You can upload videos to a danbooru instance you run, as well as pictures/gifs/webm/etc. It is all about tagging, and if you put it behind some auth mechanism (I’m using Cloudflare’s application Access portal to use Github as my IDP) you can lock it down to just friends and family.

The pandemic just exposed the lie that in the worst case, the government, or your job, or someone in power, would help you.

There’s not really much “going back” from that realization, especially when we can literally find news articles every day about how another politician is campaigning against us for one thing or another.

Today, for instance, I discovered that Arkansas had passed a law to make it possible to criminally charge librarians if they lend out the “wrong” books to people!

That just sounds like them deciding how I can communicate. Quoting is not inherently toxic, they’re just used to how Twitter users utilize it. I’ve also seen plenty of people use quoting of posts for boosting someone’s post without copying it, since copying it breaks the link back to the original post. I used to quote-tweet Patreon, GoFundMe, or donation link posts sometimes.

I don’t think it doesn’t add to the Linux community from a technical standpoint, I think it doesn’t bring new users into the community. As a technical concept, immutable OSes are (imo, an unfortunate) up-and-coming design (although obviously ChromeOS already brought that mainstream in Linux a while ago). But that itself is not a feature that lay users (who it claims to be targeting) are going to care about. Lay users don’t care about how their OS gets updates, or how the mechanisms that make it secure function, because they can’t substantiate those claims anyways. I think it can be difficult for us technical users to conceptualize the utter lack of interest that lay users have in the “how” of computers. They want a shiny, already-working device. If they have to install something themselves, it’s already lost most of them.

I actually did that for some code, and it did work.

I asked chatgpt to write me a prompt that would make chatgpt write a recursive function for uploading files and all files in subdirectories to a server as “multipart forms”, because when I asked it to modify my code originally it was just giving me a do-while loop, whereas I wanted a recursive function.

I kept changing my prompts to try to phrase “write a recursive function” differently, and instead the prompt that chatgpt gave me explicitly told it not to use non-recursive logic. Weirdly, forbidding it from using non-recursive logic actually made it finally give me the proper function.

Actually, most email malware is staged now, so it wouldn’t work. PDFs with the malware embedded get flagged, so PDFs with a link to the malware replaced them. Even most ransomware is via an external link.

you misspelled ‘vim’ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Jellyfin and Kavita are essentially the entire reason for my homelab server. I wish Kavita had an official reader app, but apart from that it’s absolutely perfect for my needs.

I loved it when it was Massdrop and they had more communities like EDC and stuff.

Never used it for a website or web app, but I’ve used it for getting scripts for managing my servers started. It always requires a lot of refactoring to make it actually usable. Since I know when the code is wrong, I can coax it through fixing the code itself, but it’s faster to just change it myself. I don’t think a non-coder would get a whole lot of useful code out of it.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but sometimes it feels like the continual release of new distros vying to become “The One”… the consumer-friendly Linux… it just seems like it’s counterproductive.

How many user-friendly-focused Linux distros do we have now? At least 8 or 9? Mint, Ubuntu, Zorin, Pop! (if only System76 laptops weren’t so damn expensive), MX, elementary, ChromeOS technically is doing the best by far, Manjaro, and now Vanilla…

Just my 2 cents, but consumer-friendly means getting something preinstalled on consumer-facing hardware (at stores, where they can see it, touch it, and try it). That’s why ChromeOS and Android tore past every other linux distro in a heartbeat. If you count SteamOS as an independent OS, it’s also doing better than most “traditional” Linux distros.

I remember putting a cyanogen custom firmware on my PSP back circa 2008. Now I have to throw this on one of my space phones.

Just one particular thing, I’d honestly be shocked if any IT-focused employees at Discord who are based in SF are not making $150k. I started at a much smaller startup in SF back in 2017 making that, as a junior-level position. Every other company I’d interviewed with before being hired there was offering around that for my role as well. It’s anecdotal for sure, but it doesn’t strike me as an unreasonable salary to use as an average. Especially since the execs’ pay would easily drag that up in reality.

Always better to be pleasantly surprised than disappointed. ;)

That’s great in theory, but not everyone (like children and the non-technical) will understand the full implications of what sharing too much information can result in (like identity theft, targeted harassment, stalking, misinformation campaigns, etc). Stopping companies from putting people in a dangerous position is plenty reasonable, and is not some sort of abdication of peoples’ personal agency (to be harmed?).

“I should have the right to have my information be n-times-resold to some shady third-party company where it will eventually result in fake student loans being taken out in my name!” - no one, ever.

No one chooses to “productize”/ commodify themselves for the benefit of Meta (as opposed to when people do so for their own benefit, e.g. streamers), but people have been forced to accept being commodified by large companies as a prerequisite to accessing online social spaces, and that’s bad.

I think it was easy for me because I had a couple of very public, negative interactions with people who were very prominent in my field of employment, and avoiding potentially career-limiting-interactions saved me a lot of personal stress.

Nudity and bullying are not the same thing.

Months? I ditched in 2019.

Sure, and I was very happy.

If you know what Todd makes, you can be hyped for that, and not for what YouTubers are trying to sell it as.

Same for Starfield; I’m incredibly excited for it, moreso than any game in years, but I know what it won’t be (amazing story, complex characters, systemic and emergent gameplay loops, etc), and can be hyped for what it will be (fallout 4 in space).

Nah, I’ll go lab/vat-grown.