If anything, modders showed Mojang how it's done. Looking at it now, the Forge API is really familiar
Then again, Minecraft used to be (maybe still is? I haven't modded in a while) a big mess of spaghetti code but somehow modders not only made it work, but made it work without any documentation and working from obfuscated code.
God I miss the old Roblox. Every now and then I come back to see what's up. A lot of the old places are still there, but some of the scripts don't work anymore. I always look back at my old places from waaaaayyy back and every time I do I see them through different eyes and come to understand child me a little bit differently. Roblox around '08 was really something special.
By the way, if you were active on the old forums somebody went and archived them: https://archive.froast.io/
I'm glad I never used my actual name, looking at my dumbass posts lol
EDIT: By the way, there's some really cool shit being made by the new kids, I mean Roblox did make a ton of money off them after all. Recently I played a bit of the AoT game. And of course there's Dress to Impress. The barrier to entry for places is a lot higher now.
Serious question, is there actually a FOSS project out there at the scale of something like Firefox that survives on only donations?
Didn't crunchyroll used to be exactly that kind of website they're getting taken down now? Lame...
is-sorted and a handful of about 300 other npm packages. Cloning the repo and installing takes about 16 hours but after that you're pretty much good for the rest of eternity
But then who backs up the backups?
Bro really? Vienna? Uptown Girls? Hey Jude? You really don't like any of his music?
Nah too many false negatives. Vulgar language must be wholly extinguished
Your freedom to do those things under capitalism is wholly bound by your existing wealth, and wealth begets wealth. When your parents are well off, you can get into good schools, get better education, and ultimately get a better job and, really, be a better worker bringing more wealth into the already existing pool of wealth your family had. Those who have been disenfranchised by way of things like eminent domain, redlining, or the straight up prosecution of them and their fellow men simply don't have that option to rise up. They don't even have the opportunity to try and fail, they've failed by their very existence. At a macro scale, once you've reached the top (e.x. Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc.) you have the resources to not only out-do any of the competition but to sell products at a loss to starve your competition and bully them into submission, which big companies do all the time instead of investing in better products. It's just good business.
Circumstance plays a lot into how much wealth you start out with and how much wealth you end up being able to accrue, so while it's nice being not even at the top but even just the middle, it's important to have the mindfulness to know that there are those below you who don't have the same freedoms, and they're not there because their businesses did poorly. Some of them are, but most are simply victims of greater powers stealing their capital.
What sucks is if there was no commercial part here - i.e. like how you're doing it just for fun, or if we lived in a magical world where we all just agreed that creative works were the shared output of humanity as a whole - then there would be no problem, we'd all be free to just use what we need to make new things however we want. But there is a commercial part to it, somebody is trying to gain using the collective work of others, and that makes it unethical.
Converting code too! I've used LLMs to go from Node -> GoLang, and that's basically how I learned to code in Go coming from a less low-level background. You can also ask about what the current best practices are.
I've definitely run into this as well in my own self-hosting journey. When you're learning it's easier to get it to just draft up a config - then learn what the options mean after the fact then it is to RTFM from the beginning.
What are your AI use cases?
I've seen a lot of sentiment around Lemmy that AI is "useless". I think this tends to stem from the fact that AI has not delivered on, well, anything the capitalists that push it have promised it would. That is to say, it has failed to meaningfully replace workers with a less expensive solution - AI that actually attempts to replace people's jobs are incredibly expensive (and environmentally irresponsible) and they simply lie and say it's not. It's subsidized by that sweet sweet VC capital so they can keep the lie up. And I say attempt because AI is truly horrible at actually replacing people. It's going to make mistakes and while everybody's been trying real hard to make it less wrong, it's just never gonna be "smart" enough to not have a human reviewing its' behavior. Then you've got AI being shoehorned into every little thing that really, REALLY doesn't need it. I'd say that AI is useless.
But AIs have been very useful to me. For one thing, they're much better at googling than I am. They save me time by summarizing articles to just give me the broad strokes, and I can decide whether I want to go into the details from there. They're also good idea generators - I've used them in creative writing just to explore things like "how might this story go?" or "what are interesting ways to describe this?". I never really use what comes out of them verbatim - whether image or text - but it's a good way to explore and seeing things expressed in ways you never would've thought of (and also the juxtaposition of seeing it next to very obvious expressions) tends to push your mind into new directions.
