EmilyIsTrans

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good free tutorials/courses that cover setup and administration of websites and web apps?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll definitely want to study DevOps and SysAdmin if you’re looking for general knowledge. O’Reilly textbooks are a good place to start. If you’re website is entirely static, you can actually host it for free with Github Pages. For deploying a .NET (or really any) app you probably want to look into how to package it into a Dockerfile. That makes it platform agnostic and bundles every dependency into an easy to deploy image. After that you probably want to look into setting up Heroku to put your app on the internet. You’ll also want to maybe register a domain and configure DNS if you want a proper domain name, but that’s comparatively simple.

  If you’re going the AWS route, you’ll want App Runner or EC2 for the app itsel), RDS for database, and maybe even API Gateway to sit in front of your service and route request/terminate authentication. You could even configure everything with code using an Infrastructure-as-Code tool like Terraform.

  If you can’t tell from the number of links, the barrier of entry to AWS is much higher but it’s worth getting your head around depending on where you want to go. Maybe leave it until you’re a bit more comfortable with building an deploying apps though, I’m mainly mentioning AWS to give you an idea of what you might want to head towards, you should probably stick with Heroku for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good free tutorials/courses that cover setup and administration of websites and web apps?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Deploying and administering a website/service covers multiple fields separate to programming - you’re going to want to primarily look into DevOps, SysAdmin, and infrastructure. Like programming, there are a lot of areas to specialise in as well that depend on what stack you need.

  Considering your inexperience in the field, a Platform-as-a-Service product like Heroku might be a good place to start. If you need something more serious with more configuration, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service product like AWS may be better (plus they have many hosted Software-as-a-Service products for things like authentication). If you want to roll your own servers you’ll want to look into Docker, which makes it simple to deploy isolated versions of your project (+ any databases) on any machine.

  All these products are well documented with guides aimed at beginners - the trick is knowing where to look ;) If you give me some specifics about your project I can probably point you at some basic guides for AWS.

  I should also give you the warning that all of these options carry some security risks if you’re careless - they can be all configured wrong or exploited through vulnerabilities in your code, which can result in a large bill or (if you’re running on your own infrastructure at home) put your personal data at risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canberra bar declared a crime scene as police seize 'clearly satirical' posters under new Commonwealth hate laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dissent is a great bar that I would highly recommend checking out if you’re in Canberra. They have great food, live performances, and (as you can see from the article) are consistently on the right side of history - support them with your dollars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm interesting, thanks for the link!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You and every other conspiracy theorist can express your unevidenced beliefs how you like, this conversation clearly isn’t worth my time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you actually have any evidence Waymo staff can remotely drive their vehicles? Or are you just tilting at windmills? I don’t really appreciate the insinuation that I am some rube by someone evidently unaware of basic cybersecurity concepts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re running red team hacking scenarios, an extremely standard, common, and good practice in the cybersecurity industry. Any device, especially one connected to the internet, is at risk of being hacked - it would be naive to assume otherwise, so they’re hiring professionals to penetrate their security before someone else does. This is actually a sign they’re taking security seriously.

  Also, from the article: “they do not remotely drive the vehicles”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it with the far right and school girls?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering you can turn off telemetry and never need to connect it to the internet after activation, I’m assuming that - like how Adobe uses cheap education licenses to on-ramp people onto their platform - this is largely intended to drive professionals towards Canva and their various other products. They take a loss on this product to become the de-facto standard image/vector/publishing application.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still no Linux support. As someone who purchased the Affinity Suite, I’m not sure I like this shift in model. If they keep to just fencing off AI in premium and keep investing in the whole app, fine, but I don’t have my hopes up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still makeup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New BoM website has rolled out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not just pull the data from their ftp or something downstream like openmeteo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New BoM website has rolled out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally like it. I wish it were a little more compact, but it seems to be nearly feature parable with the old one and looks a little more up to date. This seems to be a step up in accessibility, both in terms of screen reader compatibility and behaving more in line with what an average user would expect. They’ve apparently even gone the extra mile to ensure existing bookmarks keep working.

