Wait so is this about the app catalog? Because Rebble appears to be MIT-licensed open source, which means Eric can fork it and use it, even not contribute his changes back.

Either way I think we deserve some response from Eric on this.

As someone who’s done cloud infrastructure professionally, this is the right way to make a project for setting up self-hosted applications. Not writing a bunch of bash scripts and putting them behind some web UI. We have well established infrastructure/config-as-code systems that are the gold standard which runs most clouds out there. Ansible is one of them. That’s the right tool for this job and a ton of professionals understand it and therefore can easily contribute improvements for the ones who don’t to use. I’m unfortunatrly invested in SaltStack but I wouldn’t feel worried to deploy a (well reviewed) project built on Ansible. Then slap a web UI on it if you like but that should be another project that hooks uses this one.

This is much needed.

Err, that’s not true on the last fee devices I’ve used, Pixels and a Fairphone. Installing apps from APK files doesn’t require me to enable dev options. In fact trying to install an APK from say Files brings me straight to the permission setting. It’s also per-app. It can be accessed under Settings > Apps > Special app access > Install unknown apps.

Gotta complete the argument:

“And the falling profits would tank your 401k so you’ll have to work till you croak.”

I did a back-of-the-napkin calculation some time ago, dividing the net profit of a a well known American company amongst its workers, equally, instead of distributing it to its shareholders. It appeared that the workers would have been able to save for quite the pension. Mind you that wasn’t a high-margin tech company.

Yes, but self-hosting does whatever the HOWTO, YouTube vid or AI slop the user follows tells them to do. If the user doesn’t know the basics, how could they know what an instruction for activating UPnP does or opening a NAT port does and why that might expose their data? Laymen don’t even understand what making theie stuff publicly accessible means. It might simply mean “Yay I can access my stuff on the go.” 😄

If on the other had the user learns the basics, they can tell when a doc instructs them to do something dangerous and they can do something about it to avoid disaster.

high-performance

You bury your lede by mentioning “your project” at the end.

Basically means the user has to trust that project to do the right thing and be maintained to keep their setup secure.

Same. No WAN ingress without VPN.

“If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting.”

If this is an example of gatekeeping, I think you are misjudging.

Whenever self-hosting there’s a very real risk of exposing your private data to the internet. Potentially a lot more private data than you’d otherwise expose via cloud providers. This risk necessitates a basic understanding of some of the importand bits and how to operate them securely. If not for that, then anything would go.

Understanding docker, reverse proxy, and YAML which is used to configure those is part of probably the simplest way to get to secure self-hosting. I’d add a self-hosted VPN to access local resources. I’m not aware of a magic UI solution that does it all and securely. Docker compose files are very accessible. A couple of those followed by docker compose up -d and you have a basic env up and running.

Generally the lack of knowledge in X or Y doesn’t mean there’s necessarily an easier path than learning X and Y and that you’re being gatekept by being told you have to learn X and Y. Some things are harder than others. Buying Apple Cloud and setting it up is easier than self-hosting Nextcloud. I don’t think that should be the case, but today it is as far as I’m aware.

It works fine in Canada except for the nasty restart loop bug they shipped in the last month’s update.

Same boat. I guess brother in law is gonna have some GN coasters too. 😆

Also the new retro coasters are fabulous:

More likely Shenzhen. Tropical beaches tend to have extradition treaties. :D

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Oh I’m not at all assigning a universally positive morals to the hypothetical researchers or idealism. I think people would do more or less what their reality pushes them to do. In a reality where studying AI leads to the shortest path from working class to early retirement, I expect people to do what that industry does. AI slop generators for example at untold socioeconomic cost. In a different reality where AI is just another research field, like material science, where studying it does not allow for getting rich quick but leads to careers in automation in various other fields, I expect people interested in it to do that. Just like they do in many other fields of research and development. In this sense someone with high degree of state control over private capital and economic planning could do things differrently than what we observe the market doing in the US. I’m not saying that’s what they would do for sure and that things would be amazingly great. The Chinese have stated they are planning to go this route though.

I’ve seen that analysis and it makes sense under the population bubble hypothesis. I think the population problem is overstated though, because it’s actively being solved through automation-driven productivity improvement. Robotics use is exploding in China.

No idea. He’s probably just talking about the production of people with such education. That said, the field of AI R&D is enormous. There are so many opportunities for productivity improvements in healthcare, manufacturing, farming, chemicals, etc. The more AI-trained specialists you got, the more of those you can attempt. If a country has a goal of increasing economic productivity which doesn’t always jive with the free market economy.

China will invade to end their civil war.

I don’t think invasion’s on the cards. There’s too many cons and not many pros. Instead, I think in a TSMC irrelevance scenario, or otherwise lack of demand from the west, Taiwan’s gonna start getting a lot closer to China peacefully if China replaces that demand. China can play a very long game given its socioeconomic infrastructure. That’s my bet at this point. You could very well be right of course.

AI is still not going away in the long term. The present world is just like the early days of the microprocessor. The 6502 was little more than a toy. It is still in all western digital hard drives. The fundamental architecture is still the same in all CPUs. It was the systems we built around them that made them useful. A base inference model is primitive. The AI that owns the future is agentic systems.

Probably. There are definitely useful models that solve problems much better than previous algorithms.

They’re gonna get some finance bros to take on debt to build the DC for them. So the fact that they can’t afford isn’t an immediate problem. If the debt is incurred and spent on the DC however, and there’s no revenue… then the chickens come home to roost.