It’s not federated identity, it’s federated content.

Your instance can in theory access all the content including Mastodon, but there’s some software incompatibilities preventing that from quite working right because the way Lemmy does things is quite different than how Mastodon and other microblogging services do.

That’s exactly what it’s for. Some of them have background music on them, to get it misclassified. Some also put a random face at the bottom with the same phrases every now and then to get it classified as a reaction video. I’ve also seen black lines in the middle of the screen. Sometimes the clip jumps forwards and backwards to make it harder to detect.

I think the subway surfer thing was also originally intended for that, before it was found that it somehow also increases attention. The split between the videos also makes it harder to identify what it is, so maybe it’ll get classified as a minecraft clip instead of copyrighted movie.

People go to insane length to post full movies and shows on YT Shorts/TikTok/Instagram. It’s like early YouTube again where you’d watch and episode over 50 parts.

It has its bads and a lot of the content is worthless trash, but it’s also a really good way to see what’s going on around the world from those people’s perspectives. You see a lot of stuff that doesn’t make it to Reddit or Twitter.

It’s a lot harder to be against Ukraine when you can see the horrors minutes after a Russian strike.

The government hates it because they can’t control it. They’d rather people only see what the mainstream media says, and not the fact everyone sympathizes with Luigi.

The free speech argument is genuine, despite how much I hate the shady practices of the platform.

Sometimes it’s like that, especially if they grew up in poverty, even if they’re pretty well off now. It sticks, you’re just conditioned to save as much as possible. Which they very well could be: they could have plenty of income but be far behind on their retirement accounts and would rather put money for their upcoming retirement if they can. There’s a lot of factors there.

Ultimately we need to prepare for a future where the majority of jobs have been automated and need a way to keep the economy going. Everyone being employed full time is just something that is not sustainable on the long term as technology progresses. We’ll eventually need UBI because otherwise all the money will be transferred to nearly fully automated companies controlling basically everything. We just won’t be able to keep everyone employed without creating a massive amount of bullshit jobs nobody really wants to do. The better way is UBI and people going into research or creative works, and aim higher like space travel.

We’re not quite ready yet and people are way too invested in capitalism for this to work just yet. But it will become a necessity eventually. It’s not just affecting IT, it’s affecting all sectors: we can basically 3D print houses now, we’re not far off automating farming either. We will reach a point where most of society has been automated, we can feed everyone effortlessly.

I wouldn’t say normal, but also not uncommon especially if you’re someone that’s good with tinkering.

Basically if the furnace is fairly old, parts start wearing down and requires replacement or fixing. So you get to a point where you have to fix things more often because all the parts have reached end of life. Often it’ll be a small thing like maybe you need to clean the flame sensor, and then after that your negative pressure sensor goes out so you have to fix that. Those are all safety measures, so the furnace might be working perfectly fine but the control board thinks it’s unsafe, and shuts down, which is the correct thing to do. There’s a possibility the wire juggling is bypassing some of those.

But a lot of those items you can do for basically free or really cheap, so it’s not appealing to throw $2500 on a whole new one or to get a professional in to charge you $300 for the same fix. Furnaces also need to be services regularly, ideally yearly to check everything is good and prevent failures at inconvenient times, which many just can’t afford or don’t want to spend the money on. If $2500 is a lot of money for your parents, it’s just a small tradeoff that yeah it might go out every now and then and you fix it for so much cheaper.

Damn that’s a lot of bandwidth

Because the government wants the data collection. They just want it to be an american company so they get a copy of it all.

No, otherwise the security cameras wouldn’t record and that’s precisely the opposite of what I want when I’m out.

That feels like complaints about lemmy.ml specifically more than Lemmy as a software. There’s a few instances that defederate lemmy.ml out there.

Technically a lot of the newer chips used in datacenters support encrypted VMs which encrypts the RAM too, although you still have to trust that the hosting provider uses that feature.

As for alternatives, I’ve heard lots of good things about Tailscale (or headscale if you want to self host).

If them connecting to you is an option, WireGuard is also stupidly easy to set up and very reliable. If you need to also forward layer 2 traffic (old LAN games and weird local protocols), you can use OpenVPN for that. A bit hard to set up but also quite capable.

Unfortunately that trace isn’t very useful due to the lack of debug symbols. One would have to decompile and analyze the binary to really gather some information as to how that happened, and it’s probably against their TOS.

hamachi will occasionally disconnect *and then ask for my password to restart the service. *

The GUI is probably trying to restart the daemon for you which causes this, because that’s not standard behaviour. You can probably fix that but just allowing your user to do that passwordless, although it’s dumb:

# /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-hamachi.rules
polkit.addRule(function (action, subject) {
    if (
        subject.user === "YOURUSERNAMEHERE"
        && action.id === "org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units"
        && action.lookup("unit") === "logmein-hamachi.service"
    ) {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
})

You’ll want to change your username in there and also adjust the service name if it’s different.

He says that like other countries aren’t also a democracy. If the people wantes liberated they literally would just vote that kind of government in!

