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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll think I’m crazy, and you’re not wrong, but: sneakernet.

  Every time I run the numbers on cloud providers, I’m stuck with one conclusion: shit’s expensive. Way more expensive than the cost of a few hard drives when calculated over the life expectancy of those drives.

  So I use hard drives. I periodically copy everything to external, encrypted drives. Then I put those drives in a safe place off-site.

  On top of that, I run much leaner and more frequent backups of more dynamic and important data. I offload those smaller backups to cloud services. Over the years I’ve picked up a number of lifetime cloud storage subscriptions from not-too-shady companies, mostly from Black Friday sales. I’ve already gotten my money’s worth out of most of them and it doesn’t look like they’re going to fold anytime soon. There are a lot of shady companies out there so you should be skeptical when you see “lifetime” sales, but every now and then a legit deal pops up.

  I will also confess that a lot of my data is not truly backed up at all. If it’s something I could realistically recreate or redownload, I don’t bother spending much of my own time and money backing it up unless it’s, like, really really important to me. Yes, it will be a pain in the ass when shit eventually hits the fan. It’s a calculated risk.

  I am watching this thread with great interest, hoping to be swayed into something more modern and robust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with what you’re saying; I just don’t see it in Ake’s behavior (perhaps because I am a few episodes behind).

  I haven’t seen her behave irresponsibly or take the safety of her students lightly. Lounging and going barefoot are not safety issues, unless you consider all forms of unconventionality to be unprofessional, and all forms of unprofessionalism to be irresponsible.

  What I see in Ake is someone who takes her job seriously, and is conscientious about what deserves her care and attention – and what doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think she’s acting like a teenager in a substantive way, or just in her style?

  I like her irreverent attitude and I don’t consider that childish. She doesn’t act impulsively, thoughtlessly, or disrespectfully. She takes her job seriously. She intentionally goes against the grain of traditional military stuffiness because she is decidedly not trying to train a military.

  The underlying military culture of classic Trek made sense at the time, but we can do better. I’m actually optimistic about SFA and that’s almost entirely thanks to Hunter’s portrayal of Ake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if you hesitate between Ketchup and Mustard, you should pick Mustard. It's healthier.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I’ve recently come to realize that anytime I use ketchup, it’s better with a ketchup/mustard mix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (and has E2EE)

  Normally my policy is “E2EE or GTFO”, but the concept only applies to a subset of Discord use cases. A good Discord alternative needs to handle the same variety of use cases as Discord.

  E2EE for a public forum makes no sense. Lemmy doesn’t have E2EE either, obviously. That’s an absurd idea.

  Discord is mostly used for public or semi-public spaces. I’m in Discord servers for some of my favorite games and game studios, for example. The only barrier to entry is clicking a link, which is usually publicly advertised. I’m also in some semi-public Discords that are locked behind a membership of some sort (like Patreon), but those are still full of an arbitrary number of people I do not know. It’s not a private space. E2EE would be counterproductive.

  That said, I have a few friends who habitually DM me on Discord, and I’m like “dude, I know you have Signal. Use it FFS”. One thing I like about Lemmy is that when you go to send a DM, it literally warns you against using it for DMs:

  Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not secure. Please create an account on Element.io for secure messaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that there are very few people who are familiar enough with both Discord and Matrix to give a meaningful answer.

  Personally, I use both, but for completely different use cases. I do not understand how one could be used as a substitute for the other. Perhaps I’m missing something, or perhaps everyone who thinks Matrix is a good substitute for Discord just don’t use Discord very much.

  If you have a small group of friends who occasionally hang out in chat, sure, Matrix is fine. If you’re in dozens of Discord servers, each with dozens (or even hundreds) of channels, and hundreds or thousands of users, no. At least, not with Element. Perhaps there’s a better client out there for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some drumhead court-martial, lifelong prison sentence, violently separating a mother from her child and some goons beating up a prisoner

  The key point here is that it is portrayed as horrible. Ake resigned in protest and only came back for the opportunity to make amends. The scene is there to show how far the Federation has fallen, in order to set up the task of rebuilding it.

  Starfleet Academy has a justification for how shitty the world is, and IMHO it’s approaching it correctly. There was a galactic disaster that almost completely destroyed the federation, so SFA is literally post-apocalyptic. But it’s using that setting to tell a hopeful and positive story.

  The core message of the show is that you can rebuild a just society even after it’s gone so far down the shitter. You can choose to do better, to be better. This is culturally relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same with Italian food. Tomatoes were only introduced to Europe in the 16th century.

  Leonardo da Vinci lived his whole life never knowing what a tomato was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am curious if they are going to reveal anything about Gideon S. Turner. I can’t entirely tell if Caleb is making stuff up and Tarima is playing along or if Gideon S. Turner has a very strange history.

  I was confused by this. It came hot on the heels of a truly excessive number of historical name-drops and references, so I was like “Turner? Was he on…Enterprise? DS9? Did they mean Tucker? What’d I miss?”

  It was a funny bit but it didn’t really land for me because of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK grab a cup of coffee and read this article if you want to truly understand what's happening in Minnesota⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, sure, it would give the administration an “excuse” to escalate still further.