  Having been behind a couple of these modernization efforts, no one ever likes them. People complain every time but the user testing doesn’t lie. Unfortunately redesigns are necessary as technology and user expectations change and considering the fact that the old website didn’t play well on mobile and was well over 10 years old (15 if you’re counting from the last major redesign) I’d say this one was pretty due. The fact this redesign even kept nearly every feature and option (as far as I can tell), rolled out fairly smoothly, and hasn’t gone too overboard with minimalism/lack of character, I’m willing to call the redesign good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, someone has looked at the spreadsheet and realised that basically no one uses the desktop app I’ll bet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m personally of the belief that you are largely the sum of your experiences, so yeah a total loss of memories would mean I am by some definition “dead”. That said, you could easily argue by that same logic that the “me” of a year, month, or even minute ago is also “dead”, since she lacks the experiences that makes me who I am now. I don’t even dispute that that much tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is awful. One of my favorite differences between Android and iOS, as both a user AND developer is sideloading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah, but people also regularly steal things despite it being against the rules. Like those, wiki rules are enforced (theoretically) as a best effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t edit Wikipedia pages on a topic to which you have a close connection/conflict of interest.

  Also WP:Notability

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does vibe coding sort of work at all?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience, an LLM can write small, basic scripts or equally small and isolated bits of logic. It can also do some basic boilerplate work and write nearly functional unit tests. Anything else and it’s hopeless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stuff you buy from physical Aussie store shelves have been validated to meet our standards though. Doesn’t stop me from buying plenty of stuff from AliExpress though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah no fair enough, thanks for hearing me out. Those kinds people are exhausting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, it feels like we’ve been arguing over semantics. When I (and I’m assuming the person you originally responded to) say “real”, I don’t mean to claim that it doesn’t have material effects, I mean that it has no biological basis - i.e. it is socially constructed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You do not need to believe race is a biological reality to acknowledge that the perception of others as you (+ your ancestors) being a member of a race has materially affected your identity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really think I can come up with a more concise way of summarizing the idea than anthropologist Audrey Smedley did on the first result of the Google search “race social construct”

  Race is a culturally structured systematic definition of a way of looking at perceiving and interpreting reality.

  I would recommend you read something like “Feminism and ‘Race’” from Oxford Readings in Feminism or some of bell hooks’ work to understand the idea better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saying that race isn’t real is not the same as saying that we live in a post-racial society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of legitimate reasons for Google to provide extra support and exceptions to parts of their guidelines to certain parties, including themselves. No one is claiming this is a consequence-neutral decision, and it’s right to not inherently trust these exceptions, but it is not a black and white issue.

  In this case, placing extra barriers around sensitive permissions like MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE for untrusted parties is perfectly reasonable, but the process they implemented should be competent and appealable to a real support person. Google should be criticized for (and “heavily fined” by the EU if that were to happen) their inconsistent and often incorrect baseline review process, as well as their lack of any real support. They are essentially part of a duopoly and should thus be forced to act responsibly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah for sure. Google, extremely large companies, and government apps essentially have different streams and access to support than the rest of us mere mortals. They all receive scrutiny, but they have much more ability to access real support and may have slightly altered guidelines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve experienced this exact issue with the Google Play Store with some clients and it’s just the worst. Google is trying to do the Apple-style comprehensive review of apps but basically as a incompetent half measure. Apple offers thorough reviews pointing to exactly how the app violates policy/was rejected, with free one-on-one support with a genuine Apple engineer to discuss or review the validity of the report/how to fix it. They’re restrictive as hell and occasionally make mistakes, but at the end of the road there is a real, extremely competent human able to dedicate time to assist you.

  Google uses a mix of human and automated reviewers that are far more incompetent than Apple’s frontline reviewers. They will reject your app for what often feels like arbitrary reasons, and you’re lucky if their reason amounts to more than a single sentence. I have yet to find an official way to properly reach a human from that point. Unless you know someone in Google’s Android/Developer Relations team, good luck.

  I’m actually certain that the issues facing Nextcloud are not some malicious anti-competitive effort, but yet more sheer and utter incompetence from every enterprise/business facing aspect of Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times will i hear about the evil left if the greens loose their leader⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been really concerned about this. I know their real power is in the senate but the Greens have done well to pull things to the left in both houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, what I said is mostly based on the experience I have with Blender’s Cycles renderer, which is definitely not real time.