irmadlad

Daily Invidious Restarts

I was having some issues with Invidious the other day, which I resolved. However, I came across this tidbit of info that I’d never seen before when I first deployed it:

Post-install configuration:

Highly recommended

Because of various issues, Invidious must be restarted often, at least once a day, ideally every hour.

docs.invidious.io/installation/#windows

Anyone else observing this weird restart schedule?

Didn’t downvote ya but, yeah I guess I could do that if I were a dev. Also, I would personally feel responsible for someone’s loss or havoc caused my my app.

Regardless, widespread burnout

If I were a dev, that would be the number one reason I would not publish any app I created. The constant demands from users, the constant integrations, et al, nah…pass. I am grateful for who do, but that’s just not my bag.

Authentik

Didn’t downvote you but, even as someone who dabbles in AI, and who does not outright reject AI assisted opensource projects, I do really care about the content, the inner workings of said app. If for nothing other than I don’t want to mop up an attack because I deployed something unsafe on my network. So, while I am quite open to AI assisted projects, prudence is the operative word.

I feel that. It’s a constant detour.

What I see as the problem is the same as the root problem elsewhere: all or nothing thinking

I would tend to agree.

I kinda think we are probably doomed

Consider this: When I was a young man we were engaged in the War Bay of Pigs, we had the Cuban missile crisis (there was a lot more going on in that area than most people realized), the very real possibility of global thermonuclear destruction, Vietnam, the violence and upheavals of the 60s, the 70s, and into the 80s, etc.

In 700 BC, Hesiod lamented the Iron Age as an era of constant toil, strife, warfare, and moral decay. He wishes he hadn’t been born in such a degraded time, describing how fathers and children will be at odds and people will dishonor their parents. He portrays the younger generation as greedy, restless, and lacking the virtues of earlier ages. Socrates too, chimed in.

What I can do is have tiny influence on the people I speak to.

Tho it may seem defeatist, I gave up trying to save the world back in the 60s when I came to the stark, yet liberating realization, that I cannot save the world, nor does it want to be saved. The very best I could possibly do is to influence a handful of people relatively speaking, and hope, in turn, they do the same.

Worst thing for the environment since cars

…and yet, we get in our cars and go to work, play, vacations, and never think much about it. Economies would crash if there weren’t necessary means of transportation. I don’t disagree that cars are pollutive, even tho we have made great advances in controlling and mitigating a lot of the pollutive aspects, and I don’t deny that AI contributes to carbon emissions. Which is why I keep saying that AI needs heavy regulation, much like we did with the early years of automobiles to present day. Another consideration is that the internet displaces carbon emissions with people who work remotely at home, streaming vs physical media being produced, etc.

It’s better than billions underreacting

Oh, it is always wise to educate yourself, take steps to mitigate pollutive aspects in our lives. But I don’t think that throwing the AI baby out with the bath water is conducive, much like we’re not going to stop using transportation. So in order to get the best of both worlds, there must be regulation, as much as I dislike regulation.

So, like transportation, AI isn’t going away. There must be regulation. For example: If company xyz runs an AI data center, it must be powered by renewable energy sources by x %. And why not extend that to all data centers? During COVID, about 557 million workers, or 17.4% of global employment, worked from home. COVID should have been an eyeopener globally. Skies over cities cleared somewhat and in some instances, significantly. Animals returned to their native habitats in the absence of humans. We have the technology to do better. We are just greedy and shortsighted.

Oh you’ll smoke a turd in hell for your insolence.

It means if the guy running Codeberg doesn’t like it. This is his fiefdom, not a public square. Make your own fiefdom for AI coding. You could call it Vibeberg.

LMAO! That’s hilarious and true. Look, until you own your own platform, with your own rules for said platform, or are a significant investor in said platform, then you are subject to the whims of that platform.

• Convert it to a kitchen recipe display device and retrieve recipes off of your server.
• Home monitoring panel
• Video/Photo frame
• e-reader

They produce a lot of noise, so you still have to somewhat understand what you’re looking at/for.

I’d buy that. I mean, Lynis produces volumes of info, not all are really related to your server.

Wow! That is a very intriguing question, and one that I have never considered before. Just spitballing here but you could possibly use trad apps like Lynis, Greenbone, Nikto, etc. These apps often produce rather verbose and sometimes cryptic output, i know Lynis sure does. So, you could use a prompt like:

‘You are a security analyst. Review the following Nmap scan results. Identify services running outdated or potentially vulnerable versions, suggest likely CVEs, and prioritize findings by risk.’

Then use something like llama3.1:70b, mistral-nemo or deepseek-coder-v2, and pipe your security scans into your local AI. You could feed it your NGINX, docker configs, pFsense firewall rules in and ask the model to audit them.

IDK, that’s a very good question I think. It’ll be interesting to see what others have to comment.

In the AI evolution we find ourselves in, I have long looked at the very real possibilities of AI being used in a cyber attack. It’s is an obvious tool to me to use in such attacks. I am quite certain governments are experimenting with such capabilities. Where we used to use the old wardialing and sophisticated bots to jam communications when engaged in conflict, we would replace that with AI. I think that would be a natural progression of technology. For one, AI is relentless. It can find even the most minor soft spot in the ‘armor’ as it were, when programmed to do so.

We now use AI to find vulnerabilities in software like Linux which basically underpins the entire global internet infrastructure. It would only be obvious that nefarious actors, governmental or otherwise, would also use AI. It does present a lot of issues, but I honestly do not view this as alarming in as much as I see it as a natural technological progression. All technology since the dawn of time wields a double edged sword and that is inescapable.

I’ve long said AI desperately needs governmental regulation as much as I chafe against regulation which, in the hands of government, usually devolves into over regulation. Right now, it’s a wild wild west from AI rice cookers, to cyber attacks. Some look forward to the AI bubble bursting with glee. However, all that means to me is that the pieces left will be retooled into something else as history has revealed time and time again. I don’t think it’s a fad. I don’t think it’s going away. It may evolve into something else, but at it’s basis, I think AI is here to stay regardless of grassroots opposition.