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- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 15 hours ago:
Good lord. I’m not having a debate about the adequacy of an analogy. Well done.
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 18 hours ago:
Like any analogy, it doesn’t perfectly map to the complex issue being analogised (?), but it’s not as absurd as you’re making out.
The architecture for plugin support is not free. Even if no plugins are active the platform is built to support all the extra nonsense.
lighttpd is the leanest webdav implementation i can think of. Obviously it doesn’t have sync and sharing and permissions, but it’s an interesting point of reference demonstrating how over engineered nextcloud really is.
If you’re a fan, and want all of this stuff bundled together then fine, have at it. As I said up top, I am using it but I dislike it immensely.
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 day ago:
Those are add-ons.
Besides which, o365 is not a single self hosted php behemoth.
I’m loathe to extoll the virtues of 365. I don’t use it and never will.
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 day ago:
Oh please. AWD is not “better” 4WD. 2 different things for completely different purposes.
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 day ago:
Sure that’s why I drive my 4wd anywhere i want to go - i don’t want or need 4wd but I can just not use that functionality.
Sorry what office suite is basic NC functionality that has been there for a long time?
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 day ago:
Well if I uninstaller them what would i complain about?
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 day ago:
Nextcloud isn’t a 365 competitor?
It’s filesync with contacts and calendar.
Even once you build in documents and spreadsheets, 365 at least has separate applications for that - its not a single overblown behemoth.
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 day ago:
Kinda sounds awful honestly.
I do use nextcloud for my small team. It’s the best of the selfhosted file sync platforms.
That said, it’s obscenely over engineered.
Who ever wanted a file sync platform that also does calendaring and contacts?
- Comment on Why do people especially men care if someone forgives a cheating partner 1 day ago:
Whether to forgive a cheating partner is a divisive issue. Some people say it’s something they could never move past, others just don’t think it’s a big deal.
I don’t think it’s necessarily men or women - its both. Probably more men commented on your boyfriend’s post because he’s a man.
I can imagine it would be a pretty awful feeling to be in your position - you’ve acknowledged that you messed up, you’ve worked through it with your partner, and now all these people casting judgement on you without understanding the circumstances.
There’s a lot of different aspects to this. The web is full of “drama llamas”. My guilty pleasure is reading /r/aitah posts, even though I know they’re fake it’s still really engaging and reading everyone’s comments is interesting. People say things online that they would just never say to your face. So comments are way more hurtful.
My advice has two parts:
ask your boyfriend to delete the post because the people commenting don’t really know you or the situation and it’s very hurtful
Secondly think through what you would tell a good friend who had been through something like this, it’s probably something like "yeah you did mess up, but everyone does sooner or later, you’ve learned a lot and you’ve worked through it, " et cetera.
- Comment on Digital drivers licence anti-fraud technology only a 'cheap coding trick' 1 day ago:
Yeah, the article doesn’t really examine how the app is using QR and what a more appropriate approach might be, it’s just complaining that the hologram doesn’t confirm authenticity - which it’s not intended to.
- Comment on Digital drivers licence anti-fraud technology only a 'cheap coding trick' 2 days ago:
I think this article is a bit of a beat-up borne of a misunderstanding of security and the design requirements of the app.
Only an idiot would think that the “hologram” from the app is intended to be a real hologram. Of course phones can’t do that. The “hologram” is simply an image in the background that moves when you move the phone. It prevents people from taking a screen shot of their license and sharing that photo with their friend. That’s it. It prevents the most basic of attacks, and does so very effectively. It does not prevent other more sophisticated attacks.
In low risk situations looking at someone’s ID and confirming that it’s not just a screen shot of someone else’s might be satisfactory.
As they said in the article, if you want to be sure the ID is legit you can scan the QR code.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 5 days ago:
I had a feeling this would lead nowhere.
precisely the point I was trying to make.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 5 days ago:
Oh man.
My comment was intended to imply that the term “hacking” defies definition because it has been grossly overused and misconstrued over many decades.
Sure you might be able to convey what it means to you but of course it means different things to everyone else, with each definition being equally appropriate.
Er go, any discussion is one of semantics.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 6 days ago:
Define hacking.
- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 6 days ago:
Interstitial cheese and pickle.
- Comment on Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload 6 days ago:
Correct.
Suppose you wanted students to upload assignments or something.
I’m gonna try out sftpgo when I have a minute. Docs say it does this.
- Comment on Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload 6 days ago:
Not really. Nextcloud does this. They call it a “file drop”.
Like you create a share link for a folder, and then specify that users of that link can’t see any files, only upload.
- Comment on Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload 6 days ago:
I was looking at this. Best option i found prior to making this post.
