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  • captcha_incorrect@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLMAO
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    16 days ago

    TIL there are definitions for what constitutes an open format, at least in the US (US government).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_file_format

    “An open format is one that is platform independent, machine readable, and made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the re-use of that information”.

    Anyway, saying that a format is not open because of restrictions on its use is in my opinion (some what) equal to saying that something is not FOSS because of the license they use. For example if you use GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3), anyone copying your work must also use the same license.

    It would not be an open format if I had to pay for its use. It would be open if I can use it without cost but have to provide what I use it for with the same restrictions.

    Open as far as I know is not defined by law anywhere, it will be up to opinion in the end. Having a different opinion and thus having a different definition of a word makes communications more difficult, so agreeing on the meaning is preferred.

    It still wouldn’t be an open format.

    What do you think?








  • No changes to the container image, but I had to fiddle with the config file. There is an option (tokenExpirationHours) to set for how long a token is valid, default is 2 hours. I can only find this in the commented example config, setting it to sometime really high like 50 let my friend upload his audiobooks without problems.

    Create a config file and place it somewhere the container can access it. Then add the environment variable FILEBROWSER_CONFIG=/some/path/to/your/config.yaml.

    Here is a snippet from my config:

    server:
      # ...
    auth:
      tokenExpirationHours: 50
      # ...
    userDefaults:
      fileLoading:
        maxConcurrentUpload: 100 # The inferface only shows up to 10 so I don't know if setting this value higher does anything
        uploadChunkSizeMb: 10
    

    tokenExpirationHours is the key to set.




  • I don’t think everyone now anything about Linux, most people don’t know about computers in general.

    This is to me most likely targeted at those (alias Anna) how know someone (alias Bob) how knows about this (or similar). Bob tells Anna to install Linux because Windows 10 EOL, Anna says “no Linux bad because reasons, plz install Windows”, or some such.






  • Debian is great, I love it. But the ease of which I can repair my system when I break it is the main reason to stay. I made an error in my hardware config and I just had to use the previous generation to get back to a working state. After that, I could take my time to fix the issue without the server being down.

    This whole everything is in config files is also very appealing, even though there is a lot to learn to get to the same level of knowledge (https://nix.dev/ helps there).