Osan

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think it considered self-hosting as in self-hosting services/software but not the hardware.

I’m currently using a VPS for multiple reasons. Hardware is kinda expensive where I’m currently living. And due to CGNAT I would need to setup a tailscale node or VPN etc somewhere else anyway. Also home internet isn’t reliable at all here and I may need to access my stuff when outside and regardless if my internet is acting up or there’s a blackout.

Although in the future I’m planning on migrating to a dual setup where my core server lives at home and the public front (along with some smaller services and apps) is on a VPS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Sure fossil fuel was necessary for some time but the only reason we kept going and still dependent on it despite the technological advancements and available alternatives is because of big corporations and some politicians who benefit from the industry (either financially or politically).

We could’ve stopped contributing to climate change some time ago but we choose not to. We can even do it today but we won’t. Change has been painstakingly way slower than necessary because some rich people decided it was not worth the effort.

It’s amazing what humans can achieve when we work together. We stopped using Chlorofluorocarbons and found viable alternatives when we decided it was worth the effort. We’ve eradicated smallpox ffs and we could’ve eradicated more diseases if we choose to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transistors are probably a bit reason we don't live in a steampunk world.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That’s because in the fallout universe the nuclear war happened after electricity, and computers were a thing. I believe steampunk is an alternate timeline where technology advances without advancement in electrical and digital technologies (aka steam and hydro-mechanical energy). That’s a different setting from the nuclear power age of fallout.

I think the difference is based primarily on the main power source (steam, nuclear, or coal).

P.S. I’m not actually sure whether transistors exist or not in the fallout universe they might have existed but where a new underdeveloped technology.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy: Beans ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Did that and all I’m getting is kernel panic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m also not against automation or making machines “smart” it’s just that what companies are marketing nowadays is just mostly overpriced shit.

And by consuming bandwidth I didn’t mean for the indented usage I was mostly talking about the ads which will probably be filled with unnecessary metadata, trackers, unnecessarily large CSS files (if it was web based) and maybe high quality images. All of these things I find completely unnecessary.

Also coming from a computer engineering background if I was living in a “smart households” I would probably want to set up my own firewall. And like I said while I like the idea of home automation I don’t want a corporation to be able to control or access my appliances too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I tried to find the article again but all I can find is stores selling smart fridges etc. Search engines are broken.

I was able to find some links using duckduckgo including the same article from “Tomshardware” so at least that still works.

Again I don’t know why a washing machine would need an internet connection it’s not like you can remotely load it.

I mean I do understand the appeal and usefulness of smart homes and some IoT devices but companies are pushing AI and internet connectivity like it’s some kind of magic that makes any product better. I mean it would be nice to have a centralised panel to view your usage patterns and consumption but even then you don’t need all this overpowered tech stuff.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Wait why the fuck would a fridge be connected to the internet?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when Valve releases a phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think what they meant is that the technology exists since steam frame is an ARM based device it’s just a matter of running it on different hardware and adding firmware support for things like phone calls and touch screens.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's on a mission⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If this how the outside of my window looked in the middle east, a national emergency has probably been declared with hundreds dead or lost and the military dispatched to the streets.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try Butt Nutts Today!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think I saw one online before but it was kinda expensive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah, progress.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Respect the player hate the game, unless the player is just another narcissistic bigot. I often like to make the distinction between my opinion on the system and that of individual human beings in said system. I may say “fuck the police” but also have respect towards a polite police officer that believes he’s doing a good thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative writing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Mine ended with something like “and everyone who is still alive and didn’t die yet lived happily ever after”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah I believe that standardisation is beneficial in general whether it’s capitalism or not. In fact I believe it’s even more beneficial for a non-capitalist society, since yes you could not use the standard but nobody would be able to afford to come up with everything themselves. Unlike companies like apple that can afford having their own proprietary ecosystem including the lightning port. In that case standards could be maintained by non-profit organisations consisting of other organisations with a donation based model. Which is what happens in the real world except for the part where companies step in and put lots of money for their own benefit and to be able to pull these organisations in the direction they desire.

The concept of standardisation isn’t necessary capitalist but the form it exists in today is shaped by the capitalist world we live in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
DNS is also super cool can’t imagine my life without it
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think it’s that some older people tend to be overconfident and think they’ve figured out everything in life (not that this behaviour is exclusive to old people but the older you’re the more likely you’re to think that you know shit). Another factor might be that over time you’re more likely to confirm to your surrounding, being too tired and old to “rebel”.

Just stay curious, open minded and always willing to learn and do new things.

I’ve noticed that most of the professors I liked in college were the ones to admit when they’re wrong, understand that not everyone learn the same and willing to accept nonconventional answers in exams, not use the same material from a decade ago, etc. it might be trivial facts but it shows that on the larger scale this person is still evolving and adapting to their surrounding not being stuck in some old mentality.

I also believe that while age has a role in this it’s not actually about age but rather the mentality the person has and whether they can see the big picture or not. I think the fact that OP has noticed it and didn’t want to become like this is an indication that their mentality is moving in the right direction.

PS: English isn’t my first language and I’m kinda tired while writing this so please forgive me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
RTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In Arabic we use DD/MM/YYYY but it actually gets written as YYYY/MM/DD since Arabic is written and read from right to left. When the year is dropped the confusing part is not what format is used here but rather does this website/software support RTL or is it just regular unformatted ASCII.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At the request of the Turkish government, X blocks access to student and opposition accounts amid nationwide protests.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah some time ago I used to respect these companies I remember when Google condemned the Egyptian government’s actions in 2011 and one of the very popular activists in the revolution was the head of marketing in Google MENA. But now the truth has never been more obvious to me. Individuals may or may not care but corporations will never care.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We do that in Arabic too. It’s called “badal”, a figure of speech where you replace “the whole” with “the part” to emphasize that part’s importance in the context; in this case that would be either where the government is located in the country or where the report originated from.

For example when Arabic news agencies want to refer to the USA’s government they say Washington or the white house. Since that’s usually where the news come from.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo is amping up its AI search tool but will still let you leave it behind⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
LLMs are also feeding into the current state of unwillingness to think of a lot of people. People seem to just want an answer to their questions instead of an explanation. People just want a short version of “the truth” handed to them instead of making the effort to learn, research, and think critically.

While I do believe in the usefulness of AI and the advantages it possesses, but I also think it’s very dangerous in the modern age of “information consumerism”. We should teach kids about AI but also encourage critical thinking and problem solving instead of depending on LLMs to solve our problems for us. At the end LLMs are just machines that guesses what the next word would be according to its training dataset and some sophisticated algorithms for logical “reasoning” and mathematical computions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

How long before AI runs on this?

Biological artificial intelligence would be very very creepy we are basically playing God here. It feels like creation another species so we don’t feel lonely in the universe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
As a computer engineer who has just got into this whole fediverse thing recently I find the concept of decentralised social media to be pretty mesmerizing. I didn’t think people would actually seek the ability to cross-communicate too.