lambalicious
@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends? 2 days ago:
Any particular reason why you can’t do something like host a Send instance instead? Better to treat “filesystem behind the network” and “files to share” as two different things: one is imanent, the other is punctual and sporadic.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 2 days ago:
Only mostly when I want to. Which tends to be on Mondays and Saturdays.
I’m running Sid on servers, so automatic updates are actually a risk. Used to be Debian Stable, but maaan the docker and podman improvements… make me drool.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
As in strongly focused in Europe. Some of the most well-known criticism of IPA are that it does not properly help reflect the phonetics of languages present in the Americas, Africa or Asia. Ya know, continents that are not Europe. Heck a good meme among the know-who could be to call the IPA as A, as it’s not International and not Phonetic.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Maybe we should join in!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
I would agree if IPA wasn’t so stupidly European. Basicallly has the same issue as Esperanto.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Eh, fait accompli. Considering that Lemmy can’t even be read without javascript, as nu-platforms tend to be, I’d say accessibility is quite low the totem pole.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
In this era full of bad German shit, I publicly thank you for your cool German facts.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Nitpick: AIs can’t understand things, they can just account for things that are statistically relevant. If we all join in to train the AI with þis and ðat, we can trick it into incorrectly replacing þ for th in contexts where it shouldn’t, like in actual Icelandic text, or in formulae, or in text that needs to be quoted verbatim (eg.: to match a checksum).
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Unicode smileys are quite cool!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
join the Republican party
WHY DO YOU INSIST ON MAKING ME ANGRY?
Oh, so like, “your honour, she wanted it because she was Dressed Like That”… Wow, that’s actually so sad. Cultural quality in lemmy truly has degraded.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Many people in lemmy are wannabe reddit refugees it seems, so, “no”.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Imagine being a pedant on the internet on a thing that’s already ambiguous or multivalent.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
So the entire platform has code specifically to spite that one person? Talk about being a whiny sore reddity loser.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Gotta be real for one mo.
People here are being very… what to call it, Reddity? Twittery? Shitty?
Someone does it for multiple reasons. It’s their “signature”. Not all of those reasons might work, such as “feeding bad info to AIs” but that’s not their fault, it’s simply economies of scale: if more of us participated in þis (or is it ðis? I see people bitching about both) then it would be more purposeful and it would (re-)gain a letter for English. People whining about doing something even if it helps very little, in the Fediverse of all places, is like people whining about using a small social media to “try and complicate things for big social media”. Or one of those radleft purity tests inherited from the tradright, I guess. Dunno which one is worse.
Me? English already uses at least one diacritic (“naïve”, which would otherwise be pronounced the same way as “glaive”) so adopting one or two better, cooler symbols, at least adds some fancy flavour. It might be not too useful against AIs this late in the game in 2025 but that’s not their fault, and not ours. Ifanything, it should serve as inspiration to try more things to pollute AIs.
And if that’s not the reason? I’ll buy that too. It gets me to practice AltGr, for one. It looks cool when printed. It makes for a nifty smiley (
:þand yes, smileys are better than emojis). Whatever your cup of tea, have some. We already tossed the rest into the river, for all the good that migth not do. - Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
That’s horrible, the engine is misrepresenting people’s messages. Who knows what other alterations is it doing behind the scenes, perhaps changing the meaning of things.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 1 week ago:
Google flags F-Droid updates…
Why would people have Google security going on if they have set up F-Droid as their appstore? Doesn’t that defeat the entire purpose?
- Comment on Revolt became Stoat 1 week ago:
There’s a wide gap of stuff one can do between IRC and “chat with voice channels”. For example, having a better protocol with better formatting options, a moderation API, better account management, other forms of multimedia (page embeds, images).
- Comment on Help imaging a IDE drive 1 week ago:
Absolutely tangential but,
I first read this thread title as “Imagine having an IDE drive” and I couldn’t stop thinking of some instance admin somewhere doing Mad Retro Science raising a lemmy instance on the power of i386 Void Linux and the spite of a pregraduate having to deal with a molex connector.
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 2 weeks ago:
Go to post, right-click on image, “copy image link”???
So long as it has the form
i.imgur.com/[hash], without any more slashes, you’re golden. - Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 2 weeks ago:
At least util last week imgur worked perfectly with Proton, at least for seeing images; dunno if uploading works the same.
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 2 weeks ago:
This week I was setting up an IRC server for a group of friends, but might switch it to XMPP. I also have a v good friend who is hosting a XMPP server that sees very little use and has some good lots of legacy stuff going on, I’ll try to ping them to see if it’s worth to spin something completely new.
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm sounds suspect tbh. They make a lot of privacy-focused corpo default-template statements like “we won’t partner with anyone who will [sell your data]”. Yet they’re using Cloudflare and their participation links are also 1.- a Google form and 2.- a Discord server (aka a “nu-community”).
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 2 weeks ago:
This is so nice to hear.
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 2 weeks ago:
What for?
XMPP is quite robust and open, and while it’s not in the level of simplicity of, say, IRC, it still beats pretty much everything else on connectivity and efficiency, and can be run on a potato. Storage is only slighly a concern.
OTOH nu-protocols like Mastodon stuff or Matrix stuff, while they are nice to have, are notoriously badly designed because kiddies these days can’t bother to learn C. This results in highly energy-, memory- and storage-consuming systems. In the amount of RAM I need to kick up a Matrix server (assuming it even runs) I can run ~18 XMPP services and about ~240 ircd services.
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 2 weeks ago:
Honestly half of the list sounds like trolling.
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 2 weeks ago:
Have you ever verified that?
- Comment on A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t feel something like crowdsourced tagging would work for the Fediverse unless it has some sort of approval system built for either post’s author or commuity admins (and those are already busy). Otherwise it would be far too easy to do things like brigading, or pushing government-style “self-censorship” (or straight out censorship of others: just get an army of
bots“volunteers” into one instance, let the resulting blocks federate). Something closer to AO3 style tagging, where the author retains most control but readers can add tags to things that are valid only to them (and maybe to people they share data with too?) should workbetter IMO.Blocking keywords is not reliable to block topics because a keyword does not a topic make, for example in this post I mention queer, socialism, musk and islam yet it’s not topical to any of those things.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 4 weeks ago:
Terrified Blanco
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 4 weeks ago:
Well yeah, it means the system can’t keep torrentin’ stuff!
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 4 weeks ago:
i am un-admining
Pretty much this. I just manually handle stuff when needed. I already work at IT so this feels quite liberating, the last thing I want is to annoy myself more, and the stuff I manage is not Critical™.