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Etterra , to asklemmy in What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?

We need silly hats. Most human cultures throughout history had hats (or other headwear) that were unique to them, including modern ones. The human eye is naturally drawn to the faces of other humans, and headgear can be a useful shorthand for “who is this and what’s their culture like?” These hats are frequently silly looking. Modern examples include baseball caps, cheese hats, military berets, helmets, cowboy hats, various religious headwear. If you want to stand out as a unified culture, you need your own hat.

Toribor ,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

I thought we’d already collectively settled on the tinfoil hat.

PinkyCoyote OP ,
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Hammocks4All ,
Angry_Autist ,

This user hasn’t learned the danger of arbitrary group identity.

Reddit’s ‘The Button’ made this clear.

Give people a reason and an opportunity to set themselves apart and they will always use it to tribalize and begin marginalizing an arbitrary other.

4chan also proved that a decade earlier with their birthday hat stupidity.

Etterra , to asklemmy in Do you think the world would have been a better place if there were no religions?

Yes. At the very least we might be more honest about why we keep slaughtering each other.

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miau , to selfhosted in Why do so many people use NGINX?

Honest question: why not use nginx?

I have run it in so many different scenarios, both professionally and personally, its crazy. Nginx has never failed me, literally. My homeserver is quite limited but nginx has a very small footprint, it performs beautifully well and it satisfies all my hosting, proxying, redirecting and streaming needs.

It works for modern and legacy applications, custom code, webhosting, supports all the modern features and its configuration is very easy with literal thousandsof examples available online.

Apache probably can do all that but I hate how unintuitive its configuration is to me personally. HAproxy cant do half the stuff nginx does.

As for caddy Ive heard of it but never really used it. What does it offer that nginx doesnt?

486 ,
@486@lemmy.world avatar

What does it offer that nginx doesnt?

Automatic HTTPS, you don’t have to use certbot or something similar to get/renew certificates. Also, its configuration is really simple and straight forward.

miau ,

Thank you for your reply!

Personally I am fine with nginx configuration, at least when using containers. The syntax is fine and all I need to do is map one file into the container

But I took a look at the automatic cert feature and wow, that is very, very nice. I may give caddy a try for this feature only - it would simplify my current setup.

I am also surprised it allows using HTTPS over port 443 for cert renewal. I didnt even know this was possible, so I was always stuck with DNS challanges.

So again, thanks for your reply!

BaroqueInMind , to piracy in I used to love Android but I want to move, and I don't know if it's the right thing.

I am a degenerate. Can you please PM me your favorite Telegram NSFW channels? Thank you!

Shotgun_Alice , to asklemmy in What isn't illegal but should be?

Advertising. I just hate how it’s crept into every facet of our lives and it’s not done intruding in on our daily lives either.

FrostyCaveman ,

Yep. It’s insane to me how society goes to such lengths to make road transportation, driving, cars etc safer, and then is perfectly fine with billboards. It’s super illegal to be distracted by your phone whilst driving, but a giant graphical ad on the side of the road is totally cool. Whut

eran_morad , to asklemmy in What isn't illegal but should be?
  • not having the day off to vote
  • FPTP
  • unlimited funding from unrestricted sources in politics
  • impunity for blatantly corrupt unelected political appointees

Etc.

stoy , (edited )

not having the day off to vote

Most countries have elections on thw weekend…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_day

rudyharrelson ,

Lots of people work on weekends.

stoy ,

Yep?

But less people work on weekends than on weekdays.

There is no universal day for everyone to make it, which is why Sweden offers pre-election voting and voting by mail, plenty of other countries does as well.

eran_morad , to asklemmy in What creative project have you long wanted to start but never have?

Webdev. Wanted to do this to increase my tech skills and insulate myself from several degrees of idiocy at work. Just haven’t had the wherewithal.

Feathercrown ,

If you have the time, I’d recommend trying it out. Creating a basic webpage isn’t too hard, and you probably have the tools to get started on your computer already (you can do it with just Notepad and view it in any web browser! Although I would recommend downloading a free proper code editor such as VS Code).

eran_morad ,

Bruh, I’m talking about a crud app. Possibly running on the shiny framework. It’s not going to be trivial.

