Nach der Migration des Postfaches durch meinen Provider zu Microsoft ist mein Thunderbird kaputt oder was auch immer, das alte Postfach/Konto. Der Papierkorb zeigt eine Zahl von 320 Nachrichten. Geht man auf den Ordner erscheinen genau Null Nachrichten. Inhalt löschen geht folglich auch nicht. Reparieren hat auch nichts gebracht. Was nun ... Ob ich einfach das alte Postfach/Konto lösche ? #askfedi @thunderbird
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😲 DeepSeek-V3-4bit runs at >20 tokens per second and <200W using MLX on an M3 Ultra with 512GB. This might be the best and most user-friendly way to run DeepSeek-V3 on consumer hardware, possibly the most affordable too. You can finally run a GPT-4o level model locally, with possibly even better quality. #LLM #AI #ML #DeepSeek #OpenAI #GPT #OpenWeight #OpenSourceventurebeat.com/ai/deepseek-v3…
DeepSeek's free 685B-parameter AI model runs at 20 tokens/second on Apple's Mac Studio, outperforming Claude Sonnet while using just 200 watts, challenging OpenAI's cloud-dependent business model.
fun fun fun update to the newest prosody/xmpp version. people ask "why don't more people host/run an #XMPP server?" it's because of bad docs and low notice updates. xmpp.link/#hamradio@rooms.llyx… should be back up and running
Arrived in Aarhus. Here for the first time. What a beautiful library (some other great areas, but did not want to take pictures of the people there with their consent).
Will be honoured when Ada & #Zangemann will be in one of their shelves in future.
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> Researchers have found that ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
Possibly related: what I wrote a couple of years ago on how LLM chatbots function like a mentalist's con
I think I was starting to head that way with Claude before I quit a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully I didn't use it much for actual coding work; I gave it a few one-off tasks, but was mostly unsatisfied with the results. But I did use it for other things, and I admit, even started to talk to it like a friend sometimes. But a few weeks ago, I reevaluated whether I should use LLMs, and decided to discontinue all personal use. No withdrawal symptoms yet, so maybe I didn't go too far.
The stable 0.4 has a bug where the file size sometimes disappear from the status bar, so you must close and re-open the application for it to re-appear. I'm not sure if that happens in my machine only.
I have just sent the Social (in)Security Administration back the ~$23K they continued sending me, while I worked, didn't qualify for benefits, and repeatedly and insistently spent hours on hold trying to tell them as much only to have them ignore every single report I made, even via my congress critter, until I finally got someone's attention and they terminated my benefits and processed my overpayment. Thankfully most of it was in savings because this is far from my first rodeo with these fools.
Don't get me wrong, efficiency is great. But if you're looking at this system thinking the inefficiency is that it exists at all, not that it's a pain in the dick to get them to stop sending me money I know damn well I'll have to pay back later, then I have a bull to sell you. Fair warning, he shits a lot.
Meanwhile, soon I'm going to actually need those benefits again. Great timing as always, Universe.
Well, they knew about it, but one department wasn't talking to the other. Honestly I don't know what would have happened if I'd kept my mouth shut but it'd probably have been a lot worse, even if only from the bureaucratic SNAFU perspective.
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Healthcare facilities should set the tone when it comes to masking. They should help patients protect themselves from Covid and other threats. Instead they push droplet dogma and put lives at risk.
streamed yesterday: one-hour german #chaosradio @cccfr freiburg feature at @RDL with a deep-dive conversation about #deltachat origins, what it has and hasn't to do with e-mail, protection against server compromise, phone based compared to e-mail networking, how to conspire for baking cheese cakes, authoritarianism and sovereignty, protest and organization, how to arrange for shopping and checklists in chats ... and fun music :)
I know that, sadly, the Zoom f series is inaccessible. What would you guys recommend as the highest quality, most accessible digital recording solution? Thanks for any help. #A11y #FieldRecording
I'm no good at typical prepper activities like constructing a shelter or stockpiling food. But I can at least play at being a digital prepper by, say, setting up a mirror of the Debian archive. These days, that's doable for individuals with a high-speed (e.g. fiber) Internet connection and a few hundred dollars to spend on storage. The trick, of course, is to make sure that the project isn't wasted, since I'm consuming substantial bandwidth from another mirror at least on the initial pull.
The sheer breadth of software in Debian is amazing. Just look at some random package names, as I've been doing intermittently since I started pulling from the main archive for my new mirror. It's a shame that some of us, and I count myself in this category, have been dismissive of free software, particularly on the desktop, because it falls short in a few areas, which in reality are largely the fault of proprietary hardware and software. I hope I never again take for granted what we do have.
