@anotherandrew, testing my own mbin instance for a while before committing to moving over permanently.
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I’ve been lucky I guess – haven’t had a failure with force formats before, I always thought if it couldn’t download the format I wanted it was spinning the conversion over to ffmpeg. I haven’t really paid that close attention to the output. :-)
I have two depending on what I’m grabbing is part of a playlist (where I want to maintain order) or not:
--download-archive archive.txt --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs -o "%(upload_date)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s" -S res,vcodec:h264,acodec:m4a
or
--download-archive archive.txt --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs -o "%(playlist_title)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(upload_date)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s" -S res,vcodec:h264,acodec:m4a
that --download-archive archive.txt is a godsend for when I rediscover something I’ve already grabbed. I often move the files to better locations after, but archive.txt doesn’t care. Embedding the subtitles, forcing h264/m4a (because more and more things are webp it seems), and renaming the file to the title + youtube ID are what make up the rest.
Interesting that OpenProject is actually a fork of Redmine – I’ve got an old Redmine instance I’ve been using on and off for well over a decade and now I am going to see how tricky it is to migrate over. It sounds like it used to be straightforward but I don’t know if that’s still the case.
Thanks for the lead!
I’ve got a fairly extensive Zigbee network (32 devices) - using a CC2652 USB stick hooked up to an rpi with socat connecting that to my HA VM. I have probably a dozen wired devices (in-wall switches, plug-in outlets, etc.) scattered between the two floors and even the wired devices occasionally fall off the mesh, while most of them (and about 50% of the wireless devices) are pretty robustly connected. I’ve found no real link between LQI/RSSI and a device’s stablity, nor have I found any real link between manufacturer and stability. Sonoff, Aqara, ewelink, lumi. It’s frustrating, because some of the devices that fail to stay connected are within 3 meters of either the hub or a wired device and report great signal strength. I just don’t feel that Zigbee is all that awesome for a robust low power network.
When I’m at the house next I might try moving the entire network to a different channel, as tedious as that is going to be.
it was more about just being able to run it on osx again since they (Apple) removed 32-bit support some time ago.
This makes me sad that the only way I can play Portal (or Portal 2) is in a 32-bit VM. a 64-bit remake would be so awesome.
That’s an excellent question. I only know of them because mxtoolbox and other checkers list them.
Kind of a piggyback on this – is there a favoured “search my saved links from karakeep/linkwarden/hamster.io and show them first before feeding the search terms to google/bing/whatever” extension for your browser?
How did you do this? I have only seen the google postmaster tools and they’re absolutely useless unless you are sending significant email volume. If you’re a little guy they won’t even give you basic reporting on deliverability.
There was a recent thread on reddit about this, where I wrote this comment (copied here):
I’ve been hosting my own email for a long time (almost 25 years).
Today it’s better than it was, but there are some hurdles:
When I switched providers, I found out I was in a “bad IP neighbourhood”. Microsoft wanted a letter from my VPS provider saying that I am in control of the IP I wanted listed, and that was not too hard to get. Also, Microsoft’s blacklist management is sane - you can log in, see the status, raise issues and get a hold of people. A little frustrating, but workable.
Google, on the other hand… You can’t participate in their spam system unless you have a minimum volume of email, which means little guys like me who send maybe 50-100 emails a day end up in gmail’s junk folders by default and there’s abso-fucking-lutely nothing you can do about it. There’s no one to report it to, there’s no way to fight it… they simply don’t care. And whether an email gets flagged as junk or not seems completely random. It has nothing to do with the content as far as I can tell. All you can do is contact people from your personal gmail and ask them to check spam/whitelist. It’s been years and I’m still waiting for the “eventually your domain will get whitelisted globally” bullshit to happen.
That leaves UCEPROTECTL3. Fuck these guys sideways. They block entire ASes and no, you can’t get an exception made. You can pay them to get whitelisted which is why I call them an extortion scam. They’re the only blacklist I’m on and I’ll be fucked if I’ll pay them to get off it. Bunch of fucking pretentious scammers.
