hendrik
@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
- Comment on Questions on self-hosting Lemmy 3 hours ago:
Sure, you'd need a domain name, a certificate, an IP address that's reachable from the outside, and the RasPi or some other computer.
If it's some residential internet connection, you might be able to open up a port and forward that to your RasPi. You'd need to do that in the internet router. Port 80 and 443 are for HTTP(S). (TCP). Some internet providers don't allow any of that.
Your IP address will change with most regular internet providers, so you'd want to buy your domain name somewhere you can change it automatically with a script. Or use DynDNS. duckdns.org would be one of those DynDNS providers.
If your internet service provider doesn't allow incoming connections and port forwards, you need to work around that. Use Cloudflare, or better, some better tunnel provider.
Free certificates for HTTPS are available from letsencrypt.
And if it turns out Lemmy is too heavy on the Raspberry Pi, try PieFed instead.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 20 hours ago:
Take the advice offered by journalists on how to contact them privately and avoid getting caught. I.e. secure and protect evidence without raising suspicion. Contact a reputable journalist via some secure means of communication.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Nice one. Though, I think as one of the Linux nerds here, I should be wearing a hoodie and saying "Lemmy users are normal people". And I do get good answers here, regarding computer stuff. But it doesn't feel they're nearly as loud as in any single computer forum... Maybe the bell curve is closer to me. And the users who complain that it's too much Linux content are wrong?!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
But this March, it's peaked at almost 52k and we're in constant decline since then.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You're right. That's a good thing. At the same time it has a lot more "normal people" than other places on the internet, I frequent.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
We will grow organically, or not, and it will be fine.
I think that's pretty much settled by now. Judging by the stats, it's homed in on a steady line of 45k monthly active users. It's going to be the "or not" part.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
That's exacly what I've been telling for some time now, as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I think we should be nice and welcoming and provide a good atmosphere. Maybe a unique (in a good way) community that can't be found anywhere else. I mean we need something that sets us apart. If we're just another low-key social media platform that is bad as well, just in a different way, we won't attract any users.
And we need to offer something useful(?) to (new) users.
Plus we need to solve a few technical issues. The onboarding process needs to be a lot easier. It has to be clicking "Next" a few times and maybe choosing a password. Not learning about instances etc and then you also get to sort through the communities and put in a lot of effort to make it useful.
And I've heard admins complain, so there might be a few other issues with performance, reliability and other details.
I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people. And there needs to be constant and visible improvement, maybe useful new features every now and then. So it looks active, and provides some novelty and innovation. - Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 4 days ago:
Well, sometimes people just don't ever get it and they need to be told to fuck off in very blunt words. I think that usually poisons the well and dries up further conversation. But I'm not sure if this is the case here. And that strategy comes with possibly other severe consequences. So I won't recommend it.
Another strategy would be to have someone else talk to them... You yourself seem to be getting nowhere. But maybe he listens to other people, or they're somehow more gifted to get through to people like him.
What also sometimes works (depending on circumstances) are large headphones. They might be part of your work anyways, if you're doing online-meetings in the office, or you are allowed to listen to music... Either do that and you can't hear him anyways, or just put them on all day and say "Huh?" 200 times a day and see if he picks up on it. Though, this might not work if he's stupid, as well. Or he might start tapping you on the shoulder and invade your privacy even more... Idk. But headphones have worked for me in various situations. Especially if they're big and noticeable.
- Comment on This app requires access to your contacts 6 days ago:
What a shitty idea.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 1 week ago:
I think that's based on OpenAI's Whisper model.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 1 week ago:
I think the real deal would be to have that available as open source. Maybe integrated directly into the core AOSP. I mean the technology is available. And my phone has like 8GB of RAM. The only issue is that all of that isn't really integrated into my phone. And I think I'd ocassionaly use speech to text, text to speech and machine translation... But I want it locally and Free Software...
- Comment on How can I become independent in life? 1 week ago:
I'd say get some support by friends or relatives so you're not completely on your own. Then get out there and maybe get professional help if you like.
What's your life situation like? Do you study? Do an apprenticeship (Ausbildung)? Can you afford to pay rent? Or can you get BAföG or Unterhalt from your parents?
