Some of the comments on that post are hilarious. "This makes it look like America is fascist." Yeah, I wonder why.
Arsen6331
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Because it's self-hosted. If you don't want to host it, element.io's instance is probably more trustworthy than Discord.
I think it may be a good idea to move this off of Discord by hosting Jitsi or something similar, because I definitely do not want to use Discord if I can avoid it.
You're just a filthy tankie! Look at how good our US subway is!
Warning: May be disturbing to anyone who prefers public transportation that isn't about to crumble into pieces.
Wow, the US was able to shoot down a balloon that has no weapons and can't defend itself?? This is so impressive. We truly have the best military in the world. /s
It feels like we're living in an alternate reality where The Onion is a serious, non-satirical news source
Submarine Engineer 1: "Hmm, should we stop the submarine from submerging if the hatch is open?"
Submarine Engineer 2: "No, it'll be fine. What could go wrong?"
How do people live with unread notifications? My brain won't let me. If there's a number next to the icon, my brain will not calm down until I have read, and responded to if necessary, every single notification. If I was in a situation where I had >500 notifications, the entire day would be spent just reading and responding to every single one. The only way I can avoid it is to never see the notifications at all.
Let me finish those libs' sentence: "Capitalism breeds innovation in new ways to exploit the proletariat and, being the bootlickers we are, we're hoping that saying this is going to lead to us not being exploited as much."
That's not the only one either, there's a sequel
Not to mention the fact that you can feel infrared as heat
A while ago, I realized how pervasive big tech spyware was. It's everywhere. In search engines, word processors, even the OSes themselves. Upon this realization, I decided to try to get away from that spyware, and researched how to do that. This is when I came upon self-hosting. There are certain open-source programs that allow you to do the same thing the big tech services allow you to do, but you host them yourself, so you control them. There was just a slight problem: I had no servers.
This is when I learned about "the cloud" and how you could rent servers from companies and then use those to host your software. I tried it, but realized I was just hosting my own services on big tech servers, so it wasn't helping. I'd been wanting a raspberry pi cluster for a while at that point, but never had the motivation to get one, so I waited until my birthday, collected the money gifted to me by my relatives, and bought 4 raspberry pi 4s with just 1GB of RAM, as well as all the equipment to run them (an 8-port network switch, power cables, etc.). Since then, my cluster has grown. Little by little, I've collected money and bought new parts. Now, I have 8 raspberry pi 4s (four 1GB, four 2GB), a Pine H64, a RockPro64, and my old 2012 Mac Mini running Debian. I also have an old 2011 MacBook that I've revived and patched to run the newest macOS which I will use to compile and test apps for iOS and macOS, as well as a Radxa Rock5 Model B with 16GB RAM on the way that I will be adding as well.
Originally, whenever I wanted to run a new service, I'd just kind of find a server and stick it on there, then manually configure everything and hope I remember where it's running. Now, I have a Nomad cluster with Consul and Traefik handling everything automatically for me. If I want to run a new service, I just make a Nomad config for it, and Nomad finds a free server with enough resources, downloads it, configures it, runs it, and then publishes it to Consul, from where Traefik automatically picks it up, sets up routing rules, acquires a TLS certificate, and exposes the service. Everything happens automatically. If a server goes down, Nomad will run the services that were running there on a different server and Traefik will reconfigure itself to match.
This is what my setup looks like:
At the top is my Mac Mini, a WiFi antenna for Home Assistant, and a RockPro64, on the shelf under that, there are 8 raspberry pis, under that is a network switch and a Pine H64 running the reverse proxy, and under that is a UPS that lasts over an hour in the event of power loss. On the right is my 3D printer, which is connected to one of the Pi 4s for OctoPrint.
This has been very useful for me. Not only does it mean I own my data AND my services, it also means outages don't affect me and my services are always very fast and reliable. I've had numerous times where Github was down and most people couldn't do any work, except me because I have my own Gitea instance, for example. I think anyone with the expertise, time, and resources to do this should do it.
I used the prompt "Stalin Zedong" at https://diffusionui.com/b/stable_horde. This is what it made.
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South Korea accidentally hit its own base with missile while warning the North
(interestingengineering.com)
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I've hosted the webm and a transcoded mp4 on my servers as well.