If I’m reading your link right, they are using user agents. Granted there’s a lot. Maybe you could whitelist user agents you approve of? Or one of the commenters had a list that you could block. Nginx would be able to handle that.

we would get food poisoning A LOT more without them too. Them wanting to deregulate the food industry is terrifying to us who know the horrors of hugging a toilet for 4+ days

God how do people like him. I just do not care for him

Got assassin’s creed mirage. Was a decent game. For the $20 sale price I mean. Wouldn’t spend more than that

Okay no one has said this, but feel you. When I was younger I was so happy my family thought I was smart and leaned into it. It’s great, they want something installed, they want advice, it works. Then they get greedy, they stop respecting my time, I get chastised for not answering my phone because they HAVE to get into their email RIGHT NOW.

So, if you’re feeling all of this, it may be time to start setting boundaries. Some helpful things:

Mom, if you want to ask for my help then you can’t just undo my help right after I leave. If you want my help, you will use what I set up, you will use this password manager and you will put in the effort to learn it. I offer these services for free, Geek Squad would charge you $200 for this service alone. If you can’t do it that’s fine, but then you can go to them for help.

I understand that it’s not working right now but I’m not a 24/7 service. I can help you in <reasonable time frame>.

At some point some older people just stop trying to learn anything new. I also worked geek squad, which is where I saw this first hand. Some very very basic problem solving and just the will to learn something new will take them 90% of the way, but most have lost those basic skills. For those, well, politely you have to tell them that they have to rely on others, and that’s why geek squad exists.

A lot of geeks laugh at the $200 price tag. That’s ridiculous! I could do that in 10 minutes! Correct! The fix is usually the easiest part of the job. That’s why there’s only 1 or 2 actual repair techs per best buy, but 10 or more desk agents who just sit and listen to the elderly talk about how much they hate computers and refuse to learn it.

I was just looking at requirements and all I saw was windows

We’ve all seen the “I’m very smart” people who come to social media, use random vocabulary vomit because they want to sound smart, and it happens here a lot. I agree with you, that’s great if you can, and I won’t say you “have to dumb yourself down”, but often they do it to sound smart and want to feel superior because they think most people understand.

Actually a lot of people do understand them, they’re just eye rolling at how pretentious they’re being.

There’s a balance. After all why use many word when some word do trick?

It’s officially piqued my interest and I may spin up a server, but it looks like it HAS to be Windows and it requires a GPU… Which is expensive. Either at home or virtually that’s a costy server

Rule one of self hosting. Do not self host your own email. Only pain will you find.

You of course can, but there are so many additional hoops you have to jump through. I use my main domain for my email, but proton is one of the few subscriptions I happily pay for

Dated a girl who had a boyfriend. I was her “secret boyfriend” and she always told me that she was going to leave him, just need to find the right time, just another week, you’ll see babe. The surprising thing is that it was sexual, it wasn’t a friendzone thing.

She was my first and I stupidly thought it was something special. Nope, she just liked having the attention and had a fair amount of damage. She eventually did leave him, I was elated, and then a month later she cheated on me.

There’s no secret bf/gf folks, if she doesn’t want to tell her friends it’s a massive red flag for you, just move onto someone who respects you

According to my school people would just hand them out on the streets for you.

Personally I suggest k3s, setting up a test cluster and playing with it. For volume management I use longhorn. It’s a HUGE learning curve, but it’s officially something companies will shell out big money for too if you’re willing to learn it. Soup to nuts from setting up test cluster and playing with it all the way to all of my services running was about 4 months of tinkering for me- but I’ll never go back

Exactly. Hell 50 bucks you can get a decent SSD. Just grab something, have all of your drives hosted via NFS, but then you aren’t hacking docker to run in ram all the time, and wasting your ram hosting stuff it doesn’t need to

Kind of, but probably not. I started writing this and was like “totally it could be stateless”. Docker runs stateless, and I believe when it starts it is still stateless (or at least could be mounted on a ramdrive) - but then I started thinking, and what about the images? Have to be downloaded and ran somewhere, and that’s going to eat ram quickly. So I amend to you don’t need it to be stateful, you could have an image like you talked about that is loaded every time (that’s essentially what kubernetes does), but you will still need space somewhere as scratch drive. A place docker will places images and temporary file systems while it’s running.

For state, check out docker’s volume backings here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/. You could use nfs to another server as an example for your volumes. Your volumes would never need to be on your “app server”, but instead could be loaded via nfs from your storage server.

This is all nearing into kubernetes territory though. If you’re thinking about netboot and automatically starting containers, and handling stateless volumes and storing volumes in a way that are synced with a storage server… it might be time for kubernetes.

Hm, could be killing it. Alternative is that like the article says it’s a bigger day for streaming, but 50/50 in my book. Personally, Bob’s Burgers is the best show out of all of them mentioned in the article, and it would kill me if they cancelled it - but it’s also on Season 15. I’d much rather see it cancelled on a high note rather than fall into squalor like Family Guy or Simpsons.

That’s a good point, and I don’t know. My gut says no, it would be on the other instance owner, but obviously I’m not a lawyer or anything

I’m not a Brit (but worried similar stuff is coming here to America), but it sounds like you have to enforce those rules. Theoretically, from my high level understanding, would it be enough to have those rules in place, and when reported actively remove the content as a mod?

I can’t tell exactly, but it sounds like the biggest thing is that there needs to be a way to remove the content quickly, which we have. Facebook is obviously an offender, where they have a “process” but it takes days and as we all know, 99% of the time they don’t actually do anything.

As a higher more automated level, I’m guessing our automod stuff that most of us admins are using would probably be enough, or if not that some basic AI models.

It doesn’t sound like they expect it to be perfect, here in the states they don’t expect me to be perfect, but they damn well expect me to follow correct process if I do become aware of something. It’s essentially A) I need to take reasonable preventative measures, like actively moderating, doing what I can automatically, banning bad users and removing content when needed and then B) Immediately taking action if I do become aware of anything, keeping evidence for the feds.

It’s useful in some circumstances, but businesses are pushing for it in way too many areas. Luckily most have seen the light and that it is no where close to replacing humans. AI can’t write a movie that will captivate audiences. (Hell I get bored with character chats after a few messages). AI can’t animate a movie. It can’t make a video game, or build useful programs.

What it can do it does well. Give you a jumping off point, give you different perspectives, allow you to get started - and I think we’ll see it used in that area. For text based AI, it’s great at something like “Give me 20 prompts” that can help a writer get started - but we all can tell AI generated content pretty quickly, and it gets dull.

So that’s what makes me say it’ll be useful in the second area, which is AI slop. Meta and them have discovered that there are a ton of gullible people out there who will happily consume AI slop left and right, roll right up to the trough and eat it down. It can’t make a full feature length movie, but it can make a blog post on some half baked subject. We’ll see a lot more of that.

I’ll fight tooth and nail against it replacing jobs, or having full works from just AI out there. If you want to use it personally, go right ahead. I guess what I’m saying is that my moral compass around it is:

• Generate whatever you like for personal use, who cares
• For public consumption, AI should be used only to generate the “outline” of the content. If you call it done after that phase, it’s slop, and it’s immoral to publish it. If you want to take the outline and put your spin on it, and use it to build something new, then absolutely go for it.

They can if they’re using different ports, however, I’d recommend just running Lemmy through the nginx server and route the data to each as needed. There’s nginx configuration in the guide.

Soda is filled with massive amounts of sugar and caffeine. It is extremely different from carbonated water.