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- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 3 weeks ago:
A lot of people can get used to it. I actually can’t sleep without it now, and I use the full face model. It’s almost comforting now. That said, some people truly cannot get used to a full face mask. If it’s an option, they do make nasal masks (only covers your nose) and nasal pillows (kind of just rests under your nose.)
I’ve heard there are even more cutting edge options out there but I never looked into them since I’m fine with what I have, but it’s definitely worth doing some research about. Quality sleep really can be life changing if it’s achievable.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update October 2025 3 weeks ago:
Beep boop, newsletter ingested. Thank you admin for this tasty data meal.
- Comment on Mr. Pope 3 weeks ago:
This is by design; it’s difficult to demonize “the others” if you have even a drop of compassion.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 4 weeks ago:
Between that, this, and Disney+ cancellation page “accidentally” going down during that fiasco, this is exactly why I’ve switched to using only virtual cards for subscriptions. Pause/Cancel the virtual card, voila, no more subscription.
- Comment on Efficiency! 4 weeks ago:
Can confirm. On the flip side, I did get an interview once, and I asked them why they reached out to me and it was because of some random part time job I held struck their fancy. All things being equal, there is no reason why you get an interview or not, it’s no different than a slot machine.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t IHOP do something similar by claiming that they were going to change their name to IHOB?
“IHOb also issued a press release about the change and still used the original “IHOP” in its footer, suggesting the switch was a temporary promotion.”
Seems so. Source.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 5 weeks ago:
Well, this abstract says it’s about 20% effective over not advertising but this is a meta analysis and isn’t focused exclusively on internet ads.
The baked in biases being that the authors are “a German chaired professor of marketing at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany” and his research assistant.
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 5 weeks ago:
Ahh, Manna.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for posting that. I was looking for confirmation or debunk and this adds some clarity.
- Comment on Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder 5 weeks ago:
My favorite personal fuck up was when I accidentally locked myself (and literally everyone else in the company) out of the CRM I was working on by disabling the login pages and enabling SSO before I had finished setting up the SSO inside the CRM’s config, and it logged me out as part of the procedure. Whoops.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 1 month ago:
My biggest use case has been in data formatting. “Here’s a big list of numbers, output it back to me as (String) (Number) (String) (break) (Number)” stuff like that. Before AI I made a little python program to do stuff like that for me but I lost it on my old work computer pre-COVID and never whipped one up again. Writing it out now, I should do that again lol.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 month ago:
Oh, I know. No preaching required. I’m from pre-internet days. That’s why I agree with you. Being this dependent on the internet is not good for me or anyone else.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 month ago:
It would be a big struggle for me but I still agree with you.
- Comment on Linkwarden v2.12 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀 1 month ago:
Nice. Started using it just a couple weeks ago. I tested a big chunk of them and while Linkwarden isn’t perfect, it does everything better than everything else I tried.
Do we self-hosters need to do anything special? I remember looking at some docs about upgrading versions, but I don’t know how to tell which version I have.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
Sad times. :(
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
I will admit that I am not tech savvy enough to understand all the nuances. What I know is what I’ve read which is most likely popular opinion. So I definitely will credit your point.
This is a slight deviation from the topic at hand, but I do want to state that I have been thinking about pre… Web 2.0 I suppose we could call it? That sweet spot when the internet was fairly new but becoming popular enough that plenty of (youngish, at the time) people could navigate it. And there were a lot of challenges to get things people wanted to do. I remember struggling with image hosting so I could put a pretty picture in my signature on the forums I frequented. But where there is a will, there is a way. A lot of people figured out some sort of solution. It took varying levels of commitment and creativity. And I think that’s actually a good thing. I think it taught valuable skills and fostered curious mindsets. I don’t think it would be a bad thing if some of the tools of ease and convenience were taken away and people had to start figuring out alternative solutions, especially younger generations who haven’t been forced to do that.
Would they? I’m not sure. I’d like to be optimistic and say yes. But the pessimistic part of me thinks that if a web service giant were to fall, all it would do is create a vacuum for someone else to take their place. If Imgur were to somehow disappear because they were unprofitable, some other website would pop up in its place, promising everything users want and more, for free no less. Backed by venture capitalist money perhaps. Then, over time, succumbing to the same situation that it feels like every mainstream service does, trying to claw back that investment money and start turning a profit.
This is a bit of a rambling reply, I know, so apologies for making you read all this. I’m not looking to pick a fight. But I do stand by my pithy reaction image. I’m not sympathetic to Imgur. I’m not sure what the ‘best’ solution is, but I don’t think the constant pattern we’ve been seeing is the only one, let alone a good one.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
There are a lot of servers, and anyone can spin up one if they want to and have the capability. I thought the point of the fediverse was to decentralize–and ideally there wouldn’t be any singularly “big” instances. I know there are, but there doesn’t necessarily have to be.
At any rate I donate to Zip because I think they’re great and I can and I do want them to continue. No need for them to do anything more than that to earn my desire to support them.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
Honestly I think it’s a great way to get into self-hosting without having to worry too much! I don’t have any one specific guide to point you towards. I just got started a few weeks ago myself, and mostly brushed off some old skills I’d known from other projects and doing a LOT of searching of videos and posts and articles and just figuring things out as I went. So the best I can do is tell you some topics you’re going to want to learn about.
Assuming you’ll want to start small and easy (not needing to expose anything to the internet, just local area network stuff), I recommend you search up the following topics:
- Linux commands (if you don’t know them already)
- Running a virtual machine (if you don’t have some hardware lying around that you can use to run as your ‘server.’ Old laptops are a fantastic starting point if you do. But if not you can definitely experiment with a VM on your PC!)
- Docker & Docker Compose (in that order if you don’t find some two-in-one resource)
That should give you enough to start toying around and trying things out. And once you start doing that, you start unearthing what you don’t know and that’ll point you towards the next thing you need to learn. :)
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Me either, so I’m searching up what I can and bookmarking it to read later. There’s always more to learn!
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
Without knowing specifically what issue you ran into, it might not be user error. A lot of public instances for privacy frontends wind up going down for all sorts of reasons (server overload/scraped to death by bots, had to end server due to costs, API changes to the underlying service breaking something, just to name a few.) Part of the reason I started looking into self-hosting stuff was just to prop up some privacy frontends for my own use.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
Might be worth checking out WAFRN if you want something tumblr-like!
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
If it can’t be monetised then it will die.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 1 month ago:
Tough times for that. Every interview or recruiter I’ve spoken with lately, I say the words “PTO” and/or “work life balance” and they act like I said a dirty word.
- Comment on I'll take care of it Alfred 2 months ago:
- Comment on Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome! 2 months ago:
Thank you! I’d heard of Proxmox but not looked into it yet.
- Comment on Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome! 2 months ago:
Had my first need to do a backup last night for my self-hosted VPS. It was a bit sad I had to, but I was glad it was there. Now I’m trying to figure out how to do it for my microPC-turned-mini-server.
- Comment on A simpler time 2 months ago:
If anything it feels like the purest form of meme for something to be quoted repeatedly like that lol
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 2 months ago:
Legit same, I thought for sure this was the Onion.
- Comment on Better Watch Out Eddy 2 months ago:
Just a friendly reminder.
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