Everything else is pretty easy: DNS, DMARC, DKIM, SPF… it’s hoops to jump through but not overly difficult. Ensuring you’ve got SMTPS set up and constraining the encryption protocols to get it tight takes some iterative work, but nothing too difficult.
I totally understand why people give up. This is a huge problem with these gigantic monolithic companies – they hold way too much power over the internet and there’s no way to hold them accountable.
That sounds pretty great - do you have a link to your site using this?
This is a post near and dear to my heart. I too am looking for something markdown-centered, static, reasonable for code/technical content and that can embed not just photos but browser-side js graphs based on data within the markdown or REST calls. It’s been a few years since I went down this rabbit hole and I got lost very quickly. Thank you for posting, I’ll be revisiting over the next few days to see what the fediverse has to say!
I’m not sure how you would do that if you are asking about something you don’t have expertise in yet, as it takes the exact same authoritative tone no matter whether the information is real.
I agree – That’s why I’m chalking it up to some kind of healthy sense of skepticism when it comes to trusting authoritative-sounding answers by themselves. e.g. “ok that sounds plausible, let’s see if we can find supporting information on this answer elsewhere or, maybe ask the same question a different way to see if the new answer(s) seem to line up.”
So far, research suggests this is not possible (unsurprisingly, given the nature of LLMs). Introspective outputs, such as certainty or justifications for decisions, do not map closely to the LLM’s actual internal state.
Interesting – I still see them largely as black boxes so reading about how people smarter than me describe the processes is fascinating.
I don’t know if it’s just my age/experience or some kind of innate “horse sense” But I tend to do alright with detecting shit responses, whether they be human trolls or an LLM that is lying through its virtual teeth. I don’t see that as bad news, I see it as understanding the limitations of the system. Perhaps with a reasonable prompt an LLM can be more honest about when it’s hallucinating?
I too contributed fairly significantly over a long period of time, particularly on electronics.stackexchange.com. I generally just ignore the weak/low quality questions or vote them down. I might respond and ask them to fix the question if I felt charitable, but I never understood the “question nazis”.
Completely forgot about kiwix; I have that on my ipad and laptop, along with Dash which is like a modern day HELPPC.COM if anyone remembers that thing…
There are poor personality types everywhere, but I have found stackexchange/stackoverflow to be one of the better sources of user curated help. LLMs are a new and interesting avenue and I’ve had some good success with them too, but Stackoverflow was really, really good.
Grab a copy of the stackoverflow database and use it locally, or train your own local LLM on the datastore.
And if you can, donate to the Internet Archive – those people do really important work in today’s age of killing off old information and constant enshittification.
A couple things I’ve been working on
First, I spun up a larger VPS to consolidate two smaller ones. This time I dockerized almost everything. Still a docker newb, but karakeep, redmine, mbin, lemmy (still deciding which I want), davical. Asterisk and postfix/dovecot are probably gonna stay on the vps root. I’m using zfs and compression. Interestingly, the postgres database that everything is using seems to get better compression than the mail spool.
A couple weeks ago I picked up a NetApp 7 bay disk shelf for $30. It uses fibre channel (AT-FCX) controllers and I’ve never used that before. I grabbed a $7 FC HBA (QLE2560), a 2m cable and an m2-to-PCIe adapter meant for an eGPU. The idea is to see if I can’t get the RK3588 board I’m playing with to see it. I did something similar with a $50 Dell 12 drive bay and my old C6100.
It’s funny; I recommend Apple stuff for practically all the same reasons you don’t. The walled garden pisses me off sometimes but when I talk to friends using Android stuff and their gripes it really reinforces that I made the right decision for my family, just as you have for yours. What I find even more amusing is that I design embedded linux devices, all my servers/vms are Linux based and I really enjoy using Linux… just not supporting/using it as a primary UI.
Not shitting on your choices at all, I know that many people really like/enjoy the Android side as much as I do the Apple side. Chacun à son goût and all that.