Yep. Assume the worst, imo

Ahh so bots are finding subdomains by scraping SSL certificates?

Yep. Everything on that site is AI generated. Another one for the block list!

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20355358

Good question.

A GUI will be easier to get into - you can use a gui file browser app to learn the layout of the file system, you can use a GUI text editor to change config files, that sort of thing. It’ll mean you can do a few basic things intuitively which will be less intimidating. So from a maintaining momentum and morale point of view it might be best to have a GUI initially even though you have to learn all the cli stuff eventually anyway and you’ll most likely be running a headless server on real hardware eventually.

Self-hosting is a very individual journey - everyone wants different things and finds they own way to meet their own requirements. So there isn’t really one guide that covers everything.

Anyway, as a general road map:

1. Create a Virtual Machine on your PC. Install Linux inside the VM.

2. Play around in the VM to learn Linux basics. When you break the OS you can just wipe the VM and reinstall.

3. In the VM, try some docker containers until you’re comfortable-ish with docker.

4. Maybe try Yunohost in the VM. You might find Yunohost saves you a lot of time and hassle.

5. Get hardware suitable for your goals.

6. Install Linux, configure networking and docker containers on real hardware.

If you’ve ever spent 10 minutes using an AI agent, you’d know that there’s no way to predict how many tokens it’s going to use before you give it a task. It can be $0.20 worth sometimes or $20 other times. Or anything, really.

It’s only after watching it churn away for a few minutes that you can assume it’s gotten stuck and have the option of pulling the plug before the bill gets run up too high. But you need to watch it like a hawk and you need to be the one paying the bill otherwise you’re not going to care (e.g. workers using AI at work aren’t paying for it, their company is).

Taken in aggregate across a month, that unpredictability might average out or it might explode.

Replying to this post with an AI slop comment takes some balls, mate

No obvious signs, nope. It wasn’t until I started using it in earnest that I got suspicious and then when trying to work on the code it became very clear.

Well, yeah. There are lots of reasons. But basic self-interest is something we can all agree on.

I made the mistake of installing Starling recently, not realizing how it was made. I contributed a PR to it, wrote a few issues describing some showstopping bugs, and since then there’s been absolutely no activity from the creator.

That’s fine, they are under no obligation to work for free. But I wouldn’t have installed it if I knew it was abandonware.

You could use apache to create a webdav share. I bet there’s a pre built container for it.

Webdav is really underrated, imo.

Really old CPUs (486 or earlier) lack the computing power to do SSL at any decent speed. So you’re limited to serving http, gopher, nntp, or telnet. Maybe IRC.

You could have a modern computer handle the SSL connection and proxy requests through to the antique but some of the purity of the thing is lost by doing that.

When using an app, there isn’t much difference!

Anyway, here’s how PieFed looks in a web browser, now - https://media.piefed.social/posts/jU/iT/jUiTnL7q3yzgOlJ.png

Terrible boss!

I’ll add that font to PieFed.

What do you think of the Atkinson Hyperlegible font? https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible?preview.script=Latn

I think so. He meant the capitalists, who are his customers, want to own their means of production. Not rent it from their competitors or suppliers.

First time I’ve seen that phrase used that way but it works.

Here’s the segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-0FKFfO54

He seemed pretty coherent to me. At times clearly thinking faster than his mouth can keep up but really no big deal.

Pretty interesting how he’s fully accepted that there will be “a wealth tax” as a result of a backlash against AI. And how the CEOs he knows are “livid” about how totally useless AI is even after they jumped in boots and all, lol

It depends on your company.

If you are running public-facing code, security is going to become a huge deal in coming months. So use AI to find all the security holes in your stuff before the hackers do.

If you have lots of databases and APIs for internal use, create a MCP server so agents can do anything with your data and APIs.

If your data is even a little sensitive and you don’t want to send it all to the USA (read up on the CLOUD act), look into running models locally and the hardware investments you’ll need to make.

FYI this will be fixed in the next release of PieFed, due this week.