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- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 3 days ago:
There’s no true alternative to cloudflare because cloudflare provides you with a ridiculous amount of nice things, many with generous free tiers.
Deflect has a 10 dollar minimum which is basically nothing, but at the same time, way more than cloudflare where basic protection is free.
Yes, I’m also a CF user for my personal and business domains. Not sure if I’m happy about it but then again I haven’t paid them a cent yet.
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 1 week ago:
It’s just a host they both use. Exposing it is not a bad thing inherently, but unless you know what you’re doing you’re probably better off hiding it behind cloudflare. Cloudflare can handle a DDoS a lot better than some regional hosting provider.
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 1 week ago:
You are doing something right. I see people say Lemmy is slow, or there are large amounts of downtime. That has not happened on this instance.
The guy running the instance is a software engineer with devops experience, whereas a lot of others are amateurs. Which isn’t a bad thing - it’s great that a lot of people are self-hosting things - but something like Lemmy requires a bit of consideration on the infrastructure and security side of things.
I think there are ideological factors too. Ping lemm.ee or lemmy.world to get the IP address - you get a Cloudflare IP according to the WHOIS. Ping lemmy.ml and you get OVH SAS as the owner. Same for Hexbear actually. Both instances are run by tankies and if there’s one thing that they get right, it’s that the entire Internet shouldn’t go through one single corporation. Unfortunately, that one single corporation, Cloudflare, also provides excellent DDoS protection.
- Comment on LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs 3 weeks ago:
Mine doesn’t even have the ads people would always post on reddit, it just… sucks.
If you’re going to run an OS other than Android or Linux with Plasma Bigscreen, at least make it not suck. Tizen on Samsung TVs just sucks.
Unremovable buttons for Netflix, Prime and… WTF even is a Rakuten? on the remote which has a total of less than 15 buttons. Why… It was so minimalistic.
- Comment on LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs 3 weeks ago:
And here I was thinking I should upgrade to a nice big OLED and get a PS5 when GTA VI comes out, as it’ll undoubtedly be another console exclusive. Of course, LG was at the forefront of consideration, they do make nice OLED panels and mostly everyone else using OLED also uses their panels.
Now they’re out of consideration too, along with Samsung (which I currently own)
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 3 weeks ago:
They’re the only one selling physical products as their main business so they can afford to give you marginally better privacy and UX than say, Google, who’s built their business on tying tracking and advertising into their open source products like Chromium and Android.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 weeks ago:
I mean yeah but that’s far less sinister than all their licensing horseplay
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 weeks ago:
Oh definitely. You can’t really go wrong with an index fund tbh. I meant that as more of a theoretical: Suppose that you want to leave your (grand)kids something with sentimental value that also appreciates in monetary value, would a Rolex collection fulfill that purpose?
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 weeks ago:
Tbh this particular joke was a reference to the WeWork fiasco and specifically the show WeCrashed, where the founder goes into JPMorgan Chase and asks for a 50 million line of credit after being pre-approved for 20k, then asks the clerk to google him and then gets brought to the bank’s CEO instead.
Of course, Adam Neumann was also a huge fraud, comparable to Musk in that both have been known to promise the world and deliver shit.
- Comment on Yeah, am I right fellas 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t it technically true? Except the test levels off naturally after a while if you don’t so there’s no real difference except maybe your lifts will be better for a few days a week after your last ejaculation or something?
Idk about semen retention though, I just mean the testosterone peak that comes after about a week of abstinence.
Personally I have a very high sex drive, so if I’m not having sex for a week, I’m better off masturbating at least once because otherwise I just become a nasty fiend and can’t look at my wife without an erection.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 weeks ago:
Oracle, the official company of “Look, we’re developer friendly now, our stuff is open source and free to use! Oh, right, you’ve activated my trap card, now pay 10k per every employee of your company because you used our proprietary JDK mwhahahahaha”
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but then you’d have to use Edge.
