The renewable energy stuff is expected, but these I find more... interesting:

• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
• UN Democracy Fund
• International Law Commission
• Peacebuilding Commission
• Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children
• International Tropical Timber Organization
• UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

"We explicitly state that we don't care about peace, democracy, and violence against children"

• Permanent Forum on People of African Descent

"Also, f*ck African people in particular"

• UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

"... and women"

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Hi @everyone!

Time for a pretty big update! Behind the scenes, we’ve been quietly cooking up something exciting, and we’re finally ready to share it: the Jellyseerr and Overseerr teams are merging into one team called Seerr! This has been in the works for quite some time, and we couldn’t be happier to officially join forces.

What does that mean for you? A single unified codebase where all the latest Jellyseerr features will make their way in, plus the combined effort means we can move faster on new features and keep things more up to date.

We’re sharing this news a little early because we need beta testers before our first release. If you’d like to help shape the future of this project (and move us towards a quicker first release), now’s your chance!

To test, you can switch from our official image to fallenbagel/jellyseerr:preview-seerr

We do not recommend using this on a production instance, but if you do, please back up your data before switching. For any questions or feedback, please post in our ⁠#seerr-beta channel!

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Greek-Latin question marks

Actually the Greek question mark (;) looks like the Latin semi-colon (;)!

Last time I looked it up I think I found they are the same characters, and I tried compiling C with a Greek question mark instead of a semi-colon and it compiled fine! But I'm curious if it was because of something else, like my computer's keyboard layout, or the compiler simply being able to handle them 🤔

no users. Lets stop pretending we can fix this by moving to yet another different platform

"We can't fix the 'no users' problem by adding more users"

• https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
• https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat
• https://www.tubearchivist.com/
• https://github.com/alexta69/metube
• https://freetubeapp.io/

Yes, it's pretty good! I'm a DevOps engineer, and have experience with Ansible, Docker, etc, but I just couldn't find time to deploy services the best way that I wanted™ for my personal server

So, even though it e.g. doesn’t even use Docker, yunohost really helped me start using the many services I wanted/needed, which otherwise might take e.g. a few hours to a couple of days for each of them to research and configure

So I have one "production" yunohost server, one "testing" yunohost server to test services that I don't know if I'll use yet (and I wouldn't want them to interfere with production e.g. by using too many resources)

and one server without yunohost for mailu, Docker, traefik, etc, which I can use to deploy services the correct way™ as I figure out the services that I really use and find the time to migrate them one-by-one

Even when using yunohost, there are so many things to do after deploying a service (e.g. DNS, configure the server and client software), so it has been really useful to save time when deploying and configuring.

I think it gets you ~80% there, makes self-hosting accessible to everyone, and helps democratize the Internet a bit 💚 It's more important to have many people setting up e.g. Immich or Nextcloud for their family photos, than only a few Linux people being able to learn how to do it perfectly (Docker/kubernetes high availability, reverse proxies, etc) and have everyone else to need to resort to using centralized services

You mean the KDE Literature Optical Recognition and Identification System? It's just a plugin for skanpage that helps with book scanning and OCR 🤷 How else would they name it? (I just made it up)

TL;DR:

Price:

"Under $100":

After [the preorder], it will go up to $99.

Battery is not rechargeable:

And what happens when the battery runs out? You just send the ring back to be recycled.

Runtime:

The integrated battery will power the device for 12–14 total hours of recording. The designers estimate that to be roughly two years of usage if you record 10 to 20 short voice notes per day.

• "Roughly two years" = lets say that's 20 months
• 12 hours = 43.200 seconds = 72 seconds/day
• "10-20 short voice notes" = 3.6-7.2 seconds per note

Features:

• Records only while pressing the button

• The recording is converted to text and fed into a large language model (LLM) that runs locally on your device to take actions. The speech-to-text process and LLM operate in the open source Pebble app, and no data from your notes is sent to the Internet. However, there is an optional online backup service for your recordings.

