Admins, make sure you update to 18.2, this has already been patched:
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-11_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.2
Dusty
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Joined 1 years ago
I feel like the threat to "kill off desktop PCs" has been going for years, yet it has never eventuated. I'm a bit too old and too tired of all the threats/clickbait lately to even start to worry about it actually happening.
If it does, I'll find an alternative, but I very highly doubt it will happen anytime soon.
Can I have just one community without American politics shoved into it?
What does this have to do with technology? Seriously? Because she... used a computer?
Corsair intends to keep Drop as a separate brand within the company
I'll give that about 6 months before they "have to merge" and the layoffs begin.
Is there some award for being the very last person to post this in this community or something? This has been discussed to death about a dozen times already.
It seems the same things keep being posted multiple times, usually by bots. I have blocked bots, but they still show. It's gotten to the point I've had to start blocking them, and users the post the same things that have already been posted here multiple times.
Get rid of them I say.
No, but some people are stuck behind CG-NAT and can't port forward to the outside world for wireguard. Things like Cloudflared, Tailscale and ZeroTier get past that.
It's of course possible to use wireguard to a VPS and tunnel into that, but that's a bit more technical to set up.
Any thoughts on this OP or is this more "let me just link this everywhere and not actually give any discussion about it myself" links are so prevalent on lemmy lately.
Why is crap from 2 weeks ago being posted like it's new news yet again
Is this one of those bot accounts that aren't marked properly or is OP just after karma (which doesn't exist on this site).
If it works for you and allows you to start learning, there's no problem with it. Too many people seem to think that if you haven't compiled whatever yourself, it's not true "self hosting" but you should do what works best for you to get to the goal you want.
I don't really see it as an issue. Post it to whichever community you are most active on. If people want to part of that particular instance, they will see it and interact with it.
Just like I'm interacting with this post right now even though I'm not on lemmy.world. I'm quite over what became the gamification of karma on reddit, and really hope it doesn't become a thing here. There's no reason about having to worry about which instance to post something to, people will find it and interact with it.
You shouldn't have to though. The whole "only available if you happen to live in X" is so much bs when it comes to things like this. Sure if it was a giveaway and needed to be shipped, I could understand. But a website being locked away to only certain regions is ridiculous.
Thank you, I am quickly getting quite sick of people just link bombing communities without adding anything to say what the links actually are or do. There should be rules around it. I already block bots (which doesn't seem to work) I guess it's time to start blocking other accounts that do this.
Maybe it was written using chatgpt-4
I have a couple, including the one running my lemmy instance I'm posting this from. They've all been pretty good for me. I don't push any of them hard or anything, but I've not had any problems.
That's why it's stated in the Lemmy docs to use an image host instead of uploading directly. Unfortunately, most users don't do that.
Unfortunately, Claude.ai is only available in the US and UK. We're working hard to expand to other regions soon.
sigh
I 100% lurk. In fact this is my first comment even though I've been using it since the time that other site started their BS with the api fees.
It's sad I have to state which site I'm talking about when I say "other site started their BS"
If how AI is currently going (and currently way overhyped) is anything to go by, it's just going to make everything up in a plausible sounding way and not actually accomplish anything.
But it seems like every man and his dog has an opinion on why it's going to be Next Big Thing ^tm^
That's on you, not the internet or google. As has been pointed out, dot al is a TLD for a country. Just because you can't type properly and didn't spell check yourself, doesn't mean the internet is doomed.
My lemmy instance is hosted on a 1GB vps with no problem. Even with a few other services on the same VPS.
I've run Searxng for a while is there any reason to switch?
I have bots blocked and they still show up in comments. I think it only blocks bots from main posts.
I don't personally mind this particular bot, but most of them are annoying so I block them all.
Any synopsis? Or is this just to drive clicks to your blog?
This community seems to be inundated with just random links with no actual information added as to why I should want to click it, or what is actually at the link.
This is a prime example. It's simply a link to a blog, with "Free Public Wifi" as the title. Literally nothing else. No synopsis, no information as to why I should want to click it, or read whatever is written. Just an ambiguous title linking to an ambiguous blog.
Of course it's also cross-posted to as many other communities as possible.
Why is this posted twice?
What does it have to do with technology?
Why is a mod posting this crap into this community? Guess it's time to block this community from my instance if it's going to turn into political crap.
You're right, I have zero posts so far, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make there though. Perhaps you think everyone should keep posting the same thing ad nauseam?
As soon as I find "something I want to discuss" I'll be sure to post it. Until then I'll just keep browsing past the same things that keep being posted time and again here.
The point is you shouldn't have to "just use a proxy", it's an unnecessary block because people happen to live in the "wrong" countries.
I still have a 3D Plasma TV. I haven't found a reason to replace it as it's still going just fine.
Mastodon users can follow communities and magazines as though they were users, post to them, and see replies. Although they see everything linearly.
I know this is a thing, I've seen people doing exactly this, but I still have zero clue how to do it or how it works.
Thank you very much! I'll get this set up on mine.
Even more so since profiles are generally less anonymous than reddit.
How so?
My profile tells you I use an instance (in this case my own, dusty-radio) and my username on that instance (in this case Dusty). All this tells you is the name I've chosen and that I host this myself. It's no different than if I was Dusty on reddit, other than the instance URL.
I don't. There is a community I subbed to that has absolutely nothing to do with American politics. The mod of that community keeps posting bs about American politics to that community under the guise of "they used a computer to post whatever so it belongs in this community about technology".
This is on one of the bigger sites and bigger instances. I ended up blocking that community from my personal instance because it was being inundated with a bunch of crap having nothing to do with technology, but certainly had an agenda.
If that was the only community that (supposedly) was about technology, I'd have to find a bunch of other, niche communities to cover what that one does (or should).
Previous discussions in the same community
That's a low poly pup right there.
This has been a problem since well before AI became feasible.
Why is this cross posted to the same community so that two show up?
Thank you for this, looks good!
Thank you for that.
I did find one glaring issue on kbin that will keep me from using it in the future.
I had apparently opened an account whoknowswhen, and figured I'd remove it and start again. When I went to delete the account, it didn't actually delete it, instead it keeps me logged in and just put this at the top >Your request to delete the account has been submitted.
That seems like a bit of an issue, as I shouldn't have to wait for it to be submitted (which also appears to mean approved) before deleting an account. Until that's fixed, I'll stick with lemmy and mastodon separately.
I tried kbin and don't really understand it to be honest. I looked at their documentation and it doesn't really explain much other than how to create an account on an instance.
Going to kbin.social and creating an account didn't get me much farther. I don't undrestand how to "subscribe" to (for example) the lemmy communities I follow her, or the users I follow on mastodon. And the "magazines" thing I really don't get.
Maybe I'm too dumb for it or something.
After their crypto crap, this doesn't surprise me one bit.
And don't give me that "You can disable the crypto" the fact is, you shouldn't have to because it shouldn't have ever been included in the first place.