This is the real strength of ActivityPub compared to ATProto. I follow a lot of accounts on mastodon, and only a handful of them are on mastodon.social. Globally though looks like 1/4 of the accounts are there.

If the instance goes down, the network stays up and continues to work, minus only the accounts on mastodon.social. This is not the case on bluesky afaik. They got DDosed a few months ago and the whole network was down because of it. https://hackernews.hn/item?id=47802330

In ATProto there aren't 'instances', and its technically 'decentralized' but theres really only bluesky.

When Bluesky got DDoS'ed then, many people switched to using another AppView like Blacksky and things worked just fine.

But this is indeed somewhat technical; in an ideal world clients would automatically fall back to alternative AppViews.

They have an “all in one” container that supposedly works out of the box.

I didn’t want to give it access to the docker socket, with the ability to spawn its own containers. So instead I just use the nextcloud container directly. (With several other containers, like DB, reverse proxy, collabora, etc) It’s a mess to configure, hence their recommendation to use their “all in one” setup. All sorts of weird defaults with documentation that says “this is the default but you should absolutely change it to do X instead so that it performs better”. Things like setting up a service to generate thumbnails, setting up redis, etc.

Once configured though, it mostly just works. You can’t let it auto update between major versions, but you probably should be doing that anyway. There are usually breaking changes and you have to manually run a command or two between major updates. That doesn’t happen too frequently though.

I can’t speak to the quality of the all-in-one setup. It’s likely easier than what I did - but also what’s the point of putting it in docker and also giving it control of docker? Seems to defeat the point of containerization.

I use nextcloud all the time, my private instance works great and does everything I need it to. But I keep it behind a VPN. It’s got a lot of parts, and thus a lot of surface area. It may be secure but I just assume it isn’t. I rely on the VPN to be the security boundary.

How is the second LLM not also vulnerable from prompt injection? In order to supervise the first, it must receive data (presumably output from the first LLM?). All generated output after the user input is in the context should be considered possibly compromised/prompt injected. Having a second LLM just adds more obfuscation, but prompt injection could be chained.

That's when you bust out the third LLM. Nobody expects the fourth LLM to be the REAL LLM in the chain.

the real llm is the friends we make along the way!

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I’ve seen it directly contradict the citation so many times that i disregard the text and just click the citation or scroll past every single time. Just today i caught it making up the date for an event, and the citation had accurate information when clicked through.

It’s super easy to catch on dates and numbers, but it gets other details wrong all the time too. But so many people won’t be double checking the results.

I thought most modern Bluetooth devices essentially randomize the Bluetooth MAC address periodically, specifically to prevent this sort of tracking? And random MAC addresses too on WiFi.

If someone has a half dozen BT devices on their person/in their car and they randomize MACs hourly (but not all at once) I bet you could still track people pretty accurately.

I had a problem recently where I ran a script with the wrong set of permissions, and accidentally screwed up the ownership of a random mix of files spread across my entire drive. This broke several pieces of software and made the system unusable.

I had enough information to reconstruct what files exactly got screwed up, and while I didn’t have a backup, I had a similar enough system I could pull “known good” file permissions from. I knew a simple script could find the problematic files and fix all of them.

I tried getting an AI to solve this. And it repeatedly gave me scripts that ignored all the details and intricacies of my issue and were functionally just "chown -R user:user /". (A command that will functionally nuke a drive, breaking ownership on every file)

The ai-provided scripts were reasonably complex and did a pretty decent job of obfuscating the disastrous outcomes the scripts would have inflicted on my drive.

After reading the man pages myself I wrote a simple enough script by hand and fixed the issue myself. AI wasted more time than it saved.

On my rokus, I am able to use my phone as a remote via the roku app. This includes typing on mobile via my phone's keyboard. Makes logging into things much easier.

AppleTV is like that too. It's nice being able to use the password manager on my phone rather than have try to enter some long complicated password a letter at a time.

While Texas is quite red. Renewables are surprisingly popular. Why should a farmer in the middle of nowhere have to rely on Texas’ power grid, when they can install a few solar panels and a battery. Especially when storms can take out power lines, or take out the entire grid.

I’m near a big city in Texas, and before any big storms here, generators frequently sell out at stores. Power outages are basically expected during any storms. Lots of people buying into solar (or backup generators/batteries) just for independence from the power grid. Especially after the huge winter storm a few years ago left people without power for days in the cold.

> Lots of people buying into solar (or backup generators/batteries) just for independence from the power grid.

Sounds like the woke mind virus has taken over /s

While fossil fuels are huge in Texas, solar and wind are too. Especially out in west Texas where there’s a lot of wide open space, wind turbines are surprisingly frequent. Texas produces the most wind power out of any state. And solar works just about anywhere in Texas. Lots of sun in the summers.