• A model small enough to run on your phone has to focus on specific functionality rather than doing everything like a big cloud-based AI

• • Create or add to notes
  • Set reminder
  • Create alarm
  • Create timer
  • Play/pause/skip music track (via button press)

• also designed to be hacking-friendly. The audio and transcribed text is yours [...] You can route it to a different app via a webhook, and the LLM supports model context protocol (MCP), so you can add new functionality that also runs locally. The AI model will also be released as an open source project.

AI models sometimes resist shutdown

No they don't, they don't have free will to want to "resist" anything

attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions

Researcher: asks autocomplete software to write a poweroff script, the script turns out to be wrong (big surprise :p)

The "researcher" and the media: "AI SABOTAGES ITS OWN DESTRUCTION"

Throughput metrics

Phase Sanitization 67-85 Melem/s

😆

(Turns out it does exist! But it's just a chemical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melem )

not some smelly euro village either

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Even better: stay away from xx.10 releases as well!

There seem to be many Meshtastic® nodes around, it's pretty popular

https://meshmap.net/

However, it seems that in order to join the network you are forced to buy hardware that uses patented trademarked radio modules (LoRa®)

The website also says:

Meshtastic® is a registered trademark of Meshtastic LLC.

I don't have relevant experience, but I'm looking to maybe join such a network, and being forced to buy specific hardware to join a network that is ran (/developed?) by a single LLC company is not very appealing for a network that is supposed to be resilient, off-grid, peer-to-peer, etc

So I've started looking into https://reticulum.network/ and Nomad network 🤔

For self-hosting there is go-away and anubis

Also, at least on my server, the LLM bots have correct User-Agents set (they identify themselves) so you could block them from that as well

(If you are able to manage it yourself, self-hosting on a VPS instead of a web hosting provider would also have the benefit of costing around €80/year with ~20TB/month; phpBB should be easy to set up with containers (I don't know about migrating your existing data though))

matrix thread

It has happened to me as well! It's the "vote-only" part that triggers it, to filter out bots

Dessalines:

[...] We don't usually allow vote-only accounts on lemmy.ml, those are mostly bots targeting specific users or communities. That's our rule 4, spamming.

Since it was an .ml account I just stopped using it; I don't know what you could do about voting on .ml communities though (aside from using your account to post more)

Community declines Oracle proposal for using MySQL

TIL about "lockdown mode"

https://www.bitdefender.com/...

When you enable Lockdown Mode, Apple applies a strict set of rules that block or limit the riskiest paths attackers use to get in:

• Messages: Most attachment types are blocked; link previews and some features are disabled.
• Web browsing: Certain complex web technologies (like JIT compilation) are restricted – you can whitelist trusted sites if needed.
• [...]

Source: https://www.unisq.edu.au/...

(Nice!)

I'm not sure I understand the people in the thread advocating for the feature; they're asking Microsoft to not have features that are hostile to the users?

If the managers have decided they don't want you, and they only want vibe coders and to force AI hype on you, why would you do their job for them and try to persuade them to keep their monopoly...

Just accept that it's bad and go somewhere else; 😕 the fact that people are used to using github and that "it's what everyone uses", doesn't mean that people should stay there forever, or that Microsoft would care about the feature requests people make; stop threatening to leave or comparing github to codeberg etc, and just go create a codeberg account and start git pushing there today 🤔 (And maybe keep the github projects but only use them as mirrors for accepting PRs etc)

(I'm not saying this in a hostile way; but I really think the solution is to just go and do sth else about, it instead of trying to reason with Microsoft)

I've been thinking, it'd be great if we had an AlternativeTo alternative, but open source and community-maintained 🤔 Right now any contributions we make are owned by that single company, with no way to e.g. make a fork if something goes wrong :(

Does anyone know if something like that exists?

(I know about awesome- lists but their use case is a little different, plus they're scattered across many different repositories)