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  • Technology Consultant.
  • Software Developer.
  • Musician.
  • Burner.
  • Game Master.
  • Non-theistic Pagan.
  • Cishet White Male Feminist.
  • Father.
  • Fountain Maker.
  • Aquarium Builder.
  • Hamster Daddy.
  • Resident of Colorado.
  • Anti-Capitalist.
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  • Traveler of the American West.

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thebardingreen ,
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I’m running my own instance, JUST so I can be in control of my own Lemmy experience (and in control of my own archive of my Lemmy activity). I’m not going anywhere anytime soon.

Yes, my instance was down for three days last week. I had trouble with an update and didn’t have time to troubleshoot it. But I wanted my Lemmy so I DID get around to it and got it working again. And yeah… I never did get email working properly so when my ONE friend who’s not me joined my instance I had to command line into the database and approve him manually. But so what?

And yeah, eventually the internet ecosystem may shift again, or I might get hit by a bus or who knows?

But if you WANT to join a tiny instance that’s 99.999% (bus factor) not going anywhere for a while, I’d probably let you join mine.

thebardingreen ,
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8.5 gigs currently.

thebardingreen ,
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!chat?

thebardingreen ,
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Don't worry about backdooring Signal and stuff though. Only the "good guys" will have it. We need this to protect kids and fight terrorism and stuff.

thebardingreen ,
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We are the Black Rose...

thebardingreen ,
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It has those tools. They're called "Run your own instance."

It lets you federate with whoever you want.

thebardingreen ,
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I generally love musical episodes (OMWF is my favorite Buffy episode and the musical episodes of the Magicians are always the best episodes of that show), but there are some stinkers (Fringe did it? Why?) and I'm really not at all sure that SNW is the right platform for this (It would work better on Lower Decks).

But I've been disappointed with SNW season 2 relative to season 1. I'm not sure SNW is going to keep me as a viewer

thebardingreen ,
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I had a shitty old (late 60s) boss in 2008 who once interviewed a female engineer straight out of college.

Most interviews he gave took like 25-30 minutes. He spent an hour and a half alone in the conference room with this young woman.

After she left he said something to the team like “Sure wouldn’t mind seeing her around the office every day eh? We’re not hiring her of course. Women don’t have the head for this work.”

This same guy had me block all news sites except Fox News (I was the IT director). He was fine with his employees reading the news as long as it was Fox (I ended up teaching a couple of my coworkers how to use proxies).

Enough with the Mark Zuckerberg Love (jogblog.substack.com)

The article criticizes recent media coverage portraying Mark Zuckerberg as “cool” again based on his success with Threads and a shirtless photo he posted. The author argues that Zuckerberg’s photo looks like that of a middle-aged man cheating on his wife, and that Threads’ success is questionable given it is mostly used...

thebardingreen ,
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Clickbate article writers and ChatGPT.

thebardingreen ,
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Bro, do you even FOSS?

What is your machine naming scheme?

I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it...

thebardingreen ,
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All of my personal machines are Autobots.

At work we use space probes (Voyager, Pioneer, New Horizons, etc). We're a small satellite communications company.

thebardingreen ,
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That explains why he’s so old in Picard.

Klingons must hover in youth / middle age for around 120 years, then undergo a rapid decline.

EDIT: In all seriousness, they should release an updated edit where they refer to him as Colonel Mogh.

Some good-faith questions of some seemingly apparent benefits of a potential Corporate Fediverse, and the detriments of defederating from a Corporate Fediverse. Could I get some answers?

Hey guys. I admittedly am mostly a layman to the Fediverse as a concept. So I am coming into this post with the knowledge that I don’t understand the technical intricacies of it....

thebardingreen ,
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Looking at your posting history (or almost complete lack thereof) I'm a little suspicious that these questions are as good faith as you claim. Having had years of debates with corporate PR infiltrators on such subreddits as r/permaculture and r/environment (to name a couple) this post raises some serious red flags with me.

thebardingreen , (edited )
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That may be true, and if so I apologize. However, be aware that showing up with a newish account and asking "good faith questions" (or showing up with an account that participates in a few niche communities and THEN advocates for the procorporate view point) is a VERY common PR tactic, to the point that any time it happens it's suspicious. Adding some subtle criticism or distrust of the corporation before spinning their point of view is common as well (also something we saw from more sophisticated Russian trolls during the 2016 and 2020 elections).

I will good faith tackle your questions.

Doesn’t the fediverse have an inherent protection and/or immunity from corporate take-over? Aren't we protected?

EEE is totally an blatant risk to the Fediverse, which is vulnerable in exactly the same ways earlier examples of decentralized opensource networks were. Specifically, this strategy targets the lower effort, lower information and less ideologically motivated participants (which, once a network grows beyond a certain point becomes most of the participants) and tries to steal them away by connecting them to features and content faster than the opensource network can. Once those participants are using the corporate tools and participating in the corporate version of the network, you can drop support and give the original network back to whatever of the original participants are left.

Remember, if it's free you are the product. The users are what these folks are after, and they know they can get them by providing a more convenient experience with more of the content users want to see, and then just biding their time, avoiding enshittification of their participating tools until they're ready to cut ties and take the userbase with them.

Won’t we grow & educate?

I mean sure, but at what risk and what cost? The safest way to view this kind of thing is as a sort of attempt at colonialism. Let's say you're an indigenous person in 1780 and some white folks show up on your island saying they want to participate in your culture, learn about how you survive, teach you about guns and how there's one alimighty God and Jesus is his son and be your new best friends? Let's say you have a modern person's knowledge of history when that happens? Do you see this as an opportunity or a huge threat to your culture and way of life?

Aren’t we worried we’re forcing an ultimatum while the Fediverse is still in its infancy?

This is the best time TO make a stand. The people who will be interested in what's happening here and want to avoid corporate shenanigans can discover this place, while we protect it's future. So what if we don't grow to some ubiquitous cultural behemoth? Our volunteer hosted servers can't support that right now anyway.

What’s the harm in pulling the ripcord if we try it, and it’s truly not a good fit?

Put a frog in warm water. Tell him when it gets too hot to jump out, he's welcome to. Start to turn up the heat. What will happen?

Better not to be the frog in the water in the first place.

“What about an influx of low-quality content?”

I mean, I LIKE Lemmy's content quality where it is right now. We should grow slowly and nurture this culture instead of growing quickly and getting overwhelmed.

“What if Meta doesn’t moderate well?”

I don't even care, as I don't plan to federate the instance I run with ANY Meta instance.

thebardingreen ,
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UI/UX is bad and frustrating, but I'm SO happy this exists.

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