hendrik

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Sounds reasonable. Blind spot makes it easy to run over cyclists when doing a right turn. "Attention, Angles morts".

And it sounds reasonable each party writes a bill. Can be offset in court.

And btw an ambulance ride in Germany is like 500€ to 1000€. For once something that's not 10x as expensive as in other parts of the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Care to explain?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Strange. Okay, hope that spares you from similar troubles in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

This a creative writing exercise?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Check out yunohost.org (and similar projects) If you're in for a turnkey-solution.

But yes, a reverse proxy that does all the work and handles SSL is a nice solution. I also use that. It's relatively easy to set up, doesn't really slow down anything and makes a lot of stuff easier to manage.

I use NGinx, but Caddy or Traefik will do the same. And I don't use Cloudflare, so I can't comment on that.

And btw, Jitsi-Meet is going to require some more dedidated ports for the WebRTC, STUN, etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't think recognition by law is super important to that cause. I mean it's not like they're part of the system in that way. On contrary, they do illegal things like ask people not to come to their workplace. They threaten employers, demand change like workplace safety, ... And employers don't listen to them because they're required to by law, but because their production will grind to a halt if they don't. So ultimately a workers union just needs to be backed by the workers, or at least a good amount of them. That aside, we of course need some structure to things, so legistation might help. But it's not strictly necessary. And I don't think it even started like that. It's mainly a means to get heard, because a single individual can be f*cked over more easily than an organized group of people. Everything else is just details.

But I really like OP's idea. It's nothing new, just re-inventing what we already had in the late 1800s. And it already proved to be an option. And is in use in other parts of the world.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

I don't know anything about ZFS, but in the future you might want to address them by /dev/disks/by-uuid/... or by-id and not by /dev/nvme..

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Though a few peoples freedoms have been taken away, like women. And you got a lot stupider on average. And he cut the taxes of the rich while millions lost health insurance and national debt increased. So it's not particularly great eiher.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Use that learning opportunity for your future. That's the main thing. And maybe a change of scenery won't hurt. I doubt you'll reconcile with your manager and coworkers, so you might as well take the other job offer, if it's alright.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hmmh, that's usually postponed until after a war is over. At least to gather the exact numbers. But the other side isn't going to conceal it. They're going to brag about it. So we'll know anyways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not enough time? Biden withdrew. It was less than 4 months to election. No one had prepared and there wasn't many people prepared to step in and take over. She kinda was, so it was the obvious choice. If they had started a lengthy process or demonstrated to be weak and a t odds, that would have made them lose the election right then and there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't worry about that. We pay a few of our own journalists to live in the US and report the news. I occasionally read or watch both the European and unfiltered American reporting and they're not alike. I think we still get a picture resembling something close to the truth. At least generally speaking.

 

Seems they recently changed something on Spotify and all the tools I've tried fail now. And DownOnSpot which seems promising has received a cease and desist letter and got taken down. What do you people use? I want something that actually fetches the audio from Spotify, not just rip it from YouTube. And it has to work as of now. Does the latest commit from DownOnSpot work? Back when I tested it a few weeks ago it failed due to some API changes. Are there other tools floating around?

 

tl;dr: Be excellent to each other, do something constructive here?

I'm not sure anymore where the Threadiverse is headed. (The Threadiverse being this threaded part of the Fediverse, i.e. Lemmy, MBin, PieFed, ...)
In my time here, I've met a lot of nice people and had meaningful conversations and learned lots of things. At the same time, it's always been a mixed bag. We've always had quite some argumentative people here, trolls, ... I've seen people hate on and yell at each other, and do all kinds of destructive things. My issue with that is: Negative behavior is disproportionately affecting the atmosphere. And I'd argue we have nowhere enough nice behavior to even that out.

I don't see Lemmy grow for quite some time now. Seems it's now leveling off at a bit less that 50k monthly active users. And I don't see how that'd change. I'm missing some clear vision/idea of where we want to be headed. And I miss an atmosphere that makes people want to join or stay here, of all of the places on the internet. The saying is: "If you don't go forwards you go backwards". I'm not sure if this applies... At least we're not shrinking anymore.

And I'm always unsure if the tone and atmosphere here changes subtly and gradually. I've always disagreed with a few dynamics here. But lately it feels like we're on the decline, at least to me. I occasionally keep an eye on the votes on my comments. And seems I'm getting fewer of them. Sometimes I reply to a post and not a single person interacts. Even OP seems to have abandoned their post moments after writing it. And also for nuanced and longer replies, I regularly don't get more than one or two upvotes. I think that used to be a bit better at some point. And I see the same thing happening with other peoples' comments. So it's not just me writing low-quality comments. What does work is stating simple truths. I regularly get some incoming votes with those. But my vision of this place isn't spreading simple truths, but have proper and meaningful discussions, learn things and new perspectives or just mingle with people or talk. But judging by the votes I observe, that isn't appreciated by the community here.

Another pet peeve of mine is the link aggregator aspect of Lemmy. I'd say at least 80% of Lemmy is about dumping some political (or tech) news articles. Lots of them don't generate any engagement. Lots of them are really low-effort. OP just dumps something somewhere, no body text added, no info about what's interesting about it. And people don't even read those articles. They just read the title and react (emotionally) to that. In the end probably neither OP nor the audience read the article and it's just littering the place. Burying and diminishing other, meaningful content. (With that said: There are also nice (news) discussions going on at the same time. And Lemmy is meant to be a link aggregator. It's just that my perception is: it's skewed towards low quality, low engagement and random noise.)

A few people here also don't really like political debate. And there's no escape from it here on Lemmy since so much revolves around that. And nowadays politics is about strong opinions, emotions and emotional reactions. And often limited to that. The dynamics of Lemmy reinforce the negative aspect of that, because the time when you're most incentivized to reply or react is, when it triggers some strong emotion in you, for example you strongly disagree with a comment and that makes you want to counter it and write your own opinion underneath. If you agree, you don't feel a strong emotion and you don't reply. And the majority of users seems to also forget to upvote in that case, as I lined out earlier. And we also don't write nuanced answers, dissect complex things and examine it from all angles. That's just effort and it's not as rewarding for the brain to do that as it is pointing out that someone is wrong. So it just fosters an atmosphere of being argumentative.

Prospect

I think we have several ways of steering the community:

  1. Technology: Features in the software, design choices that foster good behavior.
  2. Moderation: Give toxic people the boot, or delete content that drags down the place. Following: What remains is nice people and not adverse content.
  3. The community

I'd say 1 and 2 go without saying. (Not that everything is perfect with those...) But it really boils down to 3: The community. This is a fairly participatory place. We are the ones shaping the tone and atmosphere. And it's our place. It's kind of our obligation to care for it if we want to see it go somewhere. Isn't it?

So what's your vision of this place? Do you have some idea on where you'd like it to go? Practical ideas on how to achieve it?
Do you even agree with my perception of the dynamics here, and the implications and conclusions I came up with?

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