Self-Host Weekly (11 September 2026)

Daniel Brendel released a virtual pet game that’s a cross between Minecraft and Tamagotchi

pixelated, adorable virtual pet game © 2025 by Daniel Brendel

last commit on Nov 30, 2025

huh?

https://api.github.com/repos/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game/events

aah.

I don’t think this is the case here, but now I wonder whether rewriting git history dates to be more spread out and go further back before uploading an AI slop project to github is a viable way to appear more legitimate.

Idea: if we run two servers, we could count as 199.9998% !!! /s

Why not just give hours/minutes per year/month??

I have no intuitive feeling for what 0.078% is, but if it says: “average downtime of 44 minutes per month” or “7h per year” it’s clear as day.

ok, clearly I don’t understand the federation protocol, because I thought if you can see/interact with the instance (like in the @ after the username), you can find out who they federate with.

Can you leave comments from your non public isntance on communities from other instances ?

If I remember hearing it correctly, some lemmy instance admins defederate by proxy. Meaning: they go look at your instance, see who you federate with (even if you do it passively by not blacklisting) and then defederate you if you federate with any instances they don’t like.

(And tbh, I’d do the same, but it doesn’t seem like OP would like that)

I feel like it’s less hassle to do an android apk then to make it run in termux

I don’t know why besstiolle is getting downvoted when they are correct.

When people say that there is very little of something the natural way is “hardly any rain” for example. So if you invert the meaning from “any” to “none”/“no” the whole sentence means the opposite.

I guess it could be explained as follows (but I am no ethymologist, just thinking aloud here, may be wrong):

“hardly any rain” means that there is so little of it, it is hard to even say that there is any rain.

If your friend says to you “There is no rain” and you go outside and it pouring, you could say 'Hardly “no rain!” ’ As a kind of mocking comment highlighting that it’s the complete opposite of no rain. It is very hard to call is “no rain” when it’s raining so much.

Hope this helps!

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I’ve been working on this

You or an LLM? Cause the image is clearly generated.

50% room humidity.

40% when it’s hot and sunny, 60% when it’s cold and rainy.

I just dry the filament before printing in a filament dryer. Prints fine.

I found more variety in print success and quality when printing filament from different manufacturers then from my varying room humidity. Cheap noname filament often printed like garbage, no matter it’s dryness.

When you’ve got a LLM, the natural inclination is to think, “I don’t need to do any tedious mental work—I can just let the machine do it”.

For me it’s a bit different. I think: “Hurray I can focus on doing all the fun mental work - and let it do the tedious typing”

I give it architecture, UML diagrams and specs, unit tests for the most important functions (all written by me by hand). Then I let the LLM do the typing and read the output.

Just wanted to add some differentiation to your statement. I’m sure there are lots of people out there that fit your description.

I’m in a shitty place in regards to LLMs tbh, on one hand I can’t stand all the negatives (rich elite stealing and exploiting, shitty planet destroying companies, AI “art”, people getting dumber and more radicalized etc. etc.). On the other hand, I’m a lazy dev and I hate typing, but I also can’t make a career move to architecture rn. I just love solving hard problems with my brain and LLM lets me do that without having to grind through the parts I hate where my adhd is making me want to kms.

I got into SE because I had fun with it in my free time. But work is not fun. Since LLMs I’m enjoying my job (read: corpo slave hamster wheel of endless shoveling money from the pockets of other people to my boss and my landlord) for the first time in my life.

where did I say

Do you understand the meaning of the word “exaggeration”?

To recap:

I said: “LLM translations have all the same political and ethical issues as coding”

And you replied “No they don’t”

But then you went ahead writing paragraphs on their impact on the environment… which is THE ethical issue, regardless of the copyright issues or the potential benefits.

luddite

mmmmh suuuureee

We’re talking past each other so let me point your attention to what I mean by exaggerating a bit:

You’re saying it’s ok to burn the world (which is one of the ethical problems with llms) so that a small fraction of hairless apes feels better.

Well, if you don’t skip to the changes, you can see that they say: “the rationale is more about politics and ethics than anything else”

And LLM translations have all the same political and ethical issues as coding, so I don’t think thats gonna be allowed.

This also forbids AI assisted code review

It’s worded in a convoluted way, but they explicitly allow it. In the chapter A matter of interpretation they say:

“Moreover, the use of AI for purposes other than co-authoring code, tickets, emails, and so on, is discouraged but not prohibited. If you use LLMs privately to review your work, to ask questions of, to perform security analysis, and so on, and then write original code to push to SourceHut, your use-case is aligned with our policy.”

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dammn perverts those devs!

I went to school in germany, we had a generic computer class for a semester, where we started with basic controls left, right mouse click, middle click to close apps, tripple click to select a row of text, f2 for rename, f10 create new folder, deleting files, installing and uninstalling software etc.

And even here Linux diverges. Middle click pastes your clipboard and only rarely do apps like pdf viewers support tripple clicking.

Later we learned photoshop, word, excel, powerpoint, internet explorer and how to use the powerful features in google search, like quotes, +, -, site: etc. And I must say, it proved to be extrenely useful. I constantly see people around me struggle with those tasks and I’m thankful for my school teaching me.

I moved all my PCs to Linux ~5 years after graduating and it sure was a long grindy struggle of frustration and accepting bad compromises. I tried using gimp for university assignments and it was a huge PITA. Touched a mac for a week and it was equally full of friction to learn and work with.

What I want to say is - I’m sure the re-learning is a similar struggle in either direction. So if you want to prepare students for the real life, it makes sense to learn the software they will most likely encounter in their real worklife. I’m sure most polish design companies use photoshop and illustrator on windows or mac systems instead of gimp and those school students will have a harder time getting into it.

As long as 90% of businesses use it on their desktop it makes sense to teach. Using windows and the common software (photoshop, excel etc.) on it is basically a life skill at this point in time.

I agree with your premise though.

I guess it could be argued the computer proficiency skill is transferable (from Linux at school to Windows at work) as long as there is a significant overlap in the available software, desktop presentation, workflow and control conventions.

One example where it for sure doesn’t work is gimp to photoshop. If you wanna know why, go dig out instructions for how to draw a circle in each one. Or try recreating one of the many effects from PS in GEGL. - The workflow is so fundamentally different that if you know one software, it will actually hinder you learning the other, because your intuition will mislead you and you’ll be constantly frustrated (which actively hinders learning. There are studies on that)

How do you verify that nobody is holding the original developer at gunpoint making them sign their compromised software with their real key?

The point I’m trying to make: At some point, you have to trust something which you can not feasibly verify.

For most cases the github repo and an occasional look on a relevant newsfeed is good enough. If it’s not good enough for yours, the first question still stands.