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Nextcloud certainly can be a cumbersome beast. I'm glad it's the second thing I chose to selfhost instead of something much later on. Gave me a chance to get my feet wet with it. I'm a big fan, but I think if I'd started with smaller services I'd be upset about the breadth of the project. It is absolutely trying to do everything it can, which can be good or bad depending on your use case.

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Immich is made by futo, an org who just donated a couple mil to a fash dev to maintain some vibecoded post install scripts. Nextcloud does everything Immich does through some extensions available in their marketplace. Don't support fash soft. Use eurojank instead! <\political>

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the browsers' world right now.

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Didn't even think of Bill Gates since he stepped down from his leadership position in 2008. I didn't realize he was still a board member til 2020 (just looked that up) so I guess yeah, it's got a pedo associated.

That makes me sad.

And yes, I have been living in a hole. For my own mental health I don't look at news beyond my state's borders because I'm highly reactive and get in fights in the comment sections.

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Anon time travels

4GB is fine on a proper operating system. I'd still be using my 2011 mba with debian if it wasn't for the fan noise.

If you genuinely need more, good for you buy something more powerful. Most folks just use web browsers, and if you stay out of the chromium ecosystem those tend to be relatively lightweight in my experience.

I'm also of the opinion we should abandon the modern web and shift back to gopher but that's just like, my opinion, man

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how is fediverse protected from ai agents?

It isn't, like even a little.

I've got a wordpress instance that I've federated into the fediverse and as soon as I did I went from 2-3 spam comments a week to over 50 a week. I've since set up a honeypot and that has dropped to zero. These probably aren't AI agents but they're certainly bots (humans can't see my honeypot unless they're browsing the raw HTML and afict my audience wouldn't do that)

There is absolutely nothing stopping your from spinning up a Masotodon, Lemmy, or any other AP federated platform and unleashing AI agents all across it other than your own conscience.

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Get 8 out of every 24

Makes me think of how I recently read Ishmael and it literally changed my life. I understand now. I am ape. Do as ape do.

There's like, a lot more than that, but that was my biggest takeaway (which would probably make the author very sad given what the book was actually about)