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I guess it doesn’t have to be computer-based 😆. But I think the problem I’m looking to solve is that a computer based one you can prevent them stealing from others, or from adding their own stickers from other places and claiming they are for the chart.

I guess an actual sticker chart with some distinctive stickers would solve that issue. But once you’ve had a taste you want self hosted services to solve all of life’s problems 😆

My kids also don’t really use the tablets (they aren’t generally available to them). We have two old ones that never get used.

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Yeah you’re probably right. I might give up on my self hosted dream and grab some paper and stickers instead.

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I was considering knocking something together. I’m not super skilled but I’ve done a bit in PHP/Javascript which I think would do the job. I didn’t want to go making something if it already existed, though.

Now with the responses I’ve been talked into doing it on paper 🙂

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Thanks! That’s an interesting implementation, I’ll read a bit more about what they’ve done.

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I’m an instance admin and see heaps of the same stuff being posted. Pretty sure it’s one lonely troll not lots of people. Even in this thread, it’s all one user account not lots of different people, but we see the same stuff posted across lots of brand new accounts in a very similar way.

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We very often see the same username created across many instances, it’s very easy to do and Lemmy has no protections against it. Plus, there are no protections against creating multiple accounts to upvote your own posts (don’t get any ideas 😆). IP blocks wouldn’t work as instances are entirely independent, so there is no sharing of IP info across different instances.

Currently there is at least some level of coordination across instances, though, such as Lemmy.world’s Defense HQ, where instance admins can share info about spammers/trolls so we don’t have to wait for a report from one of our own users. There’s also Fediseer, but this protects against spam instances not spam accounts on mainstream instances.

Dave ,
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I didn’t intend to imply that by using the same username across instances you were breaking some sort of rule. Different instances have different moderation policies, different federation policies, and different intents. Having multiple accounts in good faith should not be an issue and was not what I was trying to imply.

Rather, the intention was to show that we know bad actors do this with nefarious intent. Here’s an example (they show zero comments as they have been banned with content removed - also I think these ones only had posts not comments anyway):

lemmy search showing many search results for the same name across many instances indicating escort services

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Yes, there’s fediseer that can help with that sort of thing. However, I think if it wasn’t spam, it may not get noticed as quick as you’d think. Create a lemmy.world account, post a meme, and use your special server to throw 50 or 100 upvotes at it, and probably no one would realise.

Dave ,
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Sure! It’s on the decentralised chat platform Matrix, which has heaps of lemmy stuff. If you need further instructions, feel free to ask 🙂

matrix.to/#/:lemmy.world

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Noooo, EU! You were the chosen one!

Dave ,
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The blog post states:

We build the AI Assistant using a flexible, solution-independent approach which gives you a choice between multiple large language models (LLM) and services. It can be fully hosted within your instance, processing all requests in-house, or powered by an external service.

So it sounds like you pick what works for you. I’d guess on a raspberry pi, on board processing would be both slow and poor quality, but I’ll probably give it a go anyway.

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Some of the other Nextcloud stuff (like that chat stuff) isn’t suitable on Raspberry Pi, I expect this will be the same. It’s released though, right? Might have to have a play.

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One of my kids has one, a little screenless one, specifically because it doesn’t have a screen. That one kid in particular gets addicted to screens.

Dave ,
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I use a spreadsheet. I have a macro for categorisation but you could probably do it with vlookup instead.

I like using a spread sheet because I’m not locked in to anything, and neither is my data.

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I have my spread sheet set up just how I want it, based on what I am looking for in a money management tool. I’ve come to accept that no other tool will do what I want as well as the thing I set up myself.

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I can export spread sheets from my bank website and then have them automatically processed. I do it once a month, and it’s only a couple of minutes to do. I can understand the appeal of an aggregate service but I don’t find it helpful in my case.

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Each month I download a spreadsheet of transactions from my bank’s website. I only manually set categories for things not previously seen.

Dave ,
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I have spent a lot of time around a lot of IT workers and I am literally the only person I’ve ever seen on a project that has an ad blocker installed in their browser.

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Report the blogspam stuff. Admins are in a constant spam battle, but knowing about it is half of that battle.

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I’d guess that $19 billion is the value where if someone bought it and did their best to undo everything and get it back on track, that’s how much it would be worth.

The problem with measuring value is you have to quantify what that $19 billion actually is. Like you could say it’s the share price times the number of shares, except now twitter is privately owned we don’t have a market share price anymore.

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The buyer always has plans to make it better.

That’s an interesting claim to make, especially on this post 😄

Dave ,
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Is your project open source, and do you have users willing to do the traslations?

I use POeditor.com, which you can apply to use for free if you have an open source project. You can create a public joining link then people can contribute translations for you.

Then just export the po/mo files for your project.

This relies on you getting users to translate, but if you put a link in your readme you may not have too much trouble.

At what age and how do you tell children about the truth of Christmas?

I’m writing this as someone who has mostly lived in the US and Canada. Personally, I find the whole “lying to children about Christmas” thing just a bit weird (no judgment on those who enjoy this aspect of the holiday). But because it’s completely normalized in our culture, this is something many people have to deal...

