@tilvids The Drivestor also has nextcloud as an easy option. To me, nextcloud is a killer app. You just sync it to your home folder (set it to ignore dotfiles) and you've immediately got two copies of your files. If you have multiple computers you can sync between all of them so you always have the latest files on all your computers, and it has some neat superpowers too, like a cloud note taking app, cloud music, chat, and the rss reader. If you can get that basically free with your nas, that's huge!
@lain @piggo to be fair, I don't think anyone could have imagined an everything bubble that would fund a bunch of services that otherwise could never compete with brick and mortar businesses.
The Internet has become quite important and grown a lot, but I think there is going to be a contraction when bond yields rise. Business models will have to actually make money to continue attracting capital, and that will mean a lot of things we take for granted will end.
It's not going to become irrelevant, it's obviously an important communications medium. It's just not going to be the be-all end-all of human existence it is right now.
The Internet has become quite important and grown a lot, but I think there is going to be a contraction when bond yields rise. Business models will have to actually make money to continue attracting capital, and that will mean a lot of things we take for granted will end.
It's not going to become irrelevant, it's obviously an important communications medium. It's just not going to be the be-all end-all of human existence it is right now.
Coming up on 1 year on the fediverse.
I started out self-hosting my services with a nextcloud. It was really great having access to a service like that anywhere I went. It was a shock to realize that when you run your own service you can use it however you like -- there's no admin to complain that you're not using it the way they want.
Shortly after, big tech started their shenanigans in earnest -- Once they've banned the sitting president of the united states, there's no chance of escaping the censorship.
I started out on alt tech, minds and bitchute. They were fine, but you could see that all it would take is someone to change their minds about how to run the site and suddenly we're back to square 1. On supposedly free-speech minds, one of my posts got reported and at that point I just wasn't interested anymore.
Around the same time, Google had been warning they were going to shut down hangouts. Over my life, I've had a lot of services I use shut down or change such that I can't use it anymore, and it's getting annoying.
I started to go about figuring out how to start up my own service.
I tried Friendica at first. There are some things I really liked about friendica. Once I got the interface working the way I liked it was definitely a looker, and I still prefer the way it shows threads by default. Unfortunately, I found that friendica was very heavy on the back-end to the point that I wasn't able to know for sure if my posts were getting out there. If I had a beefier server it probably would have been fine, but I didn't.
Next I moved to pleroma, and it was much more responsive.
Today I'm running pleroma on the back-end with soapbox-fe as my front-end. Along the way I also set up a peertube instance, a searx instance, an invidious instance, a Matrix homeserver, an xmpp homeserver, and a lotide instance.
It's really cool! Essentially, most of the tabs I have open now are from my own services.
There's lots of interesting people on here so content isn't really a problem. Some people have reported my posts, but that's because they're literally stupid. Every report I've seen is "I disagree with this guys politics!" which was summarily ignored.
The only service I still routinely use from big tech is youtube, though now mostly through my invidious instance. I spend a lot of time on my peertube instance, however.
I'm pretty sold on the fediverse ecosystem at this point, and I'm totally sold on self-hosting. Nobody will get rich off of it, but what I envision is someone coming up with a box that you can install in your house that will allow setting up and maintaining self-hosted services automatically, and then everyone would be independently using their own services that communicate with others' self-hosted services.
I grew up on the Free Internet. I don't care to live on the locked down Internet. I like seeing ideas I don't agree with. I like seeing things that make me feel uncomfortable. I like seeing things I think are wrong. I like seeing things that make me think and maybe change my own views. This is the last best bastion of freedom left.
I started out self-hosting my services with a nextcloud. It was really great having access to a service like that anywhere I went. It was a shock to realize that when you run your own service you can use it however you like -- there's no admin to complain that you're not using it the way they want.
Shortly after, big tech started their shenanigans in earnest -- Once they've banned the sitting president of the united states, there's no chance of escaping the censorship.
I started out on alt tech, minds and bitchute. They were fine, but you could see that all it would take is someone to change their minds about how to run the site and suddenly we're back to square 1. On supposedly free-speech minds, one of my posts got reported and at that point I just wasn't interested anymore.
Around the same time, Google had been warning they were going to shut down hangouts. Over my life, I've had a lot of services I use shut down or change such that I can't use it anymore, and it's getting annoying.
I started to go about figuring out how to start up my own service.
I tried Friendica at first. There are some things I really liked about friendica. Once I got the interface working the way I liked it was definitely a looker, and I still prefer the way it shows threads by default. Unfortunately, I found that friendica was very heavy on the back-end to the point that I wasn't able to know for sure if my posts were getting out there. If I had a beefier server it probably would have been fine, but I didn't.
Next I moved to pleroma, and it was much more responsive.
Today I'm running pleroma on the back-end with soapbox-fe as my front-end. Along the way I also set up a peertube instance, a searx instance, an invidious instance, a Matrix homeserver, an xmpp homeserver, and a lotide instance.
It's really cool! Essentially, most of the tabs I have open now are from my own services.
There's lots of interesting people on here so content isn't really a problem. Some people have reported my posts, but that's because they're literally stupid. Every report I've seen is "I disagree with this guys politics!" which was summarily ignored.
The only service I still routinely use from big tech is youtube, though now mostly through my invidious instance. I spend a lot of time on my peertube instance, however.
I'm pretty sold on the fediverse ecosystem at this point, and I'm totally sold on self-hosting. Nobody will get rich off of it, but what I envision is someone coming up with a box that you can install in your house that will allow setting up and maintaining self-hosted services automatically, and then everyone would be independently using their own services that communicate with others' self-hosted services.
