Great, now instead of just being bored, I get to manage three servers and two dozen public-facing services that I have to maintain for a growing number of users, along with the physical servers themselves, as any cog in this machine may break and burst into flames like a house of cards... and still be bored with the added stress.
Yeah, though anxiety and self-perfection make every task dreadful and stressful when anyone else is impacted; doesn't matter if it's the family vaultwarden instance or a game server needing an update to become available again, all of it is AHHHHHHHH
I run basically all my stuff through docker containers, and have...
NAS:
BentoPDF
Clam-Shell (discord bot using clamav)
FreshRSS
Haven (discord alternative)
Kitchen Owl
Linkwarden
LubeLogger
MeshCentral (for me to admin systems)
Nametag (relationship organizer and visual map)
Owncast (streaming, for myself)
Plex
Radicale
Red (discord multifunction bot)
RustDesk
Snipe-IT
Uptime Kuma
Vaultwarden
Wallos (subscription manager)
YourLastFM (for myself)
ThinkServer - Proxmox:
Debian 13, running BOINC
Home Assistant
Windows Server 2022, running Motor Town dedi
VPS:
American Truck Simulator dedi
BeamMP dedi x7
Duplicati (for backups)
FiveM dedi
Minecraft Bedrock dedi
Wireguard
I have stuff offline like a Satisfactory dedi, and the docker container for Euro Truck Simulator is broken for whatever reason... and stuff that is running for admin purposes that I won't list since security and all that (and a couple 'bare metal' services too). My users are family, close friends, and members of my discord/haven gaming community that I have brought in over the last few years.
What if they're stealing the reading? What if they go to the local bookstore, read for a while, and then put the book back on the shelf and leave? We have no idea what kind of a criminal we could be dealing with here.
Chats: an algorithm decides the order of the messages shown
Games: a lot of algorithms everywhere.
Ebooks: eg algorithms are used to decode the drm of you are using a Kindle.
We should use technical words in a technically correct way, or else public discourse becomes obscured and confused. Like what Discord did with the word "Server", it's not innocuous even when people are doing it by accident.
Language isn't set in stone, and when people use the term "algorithm" when referring to the system in place that decides what content is put in front of them, people understand what they mean. No one gets this algorithm mixed up with the math/computer science term algorithm.
The discord one is slightly different, but I'd argue it isn't that harmful, as Discord "servers" function effectively as a server from a user point of view. The only problem with this nomenclature is that it somewhat implies to a layperson that there is some form of privacy/security in place, which there isn't.
That's not what I wrote. It's just that they were complaining about the wrong thing. Algorithms are not bad, just how they are sometimes used is bad. Most of the time they are applied in a good or neutral way.
Okay then let's get rid of the phone, it was just an example either way.
Every program consists of algorithms, no matter where it is installed: in your phone, car or TV. In a street light, a digital thermometer or a smoke detector.
You wrote:
get rid of anything that's an algorithm.
If we do that, no digital thing will work anymore. It's not just social media. Or phones. It's everything.
Ever had a conversation with a person about two different topics at the same time but each topic is being talked about in a different app, in real time?
I have now deleted my accounts, but there was at least one time that I was browsing reddit and got really bored, so I opened a new tab to check out reddit.
I looked at the front page posts and was like, "Oh yeah."
No, the tiger does not need "enrichment", it needs to be set free. Do not accept being caged as the normal and don't be gaslit into thinking the toys you get is "enrichment".
I'm with you. There's a word for this. It's called zoochosis, a play on psychosis. The animals in zoos play with their faeces, eat their faeces, pace, sway etc, because they're BORED FUCKING SHITLESS. A tiger, like all animals, do not deserve to be locked up in prison and gawked at by idiots with cameras for the crime of being born the wrong species. They're smart, emotional, deep animals. They are emotionally intelligent. They have feelings. Fuck zoos so fucking hard.
I have been posting things on websites that allow the general public to participate since my childhood, that is, for more than 20 years. At the time I was familiar with "forums", slightly later also "wikis" and "blogs"… I have no idea why or even when exactly the world started to insist on that strange term "social media" to describe some poorly defined subset of such websites. 🤔
In my opinion, if you're just here to shit post and not actually use your "socializing" brain, then no. Like when you're picking the weird options in Skyrim and then restoring your last save.
But if you're committing to the actions and this is your "real playthrough", then yes.
