By having more instances and better user distribution. Running a small-ish instance isn't very expensive, around 5-10 euro a month (some VPS providers are cheaper, etc). As Lemmy development continues, and more optimizations come in, these smaller lemmy instances will be able to support more users.

There is also a discussion on GitHub to introduce user and community migrations between instances. So once that feature is implemented, it will be easier to redistribute everything across all Lemmy instances.

Elon Musk: "No! You can scrape Twitter data for AI research!"

Also Elon Musk: "I'm gonna start scraping Internet data for my AI research"

The code

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello World")
}

Very very true.

If you just regularly clean the litter box and use decent litter, smell is not an issue at all.

But no matter how often or thoroughly I brush and deshed my cats, there will always be hair everywhere.

I'm not really the correct person to answer this, since I'm not struggling to the same degree as you are.

However I once heard a good tip on how to save money. Most people, when they receive their salary spent it first on the necessities (food, rent, etc) and then save the remainder (if anything is left). But instead you should first save a percentage of your pay before spending on any necessities. That way, your brain will try to make the best use the remaining money to survive the best it can

I don't really mind nor care when someone is wrong about something as long as they're not bothering/affecting other people.

For example:

Someone believes that flat earth is real. Fine, whatever, you're not really going to cause any harm with this.

On the other hand, during the pandemic, when people refused to wear masks/take vaccines. Then it becomes a problem because they're affecting other people (potentially putting them at risk)

Ask Lemmy:

I use OpenBoard, its based on GBoard I believe but without the Google dependencies and is open-source. Works pretty well, no complaints

Ever since I discovered LogSeq and Obsidian, I stopped checking out other note-taking software

You can use Lutris. But if you don't want to go that way, you can simply use proton directly.

I have a script that I use on my linux machine that automatically detects an "exe" file in the same directory and runs it via proton. With that I've been able to play non-steam games easily enough.

There are plenty of tutorials online on how to run proton via CLI, here's one

EDIT: As @nottheengineer@feddit.de said, you can also add exe files to Steam and have it run that way. Its probably the easier way compared to running it via terminal

QA work has a fairly low barrier of entry, and from there I've known a few people who moved from QA into Developer roles. So there's that route.

Heard some people at work talking about it with such excitement and zeal. It really does baffle me how little people care about privacy as long as they get their fix of social media entertainment. It's a little depressing, and I can only hope that Threads don't ruin the Fediverse in the future.

Its self documenting code, just like the rest of my spaghetti code.

I'm probably the only one here, but I use pass. Small and simple password manager with gpg encrypted passwords. Have it syncing between PC and phone using Syncthing and only on local network.

I've heard good things about Bitwarden, but I don't feel the need to switch.

ChatGPT: I'm sorry, but as an AI language model I cannot "fuck your brains out" ...

Miniflux

Just gonna leave this little gem here, enjoy.

https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057

+1 for LibreWolf, great Firefox fork

Anything on the web that is accessible by you is accessible by web scrapers. So to answer your question, yes.

Unless Lemmy goes down the route of Twitter (I refuse to call it by its new name, it's dumb) of blocking access unless you login. That's just how things are.

The solution is to lean into what Lemmy (and the Fediverse) was designed to do - be decentralized.

If we have more instances running, it would lighten the load on the larger instances (smaller instances can still subscribe to the larger one's communities and such).

I think ads isnt a great idea. Firstly, generic ads don't pay much, for actual good income you need to target ads, which now digs into users privacy and from there we have a slippery slope.

some people seem not to get the point of "millions of users", which presumably includes non-techies that do not use adblockers. I mean that without ads (or mining?), no instance would be able to scale to the point where it can compete with Reddit for example. If you were to want that.

The point of Lemmy is NOT to have a single instance compete with Reddit! That would just be Reddit V2 then. There just needs to be more instances to distribute the user load more evenly. Running a small/medium sized VPS costs about as much as a Netflix subscription.

Yep, correct

Different companies have different requirements, but generally if you know a bit of SQL and a bit of Linux terminal commands you should be good. Maybe have a browse through a testing framework like Selenium, though frameworks would vary depending on what the company does, so don't fret too much about that.

Even then, I doubt some people will be able to correlate that to privacy infringing social media services. Some will, but a lot probably won't.

The difference is, in the job interview you're writing it from scratch yourself. On the job you have to take over from the guy who left 10 years ago and that button was designed in such a way that resizing it will add garbage data to all tables in the database and also send an email to all your customers telling them to switch providers.

Mom said it's my turn to ponder at the sphere!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEQhA-JJlH0

Just lots of scratch posts and reward positive behavior with treats and praise.

Also clipping their nails from time to time helps. Unlike declawing (which is basically a surgical amputation, and is basically animal abuse), nail clipping doesn't hurt the cat and isn't a permanent thing, but it does help with damage control

The limit can be changed, but it's up to the admins of the instance.

It also might be nice to change the error so that users know to shrink their images.

Its not strictly a Lemmy error, but in Nginx (or at least for me it was there), which is a service that sits between you and Lemmy and redirects traffic. But yeah, the frontend could still handle it better and at least give a better error message

This probably won't work for everyone, but whenever I'm learning or trying out something new and unfamiliar, I always tend to follow the philosophy of "Just jump straight into the deep end and you have no choice but to swim".

So for those thinking of trying out Lemmy/Fediverse. I suggest trying to get your own instance running. It'll get you more familiar with what Lemmy is and how it works (at least on a high level). Its also really rewarding when you get it all up and running, it becomes something more personal to you since you took the time and effort (instead of just clicking sign up on some instance).

But again, that just how I prefer doing things. To each their own.

The best model

Same! I've become like a walking advertisement for LogSeq at work. Its great

They've been going on about that for years now, and last I heard about it, they said it would cost too much to implement or something like that? Can't remember now.

You will later be able to delete your Threads account w/o losing Instagram

"Later" - such a nice word isn't it? So vague and ambiguous

How is this different to ActivityPub protocol that the fediverse uses? Seems like its trying to accomplish very similar things? Like how KBin and Lemmy can interact with the same content and have different layouts, apps, etc.

I suppose it's good to have alternative protocols for decentralized communication, but wouldn't it be better to focus on one and put more effort into improving it?

He'll implement an FPS limiter to a whole 5 frames per second for non verified accounts

Its actually a misconception, its not the fur thats causing the allergic reaction, its actually a protein the cats produce that can be found in their saliva. So when they groom themselves, the protein gets onto their fur.

Interesting fact, intact males produce more of this protein compared to female and neutered males.

Also, you can buy certain cat food that will help manage the protein (it doesn't eliminate or stop it being produced, it just deactivates the protein). So thats one possible solution for people with allergies. Though if you're super sensitive, it mightn't help much.

EDIT: here's the source

Thanks for the clarification! That does make it more interesting than just an ActivityPub clone

So like LogSeq, Obsidian is a free note taking application which stores notes in Markdown format locally on your PC. Unlike LogSeq however, it is not open source and is designed more for long form text (LogSeq is more bullet points).

You can check out Obsidian here

The Firefox addon is so good for it, its open source and just runs a basic Python script in the background locally. Very handy.