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NoughtE

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  • If you knew you were going to get Alzheimer’s at 65 would you have kids?

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  • I have strictly instructed my family, including my wife, that if I ever develop alzheimers I want to be euthanized. If I am sufficiently lucid at the point of diagnosis I will have no problem overdosing on something and going out in peace.

  • Have you ever tried an open source dating app?

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  • I'll admit it's anecdotal, but it is absolutely my experience having worked in tech for 15 years.

    Maybe "dominated" is an extreme word, but I would put money on "over-represented".

  • Have you ever tried an open source dating app?

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  • This is really what I'm hoping for. Threads has not launched well, Twitter is on the brink of collapse, Reddit is in the midst of enshittification, and Facebook is only used by old people.

    Tiktok, Snap, and Insta are still absolutely huge, but there is a definite pick up in pace of people adopting the fediverse. There is hope.

  • Have you ever tried an open source dating app?

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  • Dating apps are toxic as it is, and the fact that most of them are basically days mining operations at this point makes it even worse (this also heavily impacts the overall ux). I have a friend who has worked for multiple dating app companies and it sounds awful.

    I think an open source one that respects user privacy would be amazing, but honestly would likely be useless, as barely anyone would use it because people don't really care about privacy, and select dating apps purely based on user volume.

    In addition, and although this is gradually changing, tech and therefore tech-related interests such as data privacy and FOSS are still overwhelmingly dominated by cishet white men, so I can't imagine such an app having even the most basic, binary requirements in terms of diversity.

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    Superiority brings controversy

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  • "I can't install an app because a dependency depends on another dependency that I already have installed but in ever so slightly the wrong way, but I have another app installed which depends on this dependency being installed the way it is now, so I'll have to compile the app from source instead and tweak the config file to work with my version of this dependency, but I also can't compile the app because of the dev environment dependencies."

  • oldscool-os

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  • Operating systems are for casuals. My user interface is Assembly.

  • But have you tried Jerboa?

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  • Install gentoo

  • Maximum ghetto home server

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  • I just grab them off ebay. SAS drives are almost exclusively used in enterprise servers, so there's fuck all demand for them on the used market. Buy a cheap PCIe SAS controller card and you're good to go.

    I use Unraid which doesn't care at all about what types of drives you use, so you can mix and match into one huge array. I have 8x SAS and 2x SATA drives in one array.

  • Maximum ghetto home server

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  • Thanks very much! Yeah it's kind of endearingly ghetto, but I'm really happy with it.

  • Maximum ghetto home server

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  • I mainly installed the screen as an easy way to see what's happening during boot, so I don't have to lug the server into the other room and connect it to a monitor when I make changes to things. I'm planning on setting up a stats readout so it's useful the rest of the time - things like network status/traffic, disk/cpu utilisation etc.

  • Maximum ghetto home server

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  • I've found used SAS drives really cheap. Averaged around £6 per tb.

  • Maximum ghetto home server

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  • Well... Most of it has a case.

  • Maximum ghetto home server

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  • You know it. The second best way to make things attach to things after zip ties.

  • Stoner

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  • I used it to self-medicate for my ADHD for years. It calmed down all the noise in my head and allowed me to have one train of thought at a time. It also made me high, which was nice. I'm the end, it became a crutch for dealing with the hard aspects of life, and fucked with my brain chemistry a lot. I ended up a paranoid wreck, developed severe anxiety and stopped. Now I enjoy it occasionally but if I smoke too much it makes me feel depressed for days afterwards.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Maximum ghetto home server

  • I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy.

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  • Hard disagree. Nobody is above this stuff. Thinking you aren't vulnerable is a good way to become more vulnerable.

  • I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy.

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  • These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor

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  • Cambridge Analytica was a company that used machine learning algos on Facebook user data to target hyper-specific political propaganda to many small segments of voters, rather than few large segments. They spent years testing and refining their process in the developing world in preparation for deployment in the West.

    Steve Bannon was the VP. As soon as they pulled off Brexit, he left to head up Trump’s campaign using the same techniques.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

  • These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor

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  • Let's not forget that they were fined $5 billion for deliberately misleading users about how their personal data was used in regard to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that effectively swayed over 200 elections all over the world, including both Brexit and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

    Seriously, everyone seems to have forgotten about that shit and it's fucking insane.

  • So where are we all supposed to go now? - The Verge

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  • I actually really like this take. Maybe this is just social media growing up, becoming more focused and self aware. The fediverse is currently super rough around the edges, but it really knows what it is. That's more than can be said for pretty much any of the big social networks.

    I'm so down for an open, transparent Internet with focused communities and small websites.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Practical tips for protecting your data, ditching Google, and why it matters

    emilsmith.pro /articles/posts/2023-06-29-practical-tips-for-protecting-your-data-ditching-google-and-why-it-matters