Yeah i do sometimes just shit post on here, but I'm also trying to treat it like forums in the pre social media age when you could recognize a few users just by their user name. I am also trying to contribute to the "community" aspect.
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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 72 pts · 159d
Hobbies: They're great.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 159d
Great, now instead of just being bored, I get to manage three servers and two dozen public-facing services that I have to maintain for a growing number of users, along with the physical servers themselves, as any cog in this machine may break and burst into flames like a house of cards... and still be bored with the added stress.
Yaaaaay, hobbies...
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 34 pts · 159d
You may have chosen the wrong one.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 159d
This hobby would be significantly better if it came with a six-figure salary
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 27 pts · 159d
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's called a "job".
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 159d
You'd think yeah :P
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 158d
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 158d
Ever thought about shitcanning all of that and just folding some paper cranes?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 158d
I'm in too deep. Save yourself!
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 159d
If the cogs didn't break occasionally, I feel like it wouldn't be a very good hobby.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 159d
Yeah, though anxiety and self-perfection make every task dreadful and stressful when anyone else is impacted; doesn't matter if it's the family vaultwarden instance or a game server needing an update to become available again, all of it is AHHHHHHHH
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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 158d
You misunderstood, this wasn't an analogy. The secret to enrichment is literally putting raw hamburger in a pumpkin and rolling it around your home.
toynbee@piefed.social · 2 pts · 158d
What services?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
I run basically all my stuff through docker containers, and have...
NAS:
ThinkServer - Proxmox:
VPS:
I have stuff offline like a Satisfactory dedi, and the docker container for Euro Truck Simulator is broken for whatever reason... and stuff that is running for admin purposes that I won't list since security and all that (and a couple 'bare metal' services too). My users are family, close friends, and members of my discord/haven gaming community that I have brought in over the last few years.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 158d
Y'all have money left for hobbies?
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 158d
Well. There's always humming, I suppose.
justsquigglez@leminal.space · 6 pts · 158d
Y'all have time left for hobbies?
bridgeburner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 157d
Yeah I have a 4-day work week. Not with full pay of course, just 80% as well.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 5 pts · 158d
one of my hobbies is reading. Yarrrrr... it's free :)
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 157d
Yeah, we all know about the library already.
Slovene@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 157d
What if they're stealing the reading? What if they go to the local bookstore, read for a while, and then put the book back on the shelf and leave? We have no idea what kind of a criminal we could be dealing with here.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 159d
Hell yes, get rid of anything that's an algorithm.
If you can't run out of content on the platform you're on, it's a bad thing.
Use youtube clients that follow users
Browse text platforms that let you follow communities.
TT, IG, /all, and shorts are where your brain goes to die.
tja@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 159d
Everything that's on your phone has an algorithm. It's like saying I don't eat things with chemicals in it.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 158d
Technically correct, but I think you know what the above user meant.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 158d
recommendation algorithm
though i reckon lemmy has one too, just a more transparent one
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
Group chats with Friends? Games? Ebooks? There might be algorithms associated with those somewhere, but you'd have to go digging for them.
tja@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 158d
Chats: an algorithm decides the order of the messages shown Games: a lot of algorithms everywhere. Ebooks: eg algorithms are used to decode the drm of you are using a Kindle.
You don't need to dig very deep.
Carrot@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 158d
A pedant's job is never done, huh?
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 158d
We should use technical words in a technically correct way, or else public discourse becomes obscured and confused. Like what Discord did with the word "Server", it's not innocuous even when people are doing it by accident.
Carrot@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 157d
Language isn't set in stone, and when people use the term "algorithm" when referring to the system in place that decides what content is put in front of them, people understand what they mean. No one gets this algorithm mixed up with the math/computer science term algorithm.
The discord one is slightly different, but I'd argue it isn't that harmful, as Discord "servers" function effectively as a server from a user point of view. The only problem with this nomenclature is that it somewhat implies to a layperson that there is some form of privacy/security in place, which there isn't.
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 158d
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 158d
Ahh yes, the old "things are bad so we shouldn't worry about making them any better" argument.
tja@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 158d
That's not what I wrote. It's just that they were complaining about the wrong thing. Algorithms are not bad, just how they are sometimes used is bad. Most of the time they are applied in a good or neutral way.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 157d
Well I didn't write anything about phones, I was talking about social media echo-chambers, but you took that there.
tja@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 157d
Okay then let's get rid of the phone, it was just an example either way. Every program consists of algorithms, no matter where it is installed: in your phone, car or TV. In a street light, a digital thermometer or a smoke detector.
