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- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 day ago:
Anything to not hire people uh
- Comment on How do you manage messages across multiple apps? 1 day ago:
I’m a bit late to the party but the stack I run is what Beeper uses. If you don’t mind handing them your IMs it’s exactly what they host and it works great (used it for a year before I decided to host my own things).
- Comment on New open world parkour game Panline is so exact a reflection of Mirror's Edge it gives me vertigo 3 days ago:
Oooh i’ll keep an eye on that. I reinstall Mirror’s Edge regularly, always loved it.
- Comment on How do you manage messages across multiple apps? 3 days ago:
Matrix bridges. I run my own matrix instance with bridges to the services I use (google messages, whatsapp, irc, discord; there are other bridges available) so I can use one client for all.
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 1 week ago:
Seriously… kitty, rawtherapee, keepassxc, python, the freaking linux kernel!
- Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 1 week ago:
Plus the default server and client are bloated and buggy
I’m not sure why people keep repeating this. I’ve been running both for 6 months without issues (see recent comment about DB maintenance). Maybe it was true before and isn’t true anymore.
- Comment on A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone. 2 weeks ago:
The sign in the thumbnail… it’s hardly a secret.
- Comment on Higher tariffs likely this week, says US Treasury 2 weeks ago:
Right after they were ruled illegal? … OK
- Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion 2 weeks ago:
Sounds about right.
- Comment on Introducing Wayfindr: Your Gateway to the Fediverse! 2 weeks ago:
The “theme pack” links are a great idea!
- Comment on The reason why the US president loves McDonald's so much is simply because he's a world-class narcissist and it sounds like it's named after him. That's it. 2 weeks ago:
Lol, surreal.
- Comment on The reason why the US president loves McDonald's so much is simply because he's a world-class narcissist and it sounds like it's named after him. That's it. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t buy it… Certainly the kitchens in the white house have a whole security process to guarantee the procurement chain wasn’t tainted.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 2 weeks ago:
And, importantly, run the db on postgre, not sqlite, and implement the regular db maintenance steps explained in the wiki. I’ve been running mine like that in a small VM for about 6 months, i join large communities, run whatsapp, gmessages and discord bridges, and my DB is 400MB.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Uh? It’s actually a pretty formal language, with very precise grammatical rules people will spend your life correcting you about.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They do call it “open source” in the docs though.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I noticed it in the favicon too. Bad aftertaste.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I know, and yet the code is open source. Confusing.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Paywalled article. Here’s the link to the app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jetzt
- Comment on Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use 3 weeks ago:
It’s teaching them what’s good to consume or not and how tell the difference by themselves that’s important. Teching them how to think basically. So parenting. Not watching them, not spying on them asking “why that site”. Parental control filters only work for so long, but they help. My experience using parental control however to limit screen time only taught our kid to absolutely maximize whatever screentime she had. So kind of addicted. But, pretty good at telling what’s toxic.
- Comment on China: DeepSeek Paints Grim Picture of Its Home Country 3 weeks ago:
Sure but it’s not the point of the article, it’s about guardrails not working, as the AI is clearly spouting ideas unapproved in China.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 3 weeks ago:
Yeah for that I like Canonical’s way with netplan. Write a very short and simple yaml, “netplan apply”, 'k tx bye.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 4 weeks ago:
Yeah for us it was “return to office”. Entire team was remote and has been the 9 years I worked there.
- Comment on X’s Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative 4 weeks ago:
We didn’t listen!!
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 4 weeks ago:
Some poor government employee is going to see loooots of dildos
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 4 weeks ago:
CEOs have also bought into AI almost to a person, and are using it to replace workers, results be damned. AI can’t do the things they believe it can, but to them, if they can fake satisfying a need with AI for $5, that is preferable to actually satisfying a need with a real employee for $10.
Yep that’s exactly how me and my entire team were laid off. “Automatization”.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (13 February 2026) 4 weeks ago:
I look forward to these posts/emails every week, keep up the good work please :)
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 5 weeks ago:
Good on mobile but on desktop the UI is way too big i find
- Anybody knows why portainer can check if some images hosted on ghcr.io are out of date but not others?lemmy.today ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Women's razor ads use bare legs but cleaning products don't use clean floors. 5 weeks ago:
Same for men’s shaving ads really. They’re all about an already perfectly shaven guy just scooping soap out of his face with a razor.
