Carighan

Carighan , 4 months ago

My company stopped using "named" servers and instances a while ago, to be "more professional".

But of course, you fuck up "restart Maria DB n1h5" way more often than "restart Thor". 😅

Carighan , 5 months ago

No, under is still never the right way. That's just a fact. You can talk about folding all day, but that's a separate issue.

Carighan , 6 months ago

My big two gripes with Bambu are their software (just let me use Cura, I got experience with that and I can use it across printers) and their proprietary shit. Swapping pieces costs a lot, and they also seem to break extremely easy which makes me costly replacements extra annoying.

Carighan , 8 months ago

Well, ultimately mastodon/lemmy are hobbyist projects. They would naturally count as "provided as is, with no guarantees".

I have two friends that can use some spare space on my NAS. If I ever randomly pull the plug on that, they got pretty little to complain about tbh, short of me not giving any prior notice which would be nice since they personally know me. Since mastodon/lemmy providers don't even have that, I also wouldn't fault them for not giving such notice.

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Does it matter? Not really, IMO. Social media as a whole is a scourge, and plenty of the bigger sites with corporations behind them are run at a negative, so there seems to be no good financial solution in sight so far. If you could just collect a few donations or run some ads, you bet the corporations would long have done that and be far in the black. But they're not, so that hints at an inherent issue of usercount vs perceived per-user-value that makes users unwilling to spend on the service they're using.

Carighan , 9 months ago

I went the easy maximum-compatiblity route:

• 3 monitors
• Middle is 1440p, sides are 1080p
• All 16:9
• Bought specifically so the real per-pixel size is ~identical to minimize perceived object size changes across monitors.

I end up using it with the game on the middle monitor, the right is the browser, the left is chats.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Since you can apply that logic to everything, how can you ever build anything? Because all consequences are dire on a myopic scale, that is, if your partner dies because a single electrician cheaped out with the wiring in your building and got someone to sign off, "It's not as bad as a nuclear disaster" isn't exactly going to console them much.

At some point, you need to accept that making something illegal and trying to prosecute people has to be enough. For most situations. It's not perfect. Sure. But nothing ever is. And no solution to energy is ever going to be perfect, either.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Imagine if we had this - physically tiny - and established standard how we could let the user add extra storage space to their small electronic devices.

I don't know, maybe SanDisk could develop something like this, some Micro format storage device. That's not a bad name, is it? Something with Micro, and SanDisk? Yeah, someone should create that!

Carighan , 10 months ago

I’m not in favour of pre-emptive defederating.

I agree, though I hesitate to call it "pre-emptive defederating". But I can see the viewpoint.

To me, pre-emptive defederating is what was done by most Mastodon instances with Threads. Or how mastodon.art defederated from BBC. There was nothing to judge there. There was no content. Nobody could have said what kind of content would be seen on threads or the BBC instance. You could guess, sure. But you had absolutely no way of knowing.

With hexbear, there is plenty content there to judge, and historically federated influence has always been the same as local, that is, the behavior of a fediverse community is not meaningfully different outside of their own instance. As a result, the admins of instance Y can judge what federation with instance X would look like, there is data there to look at.

Pre-emptive to me would mean having no community content to judge at all, like the Threads and BBC examples.

The more our large instances start fracturing and closing off from one another the less useful Lemmy will become.

I will add that this is in the nature of the fediverse. It is inherently not useful as a replacement to social media centers such as Reddit, because it's decentralized nature implies the fracturization has to happen, and social media works best when everyone is in one giant garden party for chance meetings and spontaneous interactions.

That's not necessarily a doom&gloom thing, it just means that by its very nature, software such as Lemmy cannot be useful to users who are seeking to replace Reddit. It can be Lemmy. Which is something else, albeit superficially similar in some regards.

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However, in general I do agree that they should probably have been allowed to federate and then re-evaluate based on how it works out. If their posts average X% downvotes, if Y% of local users end up filtering them or if a large portions of moderator actions are just from having to manage those users, they can still defederate.
I looked over the instance, and I cannot see anything I'm missing out on, but I can understand why others would want to at least give them one chance.