he/him, chronically [redacted] and severely online
Gemma2, the new state of the art, still can get above 45% correct in basic addition, and also can't do better than a two or three basic Google searches. GPT is a NLP tool, and using it to do math would be like using a F-35 to weave lace.
I mean, I like it here.
Text is cheap to serve, but images (and video) are a PAIN. If a significant chunk of expense can be mitigated if I use Imgur or some other service and link my silly memes rather than direct upload then yeah sure, but moving the community around tends to lose people.
The problem is usability for non power users. As a server environment nothing beats it but man the UI on these apps have some horrendous defaults and the CLI is everywhere. KDE still can't get rounded corners right.
Fresh install, it works! Extensions are required to be "trusted" but other than that everything seems to be in the same place.
Pretty sure tagging nsfw imagery is standard. Stuff like cropped porn, horny art and the like. Horny text gets a pass I think. Not sure about NSFL
Not a theorem really just homework problems
goes ting
7.5/10 not Shawshank Redemption, but if you've got time, it won't be a waste IMO. The story covers a lot of ground regarding gender identity and what it means to be perceived as 'good'. Keep in mind that when the source material was written, gay marriage was still illegal in US.
be not afraid
One of these mangos bites back
Don't forget acorn posting!
I vote stay.
While the Fediverse is built to be decentralized, social networks rely on network effects. People gather where other people are. There will always be 'winners' and 'losers' in building an instance, or even making an alternative 196. c/196 f/196, c/195, fedi196.gay, ect. The original started out with over half a million members, small by Reddit standards. We're the largest alternative around, and we got less than 10k.
Administering an entire instance for one community seems like overkill, especially when there is a path forward to reducing costs significantly.
Also I like the vibes here.
::: spoiler But if you are concerned with server costs... The existing plan should take care of the significant majority of costs. AWS charges out the ass for data egress, and while I don't know the billing specifics, this instance moves roughly 1TB a day, and the majority of it is static images by virtue of well, images. It was mentioned that this covers half of existing costs upwards of 1-2k. So whats the obvious solution? Don't use AWS for storage or transfer.
Cloudflare and a significant chunk of other providers are part of something called the Bandwidth Alliance (which AWS declined to be a part of) and most importantly, these providers offer S3 compatible object storage without data egress fees. Lemmy uses something called pict-rs; on default settings, uses local storage that has to be part of the VPS that you rent. Enabling object storage allows you to move storage away from the VPS itself and onto a different provider - one that does not charge data egress fees. (Easy money? idk) Ideally, you also get edge caching as a bonus.
So what about the data transfer not associated with images and can't be easily remedied? Different VPS providers have different benefits. Digital Oceans lets you customize your VPS to the Nth degree, Hertzner offers up to 20TB of transfer with it's VPS offerings. While I can't vouch for them myself, that should be enough to cover a whatever other thumbnails and other data that can't be shoved into object storage. Either way, still cheaper than AWS.
As for AWS load balancing, uhhhhh standard nginx/apache config? I've only used nginx as a reverse proxy but I'm not paying for it.
Not touching DB management with a 10 foot pole
TLDR: AWS is great for small projects and my relatives drooling over A40's but they charge for egress, and other QoL services that typically get used by companies with deep pockets. :::
Ah yep there it is, the utterly and truly cursed part of the internet. For the briefest moment, I truly understood the horror of Lovecraft, to be able to see and be unable to look away - a perversion of the human body most profane adorning the wall of what was once only moderately unhinged memes, to be washed away in the tides of time.
errr boob-knee lamo
bnun
new response just dropped
What? So you'll allow magical flying hammers but not fully automated ball twisting?
This is not justice - this shadow council is a sham! They do NOT love casting SPELLS.
brb on my way to existing in 63 countries, simultaneously
buddyphd leaking again?
TBH this really wasn't the kind of discourse I was expecting in 196 of all places, especially since there are Tumblr posts on this sub preemptively calling out this kinda stuff for being terf talking points
Like google ain't great, but like... What were you searching for?
MFW Someone puts a pull bar handle on the inside of doors that are designated exits 😡😡😡🔥🔥🔥☹️☹️☹️⚰️⚰️⚰️
The "cheap" bugs:
Lobster: 40$ per tail
Crab: 4-8$ per can
Shrimp: 5-12$ per lb
Uh huh.
bagels or donuts?
I'll edit this comment once I figure out how to stop getting json errors for images... edit: i dug up an old imgur account for this
leaky ass language
You leave a comment on Lemmy!
It's cause he munches your bones, obviously
when silksong damn it
🥭! Linux memes and RPG memes are fairly active here, THE PACK occasionally leaks but not much of a presence.
Brisket
we are going to live FOREVER!
::: spoiler No, I specifically mean Nimona covers gender identity. (Word vomit below)
Nimona's entire stick is transforming. Lots of her problems come from transforming. Lot's of her solutions come from transforming. What is Nimona's main power? Staying still and doing what she is told. No it's transforming lmao.
Nimona is introduced with very similar identifiers of being queer (pink hair, haircut, clothing) it isn't very subtle, nor does it matter because it is only one form. The only identifier that we get throughout the film that Nimona is a particular animal is the color pink - which in certain scenes, we are reminded is a choice.
She is violently persecuted because she can shapeshift, nearly to the point of suicide. Sound familiar? She could not shapeshift, but to her, that is basically the same thing as dying. Then she does, and she is "free". It is a rather blunt analogy for gender dysphoria & transitioning.
What is Nimona's gender? Does a fear have a gender? She's closer to a primordial force than a human, but she still shows a preferred form. But it isn't static. She is explicitly non binary.
People relate to the film because it demonstrates feelings that are similar to the situations that they go through, not because it demonstrates the exact situation that they are in. There are other reads, but this is a prominent one. Much like Celeste, the source material was written without an explicit understanding of what these feelings were - it is only with hindsight (this film) that these reasons are spelled out more clearly.
Further reading: https://time.com/6291748/nimona-shape-shifting-trans/ :::
Tldr: Laura croft, with peen.
Everything except Node-exporter running in containers on a single Ubuntu machine. i5-6500T, 16gb RAM & 1TB.
Media Stack
IT Stack
The comic strip when contrarianism > ideas & personality
I inject the plastic into my veins, you wish it were the Internet giving me this buzz.
Can confirm, got halfway wrecked in my upper div statistics midterm during COVID. 24 hours, open everything. Even the Internet can't replace real understanding.