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I share some of your same views. It would be good if devs using AI would state that on their github or codeberg, etc. However, the immediate, kneejerk, backlash probably snuffs that disclosure. Just look ar the reactions to AI here at Lemmy Selfhosted. AI is a tool. As much as I chafe against regulation, it's a tool that needs some heavy governmental regulation imho, but a tool nonetheless. It's not going away. I'd say there will come a day when we use AI without even knowing it. It will be seamless.
Unfortunately, right now we are stuck in the novelty phase of AI rice cookers and pretty pictures. I think with some regulation, and more fine tuning, it could become a great dev ***assistant***, and has some very real world use cases. I can understand why people don't want a 100% AI coded piece of software where the dev really has no idea what they are doing as far as security. I don't either. That's an obvious. You've got to understand and be able to interpret and understand the results of an AI query. However, if the dev is competent and uses AI as an assistant, I don't see the conundrum.
I also think there are young devs who are excited about contributing to opensource and the selfhosting community. They have the fire, just not the experience. Experience is something you don't have until after you need it.

2026-03-09 16:41:25 CET

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> n ot everything the AI companies try to tell us
Of course not. They are sales. They are trying to maximize the profit potential to their investors. I do believe that if we could get some oversight and regulation, as much as I chafe against regulation....it's necessary, and get past this novelty stage of AI Rice Cookers, I think AI does have a lot of potential.

2026-03-09 14:47:05 CET

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We have IDEs and all kinds of tools to help us code. AI is just another tool. Granted, it's a tool that needs some heavy regulation, but a tool nonetheless.

2026-03-08 23:18:18 CET

I'm not sure anyone shares the same glee I feel when I view all the blocked IPs scrolling by in my pFsense firewall. Suricata does a lot of heavy lifting for sure.
What's your selfhosting guilty pleasure or pleasures?

2026-03-08 20:29:08 CET

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My only real conundrum with AI coding, is totally relying on AI as the dev, then releasing it for public use without really knowing what happens behind the scenes and obviously the security of said app. Now if the dev is using AI as an assistant, and the dev is knowledgeable enough to know that things are operating securely, I'm ok with it.

2026-03-08 20:11:27 CET

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> human-developed
Love the distinction. LOL

2025-11-23 03:23:19 CET

LOL Not really, but boy it has been a day. Started at 7:00 am and I finally resolved (?) the issue. In fact I've got through every last bit of my network, and at this point in the evening, I actually don't have a solid reason why the issue was present. Something in my VPN settings glitched, or something got triggered on pFsense and got hung up....something, something with Tailscale. It wasn't CLoudflare this time. LOL
You ever do so much to a problem that when you 'fix' it, you have no real idea what the fix truly was? You ever have a problem and find all the shit you cobbled together in the name of 'just get it running and back online'? I did, and decided that I would fix that shit too. It took all flippin' day.
You guys that do this for a living....I salute you! jebus crispies!
ETA: 8 bells and all's well today.

2025-07-09 16:45:07 CEST

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Meh. I know everyone is giving OP the piss, but I used to fret about this type of stuff long time ago. LOL That became a job. Then I learned a little more and realized I wasn't being targeted specifically by some hooded specter in a dimly lit basement emphatically announcing 'I'm in!', but that these were bots. Sophisticated bots tho, I'll give them that.

2025-03-28 02:49:23 CET

I've been into computers since around the mid 70s. First one was an Altair 8000. I have been selfhosting for years now, self taught and helped along of course by the selfhosting communities.
Not to speak bad of the dead, but I've really had it up to my back teeth with their bullshit. So I am in search of some self hosting brethren to chum around with. I figured I'd give Lemmy a try. It's kind of confusing, but hopefully I can wrap my 70 year old head around it.
I've seen a few selfhost forum around the fediverse but they all seem to have been abandoned with threads a year or more old, and no movement. So my question, is there a thriving selfhost/homelab type place that is active? Perhaps one of you good souls could point me in the right direction.
Is there any benefit to hosting your own Lemmy and mesh it with the other Lemmey's out there? What benefit would that be? From what I understand, hosting your own instance turns out to just be your own personal blog.
I mean, I understand the fediverse, and decentralization, I'm just having a bit of difficulty getting in with the right, active, group.
TIA