- Comment on CareerCupid (OkCupid for jobs) integration with ActivityPub: follow @thecupid@cupid.careers, answer polls, find like-minded people who would be great co-workers. 3 weeks ago:
Huh, and here I thought culture fit just meant your ability to hold a basic conversation about a random topic without completely locking up (which has gotten me several jobs)
- Comment on Take Your Perks Where You Can 3 weeks ago:
I do that for home cooking when e.g slicing up smoked chicken or bacon or some other form of not-(completely)-raw meat and a piece is too oddly shaped.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 weeks ago:
Does a regular ol’ Rolex actually ever appreciate?
Never thought of buying one and honestly couldn’t afford at the moment, but maybe start a small collection when I’m 40 or 50 so I’d have something to hand down to the kids besides boring-ass money?
Then again if I really wanted to flex that bad, I could just walk into a Ferrari dealer in shorts and a t-shirt and buy one. If I was rich enough to avoid Rolexes in the first place because apparently a Ferrari is like 4 or 5 watches.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 weeks ago:
Nah, they’ll laugh at first, but then you’ll get taken upstairs and Jamie will open a bottle of your favorite Tequila, telling you that he thinks you need an even bigger credit line than you applied for.
Wait, you don’t run a wildly unprofitable company “worth” several billion dollars? Welp, sounds like a you problem.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 weeks ago:
It has to be the same shtick as honey, but unlike honey you’re getting some value from it I guess.
For a moment after watching the Honey video, I considered setting up a company and a browser addon to do the same, but be upfront about it: You buy items, we get the affiliate fee, but you get half the affiliate fee as cashback in a month or two when it’s been processed and paid out, at least for some large storefronts like Amazon and then other high ticket items like NordVPN which apparently pays a huge percentage out to affiliates because it’s so overpriced they can have outrageous discounts and/or pay affiliates.
Then I realized it’d be a pain to set up on the legal side of things likely.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 4 weeks ago:
I mean the weed gummy isn’t that bad
But of the rest, pink is the only one that does anything fun. And it could technically be useful. If you need to distract someone during a heist, for an example.
- Comment on Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE 4 weeks ago:
If you contract him to work at an event for your company or group of friends in exchange of money, you’ll receive a Bill Nye NYE bill
- Comment on Does the southern hemisphere get colder farther from the pole? Why? 4 weeks ago:
That makes a lot of sense, thanks!
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 4 weeks ago:
But like… why babies? We already have way too many of those. We need fewer babies.
Capitalism has a need for unlimited growth and also most national pension systems globally take the current working generation’s money to pay for the retirement of the current retired generation - so the future working generation needs to be big enough to support the current working generation in turn.
My own country did a footgun thing here. We had a mandatory 2nd pillar system where you contribute to a fund, the gvt matches (well, doubles) your contribution, and that gets added to the normal 1st pillar national pension when you retire, either you take it out as a lump sum, or get paid a portion of it per month. You literally couldn’t take money out of it prematurely. Except the right-wing populists decided to allow taking money out of it with the caveat that you can’t rejoin it for
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- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 2 months ago:
It has no practical use cases.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 2 months ago:
Now I wish you’d tell us what the company is so if I ever need anything in that industry, I’d know where to buy from.
- Comment on Any tips for setting up a Mac? A 15+ years Linux user needs help 2 months ago:
Easiest is to just create an account with fake info. They don’t do any KYC for regular users AFAIK.
- Comment on Covfefe 2 months ago:
Yeah but then he’ll say “my spoon is too big!”
- Comment on Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them 2 months ago:
Your jellyfin server can just be your computer, it just needs to be running when you want to watch the content.
My desktop hasn’t been shut down other than for quick system updates (and it’s Linux so I do mean QUICK) in several months.
- Comment on Trying to Help 2 months ago:
Unused code is stripped out by the compiler, but will your homemade library properly use all the fancy instruction set extensions for matrices? IIRC it’s not as simple as just compiling for the correct microarch. But I could be wrong.
- Comment on Election Analyst 2 months ago:
Or blueshift for the other half
- Comment on FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code 2 months ago:
I think it’s less because of their efficiency focus and more because the chips already auto-overclock to reasonably high levels.