Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 hour ago:
I like Lemmy, but it’s not decentralised enough to avoid things like this.
I think it’s inevitable right now, even if it’s a lot rarer than it was during the great exodus from reddit. You’re reliant entirely on the goodwill of volunteers.
User accounts are unique only to an instance, and there’s no way to move them. If we want to avoid this, having multiple homes on an account would be a good first step. You probably don’t want them going everywhere (as that would need login details, which while hashed wouldn’t be immune to bad actors getting them). But making a new account elsewhere isn’t hard, it’s just annoying to lose your history.
Any lost communities are much harder to replace. Links get broken, etc. You can’t move those either, so have to make them anew and convince people to update any links before they vanish.
Honestly not sure if Lemmy’s approach is a good one or not. Recently we’ve had transphobic users from one instance harassing people on another, and without things like IP addresses, it’s hard to stop that. Your own instance also has to host a bunch of stuff from other places, and you can end up with illegal content being copied to your own hardware if hosting an instance. Maybe it should be on the instances to host communities, and on the clients to gather things from multiple servers.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 5 hours ago:
When it’s just you, on your own PC, and you don’t value your time, it’s free.
Just from the license fees here, we’re talking what, roughly 2000 employees?
At that scale, you’re going to be paying for support. Whether through a third party, or employing enough people to fix all the things that can go wrong. And not everyone in IT knows enough about Linux to fix broken boxes.
I once recommended Linux for our customer servers, to be installed hundreds of miles away. And what I found was that employees who knew Linux (and specifically how to fix it when it fucks up) were more expensive than the trained monkeys we sent out to fix things, who at least knew how to copy data off it and reinstall Windows/slap a new drive in it, and that issues were my fault for recommending it. It was also easier to talk customers through some settings in Windows if it falls off the network somehow, than it was to deal with getting them to type things into a command line.
And that’s before you even consider servers and where your stuff all goes. With MS it goes into “the cloud”, and you don’t need to worry too much about anything other than paying for it. With your own hardware, you very much need to worry because if you don’t, then one day it won’t be there any more.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 8 hours ago:
Ain’t no such thing as free.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 day ago:
Don’t worry. They’ll get a big discount on licenses and swap right back again.
- Comment on OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men 2 days ago:
The Tates sell their “be a man” coaching package. The message from the top of this bullshit, is that there is something you can do, we have the secrets, now give us money.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 3 days ago:
If it’s on a billionaire’s computer, and they can read it, then yes. They’ll sell it, no questions asked.
E2E encrypted data is probably OK, as long as that person didn’t save it somewhere and upload it to a cloud backup.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 3 days ago:
Aw naw! They’re comin’ from Bradford!
- Comment on Avocado 3 days ago:
Hey, who’s been using my avocado scented soap?
- Comment on The city is so lively 3 days ago:
So Paris will look like this, but more on fire.
- Comment on Sure.. 4 days ago:
Sorry, I heard the first sentence then was thinking how to reply while waiting for the noise to stop.
- Comment on Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone? 5 days ago:
A spitewank. I think we’ve just invented a new word. I’ll contact Mirriam-Webster at once!
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 5 days ago:
The CSS then. They just have a problem aligning it.
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 5 days ago:
I was thinking Haley Joel Osment in about 25 years.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 5 days ago:
Phantom Liberty is where Cyberpunk becomes a masterpiece.
- Comment on Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone? 5 days ago:
Hasn’t tasted right since.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 days ago:
I think it mostly comes down to sharing stuff with others.
There’s a lot of stuff in Jellyfin you wouldn’t want to expose to the internet.
No idea if Jellyfin even has a client for my dad’s shonky old 4K TV, but I certainly wouldn’t be able to set up Wireguard or anything on it.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 6 days ago:
But not expensive enough to stop them killing people through negligence and greed.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 6 days ago:
I hope that if this game is open world then the story at least matches it, unlike the first one.
There were just so many pointless distractions, and hardly any of them lead to anything interesting.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 week ago:
Cool, so I can torrent without a VPN now?
Oh, only the super rich can benefit. How convenient.
- Comment on Life hack 1 week ago:
Have spare pilots too?
- Comment on Life hack 1 week ago:
If the world was halfway organised, airports would have spare unbranded planes that airlines could use in a pinch when their aircraft need some emergency issues.
Fly it out and back and the main plane is back in use.
Make airlines pay proper compensation and they’d sort this themselves.
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 1 week ago:
Hey, Simpson. Your weenus is showing!
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 1 week ago:
Ugh, we understand that poor people need to live so they can work for us and make us money.
But do we really need all of them?
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 week ago:
On GamePass though, isn’t it? Only people actually buying would be on PS5 and the neversub gang.
- Comment on Drivers to be able to pay for parking using just ONE app under new Government plans 1 week ago:
Now make it so they have to tell you the charges in the app through a message sent direct to your phone, so you don’t have to get out and squint at a tiny sign.
e.g. You have entered Customer Car Park. 90 minutes of parking is free, then a fine of £60 will be issued.
Always give time (say 10 mins) to read the conditions and exit if you refuse them.
If ANPR systems are going to take all the fun out of life, we might as well get the benefits it could provide, rather than getting mystery envelopes with random fines because of piss-poor signage.
- Comment on Drivers to be able to pay for parking using just ONE app under new Government plans 1 week ago:
If they don’t sign up to it, make it so they can’t fine anyone or query the DVLA for vehicle details.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
It’s because Donald can’t envisage the supply chain for anything more complex than a Trump flag or a MAGA hat.
In his mind, housewives can be knocking iPhones out in Bumfuck, Mississippi.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
Any non-car related spending is a “war on motorists”.
Seemingly half the country think that millionaire man-of-the-people Nigel Farage will be the one to lead us to the sunlit uplands, and the only position he’s never flip-flopped on is bringing back smoking in pubs.
We are doomed.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 1 week ago:
If your game requires a server for single player content, I ain’t buying it.
I’m not paying full price and getting a rental.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
The UK can barely get high speed rail going to Birmingham where they’ve already got tracks. The rest of HS2 got cancelled.
I don’t see how the same thing under the sea would ever get done.
Plus trains here are more expensive than planes for no reason whatsoever other than greed.