kersploosh
@kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How will we deal with all the broken images? 11 hours ago:
I assume it’s an intentional trade-off by the devs to reduce the storage burden. If each instance is a complete mirror of all federated instances then hosting becomes that much more expensive.
- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 1 day ago:
Texans will appreciate that you refer to them as Texans rather then American.
- Comment on An open (or federated) searchable catalog of hikes and hiking trails (alltrails alternative)? 5 days ago:
I have been looking for the same thing for years. I basically want the WTA Hike Finder but expanded worldwide, and with some map integration to show the routes visually instead of having to interpret the descriptions.
- Comment on Alternatives to Band (group coordination tool) 5 days ago:
Free is good, of course. But I also have some gripes about how Band functions so I’m interested to see what else is out there. Thanks for the Campfire recommendation; I will check it out.
- Submitted 5 days ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Quotation marks and other symbols are incorrectly rendered 1 week ago:
This should be submitted as an issue to the lemmy-ui GitHub:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui - Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 1 week ago:
It depends on your plumbing. If your sink’s waste pipe is large enough, and has enough slope, and you put enough water down the drain to wash all the solids through the pipe, then you can certainly put food down the sink drain.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 1 week ago:
I think that goes to my point about simple comparisons being difficult. Norway has a high GDP relative to its size, so 4% might be more than enough for their situation. You also have to account for things like the labor cost of teachers, which varies by country.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 1 week ago:
Comparing things like this between countries is not straightforward. For example, Australia spends $14.1k per student while New Zealand spends $8.6k. That’s about 5.2% of GDP for both countries. From those numbers, would we conclude that Australia is overpaying, or New Zealand is underpaying, or that the two countries are comparable?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education-spending-by-country
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 2 weeks ago:
While not being exactly what you are proposing, you could consider mastodon.social and lemmy.world the de facto front page for each service. They are by far the largest and best-known instances in their respective networks. Many new users start at those instances, get their toes wet, and then branch out.
I’m not arguing that’s how the network should be structured, though.
- Comment on Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap: It's more to do with automation and state-of-the art manufacturing processes than cheap labour. 2 weeks ago:
The same article could be written about many things China produces, not just solar panels and batteries. China spent decades learning to dominate in high-volume, low-margin manufacturing. They developed massive economies of scale, and lots of manufacturing expertise, both of which translate to labor efficiency that other countries can’t match.
The article also quietly mentions the fact that China has an abundance of cheap coal to power all those factories. That’s a big part of its advantage in “Processing $” in the third figure.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 3 weeks ago:
Here are a few things off the top of my head.
Deleted accounts leave orphaned posts/comments, which still exist on the site but can be difficult for admins to find and remove: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5525
Private message reports don’t go to all the right people: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4436
We should be getting some vote analytics in the future, which will be great. Lemmy seems to have a significant number of vote manipulation accounts that only exist to upvote/downvote in unison, but they are currently hard to find. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5669
I really should open an issue to improve the reports queue. It’s tolerable if you mod an individual community or a smaller instance, but it is unusable as an admin on a really big instance like .world. There is no way to search or sort the reports. You can filter by posts or comments but then it only shows you 20 entries, which is a weird and unhelpful limitation. All reports have equal priority; there is no mechanism for users to flag reports that should be escalated to admins. And, if something is heavily reported, there is no way to batch resolve the reports after you address the issue.
- Comment on Hot sauce is for Dad to protect his food from scavenging by lesser beings 3 weeks ago:
This worked until my kids developed a tolerance for heat. They are adapting! It’s only a matter of time before they are completely resistant!
- Comment on Fediverse.com is available for sale 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Solar panels cleaning solar panels 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Towels should have labels (colour coded even) on each side and quadrants to show which part wipes where on your body. 4 weeks ago:
They exist!
- Comment on N the digital age, it's going to be harder for ICE agents to hide their identities than it was for Nazis trying to evade justice post WW2. 5 weeks ago:
How so? Masked men grabbed Rumeysa Ozturk off the street, caught on camera and even questioned by passers by. I haven’t seen their identites released, and I don’t see how it will happen unless the federal government wants it to happen.
- Comment on Beachfront property 1 month ago:
Careful, that’s how that one evil boyfriend in Scott Pilgrim died.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 1 month ago:
it’s the first I’ve heard of maybe a US citizen being deported.
It’s been happening for years. From the Washington Post:
The U.S. government does not release data on how often ICE wrongfully detains or deports U.S. citizens. But investigations by media outlets, research institutes and oversight agencies have revealed that ICE has arrested, detained, deported and issued detainers — requests to local jails to hold a person in custody — for thousands of citizens since the agency was created in 2003. One 2011 study estimated that roughly 1 to 1.5 percent of deportees are U.S. citizens.
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 1 month ago:
After some investigation, we have defederated from both instances. I created a post in the Agora community in case people want to discuss it further: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35952149
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Rebel Without a Cause
Requiem for a Dream
Revenge of the Nerds
- Comment on How would I describe myself? 1 month ago:
It can be a very interesting conversation starter. I love hearing about the places people grew up, and how they ended up in the place they currently live. It’s a much better topic than the small talk about work or TV shows or whatever else people discuss the first time they meet.
- Comment on i have been living in middle east for almost 20 years and would like to be an american/canadian citizen, how can i become 1? how much will it cost? ar there other western nations which have easyproces 1 month ago:
In America, you first become a legal permanent resident (we would say you have a “green card”). Once you have lived here for five years then you can apply for citizenship. The whole process is slow and can be somewhat arbitrary.
Another option is to enlist in the US military. After serving for several years you can get preferred status for citizenship.
As others said, this is a difficult time to be an immigrant in America. The current government is arresting and deporting legal residents based on flimsy accusations. You should consider waiting for Trump to be gone, or look at other countries.
- Comment on Why did I get banned and then unbanned from literally all of this instances communities? 2 months ago:
This one: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33055710
Though I cannot give details regarding why a particular post triggers the bot. That’s a secret recipe.
- Comment on Why did I get banned and then unbanned from literally all of this instances communities? 2 months ago:
One of your posts triggered our automod, and it gave you an instance ban from sh.itjust.works. When a user is instance banned they also get banned from every community they have interacted with on that instance. Or at least that’s how Lemmy worked at that time; we have since upgraded and I don’t know if the behavior had changed.
Upon review, the ban was clearly a false positive. You were unbanned, which unbanned you from all of those communities.
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wrong community?
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
Not like commercial AM/FM radio stations playing music, but radio in the more general sense. 5G cell phones and satellite-to-earth communication systems use that frequency range, for example.
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are both “ISM bands.” These are frequencies that regulators have set aside for unlicensed use.
Fun fact: 2.4 GHz is free to use because of microwave ovens. Microwaves are really noisy around 2.45 GHz. Rather than try to regulate their radio emissions, or make people license their kitchen appliances as radio transmitters, the FCC allocated that patch of spectrum for free use. Any device that can tolerate the noise can use that bit of the radio spectrum.
- Comment on Trump floats sending Tesla attackers to El Salvador prisons 2 months ago:
Tangentially related and definitely dystopic: El Salvador’s infamously high incarceration rate is only slightly higher than Louisiana’s.
