Lead administrator of federate.cc and its services. Please don't DM me for support with federate.cc, make a post in /c/meta instead.
Originally from Fort Lauderdale 🇺🇸, lived many years in Vienna 🇦🇹, now living in Setúbal 🇵🇹. Software engineer specialized in Apple platforms. 🌎
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I’m no optometrist, but I would love to hear the opinion of one.
It’s like an episode of wheel of fortune, except every space on the wheel is a different kind of loss.
Not whoosh, my comment makes sense even if you get the inverted unit joke. So uh, uno reverse card whoosh?
Seconding the last part. When I was in high school, the admins wouldn’t approve most after school clubs, or students displaying their artwork. Here this admin is encouraging their students’ curiosity and talents, while letting the students have real impact in their school. Grade A stuff right there.
If the answer matters then your use case isn’t this monitor’s use case. If you spend all day in Excel, or an IDE, something like that, then it could be awesome for eye strain reduction.
Not necessarily just corporations, but certainly text-based workflows. I can see this being great if your day job is writing code, working on spreadsheets, editing documents, etc. In those use cases, framerate hardly matters. Would be great for reducing eye strain.
This is one of those cases where you'd really rather have been wrong.
Sunbeams peek through a cloudy sky in Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal (Canon EOS 30 / Fujifilm 400)
Azaleas grow in front of a volcanic caldera lake, Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal (Canon EOS 30 / Fujifilm 400)
Crystal clear waters off the coast of Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal (Canon EOS 30 / Fujifilm 400)
Maybe not, given it’s sold out in the screenshot. It would be for fairly old machines only, Intel iMacs from before 2020.
Well, they used to sell one, right? Windows Phone used to be a thing. As I recall though, it was equally locked down with an app store as the sole distribution method.
Yes but I don’t believe consoles are a target of the DMA or this investigation. While would be nice if consoles were opened up and forced to allow side loading and alternative stores, I think there’s an argument that they’re single purpose appliances - a PlayStation is sold to you with the intention of it being a gaming box and not much else.
A smartphone or tablet though is at this point a general purpose computer, and it’s reasonable to expect to have the same freedoms and open environment that you would on a PC. And Apple’s argument that they can’t open up the iPhone because security or whatever doesn’t really hold water, because the Mac exists and is both secure and open.
That is a US versus UK difference! In UK English it is simply a synonym for a program or policy, whereas in US English it implies something negative, often underhanded!
For instance:
🇺🇸 The scammers were running a scheme to trick people.
🇺🇸 Some consider cryptocurrency to be a scheme where one sells, leaving others holding the bag.
🇬🇧 Paying into the national pension scheme ensures you’ll receive a payment upon retirement.
🇬🇧 The company has introduced a new scheme allowing employees to work from home.
That is a US versus UK difference! In UK English it is simply a synonym for a program or policy, whereas in US English it implies something negative, often underhanded!
For instance:
🇺🇸 The scammers were running a scheme to trick people.
🇺🇸 Some consider cryptocurrency to be a scheme where one sells, leaving others holding the bag.
🇬🇧 Paying into the national pension scheme ensures you’ll receive a payment upon retirement.
🇬🇧 The company has introduced a new scheme allowing employees to work from home.
Not that this justifies the response of the US, but the phrasing is ambiguous. Wonder if they mean this in the sense of, they had booked accommodations for some but not the entire of their trip, or if they mean, they had booked none at all so their entire trip was open.
While technically cool, what is the use case?
Still doing everything they can to lose. Nice.
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Laughs in European
Bold of you to assume that has any correlation. He’ll still throw his own sycophants under the bus.
Whichever one you say, I say the other one.
Sorry if a dumb question but what is a “tradwife”? (Not a native speaker)
Notice: Had to dump the federate.cc image database. Expect broken thumbnails and avatars for a while. (Please read.)
It was brought to my attention by the staff of another instance that there has been a case of illegal images being posted on another Lemmy instance. Unfortunately, due to the way Lemmy works, this means it's highly likely that this content was copied (at least in thumbnail form) across the Lemmyverse. This means there is a serious risk that this content now exists on all Lemmy instances.
I want to reiterate that nobody on Federate.cc was involved in any illegal activity, but as Lemmy is designed to broadcast content across the web to all the other Lemmy instances, we were likely affected through no fault of our own.
Lemmy currently has no effective admin UI for auditing posts or removing their associated image content, and I was unable to track any specific offending content down in our object store - given it's got 51GB of images with random UUID filenames. Although the other instances' admins are aware of only a few such offending files, the reality is that nobody seems to actu
American magic bean companies like Beanco, The Boston Bean Company, and Nvidia have already shed hundreds of billions of dollars in stock value.
Planned downtime for maintenance: Tuesday, January 2nd
I’ll be pulling the server offline for a few hours on Thursday the 2nd for a database migration and an update of Lemmy to 0.19.8. Unfortunately the upgrade paths are always very fragile as the Ansible situation for Lemmy is not great. I expect this will only take a few hours, but historically these updates have gotten a bit spicy. So don’t be surprised if we’re down for part of the day. That said, Lemmy is designed to catch up, so you won’t miss any content.
Finally found it. Darmok and Jalad would be proud.
Apparently this is the name of a construction/engineering firm here in Lisbon Portugal. Amusing coincidence
...and we're back!
Sup lemmings!
As you probably noticed, this instance was dead for the majority of last week. Sorry about that. An update to the latest version using the official method was less than successful, and the documentation less than informative.
