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  • What's your approach to databases?

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  • That, and you have to take into account each person’s available hardware and resources.

    I have an under powered 10 year old desktop, a resonably specd 5 year old laptop with a busted screen, and 8 Raspberry Pi’s (3s and 4s). And can’t currently afford better hardware.Sometimes clustering those Pi’s makes sense.

    You can use whatever you have to hand.

  • Which out-of-state driver’s licenses are no longer valid in Florida?

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  • Umm.. Florida, I’m not entirely sure you can do that. I think you have to honor other States documents.

  • This is the only time I hate having decided to self host.

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  • My issue wasn't quite that easy but it wasn't as headache inducing as I had thought. Turns out, last time I had rejiggered my services I had failed to delete a now unused fstab entry. One pound sign, save file and a reboot later and everything was back up and running correctly. I lucked out! Now tiem to move my Nextcloud backups off that machine!

  • Guide: Self-hosting open source GPT chat with no GPU using GPT4All

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  • Nice!

  • People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers

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  • Saving this one. That’s funny, and possibly useful

  • A tale of a new Lemmy instance, a bot infestation, the fallout, and how we dealt with it

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  • Thank you! This will prove helpful whenever I get around to spinning up my own instance.

  • Major store's CEO blasts self-checkout theft & warns of closures due to crime

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  • Adapt or die. It’s not really that difficult a concept.

  • More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery

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  • Not suprised. A lot of people in the US have ancestral links to slavery. I don't judge a person for the sins of their parents. I judge them for their own sins.

  • Lemmy (the wider community) privacy does stink (and how to change that)

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  • I believe that votes are private in the sense that they are out of view unless you go digging for them. A bit like stepping behind a curtain to have a conversation in a room full of people.

    As for saved posts, Looking at the documentation, I think that that is local to your home server only.

    https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/05-federation.html

  • Lemmy (the wider community) privacy does stink (and how to change that)

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  • That's a new reference for me. I had to look that up. :-)

    I may have gotten to word wrong. I'm afraid speak only two languages. Horrible English and even worse Spanish.

    I meant the box that old timey politicians used to stand on so they could be seen by a crowd while they spewed nonsense out of their mouths.

  • Lemmy (the wider community) privacy does stink (and how to change that)

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  • Only if your home server remains unfederated. Even then other users of the server will be able to see everything. And will be more likely to remember, like miss Busy Body.

    As for this being experimental software. Yes? So? So is the internet. It has really only been under strain for 20 years. (It older then that, I know. I grew up using dialup to BBSs. Then USENET. Then AOL.) We are still making this shit up as we go along. But it’s best not to forget human nature.

    As for your last statement, yea….. I’m going to just let that one be…

  • Lemmy (the wider community) privacy does stink (and how to change that)

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  • Quite. But she is usually sweet and was often the first to help pick you up when you fell. ‘Cause god knows she was probably there watching.

    But now that I’ve actually had time to read your post, I stand by my original comment except to add this:

    What in God’s name makes you think that you aren’t being tracked on the Fediverse! It’s an open damned platform! Everyone can see everything! Whether they care or not is another matter entirely.

  • Lemmy (the wider community) privacy does stink (and how to change that)

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  • Yes.

    You must have either grown up post-internet or in one of the bigger cities. I assure you, in small towns like where I grew up, (particularly before the internet) old miss Busy Body down the street would never let ANYONE forget every embarrassing moment anyone ever had. The more scandalous or embarrassing the moment, the more likely it was to be retold. And retold. And retold. Till EVERYONE knew.

    The only thing that has changed is the detail of the retelling. The tales still seem to get bigger and more scandalous with each retelling.

  • Lemmy (the wider community) privacy does stink (and how to change that)

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  • Saving this to read later, when I have time. So my apologies if this is not relevant.

    When using any sort of social media you are effectively shouting, at the top of you lungs, in the middle of town square. What privacy are you expecting? If you want privacy, join me in “bed”. For “pillow talk.”

    I do expect my account to be secure, in that no one should be able to pretend to be me. But privacy? Not in town square, while standing on the bullpup. Holding a megaphone.

  • To reduce dependence on China, more of us need to work in factories

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  • Agreed, but we’ve also spent the last 30 years telling every high school student that they HAVE to have a collage degree if they don’t want to be “flipping burgers”.

    As a result, when the local plumber died in Greensboro, AL, there was no one local to take over the work. The next nearest plumber was 60 miles away and they were happy to charge accordingly.

    Ditto electricians, ditto ditto carpenters, masons, mechanics and whatever you call the folks that work with natural gas (plumbers? Pipe fitters?)

    All jobs are subject to supply and demand. I make what I make because not enough people want my job to drive my wages down. But right now, in Greensboro, AL, a plumber could charge damn near whatever they wanted.

    My wife makes what she makes because the folks that need her services can’t really afford to pay what she is worth.

  • To reduce dependence on China, more of us need to work in factories

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  • Interesting relevant factoid.

    I am a truck driver. I make $75,000 per year. Required a license that cost me 2 years of my life or $10,000 (my choice) for school (12 weeks) and roughly $1000 in admin fees to my State to aquire.

    My wife is a mental health therapist. She makes roughly $55,000. To do her current job required a Master’s degree($80,000 +6 years), and 2 separate licenses with an unknown (to me) cost but required a total of 5 years on the job to acquire. Before she got that second license, she made more money working at McDonalds. And she still has continued education requirements costing upwards of $800 per course.

    She loves her job (usually) and I love that she loves it, but if you’re looking for money, THE TRADES PAY! And usually a heck of a lot earlier and better than jobs that require a college degree.

    Edit: Spolling is hard!

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    Mastodon's Eugen Rochko in talks with Meta?!😱

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  • Not really. Most big corporations require a NDA to use their toilets. Slight exaggeration but not by much.

    Wait and see.

  • Reddit alternative? Google introduces Perspectives, a search feed with results from humans

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  • I wonder if bots like that are possible in the fediverse?

  • Reddit alternative? Google introduces Perspectives, a search feed with results from humans

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  • I bet 3 upvotes and one Mastodon follow, it’s killed off in less then 5 years