JubilantJaguar

@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This post breaks literally rules #1, #2 and #3 of this community. Crazy.

  Mods please wake up and DO YOUR JOB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be ashamed.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Breaks rule #2 completely. Not a showerthought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  THIS IS NOT A SHOWERTHOUGHT. This just an opinion. There already a ton of places to put your banal talking points like this. Why can’t you put them there??

  For examples of what a showerthought is, look on the right. Another one was posted 2 minutes after this very post:

  “With all due respect” could imply that no respect is due and therefore none is given

  That is a showerthought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct but boring (but correct) answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia sources their information better than most journalists do in their articles.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet another not-a-showerthought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much longer until we're just the States of America?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In no way is this a “showerthought”. Seriously. This community is being devalued to worthlessness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't need AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on, this is not a “showerthought”, this is just an opinion. Put it elsewhere.

  Moderators, please wake up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The key takeaway of science is that observation constitutes the primary reality.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides evidence (what you see in front of you), there’s also reason (what you can deduce from first principles).

  I’d say the key concept of science is that knowledge can be built upon. That answers don’t yet exist to every question. That you can say “We don’t know but we’re working on it”. This was absolutely revolutionary in human affairs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manage things "To be Read"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a bookmarks list basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manage things "To be Read"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prediction: you’ll never get actually read most of what ends up on this to-read list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If children are taught to read by AI there is no shot they don't teach them wrong and change language for ever.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps AI could be used to rewrite this post so that it makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ITT: lots of generic VPN advice by people who have no experience with the specific problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s certainly an oddly optimistic take in this neighborhood.

  Unless you mean space exploration, which I personally think is a delusional distraction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that could be because it is an AMAZING post – it covered all the points and no one has anything left to say

  Finally, I know why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obama wasn't a hero; he just wasn't terrible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is not really a showerthought and flagrantly breaks rule #6. Put this elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the only answer you need to read. It’s a non-problem if you just do this, and there’s no reason not to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heck is just "hell" and "fuck" combined⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Occasionally the showerthoughts here reach the quality level of the R-site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated Blogging Options⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, it’s fine. But if I’m only publishing text and photos, and I don’t need tons of specialized plugins, and I’m dealing with things myself - then personally I will go with a static-site generator every time. It’s at least as fast, and more secure by design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated Blogging Options⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did not know that. Useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated Blogging Options⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Full DB-driven monster for a full bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated Blogging Options⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvote/Downvote is the first mental skill that infants learn.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And then some of them learn that downvoting is obnoxious and toxic, while others never grow out of infancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I really need a firewall for my server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Possibly it’s about personality types. I was only going on my own experience. Of always being told by a chorus of experts “Oh no you don’t want to do that!” and ending up being terrified to touch anything. When I now know that I usually had nothing to be afraid of, because dangerous things tend to be locked down by design, exactly as they should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I really need a firewall for my server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it depends how secure you want your network to be. Personally I think UFW is easy so you may as well set it up

  IMO this attitude is problematic. It encourages people (especially newbies) to think they can’t trust anything, that software is by nature unreliable. I was one of those people once.

  Personally, now I understand better how these things work, there’s no way I’m wasting my time putting up multiple firewalls. The router already has a firewall. Next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To most, consensus and truth are the same⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The opposite is also dangerous, i.e. believing reflexively in heterodoxies and conspiracy theories. But your point stands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Immutable distros like NixOS don’t stop you from tweaking stuff, they just record every tweak centrally, so that you can undo them and do rollbacks.

  Others can confirm that I’ve got that right. Haven’t tried it but the idea sounds great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to have a system when I know what I did, what is opened/installed/activated and what is not

  Story of my life after 20 years on Linux. Maybe we could call it “modification anxiety”.

  I believe this is the case for an immutable OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy-like fediverse forum that lets you post things to your "profile"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, good analogy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy-like fediverse forum that lets you post things to your "profile"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like an elaborate way of saying you want to blog.

  Or, as the kids call it these days, “to post on my Substack”. The two things being identical except that the latter sounds cooler and allows them to indulge their corporate Stockholm syndrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack open source rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very interesting perspective! And yes, I keep all my data locally, literally all of it, and the only bits of it that go on my VPS or - worse! - mobile device are either encrypted or not private. So your theory is right on the mark.