nothacking @ nothacking @discuss.tchncs.de

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Options are good, now no single country can ruin things.

and lemmy.world is down. Please consider using less overloaded instances.

Each instance only downloads relieve content to its users. An instance with a popular community will have to handle all the posts made to that community, which will still be much smaller than all of them. While the overall load might be higher, the load on any given instance will be lower.

Images, by far the biggest bandwidth user, are directly transfered from posting instance to client and are not federated. Having more instances will spread out that load very effectively.

Gimp, who's developmental team consists of a bunch of volunteers supports it, the reasons those companies don't support is is either because they don't care about users (Adobe), or because they are pushing their own, proprietary format. (Apple) Microsoft directly competes with Google in the cloud ecosystem space and therefore wants to make using Google as painful as possible. (See microsoft making it a huge pain to switch the default browser to chrome)

Helpful trick, if you go to [any instance url]/instances (for example https://discuss.tchncs.de/instances ) it will show all the instances it is federated and defederated with. (Use your browser's find in page feature to scroll down to the "blocked instances" section)

Too many users, the Lemmy instance software is not very fast.

Here is a (few weeks old) chart of users by instance:

Move to a different instance to spread the load. You can see all the same content from any other instance, but the experience will be a lot better with less lag.

Lemmy is not the same as lemmy.world.

The problem with lemmy.ml and lemmy.world is that they are just too popular and instances don't scale well.

How do you tell if someone is an Arch user? You don't, they will tell you.

Dont blame google, it is Mucrisoft's fault for refusing to support them under default windows. The format itself is in many ways superior to both PNG and JPEG.

Here is an example of a non crap webp:

Webp is a fairly standard if rather new image format, that are frequently used by websites due to their small file size. To further cut bandwidth costs and loading time, websites will often only include a tiny webp of an image until you click to expand or something like that, so that they don't have to serve a massive image if the user will only even see a thumbnail sized preview. However, this does break the "save image" button as if you try to download the thumbnail, say from google images.

Completely separately, some scummy sites will make you sign up for an account or something to download a full size image, and the only advice I have here is that it is almost always faster to find another site with the image then jump though the hoops.

I have a massive poster on my wall of all the elements, and assorted technical properties, like melting point, boiling point, atomic mass, half life, density and electronegativity and abundances in Earth's crust, the universe, and the human body. Problem solved.

You can do your part by just starting your own website.

What's "space!" and "enter"?

For those that need help in deciphering the title text, there is a super easy trick: Take the last 5 bits of each byte, convert them from binary to decimal, and that letter of the alphabet (starting from one) is the letter represented by the ASCII code.

To convert binary numbers to decimal, just add the place values of a the 1s together. For 5 bits, the place values are 16, 8, 4, 2, 1. So 10110 becomes 16+4+2 which is equal to 22.

01001101: last 5 bits are 01101, in decimal, that is 8+4+1=13, and the 13th letter of the alphabet is "m"

01100101, becomes 00101, then 4+1=5, and the 5th letter of the alphabet is 'e'

The last 2 are just repeats of those, so the post body reads "meme" (if the third bit is zero, the letter is capital, so it should really be "Meme")

They even stole x.org's logo:

Embrace side quests. If your stuck on motivation, do an easy part first, or work on a related project for a bit to build up momentums. Once you start working on something it becomes much easier to continue, but you won't get anywere by staring at the hard part.

Yes, elit does take some messing around to get working though, so I wouldn't recommend unless you want to spend a bit messing around with configuring a server. (Make sure to back up the pi's SD card so if it fails you can easily replace it)

I just grabbef a generic IP camera, connected it over ethernet, and firewalled it so it could not make connections out to my home network or the internet. Turns out it just uses an mpeg stream for the video, so recording it is just a matter of running curl on a server. Any network camera that does not depend on a server should work fine for this type of stuff.

Ext4 is old, but fast and very robust. You won't loose data or corrupt the filesystem if your system looses power. It can even survive partial wipes, if you accidentally overwrite the first few megs of you drive with a messed up dd, nearly all your data will be recoverable, including filenames and directory structure.

It doesn't have very fancy features, but it is the best tested and most robust option available. (also the fastest due to its simplicity)

Btrfs has things like copy on write files that can protect you from an accidental rm, but this won't save you from drive failures, so you still need backups for important data.

Thanks!