Dave ,
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My kids have always known Santa wasn’t real. We just nonchalantly talk about which adult is going to be santa this year. It’s like playing pretend, and doesn’t make the kids any less excited (but does remove the awkwardness of explaining why it’s ok that a strange old man you don’t know is allowed to come into the house while everyone is sleeping because he is giving you stuff, but other strange old men trying to give you stuff shouldn’t be trusted).

For the telling other kids at school thing, my sister would say that it’s not her responsibility to cover for other parents lying to theig kids. We would each be honest to our kids and let other parent handle their kids.

Any differences between Namecheap and Spaceship?

I used to have a really cheap domain from Namecheap before, and I used Cloudflare as my DNS. I’m going to buy a new domain, and Spaceship seems to be the cheapest registrar for my domain right now (I’m only buying for one year), however they seem really new. Are there any differences between Namecheap and Spaceship, and...

Dave ,
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What does your second year cost look like? Often $2 domains are only $2 in the first year.

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And then change to a different domain? Depending on the domain, you may not be able to renew it for another year for $2

Dave ,
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When you get the paycheck you’ll feel like it was all worth it.

(until rent is due and there’s nothing left)

Dave ,
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Wikipedia has a claimed positive-bias, in which negative things are often left out of the article. This is more true the lower profile the page is.

And Wikipedia has an overall left-bias, because of the demographic of contributors.

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Allsides, that rates media outlets, doesn’t give a media bias rating. However, that page I linked still shows the bias even if it doesn’t get them a media bias rating.

Dave ,
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Ok call me crazy but wouldn’t the requirements be written in law? I’d expect in many countries it simply wouldn’t be able to be sold.

Dave ,
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I was more meaning in a wider sense. A car manufacturer who can’t sell their cars outside the US is shooting themselves in the foot.

Dave ,
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But there are countries all around the world. You can find yourself a loophole in one country but then you can’t sell your car in all the countries that loophole doesn’t exist

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Yellow? Brake lights are red, reversing lights white (which could be considered yellow).

Edit: I’m seriously confused with the downvotes. I live in NZ, and have never heard of yellow brake lights. The requirement is that they are red. Did I miss something?

Dave ,
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Yeah that got me very confused. The post is specifically about the brake lights, and they didn’t specify they were talking about something else. It’s not hard to confuse me, though.

Dave ,
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uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android is not new. I’d guess at least 10 years old at this point?

Dave ,
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You replied to a comment about uBlock Origin saying it’s new. It’s not new, it’s been one of the supported extensions since forever. Your link explains that they are opening up to support all extensions, but I don’t get how that’s relavant to a discussion about uBlock Origin which has always been supported.

Dave ,
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The dude is lying down but the phone is not on the same angle, so he’s watching it sideways?

Dave ,
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You can turn the whole phone? You don’t have to watch the landscape video in portrait.

Dave ,
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I don’t really use my TV, but spend a lot of time watching TV lying down. I turn my phone so it’s facing the right way for me to see, though I get it would be a lot harder to get the cat to hold it upright.

Dave ,
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In general, AirBnB is where we get places where we want to sleep 10 or 12 in one place.

Dave ,
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Sorry it wasn’t a rebuttal. Rather, I was agreeing thatvfor situations like this a hotel is better, bit it’s hard to match AirBnB when you want to sleep lots of people in one place.

Dave ,
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We don’t have the information needed to decide whether to be angry.

Drug studies are costly. We need to know how much R&D cost for this drug, what the average is, what percentage of research never hits the market, and then how many doses of this are expected to be sold over say a 5 year period.

Then we can work out a rough true cost of each dose. Then we will know whether to be angry.

Dave ,
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I think you’re grossly underestimating how much things cost.

Dave ,
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Yes, for vaccine research. I don’t know if this specifically was covered. Another thing on the list of things we need to know before we get angry.

Dave ,
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I would love that.

Dave ,
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Average drug research costs are estimated at between 1-3 billion USD. That’s the average, so some are much more.

And I’d like to know if this stated price is the sticker price. Insurance companies negotiate much less than sticker price, I live in a country with a government drug department that negotiates much lower prices by doing a single contract for the whole country.

Is this that stupid thing where the sticker price is high but no one actually pays that, it’s just to make insurance companies feel like they are negotiating good deals?

Dave ,
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I’m quite familiar with GitHub now, but remember being new and it was super confusing finding how to actually get the thing. Often it was different per repo. Worse if you’re on mobile (e.g. to get an APK) and almost everything is hidden by default.

But yeah as others have said, first check the readme on the main page for instructions to make sure you’re doing it right, then if that doesn’t help check the releases page that’s linked on the right or on mobile scroll almost all the way to the bottom and look for the releases link in amongst the other stuff.

It may be a good idea to link to which repo you are looking at to get specific advice if what you’ve got so far isn’t helping.

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In our defense, I’ve never met an IRL person that talks like a tankie.

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