TheBeege

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[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I didn't know there was a term for this! Thank you! I try to convey this concept all the time, especially for intelligence and skills, so having a word for it is immensely helpful.

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What is the purpose of punishment? To reform behavior? Or to make you feel better?

You can claim justice, but in this case, that's just making you feel better. You want to hurt someone because they hurt others. That's how we've had never-ending wars. We as a species need to grow past this

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Okay, but what's your current level of web development knowledge?

And if I'm understanding your website properly, it seems like you don't have any kind of user generated content, yes? And if there were updates to the site, you would just make them yourself? If this is the case, then it sounds like frontend-only, and you can probably just use Vercel. If you're going super simple, maybe even Github Pages would work.

Alternatively, is there any reason you're not using a site builder like Wix or Squarespace?

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'll give a more detailed answer.

Docker doesn't help you in the development of the website. Docker helps you with the deployment of the website.

The purpose of Docker is to give you a consistent environment. When you create a Docker "image," that image includes all of the files and software required to run the website. Then on some computer accessible by the public internet, you can just download that "image" and run your website using a "container" created from the image.

You can think of the image as the blueprint of all the bits and pieces needed to run your website. The container is basically all those pieces put into action to actually run the website.

Now, depending on your website, you may not even need Docker. If it's frontend-only, you could use some service like Vercel, where you don't even need Docker.

Can you share more info about your current level of knowledge and the website you want to make?

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

This is short-sighted. It also reeks of "Fuck you, I got mine!" I know that's not your intention. I just think you haven't thought super hard about it. I was the same with privacy concerns.

So let me throw some edge cases at you.

You remember the network time protocol vulnerability that was used to power botnets for a little bit? Well, until everyone upgraded their shit, service providers had to just block IP ranges of compromised machines until enough machines in that block stopped DDoS'ing them.

So what happens when some script kiddy pays for time on the botnet, which includes your box, to smash Wizards while you're trying to look things up? Or what if someone uses your box as a jump box to go attack some giant corporation, and shit gets traced back to you? Or what if someone decides you're the unlucky one where their whole goal is to dominate your entire home network, and they get your phone when it's on your home wifi?

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Not all AI is equal. Europe does embrace certain types of AI depending on their production and usage. I work at a company pushing our AI throughout Europe, and the reception is generally very positive.

These LLMs are just shit built in shitty ways. Their problem definition is shit, and the marketing of what they can do effectively is bullshit. There are some LLM efforts that are less shitty, but they're not very popular yet

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Sorry for the late reply, but thanks for the definition. I wasn't aware of the prioritizing other ethnicities bit.

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The problem is that they're too fucking big. Office used to be the shining star of Microsoft, but now, it's a total piece of shit. My company recently switched from Google to Microsoft, and holy shit, it's a downgrade.

Outlook is the biggest pile of shit software I've encountered in years. It's eventually consistent but without user feedback, it's very slow, meeting rooms aren't consistent about meeting room responses, email filtering rules don't work reliably... I could go on.

Word sucks, too. Google Docs is way easier to use. In Word, copy and paste doesn't work as you'd expect, even from Word doc to Word doc, there's no templating in OneDrive, there aren't shared folders unless you set up a whole SharePoint site... I could go on here, too.

It's this stupid, stupid focus on AI tools. AI ain't making shit better! AI shouldn't replace humans or things humans work on: it should augment humans. Products still need development on UX. AI should be incorporated into UX without being shoved down our throats. But these dumbass investors who don't understand tech are jumping on the fucking bandwagon, and execs are towing the line.

Sorry for the rant, but Microsoft is more than just development tools.

Also, they need to get ads out of my fucking operating system. I don't want my operating system natively communicating with the internet and recommending news stories. Fucking cancer

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I honestly don't know. If the government declared itself void via some action, then maybe? I really have no idea

People tend to exaggerate in their thoughts anyway, so this is reasonable to imagine someone thinking.

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A country is not land. A country is a human construct. Usually, a country is situated on land. The Soviet Union is no longer a country, but several other countries now occupy its land.

A country is usually seen as its government. If the government ceases to function, the country effectively no longer exists.

Does that make more sense?

 

Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this.

I saw this in another thread on /c/Showerthoughts. I think it's important for this to be circulated widely so that the broader Fediverse community is aligned. We don't want admins second-guessing their decisions when users start infighting. We should be united in our thinking and ready to protect our platform.

 

Does anyone know of an instance hosted locally? If not, I'm happy to set one up. May need helping administrating it, though.

I've noticed that other server instances can be quite slow, so I thought a local instance would be a nice latency reduction, depending on how exactly ActivityPub works. I haven't read up on the protocol yet. If it doesn't respond to the client until the remote federated instance responds, then there'll likely be no gain in speed

 

I was thinking about patterns in history and was thinking about the fall of Rome. We all learn about the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, but I don't recall ever learning about the time in between. Sure, Rome's empire collapsed, but what happened next? City-states? A hollowed-out Republic? Anarchy? Did the goths raid and pillage everything? Did they just go back north? Did they settle in? I wanna know

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