It's true that I write this at the same time that I continue to use Windows as my main OS. What can I say, I'm really attached to some Windows software, including screen readers.
And my Debian mirror is set up. mirrors.mwcampbell.us/debian/ (Also available over HTTP without TLS, as is conventional for Debian mirrors.) CD/DVD images here: mirrors.mwcampbell.us/debian-c… Both archives are also available via anonymous rsync, also at mirrors.mwcampbell.us, so you can set up your own mirror using mine as detailed here: debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror
Yeah, I only have a 1 gigabit connection. The project was probably more a nerdy diversion than something actually useful.
I still have almost 2 TB left on this server, and am not planning to store nearly that much personal data, so I could also mirror or archive more stuff. Not planning to do any more Linux distros, since Debian is already probably the most comprehensive.
BTW, this whole activity was inspired by this article: thomashunter.name/posts/2025-0… and the Lobsters comment thread, particularly this comment: lobste.rs/s/avwtt3/post_apocal… though that commenter pointed out that in a real post-apocalyptic scenario, the people still using computers would probably mostly be running Windows on whatever hardware they could scrounge.
So again, probably more fun than actually useful, but the process of setting up a Debian mirror *was* interesting.
I don't actually know yet how much disk space that will take, but at least I'm only mirroring the latest toolchains, and only the most popular platforms, not all the tier 3's.
I figure I should call attention to the specs of this server. It's a Quartz64 single-board computer with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor (about the lowest-end arm64 processor you can get), 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB eMMC for the OS partition, and a 4 TB USB 3.0 SSD (already forgot which model). The latter SSD is running ZFS. I already established experimentally that it can push out roughly 1 Gbps serving static files.
Big tech is all about hyperscale. This is hyposcale. Let's see what it can do.
The board is the size of a Raspberry Pi. It's just sitting on top of my AT&T Internet gateway, on one of my desk shelves, with the USB SSD hanging off of it.
I got a Quartz64 rather than a Raspberry Pi because the recent Pi models run pretty hot, and I wanted something low-power and cool enough to safely run fanless. Again, we'll see what limitations this server hits because I prioritized that.
I got an email from AT&T Internet yesterday about the open rsync server I'm running on my personal server. Note: I have a proper static IP address (actually, 5 of them); I'm not using dynamic DNS, and as far as I can tell, running servers on an AT&T fiber connection is officially OK.
The email begins, "This is a courtesy notice to inform you that AT&T has identified opportunities for you to enhance your Internet security and privacy."
There's no indication that I have to shut down the server or else. So I guess it could really be simply what it says, though it was surely automated. Still, a for-profit company like AT&T doesn't do things out of altruistic motives, right?
It'll suck if I have to shut down the public rsync service for my Debian mirror. I guess I'll wait and see if AT&T escalates this to something more serious. I'm hoping, of course, they don't escalate straight to shutting off service.
The stated reason for flagging the open rsync service is this: "Open rsync: A publicly accessible rsync instance can lead to exposure of sensitive data."
Well, in this case, I'm deliberately providing read-only access to a mirror of a public repository.
Is your AT&T service classified as "business" or residential"? There may be differences in the AUP/TOS that you may wish to take a magnifying glass to, and read line-by-line, if you've got a few hours to spare, LOL.
No servers on dial-up, LOL. I guess either that 56000 bits per second theoretical being used up by an IRC server running on a Commodore 64 is just too much for them AT&T routers to handle, LOL. Or they don't pay their lawyers enough to update their AUP in 25 years, LOL. Wellp, heres' hoping the automated emails just continue to be automated, and a minor annoyance, rather than escalated action being taken.
Are you using the ISP's own equipment? I wonder if it reports firewall/traffic data for their automated scans, and if you could avoid it by using your own.
@jscholes Yeah, I'm using their combination modem/router. Not sure if the word "modem" actually applies to a fiber connection, but I guess you know what I mean.
@jscholes I assume that you have that combo device hooked to a router and have enabled the pass-through mode or equivalent? I mean I doubt they would otherwise allow you to have granular control over ports and the like, right?
@twynn @jscholes Nah, I'm just using their device. If you have static IP addresses, their equipment lets you assign one of your devices to each static IP, and passes traffic straight through.
Nerd curiosity leads me to ask what are the specds of your Debian Mirror Server? CPU, RAM, storage (type/size)? Are you running a tiered storage system with upfront NVME caching in front of slower spinning disks? BTRFS or ZFS or RAID? Or just simple spinning rust on ext4?
@adam Quartz64 single-board computer, ARM Cortex-A55 quad-core, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB eMMC for the OS, 4 TB USB 3.0 SSD (I already forgot the exact model) running ZFS for the storage. My mirror of the main Debian archive just has these architectures: amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, plus source and of course arch-independent packages.