  On the other hand, who are we kidding? They’re not going to stop escalating no matter what. There’s no point in trying to appease fascists. They’ll take whatever excuse, no matter how flimsy, whenever they feel like it regardless. That’s how we got here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds interesting. What kind of data can it reliably ingest with “attach”? If I dropped, say, the entire Python docs in there, would it be able to get anything out of that? Or does it need to be minimalistic plain-text statements? How is it actually performing retrieval?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve yet to see a major media outlet call it what it is.

  It’s sheer cowardice at this point. The president himself has called it war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chicago. LA. Minneapolis. And more, but those are currently the most egregious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nametag: Self-hostable personal relationships manager⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A poly group (also known as a polycule) is a network of polyamorous people’s relationships. Polyamory, in case you’re unaware, is the practice of having multiple romantic or sexual partners at the same time, in contrast to monogamy.

  If you were polyamorous and wanted to graph out your relationships, you could do it a few different ways. For example:

  • Just you and your partners. If any of your partners are also in relationships with each other, you’d draw lines between them as well.

  • Extend an extra level and include all of your partners’ partners (known as metamours), again connecting any pair on the graph who are partners.

  • Extend that further and include all of your partners’ partners’ partners (no specific term for this as far as I know). This would likely include people you don’t personally know, and it would be difficult to build a complete graph of all their relationships.

  Etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I would like to see more of Queen Jurati and her Borg Cooperative. It was a cool idea that, like all the cool ideas in Picard, was poorly developed and overshadowed by nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not want an AI browser. I’m more likely to switch to a text-only CLI browser.

  Orion is a fine choice for Mac or iPad. Basically Safari with Firefox/Chrome extension support, more customizability, and a few other niceties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem here is education.

  And I’m not just talking about “average joes” who don’t know the first thing about statistics. It is mind-boggling how many people with advanced degrees do not understand the difference between correlation and causation, and will argue until they’re blue in the face that it doesn’t affect results.

  AI is not helping. Modern machine learning is basically a correlation engine with no concept of causation. The idea of using it to predict the future is dead on arrival. The idea of using it in any prescriptive role in social sciences is grotesque; it will never be more than a violation of human dignity.

  Billions upon billions of dollars are being invested in putting lipstick on that pig. At this point it is more lipstick than pig.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it do that even if you set it to “use device MAC” for the wi-fi network you’re on?

  The exact location might depend on brand/OS, but in stock Android it’s in Settings > Network & Internet > Internet > gear icon next to active wi-fi network > Privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a very dumb way to say that population decline is predicted.

  The birth rate really has dropped below replacement levels in the US. Immigration might not fill that gap. With how actively hostile the current administration is to immigrants, that seems likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 21-23-year-old dating or sleeping with an older person doesn't automatically make the 21-23-year-old a "victim".⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  people on Reddit, TikTok, and X

  There’s the problem. These are some of the most toxic places on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want a non-LW Star Trek meme community? So do I. So I made one.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh. Well that sucks.

  I think I remember you from before, if you’re the same Stamets. You posted a lot. I’ll join your new Risa then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I very much enjoyed the start but steadily lost interest.

  There’s some good stuff in Discovery all the way through, don’t get me wrong. But they kind of flipped the script in a way I did not appreciate.

  Most of classic Trek showed us a future with a largely functional society, mostly full of good people who were ready and willing to deal with occasional corruption.

  Lots of newer Trek, and especially Discovery, showed us a future where society is largely dysfunctional and corruption is the norm. Almost everyone in the series who isn’t a main character (plus a couple who are) is a piece of shit. Even the “good guys” frequently encourage or at least tolerate clearly evil behavior as long as it serves their ends. But it’s okay because…friendship I guess?!?

  Their heart is in the right place but the writing is generally bad. I think this generation of writers is incapable of imagining a better world, which, sure, is understandable, given how thoroughly corrupt our current society is. But it’s deeply depressing. It lacks soul.

  SNW is better in this regard. But you’ll probably want to watch season 1 of Discovery first since there’s some crossover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want a non-LW Star Trek meme community? So do I. So I made one.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there something wrong with startrek.website?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s more or less how it works, but that’s still an additional call. If Google is not tying it directly into segment download requests, then it could potentially be blocked without disrupting playback.

  I have no insight into the inner workings. If I download a video with yt-dlp, does it increase the view count? If not, then it’s a broken system, yeah?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better yet, use borg to back up. Managing your own tars is a burden. Borg does duduplication, encryption, compression, and incrementals. It’s as easy to use as rsync but it’s a proper backup tool, rather than a syncing tool.

  Not the only option, but it’s open source, and a lot of hosts support it directly. Also works great for local backups to external media. Check out Vorta if you want a GUI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s fair to call all those “not serious” just because they had some cheesy aspects, especially when in some cases it was just in the B plot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, not yet. It was announced, I think for season 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also they put a spotlight on the huge energy costs of running an AI

  Plus it’s fully in keeping with canon. They mentioned several times in TNG and beyond that holodecks needed isolated power. (And obviously we know the original Enterprise didn’t have a holodeck in a few years’ time.) It’s a nice way for them to have their cake and eat too.

  I hope they have another holodeck episode at some point, maybe on a space station.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about qalculate, an opensource, versatile calculator with nice cli⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks cool!

  But I gotta ask: what is the deal with your font making all the I’s and L’s bold? :(