daniskarma
@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes 1 day ago:
These are public forums. Anyone can look what’s going on here.
This is not a private space.
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 week ago:
The thing is that I already have a server and a few Terabytes of unused storage. So that would not be an issue. As long as storage doesn’t en up adding that much. I know that the fediverse protocol likes to replicate storage among all servers involved in an interaction. Though I wonder if it would be possible to safely erase old data, specially if I’m just hosting it for myself. I need to investigate on that.
But for the other costs I already have a server running 24/7 on my house and several Tb of Storage.
And I also need to investigate how are the normal federation politics with one person instances. If it is like trying to host an email server would be hell as you’ll get mark as spam by a lot of providers.
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 week ago:
I have always thought of hosting a fediverse instance for myself.
I already have a server for personal usage, the technical knowledge and it would stop being a burden on other people’s servers.
Does anyone have experience with this. The federation system works fine with one person instance? Storage goes out to the roof?
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 week ago:
Things doesn’t usually work like that.
Rent subsidiaries work by your annual income and usually the cost of your rent.
For instance they may pay you 300€ a month for your rent as long as your income is less than 30.000€ a year and your rent is bellow 800€/month. And increasing the thresholds if you have kids or if you are part of a protected collective.
They may be above this thresholds. It’s pretty common in Europe for people who struggle to meet ends are above the needed thresholds for getting help.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 1 week ago:
Android seems far more likely cause.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
I would lo to be able to justify buying a 1500€ vr set. But using it for one or two games does not make the threshold for me.
I hope they make more really good games so it become justifiable.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 week ago:
By played hours the Binding Of Isaac probably.
By impact in my heart Metal Gear Solid.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What’s the legality of that land?
Where I live there’s no way a plot of land is suited for both farming and a Hotel.
If you build something in a place where residential/commercial buildings are not allowed you are in for a lot of troubles.
If the weather provides the safest bet for the most profit would probably be plant some easy trees or some plant that would not need a lot of caring, and just sell the products.
- Comment on Open letter: ~100 EU companies urge EU lawmakers to take “radical action” to shrink the reliance on foreign infrastructure by fostering a so-called “Euro stack”. 2 weeks ago:
Eurolinux with EU Commission funding would hit hard.
- Comment on Did sites end up making money from API restrictions? 3 weeks ago:
It was not about getting paid for API usage, though they let the door open so they could sell that service for very specific purposes but not for alternative apps.
Their point, and it was admitted during the leaked conversation with one of the independent app developers, was about opportunity cost. Their official apps offer ways to get more money out of users, more advertisement, in app payments and all that.
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 3 weeks ago:
I I do actually second thought what I said. As I can be as wrong as any. And if I’m wrong I’m ought to change my mind.
But it’s true that I rarely change my mind unless there’s a truly convincing argument.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 3 weeks ago:
If you talk like that no one is going to want to talk with you.
What the hell did you just write, accusing me of antisemitism?
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 3 weeks ago:
Autocorrect what the fuck? Models inherently conservative, wtf?
You show a vast lack of knowledge. Probably your source of information is just propaganda.
I know it’s an easy fight to pick. A trending dogma which is easy to support. You don’t really need to think, you just got pointed an easy enemy that’s easy to identify, and that’s easy to just be against and you follow that.
But the true enemy is not there.
Your heart is probably in the good place. But if you waste your strength fighting something useless is an incredible wasted of resources and spirit. You’ll achieve nothing, while the true enemy (which are human beings that doesn’t care about AI being a success or not) will keep laughing at you.
They have been oppressing you since before electricity. If you think AI is a tool needed for oppression you are deeply wrong.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 3 weeks ago:
Software have been implied in decision making for decades.
Anyway, the true responsible of a denial in a medical treatment has never been account responsible (except for our angel Luigi), no matter if AI has been used or not.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really know how it’s better a human denying you a kidney rather than a AI.
It’s not like it’s something that makes more or less kidneys available for transplant anyway.
Terrible example.
It would have been better to make an example out of some other treatment that does not depend on finite recourses but only in money. Still, a human is now rejecting your needed treatments without the need of an AI, but at least it would make some sense.