So not a very powerful setup, but this is the same SBC that we established can saturate my gigabit pipe a few months ago.
I think it will do surprisingly well. You seem to be quite focussed on efficiency and optomization in your coding, so I imagine you've done the same with the configuration of this system. And with all of that in place, CPU cycles go a lot further than the default bloat most of the world is accustomed to.
Never used Caddy, but can certainly say that Nginx goes a lot further than Apache, and have switched 95% of my web workloads to Nginx, with the exception of a legacy site running legacy PHP code with htaccess config that I've just been too lazy to port to Nginx. But I've heard some things about this Caddy server, so will be interested to see any posts you might make with performance characteristic comparisons.
Only semi-related: So many people seem to want to survive given a post apocalyptic society. Realistically, I'm disabled and not one of the world's physically fittest, probably won't be viewed as that useful unless everyone else ends up blind too, and enjoy the comforts of modern life. So it's a big no thanks from me.
@jscholes I'll end up with a USB flash drive with a bunch of software on it in case that helps anyone, but I make no pretense about actually being able to survive a post-apocalyptic scenario.
I think you should store the source code of things like the Linux kernel, gcc, binutils, coreutils, etc, as well as Wayland, Gnome, and other parts of the Linux GUI stack. If everyone ends up using Windows, it is likely that the source code for Windows would be gone since its stored on a small number of computers in a few buildings, so computing would have to start over. But if open-source code survives, computing could continue from where it left off. I don't know if Debian mirrors contain source code. Oh and you should probably store the Risc-V specification, and some processor designs for it, so people can use that to start building hardware again.
Well done @sophie (brain blasted) on improvements to the image editor for Gnome 48 - that helps adjusting my screenshots and is super helpful. Sent you my $10 donation :)
Anybody have Wayland-compatibile tiling compositor (WM) recommenddations? I'd been using #xmonad for years, but it doesn't work with Wayland. #KDE #Plasma with #bismuth was good for me, but Bismuth doesn't work with latest Plasma. I've really not found anything good with Gnome, and the options like #sway and #hyprland require a bunch of time to configure and don't do things like remembering what to do when I plug in different external monitors like KDE does. I appreciate KDE's automation.
We are concerned about about the US being able to switch off or spy on our cloud instances.
But what about payment infrastructure? All payment card companies we use are US based (visa, mastercard, amex). In some European countries like Denmark they have their own system alongside (Dankort). The Dutch sold off all their own card issuers providers long time ago.
epicompany.eu/ is supposed to provide an alternative but haven't seen any updates on that in a while.
Oh cool. I mean, I have this turned off for all users in my gapps domain and I’m not using an admin account here and have no idea how this would even be on my screen but cool, cool cool.
Well let’s click “turn on” and see if it works. I feel like it probably shouldn’t but every day some KPI at the big G depends on little things like “user consent” or “words meaning things” is an adventure so let’s buckle up.
It’s easy, all you need to do is open your Gmail settings, scroll past the “smart features” options that are all set to off, find the Data Privacy menu, scroll past the “smart features” options that are all set to off, then go into the Google Workplace smart features menu where the smart menu features that should all be forced off per domain policy set in the admin panel are turned on because what does “permission” really mean really if you think about it, and turn them off, then choose “done”.
Organizing the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful unless it’s a choice you might make that we don’t like, in that case we’re going to organize that shit five levels deep in the interface and ignore the choice you made and the settings your admin picked and what words mean because our line is going up and fuck your settings that’s why.
Nothing I can see in the admin console even admits that any of this nonsense happened, and ...I mean, what do you even say.
Options force-pushed to the user that override org policy settings? In a way that is completely invisible to an admin? And hidden four layers down in the user settings? What sort of evening-at-the-infosec-improv amateur hour is this?
If an endpoint can override policy invisibly you don't have a perimeter, you have a wishlist. WTF is going on at the big G these days?
why are you opposed to sombody getting their promotion and their bonus payout?
Think of the poor engineer that wil have to fix that mess at one point and will be skipped promotion because "one doesn't fix problem at Google. They invent them".
„Steuerzahlerbund“ fordert wieder einmal den Verkauf der staatlichen Anteile an Post/DHL und Deutsche Telekom.
Ganz abgesehen von der Frage, ob das bei global agierenden Unternehmen im Bereich kritischer Infrastrukturen politisch sinnvoll wäre, finanziell zumindest wäre es auf jeden Fall unsinnig: Die Dividende aus den Beteiligungen ist jedes Jahr höher als die durch Schuldentilgung eingesparten Zinsen.
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