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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I find them quite useful, in some circumstances. I once went from very little Haskell knowledge to knowing how to use cabal, talk to a database and build a REST API with the help of an AI (I've done analogous things in Java before, but never in Haskell). This is my favourite example and for this kind of introduction I think it's very good. And maybe half of the time it's at least able to poke me in the right direction for new problems.

Copilot-like AI which just produces auto-complete is very useful to me, often writing exactly what I want to do for some repetitive tasks. Testing in particular. Just take everything it outputs with great scepticism and it's pretty useful.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The same goes for cooking, making coffee and a LOT of other things you do at home. It raises the market value because it's a chore some people want others to do for them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do think this is AI, but I don't think it's obviously AI. As someone said ChatGPT is probably trained more on formal writing than casual writing, LinkedIn is a place where you want to appear super smart so this is an environment where many will use a more formal style.

It's more the nothing burger of a comment that gives it away IMO. But then again, the reason people do this I believe is to be visible. If they comment on things it may pop up in their contacts' feeds, and if it catches the interest of that person it reflects positively on them. If it doesn't catch the interest of that person, it has still generated visibility for them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I assure you a great many people take Linux seriously.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why is Spain such an attractive place for data centers? Seems costly due to high temperatures. But maybe those costs can be offset by the viability of solar power?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Being absolutely sure about everything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A friend of mine who works with (mobile) connectivity in remote areas said about eutelsat that they're not really a challenger to starlink. ⅕ the speed, 3-4x ping times, some "issues with routing" whatever that means (looking at a conversation from two months ago). Roughly 10 years behind starlink.

Maybe it's better for non-mobile connectivity though, such as a cabin in the woods.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Isn't librewolf building on the latest versions of firefox or gecko or something? So if firefox does, so does librewolf?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If the value of money goes down, prices go up.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

No shit they are. Even after all this blows over, as it inevitably will, they're still gonna be huge… but what might be a small loss percentage-wise is still quite big when you're as big as Microsoft.

Here in the nordics they seem to have almost every company and almost every municipality as their customer, if there's a rule coming in saying public data must be in Europe or something like that — that's a lot of dollars lost. Same if just a percentage or two of companies decide they're not fans of American tech anymore.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

No no, the Russia collaborators are the actual politicians. This is just an aide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Probably more integration than we have now, but not full integration like the US. I think something one might call a confederation is likely. Unified military, more integrated economies (stuff like having a common framework for company registrations, not tax but taxation systems), shared system for identification/passports, maybe an EU-tax (similar to how most countries have something like municipality/city tax, regional tax and state tax, some of that could be moved to an EU-wide pool of money).

But I don't think we'll see taxation and budgets left over completely to the EU, education, healthcare etc. Just unify the boring stuff and make integration better.

 

Title is quite self-explanatory, reason I wonder is because every now and then I think to myself "maybe distro X is good, maybe I should try it at some point", but then I think a bit more and realise it kind of doesn't make a difference - the only thing I feel kinda matters is rolling vs non-rolling release patterns.

My guiding principles when choosing distro are that I run arch on my desktop because it's what I'm used to (and AUR is nice to have), and Debian on servers because some people said it's good and I the non-rolling release gives me peace of mind that I don't have to update very often. But I could switch both of these out and I really don't think it would make a difference at all.

 

My homelab is connected through an already existing wireguard network, with one server acting as a central hub for a bunch of other nodes. So all nodes can communicate to eachother by just knowing this central hub.

I would like my home assistant to join this network, which on most distros just means installing wireguard and wireguard-tools, plopping my config into /etc/wireguard, and running systemctl enable --now wg-quick@homenet. But I can't figure out if the OS on the HA Yellow have a package manager, and it doesn't seem to use SystemD. So what would be the best way to install it and connect on boot?

There is a Wireguard addon that I'm sure works wonders, but it seems to me that it's meant to act as this central hub that I already have. If I'm wrong and this addon can be used to connect to an existing network I will happily use that, but last time I tried it I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted.

 

The design leaves ~~something~~ everything to be desired (in part because it's a PDF I guess), but it's to the point and says last update was 2025-03-19 so apparently it's kept up to date.

One thing I thought kinda interesting is that it seems the gap in price between cage/barn and free range eggs is closing. Not sure why this would be, perhaps due to stricter requirements on space per chicken in cage/barn removes the advantage compared to free range? Also interesting that the price of organic eggs seems like it's increasing at a much slower pace than other categories.

 

The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU).

The Polish investigative outlet VSquare revealed that the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures of the EU.

The “closed-door workshop” featured a debate on a new paper produced by the lobby groups MCC and Ordo Iuris entitled: “The Great Reset: Restoring Member State Sovereignty in the 21st Century”.

 

I have three different calendars syncing using caldav, one on fastmail and two on icloud. When I open the calendar view it's often the case that one or more of these timeout (all of them are afflicted by this), so it seems that these calendars are not actually stored on the server but polled everytime I want to view them.

Are there any alternative integrations that will periodically sync the calendars and keep them on the server? Or can I self-host an app that does this and will never time out because it's on my local network?

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Not sure if this is better fit for datahoarder or some selfhost community, but putting my money on this one.

The problem

I currently have a cute little server with two drives connected to it running a few different services (mostly media serving and torrents). The key facts here is that 1) it's cute and little, 2) it's handling pretty bulky data. Cute and little doesn't go very well with big raid setups and such, and apart from upgrading one of the drives I'm probably at my limit in terms of how much storage I can physically fit in the machine. Also if I want to reinstall it or something that's very difficult to do without downtime since I'd have to move the drive and services of to a different machine (not a huge problem since I'm the only one using it, but I don't like it).

Solution

A distributed FS would definitely solve the issue of physically fitting more drives into the chassi, since I could basically just connect drives to a raspberry pi and have this raspi join the distributed fs. Great.

I think it could also solve the issue of potential downtime if I reinstall or do maintenance, since I can have multiple services read of the same distributed FS and reroute my reverse proxy to use the new services while the old ones are taken offline. There will potentially be a disruption, but no downtime.

Candidates

I know there are many different solutions for distributed filesystems, such as ceph, moosefs, glusterfs and miniio. I'm kinda leaning towards ceph because of it's integration in proxmox, but it also seems like the most complicated solution in the bunch. Is it worth it? What are your experiences with these, and given the above description of my use-case which do you think would be the best fit?

Since I already have a lot of data it's a bonus if it's easy to migrate from my current filesystem somehow.

My current setup uses a lot of hard links as well, so it's a big bonus if the solution has something similar (i.e. some easy way of storing the same data in multiple places without duplicating it)

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