My self hosted badges of honor
from johnnixon@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 Feb 02:17
https://lemmy.world/post/42484756
from johnnixon@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 Feb 02:17
https://lemmy.world/post/42484756
Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what’s this or that sticker. I’m impressed when they can pick one out on their own.
FOSS source is here.
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These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?
I got them from Etsy. They all came with borders so I had to 3D print a jig to get the cuts right with a razor knife. They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.
This is what drunk dads say about their 1 year old son who’s just learning to walk.
edit: FYI, this shop is OP’s shop
Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn’t name (or knew I’d got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn’t Commodore 64).
Ugh… just say you made them if is your shop… this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, even if the product looks nice…
Why though? Just curious
It reeks of “manufactured organic content” if that makes sense. This may not have been OPs intention, but it kinda checks those marks:
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth because this is what modern advertising is and I prefer to have full transparency. A disclosure in the post would have been nice. Again, I’m not saying this was OP’s intention, it just hits the same points.
I see.
So you don’t have an issue with it being etsy but the intention/direction of the post?
You’re not wrong that modern advertising works like that. In my case I haven’t shown these anywhere and just got my first batch in yesterday and was so happy with them I wanted people who would actually appreciate the comment to see. No links. No cart. Just “I’m proud of this”. If someone went and bought some hex stickers from RedBubble after seeing this, good. If they found mine, good on them for tracking them down. On the FOSS chain of thought, I think, at least for the FOSS stickers, these should be on GitHub or a self hosted web server as whatever creative commons means don’t sell my files/prints. That would take a day to spin up and might let people print them themselves if they’re so inclined.
Why did you lie then? A user asked if you made them. You could have just said „yes, I made them, and if someone wants them, I also sell them“
Ya, mods! This is clearly thinly veiled self-promotion. Can we atleast remove the store links? I bet they posted them using a dummy account too
Out of interest by “selfhosting” steam are you running a steam cache or just using it? Or is there something else I’m missing lol
I did self host a steamcache years back but no, its one of the few “normie” stickers but few people I know that would even recognize that. I also don’t self host the Zigbee protocol, and I gave up OPNsense for Ubitquiti 2 years ago so no, that’s not self hosted either. I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
And yet I see no pornhub sticker…
Should be a stash sticker if we’re selfhosting
What is stash?
Plex for porn
Sigh looks like I’m spinning up something else.
github.com/stashapp/stash
You can use jellyfin for this 👀
Not everyone is a degenerate
Not in this tab anyway…
FTFY ;-P
Not everyone watched pornography
I like the idea of this. Perhaps not on a laptop, but small hexagon badges that show some sort is relation to something. Favorite media, projects, software you’re good with, coding languages you a comfortable with, etc. A simple snapshot into someone that can be identified easily, what a great conversation starter.
I’d love if there was a Gravatar-style thing you could choose hexes like these to display as a digital badge. Even better if it was self-hosted.
Per your suggestion I put the high res files up, self hosted, for anything that is FOSS. I guess someone can pull one of those for their Gravatar that way. I thought of a way to use this art style for conference badges but the detail is already small at a 2" hex that it wouldn’t be practical.
It must be a lot of work to self-host DigitalOcean.
Also Steam… i mean it’s a LOT of games!
I’m proud that I got enough users to justify moving that server out of my closet. You think I should replace it with ceph?
you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?
No, but I refuse to pay my VPS for GPU time so I self host Gemma3:27B with RAG on Ollama over tailnet to make a choose your own adventure medical protocol simulator. I’m sure Claude could give me some context breathing room but not at those token prices. I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server and that would maybe justify the self hosted butthole.
But you don’t currently? So it doesn’t.
Exactly, so… why the Claude sticker? Seemed like a cool concept to me tbh; till I read the comments and realized multiple things up there aren’t actually being selfhosted 🤷♂️
Edit: and this is clearly self-promotion (AD) sharing their own etsy links. Shameful. Just be honest and you would have gotten a better reaction
these ones: www.etsy.com/shop/SoHexy ?
I think I’m in love. They have such great variety, and the artstyle is so neat. And I love stickers because they are such great conversation starters.
~$5 for a single sticker??
I was thinking you could buy a pack for $5 but power sticker is ridiculous
I am sure you mean per sticker but the typo is hilarious :D
I wonder is OP the one selling them? 🤔
EDIT: Turns out that OP is the one selling them.
If you don’t want to pay, print them for yourself.
They do look really nice. Don’t get me wrong, these are lovely stickers. But say I want 10 of these, it would be $50, which I am not going to pay for stickers, no matter how nice they are.
Maybe put them in packs? 10 for $20 for example? Something like that.
I appreciate the feedback. I figured out how to fit 5 on a 6x6 sticker. So that’s five stickers for $12. I can also fit 4x that on a big sheet, so it’ll be 20 stickers for $25. I just need to find a group of 20. The downside is that Etsy doesn’t do volume discounts, I have to build the multipack myself. I’m also trying to figure out how free shipping works to take that off larger orders.
I get a 502 bad gateway on the domain :(
Fixed. I don’t know why the node went down but I forgot to put it on the HA list. It’ll be more resilient now.
TIL nano editor has its own logo
Old HA logo but neat
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.
