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Why did you stop?

I hear we are a rich nation.

By “we”, do you mean the US? (I’m guessing based on the dad here living in a US state.)

My impression is that US billionaires and large corporations are rich, but most US residents and social benefit programs are not.

It’s refreshing to see actually uplifting news here for a change. Thank you. ;)

lol… I had a feeling it would take some drastic turns. That’s great. No more spoilers, please. I do intend to get back to it.

In case you’re not familiar with it, Doki Doki Literature Club has some surprises, too. I enjoyed it even though visual novels are usually not my jam.

I only played through the first stage of the game before putting it aside. Thanks for reminding me that I ought to pick it up again and continue.

(Nitpick: Unique doesn’t have degrees. A thing can be very, very unusual, or it can be unique if nothing else like it exists.)

Mass surveillance of everyone who lives in or passes through a Ring-infested area already allows that, and more. Automation through AI makes it worse, but is not the root of the problem.

Without paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250624140639/https://www.404media.co/fucklapd-com-lets-anyone-use-facial-recognition-to-instantly-identify-cops/

The use of “self-hosting” is a little confusing here. To be clear, he wasn’t self-hosting his video. It was published on YouTube, and the guidelines and procedures in question are Google’s.

Edit: I’m not defending Google’s actions. It’s just that the title gave the impression that a video he had self-hosted was somehow subject to “community guidelines”, which didn’t make sense.

Edit 2: Ten downvotes in less than an hour, on a clarification comment? Wow. I’m disappointed to see that level of targeted negativity here. What rotten behavior. :(

As Lemmy is federated but not fully decentralised, continuation of communities hosted on a dead instance is not currently possible. (Compare this to Matrix, where a room can carry on even if its original homeserver dies, so long as at least one other homeserver participates in it.)

So that is indeed still a problem here, although not as severe, because I think the posts in those communities will still be available on instances that participated in them. Such communities would be forever frozen, though; carrying on from where they left off would require migrating to (or creating) communities on still-running instances.

Lemmy does allow you to export your own data and import it into another instance. That includes settings, subscriptions, and links to saved posts/comments. So I guess maybe you could save your own posts, export your data, and import it elsewhere to keep links to what you wrote on the dying instance. I have not tested this to be sure.

I haven’t been following Reddit events since I left a couple years ago, but if there have been recent ban waves for bad behaviour, it wouldn’t surprise me to see corresponding upticks in it here.

I wish more of us spoke up against rudeness, confidently incorrect ignorance, combativeness, tribalism, brigading, and other such stuff when it rears its head here. If all of us participated in moderation, I suspect it would be more effective and make our mods’ lives easier.

The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.

A useful product can be nice, but I wouldn’t call this patent uplifting news.

There are also bluetooth adapters that plug directly into those older iPods’ accessory port (the slot on the bottom) instead of the headphone jack.

The main benefit of the one I used was being compact, with no wires. The main drawback was having to remove the adapter to charge the iPod. I guess a model with a USB charging cable might exist.

Yes, that’s part of the ecosystem. :)

I attribute Java’s uptake to a large amount of marketing and support, which led to a massive ecosystem. Even a mediocre language like this one can find success when propped up like that.

I guess rsync can be told to remove removed files on the destination, too?

Yes. The --delete family of options are relevant here.

and potentially to watch US citizens as well

Anyone who thinks this is not being used on US citizens is incredibly naïve.

Git is for text files and retaining a history of every change and every state that has ever existed. It is the wrong tool for what you want, because it would be wasteful of resources.

I suggest automating lossy encodings locally (there are quite a few approaches you could use here, such as a cron job with the encoder of your choice), and automating an rsync job to keep your server updated.

At least one of the named routers (RT-AC3100) is supported by OpenWRT, which generally has a better security track record than stock firmware.