archomrade
@archomrade@midwest.social
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 3 weeks ago:
You misunderstand, I only mean that it’s disconcerting that there may be some reason that cis-women do not find the hobby/group appealing
- Comment on Rested 3 weeks ago:
I was just asleep for three and I do not feel well rested.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 3 weeks ago:
I know ghost has a container deployment and uses activity pub
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 3 weeks ago:
I do wonder how many within the man/woman responses are trans, too.
Idk if that survey was mainly advertised on lemmy, but i know that at least one instance that did a survey had maybe 2% woman respondents, but more than two thirds of those were transfem.
Either way, a little disconcerting. I’m not sure what to make of that or what (if anything) to do about it
- Comment on Chinese economic slowdown deepens, official figures show 4 weeks ago:
They fell below their 5% target, coming in at 4.6%
For reference, the US is projected to slow to 2% growth in 2024
- Comment on Missed Connection 1 month ago:
Lmao Iowa City might be the funniest place for someone to own a cybertruck
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
Pretty sure they would consider this “format shifting”, which is not a valid exception to bypassing copy protection
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
It’s less a problem with racial profiling and more a problem with it being a poverty-tax.
Enforcing a flat-rate fee structure with speed cameras disproportionately hurts low-income drivers (who are already economically unstable), and allocating state/city funding toward road maintenance instead of public transit infrastructure pushes people into a loop of auto costs-> traffic fines -> loss of work -> more financial insecurity, ect.
True enough: reducing officer interactions is a good thing, but those cops end up spending that saved time escalating other non-violent interactions instead. If that’s your goal, you should be de-funding and reforming law enforcement, not automating fine collection.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Lemmy try not to post crimes challenge - impossible. Granted, as far as crimes go, this one seems innocuous enough, but still.
I’ve been told repeatedly on c/piracy that lemmy is just too small to attract the attention of law enforcement and three-letter agencies
Paradoxically, I’ve also been told that lemmy is rife with state-sponsored troll farms, so…?
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
You know what else would reduce police forces? Eliminating car traffic entirely.
Cops spend the most time on ordinary traffic stops.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
It just occurred to me that convincing someone of leaving a social media site is a lot like convincing someone to leave a big city.
They have friends there and have grown accustomed to the vibrant and diverse activities, but realistically nothing they do or have there can’t be replicated in a smaller town, a smaller media site.
They’re liable to put up with a lot of shit to stay with their community, but eventually people get pushed out and find greener pastures and a quiet space for themselves elsewhere. At least, that’s what I attribute to what I perceive to be a higher average age on the fediverse.
I’m too old to find the constant stimulation and activity attractive anymore, and I much prefer the freedom to move around and be choosy about my media choices.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
I have a Samsung smart TV that is not connected to any networks, and every few days it will display a ‘detecting device’ loading screen when switching to my input that fails after 30 seconds or until I cancel it (canceling does not seem to impact its functioning)
I have no evidence but I strongly suspect this to be related to attempting to record and send device data to a remote server.
- Comment on jealousy 1 month ago:
Because apparently some of us only eat peanut butter and never chew anything solid
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
Someone didn’t read the parent comment.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 1 month ago:
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit…
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
Uhhh, because these were bombs - bombs that were remotely and indiscriminately detonated. Some of the people were driving, some standing next to children or on busses full of people. There are reports of children who died because they were standing next to a target at head-level with the pager.There’s no guarantee they were even being carried by “Hezbollah’s guys”.
I don’t even know why anyone would assume otherwise. This was a loosely targeted terror attack
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
Likely because the bulk of those wounded by this attack were not Hezbollah
I don’t even know how you’d reasonably expect to only injure your targets in an attack as widespread and remote as this one. Seems blatantly indiscriminate at best.
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 1 month ago:
I’m honestly surprised peertube has lasted as long as it has as it is
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Browsing their coms can be a pretty unique experience, especially if you go in with a preformed idea of what their communities are like. There’s a huge spread of interests and experiences, and sometimes you can be browsing a niche community and forget that these were the people posting BPB on lemmy.world threads a year ago.