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 1 week ago:
And the Lemmy Explorer. Though, I recommend brushing up the knowledge which instances are nice. I skip lemmygrad, hexbear and even lemmy.ml these days. Also lemmit.online since that's just reddit bots.
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 1 week ago:
I for one, unsubscribe from communities that copy and dump content from someplace else. I found they're low engagement anyways. But there are plenty good ones. Idk what to recommend because I don't know other people's interests and spoken languages.
- Comment on No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4 2 weeks ago:
That's right. People want a firewall. Maybe on the devices and/or on the router. But NAT isn't that. It's address translation. Predominantly because there aren't enough addresses available. It's a workaround. And it kills things like VOIP, videoconferences, direct communication etc. And then you need a workaround for the workaround to work around that... If you just want to drop incoming traffic and not expose clients, that's what the firewall is for.
- Comment on No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4 2 weeks ago:
A standard DMZ still does NAT. You get a private IP and the router "nat"s you, just that it forwards all incoming traffic to that device by default. I think that disqualifies for no nat november.
- Comment on Is there a bulk comment deletiin tool for Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
hmmh. I recently installed linkwarden to do this. but i regularly forget to add links 😅 good advice though.
- Comment on Is there a bulk comment deletiin tool for Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
There aren't that many users doing this, and I'm abysmal at remembering names. I'd say it's a 1/3 chance it was you. It was someone usually writing silly stuff or participating in memes and random talk, with the one-off meaningful contribution, software or website recommendation or something. I forgot, and I think I removed the bookmark... But I'm not trying to convince you. You do you. If you like it this way, I totally respect that.
- Comment on Is there a bulk comment deletiin tool for Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Btw, it's super annoying if I bookmark something, or remember something, check out the old post and the author deleted it. Happend more than once to me already. I mean it's your content and your choice. Just wanted to say it's mildly annoying to me.
- Comment on Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone? 3 weeks ago:
I think people talk a lot. Especially politicians and populists. It'd certainly be sad if the USA forgot altogether that the country was supposed to be about freedom and democracy. And not a monarchy/autocracy or some religious Caliphate. I think there's still quite some sane people around. So my hopes are up. But it's a big problem, for sure.
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 3 weeks ago:
Well, if you allow everyone to say everything, the one yelling the loudest wins, and the more silent people don't get to speak freely. Also it's going to send hate, violence, doxxing, state secrets etc into the world. Harming other people and limiting their freedom. Or you limit free spech. So either way, there is no such thing as free speech. It contradicts itself.
- Comment on Does having someone/something to lose make you weaker or stronger? 3 weeks ago:
Both. There are situations where either of this applies. Or both. People regularly fight over things, land or other people. To their own benefit and it makes them stronger, or more determined. At the same time the same thing can be exploited by other people.
- Comment on Anon has an idea to get laid 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, everyone wants some drugs. The girls, the police, ...
- Comment on Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone? 3 weeks ago:
Well, if they do what's in Project 2025, you have a lot of other things to worry about. That's full on autocracy. Unclear whether it's as bad as like in Afghanistan where women are prohibited to go outside... But it's going to oppress everyone. Minorities and women first. But as far as I read it's also going to make economy worse. Take away everyones freedom, healthcare etc and replace it with the medieval version of it.
- Comment on Reddit morals vs Lemmy morals in the greentext community 3 weeks ago:
The Lemmy post got deleted, though.
- Comment on Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone? 3 weeks ago:
That depends on the country we're talking about. I wouldn't do it in authoritarian countries. But in the USA or other western countries for example, they usually don't use their total surveillance technology to pursue minor and ordinary crimes. That's mainly reserved for terrorism. You could end up in trouble by chance. But I'm not aware of any routines that connect cell tower data to deport immigrants.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. Despite all the nuances, which are important, too. Judging by this table, the biggest blame it on white men, followed by latino men and white women.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 4 weeks ago:
Are you living alone? I mean I've heard lots of stories where kids, spouses, visitors ... help themselves. And some booze just vanishes, or gets replaced.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 weeks ago:
You need an enemy who can't fight back... So it's never: The white male millionaires are coming for us [...]