WhyJiffie

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The System Wayfinder - (looking for feedback) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

why not codeberg? kind of lightweight on JS, but especially compared to gitlab.

@Nundrum@yall.theatl.social

The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

and that's good for who? who are "they" to begin with?

Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

that would probably work. I think the IP does not need to be static, but there can be problems if your IP changes often, and it's not updated quickly in DNS.

the only hard requirement for a local headscale (for usage over the internet) is that you are not behind a CG-NAT, and you can forward a port to your server in your router

Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 hours ago

but for the love of god and your own benefit, put a name constraint directly on the root cert

Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

you don't strictly need a VPS, what you need is a (mostly?) static IP address, that is especially not behind CG-NAT. if your ISP won't give that to you, you get a VPS, because one of the most important jobs of headscale is NAT hole punching and patching your devices in

What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

and how unambiguous is it that those are AI generated content? is it like blurry colors on images, 6 fingers and 3 hands, or what do you recognize on them?

I think I can identify generated images, but text... well I can't even decide. Probably I just can't so far, because I don't remember any posts or comments that were suspicious

What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

while dissing someone for not wanting AI in forums, for "not knowing what are they talking about". right, they didn't specify what kind of AI they don't want, but I think it comes from the context that they don't want generative AIs, because that's what affects them negatively regularly

Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

the first paragraph is not like in the post. did they rephrase it because of the "as it does" part?

this is the current version:

Tailscale recently announced our Series C fundraise. We were grateful for all the community support, but the Internet also raised a few of its collective eyebrows, wondering whether this meant the dreaded “enshittification” was coming next.

the internet archive does not show your version either: https://web.archive.org/web/20250702140430/https://tailscale.com/blog/evitability-of-enshittification

where did you get that quote from?

What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I don't see it, which is horrific considering that others do. can you show a few examples that you think is AI slop?

What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

let me get this straight. you like AI because a model outperformed another? how is that a real argument for any kind of question? the topic was not about whether they evolve.

that "black and white stance" is not really bad here, because it's not actually black and white. their stance is against generative AI, not the kind you use for research. and guess what, forums are flooded by gen AI slop, the only kind of AI today that highly affects our forums.

Do you use Javascript bookmarklets? Which ones do you find useful? And are there similar things that would be useful to know of? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

I have this to open the site in archive.today:

javascript:void(open('http://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))
What is Reddit really up to? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I would love it if reddit management is so selfish that they dont care even about AI, but only their revenue.

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lemm.ee has shut down for good (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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lemm.ee has shut down at 00:14 UTC.

unfortunately I realized too late that I have had hundreds of saved links to posts and comments from there, so I did not have enough time to save them, but anyways it is interesting that maybe a third of the post links I could try were dead. I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.

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Is Matrix cooked? (sh.itjust.works)
 

In today's episode of Kill The Messenger, Matrix co-founder Matthew Hodgson reveals how full of bullshit is the writer of the original article.

The messages were published in the Office of the Matrix.org Foundation room: https://matrix.to/#%2F%21sWpnrYUMmaBrlqfRdn%3Amatrix.org%2F%24XpQe-vmtB7j0Uy1TPCvMVCSCW63Xxw_jwy3fflw7EMQ%3Fvia=matrix.org&via=element.io

https://paper.wf/alexia/matrix-is-cooked is fascinatingly incorrect

Until the 6th of November 2023 when they—in their words—moved to a different repository and to the AGPL license. In reality, the Foundation did not know this was coming, and a huge support net was pulled away under their feet.

fwiw, the Foundation had a front-row seat in the fact that Element (as incorporated by the folks who created Matrix) had donated $$M to the Foundation over the years, but wasn't going to survive if it kept giving all its work away as apache-licensed code - which in turn would have been catastrophic for the Foundation.

Yes, the high expenses for the Matrix.org homeserver are largely because they are still managed by Element, just not as donated work but instead like with any other customer.

nope, Element passes the hardware costs (and a fraction of the people costs) of running the matrix.org server to the Foundation without any overheads or markup at all.

Either way it shows that Element is seemingly cashing in on selling ,Matrix to governments and B2B as a SaaS solution without it going back to the foundation

Element has literally put tens of millions into the foundation, and is continuing to do so - while some of the costs get passed to the Foundation, Element donates a bunch too (e.g. by funding a large chunk of the Matrix conference as the anchor sponsor, and by donating time all over the place to help support trust & safety etc)

At the same time I can't help but think that this could have been prevented. Even Matthew himself recognizes that putting the future on Matrix on the line with VC funding and alike was not the best idea for the health of Matrix.

No, even Matthew knows that Matrix would never have been funded without routing the VC funding from Element into... building Matrix. We tried to fund it originally purely as a non-profit, but failed (just as it's a nightmare to raise non-profit for the Foundation today even now that Matrix exists and is successful!). If you need to raise serious $ for an ambitious project, you either need to get lucky with a billionaire (as Signal did with Brian Acton) or you have to raise on the for-profit side. Perhaps it would have have been best for Matrix to grow organically, but I suspect that if it did, it would have failed miserably - instead, it succeeded because we already had a team of ~12 people who could crack on and jump-start it if they could work on it as their dayjob; the team who subsequently founded Element.

Ultimately, for-profit companies will do what makes them profit, not what's the best option. Unless the best option happens to coincide with making the most profit.

No, Element is not profitable. Nor is it trying to maximise profit. Right now it's trying to survive and get sustainable and profit-neutral (i.e. break-even) - while doing everything it can to help keep Matrix healthy and successful too (given if Matrix fails, Element fails too).

Unfortunately, supporting the foundation through anything more than “in spirit” and a platinum membership is out of their budget, apparently. I think that morally they owe a lot more than that.

wow.

the FUD level is absolutely astonishing, and I really wonder what the genesis of this is

so, absolutely, spectacularly, depressing

this, my friends, is why we can't have nice things.

In response to an other person suggesting that the publisher is also known as a reasonable person on the platform:

Interesting, the matrix handle that seems behind this blog seems always to have been quite a reasonable person

somewhat why i’m wondering what the backstory is, and whether this is an unfortunate example of spicy lies outpacing the boring truth

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Permanently Deleted (sh.itjust.works)
 

If your post would end up like that in a day, please just refrain from posting it, in any community, or use a throwaway. It is very destructive, especially since all and every comment also becomes unreachable with it.

Sincerely,
With all due respect,
Your Lemmy neighbor

I'm fed up with this shit, and I know it well that it's not just me.

Do not bomb your communities, please.

I promise, I'll end up setting up a public instance that does not obey any deletions because of these madlads. Seriously, where is pushshift for lemmy?

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