Knowing the academic writings and history they’re referencing helps a lot with understanding where they are coming from, even if you may not agree with all of it.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
This is the most reasonable response.
A lot of people here have long since made up their mind about hexbear based both on repeated meta posting on the topic and possibly a bad experience or two with them on a topic they assumed was uncontested but is a landmine topic for communists of a particular bent
I’ve personally never had a bad experience with hexbears, possibly because I’m more empathetic to their perspective, but more likely because I know when it’s time to disengage. There are users on lemmy who feel strongly about a certain topic that’s abrasive to hexbear users and dig in their heels when jeered at (or maybe feel a personal responsibility to stand them down) and are usually the users here who have the most complaints, because the standard reaction from hexbear users is irreverence (both the users and the mods).
Unlike a lot of liberals coming from reddit, communists often don’t have delusions about the neutrality of moderation and so they’ll ban you on a whim if they think you’re there to stir shit. They use the ban hammer judiciously even with users on their own instance. That’s often the biggest complaint both with hexbear and with lemmy.ml.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
If you put up any guards at all against data tracking, they get pretty bad pretty quick. They get skewed toward the one or two datapoints that you didn’t shore up, so they think “huh, this user must really like phone games because they played doodlejump in 2016 and still has it installed on their phone”. Or at least I think. My wife gets ads that are far more on-the-nose than I do, but she doesn’t lock down her tracking data at all.
But I don’t even like them trying to match me to ads, I don’t want to incentivize their data collection practices.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
I mean this genuinely: I would rather YouTube die than be subject to their overlong and hyper targeted ads.
If the ads were untargeted I’d feel less adamant, but as it is now I would sooner give up YouTube entirely.
- Comment on Headlie 2 months ago:
You certainly seemed to be placing responsibility on just one of those participants.
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned the fact that it looks like Mickey is pissing over the disney logo in this image
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 2 months ago:
Ah, ok, that makes sense! So there was a separate bug in the framework that granted him limited remote access, but because the server had tight control over outbound connections he had to use a novel way of getting the data back out
Basically: He crawled in through the sewer and then robbed the bank one stack of bills at a time via pigeon courier.
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 2 months ago:
I’m trying to digest this
You’re saying he was stealing data from the target server by appending it line-by-line to dns requests sent to his nameserver? Wouldn’t he have needed to both be on the target server and already have access to the data?
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 2 months ago:
“I have a girlfriend but she lives in Canada and doesn’t have any socials”
- Comment on I'm at a loss on what server to buy 2 months ago:
Lots of good suggestions here
I’m a bit surprised by your budget. For something just running plex and next cloud, you shouldn’t need a 6 or even 3k system. I run my server on found parts, adding up to just $600-$700 dollars including (used) SAS drives. It runs probably a dozen docker containers, a dns server, and homeassistant. I don’t even remember what cpu I have because it was such a small consideration when I was finding parts.
I’d recommend keeping g your synology as a simple Nas (maybe next cloud too, depending on how you’re using it) and then get a second box with whatever you need for plex. Unless you’re transcoding multiple 4k videos at once, your cpu/GPU really don’t need much power. I don’t even have a dedicated GPU in mine, but I’m basically unable to do live 4k transcodes (this is fine for me)
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 2 months ago:
If i’m understanding the last graph right, it’s showing the total number of active monthly users per instance’s top communities, filtered by the overall top 100 communities?
So if an instance has activity spread out over many niche communities, that activity isn’t represented on this graph?
I would think having a diversity of smaller communities is more in-line with the spirit of the fediverse, I’m not sure of the value in slicing the data in this way.
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 2 months ago:
It wouldn’t be surprising to me if they’ve had this implemented for awhile.
There’s still some question about why their 3.5 model had an apparent sudden drop-off in quality about a year ago, and among the plausible explanations for it could be that they were fucking with their weights in order to watermark the outputs in exactly the way you’re mentioning. They were also fighting against prompt-injection methods and censor disapproved uses at the time, so who the fuck knows.