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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • Otter@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do people in cities have fun without spending money at every turn?English
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    12 hours ago

    Pretty much this :)

    A while back I switched to using RSS feeds for news, and there are so many free and low cost events out there in my city. Free shows, food festivals, cultural days, free admission days at attractions, music in the park, etc

    I’ve been posting some of them to [email protected], but that’s only the events that I was interested enough to click on + think that people here would be interested in as well

    For example:

    [Science World will have free admission on Friday, Sept. 19, as a part of their ‘Tech-Up’ initiative]

    https://lemmy.ca/post/51805885

    There are also free activities you can do anywhere, with lots of good ideas in this thread. Some extras that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

    Sometimes cities also have scavenger hunt type guides where you can explore an area

  • Otter@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Self Hosting GuideEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m not sure which guides to recommend, but in case it helps narrow down your search, you could share more about your situation:

    • Do you have any existing hardware or are you planning to buy? If so, what is the budget for the equipment and where in the world are you approximately?

    • What did you want to self host? Some services would benefit from a certain type of setup. For example, if you’re serving lots of media, if you need redundancy and uptime, if you’re running AI models or something that needs a GPU

    General tips:

    • take lots of notes on your process. This will help you iteratively improve your setup. If it all falls apart, it will be easier to quickly get going again since you know what options you picked at each step.
    • Make more posts here when you get stuck on something :)

    For Linux, a lot of people go with Ubuntu server because there are a lot of existing guides for it. You don’t need much Linux knowledge to start self hosting since you can learn by doing over time. Some concepts to explore before getting started might be cron, the Linux file system, and user permissions.

    For Docker, you should be fine if you know the basics. I’d recommend using Docker Compose since it’s easier to understand what’s happening when its written out in a nice yaml file. Install Docker and Docker Compose on the server, and then install something like DockGE to manage the compose files. When you want to run a service, copy the Docker compose file and then swap the port to what port you want to use, and the volume to the location you tend to use.

    For a very basic setup, I’d find a video guide for

    • installing Ubuntu server on the machine
    • basic setup of the Ubuntu server (file permissions, docker, docker compose)
  • Otter@lemmy.catoVideos@lemmy.world•[META] Community discussion regarding AI & clickbaitEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Thanks for posting this discussion, I agree with the general consensus from the edit.

    Thumbnails are annoying to deal with, and I had trouble the few times when I tried to address it in my own posts. It’s a lot more work to pull a different thumbnail and replace the autogenerated one, especially if you’re on mobile and just want to share something quickly. Still, if someone is posting low effort spam/clickbait often, I’d agree with a mod telling them to knock it off

  • Otter@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.world•Poland says Russian drone attack was 'no mistake' after Trump comments—ReutersEnglish
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    10 days ago

    A few other notes

    • MSN links are annoying because they act as a wrapper for the content that another actual news site put out. Finding the original link is better for everyone, and it helps on the Lemmy side since then the UI can indicate cross posts with that correct link

    • I don’t find as much value in news stories with “Trump says” in the headline. It helps in order to anticipate what kind of issues he might cause next, but otherwise I’d much rather read what actually happened instead of losing brain cells reading what trump said about it

  • Otter@lemmy.catoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Help balancing convenience and privacyEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I think what they’re saying is that, to a lot of people (myself included), Signal is currently the best option despite being centralized. The decentralized options have UX issues, too small a user base, or aren’t well known enough to have gone through robust security/privacy reviews. While you can’t see what’s running on the signal servers, the app is open source and so far it looks to be encrypting the information correctly and it’s not sending anything but the minimal data to their servers.

    ‘A lot of eyeballs on the code’ is only relevant for open source apps. They were making a comparison between Signal and the many other open source mobile messaging apps.

    You might also find this chart helpful if you’re looking for other alternatives. Personally, I found Signal to be the best one to get my friends and family onto

    https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

  • Otter@lemmy.catoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Signal introduces Remote backupsEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Finally! This was keeping me from recommending Signal to more people

    If you do decide to opt in to secure backups, you’ll be able to securely back up all of your text messages and the last 45 days’ worth of media for free.

    If you want to back up your media history beyond 45 days, as well as your message history, we also offer a paid subscription plan for US$1.99 per month.

    That’s excellent to hear. Hopefully no one abuses the media backups, I would understand if they did it by file sizes

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