MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@piefed.social
- Comment on What are you using RSS for? 5 days ago:
Lots of stuff, but here’s a neat one https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss - top ten hacker news for the day.
- Comment on Basic file sharing but with the ability to sync with other users. 6 days ago:
Pretty sure KeepassXC keeps its DB closed unless editing, I’ve not had trouble syncthinging it to my phone. That said, if I was worried, I’d designate a network accessible DB as ‘the truth’ and have everyone edit that, then set up a systemd service using a rsync (guts of syncthing) script to put it on all the sometimes network inaccessible endpoints on a regular basis, daily maybe?
- Comment on For when all else fails: sending files by QR code 6 days ago:
Wow, coolish I guess (sans vibe), but this is not what Shannon intended. Network connections are right there, but now we play LLM games.
- Comment on The docker group is root access. An agent used it to write to /etc 1 week ago:
That’s the one.
- Comment on The docker group is root access. An agent used it to write to /etc 1 week ago:
Damn straight. Yes, docker has rootless now, although I rarely see it in the wild, no one seems to care or know. I was using user level quadlets (really like the syntax and structure) before that, and you get SELinux as well. Everything that doesn’t really need it should not have root, pretty much the basic level of Linux (back to Unix) security and Docker is like, ‘Don’t Care, Got Root ;)’.
- Comment on NUC recommendations please 1 week ago:
If you’ve got an old laptop lying around that might work for free, or get a cheap old ThinkPad (you can squash 3 drives into a T440p for example).
If you’ve got some old PC stuff lying around and maybe a case, an AM4 5600G or Intel 12000 or so system can be pretty cheap to fill out the missing bits, boom, NAS (just doing this myself, only needed a mobo, sweet, check the bios supports undervolting for power savings). Get some extra PCIe slots for a HBA card as you grow, maybe an old video card for transcode. Even 8G RAM should get you going.
Otherwise, second the second hand SFF.
Work out if you need transcode for the media server, that will limit your options to specific later CPUs.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Older Linux laptop, T480s are cheap, plus you have a Linux laptop in a pinch, or whatever Thinkpad is currently being dumped on the market from corpo fleets. All of that just works, host a Jellyfin on it and upload videos to that, laptop, so low wall power. Moonlight is great on my T580 to a wide 1440 for example. Bazzite’s pretty painless.
- Comment on Valve make steps to improve Steam Deck Verification, giving developers more performance data 6 months ago:
GG Valve.
- Comment on 'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC 11 months ago:
A thing they already had and this doesn’t help with
Sorry to necro, but I guess that should have been
governments wanting plausibly deniable, legal implication free, actionable intelligence
as to the others, valid enough, though I doubt they’ll be burning out chips (if you cool them properly and server farms do, they become outdated far before they die, even @ <4nm…). Ponzi, yup, sure is, in spades, but that’s the finance game now.
- Comment on 'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC 1 year ago:
While I want both to be true, he’s betting against governments wanting actionable intelligence on each and every citizen (although the moat there is shallow, easy for someone else to start a race to the bottom) and massively parallel processors becoming less valuable (remember how smoothly they switched from crypto to AI?, remember when you could buy a gaming video card for less than the rest of your computer, likely another bubble in the wings) plus the whole circular investment is propping up the entire US economy situation, the epitome of too big to fail (without the whole US economy going tits up, which given the current situations is distinctly possible). Actually 8:2 sounds ballpark, but I doubts he’s not hedging his bets.