Salamander

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: December 19th, 2021
  • Salamander@mander.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Should AI images be copyrightable?
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    7 months ago

    Sure.

    If I make my own AI image generator and create a nice image with it, or use some AI engine that gives me full ownership of the output, I can choose to share it online with whatever license I want to share it with. I don’t see why the regular copyright rules for digital images and photographs would not hold… If someone shares their AI creation online and wants others to share with attribution, or not share at all, what is wrong with that?

    I can take a ton of photos of objects with my phone, upload them to Flickr, and they are all copyrighted. That doesn’t mean that other’s can simply take similar photos if they wish to do so. The same with AI. One can decide whether to share with attribution, pay someone to let them use it, or to generate the image themselves using AI. It does not seem like a problem to me.

  • Salamander@mander.xyzOPtoSelf Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•How have you optimized your Pi-hole?
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    1 year ago

    Thank you - that makes sense!

    I think I understand why this is done now. Most HTTP requests are hidden by the SSL encryption, and the keys to decrypt it are client-specific. So, if one wants to block ads at the network level without needing to get the SSL keys of every client that connects to the network, then this is the most specific amount of information that you can provide the PiHole with. The HTTP blocking needs to be set up in a client-specific manner, and that’s why they work well as browser extensions.

  • Salamander@mander.xyzOPtoSelf Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•How have you optimized your Pi-hole?
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    1 year ago

    Thanks!

    Adblocking plugins aren’t limited by this and can filter the actual content and HTTP requests made by the browser.

    Why is this the case? What rules do Adblock plugins use that allow them to determine that something that is being served is an ad? I understand from what you are saying that Adblock will block on the basis of the HTTP requests instead of filtering at the DNS level - do ads come with specific HTTP headers that are not processed by the pi-hole DNS server and thus can’t be used for filtering? I don’t fully understand yet the details of how the two ad-blocking mechanisms operate, so their differences are not obvious to me.

  • Salamander@mander.xyztoSelf Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•[Question] How do you handle offsite backups for your setup?
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    1 year ago

    EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood this question ~~ I have a raspberry pi connected to a 1 TB SSD. This has the following cron job:

    00 8 * * * /usr/bin/bash /home/user/backup/backup.sh

    And the command in backup.sh is:

    rsync --bwlimit=3200 -avHe ssh user@instance-ip:/var/www/mander/volumes /home/user/backup/$(date | awk '{print $3"-" $2 "-"$6}')

    In my case, my home network has a download speed of 1 Gbps, and the server has an upload speed of 50 Mbps, so I use -bwlimit=3200 to limit the download to 25.6 Mbps, and prevent over-loading my server’s bandwidth.

    So every morning at 8 am the command is run and a full backup copy is created.

    It seems that you have a different problem than me. In your case, rather than doing a full copy like me, you can do incremental backups. The incremental backup is done by using rsync to synchronize the same folder - so, instead of the variable folder name $(date | awk ‘{print $3"-" $2 “-”$6}’), you can simply call that instance_backup. You can copy the folder locally after syncronizing if you would like to keep a record of backups over a period of a few days.

    On a second thought, I would also benefit from doing incremental backups and making the copies locally after synchronizing… ~~

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