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- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 3 hours ago:
Nah.
Piracy was just my gateway.
I dont have a media server anymore.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 9 hours ago:
Piracy, basically.
Self-hosting wasn’t my intention, I just wanted a media server. Then a media server that downloaded all my stuff easily. Then a server that was more accessible. Then a server that had better Wife-Approval-Factor.
- Comment on What are we being distracted from? 9 hours ago:
I’m really weary of the whole attitude of “we’re being distracted from x”. Like the comments on every awful thing the Trump admin does saying “what about the Epstein files”.
Yes, the Epstein stuff is a big deal and they need to release those files. However, there’s are litany of other shit going on that is also worthy of attention.
They’re not distracting anyone from anything. They’re flooding the zone. There’s so much shit going on that opposition to any specific issue can’t get any traction.
Is shit.
- Comment on You board a train, board a bus, and board a ship, but you don't board a car 1 day ago:
Not true. When you’re in a car you’re “onboard”.
- Comment on Most food animals are smarter than a baby. 1 day ago:
I can’t remember the details but I remember reading something about this. In the evolutionary sense there’s a trade off for our big sophisticated brains. We’re not born fully developed, we need another year or so just to build out the wiring and muscles necessary to walk even.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 day ago:
Well they got rid of the users they didn’t want so from their perspective, yeah.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 day ago:
This might shock you but they don’t care about your experience. Everyone made loads of money.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 day ago:
This is exactly what I’m talking about.
After the reddit “collapse” of 2024 their market cap was > $6b following their IPO in November 2024. Right now it’s $28b.
Yes, reddit is a cesspool and the UX has dropped off a cliff.
I’m sure /u/spez is tarrified that some dweeb on lemmy decided “it’s going to catch up with them”.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 days ago:
LOL. Keep telling yourself that mate.
This is just supposition. They have the hard data.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 days ago:
… and yet, that’s not what im talking about.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 days ago:
Thats not my point though.
At the time reddit closed their API to third parties loads of idiots were saying it was the end of reddit.
In reality reddit just sanitised their user base.
- Comment on Sydney protest: NSW premier defends police in ‘impossible situation’ after accusations of violence against protesters 2 days ago:
That’s some fucken bullshit right there.
That footage of bike guy shows their actions were indefensible. What the fuck was going on there?
Why not demonstrate our commitment to accountability by suspending the coppers throwing punches until their actions can be investigated.
- Comment on Sydney protest: NSW premier defends police in ‘impossible situation’ after accusations of violence against protesters 2 days ago:
Fuck off Abbott. IDK why he’s felt the need to increase his profile since the coalition shat itself but I suspect that no sitting member of parliament appreciates his input.
As ever, his rhetoric is as divisive and out of touch as ever.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 days ago:
“I categorically cannot trust tech companies with that kind of personal data,” wrote one frustrated user, with many hoping they might be able to convince Discord to do a U-turn with enough public pressure. Others went further. “What a great way to kill your community,” added another longtime user, while some predicted “that’s game over for Discord” and remarked ruefully that “privacy on the internet is truly dead”.
LOL. Just like Netflix price increases, or reddit third party apps thing, the protest will barely register in usage metrics and discord will carry on.
These companies have effectively infinite resources with which to test changes with user reference groups, model potential outcomes, and mitigate risks. It’s pure hubris to suggest that you have a better understanding of Discord’s user base than they do.
The vaaast majority of users will just do the video age test and never think about it again.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I dont mean to seem insensitive but hasn’t this been going on since forever?
I remember several years ago a friend of mine trying to explain to their kid why they couldn’t play roblox.
- Comment on Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws 3 days ago:
The history of harassment, Palestine, and israel is largely irrelevant.
If a law prescribes (proscribes?) specific phrases regadless of intent and context, they should be chosen very, very carefully.
Im not an expert, but i think other states require a context like “intended to incite hatred”.
By prescribing this particular phrase, even if you are correct, it allows harassment to portray Palestine as ignored and persecuted - the very intention of terrorism.
- Comment on Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws 4 days ago:
You’re going to have to elaborate on how “from the desert to the sea” implies genocide.
- Comment on Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws 4 days ago:
The fuck?
I don’t understand all of the connotations of the phrase, (I doubt queensland parliamentarians do either). I do understand palestinians ancestral land is bordered by the river and the sea.
That said, this sounds very much like making wrong think a crime. Nobody is allowed to acknowledge that Israel used to be Palestine because that would upset the Israelis.
In Australia in the last decade there has been a movement towards recognising first australians as the traditional owners of the land on which we live and work. It’s often mentioned in podcasts, emails, public announcements et cetera. More and more signage has both European and Aboriginal place names.
The term “truth telling” has emerged to describe the practice of acknowledging historical facts rather than pretending they didn’t happen.
If a group of indigenous Australians chanted “from the desert to the sea”, would that be hate speech ?
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 4 days ago:
Hmm. An interesting point and a good consideration - maybe a reason not to make this recommendation to others. In my own case I’m not concerned.
