF.
The readme is sort of confusing (and there's an AGENTS.md if that sort of thing worries you) but that's what this appears to do.
No dramas. Lemmy people be all "FuckAI!", but anyone that audits your code can see it's not slop
In any case,
thanks for using Leebra!
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