siemato / Marco Siedentopf is on Nostr

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2024-09-02 17:14:35

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What is the largest blocker for self hosting among people, that aren't too deep into tech? What would be the requirement for the family next door, to self-host their services, or the Grandpa down the street? I've helped an 85 year old granny to get familiar with Android. She was using a Samsung phone and tablet for 4 years until she died last winter at the age of 89. E-mail, online banking, shopping, taxes, messaging - she did it all. It's more a function of familiarity and time invested, rather than difficulty. She wasn't self-hosting, but it's similar, right? Android makes it easy to manage your device. You can migrate data to a new device without knowing a lot. You don't need to know a lot, to sync your device to the cloud for backup. Managing apps and files had such a low learning curve, that an 85 year old grandma, that's never been in touch with technology ("That was my husband's job") was able to learn it. Can we expand that to servers?
I want to install an app on my phone -> by installing it on the phone, it installs a server component to some server I control (maybe my router?) -> management happens through the app on the phone/tablet/pc. Would that be possible? Do you have ideas of how to approach this, maybe?

2024-09-02 11:38:15

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Really, there's this imbalance between what you can achieve and what you can't imo. Analysis and summaries are excellent use cases for AI, but creative tasks like writing code or text is highly dependent on the circumstances, as far as I can tell. Code written by AI is undeniably fragile. BUT: this fragility only matters in certain environments, like systems with medium or higher complexity, where interop matters, with low latency or high load characteristics, basically everywhere, where it can have a compounding effect. I've seen people do great work with AI with configuration languages, that offer a validator. Another excellent use case is asking AI about your code base in self-trained specialist models. We're still at the beginning of discovering, what's feasible to do in our current stage with AI. It's probably going to keep disrupting every part of the economy for years to come, after the hype died down a bit. Most importantly though, it gives people a low qualification entry to many fields, that previously needed huge swaths of time investment. As a specialist, it enables certain work, that required generalist knowledge before. Most importantly, as a worker without training or without good education, it gives you wings, lowering the bar and possible entry point for low skilled work, while rising the ceiling of such.

2024-08-31 08:56:43

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There's no one-size-fits-all there. It depends on what you're doing. My personal preference is a mix of dedicated/shared VPS in Hetzner's Cloud, running 1-to-many with the DB on the dedicated one. If you run on a single host or just shared VPSes, I'd do 1-to-1 probably.

2024-08-31 07:59:51

We're installing apps to our phones, why aren't we deploying apps to 'our servers'? Why don't we do that while we install an app to our phones? What's missing, a platform spec?

2024-06-15 11:12:21

Am I the only one frustrated with IT Marketing? "Use Cloud-X and it comes with this and this and this integrated, so you don't have to think about it. But why would I have to think about *it* to begin with? And low I have to think about ingress and egress and cpu-hours and requests and iops and what those will cost me. Why did we make it an accounting issue, when engineers are the ones implementing it? What the heck is this...

2024-06-09 18:34:15

Interesting to find, that GZIP compression outperforms Brotli in decoding scenarios. Turns out it's not that straight forward of a choice.

2024-06-09 14:00:48

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As a quick throw-in: if you ever see a sheep on it's back, that's a life threatening situation for the sheep. They can't turn themselves over, and fall into shock quickly. If you can, however possible, help them turn back onto their feet.

2024-05-09 21:21:56

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Strike. It did not give me that option on your site.

2024-05-01 10:15:07

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for me it's xmake nowadays. https://xmake.io/
aside of personal preferences, just make is enough for a lot of stuff IMO.

2024-04-26 22:18:09

the experience as a new Nostr user is absolute dogshit. the only topic here seems to be Bitcoin. boring AF

2024-04-26 14:56:12

Why is 80% of what I see as a fresh user on Nostr all focussed on bitcoin and censorship? I mean, I get it, it's important, but please, find something else to talk about.

2024-04-24 19:59:30

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interesting, then i'm one of the very first european users I guess? Signing up more than an hour before your post here.

2024-04-24 17:43:47

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alby seems invite-only. doesn't let me create an account and doesn't let me connect to my wallet service provider.

2024-04-24 17:22:13

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i'll look into this. Is this alby thing really needed?

2024-04-24 17:19:14

I can't believe how nostr has changed over the past ~1.5 years. Back then I didn't find it that useful, but now I'm absolutely flabbergasted. This is looking really powerful. What are the best tools or services to look at?