When you subscribe to a community, you only start receiving data from that point on. It doesn’t go and download the history, that’d be very resource intensive on the remote instance. Thus it fetches a handful of posts, and no comments as a preview of the community, and after a couple days of activity is looks mostly normal.

The idea that GPT has a mind and wants to self-preserve is insane. It’s still just text prediction, and all the literature it’s trained on is written by humans with a sense of self preservation, of course it’ll show patterns of talking about self preservation.

It has no idea what self preservation is, even then it only knows it’s an AI because we told it it is. It doesn’t even run continuously anyway, it literally shuts down after every reply and its context fed back in for the next query.

I’m tired of this particular kind of AI clickbait, it needlessly scares people.

This post will probably get taken down, it doesn’t belong to AskLemmy. You might want !selfhosted@lemmy.world or one of the programming communities like !webdev@programming.dev.

That said, it’s fairly easy to just rent out a cheap VPS for like $5 to get started, get NGINX, MariaDB and PHP running on it and then install Wordpress or Drupal.

I personally would wait for the Wordpress drama to settle before commiting to that platform.

The problem with hosting services dedicated to say, Wordpress, is the lack of control. If you need other apps to run you have to pay for another service, whereas your own VPS/server you can do whatever you want. Need ElasticSearch for something else? Sure, no problem, as long as the server is big enough.

Reposting my answer from the original thread. Maybe a bit rough for AskElectronics but still gets the gist.

To kind of visually see it, I found this thread of some guy that took oscilloscope captures of the output of their UPS and they’re all pseudo-sines: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/so-i-bought-an-oscilloscope.2413789/

As you can see, the power isn’t very smooth at all. It’s good enough for a lot of use cases and lower end power supplies, because they just shove that into a bridge rectifier and capacitors. Higher end power supplies have tighter margins, and are also more likely to have more safety features to protect the PC so they can get into protection mode and shut off. Because bad power can mean dips in power to the system which can cause calculation errors which is very undesirable especially in on a server. It probably also messes with power factor correction circuits, which is something cheap PSUs often cheap out on but a good high quality one would have and may shut down because of it.

As you can see in those images too, it spends a significant amount of time at 0V (no power, that’s at the middle of the screen) whereas the sine waves spends an infinitely short time at 0, it goes positive and then negative immediately. All the time spent at 0, you rely on big capacitors in the PSU to hold enough charge to make it to the next burst of power. With the sine wave they’d hold just long enough (we’re going down to 12V and 5V from 120/240V input, so the amount of time normally spent at or below ±12V is actually fairly short).

It’s technically the same average power, so most devices don’t really care. It really depends on the design of the particular unit, some can deal with some really bad power inputs and manage just fine and some will get damaged over long term use. Old linear ones with an AC transformer on the input in particular can be unhappy because of magnetic field saturation and other crazy inductor shenanigans.

Pure sine UPSes are better because they’re basically the same as what comes out of the wall outlet. Line interactive ones are even better because they’re ready to take over the moment power goes out and exactly at the same spot in the sine wave so the jitter isn’t quite as bad during the transition. Double conversion is the top tier because they always run off the battery, so there’s no interruption for the connected computer at all. Losing power just means the battery isn’t being charged/kept topped off from the wall anymore so it starts discharging.

To kind of visually see it, I found this thread of some guy that took oscilloscope captures of the output of their UPS and they’re all pseudo-sines: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/so-i-bought-an-oscilloscope.2413789/

As you can see, the power isn’t very smooth at all. It’s good enough for a lot of use cases and lower end power supplies, because they just shove that into a bridge rectifier and capacitors. Higher end power supplies have tighter margins, and are also more likely to have more safety features to protect the PC so they can get into protection mode and shut off. Because bad power can mean dips in power to the system which can cause calculation errors which is very undesirable especially in on a server. It probably also messes with power factor correction circuits, which is something cheap PSUs often cheap out on but a good high quality one would have and may shut down because of it.

As you can see in those images too, it spends a significant amount of time at 0V (no power, that’s at the middle of the screen) whereas the sine waves spends an infinitely short time at 0, it goes positive and then negative immediately. All the time spent at 0, you rely on big capacitors in the PSU to hold enough charge to make it to the next burst of power. With the sine wave they’d hold just long enough (we’re going down to 12V and 5V from 120/240V input, so the amount of time normally spent at or below ±12V is actually fairly short).

It’s technically the same average power, so most devices don’t really care. It really depends on the design of the particular unit, some can deal with some really bad power inputs and manage just fine and some will get damaged over long term use. Old linear ones with an AC transformer on the input in particular can be unhappy because of magnetic field saturation and other crazy inductor shenanigans.

Pure sine UPSes are better because they’re basically the same as what comes out of the wall outlet. Line interactive ones are even better because they’re ready to take over the moment power goes out and exactly at the same spot in the sine wave so the jitter isn’t quite as bad during the transition. Double conversion is the top tier because they always run off the battery, so there’s no interruption for the connected computer at all. Losing power just means the battery isn’t being charged/kept topped off from the wall anymore so it starts discharging.

There’s nothing left of AlienBlue with their redesign, it’s basically a glorified web wrapper like many other apps at this point.