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- Comment on A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane 1 day ago:
Can’t just leave us hanging with that ending!
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 1 day ago:
These are the true points, however the 4th reason to use a VPN is if you are using a fingerprint-resistant browser and lots of other people are too, it’s harder to track who is going where, since the exit IP is shared.
If tor isn’t working for whatever reason
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 day ago:
I’m sad that bots in space had to spin down, but there are still bots on Mastodon. One server quitting didn’t take everything down.
The part where if a mastodon post gets popular, it has to serve that to everyone makes sense because it’s kind of like a website. Maybe there could be a CDN like Cloudflare that a mastodon server could use to cache responses?
The part about Bluesky that doesn’t sound good to me is “to send a message to one user is to send it to all”. Wouldn’t this be crazy with even 100 servers for 10000 users, vs 2 servers with 5000 each? Not sure how the math works but it doesn’t look good if they have to duplicate so much traffic.
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 1 day ago:
My social circle for texting is really small, but in the good old days of social media I kept in touch with a wider circle.
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 1 day ago:
If they can do this to people with fewer rights than citizens now, they will do it to anyone they can, at any stage, as much as they can get away with it.
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 1 day ago:
Hey I really appreciate you and up voted your post.
However as I’ve come to understand it, fouls in basketball are very much used strategically by every team to stop the clock when they’re behind. So unless the rules are changed, I would agree with the maga that some fouls can be done a few times. Because that’s basketball, and not the future of our country.
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 1 day ago:
Have you had any success connecting to old friends outside of mainstream social media? That’s what I’m struggling with.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 2 days ago:
I can’t speak to how traffic costs and mastodon works, but this article explains how having multiple blue skies federating with each other scales quadratically. dustycloud.org/…/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ it is very thorough.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Maybe we shouldn’t select for LLMs that can play first shooter games.
- Comment on Need help getting domain to resolve over LAN 4 days ago:
To get more information, from the device you are having trouble with, try “dig server.com” from a terminal, or even “ping server.com”. The messages may help you figure out what’s going wrong.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 days ago:
Wait is that what happened? Investors in his AI company are on the hook for Twitter now?
The rich really are a vampiric class.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 days ago:
The “ability” to decentralize has costs that scale quadratically. So in every practical sense, it cannot be decentralized. At best it could have a few servers that participate.
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 4 days ago:
Well if you’re sure,… Better be,… Tor!
- Comment on is there a community for asking specific questions such as “is this user a troll”, “why do people act this way,” “what should I do”, etc.? 4 days ago:
There’s one about power tripping bastards but aside from that IDK
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 4 days ago:
I’m sorry to come on so strong – I don’t think it’s wise than useless as a tool to approach the right answers – but as I saw people upvoting this ‘answer’ without doing any checking, it occurs to me that this is how misinformation spreads. I hope my comment makes more sense in that context.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 4 days ago:
Worse than useless.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 5 days ago:
I can’t find a clear source on this. Could you help? This one says 2013 thorenergy.no
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
That’s what I would do too in this case, most likely.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It’s an edge-case for sure. There is nothing wrong with having hairy pits in public, in general. As others have said, it’s completely normal for students to wear pajamas to most lectures. And if you had worn it to a large lecture hall with ~200 other students, probably no one would notice or care. Vs. wearing swimwear or something which would definitely seem odd.
However, this particular professor noticed it and said something, so unless you want to battle with them, probably better to just respect their wishes and not wear one.
The interesting thing with the other comment comparing it to a woman wearing a swimsuit with pubic hair showing: first of all I don’t consider armpit hair to be in the same category as pubic hair, and not the same thing if it shows in public. Even so, there is nothing illegal about having visible pubic hair showing outside of a swimsuit, but it does defy a social expectation of female beauty standards, just like visible armpit hair of any kind. So for someone to show either risks getting pushback at the beach for how people ought to look, even if it isn’t anyone’s business. Because it also extends to “girls shouldn’t dye their hair green,” “girls shouldn’t have short hair,” etc., it’s all social expectations and conformity, just to different degrees.
For you as a male, visible armpit hair might defy some people’s expectations as what is “polite” to show in a serious environment like college. Some other professors might not like pajamas either, but they know that ship has sailed. It is up to you how much you want to self-censor to “go a long to get along” vs show up how you want to show up and push the boundaries of society.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Not an expert but to remind myself of this intention I wore a pair of red shoes.
- Comment on Notorious image board 4chan hacked and internal data leaked | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
Notorious
internet forumhacker. - Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 6 days ago:
In the US highway driving, sometimes the traffic is so heavy that if you waited for a safe opportunity to put on the blinker, you might not be able to get over at all. But you have to because your exit is on the other side and you have limited time to get over, etc.
What I’ve had to do is put on my blinker indicating my intention, and then wait, and change lanes when it is relatively safe to do so – sometimes only if people let you in. Otherwise you have to cut someone off or trust that they will stop in time. Obviously this is undesirable.
But while I’m waiting for my chance, the drivers behind me will know my intention and can better predict my future actions. They won’t think I’m driving slow and unpredictably. They’ll understand what I’m doing and why.
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 6 days ago:
I haven’t been a fan of Mac OS for several years now, however I am kind of curious what it is like to use these days. My biggest concern with Mac OS is that the system will stop getting updates and new web browsers especially will stop working – this is what happened to my parents’ Mac systems. I guess that was an unspoken requirement – I expect with Linux that my hardware will be supported 15+ years, and I could still use it for some purposes even when the hardware is slow. With apple hardware and software they seem geared towards getting you to buy the latest and greatest hardware. And it looks like it is unclear whether or not community support and reverse engineers will be able to support the hardware in the long run.
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 6 days ago:
Yeah I think I will have to avoid high DPI for the time being.
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 6 days ago:
Hey thanks for asking! It looks like there may be a patch from this November that fixes it: www.spinics.net/lists/…/msg48479.html
The problem was that the keys weren’t sending any input events, so there was nothing the distro or DE could do. But now that there has been a patch I may try it out. :)
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 6 days ago:
Thanks! It’s really good to hear from folks who have had a positive experience trying this.
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- Comment on Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t count that as top 10 downloaded either, but I see how they would count as top installed apps or top most popular.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
I installed npp on one work computer but I don’t want to on the other one. I just want to use what is already installed.
- Comment on How do I best deal with lots of Errors and Warnings after setting up Turnkey-Nextcloud? 1 week ago:
I do not know any Turnkey, so perhaps they have some specific documentation about what to do after installing.
The first time I installed Nextcloud, I did it on bare metal in Debian, following the LearnLinuxTV guide. It went through things like how to configure the Opcache, which is one of the warnings you have. If you’re not following a guide, you’ll have to find one, or search each message individually and research a solution.
Eventually I decided to reinstall with NextcloudPi because they know a lot more about systems administration than me, and had sane defaults set for most things. My first installation had some bugs that were probably from default configurations or mistakes I made perhaps. But I’ve had a good experience with ncp.
One last thing you’ll learn while researching the messages: some may be from bugs in the software that will be solved over time with nextcloud updates. Some will have clear solutions. Some may be generalized messages arising from network instability (like if Nextcloud is trying to sync over a weak Wi-Fi signal sometimes) or a hardware problem that can be tricky to track down, but might not be important. Just make sure you are doing good backups and you’ll be fine.