Lastly, I don't know if it's just because there's an abundance of Japanese language learning content online, but GPT 4o has been incredibly useful in learning Japanese. I can ask it things like "how would a native speaker express X?" And it would give me some good answers that even my Japanese teacher agreed with. It can also give some incredibly accurate breakdowns of grammar. I've tried with less popular languages like Filipino and it just isn't the same, but as far as Japanese goes it's like having a tutor on standby 24/7. In fact, that's exactly how I've been using it - I have it grade my own translations and give feedback on what could've been said more naturally.
All this to say, AI when used as a tool, rather than a dystopic stand-in for a human, can be a very useful one. So, what are some use cases you guys have where AI actually is pretty useful?
Now that is an interesting target to get tons of people off twitter. If all these K Pop labels like Hybe and JYP suddenly started publishing on BlueSky their fans would immediately follow suit
I wouldn't say I'm in control per se when I don't have the option to just do the update whenever I feel like it. I'm in control the same way a prisoner is in control of whether or not they eat that day by just not eating. Like, put it behind a giant bold unmissable piece of text that says "IF YOU DO THIS YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR MACHINE AT RISK AND HACKERS WILL IMMEDIATELY STEAL ALL YOUR MONEY" but don't make it so it's impossible for me to do without some workaround.
Have you got a more specific search term for Gemini? Unfortunately the word has been taken by Google
Help trying to set up an Ubuntu server as a router w/ a failover interface...
I have an Ubuntu server with two network interfaces - an ethernet and a WiFi network let's call eth0 and wlan0. So far I've been able to set it up as a router by enabling packet forwarding and then doing some iptables trickery. These are my iptable commands:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
If I'm understanding correctly, the first command says "if you receive packets from a device, do NAT and then forward them with your IP", the second one says to forward packets from eth0 to eth0, and the last line says "if you get packets back, only accept them if a connection has already been previously established". This Ubuntu server is connected to a router which is connected to a modem that actually has internet access. I've set it up so that my router uses my Ubuntu server as the default gateway during DHCP requests. This works fine, I'm able to use devices to connect to the internet, and if I do a trace route, it first goes to the Ubuntu server, then to the router, then out into the great beyond.
Now, I've run:
iptables -D FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o wlan0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan0 -o eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
Which, if I'm understanding correctly, should forward packets through to the WiFi interface instead, but it isn't working. I'm still able to access other devices on the network but not the open internet. I also tried doing iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE which as far as I can tell is unnecessary, but that didn't do anything. When I do trace route this time, it is able to get to the Ubuntu server but no further. I've also tried doing iptables -L -v but neither the wlan0 -> eth0 rule or the reverse have any packet count. I also tried doing iptables -A FORWARD -i lan0 -o wlan0 -j LOG --log-prefix "FORWARD: " to just log it first, but nothing shows up in /var/log/syslog even if I try to connect to the internet from a device.
I'm at a loss here so any help even debugging or if I'm going about this wrong would be greatly appreciated. My ultimate goal is to set up a failover so that if the LAN interface doesn't have a connection, it'll start sending packets through the WiFi interface which will be connected to a different internet connection.
Gigabit switch on a non-gigabit router?
I have a fairly old router that doesn’t support gigabit. I also have a network switch that does support gigabit. If I connect two devices directly to the switch, then connect the switch up to the router, will the connection between the two devices support gigabit? If I’m understanding correctly the router would just act as DHCP server and give the two devices a local IP address, but the actual connection between them wouldn’t go through the router at all.
Hybrid email setup w/ managed server but self-hosted client
I'm planning to migrate my email to a different provider, but they don't give much storage, so I was wondering what people would recommend for this kind of setup: basically I'd like to use the new provider as something like a relay. I'd want them to only store an email or two at a time and have some kind of self hosted solution that just grabs the emails from the provider and stores them after deleting them off the provider so it's never storing my entire email history, and also keeps my sent emails somewhere so that I have a copy of it. Ideally I'd wanna be able to set this up with a mail client like NextCloud's.
Is there a way to have the same domain point to a local IP and remote depending on network?
EDIT: Thanks for the info guys! Very excited to get this all set up
At the moment I have a bunch of self-hosting services hosted in the cloud. I plan to get rid of my cloud resources entirely and run stuff on some server hardware I acquired recently but my ISP doesn't give me a static IP and I'm behind a NAT or whatever it's called (the thing that makes multiple people's home connections be behind a single public IP) so I don't think I can even expose directly to the internet. So my plan is to have a very small and cheap server at a data center and proxy my actual server behind that.
