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That is something I've already run into at my previous workplace. The name escapes me atm...

Inatances self report these stats. All you have to do is a single db query and all of a sudden you have 100 million MAU.

There is no AI.

What's sold as an expert is actually a delusional graduate.

My bad. I thought it was only outbound federation that worked, but have now just created a comment and it has been accepted. Carry on!

Neat!

lemmy.zip, unfortunately, blocks traffic from UK, which my instance is located in. I'd be happy to welcome you to lemmy.cafe, though!

There's a wonderful android app called Imagepipe. Does a few things, but stripping exif data is one of them. Workflow is also great!

I realise that won't help against people simply recognising your cat, but it's useful for protection against bots and stuff.

Tell me you don't understand what you're talking about without saying you don't understand what you're talking about.

Filled in the survey. A few notes:

• Some of my answers make no sense on the surface - like the "experiment with new technology" block (4 questions). I've answered "Agree" to all of them, because I have taken time into account, which is not represented on the questions. Long story short - I do love experimenting with new tech, I'm almost always the first one to try something among my peers, but at the same I never blindly jump in (I'm hesitant) as most of the "new technology" is just
  • Someone repackaging foss and relabeling it
  • Some LLM bullshit
  • An inferior product to what already exists

There are also scenarios where I have already found something that's the best solution for my case, so I won't even bother looking at something new, even if it might be the best thing since sliced bread for someone else.

• TIme and effort setting up/maintaining (4 questions). It doesn't take much time nor effort to set anything up now, but it did when I was starting out initially. I knew very little and a bunch of concepts hadn't clicked, yet, so it took me days to set up Nextcloud and about half a year (on and off. Probably a week or so if it were all squeezed together) for email.

• The performance and intent to use in the future questions are weird - they feel like the same question, just leveling off in intensity. I've selected the same answer for all of them. They probably should've been a single question with agree/disagree options swapped for intensity levels.

Good luck with your PhD!

What's this bear-porridge symbiosis I've been seeing lately?

Mostly agree, but as someone who has been hosting my own email for years I can tell it is, in fact, better.

Quick note for hosting one on a residential IP - that would no longer piss any ISP off. You would simply not deliver anything anywhere due to IP being blacklisted by default.

I'll give Magic Earth a go, but osmand is just missing a bunch of stuff I got used to having I guess. The actual map part is fine.

I use DAVx⁵ myself. It's not ideal aesthetically, but honestly not a thing I worry about.