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  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•[META] Should AI disclosure tags [AI], [NOT AI] be mandated when sharing projects?English
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    1 month ago

    What’s the threshold for a tag?

    Just add context as a top level comment or in the body text area. Someone can come in to clarify if the poster is missing it.

    Even for a poster sometimes it’s not obvious if there is any AI in the project. Example: Lutris, dev said they are adding Claude commits and will be scrubbing mentions of the tool from PRs. Sometimes AI is discussed but rejected.

    It’s easy to tell when a whole project has been vibecoded, but the grey zone of an existing project that may or may not have had slopcode added, is tougher for posters to discern.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?English
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    5 months ago

    Aside from the point that Jellyfin is meant to browse your own personal collection of files usually after the fact…

    Some file formats like mkv do work even if partially downloaded, so if you’re downloading a torrent for a free libre open source movie, choose the option to download chunks in sequential order, and I think there’s a way that you can watch while downloading.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?English
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    9 months ago

    I think much of the gatekeeping is over concern that if you mess up, you could unknowingly be allowing a sophisticated hacker to access all the data on your network, without any obvious signs. And maybe some people don’t want to field noob questions like “I clicked something and now the GUI gives a 😕 and doesn’t work anymore, what do I do?”.

    There is a skill floor, I would say similarly that you wouldn’t be ready to install Linux yourself if you don’t get suspicious when a .iso download gives you a .exe file instead.

    I think Yunohost is a decent solution for beginners that avoids as much of the nitty-gritty as possible. Louis Rossman has made a massive guide that’s about as close as an IKEA step-by-step as you can get with this stuff. We should be encouraging people to learn, but there is a sense of reticence to have people get too in over their heads due to cybersecurity reasons.

    Edit: linked the guide

  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome?English
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    2 years ago

    Right now I just play with things at a level that I don’t care if they pop out of existence tomorrow.

    If you want to be truly safe (at an individual level, not an institutional level where there’s someone with an interest in fucking your stuff up), you need to make sure things are recoverable unless 3 completely separate things go wrong at the same time (an outage at a remote data centre, your server fails and your local backup fails). Very unlikely for all 3 to happen simultaneously, but 1 is likely to fail and 2 is forseeable, so you can fix it before the 3rd also fails.