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Totally, this means even more pain one has to like a little.

I always compare self hosting to PC gaming: it has some very specific benefits, but you don’t even comprehend, how many downsides you will encounter you cannot even start to anticipate. If one doesn’t like the pain a little bit theses hobbies aren’t any good and I totally understand everyone giving up on them.

I want a semi-decent VR headset so bad, but I don’t want to put six or seven cameras made by Facebook into my house.

I have heard this in Zucc’s voice and it still made total sense.

In general: cloud provider’s marginal costs for continue to host something while a customer doesn’t pay is negligible. Keeping it running while incurring more receivables, or blocking access while making it clear there is an easy way to reclaim data and functionality, are immensely more profitable. Nothing to “retaliate” really.

I’m always totally surprised how willfully European governments have put so much power into the hands of Twitter. Nearly every organization and politician has a Twitter account to be used for official and semi-official communication. And Twitter isn’t and was never really very popular in Europe compared to Facebook and other social networks, which these same organizations and politicians demonized to the max. I hope this is a wake up call: there are no inherently good centralized and commercialized social networks fit for communicating important information to an audience of potentially everyone.

While I like both takes, I don’t think even the dumbest billionaire or government wouldn’t recognize the value one centralized tool has. It would have been sufficient to control both Twitter and Reddit, moderate the hell out of topics they don’t like and put them offline in crucial moments. Destroying them without a clear, centralized alternative isn’t really sensible.

I personally expected the Reddit IPO to be the end of any “subversive investment advice”, that might have been on Reddit.

I’m experimenting hosting my own instance, not to build communities, just as a “gateway” to federate to other instances, in case one of them is unreachable, I still get posts from the ones which are still available. When lemmy.world clogged up a few hours ago, I couldn’t see posts from lemmy.ml since basic operations on lemmy.world timeouted and my feed couldn’t be loaded. Am I using Lemmy wrong, or are these galaxy brain moves (honest question)?

To be honest: Maldonado worked really, really hard on each of his penalties, while Ocon seems to have a special place in the stewards’ hearts.

It has been amateur hour since Elon took over. I have never laughed so hard, as when he was dropping his “thoughts” about Twitter’s architecture.

I have answered so many of these posts with just one app: Apollo. Mighty sad it’s gone. Therefore I’d pick Reeder, I think.

I hope nVidia starts decoupling their AI cards from their consumer gaming cards. I just want a reasonably priced and reasonably beefy GPU, which has enough headroom to play badly optimized UE4 PC-ports in 4K natively. With AMD buying FSR-exclusivity for more and more games, DLSS isn’t the answer anymore (at least not this year).