

Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.
I’m the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.
The government absolutely uses sql frequently, even if they still have older mainframes with some other database architecture.
This makes more sense. But even then they would surely transfer data from the old system over.
I mean I’m liking the idea that they went down into the basement, started up an old mini computer, with “superman 3” magnetic tapes with data from the 1980s to force them to try to integrate with that and only after transferring the data at 1000cps, find out it’s entirely out of date.
I mean, it won’t be the case, but I’d really like it to be. 😛
It’s a terminology thing really yes. I mean a database (SQL or not) shouldn’t need de-duplication by nature of how the record index/keys work.
If they’re not using a form of SQL though, I’d be very interested in what they are using. Back in the 90s I was messing around with things like Btrieve and other even more antiquated database engines. But all the software I used that utilised such things was converted to use a form of SQL (even if in some cases there were internal wrappers to allow access in the older way too via legacy code) over 20 years ago.
If I were an American though my biggest concern would be that Musk is able to know the structure AND content of the social security database. His post (if we believe it) demonstrates he must have access to both pieces of information.
Well, you should at least mute the microphone/turn off the camera on teams/zoom first. Just common courtesy.
Well. Here’s what Trump and Musk have in common. They’re both incapable of taking advice from people more experienced in a subject than themselves.
So I’m going to bet he’ll ignore any and all warnings.
Thanks. I think at the time I made an instance (about a year and a half ago I reckon), there was quite a batch snapping up kbin/lemmy on every tld imaginable.
It’s actually not a bad idea. “The front page of the threadiverse” so to speak. There are plenty of instance lookups out there, but they’re generally self discovered. Something that helps match a user to a smaller instance cannot be a bad thing.
Having large instances is a good thing of course, especially for hosting larger communities. But, in order to remain fully independent, smaller instances that can be run truly as a hobby on affordable hardware are essential for the fediverse in my opinion.
Well. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone advertising hot local singles using my instance. I’ve mostly seen medical adverts and random websites (for products not services). So, you’re not missing anything I think.
No. I see several genuine looking users that registered and did nothing (fine I guess). But there’s a lot with very similar <somethingnnn>@gmail.com. Some don’t do anything and so far I’ve left them. Some are clearly posting advert crap and they get deleted as soon as I see it. Every now and then I just go through purge the rest that are clearly bot accounts.
If I was actually getting genuine active users I might look into making a form or otherwise making it difficult (not sure if mbin has that ability mind you). But seems I don’t really get real users. Just me, posting and commenting all day.
No, I think it’s just me on my instance (that probably has the capacity for 1000+ active users) and the steady influx of suspicious accounts that pass the email verification and captcha and then either post nothing, or post adverts get banned/deleted and it goes on.
Mind you I don’t really advertise the instance either. So that’s likely why.
I suspect people coming from reddit don’t understand the fediverse (I know I didn’t when I first got here). So they go to the hosting instance and join there, not really understanding they can join any instance and then join the community (if not already on the instance).
Yeah I stopped at three when I realised I could be there all day when it comes to regulations that private companies need to adhere to. But I would agree those should have been on my abridged list too.
From my point of view from the other side of the Atlantic, you guys in the US don’t have enough regulation as it is. There’s only one class of people that benefit from removal of the regulations you do have, and that’s the top 1%. It’s just going to allow them to do all of the following to make more money, at everyone else’s expense.
1: Treat their employees worse than they already do, AND put them into dangerous situations legally. 2: Cut corners to save money at the expense of safety. Think airlines, airliner manufacturers, car makers, construction. The list here could be endless. 3: Well, finance/banking regulations. That will be a field day for the finance sector I’m sure.
I mean the list is potentially endless. But the three points above will keep you busy for long enough I reckon.
No, I don’t really feel safe even this far away. We’re not immune to all of this anywhere in the world.
I think the top one might be the culprit. But it might be the guy’s account was hacked?
On his repo he has a fork of WSL and the repo is called “free-palestine”, he tried to merge the branch “freedom”. So that PR seems likely to be linked to this. Other than this, activity seems normal for a terminal githubber with 444 repos…
Oh, good. Maybe they will stop trying to scrape my websites at some ridiculous rate using faked real browser UAs. I just blocked their whole ASN (AS45102) in the end.
I’m pretty sure he called them hostages on Monday.
For threadiverse (lemmy/mbin et al) there’s not much in it. It’s fairly easy for an operator to curate their instance by pre subscribing to a whole bunch of communities. I run my own instance, barely any users and I’m constantly banning and deleting them for advertising. But I have plenty of content.
I made my own mastodon instance and connected to a bunch of groups. Only two or three are active. There’s not really an easy way to get content without following a lot of people. So anyone visiting my instance will see virtually nothing. If they go to social they will see plenty.
So it’s a bit of a no brainer for most I think.
Don’t forget, take your ivermectin, consume bleach and find some way of getting sunlight into your body. 😛
Why? Because you can. But in terms of useful reasons?
Cellphones, Internet they need infrastructure to work, and that can be disabled either during a natural disaster or war situation. Even by your own government in some cases.
But if I want to communicate, I just need a piece of wire, somewhere to hang it, and a 12v battery and I can communicate for thousands of miles.
Personally I just think that’s cool.
The “Interesting” is very Muskesque. I also think if it was DMs to someone else, even in the USA that’s got to be some level of a legal privacy issue.
Not just tech. For big business Trump is good news for them I am sure. For their employees, not so much. But for the leaders, it’s 4 years of very favourable policies for them.
Yeah I don’t see it as a problem when the users control access to their own posts.
It’s when they require a sign in to see anything, it’s a problem.