At any rate, the site is back up now, though I’d expect slowdowns over the next day or so as all that backlog from the fediverse filters in.
Sorry about that!
How do you mention a user on Lemmy?
Is there an equivalent to doing /u/user in The Bad Place, to notify and summon someone?
Federation not currently working with non-Lemmy instances (kbin, mastodon, …)
Currently 👀 an upstream issue that’s preventing non-Lemmy instances from federating with us; this is preventing interacting with Kbin among other things. Hoping this will get merged in soon, otherwise I’ll probably have to monkey-patch our instance to get this working. Kbin has a large user base and so the ability for us to subscribe and participate in their communities (“magazines” in their parlance) is important to me.
My personal favourite: Port Old Fashioned
Do you like old fashioneds, and wine? This is the drink for you! I can't remember now where I got the idea, but I've been making them forever.
2-3 shots Bourbon whiskey (personal favourite: Jefferson's Reserve, the gentle alcohol notes but strong wood flavours blend gracefully into the wine notes!)
1 - 1.5 shots' worth of tawny port (don't need anything too good here but a basic 10 year Graham's or similar will do)
1 teaspoon simple syrup (take it easy on this since the Port itself will impart sweetness!)
1 big ass ice cube
1 maraschino cherry
Welcome to /c/mixology, a community to share and discuss your favourite cocktail recipes. Unique and home-brewed cocktail recipes are especially welcome!
I'm a fan of custom and unique twists on cocktails; and if you're reading this, hopefully you are too! Let's move beyond the typical basic stuff and discuss more interesting recipes that have a special place in your heart, particularly if you've concocted them yourself, or put a twist on them.
/c/Mixology, a community to share and discuss your favourite cocktail recipes. Unique and home-brewed cocktail recipes are especially welcome!
Looking for a mobile experience for Lemmy? Try WefWef, a near-exact clone of Apollo for iOS
It’s a free progressive web app; visit https://wefwef.app/ in Safari, go to the action/share sheet and click Add To Home Screen. You’ll find it’s a near carbon copy of Apollo was on iOS. To use it with your account here, just go to Login and where it asks you which server, scroll down to select Other and use “lemmy.federate.cc” as the server. Voila!
Onde está o seu Pastel de Nata favorito na cidade?
E porque é a Manteigaria?
Looking for forums on other Lemmies?
Don’t forget to browse by “Subscribed” or “All” instead of “Local”. If you want to search for or subscribe to a remote community, you can search either for the full URL of the remote community inside our search box, or search with the syntax !community@server.com
E-mail now available
I've set up email at the federate.cc domain today, backed by Migadu, a lightweight privacy-focused email service out of Switzerland.
If any members would like an e-mail at this domain, either send me an email (sparky@), or DM me here on Lemmy. They're not created automatically by default, as I have to manually go do something adminny to make them happen.
But upon request, an email @federate.cc is open to anyone who wants one.
Some caveats:
Pro-tip: Self-hosting Lemmy? You can use object storage to back pict-rs (image hosting) to save a lot of money
Just thought I'd share this since it's working for me at my home instance of federate.cc, even though it's not documented in the Lemmy hosting guide.
The image server used by Lemmy, pict-rs, recently added support for object storage like Amazon S3, instead of serving images directly off the disk. This is potentially interesting to you because object storage is orders of magnitude cheaper than disk storage with a VM.
By way of example, I'm hosting my setup on Vultr, but this applies to say Digital Ocean or AWS as well. Going from a 50GB to a 100GB VM instance on Vultr will take you from $12 to $24/month. Up to 180GB, $48/month. Of course these include CPU and RAM step-ups too, but I'm focusing only on disk space for now.
Vultr's object storage by comparison is $5/month for 1TB of storage and includes a separate 1TB of bandwidth that doesn't count against your main VM, plus this content is served off of Vultr's CDN instead of your instance, meaning even less CPU load for you
Pro-tip: Self-hosting Lemmy? You can use object storage to back pict-rs (image hosting) to save a lot of money
Just thought I'd share this since it's working for me at my home instance of federate.cc, even though it's not documented in the Lemmy hosting guide.
The image server used by Lemmy, pict-rs, recently added support for object storage like Amazon S3, instead of serving images directly off the disk. This is potentially interesting to you because object storage is orders of magnitude cheaper than disk storage with a VM.
By way of example, I'm hosting my setup on Vultr, but this applies to say Digital Ocean or AWS as well. Going from a 50GB to a 100GB VM instance on Vultr will take you from $12 to $24/month. Up to 180GB, $48/month. Of course these include CPU and RAM step-ups too, but I'm focusing only on disk space for now.
Vultr's object storage by comparison is $5/month for 1TB of storage and includes a separate 1TB of bandwidth that doesn't count against your main VM, plus this content is served off of Vultr's CDN instead of your instance, meaning even less CPU load for you
What does it mean when all your subscriptions on a single server (lemmy.world in this case) are stuck at “subscribe pending”?
Not sure if this is truly an issue with lemmy.world or just a general question about Lemmy, or maybe even my own instance, but this seems a fair place to start. On my home instance, for some reason all subscriptions to @lemmy.world communities are perpetually stuck as “Subscribe Pending”, and I notice that not all of the posts and content have shown up. Is this something that should “eventually” resolve itself, or is there some action I should take on my end as the instance administrator? Thanks/apologies in advance.