[-] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago

Like it or not, this is the curse of modern media and, in particular, social media (including Lemmy). Boring details don’t get clicks or upvotes. Hype does. If you spend much time being exposed to one sensational headline, article or discourse after another, you’re going to have a much different view of the world than those who don’t.

If you don’t believe me, walk away from internet media and cable news networks for two weeks. I guarantee you’ll notice some change in your perspective and, possibly, an even see improvement in your overall mental health.

[-] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago

Nothing. It’s one of the alluring aspects of using third-parties. You pay a flat fee, people do work. You avoid all the overhead of HR, benefits, workers compensation and unemployment insurance. If you want someone gone there’s no process, you simply tell the third party that Joe doesn’t need to come back to work, ever, and you’re done.

Amazon and Google are not alone in this practice, nor is it exclusive to Fortune 500 companies.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Aka PATA or IDE hard disks. Basically consumer grade kit.

The statement that the kernel would only ever handle IDE was basically a confession that this would never be a product suitable for enterprise or professional use where SCSI was the typical interface.

[-] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago

Desantis didn’t have an issue raising his hand when the question was whether they would support Trump should he receive the nomination.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Senior management made the case that my unit didn’t have the appropriately documented KPIs to work from home. I made the point that we’d been operating under the existing KPIs for the last 15+ years in the office without issue so the only obvious metric missing was “butts in seats”.

While nobody clapped I’m still employed and the team does have WFH agreements in place.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago

Somebody needs to find whoever was responsible for the original NT task manager and learn a thing or two. That thing was bulletproof. I had servers over the years that were so broken nothing else would run but you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and tada!

[-] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It won’t be anything even close.

Indexes are unique to each instance. Post ID, Comment ID, Vote ID. There’s no way to correlate this information between two instances other than to do a full text match, post by post, comment by comment, vote by vote, to determine if what is being imported already exists on the new instance or is “new”.

Even if you go that route, then there’s the quandaries that follow… if you import what is effectively a “new” post to your new instance, do the comments (which aren’t yours) come along, or do you simply end up importing your post with no interaction history.

Then there is identity. You most likely have a non-local identity on your new server, as a result of federation, how does the new instance know that you are who you say you are, givimg you ownership of any of that existing content as it binds it to your, now, local identity?

That’s just off the top of my head.

If you’re lucky you’ll get to keep your cake day.

[-] [email protected] 113 points 11 months ago

Lemmy is much less US-centric than Reddit.

[-] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago

As much as I like my thin devices, all batteries should be user replaceable without the need for disassembly of any kind.

[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure if it's actually XSS. Lemmy.world did have an admin account compromise so it could've been done locally.

It actually looks like it may be being propagated via comments. I received more than a handful from lemmy.world and it appears they were in the process of deleting them before they went dark. I nuked the remaining ones by hand but you can see that lemmy.blahaj.zone still has the same few remaining... https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/search?q=onload%3D&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

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There's some misinformation floating around regarding Lemmy not having a karma system. While many have discovered otherwise, this is for those who may not have.

While it's not exposed in the Lemmy default user interface, Lemmy does have a fully functional karma system and it is visible in third party clients such as WefWef and Memmy.

Do with that what you will.

https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/PersonAggregates.html

[-] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago

Knowing they're visible on kbin made me realize that most Lemmy users probably weren't aware, as it's non-obvious.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

and not interacting with anyone else.

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Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)...

What you see via the UI isn't "all that exists". Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see "under the hood". Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won't normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: Obligatory RIP my inbox.

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This is the type of use case that justifies the $3499 price tag.

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