"The design drew inspiration from the concept of "a piece of cloth"

Do You guys have any tips on how to make a map or something over my services and servers i self-host? I need to make this so i know what im hosting 😅

And of course i need it for posting here on lemmy 😁

Update: I went with draw.io AND PlantUML, which i found when investigating Mermaid :) I think i need to work more with my PlantUML diagram because i have more than 50 containers :S and that is what i need to list and go thru.

See pictures in comments

I've been rebuilding all my content hosted on a Synology NAS + Proxmox installed on a NUC, and moving it to a dedicated box with beefy/brutal stats. I was messing around with Proxmox and unprivileged LXC containers for a while, using a ZFS pool on the host, and passing though using mount points while mapping the users in the container to groups on the host. It was going pretty well except I had (what I thought) was insanely odd and inconsistent behavior. In summary, in the same LXC, I could pass through two mount points with the same users and permissions (etc.) and one would show up mapped correctly, and the other wouldn't.

I gave up on that approach after a few unhelpful responses of "you're doing it wrong." That may be the case, but I was more focused on why the issue was inconsistent rather than just failing.

I'm now running an Unraid VM, with my HBA (and USB stick) passed through, lots of RAM, and an 8-pack of processors. I thought Unraid was pretty slick when I ran the trial a while ago, and was kind of unimpressed with it's performance in this configuration. After getting all the drives configured correctly (made the mistake of mixing up "array" and "pool" after my initial foray into zfs), and weeding out three bad drives from ServerPartDeals, I had a stable array, all my LXC containers configured on Proxmox, NFS going over a dedicated, local bridge (10.10 for the WIN!), and my data moved over from the old NAS, I was pretty happy.

During the whole process, I had been watching/monitoring lots of odd behavior on Proxmox, with Unraid, and with my data transfers. My Pihole instance was going crazy with load averages, even though it was reserved for the LXCs on the host, rather than for the whole house, and the IO pressure stall was over 90% constantly. Given that I had several bad disks out of what I ordered from the supplier, I thought I was dealing with some crazy stuff. I was taking down the LXCs and VM one-by-one, trying to find where that stall pressure was coming from.

As I was troubleshooting, I was wondering if it was maybe IO pressure on the host OS disks (NVMe drives directly attached to the motherboard, zfs mirrored), and did a quick "zpool list." Hmm. That's funny. Why is my old destroyed (or so I thought) pool still showing up??? When I first switched to Unraid, I exported my pool (doom-pool) and then imported it in Unraid after I passed through the HBA. After deciding that ZFS was nice, but not necessary, I destroyed the pool in Unraid, and reconfigured for a standard xfs array. It looked like, somehow, the export of the pool, import, and destroy did something strange, and the drives were showing up as online and in use on the host still. I tried to kill the pool again on the host, and everything would sit and spin.

I ended up shutting down the host and needing to cut power (zfs services were hung for about 12 minutes before I decided it was ok), and when I rebooted, the old pool was gone from the host, and (holy moly) everything was working better. The IO pressure was gone. The CPU spikes and lags were gone. Pihole wasn't going nuts any more.

The one thing I haven't tried yet is to do some disk-to-disk copies on Unraid. This was one of those places where I saw aberrant behavior, and transfer limited to 120MB/s (I have 14TB SAS 12Gb drives in my array), but I don't have any heavy files I need to move. Right now I'm just happy that it wasn't more bogus hardware, or a problem with my HBA or motherboard or something. Anywho, just wanted to share.

Hello selfhosted community,

I need a privacy respecting alternative for an Apple AirTag. I recently bought my first expensive bike and i would like to know where it is, as it will be used by multiple people.

I know gps service costs something and I am willing to pay for it but I do not want any location data ending up somewhere it shouldn’t.

Thank you.

Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, spent 73 days in ICE detention, where he faced fears of deportation and execution.

He was here legally as a refuge, showed that he was here legally, and still spent 73 days in jail.

Ayman Soliman speaks after release from jail

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38655788

Tenfingers sharing protocol

To test out the tenfingers protocol in a real world use case, I made a small html/js entrypoint for tenfingers (.10f) files.

Security is of course a concern with downloading things inside a javascript on a web page, so there are restrictions on how it can be used.

If you want to try it out, and give some feedback I'd be quite happy!

To do so:

Go to this link where you can download the html & js code (3 files) and a tenfingers test link.

Put them all in a temporary folder, and open the download.html file in your favorite browser, from there you can 'load' the 10f file.

The code is slow, does not give much details of what's happening (hit F12 and check the 'console' tab (Firefox, other browsers might vary) or just check CPU usage (decryption is slow) so please be patient.

And please please report back, especially if something or nothing seems to work!

Cheers & thanks!

/Valmond

To test out the tenfingers protocol in a real world use case, I made a small html/js entrypoint for tenfingers (.10f) files.

Security is of course a concern with downloading things inside a javascript on a web page, so there are restrictions on how it can be used.

If you want to try it out, and give some feedback I'd be quite happy!

To do so:

Go to this link where you can download the html & js code (3 files) and a tenfingers test link.

Put them all in a temporary folder, and open the download.html file in your favorite browser, from there you can 'load' the 10f file.

The code is slow, does not give much details of what's happening (hit F12 and check the 'console' tab (Firefox, other browsers might vary) or just check CPU usage (decryption is slow) so please be patient.

And please please report back, especially if something or nothing seems to work!

Cheers & thanks!