Feathercrown ,

Oh, okay. Still more doable than you might think, but of course not trivial. Good luck!

eran_morad ,

Let me ask, maybe you know: say I want to build a finance app that basically crunches a lot of data accessed from a DB, does some pretty intricate subsetting of the data, and produces Excel reports (XML). I currently do this with about 1300 lines of R code and a SQLite DB. Pretty lean and easy to use (was a bitch to write, tho, really stretched my understanding of lexical scoping and functional programming). If I wanted to webify this, the main challenge that I think I face is finding a framework that allows me to do all that nitty gritty data subsetting and summarizing - this is where R is really excellent, more flexible and expressive than SQL. What framework, if any, might you recommend? What kind of stack would be good for a beginner?

threeganzi ,

Have you tried discussing this with ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity? I’ve found it extremely helpful for getting started, and exploring different options.

grrgyle ,

I think that’s a nice hot goal to have, but you’re shooting yourself in the foot by aiming so high (pardon the tortured metaphor). Start with the basics of webdev and work your way up.

Like I’m a senior dev, and for years I thought I understood frontend. Finally, I had to reckon that I did not, and took a course on how to build a web app using React on Typescript + various popular libraries (YMMV).

Yeah a lot of it was boring or stuff I mostly knew anyway, but actually sitting down and going to school on it, like with pencil and paper, was a big help. So now I can actually contribute to FE/web dev. And all those little things I feel I should know are either known, or knowable because now I understand what to search for.

eran_morad ,

Yeah. I’m like 46 now, and this just feeds into my “fuck it” mentality. Thanks for the input, seriously, that is not sarcasm.

Aquila ,

Imma be blunt. Maybe your attitude is contributing to the ‘Several degrees of idiocy at work’

Dudes tryin to be helpful with beginner tips and you jump down his throat. The irony of you saying crud isn’t trivial 😂

Zak , to asklemmy in What isn't illegal but should be?
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Locked bootloaders

667 , to asklemmy in US Small Business Owners - What streaming platform do you use for you business music?
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The place I worked at used Soma.fm

ArcaneSlime ,

Illstreet is my fucking jam lmao.

VerilyFemme , to lemmyshitpost in jd vance

Holy shit - I had heard about this, but those eyes are FIERCE. He looks great though, if only there weren’t anyone rallying against biological men wearing makeup.

captainlezbian ,

Yeah, if he was a progressive I’d be proud to have a senator confident enough in himself to dress like that to work. Instead I’m ashamed because of his actions

bzarb8ni , to asklemmy in What isn't illegal but should be?

Not really something that is legal that should be illegal, but I would love to see this nonsense that corporate executives can’t be held criminally responsible (the corporation is) for their illegal acts. I think it would correct an awful lot of shitty things corporations do really quickly (assuming enforcement).

wewbull ,

I think all those in the management chain should be held responsible. Maybe with a weighting of the proportion of those under them engaged in the criminal behaviour.

bzarb8ni ,

Yeah, I like that! 👍 Corporations don’t make decisions… Those people do

stoy ,

It should be treated as in the military, “I was just following orders” is not an excuse.

patchwork , to piracy in I used to love Android but I want to move, and I don't know if it's the right thing.

Fairphone 4 with eOS, escaping Google and Apple’s duopoly is quite liberating and not as hard as I thought it would be. Yeah, eOS is technically Android, but deGoogled.

e.foundation

Please_Do_Not , to science_memes in the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth

I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That’s why they’re called Al Gore-isms, no?

Contravariant , to asklemmy in Do you think the world would have been a better place if there were no religions?

I’m not too sure being non-religious from the start would lead to better education. Seems to me that religion was quite a big driver behind early education. You’ll also have some trouble separating history religion and science at that point, people told each other stories about things that happened or how they thought things worked. Some of those stories are rather more fantastical than they needed to be, but how would you tell if there’s nothing to kickstart intellectual discourse in the first place?

And the whole religion stops crime through fear idea seems overly simplistic. It’s the same reasoning that bigger sentences would lower crime, and so far that hasn’t worked terribly well.

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