I have no idea why Mastodon does what it does, but I also have no idea why anyone would build a weird auto reposting group thing for Mastodon. I honestly don’t understand how I’m supposed to use it, or preview what a group is. The listing I saw doesn’t tell me anything. Very odd.
So, Substack is nothing like Twitter. I personally like it better, but it’s a fancy mailing list as far as I know - provides subscription options and a web archive. I honestly think this microblogging is not really want a scientist (or anyone who has nuance in their writing or opinions or thoughts) would want - it’s a soundbite at best. So going back to basically a mailing list (that operates like a blog) is a big improvement to me. And providing monetization for the posters and platform via subscriptions seems more sustainable for more types of content.
I can see some people who thought Twitter pre Musk was golden going for Bluesky simply because of the founder’s personal brand. Otherwise, I have trouble thinking why people would go for Meta’s anything new - given how poorly their new products have gone recently (metaverse?). So in the free and open, of course Mastodon makes sense, and I’m on that, but I don’t find any community or real discussions on it. The format just isn’t conducive to that IMHO.
I also question it’s accuracy - I have had several doctors tell me the wrist cuff ones regularly read 10 points high, and many cheap ones are just almost random of 20 points so rather unreliable. I have also seen that in personal use, and taken several to the Dr Office to be tested. I don’t like it, and I wish it was different, but the only brand and type recommend by my current Doctor is an upper arm style from Omron.
What’s sad is that the 00s phpbb were a step back from Usenet and BBSs that federated in the 80s.
We’re actually well beyond RAID arrays. Google CEPH. It’s actually both super complicated and kind of simple to grow to really large storage amounts with LOTS of redundancy. It’s trickier for global scale redundancy, I think you’d need multiple clusters using something else to sync them.
I also always come back to some of the stuff freenet used to do in older versions where everyone who was a client also contributed disk space that was opaque to them, but kept a copy of what you went and looked at, and what you relayed via it for others. The more people looking at content, the more copies you ended up with in the system, and it would only lose data if no one was interested in it for some period of time.
Actually I think TIFF or Adobe DNG are the lossless formats for photos.
On the linux or windows desktop, you can use Thunderbird or Vivaldi - both have a RSS feed option. On the linux systems there’s Akregator which seems simpler to me just being focused on RSS. That said, I’m literally only using RSS to track new blog posts from Vivaldi for update releases for work purposes, so IDK about “more normal use”.
I think he means “local” like the local town / city. We have a local government funded physical town hall, it’s not so crazy an idea IMO. I don’t think it’d be a great place for your general purpose instance or whatever, but we also right now only have any participation in local government by those who have the time and inclination to wander down to the hall on a Tuesday Night.
I mean, everyone wants a public digital “town square” - the obvious answer is for the public, i.e. the government, to provide one. At least in the US the idea of forcing private or public companies to follow first amendment rules or judicial processes is a bit of a non-starter. One that I actually agree with.
Lemmy / the fediverse isn’t designed this way, but it could be. There are certainly systems that share diskspace and are multimaster and keep stuff as long as someone is interested in it(i.e. accessing the data). I really start to think added to the lemmy / fediverse servers should be something like what freenet used to do in terms of hosting content.
Yea, I actually don’t mean just business usecase, though obviously at work - SPEND THE MONEY, you’re paying a fraction of peoples salary. But at home, unless the actual build of the computer and troubleshooting etc is part of your hobby, I strongly think you can get a workstation that can do what most people need, including moderate gaming, and it’ll just work for a long time.
Of course, if your hobby is cutting edge gaming and you want to update GPU every year or the like, then yes, you get to deal with crap like bad batches of parts. However, then I don’t get why you’re getting cases that won’t hold the parts and brackets you want to use.
My final point is I gave up on PC gaming because the software management was a real big PITA vs using a console where it’s way more “someone elses problem” if the software doesn’t run. Games crap all over windows and make it unstable and insecure. And I never wanted to have 2 PCs, one for games and one for everything else - might as well have the console then and save pain. But I also kind of outgrew videogames so YMMV.
You could use it to shred individual files, but to wipe a disk there are better ways. Generally you would use an ata command or wipe the encryption key if it’s encrypted.
I gave up buying parts for pcs 13 years ago after months on an ASUS warranty replacement, and intel at the time having onerous limitations on RAM and PSU you could use with a motherboard. Not worth the time. Also started costing more to build than to buy and have one company guarantee the entire computer, often with offers of ~2 day on site repair vs being without a motherboard for perhaps 6 months like ASUS.
I just went back to buying ThinkStations and save sooo much time and headaches.
Not the worst and not the best reporting. I am surprised how many people apparently use reddit as a search engine given how many posts I saw in various subs that implied the poster never heard of a search engine given that there was another thread asking the same thing like 5 hours beforehand.
It is interesting they point out that Twitter style short form posts do not actually contain information people would be searching for. Also kind of sad that useful discussion is seen as ild fashioned and “modern” is short videos. I hate video results when I’m searching for something because if it even actually addresses the question it’s 3-10 minutes of what is actually 2 sentences of answer. Such a waste of time.
I think your friend just doesn’t want to put in 5 minutes of effort. And honestly, that’s fine. I think the average reddittor has been kind of trending that way for a while, and I wish him the best of luck hanging out with people who can’t be assed to put in 5 minutes to figure anything out. I might be wrong, but especially for technical content I think the mean will drop much further on reddit.
If they actually want to restrict ai training, they also have to restrict search engines. I may be behind the times, but usually those kind of questions have gone to a stack overflow sort of site I would have thought.
I think the analogy is great - but analogies only work if the person is more familiar with the analogy than the actual topic - if the understanding is the same or less, it doesn’t function well.
I mean, in a lot of ways the fediverse is reinventing Usenet too, but if you don’t know the technical details of Usenet, that analogy doesn’t help you either.
I’m using Startpage.com (can set the location - I also have the problem that I use a VPN and keep getting not the language I want. IDK how to make it stick though), and Kagi paid for a bit now.
The solution is to just use something like Signal.
I mean the right answer is something like Signal, but you have to really beat on people for that.
I actually always thought there was a possibility that what happened to AOL might happen to Google / Facebook / etc. I.e. people inherently don’t like extreme walled gardens, and will splinter off into more open, more random, more innovative spaces. I think the pendulum had swung back over to an early AOL like very limited set of 5 or so big “platforms”, and the issues with that were seen again, just like in the late 90s when people were ditching AOL for “the real Internet” en masse.