In the end, as always, people who has chosen the AI as the “enemy” have not understand anything about the current state of society and how things work.
- Comment on Failed ransom plots in the past might've succeeded if Cryptocurrencies existed. 3 weeks ago:
Foreign bank accounts and Western Union beg to differ.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 weeks ago:
There are plenty of paid products that do not respect your privacy and sell your data.
And there’s free products that do respect your privacy and don’t make you the product. They are community products.
For instance I offer my bandwidth to thousands of strangers to share torrents and they do the same to me. No secondhand transactions happening.
- Comment on What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”? 3 weeks ago:
Identity policies at work.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 3 weeks ago:
Discord is where knowledge goes to die.
I never understood why people chose that as a meeting place for communities knowing that all the knowledge thrown in there is useless.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 weeks ago:
That’s not tech. That’s company policies.
Streaming services, as a tech has evolved and it’s a better technology that it was before. New encoding formats allow for transfer of more data over less bandwidth for instance.
Online communications, as in forums as such, as also evolved with new and better ways of posting, and better security (I remember when websites just stored your password in plain text).
What people complain about are mostly company policies, not technology.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 weeks ago:
Not everyone wants to socially interact. That’s something to respect.
I tend to prioritize not-human services, as social interaction exhaust me.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 weeks ago:
Times change. I see nothing wrong with it. Same as you used to be able to park without paying, then you started to pay, and now it’s moving from those machines to phone apps.
It’s just nostalgia working. Things change. You were more capable of dealing with change at a younger age and that’s why you see the older the people get the more they complain about everything.
But is just a change, like many other that came before that.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 weeks ago:
Yep, I also been growing older and I have nostalgia for old times. But I’m well aware that grass is only greener on my memory, as it has always been.
- Comment on 8BitDo Has Announced The Successor To Its Ultimate Wireless Controller | Time Extension 4 weeks ago:
I recently bought and immediately returned an 8bitdo controller. In this case the ultimate C2.
It was uncomfortable to the hands. It has a strange narrow shape, to us accustomed to Xbox controllers.
But the worst thing were the triggers. They had a massive dead zone that made it unplayable to any game requiring progressive input on the triggers. Like they wont start registering the input until 1/4 pressed, and there was no feedback on when they would start registering input. For racing games it was 100% impossible to play.
That was a quick return and a sad red X over the brand for me.
- Comment on Robots might be gross 4 weeks ago:
Clean machinery last longer.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
If you want to do something do something. Others have shown how easy actually is if you are really willing to.
If not, saturating everyone head with bad news os not healthy for anyone.
- Comment on 🪨 Rock on 🪨 4 weeks ago:
Are you sure of that?
For me 9-5 sitting in an office is way better than 7-7 on the sun taking care of crops, inside a mine, or as some rich guy servant.
- Comment on 🪨 Rock on 🪨 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, ancient people had it good, they never had to work, food and shelter used to just fall out of the sky.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 5 weeks ago:
Those admins are unpaid?
Managing a store it’s a LOT of work. And you are doing to provide profit for other people. Who is going to do it for free?
It’s not like social media where people may volunteer to admin and mod, and users may donate because it’s a common goal of share information, opinions, knowledge, funny stuff etc.
Here we are talking about bussiness that do what they do because they want money. I would not volunteer to admin a store so shop owners could earn money, that’s for sure.
And I still not see the advantage of doing within the ActivityPub instead of just being a normal service where all interested shops could join.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 5 weeks ago:
In this example instances are stores, stores are users in instances? How stores are protected to be defederated by competitors (we are talking about money and making a living here).
What it adds to just a simple centralized service that any store can join. If you don’t want it to be another amazon, make that service a coop. or some kinds of non-profit that it’s paid by the stores that want to become part of that.
I think here we are in the classic conundrum of “a solution in search of a problem”.
Fediverse and ActivityPub is cool, but it’s a social media thing. And decentralization is cool when needed, for instance social media. But it doesn’t have to make sense for every use case.
For what’s being proposed there’s zero actual need for decentralization or ActivityPub.