It’s probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.

That was just an example. There’s all sorts of automated traffic that shouldn’t count as a view. A human loading the page but not actually playing the video (like if they disable auto playing of videos) shouldn’t count as a view either.

This is also something I mentioned to them, but some people just don’t like facts and logic.

Page loads don’t count as a view though, because otherwise things like search engine indexing would count as a view. It’s only considered a view if the video is watched for at least 30 seconds.

YouTube only counts a view if it’s longer than 30 seconds, but clients like Newpipe don’t send the tracking data to Google for them to track this.

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I was arguing with someone on another social media site because they were posting nonsense about EVs being horrible for the environment because all the power comes from coal.

Turns out they live in Houston, where 92% of power generation is renewable. lol.

Even across the whole USA, coal is only 16% of power production. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

You could say the same about any social media site really.

The whole point of social media is to communicate with other people. Facebook is the largest one, so if you want to contact a business or person, they’re more likely to be on Facebook than any other site. Probably the main exception are younger people (and companies run by them), where they’re more active on TikTok and Instagram.

Even for companies that have sites, they often get more people contacting them through social media instead of their site. Social media sites tend to have better SEO.

That’s especially the case for younger people as they search Instagram and TikTok more than Google. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/03/11/genz-dumping-google-for-tiktok-instagram-as-social-search-wins/ ).

I’m just using regular Firefox at the moment. I briefly tried Floorp but it felt a bit slow.

Well, except at work where we’re forced to use Chrome for security reasons. They rely on Chrome Enterprise as part of their endpoint security solution, which has features like preventing copying from sensitive/confidential work webapps then pasting onto non-work sites, and other features that big companies use.

I completely forgot that Zen is Firefox-based. I’ve been avoiding some of these newer browsers because they’re based on Chromium. I’ll have to try it out!

I’d say 9/10 aren’t doing proper backups given most people don’t actually do DR runs and verify whether they can fully recover from their backups. If you don’t test your backups, you don’t have backups!

Which containers do automatic DB backups? Normally the database is a separate container, unless the app is using SQLite. Is there a MySQL or PostgreSQL container that does automated backups?

Unfortunately that’s the goal of a lot of startups. A startup is considered “successful” if they get acquired by a large company and employees of the startup make a lot of money.

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Where’s the MySQL option? Some of my servers are running MySQL instead of MariaDB because it allowed binding to multiple IP addresses (although I think Maria has implemented this now), and some query plan optimizations were implemented in MySQL but not MariaDB.

You still need to know what database system is being used in order to make backups of the database. You can’t just snapshot or backup the data directory while a database is running, because you might end up with an inconsistent state that won’t restore properly. You need to either stop the DB before doing the backup, or use the relevant DB-specific tools to perform a backup.

You have to meet clients where they are. These days, clients are far less likely to find you if you only have a site with no social media presence.

So people in rural areas without good internet, or places where the network is airgapped, can’t use them at all? Seems like there’s be a way around it.

I’m a C# developer and run .NET apps on Linux all the time. I usually work on CLI and server apps, but recently released my first Linux desktop app written in C#: https://flathub.org/apps/com.daniel15.wcc

Even before .NET Core, I was using Mono to run C# apps on Linux. There used to be quite a few GNOME apps written in C#.

There’s .NET and then there’s .NET Core which is a mere subset of .NET.

Nope. The old .NET Framework has been deprecated for a long time. The latest version, 4.8.1, is not very different to 4.6 which was released 10 years ago.

The modern versions are just called .NET, which is what .NET Core used to be, but with much more of the framework implemented in a cross-platform way. Something like 95% of the Windows-only .NET Framework has been reimplemented in a cross-platform way.

The list of .NET stuff that will actually run on .NET Core (alone) is a barren wasteland.

All modern .NET code is built on the cross-platform framework. Only legacy apps used the old Windows-only .NET Framework.

If you get the free community version of Visual Studio and create a new C# project, it’ll be using the latest cross-platform framework. You can even cross-compile for Linux on a Windows system.