I grew up on the Free Internet. I don't care to live on the locked down Internet. I like seeing ideas I don't agree with. I like seeing things that make me feel uncomfortable. I like seeing things I think are wrong. I like seeing things that make me think and maybe change my own views. This is the last best bastion of freedom left.
@Argus I tend to agree with the assertion that the way they look at GDP is unhealthy.
It's a truism in management that once you start measuring something and once you start making that thing a KPI, you no longer have the same measurement. Just by making it a KPI and making it something you're trying to measure performance against you change the way people behave in order to maximize their perceived performance.
You also get things where you take bad actions that lead to the intended outcome. Keynes talked about absurd tasks like paying someone to dig a ditch only to fill it in as something you can do to keep GDP growing during periods of a shrinking economy, imagine things even more useless than that, and you're doing it while burning the world's limited resources to do it.
We're on the leading edge of a period of massive suffering that will be caused in large part by the need to keep the number going up at all costs. Taxes will skyrocket, government services will collapse, and bankers will be smiling.
It's a truism in management that once you start measuring something and once you start making that thing a KPI, you no longer have the same measurement. Just by making it a KPI and making it something you're trying to measure performance against you change the way people behave in order to maximize their perceived performance.
You also get things where you take bad actions that lead to the intended outcome. Keynes talked about absurd tasks like paying someone to dig a ditch only to fill it in as something you can do to keep GDP growing during periods of a shrinking economy, imagine things even more useless than that, and you're doing it while burning the world's limited resources to do it.
We're on the leading edge of a period of massive suffering that will be caused in large part by the need to keep the number going up at all costs. Taxes will skyrocket, government services will collapse, and bankers will be smiling.
@Argus Neomarxist idiots think everything in society is based on power, which is why they're neomarxist idiots.
I'm sure you didn't choose to read this book because the people who wrote it were powerful, you chose to read it because you thought it was going to be interesting or insightful.
The other part of looking at the world through this lens of "Everything is power" is you end up with bigoted ideas like there being one group or another that has a monopoly on power and all other groups are oppressed -- prejudged and convicted without any further thought on the matter. That dangerous prejudice is right now leading to oppressive power dynamics.
History tells us that every group that ends up ruling has a mythology that explains why they're the chosen people. Kings explained why they were descended from Gods or heroes. Religious orders explained why their head priests are anointed by God to lead. White Christians explained that black people were "sons of Ham", descended from a cursed forebear and thus were lesser than white people. The right thing is to nip this in the bud now before it blossoms into entire peoples thinking their hatred and dehumanization of someone else is justified.
I'm sure you didn't choose to read this book because the people who wrote it were powerful, you chose to read it because you thought it was going to be interesting or insightful.
The other part of looking at the world through this lens of "Everything is power" is you end up with bigoted ideas like there being one group or another that has a monopoly on power and all other groups are oppressed -- prejudged and convicted without any further thought on the matter. That dangerous prejudice is right now leading to oppressive power dynamics.
History tells us that every group that ends up ruling has a mythology that explains why they're the chosen people. Kings explained why they were descended from Gods or heroes. Religious orders explained why their head priests are anointed by God to lead. White Christians explained that black people were "sons of Ham", descended from a cursed forebear and thus were lesser than white people. The right thing is to nip this in the bud now before it blossoms into entire peoples thinking their hatred and dehumanization of someone else is justified.
@Humpleupagus @Dogfart @LoveAlmonds let's be real, it was his plan that cut the regulatory hurdles that would force a company to prove that their product is safe and effective in any other circumstances. Of course he's going to defend his own program.
@Mitsu Fact check: mostly false. It's cool and awesome and no mom internet anime reviewer on YouTube really is a real job I'm going to take off and be a millionaire like PewDiePie any day now!
I just got my first royalty check for my book, The Graysonian Ethic.
I have decided not to quit my day job, which was more or less what we always expected.
On the upside, more and more people are reading the book which I think is really cool.
I have decided not to quit my day job, which was more or less what we always expected.
On the upside, more and more people are reading the book which I think is really cool.
@snowden maybe some of these guys need to remember that the government can't feed anybody. All the government can do is take from one person and give to another, and it isn't going to be the poor -- it's going to be the rich who can afford to pay bribes. And that's a bipartisan thing.
@VaxxersPostingTheirLs That last post in particular...
Imagine you had two crimes: In one, you had the perpetrator's fingerprints. In the other, you have a full body cast, photos, videos, and his wallet. Which one is going to be easier to catch?
That's the difference between an mRNA vaccine and actually getting covid. The idea that the mRNA vaccine would be better than actually getting the virus is absurd.
Imagine you had two crimes: In one, you had the perpetrator's fingerprints. In the other, you have a full body cast, photos, videos, and his wallet. Which one is going to be easier to catch?
That's the difference between an mRNA vaccine and actually getting covid. The idea that the mRNA vaccine would be better than actually getting the virus is absurd.
@VaxxersPostingTheirLs Simply does not follow.
They've locked down in places with over 95% vaxx rate.
Sorry, but if you're locking down at 95% vaxx rates, then the vaxx isn't working to end the pandemic. It's just time to move on. Sucks, but that's life.
They've locked down in places with over 95% vaxx rate.
Sorry, but if you're locking down at 95% vaxx rates, then the vaxx isn't working to end the pandemic. It's just time to move on. Sucks, but that's life.
@ironhide1975 "Right side of history! Right side of history! Right side of history! Right side of history!"
yah?
yah?