- Comment on Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload 6 days ago:
That was the first place I looked.
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- Comment on What are ways to independently make a few bucks on the side? 1 week ago:
I’m a tax consultant, so I see a lot of people’s side hustles.
As other’s here have said, once you monetise a hobby it’s not a fun hobby anymore… just another responsibility.
Take the beads thing for example. Carving some beads to make some cool jewellery sounds like a great hobby, and you could make some really amazing unique gifts for family. However, if you want to make money from it then you need to compete with other etsy vendors - you’ll very quickly find the pieces that sell and then it becomes a question of how many of those pieces you can turn out per hour or per day.
Economically, making money requires time, or skill, or capital. The most appropriate will be a mix of all three that fits your circumstances. As a “side hustle” you kinda want a little of each rather than a lot of each. Good examples might be:
- window cleaning - for businesses or residences
- gutter cleaning - get one of those telescopic pole thingies with a camera so you don’t actually need to go on anyones roof
- lawn mowing - just a few customers in your street
These things aren’t “hobbies” but they will be a lot more satisfying, enjoyable, and profitable than carving beads.
- Comment on 3D-printed drill press can drill through metal — costs around $45 to create your own drill press 1 week ago:
It does kinda say this in the article.
I will add though, the main reason to use a drill press is precision, and it’s hard to imagine a 3D printed structure wouldn’t flex and warp during use.
- Comment on I'm the creator of Seedit and I'm here to share how it works and clear up some Concerns/FUDS 1 week ago:
Sure ok. If this is some crypto BS then that’s reason enough to avoid the platform.
I just didn’t think the CSAM angle is much of a criticism, even if they did try to minimise it.
- Comment on I'm the creator of Seedit and I'm here to share how it works and clear up some Concerns/FUDS 1 week ago:
This seems kinda harsh.
CSAM distribution is possible on pretty much any platform.
As long as the platform isn’t obfuscating a user’s IP address then I don’t see how it’s any worse than any other platform.
A few weeks ago everyone in this community was fawning over some dev’s new anonymous zero-knowledge file sharing platform and no one seemed to care that it would be overrun with CSAM.
- Comment on Is it normal that my world views, opinions of myself, and mood changes extremely rapidly (within seconds/minutes) several times per day? 1 week ago:
It’s a glorified autocomplete, nothing more.
This statement is really just saying that an LLM can not reason about it’s assertions.
- Comment on Is it normal that my world views, opinions of myself, and mood changes extremely rapidly (within seconds/minutes) several times per day? 1 week ago:
“Mood swings” are a common misconception of bipolar disorder. Wikipedia says:
Most people who meet criteria for bipolar disorder experience a number of episodes, on average 0.4 to 0.7 per year, lasting three to six months. Rapid cycling, however, is a course specifier that may be applied to any bipolar subtype. It is defined as having four or more mood disturbance episodes within a one-year span.
So episodes of mania, hypomania, or depression occur over weeks and months rather than hours.
- Comment on If you were to launch a rocketship parallel to the earth, on wheels, how big would the ramp have to be to get it into space? 1 week ago:
I don’t know anything about physics and orbits other than what I learned from Simple Rockets on android, but from what I know it’s always about how fast you’re moving rather than how far away you are.
You’re thinking that if you get far enough away then earth’s gravity won’t effect you any more, but it’s not really like that. The effect does diminish as you move further away (inverse square law!) but you’re still going to be effected, as in “how far away from this star do I need to go before I can no longer see it?”
In practice, you’ll become far more effected by the Sun’s gravity than you are by Earth’s gravity, long before you really escape Earth’s gravity.
That’s why the answer to this question is how fast you need to go, rather than how high you need to be. If you could fire yourself out of a canon at 25,000 mph and were uneffected by atmospheric drag you’d leave Earth’s area of influence faster than Earth can haul you back - so you escape.
However, if you were floating stationary 25,000 miles from Earth and uneffected by any other cellestial bodies, you’re going to fall down Earth’s gravity well.
Again, I don’t really know anything about orbital mechanics so I suppose someone and their LLM will be along shortly to tell me how wrong I am.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 week ago:
This is the answer.
You can’t reason someone out of an unreasonable position.
The only response is to ask them what evidence they would require to change their position.
They’ll inevitably reveal that their assertions are merely beliefs because it’s not practically possible to prove nor disprove them.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
is vibe coding just using an llm to assist or whatever?
- Comment on Australia overtakes China in the Pacific as the U.S vacates the lane: Public perceptions of influence see Australia surge ahead as the “permanent contest” unfolds | Lowy Institute poll 1 week ago:
As an Australian, I don’t have a lot of faith in Australian’s understanding of global politics generally.