/Valmond

TLDR: A deep dive into financial filings suggests OpenAI is losing an estimated $12.6 billion per quarter, revealing an unsustainable AI bubble. Major tech companies are spending more on AI infrastructure like GPUs and data centers than they make in profit, with these costs now appearing as massive depreciation charges. In this context, OpenAI's recent request for US government support looks less like innovation and more like a desperate plea for a bailout.

The terrifying financial reality behind the AI hype train was revealed by a footnote in Microsoft's recent earnings report. On page 11 of Microsoft's latest 10-Q filing, a tiny note reveals that the company took a $4.1 billion loss from its investment in OpenAI in just the last quarter. Since Microsoft owns a 32.5% stake in OpenAI's for-profit arm, you can do the math yourself. If a one-third stake equals a $4.1B loss, then OpenAI itself lost roughly $12.6 billion in a single quarter. That's not a typo.

The crazy part is that such staggering losses don't even include the biggest cost which is GPUs from Nvidia. OpenAI is clever with accounting. They don't buy these cards directly because that's a massive capital expenditure. Instead, partners like Microsoft buy them and house them in their Azure data centers. OpenAI then "rents" them out.

So, if you look at Microsoft's cash flow, they spent $19.4 billion on property and equipment last quarter. But dig deeper into the notes, and you find the actual cost of their server and data center build-out was $31 billion which is more than their entire net income for the quarter ($27.7B)! They use financing tricks in an attempt to hide the full amount from the main cash flow statement.

This isn't just a Microsoft problem. The video shows the same pattern across Big Tech:

• Amazon spent over $35 billion on Capex last quarter, double their profit.
• Google's capex so far this year is $63.6 billion, about two-thirds of their profit.
• Meta has more than doubled their spending to $18.8 billion.

This is where the bubble becomes visible. All the spending on servers and GPUs now has to be "depreciated" as its cost is recognized over time. For these tech giants, the "Depreciation and Amortization" line item has exploded, now representing ~50% of their profits and growing at over 100% annually. This is a recurring cost that will hit their earnings for years, whether AI is profitable or not. And right now, it isn't. The market for expensive AI subscriptions is limited, and ad-supported models would ruin the user experience. They also have to compete with open Chinese models.

With losses in the tens of billions and no path to profitability, OpenAI recently published a proposal for a "classified Stargate initiative" and its CFO reportedly asked the government for loan guarantees, essentially framing OpenAI as too big to fail.

Sam Altman then went into damage control on Twitter, issuing a series of confusing clarifications that basically said, "We don't want loan guarantees for us... but we'd love it if the government built the infrastructure and ensured the supply chain for us."

The takeaway here is that the companies at the forefront of the AI hype train are now coming to the government with a begging bowl, because the economics of their own business model don't add up.

https://archive.is/cWZHd

China has introduced a visa that will allow young foreign researchers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to move there without having to secure a job first.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/world/p/401767/carnivorous-death-ball-sponge-is-team-s-oddest-deep-sea-find

The unusual creature lurks more than two miles (3.2km) deep in a trench in the Southern Ocean.

A white marble cross marks the final resting place of Julius W Morris, private first class in the US army, who died in April 1945.

But at the cemetery where he lies in Margraten, a village in the south of the Netherlands, a new battle has begun over the quiet removal of two display panels about African American soldiers, like Morris.

Relatives, local communities, politicians and historians have called for a permanent memorial to African American servicemen after it emerged that displays commemorating black soldiers had been removed.

The move has sparked shock in the Netherlands, with critics of the removal, including a community that cares for the graves, demanding answers about why the black American soldiers have all but vanished from displays.

Germany’s chief federal prosecutor has announced the arrest of a German-Polish national with alleged neo-Nazi ties who is accused of calling on the darknet for the assassination of top politicians and seeking donations for bounties on their heads.

More than 20 people were on the list of potential targets, including former chancellors Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz as well as judges and ex-government ministers, local media reported.

On his platform Assassination Politics, the 49-year-old suspect, identified only as Martin S, is alleged to have published personal data of prominent people as well as “charge sheets” and “death sentences”.

The suspect, who was arrested late on Monday in the western city of Dortmund, where he lives with his family, faces charges including financing terrorism, inciting others to commit a serious act of violence that endangers the state and committing the dangerous dissemination of personal data.

link to model https://huggingface.co/WeiboAI/VibeThinker-1.5B

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Donald Trump became the first sitting president in nearly a half-century at a regular-season NFL game, attending the Washington Commanders’ 44-22 loss to the visiting Detroit Lions on Sunday.

There were loud boos from some spectators in the stands when Trump was shown on the videoboard late in the first half — standing in a suite with House Speaker Mike Johnson — and again when the president was introduced by the stadium announcer at halftime.

The jeering continued while Trump read an oath for members of the military to recite as part of an on-field enlistment ceremony during the break in the game.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52852111

COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.

but now the E.U. is beset by internal problems. Its primary industrial economy, Germany, is suffering from Chinese competition, and with the rise of right-wing parties, resistance has emerged to the ambitious climate policies of the European Commission. One symptom of these internal troubles was the E.U.’s embarrassing failure to agree its own mitigation targets before the informal deadline of September 30.

The United States, meanwhile, is trying to force its partner countries to buy more U.S. oil and gas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52852111

COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.

but now the E.U. is beset by internal problems. Its primary industrial economy, Germany, is suffering from Chinese competition, and with the rise of right-wing parties, resistance has emerged to the ambitious climate policies of the European Commission. One symptom of these internal troubles was the E.U.’s embarrassing failure to agree its own mitigation targets before the informal deadline of September 30.

The United States, meanwhile, is trying to force its partner countries to buy more U.S. oil and gas.