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  • Okay, but what's your current level of web development knowledge?

    And if I'm understanding your website properly, it seems like you don't have any kind of user generated content, yes? And if there were updates to the site, you would just make them yourself? If this is the case, then it sounds like frontend-only, and you can probably just use Vercel. If you're going super simple, maybe even Github Pages would work.

    Alternatively, is there any reason you're not using a site builder like Wix or Squarespace?

  • I'll give a more detailed answer.

    Docker doesn't help you in the development of the website. Docker helps you with the deployment of the website.

    The purpose of Docker is to give you a consistent environment. When you create a Docker "image," that image includes all of the files and software required to run the website. Then on some computer accessible by the public internet, you can just download that "image" and run your website using a "container" created from the image.

    You can think of the image as the blueprint of all the bits and pieces needed to run your website. The container is basically all those pieces put into action to actually run the website.

    Now, depending on your website, you may not even need Docker. If it's frontend-only, you could use some service like Vercel, where you don't even need Docker.

    Can you share more info about your current level of knowledge and the website you want to make?

  • This is short-sighted. It also reeks of "Fuck you, I got mine!" I know that's not your intention. I just think you haven't thought super hard about it. I was the same with privacy concerns.

    So let me throw some edge cases at you.

    You remember the network time protocol vulnerability that was used to power botnets for a little bit? Well, until everyone upgraded their shit, service providers had to just block IP ranges of compromised machines until enough machines in that block stopped DDoS'ing them.

    So what happens when some script kiddy pays for time on the botnet, which includes your box, to smash Wizards while you're trying to look things up? Or what if someone uses your box as a jump box to go attack some giant corporation, and shit gets traced back to you? Or what if someone decides you're the unlucky one where their whole goal is to dominate your entire home network, and they get your phone when it's on your home wifi?

  • Not all AI is equal. Europe does embrace certain types of AI depending on their production and usage. I work at a company pushing our AI throughout Europe, and the reception is generally very positive.

    These LLMs are just shit built in shitty ways. Their problem definition is shit, and the marketing of what they can do effectively is bullshit. There are some LLM efforts that are less shitty, but they're not very popular yet

  • I'm not convinced of this. One could argue that profit is waste. It's an overhead of wealth delivered for value provided. If co-ops are less incentives towards profit, e.g. by not having a tradeable stock to manage, then the pursuit of profit is a lesser priority. This means the overhead is less, which could mean lower prices.

    To put it bluntly, if you don't need to pay dividends to shareholders who deliver no value or huge bonuses to executives at the top, maybe the operating costs could be lower. Yes, the cooperative members would take some of that money as profit sharing among the members, but the working class tends to be less sociopathically greedy than those in power.

    Definitely open to feedback. This kind of thinking is newer to me

  • That all makes sense except the class distinctions part. If whole cooperatives share the capital of the organization, how is there a class divide?

    Everything you're saying about competition and private interest makes sense, with my limited understanding. I just don't get the class point you made. Help me understand?

  • The problem is that they're too fucking big. Office used to be the shining star of Microsoft, but now, it's a total piece of shit. My company recently switched from Google to Microsoft, and holy shit, it's a downgrade.

    Outlook is the biggest pile of shit software I've encountered in years. It's eventually consistent but without user feedback, it's very slow, meeting rooms aren't consistent about meeting room responses, email filtering rules don't work reliably... I could go on.

    Word sucks, too. Google Docs is way easier to use. In Word, copy and paste doesn't work as you'd expect, even from Word doc to Word doc, there's no templating in OneDrive, there aren't shared folders unless you set up a whole SharePoint site... I could go on here, too.

    It's this stupid, stupid focus on AI tools. AI ain't making shit better! AI shouldn't replace humans or things humans work on: it should augment humans. Products still need development on UX. AI should be incorporated into UX without being shoved down our throats. But these dumbass investors who don't understand tech are jumping on the fucking bandwagon, and execs are towing the line.

    Sorry for the rant, but Microsoft is more than just development tools.

    Also, they need to get ads out of my fucking operating system. I don't want my operating system natively communicating with the internet and recommending news stories. Fucking cancer

  • Aren't most states ethnically associated...? Like... the US and Canada are anomalous. European countries are particularly accepting of other ethnicities but still have a core ethnicity. Asian countries are usually pretty homogenous. I imagine African countries are, too. Latin America, I'm not as sure.

    Or am I misunderstanding the definition of ethno-state?

  • It comes from a selfish mindset. Yes, you're threatened, but you're also promised with reward. It becomes a deviously simple equation at that point.

    It's the same as being mugged in a dark alley against a wall. If you believe there's no escape, do you acquiesce despite not wanting to give money to a robber, or do you try to fight back and get shot?

  • You haven't read anything about this. It's very clear. The first thing you learn is that sex and gender are different. Sex is biology. Gender is identity.

    The second thing you learn is that sex is not binary. (And gender, being a social construct, certainly is not set in stone.) Genes may be XX, but maybe some other factor may be preventing that gene from expressing fully or even at all. This can lead to highly androgynous folks or folks with odd genital configurations. It takes genes, gene expression, and hormones for a human to express characteristics of some sex. Not all three of these are perfectly aligned. You can argue that genes control all of it, but that doesn't stand. Genes can conflict, and environmental factors can affect things.

    I learned all that and more in just twenty minutes of reading. Please, go do some homework. Start with "what is the difference between sex and gender," then let the rabbit hole take you down. At least, that's the path that helped me learn a bunch of this stuff.

    And regarding Dunning-Kruger, the key point is confidence. That said, I'll caveat all the above I've said with this is just stuff that I've read from sources that I trust, which I can corroborate with my existing knowledge of genetics and broader biology. I'm not an expert. I can be proven wrong. Most of this is definitions and quite simple stuff, so my confidence is high but still shakeable.

    Normally, I'm a stickler about answering asked questions, but your questions seem to be based on a misunderstanding of definitions. Once you get that sorted out, we can try again and maybe learn something together

  • I get to be useful!

    Ceiling cat is a reference to possibly the earliest generation of memes. They mostly involved cats. Ceiling cat was a popular one of a cat poking its had down through a hole in a ceiling, captioned "ceiling cat is watching you masturbate" or something similar. The odd grammar/spelling is of the same Era, where these cat memes would be spoken in the "voice" of a cat. The most famous example is "I can haz cheezburger"

    Leaving Britney alone is a reference to an early Era of YouTube video, where an actor bawling at the camera ranted about how people were being too mean to Britney Spears, a famous pop star. It was hotly debate whether the contents of the video were genuine or acting. Remember, this was before Snopes, even.

    I think that was everything?

  • But this is a bad idea.

    Areas with high property value have higher quality schooling. Area with low property value have lower quality schooling. The rich stay rich. The poor stay poor.

    Maybe education money shouldn't come from property taxes. Maybe corporations should pay for the education they require their workers to have visa corporate taxes