I’m using 1tb SSDs. They’re pretty cheap now. I don’t think they suffer from any of the problems you’ve described?
I couldn’t find any information about longevity offline vs online. In daily use SSDs do seem to be more reliable than HDDs, particularly as they get older.
The other thing is my strategy is something like 4-3-2, so the offline is an additional final hail mary. The chances that I would require it and it would have failed in the month or so since I updated it are infinitessimal.
Finally there are practical considerations. My offline copy resides in a physical safe in our house, and is unencrypted. If I were to die suddenly, this would be the most accessible copy of important documents, family photos, et cetera.
It’s not a perfect system but it’s “pretty good” and I’m hoping I don’t die suddenly so there’s that LOL.
- Comment on weed can increase anxiety some say. does CBD oil have that effect too? 5 days ago:
My psychiatrist said that the empirical evidence shows its only mildly “effective” for comparatively few people.
I tried it consistently for a few months. Not effective at all for me.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 days ago:
I’m not judging you but this just seems so uncomfortable to be.
I sleep in these cool long john pant things. when I wake up I put a shirt on and potter around for a few hours in that outfit doing my own thing before the kids wake up. Only then do I get dressed for the day.
Everyone has their own routine I guess.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 days ago:
Do you take your shoes off for that or just walk inside?
Yeah shoes off. It’s a pain in the butt.
However, you often wear shoes that are easier to take off / put on.
Also, you just learn to really check that you’ve got everything before you put your shoes on.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 5 days ago:
As others have said, sync isn’t backup - if you inadvertently delete something then it will get deleted everywhere.
I’ve been using borgmatic (config interface for borg) for many years.
A long while ago I switched to catch and release for media. Curating a large collection just took too much effort, and backing it up was too impractical. Like you probably have 200gb of movies, 20gb of photos, and 20mb of personal documents. These categories have different risk profiles - for me an offsite air gapped backup of movies would be excessive, but personal documents absolutely isn’t. It’s just an important consideration when designing a backup system.
That said, 200gb isn’t that much, and restic / borg will de-duplicate your archives anyway. Just something to keep in mind.
A low powered PC in someone else’s apartment satisfies the second location requirement. Will DNS be a problem?
An alternative is to get 2x external drives. Keep one in your house and update it whenever, then take it to your sister’s whenever you visit and swap it with the one left there.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 days ago:
I’m not an expert but my partner is from SE Asia.
She’s quite judgemental and inflexible about this. I’m not condoning her views but they might provide some cultural insights.
Shoes on inside is perceived as rude. It’s particularly awkward when you go to someone elses house and they ask you to leave your shoes on. Taking your shoes off is tied up with hygiene and reverence and respect and being asked to disregard that is being asked to… diminish yourself in some way.
People in our orbit tend to wear footwear you can just slip on and off. That doesn’t mean sandals or flip flops. You just tie off your laces at the “right” length and you can slip them off without untying, and slip them on by, at worst, putting your finger in behind your heel to pull them into place. Some shoes just don’t work in this way, and these are reserved for longer outings like work et cetera.
We do have several communal pairs of slippers for use exclusively in the tiled area of our living room. They’re just really cheap practically disposable open toed slippers. The kind you get in hotels.
We have toddlers and, thankfully they seem to be excluded from the shoe-rules.
- Comment on Australian renewables exceed 50% of power supply in Q4 6 days ago:
Renewable generation supplied more than half of Australia’s electricity in the fourth quarter of 2025, driving wholesale power prices down by nearly 50% and coinciding with record battery output, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). Coal-fired generation fell 4.6% year on year to a record quarterly low, while gas-fired output dropped 27% to its lowest level in 25 years.
Pretty great. Nice to see some positive news once in a while.
I love that the market is just getting on with the quiet business of decarbonisation.
- Comment on Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic. 6 days ago:
The most annoying part - the recipients email client probably offered to summarise with an LLM. My bot makes slop for your bot to interpret.
Its the most inefficient form of communication ever devised. Please decompress my prompt 1000x so the recipient can compress it back to my prompt.
I will say though, even a chatgpt email tells you a lot about the sender.
- Comment on We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago 1 week ago:
I think cave art is also quite intimate. Like the hand prints and stencils are very human.
- Comment on We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago 1 week ago:
I think it might be possible to… over-state that.
Im sure that in some regions many of these oral histories are preserved, but in others they’ve sadly been lost to time. In my region there aren’t any youth spending their days learning these histories, and I doubt there have been for the last 5 or 6 decades really.
Even Aboroginal place names are very unreliable.
- Comment on We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago 1 week ago:
I’ve heard it as a witticism amongst new parents - no idea what im doing but all of my ancestors seem to have figured it out.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 1 week ago:
I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.
Yeah if you’re in the lane I’m merging into then two taps means “it’s ok for you to merge in because there’s enough room for you”. That’s more than 2 beats though.
Maybe you mean “o kay” or “yes merge” or “no stop” or “look out” or “nice car”