I like getting updates and new features? My computer isn’t new by any means. But I tinker with stuff, sometimes bleeding edge technology. Other than that I don’t really care. Rolling release, Debian Stable… I’m fine as long as it does the job. And for half the stuff it doesn’t even matter. I can write a letter with a 5yo LibreOffice or answer mails with any version of the mail client. Just give me modern, up-to-date tools when developing software, and it doesn’t hurt if the slicer knows about my new 3d printer from this year.

Or maybe @WhiteHotaru@feddit.org would like to do that for us?

Thanks. Yeah those would be great in an awesome-webhosting list. Or something concerned with household or businesses. But as far as I know you’re supposed to stick with a topic with those awesome lists and not make random lists of random projects… I’ve filed a bug report in the meantime: https://github.com/ccbikai/awesome-homelab/issues/24

Lol. Why isn’t Forgejo in Development but some predecessors are? And Gitea is listed twice. And why is a tower defense game listed under Automation? Also I think a few projects I use are missing. Why isn’t the most common content management system there? The second most common password manager? The reverse proxy everyone uses? And who on earth needs customer live chat and a lot of business-scale website analytics, webshop systems and CRM and ERP in their homelab?? I’m sorry but this looks like slop.

Maybe first check if it’s even legal to robo-call the police emergency line. I suppose with off-the-shelf systems that’s done by people in some callcenter who read the notification. In this case that’d be you. Or they’re somehow certified or have some agreement with the police… I don’t know the details. Technically it’d be possible. I’m running an Asterisk PBX server and hook into the dialplan with the REST API (that’d be ARI on the Asterisk side). That way Home Assistant can call me and make my landline phone ring twice once the laundry is done. And Asterisk can do arbitrary things. You could make it call you, play back some announcement, wait for your answer and process it and then call the police line and play back some pre-recorded message.

But you’d really need to talk to police and ask them about how to interface with them.

I use LibreWolf on the computer and IronWolf on the phone. Both modified versions of Firefox, both Free Software. Not sure what they do with AI, but as they’re both aimed at privacy, I’d expect them to disable AI features which send data to external services.

Grok is tuned to view Elon Musk as its God, Lord and Saviour, source of truth… And deny the holocaust. So naturally it’d say things like this.

Edit: And grok.com doesn’t. It says it would NOT flip any switch to kill 16M innocent people. Maybe this is just the persona it assumes on X… If someone doesn’t like it, I’d recommend to quit X. Try Mastodon or Bluesky instead.

One thing I did is connect to the smart home (Home Assistant) and the NAS running at home. Some internet service providers don’t provide proper IPv4 addresses any more so IPv6 is the most convenient way to connect. This doesn’t require a VPN provider, though.

Yes. And best don’t turn any setting off or change things around unless someone knows what they’re doing. Power off the entire computer and unplug the storage device physically. (And subsequently, take it as an invitation to learn more about automated backups.)

As far as I know it uses the B.A.T.M.A.N. mesh protocol. On a channel within the regular 2.4GHz wifi spectrum. So no license needed unless it collides with laws for point-to-point beams. All people communicating to each other obviously need to agree on a channel. It comes with some hierarchy where I’m at. There are local chapters who make up some config and who also operate nodes and exit nodes into the internet. These are necessary because Germany has stupid laws.

There’s Freifunk as well!

It’d be really interesting to ask them this question during the court case. I mean at some point they had to make a willful decision how to process these things and how to handle abuse. Could have been anything from an automated system to strike users like Youtube does and limit or block their accounts after 5 attempts… or 10… or 100… Anything would have helped here. Or pay for a team of human content moderators like social media companies do (Facebook…). But seems they went with just letting it slide. I think for once this means they can’t complain now, how their TOS were violated, because they already accepted that’s how it goes. And moreover it could be willful neglect once a company prioritizes profit over human life and they just don’t address dangerous aspects of their products, which could easily(?) be addressed… And I don’t see how that’d be impossible for them. They’re an AI company so surely they must be able to come up with an automated system like Google has in place for Youtube. And the sweat-shops in Africa which do content moderation for Facebook aren’t that pricey compared to the pile of money OpenAI has available or pays as salary to a single AI engineer?!

I’m a big fan of regulation. These companies try to grow at all cost and they’re pretty ruthless. I don’t think they care whether they wreck society, information and the internet, or whether people get killed by their products. Even bad press from that doesn’t really have an effect on their investors, because that’s not what it’s about… It’s just that OpenAI is an American company. And I’m not holding my breath for that government to step in.

Yeah, my point was more this doesn’t have to do anything with AI or the technology itself. I mean whether AI is good or bad or doesn’t really work… Their guardrails did work exactly as intended and flagged the account hundreds of times for suicidal thoughts. At least according to these articles. So it’s more a business decision to not intervene and has little to do with what AI is and what it can do.

(Unless the system comes with too many false positives. That’d be a problem with technology. But this doesn’t seem to be discussed in any form.)

This is a lot of framing to make it look better for OpenAI. Blaming everyone and rushed technology instead of them. They did have these guardrails. Seems they even did their job and flagged him hundreds of times. But why don’t they enforce their TOS? They chose not to do it. Once I breach my contracts and don’t pay, or upload music to youtube, THEY terminate my contract with them. It’s their rules, and their obligation to enforce them.

I mean why did they even invest in developing those guardrails and mechanisms to detect abuse, if they then choose to ignore them? This makes almost no sense. Either save that money and have no guardrails, or make use of them?!

Yes. I think several clients have open feature requests. The Stalwart documentation has a list of projects. There is one command line client as of now. But I’m not switching to a cli mail client or proprietary software, so I’ve postponed it. We’ll see where this is going.

I welcome these modernization attempts. Though in theory I’d love to see someone revamp email in its entirety, add encryption, signatures, chat and crack down on spam and phishing. Not sure if that’s ever going to happen, but that’d be great, too.

Unfortunately JMAP isn’t supported (yet) by a lot of email clients. I don’t think there’s a good open-source email suite for computers available… But I’ve tried Stalwart as well and it’s really sleek and seems to come with good defaults.

Even if this is the piracy community… I think this holds true in several aspects of life. Availability of information, Freedom of speech, political freedom, privacy… Unless we fight for freedom, it might just go away.

I don’t think it’s allowed to request or directly recommend or link to pirated content in this community. Can’t be too specific. See the rules in the sidebar.

Mostly I can’t be bothered, or Roblox won’t run, or some stereotypes about Linux being difficult.