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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

In some cases you trade the purchase history information for the 2% cash back or whatever.

You can also use a service like privacy.com to get credit card numbers for online services for a modicum of privacy.

Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

I had friends who were addicted to ingress even though they knew it was vacuuming up their usage data, years before Pokemon Go

Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

More like they can learn what the corner of the bank looks like

Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Also Obligatory: "You can pay for something and still be the product"

Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 hours ago

Yes, and if you follow people you're interested in. There is an account called https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows which posts themed lists of interesting accounts. I followed Cory Doctorow because I knew he was on Mastodon, and then followed a lot of people who posted interesting posts that came across my feed from people I didn't follow yet. There's no algorithm so you discover stuff more naturally as people you follow share stuff, and you decide to follow that too

Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system in c/technology@lemmy.world
Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Every day that I play Pokemon Go, I'm aware that I'm making a Faustian bargain for motivation to take a walk in exchange for my privacy.

Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah I don't know why, I never really got twitter. But Mastodon was addictive for me. I always want to see what people are posting

Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Not right now, except that it's going to follow the same cycle as everything else: good to users at first, good to shareholders at the end.

Build an account on Mastodon if you want to escape the cycle and tangle with different problems ;)

It really is nice there; people seem to like talking to each other about varied things, but it is smaller than Twitter so you may need to be on mastodon for some things and Bluesky for others you can't get on mastodon

"What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, and it could be a good opportunity to share some of the feedback that usually gets commented here :) in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What if the whole survey is just a ploy for donations

The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago

Nothing, and it's already run by web3 folk

Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Like making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah. They should be building new nuclear for existing datacenters.

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Looking for feedback on simplifying self hosting (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

Hi all,

I started self hosting nextcloud only. Now I have a domain name and I would like to selfhost more services and websites on subdomains without having to open up more ports on my router.

  1. Is it reasonable to use a reverse proxy server to avoid opening up more ports?
  2. Can I use a reverse proxy manager that simplifies SSL certs, etc?
  3. Can I put the HTTP/HTTPS services behind a reverse proxy, behind a free cloudflare DNS proxy to mask my IP address?
  4. And put other non-http services on the real IP address.
  5. Will all of this be more prone to failure and slow compared to forwarding 443 and 80 directly to my nextcloud server?

The other services I would like to eventually host and have accessible externally are

  • Jitsi
  • Mastodon instance (hoping to make some bots that mirror other social media to bring them into Mastodon)
  • blog website
  • Veilid maybe
  • OpenVPN over TCP on 443 (to get through restrictive firewalls on e.g. school wifi networks that don't whitelist domains)
  • Synology to Synology backup.

I'm hoping to use Yunohost on a RPI to simplify hosting a lot of these things.

Here's my plan where I'm looking for feedback. Am I missing any steps? Are my assumptions correct?

  1. Install reverse proxy on yunohost; configure cloudflare DNS and freedns.afraid.org to point towards the reverse DNS server.
  2. Configure the reverse DNS to redirect various subdomains to
  • the raspberry pi running nextcloud
  • the other raspberry pi running openvpn
  • the Synology running the backup service
  • services running on the yunohost raspberry pi

I have not been able to find good documentation about how to configure the yunohost reverse proxy, or how to deal with HTTP headers, or have correct certificates on all the subdomains as well as the reverse proxy. Looking for advice on how to move forward and or simply this setup.

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