Comment on 'An affront to dignity': The system allowing people with disability to be paid $6 an hour

abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What on earth is your instance name?

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  • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Good question!

    I essentially self-host my own pyfedi instance ( pyfedi is to piefed.social as lemmy is to aussie.zone ) - and thanks to srv.us I do it for free! (Well, I have my own internet connection that's subsidized and run the software on an old spare laptop at home, so still free overall, but srv.us just provides the permanent domain name.)

    Alas, the price of not paying for a persistent and unchanging domain name is not being able to choose the domain name.

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Interesting. I very briefly ran a test Lemmy instance off a raspberry pi I had laying around, but shut it down because I was worried about having an open port on my network and exposing my IP to the world. Then I tried to run an actual Lemmy instance on a proper VPS and ironically had more issues with that than running it at home!

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Domains are pretty cheap but respect on getting it done for free

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      • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I paid $1.80 for my first domain (which was a .lol TLD, a little obscure but worked for me). It’s now renewing at $26, though. The more well known ones are a fair bit more expensive though, and rarely have introductory sales. There are a lot of random weird domains nobody’s ever heard of that only renew for a few bucks a year on going though.

        It wouldn’t work for a Lemmy instance, unless you don’t mind changing instances every year, but you could theoretically get domains for less than a dollar for at least a few decades by constantly changing domains every time you’re due for a renewal, to make the most of the introductory discounts lots of them have

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes we do…

  www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/subminimumwage

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  • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ouch! Yep, I stand corrected.

    Incidentally, might this be the article that you read?
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/08/30/subminimum-wage-disabled-workers/

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s the one!

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