lol I think it's that I was on holiday, then I was unwell for a while, so I haven't really been reading the news let alone posting things here.

Other people post things too, but I do normally post a lot and I haven't done hardly any in the last month (three in the last 23 days, then heaps before that).

Feel free to post some stuff!

In terms of covering costs, Lemmy.nz has had to do this since earlier this year (we borrowed hosting before this). Making it visible is important, and people will donate if they are aware but as our LemmyNZ census questionaire shows every time, there are a significant chunk of people that don't even know how to donate!

I've been doing quarterly financial updates to make the costs and donations visible. Each post has led to a string of donations, not only from our users. One update had a $100 shortfall and there were hundreds donated in the following days!

So I highly recommend doing some sort of regular post so everyone knows where you're at financially and as a reminder to people who want to donate but forget.

I have Nextcloud on my server which stores all those documents and photos etc. I have nightly offsite backup as well as backing up to a local borg repo on a separate drive.

But as it's that important to me, I also do a once-yearly backup of non-encrypted files to M-Disc, with two copies, one stored at my mother's house. This way if my house burns down and I'm inside it, my family can still get (most of) the precious memories without needing to know how to access a borg repo and without having to know how to download from Backblaze object storage.

I'm just a little bit paranoid about losing things after that one time I dragged from a USB stick to my computer and when it was done moving the files they were all corrupt, and didn't exist on the USB stick anymore either. Thanks Windows, a whole holiday of photos gone.

I have about 750GB of irreplaceable files on my server so I want a really solid history. A couple of days backup is no where near enough to give me peace of mind 😅

Me as an instance admin sitting here reading about how Lemmy doesn't have trolls and Russian bots, while I'm in a chat with other instance admins and mods where we need to actively coordinate to fight the trolls and Russian bots 😐

Be the change you want to see!

Haha I remember the days of downloading random EXEs off the internet and running them to see what they do (also the days of CD-rom drives).

My auntie somehow managed to get a virus that played Für Elise through the motherboard speaker and never stopped so long as the thing was on. I don't think they ever solved it, in the end they just got a new PC.

Hey ChatGPT, how can I ...

"Locking as this is a duplicate of [unrelated question]"

So you're telling me I get free accommodation, free food, and it's protected by a T-rex?

If you provide your CV as an editable word editor document instead of a PDF then there's no way you're making it to the interview round if I'm the AI assigned to screen your application.

Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users

Uh oh, some sort of court ruling?

film studios say

Oh right, nothing to see here.

As reiterated by the OP, the proposal is just a proposal and was proposed with heaps of lead time probably because they expected it to be controversial.

As also mentioned, heaps of volunteer time is spent maintaining the packages where most are barely used (even for gaming).

However, it does not seem like there is a viable alternative. Many comments say the suggested alternative, WINE's WoW64, does not work for all games.

I can see both sides here. Fedora maintainers says "this is so much work!" and (mostly) gamers saying "But older games will stop working!".

The response from the Bazzite guy does seem overblown to me. I would think the first step is to work out the impact, as I haven't seen anyone quantify what proportion of games are affected and if there are alternatives like emulation.

The problem is that a website is generally not served from one domain.

Put a Facebook like button on your website, it's loaded directly from Facebook servers. Now they can put a cookie on your computer with an identifier.

Now every site you visit with a Facebook like button, they know it was you. They can watch you as you move around the web.

Google does this at a larger scale. Every site with Google ads on it. Every site using Google analytics. Every site that embeds a Google map. They can stick a cookie in and know you were there.

To be fair, if you don't know about how gravity works, you would just hold up a rock, drop it, and say obviously things can move without someone moving it.

That graph is so misleading. Makes it look like almost all the users disappeared but the Y axis only covers a small range at the top.

Is this not awesome?

Is it just that it's a really fucking hard job? How do you protect someone who wants to travel the country and stand in front of live audiences of thousands of people, without getting in the way of the personal experience they are trying to sell?

If you are as controversial as Trump, anyone can be an assassin and the secret service have to somehow separate crazy fan from crazy assassin, in a thousand different venues. The only real option is a bulletproof Popemobile.

I mean, there was all that drama where the board formed to prevent this from happening kicked out the CEO trying to do this stuff, then the board got booted out and replaced with a new board and brought back that CEO guy. So this was pretty much going to happen.

Haha it's so long there's a suggestion it needs to be broken into multiple pages:

It is illegal where I live. I imagine it's illegal in most developed countries. Bills can only have one purpose, they can't combine unrelated things.