You wrote:
If we do that, no digital thing will work anymore. It's not just social media. Or phones. It's everything.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 157d
you get my point, yet you refuse to get my point, we have nothing left here to discuss
Greddan@feddit.org · 23 pts · 159d
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 159d
Or "ground beef" or "hamburger meat"
One thing we rarely if ever call it is "minced" or "mince."
To my American mind that suggests it's been cut into tiny pieces with a knife, not ground through a grinder.
Mincing is something you do to an onion, or in stiletto heels and a knee-trappingly-tight skirt.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 159d
this guy doesn’t mince words
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 158d
Or mince around.
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev · 6 pts · 158d
I feel like "hamburger meat" implies the inclusion of seasoning whereas "ground beef" is literally just the meat
crank0271@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 159d
Largely yes. Sometimes "ground meat."
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 158d
In French we call it "chopped steak"
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 158d
Are you sure it's not called a royale with steak? Because of the metric system?
HarneyToker@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 158d
Chopped RoyaleÂ
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 158d
In the places I’ve lived “raw hamburger” is pretty rare. Ground beef and hamburger meat are common.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 158d
Ever had a conversation with a person about two different topics at the same time but each topic is being talked about in a different app, in real time?
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 158d
My wife does this.
Our text DMs are about the kids.
Our family chat DMs (Zulip, which is a open-source version of Slack/discord) is full of memes.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 158d
Did you do this to brag, or to avoid the FOSS Enforcement Patrol?
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 158d
Ah force of habit. I just came from a conference and I had to explain Zulip a dozen times to people.
Slovene@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 157d
Mentioning his wife was the brag part.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 157d
Me and his wife use signal
lath@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 159d
Try eating your keeper.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 158d
I mean, it would make for an interesting day.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 158d
Please keep your dirty hamburgers away from my virgin pumpkin
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 157d
!brandnewsentence@lemmy.world
Francislewwis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 158d
That scrolling the same apps loop is way more relatable than most people want to admit.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 157d
I have now deleted my accounts, but there was at least one time that I was browsing reddit and got really bored, so I opened a new tab to check out reddit.
I looked at the front page posts and was like, "Oh yeah."
nialv7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 159d
No, the tiger does not need "enrichment", it needs to be set free. Do not accept being caged as the normal and don't be gaslit into thinking the toys you get is "enrichment".
Reject the premise altogether.
yakko@feddit.uk · 20 pts · 158d
"I angrily reject this joke in a politically awakened manner."
This could be the type specimen of a Lemmy comment
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 158d
Sounds like someone needs a meat pumpkin!
osanna@lemmy.vg · 3 pts · 158d
I'm with you. There's a word for this. It's called zoochosis, a play on psychosis. The animals in zoos play with their faeces, eat their faeces, pace, sway etc, because they're BORED FUCKING SHITLESS. A tiger, like all animals, do not deserve to be locked up in prison and gawked at by idiots with cameras for the crime of being born the wrong species. They're smart, emotional, deep animals. They are emotionally intelligent. They have feelings. Fuck zoos so fucking hard.
null@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 159d
Take a break from social media.
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online · 5 pts · 159d
Does Lemmy count as social media?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 158d
I think so, yes.
I have been posting things on websites that allow the general public to participate since my childhood, that is, for more than 20 years. At the time I was familiar with "forums", slightly later also "wikis" and "blogs"… I have no idea why or even when exactly the world started to insist on that strange term "social media" to describe some poorly defined subset of such websites. 🤔
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 158d
Controversial take here:
In my opinion, if you're just here to shit post and not actually use your "socializing" brain, then no. Like when you're picking the weird options in Skyrim and then restoring your last save.
But if you're committing to the actions and this is your "real playthrough", then yes.
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online · 2 pts · 158d
Yeah i do sometimes just shit post on here, but I'm also trying to treat it like forums in the pre social media age when you could recognize a few users just by their user name. I am also trying to contribute to the "community" aspect.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 158d
The 4 apps I jump between:
Connect, Voyager, Raccoon, and Summit.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 157d
Oh I have a literal ton of stuff I could/should be doing. Haven't had any would for a long time though
Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 159d
I have an app for that, I mostly just do the daily rewards now tho.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
Instructions unclear. Now have salmonella.