If you just want something simple that does the job, you can try a turnkey solution like YunoHost. There’s several other ones out there. Some with containers, some with more or less pre-packaged software… If you want to learn more during the process, maybe don’t and do it yourself because these things don’t teach you a lot. There’s some resources like the awesome-selfhosted list in the sidebar of this community. But I think for installing services you’d mainly look at the specific documentation of the specific service you’re just about to tackle. And maybe read up on Docker containers etc to judge whether you want to do it that way.

Very good point. I mean they’re also not against the Second Amendment. Just every other one. They’ll come up with some “logic” though. It’s probably someone’s LGBTQ+ neighbour’s dog at fault or the immigrants. War crimes are fine if committed by someone with a MAGA hat and they’ll demand death penalty if it’s a democrat. And before we get to discuss the logic behind this, there will be the next fresh fuss whipped up and burying this. Like this one is probably again some bullshit to cover the Epstein files or whatever.

Well, that’s the thing with these people. They’re against the constitution in any and all regards. That’s why they want to abolish free speech, due process, the congress… And it’s more than that. They want violence and expedite the apocalypse. That’s why they escalate violence, send masked men to spread terror on the streets. Do more illegal stuff every day than any legal system can cope with. The goal is doomsday and to make the system collapse. Motivation for that is different between the current politicians, billionaires, people full of hate and plain evil people… But the constitution is the first and obvious thing which has to go - for all of them. And currently there’s a broad coalition of powerful and rich people manifesting it for the USA.

Na dann hoffen wir mal, dass diese “Alterskontroll-App” der EU vernünftig designed ist. Netzsperren sind jedenfalls die dämlichste Lösung.

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.

I’m not sure if this translates to the content creators. There’s many of them whom I really like to watch who do (or did) Youtube as a business model. Tom Scott being one example or Derek Muller (Veritasium). I’m subscribed to many more. Simplicissimus and their yet better second channel (in German). We wouldn’t have those without monetization. The platform of course went shit over time. Fortunately my Ad blocker still works and thanks to Sponsorblock my experience is fairly alright… But personally - I’m split on this question. We had quite the amount of entertainment before monetization but I think a large amount of quality content also arrived after that, and because of it. Those people would be working some office job today if it wasn’t to Youtube. And I (and the world) would miss out… On the other hand we got MrBeast, a lot of fake cooking videos…

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.

Reden die Menschen eigentlich über Indymedia weil die irgendeine aktuelle Relevanz haben? Oder nur weil das in das Trump/AfD Kulturkampf-Narrativ passt? Also das Portal gibt es ja nun schon seit mehr als 25 Jahren in ziemlich genau dieser Form. Bisschen blöd nach all der Zeit noch auf die “Bekennerschreiben” dort hereinzufallen. Als “Journalist” sollte man das irgendwann in den letzten 20 Jahren mal gemerkt haben. Und letzte größere Geschichte mit dem Linusunten-Verbot ist jetzt auch schon 8 Jahre her… Nichtsdestoweniger lese ich jetzt den zweiten Artikel oder so dieses Jahr über Indymedia?!

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!

Letztes Mal als bei mir Zuhause AfD-Parteitag war, war eigentlich ein ganz schöner Tag. Es waren richtig viel Menschen auf der Straße, schön bunt von Schüler:innen bis zu Omas gegen Rechts. Alle vorbereitet mit super Schildern… Und außer ein, zwei Außnahmen auch richtig nett und friedlich. Es war auch massiv viel Polizei da. Die waren so mäßig nett, aber wahrscheinlich mussten sie auch mitten in der Nacht aufstehen und aus halb NRW anreisen…

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?!