Confused_Emus
@Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 1 day ago:
Mostly referring to the recent rumblings about their potential IPO. Once shareholders get their hands on something, it’s all downhill.
Matrix supports “bridges” for a number of third party services so you can keep in contact with friends who haven’t made the transition to federated services.
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 1 day ago:
Other than Lemmy, I’ve got a self-hosted and federated Matrix instance. I don’t actually do much with Matrix at the moment, it’s mostly the result of me tinkering with self-hosted services. I did recently bridge it to Discord, and I’ve let my friends know it’s a potential alternative if Discord continues going down the shitter.
- Comment on Nokia Put a 4G Cellular Network on the Moon but Couldn’t Make a Phone Call 1 day ago:
You’re encouraging violence! clutches pearls and swoons
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 3 days ago:
Trade it for something a little lies swastikar-y.
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 1 week ago:
I tried using DuckDNS for a while for DDNS, but noticed it seemed to have frequent periods of a few minutes each when it just wouldn’t resolve. Also was unable to get a matrix/synapse setup working behind it. It’s handy as a free service and nice if you just need basic DDNS, but it’s not the most reliable for hosting stuff from my experience.
I eventually settled on buying my own domain. Was much cheaper and easier to figure out DNS management than I was expecting, and my hosted services run so smoothly now.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 week ago:
Are people just going to keep reposting this misleading shit headline of a post until no one reads the article and just goes along with it?
Are the people constantly reposting this even reading the article and realizing how illiterate they look?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s me, the unfiltered military guy. Gonna need to see that proof again.
- Comment on Man Trying to Buy Entire Landfill to Recover Lost Bitcoin Hard Drive 3 weeks ago:
Almost wish the guy would find it so this non-news story would stop making the rounds every few weeks with no new details. Doesn’t even tickle my sense of schadenfreude anymore.
- Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol. 4 weeks ago:
That part I think I understand. Capitol buildings tend to be kinda empty during the weekend.
- Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol. 4 weeks ago:
This event would have faired a lot better if it had any sort of actual organization and a core team of organizers to answer questions and provide solid information. All of my friends who would have been interested in an event like this decided to avoid it because there just wasn’t enough information for it to not seem “sketchy,” and something so poorly organized was likely to only draw small groups of supporters, thus reducing the “safety in numbers” that protesters would greatly benefit from against a crowd of fascist police and anti-protesters.
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 4 weeks ago:
Testing a new AI moderator in production, I’d wager.
- Comment on Should i selfhost? 2 months ago:
I use Watchtower for keeping my containers up to date (apologies if you’re already familiar). Has been very much a set-it-and-forget-it experience.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 2 months ago:
If the days start cooling down at noon for you, you’re closer to the outlier set than me.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 2 months ago:
Ever notice during the summer the hottest part of the day is usually around 3 or 4 in the afternoon instead of at noon? Same thing, just on the order of months instead of a day.
- Comment on Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69 3 months ago:
If one does watch and enjoy it, I recommend they do not watch the sequel.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 4 months ago:
The problem is slowing it down to any speed that would end up with it dropping into the sun is going to take more effort and be more difficult than firing it out of the solar system. It isn’t practical.
- Comment on hard to argue with 4 months ago:
How’d the professor like it? Sounds like an interesting topic, I’d hope it was a good grade.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 4 months ago:
The bronzer has likely seeped in and turned all the organs a disgusting orangish-brown.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 5 months ago:
Virginia is actually named for Elizabeth I, the “Virgin Queen.”
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 5 months ago:
Unfortunately a dollar in cut costs is more valuable than employee talent these days.
- Comment on Smh 5 months ago:
I’d love to work in Antarctica. I’d never pass the psych evaluation, though. Would be just my luck I’d have one of my major depression episodes and decide it’s a good idea to go freeze to death in the frozen desert. Given how great my last few days have been, it honestly doesn’t sound like a terrible idea now.
- Comment on Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead 5 months ago:
I’m somewhat confused since one of the four states cited as rejecting it is Alabama, which is also the state this article is based in. What gives?
- Comment on We lost Keanu 5 months ago:
Plato wasn’t writing in some long-dead obscure language that we only have vague translations of, it was Greek. It’s not a matter of interpretation.
- Comment on Snow Leopard 5 months ago:
Even with the red circle I can’t see it.
- Comment on How come drug dealers seem to have a messed up house or at least a messed up car with a bunch of trash in it? 5 months ago:
Search for basement bargain priced drugs, get basement bargain drug dealers.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 5 months ago:
Definitely makes sense - security concerns aside, the less crowded the broadcast space, the happier all the APs are.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 5 months ago:
Should be, yes. At that point it’s a question of how well the network was configured. I’d hope this wouldn’t much of an issue these days - I did graduate from college in 2011, and I’m sure (hopeful) campus networks have improved since my student IT job days. These days my router config experience is from the ISP side. The only private network I’m responsible for is my own, thankfully!
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 5 months ago:
Some of my other replies address that. Worked in IT on a college campus, and every class will have at least a few clueless users who just plug the cables into the LAN ports.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 5 months ago:
I’m not getting pissy about anything. That’s projection on your part, reading a tone that wasn’t there. Just because you’re in a bad mood today doesn’t mean the rest of the internet is.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 5 months ago:
I’m sure OP is given the more technical nature of Lemmy users. But this thread about the average college student with no networking knowledge.