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Cake day: November 21st, 2025

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  • Yeah, I hate facebook too, but sometimes you just have to acknowledge that flying the FOSS flag is not your primary objective. Like someone else said, if you have half the people on whatsapp, you’ll get much less than that with anything else.

    I occasionally dream of having a better “community” in my suburb but basically, I just have zero available effort to invest in that. Like I’m not working today and looking forward to spending the afternoon in my pyjamas fiddling around at home. If I feel super motivated and energetic later I might take the kids somewhere. If there were a community thing scheduled I just… wouldn’t feel like going.

    I think the best form of community I can manage is simply having a few people’s numbers in my phone and telling them when something happens “Hey Barb, just letting you know the neighbours car got broken into last night, hows things down your end?”


  • I suspect your wife thinks of Gen AI as some form of intelligence. You can call them clanker, shitstain, n-word, anything. They are inanimate.

    That said, while I dont believe Gen AI is a step on the path to AGI, i acknowledge the possibility that such a thing may one day exist.

    At that time, how we address them might say more about us than it does about them. For example, pets might not have rights or feelings, but we treat them with basic respect because you know - its nice to be nice.

    How we treat things we dont need to be nice to says a lot about our character.


  • Smaller social platforms are a real mixed bag.

    It seems like subsets of some communities occasionally migrate en-masse. In the same way that lemmy had a huge influx of users from reddit at the time 3rd party apps were discontinued - it’s a fairly confined subset of reddit users that ended up here.

    Another example is nostr. Seems to be exclusively crypto-twits.


  • Containers have layers. So if you create an instance of a syncthing container whoever built that container would have started with some other container. Alpine linux is a very popular base layer, just used as an example in this discussion.

    When you download an image, all the layers underlying the application that you actually wanted, will only be as fresh as the last time the maintainer built that image. So if there were a bug in the alpine base, that might have been fixed in alpine, but wouldn’t by pushed through to whatever you downloaded.




  • This is me.

    For example, /srv/docker/synching contains:

    compose.yml .env ./Sync

    That last one is a directory bound to the container which contains all my sync folders.

    Occasionally it makes more sense to put the mounted folder in /srv like /srv/photos is mounted by /srv/docker/photoprism/compose.yml

    However, thats a rarity. Things mostly accessed by a single compose stack are kept alongside the other files for that stack.




  • He is half German and thinks he can hate Jewish people and act like a Nazi but because he speaks German at home

    All the German’s I’ve known are the opposite of this. They’re very quick to stamp out nazism and anti-semitism. I think that generally they would respond more harshly than most non-germans. That said, my experience might not be representative and it seems like the far right is gaining popularity in Germany.

    I think it’s more likely that he acts that way because someone at home acts that way.

    actually speak German and say rude things without people knowing.

    Pretty pathetic really.

    You’ve correctly identified that this kid is a douche. Sure he might know a foreign language, but that doesn’t make up for wanting to exterminate you if you were born to the wrong family.



  • I dont think the main stream will ever meaningfully turn against advertising. We’ve collectively demonstrated that we’re willing to accept advertising and trade our privacy in exchange for free content and services.

    That said, the worse the main stream web gets the better the “side web” gets. The good parts of the web will always exist, even if they’re not as popular as they once were.