lambalicious

@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t, or you wouldn’t have asked that. If your excuse to not eat food is that “it’s not digested yet”, that’s the problem eating the food helps solve in the first place.

  Or go be a chick of bird. You get pre-digested food for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨InlineStyle, open fediverse based cloud⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  static personal site hosting

  name the thing “inline style”

  Pretty good catch there!

  Other than that while the overall idea sounds good, there are a few concerns, I’d like to have your feedback on these even if it’s not a definitive word - sometimes, “I don’t know” is the correct answer!

  .it

  that .it domain is kinda worrying given their recent stance on blocking or deleting parts of the internet to support the shareholders. Well, at least it’s not Spain, but do keep an eye on that.

  The idea is to keep it sustainable with a simple support plan (€1.90/month)

  Are there any considerations towards a one-time life payment on the horizon? It’s what ultimately drew me to SDF compared to the rest of the enshittifying internet, and they do provide similar services to what your roster seems to be so far.

  📝 Docs and Drive via Collabora/NextCloud

  May I recommend also Cryptpad? From my understanding NC+Collabora is a PITA to set up and prone to random failures (tho I would disclose the last time I tried the combo myself was on 2022). Cryptpad, while a lot simpler and less-featured, provides a leaner experience that approaches that of eg.: a pastebin.

  Others

  Some comments have mentioned chat. A XMPP server, like Prosody or ejabberd, is quite cheap and simple to run compared to “nu-protocols” like Matrix, and without having to go too far back into the 90s with something like IRC. Has good support for clients across the board as well, on Linux, Android, web, etc.

  Other than that the only differentiating factor I could think of offering that I have seem almost no one else do, is some sort of “math service”, something like an Octave or Maxima online if such thing exists, or like what Wolfram Alpha has online, where people can run calculations, plot function graphs, perhaps with support for spreadsheets and charts too, which would also function as an alternative to google charts and the like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much anything so long as Palworld doesn’t have 1.- a backbone and 2.- a dictionary at hand. Because it is as simple as finding a picture of any of a long list of animals that can glide, state the words “previous art” and they should be free from this ridiculous demand.

  Mechanics that already exist in nature should not be copyrightable. Can you imagine if the first videogame company ever patented “character walking”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people blind on PeerTube?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then again, maybe there are ways to make that burden smaller.

  Yes: encode on lower resolutions.

  Most of the videos on Youtube don’t ever need to be 4K. They don’t even need to be 1080p. Heck, most don’t even need 720p! Things like music videos, where what’s important is the music, orthings like old TV broadcasts or play rips of old consoles, where the source barely gets to 360p, can be encoded to 360p or even 244p without any suffering (I played Monster Hunter on the 3DS for years and I can attest 244p can do great works of magic).

  This mixes wonderfully with Peertube’s idea about hosting your own instance. If you are hosting your own video storage, you’ll want to maximize the amount of stuff you can throw into it. If someone complains that your videos aren’t 1080p, tell them to go to /donate.php and do their part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lembipie. What else?

  (And why does this particular subset need a name, anyway? The plus combo is easier to get the point across with)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This meme from the late 90s is still going? It’s honestly an impressive record.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this economy???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand the concern to be honest. The problem here is that when someone is a bigot and they are at least reasonable enough to walk themselves out, the response of the community is to stain everyone else by association.

  Trust is not associative, and tbh distrust probably should also not be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  spoiler

  regex → regeges?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  is a dead suffix

  sure, if you go with that attitude!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Furthermore, it should be pronounced like it was a Greek philosopher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Brands are nouns and can (and are) thus genericized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best approach to selfhosting Synapse (Matrix)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t synapse need like, a server cluster to run? The self-hostable service is supposed to be something owo, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully no one is asking developers to be virtuous (even tho, to be fair, if we are going to be asking that we should also expect the code to be wholly bugs-free!), but how many times they actually “keep their beliefs to themselves and focus on technical issues in the project”? On whichever side. It’s just not a thing that can reasonably be avoided all the time between humans.

  But the reality of these times is that behaviour outside the field of programming is representative and/or predictive of behaviour in the field of programming, when it comes to literally working with other people. And this is not only about the act of commiting changes or filing PRs, it’s about the why of programming and the ways of delivery as well. Someone who strongly associates with barbaric beliefs is less likely to want to spend their spare time working in peace for all, and more likely to be wanting to work on software that at least in some way carries or represents those beliefs, for example in capturing and using user data, or in aiding systems used by the military to kill children of “non-citizens”. So being “absolutely” uncaring does not really make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hostable bookmark app Hoarder has been rebranded to Karakeep after a long trademark dispute⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I chose DDG and got a better result, but thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good olde Conversations for Android, as well as Monocles. Can’t speak for ios, I am not paid enough to touch that dev crap (literally – they expect you to pay to even touch their dev crap).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does “empathy in communication” have to do with a software project?

  Not having read Stein’s work, I can only mostly guess it’s related to the emphasis on the “communication” part as it applis to effective communication of duties, milestones, failure modes and reactions in a project. Torvalds’s tirades for example were awesome and most of the time well-deserved for the idiot trying to accidentally the kernel, but are quite more of a bummer and a momentum-killer when looked at at a project-wide scope.

  I’m all for empathy, don’t get me wrong, but ideally software projects are more focused on technical correctness than feels

  (Not) sorry to say, that age has long sailed. Remote teambuilding, capitalism and AI have made it that we now need to actually care and be watchful why or how something is being made to work, on the technical sense. Just look at the situation with Mozilla or Signal (offering systems that can be described as free, but are being offered so in a rather adversarial manner).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hostable bookmark app Hoarder has been rebranded to Karakeep after a long trademark dispute⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  linkedin

  Good try, but I don’t read MBA hallucinations or AI slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hostable bookmark app Hoarder has been rebranded to Karakeep after a long trademark dispute⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this even true or just a myth? From what I know, law doesn’t actually mandate people to be jerkasses. Also at least in sane countries, you can’t trademark words that are in the dictionary like “hoard” or “hoarder”, since by definition they have prior art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want AI slop from big corpo and you think I am gonna want AI slop that’s just as wasteful and harmful just because it’s “locally produced”? That’s Republican-ish crap line of thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No matter how you write it, today's date is messing with my dyslexia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shout out to !iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org !

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems they don’t care.

  Then get that in writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire point of the fediverse is to federate. Not federating by default kills discoverability and the potential for discoverability among other things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This pretty much. At some point one has to accept that the people who want to be saved can be saved, and those who don’t, can’t. We shouldn’t (reasonably or not) waste ourselves for the latter in spite of the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me, Jabber / XMPP is about as old as I am!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  XMPP / Jabber is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just sell the car to a derby demolition show. We all win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ve pretty much nailed it. KFC can’t ban you from buying a Burguer King that McDonalds is secondhand selling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This meme could have been an email!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To Migrate A Mastodon Account From One Server To Another⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could be conditioned to revision. If you want to have your posts moved, they would be checked over by the moderation at server B.

  But the fact that not even that is an option in the first place means this is a nonstarter for anyone who is interested in keeping the history of their presence.