Hey #lazyweb, what would be interesting (and affordable/cost effective) services to host one's own open source personal AI models (like Gemma, Llamma, Deepseek, etc, from Hugging Face) and run inferences?

Plus if they run on renewable energy.

Hey Fedi!
I need yet another chain tool. Do you have a recommendation for a good one that doesn't bend after a few uses?

I am using #calibre to manage #ebooks but is there something better I don't know about? #LazyWeb please help!

Anybody have a fail2ban or other solution for blocking scraping in Nginx config? Asking for a friend who is tired of getting excessive CPU warnings from assholes scraping his git forge...

ETA: https://anubis.techaro.lol/ has been recommended multiple times, so maybe check that out if you're looking for a solution.

#LazyWeb

I remember as a child seeing a documentary about one of the most idiotic projects that the Nazis did:

Some of their senior leadership so firmly believed the Hollow Earth theory that they set up a V2 launcher on a South Pacific island with a view of slingshotting missiles around the Sun and landing them anywhere in Europe or America. It turns out the Sun isn't in the middle of the Earth (who knew?!?) so this didn't work.

It came to mind because another government seems to have a similar attitude to science at the moment.

I can find no online references to this at all. Did the documentary maker make the whole thing up? Did I dream the documentary?

Dear #lazyweb I have a request for some audio and video that I need for a project that I am working on.

I am the editor for an adults-oriented show, the Mosquito and Spider Show. It's based on Nik Caesar's indie comic, Mosquito and Spider. A bit Space Ghost, a bit Ren and Stimpy, and lots of adult humor.

I am in need of a couple of audio and video clips. But as this is an indie project (but the episodes will be sold eventually), I can't justify the $100 a month to Storyblocks for stock footag

#LazyWeb : je suis nouveau propriétaire d’un #vélo pliable avec des roues de 20 pouces ; merci à toustes pour les conseils dans les toots précédents 

Petit souci : il n’a pas de garde-boue ; est-ce que je peux acheter n’importe quel garde-boue générique pour roues de 20 pouces et ça le fera pour l’installer ? Ou bien il faut privilégier la marque constructeur (sachant que le modèle n’est plus commercialisé, donc j’irais au plus près j’imagine) ?

(le reboost évite la boue sur vos montures )

EDIT: we put the "30mm or so of copper" back on (which I had pegged as bluetooth ant) and GPS works now.

Oh #electronics #lazyweb, I have an #askfedi - I'm looking at a garmin gps watch (instinct 2s) it's not getting GPS. We think the GPS antenna has been damaged, thing is I'm not even sure which part is the GPS antenna. There's a couple of things that look like antennas put they're just 30mm or so of copper. I thought a gps antenna hadda be more complicated than that?. Anyone know of a teardown article or vid on garmins, or some tech doco?

Next one for the hive mind. You've suggested Synology but not Qnap. Both are Taiwanese so not US (Good).
Why Synology over Qnap?
If Synology why not the j (the cheaper one)?
With this many questions am I even qualified to embark on this project?!
and yes, I've tagged everyone who chimed in on the HDD questions...

#NAS #ITAdvice #LazyWeb
@leighelse @futuresprog @thomasbeagle @stojg @haydng

Do I remember someone mentioning a simple solution for preventing Mastodon instances from hammering a website when a link is posted?

(Might have slightly broken Mrs E's website, but I think it's recovered now.)

Dear #IoT #Lazyweb (esp Mr @fast_code_r_us) established wisdom (i..e 20 mins of googling and scrolling past the AI Lies) is that the ESP32-CAM camera module is too wimpy to generate native portrait-format JPEG's on-device (either by rotating them or adding magic metadata). Anyone know different?

good evening #WritingCommunity and #LazyWeb

it's 11 pm in the UK and my brainstorming session has to stop because I'm going to bed.

However, you could help me with the following

Aside from magpies, bower birds, and domestic cats, what other animals collect things?

There is a mini mystery to be solved and I want to establish who the culprit might be.

I look forward to catching up on any ideas in the morning.

Thanks.

Anyone have recommendations for a macOS app to manage and organize PDFs? I have somewhere over 1000.

I used to use the Books.app, but the rewrite a few years ago took away a bunch of the organization ability (tagging, metadata editing etc).

I Ideally want something that keeps the PDFs stored in a folder of my choosing and keeps all the metadata in the files themselves. It should have it's own database that is simply an index of those PDFs to make searching/organization quick and easy.

Back in the day I used dia for making flowcharts and decision trees.

For the last couple of years, I had regressed to using .DOT

Today I have a rather complicated chart that I need others to help with, and I don't expect them to understand DOT format, but DIA hasn't had an update in YEARS.

Is it still "fine", or is there a better alternative out there?

Must be open source, installable on Windows and Linux, & preferrably not web based.

http://dia-installer.de/download/index.html

Dumb E-bike question: what do I look for to pull kids in a trailer?

Dear #LazyWeb #FediHerd,

with different disasters - both natural and otherwise - on the rise, I am looking for recommendations on a radio receiver that would be well suited (also) for in such occasions.

What I imagine - but if you thought it through better, do let me know - one would need:
- AM, FM, DAB (I imagine internet radio is most fragile)
- battery - either easy replaceable or rechargeable
- also work without batteries
- good quality and sturdy
- portable
- world coverage would be cool

Dear #lazyWeb & #lazyFedi,

I've built a small model in @OpenSCAD and I'm looking to get it 3D printed. Does anyone have any recommendations for 3D printing services?

I'd like it printed with a decent bit of mechanical performance. It will get wet, it will probably get oily and grimy. Part of it will be under "reasonable" compression load.

Are PCBWay or JLC any good? What about Treatstock? UK or EU preferred.

Personal experiences desired! I know how to Google/DDG.

#LazyWeb: At some point 15-20 years ago, I was reading some Austin’s Group rationale for deprecating ucontext_t and friends, which said it was the only safe way of jumping out of a signal handler but was problematic because people were using it to implement userspace threading and it was not safe to do so because this required synchronising state that was not always visible in userspace. I can no longer find this and it appears not to be in the rationale section for any #POSIX spec I’ve checked. Does anyone have the reference to hand?

Dear #Lazyweb : if you had a small device (25x30mm) that was designed to run off 5v or 3v3, and you learned far too late that one user wants to run it off 12v, what would you do? ( I’ve shoehorned in an AMS1112 in similar circumstances before and that works but is not kind to the environment) Smallest 12->5 reg reasonably efficient and good for 300mA? #IoT #AskFedi #DontSay7805 #OhGodIts7805IsntIt

Is there a #FOSS remote desktop thing where I can connect from my Mac to a Windows PC and can do file transfers and clipboards? Some version of VNC? #LazyWeb