My question is, is there a way that I can set things up so that the same domain can connect directly to the server when I'm at home, and to the proxy when I'm not? The difference would be what connection I'm connected to (my home WiFi vs 5G/others' WiFi). I'm thinking I could maybe run DNS on the server and configure my router to use that as a DNS server, but wouldn't my phone/laptop cache DNS entries? So it'd still try to connect to the local IP even when I'm out.
Lemmy hotfix for home page bugs...
Hey guys, as I'm sure many of you are already aware there's a couple of bugs that are plaguing the home page. I've made a hotfix for these bugs:
- New posts popping up and pushing all the other posts downwards - this is more prevalent on the larger lemmy instances, you'll just be scrolling and suddenly everything's pushed down because new posts are being added to the top of the page as they're being created
- Default "All" not working - this is more something admins would be aware of but in the site settings you can set the default "Listing Type" to "All" instead of "Local", but if you do this the home page doesn't properly load "All", it'll show you the "Local" feed with "All" selected in the tabs. Seems this feature wasn't implemented correctly in time for 0.17.4
Since 0.18 is still a little while out, and I'm sure the devs are both really busy on it (they also said they won't be making another 0.17 release), I went ahead and made a hotfix for these. I have it up on jcgurango/lemmy-ui:0.17.4-hotfix so if you're using docker you can just upgrade to that image. I'm not really sure how ansible works, so I can't help with that.
Here's the repo I have these changes on for those who want to check or build it themselves: https://github.com/jcgurango/lemmy-ui - I've based it on the v0.17.4 tag on the upstream repo.
Welcome!
Hello, and welcome to halubilo.social! This is JC and Faye's little corner of the Fediverse. Here you'll find a curated list of the most popular communities from other Lemmy servers. Just make sure you switch from "Local" to "All" when you're browsing.
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a link aggregator, similar to Reddit. This is one of many Lemmy servers that are part of the Fediverse. With an account here, you can make posts in various communities hosted on other Lemmy servers, and doomscroll through All until you pass out.
What is the Fediverse?
The Fediverse is not really a single "thing," but a network of websites. These websites all come together to share content with each other. For example, if you browse "All" you'll see posts from communities on other websites like beehaw.org or lemmy.world. You can still post in communities and comment on them here, and your comments/votes/posts will all be copied over to the "main" website that these communities belong to. Those other websites also give us real time content updates, so generally speaking if somebody posts on there, it'll show up here immediately. This process is called federation, and these websites are called instances.
This website runs Lemmy, but it's not the only federated link aggregator. There's also kbin and some others. Also, link aggregators are not the only use case for federation, you may have heard of Mastodon which is a federated social networking platform.
But, Like, Why?
This might all seem like we're just throwing data at each other and duplicating it unnecessarily, and you know, maybe we are. But, these are, at least in my view, the benefits of federation.
Shared Load
You have to remember that federation is, technically, how huge sites like Facebook/Instagram/TikTok ensure reliability. When you open one of these websites, you aren't just connecting directly to some giant server that the company runs and is constantly upgrading. These websites have multiple locations around the world, and data is constantly copied between these locations. This is so that one server isn't the single point of failure that takes down the whole operation. Federation spreads out the load (in theory at least, at the time of this writing people have flocked to a few very large instances), and ensure that even if an instance goes down, its content isn't lost forever and can still be browsed.
Though we already have standard protocols, the technology is in its infancy, and will get better and more reliable. Remember, one of the most popular federated technologies is email, and it took decades for it to reach the level it's at now in terms of reliability and use. We're doing pretty good for technology that isn't even a decade old.
Decentralized Control
One guy named Steve can't just unilaterally decide the direction of Lemmy or the Fediverse. Consensus must be established before any changes are made across the board, and some instances may decide they just, like, don't want to, man. That isn't to say that there isn't a hierarchy of sorts, after all this instance does take basically all of its content from larger instances. But it does mean that every instance owner can just decide for their community what they want. How they want their communities to be moderated, what communities they do and don't want on their instance, what people they do and don't want on their instance. This is good for instance owners, but it's also good for users. If you don't like the way one instance is run, you can leave. It's not easy yet to move all your data over, but that's gonna change really soon.
Past the community management parts, there's also the fact that every instance owner can decide how they want their instance to function. Sure, at the moment, pretty much every Lemmy instance looks and acts basically the same. But I intend to change that, and I'm sure more niche communities will follow suit once we all get comfortable.