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- Comment on Seeing lemmy all over Google search results gives me hope 8 hours ago:
Neat
I wonder how Google (and the search engines that depend on Google) decide which person/entity to feature in the snippet. At what point would Lemmy the software replace Lemmy the person?
For example, “Swift” brings up the financial organization, while “Taylor” brings up Taylor Swift
- Comment on I Tested PerfectEssayWriterAI for a Week in October—impressed! 1 day ago:
In addition to downvoting, please report the post so that admins can take care of it.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 2 days ago:
This sounds more like a ship of Theseus style question
Is the person with amnesia still the same “person”. I assume the question would also need to enforce the type/extent of the amnesia
- Comment on Check out our new Tutorials community 3 days ago:
Appreciate it, thanks for sharing your work! :)
Another advantage of AkshrikaTutorials is that you’ll be free to make tutorials about anything in the future, not just Microsoft products
- Comment on Check out our new Tutorials community 3 days ago:
Instead of !tutorials@lemmy.zip, it would be better if you made it !mstutorials . Or else you’re going to get people posting other tutorials there
Alternatively, !akshira_tutorials if this is specifically content from your page
- Comment on Jellyfin inquiry 3 days ago:
Is tailscale running / logged in on those other devices? Does it auto detect the server like it did on the phone?
- Comment on A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities? 5 days ago:
Imo it might be easier to collaboratively build keyword lists. It’s tedious to tag posts manually, and it becomes impossible to do it effectively after the user base grows past a certain point. You can auto-remove any post that isn’t tagged, but a lot of people dislike that kind of filtering and only a few communities would implement something like that
- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 5 days ago:
In case the tags don’t work from Piefed, I’ll try as well
- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 5 days ago:
It’s a project that’s compiling a map of wifi/cell tower/bluetooth locations for location services. GPS doesn’t work well in some cases (indoors, remote locations, areas with tall buildings) and so big companies have built similar databases to get accurate location information, but those ones are proprietary / private. This project is intended to be a public / openly licensed version of that, while also
- Comment on Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way 5 days ago:
Wow that was a cool read, especially the ending
Although luckily for this colony, they no longer have to turn on their own: In 2016, researchers installed a wooden boardwalk (below) in the bunker, connecting the ventilation pipe to the ground. Within four months, nearly all the trapped ants had deserted the bunker floor.
Now, when any ants are unfortunate enough to fall into the dark chamber, they don’t have to resort to cannibalism. They can just calmly walk the plank, all the way home.
I wonder if the ants have an understanding of what’s down in the hole, since now they can visit without dying there. Some ants “grieve”, and this colony was confirmed to have grave areas down in the former hole colony, but maybe they have no reason to wander down there?
- Submitted 6 days ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 1 week ago:
For sure, I’ll also edit them into the post
Example 1:
- My post: lemmy.ca/comment/19153240
- How they see it: sfba.social/…/115267196743748430
Example 2:
- My post: lemmy.ca/comment/19202083
- How they see it: mas.to/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115283224174559468
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Comet browser - why? 1 week ago:
IMO it’s partially because investors are willing to throw money at anything “AI” related, and so people are throwing everything at the wall in case something sticks
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
Have you tried the third party ones? I’ve seen recommendations for Swiftfin
- Comment on how come Lemmy show more upvoted posts further down the thread instead of at the top? 1 week ago:
join-lemmy.org/docs/…/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Here is an explanation for each sorting type. It sounds like you’re looking for “Top”. I personally prefer Scaled so that I get some content from the small communities I’m subscribed to
- Comment on YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 2 weeks ago:
I think if you don’t have an account with them, the only relevant bit is here
www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DPRO
If a LinkedIn account shared something with your information, you can file a request about it
- Comment on Self Hosting Guide 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure which guides to recommend, but in case it helps narrow down your search, you could share more about your situation:
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Do you have any existing hardware or are you planning to buy? If so, what is the budget for the equipment and where in the world are you approximately?
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What did you want to self host? Some services would benefit from a certain type of setup. For example, if you’re serving lots of media, if you need redundancy and uptime, if you’re running AI models or something that needs a GPU
General tips:
- take lots of notes on your process. This will help you iteratively improve your setup. If it all falls apart, it will be easier to quickly get going again since you know what options you picked at each step.
- Make more posts here when you get stuck on something :)
For Linux, a lot of people go with Ubuntu server because there are a lot of existing guides for it. You don’t need much Linux knowledge to start self hosting since you can learn by doing over time. Some concepts to explore before getting started might be cron, the Linux file system, and user permissions.
For Docker, you should be fine if you know the basics. I’d recommend using Docker Compose since it’s easier to understand what’s happening when its written out in a nice yaml file. Install Docker and Docker Compose on the server, and then install something like DockGE to manage the compose files. When you want to run a service, copy the Docker compose file and then swap the port to what port you want to use, and the volume to the location you tend to use.
For a very basic setup, I’d find a video guide for
- installing Ubuntu server on the machine
- basic setup of the Ubuntu server (file permissions, docker, docker compose)
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- Comment on A broken clock is right twice a day, but a wrong clock is just wrong. 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for organizing the concept concisely :)
- Comment on YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 2 weeks ago:
The opt out is specific to your account. If you don’t have an account, its less likely that you have information with them to delete, but you can submit the form I think
- Comment on YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 2 weeks ago:
No problem, hope it saved people some time :)
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Many Flower Plant 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s cool! What is it?
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 2 weeks ago:
crashes
Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?
- Comment on Between Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, etc., which do you prefer and why? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, I’ve edited the title accordingly
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 weeks ago:
This is very detailed and helpful, thank you
Which soundbar or AV system did you end up going with?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 0 comments
- Comment on 'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species 3 weeks ago:
Neat!
The workers in Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) colonies are all hybrids, with queens needing to mate with males from a distantly related species, Messor structor, to keep the colony functioning. But researchers found that some Iberian harvester ant populations have no M. structor colonies nearby.
“That was very, very abnormal. I mean, it was kind of a paradox,” study co-author Jonathan Romiguier, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Montpellier, told Live Science. The team initially believed there was a sampling issue, but they went on to find 69 regions where this was the case.
In setting out to resolve this paradox, Romiguier and his team found that queen Iberian harvester ants also lay eggs containing male M. structor ants, with these males ultimately fathering the workers. This discovery, published Sept. 3 in the journal Nature, is the first time any animal has been recorded producing offspring from another species as part of their normal life cycle.
“In the early stages, it was kind of a joke in the team,” Romiguier said. “But the more we got results, the more it became a hypothesis and not a joke anymore.”
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 74 comments