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Hehe, why do you have a butthole next to Tux?
I think it’s Claude, the LLM from Anthropic.
Yeah, that’s what I said :)
I see Trilium!
No, hardest part was obsidian livesync
Setting up self hosted live sync was super easy. Fixing it every time it brakes is a huge pain in the ass.
I am so thanlful for that japanese person that made it, but it is so fiddly! At least for me with the cors, the couchdb administration and all. Did you use some other backend?
Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?
Edit: yup, it’s made of AI images
This is not an AI-generated pic, it’s a photo taken with a real camera. The logos, however, are hexagons divided into 24 triangles each, and these triangles contain often thematically related (e. g. lions for Brave) photos or photorealistic AI images (the info I found online does not state either way) cropped to best correspond to what the triangle would contain if it just had the original logo. Basically, that corner of the whale surrounded by white was taken from a face photo (or AI pic).
Fair. It’s not just that one though. I notice a lot of weird things there.
Looking closely at Perl, it seems there are photorealistic (hard to tell if AI) photos toned blue, abstract shapes that might be edited/vectorized photos, and in the bottom right there’s a bead necklace that’s so unshapely it’s an AI giveaway. Well spotted, it was indeed made using AI-generated images!
Look at the Jellyfin one. Why is there something breaking the logo from the right? Lots of little things.
Did you look closely at Jellyfin? The things in the dark are OK, they add flavor, which was an artistic choice − the problem is unrealistic silhouettes of people & animals in one mosaic piece. Also, it’s rotated on the laptop, and so is Debian.
The hand and face (bottom right) on Gimp is way more awful.
The GIMP one is the worst
In that way, yes, but the logos that feature small text (Groovy, Lua) didn’t turn out well at all.
Groovy straight up looks like shit. I thought Lua looked okay if you stood 10 feet from the screen and squinted. Even the moon, in recognition of its Brazilian Portuguese roots was included. Understand the intended use is a 2 inch tall sticker so fine details should be lost. It’s the forest, not the trees.
You’re right, at that size the AI is not very concerning either.
The second “S” in “FOSS” is “software”. You did not publish software, just its output: bitmap assets needed to print the stickers. Thanks for CC-licensing your creative work but source would mean showing what’s under the hood. We don’t know how you sourced the images used in each triangular tile: generated to best correspond with AI? Matching pieces from Wikimedia Commons photos?
Edit: Look closely at Arch for example. It’s clearly just the logo placed in a hexagon, approximated by a mosaic of 24 triangles with AI images of differing quality. Is that snow or whipped cream? How can PCB traces be as blurry as watercolor and go nowhere? At least they’re topical: for Arch the prompt was probably “mountain OR architecture OR arch OR technology”.
Presumably, the process for each tile is this:
To consider this open source, I’d expect you to at least post the scripts you used in steps 3 and 5. To consider this good open source, it should contain a guide detailing this process, best with examples. I’d expect the AI part will be “bring your own model” but you could tell which one you used and its settings.
The idea is creative and “human” enough for me not to condemn it. “FOSS” or not though, you should disclose use of AI, especially since you’re selling the printed stickers.
Since I see both on here,
Trilium > Obsidian
I’ve used both but really like jotty…
I don’t get how you “self-host” some of these things like Linux, Ubuntu, Android, and Raspberry Pi. Are you saying you installed them on your computer or am I missing something?
I only have one laptop, so not every sticker is a self hosted software. Others are things I use and enjoy.
What is the “LL” monogram in the second one? I crudely recreated it to reverse-image-search but got no results.
<img alt="" src="https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/db18a4d8-3d34-4036-95d8-c5bf0003d0c8.png">
Something entirely not tech related but I love the investigative spirit
Do your and your partner’s names both start with L?
It isn’t but that’s a great idea. Mosaic of photos of us to make our initials. You’re a genius.
Not a genius. This thing is called a monogram, the most basic logo design. Used mostly by couples, law firms and couples’ law firms.
Here’s the list of logos row by row so you don’t have to awkwardly ask what they are
Steam (not FOSS)*
“LL” (likely OP’s own design, not a FOSS project)*
Zigbee
Obsidian (not FOSS)*
Brave
Protonpass
Tailscale*
Home Assistant
Raspberry Pi (not open HW)*
Ubiquiti (not open HW)*
Android (not really FOSS)*
Signal
DigitalOcean (service)*
Ubuntu
Linux
Claude (not FOSS)*
Proxmox
Nextcloud
Jellyfin (rotated)
Trilium
Nginx
Tabby
Bash
Debian (rotated)
Docker
NodeJS
Python
HomeBox
XPipe
PiHole
Prometheus
Grafana
* not in gallery of printable sticker images
I didn’t feel that Tailscale was FOSS but I’ll add that one to the gallery. I swore I checked Debian when I stuck it so I must have rotated the swirl in production pre-hexing. AOSP could replace Android but a) I’m not running an AOSP device and 2) their current logo isn’t that shape friendly. But I might try anyway.
Thanks, those give me ideas for making more operator logos like these (No AI but mostly CC0 (public domain) because my creative input is questionable, some are just tracing of scaled-down images with a few touch-ups; I’m not too concerned about sharing non-FOSS trademarks under a permissive licence at such low res)