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[-] vlad76 211 points 1 year ago
[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 191 points 1 year ago

Randall Monroe has provided me with weekly nibbles of entertainment for nearly 2 decades. But this was inspired by his style, not created by him.

[-] vlad76 41 points 1 year ago

I realize that now. Well done!

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago

I also did not create this.

[-] vlad76 41 points 1 year ago

In that case. It's terrible! I hate it!

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago

It's perfectly adequate, i tolerate it.

[-] posedexposed@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 year ago

Next you’re gonna tell us you don’t even selfhost

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[-] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago

Do you remember what the original was?

[-] dan@upvote.au 42 points 1 year ago
[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Funny, now it's easy to check for birds.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If by "easy" you mean someone else already spent 5 years and a nice chunk of cash training a model for it, which you get to use. And if you accept that it will not be accurate across all possible species and environments, only very specific subsets.

[-] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

You're right, but you could say the same about the National Park GIS lookup.

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[-] spez@sh.itjust.works 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Self hosted

Cloud provided media storage

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 75 points 1 year ago

You want to talk about it?

[-] darelik@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[-] dan@upvote.au 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It could be their own cloud. I refer to my VPSes as "the cloud" even though that's still self-hosting. My "cloud storage" would just be a 10TB storage VPS I've got.

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

No one else uses the term "cloud" like that.

That part of this comic really stuck out like a sore thumb. I can't tell if it's an oversight, a comment about the challenges of self-hosting, or subtle mockery of self-hosting hypocrisy.

[-] dan@upvote.au 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No one else uses the term "cloud" like that

Broadly, "the cloud" is just someone else's computer. VPSes still fall into that definition. A lot of VPS providers describe themselves as "cloud" now too (eg one of the main hosts I use, HostHatch, describes themselves that way on their site).

If a single AWS EC2 or Lightsail server (which is essentially just a VPS in one region) is considered to be "in the cloud", why not a much cheaper, more powerful server with a different provider?

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[-] DrQuint@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

This counts as discussion of self-hosting.

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[-] korewa@reddthat.com 99 points 1 year ago

I’m in this picture and it’s making me feel uncomfortable

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 47 points 1 year ago

And this is why I love my admin(s) be they human or ai i have no idea how or why but thank you for doing it.

i feel like i am showing up to a garden party in a nice pair of slacks, blazer, and shoes and everyone else is in a mecha

[-] h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev 38 points 1 year ago

insert Thanos stone meme.

We self host an instance to share knowledge about self-hosting that instance.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of early days of Linux.

You should ditch windows and switch to Linux! It has everything!

What I can I do on it?

You can compile your own kernel!

....

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[-] regalia@literature.cafe 37 points 1 year ago

Most self hosting isn't even needed but it sure as hell is satisfying

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[-] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 36 points 1 year ago

This is 100% me but for Lemmy.

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[-] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 34 points 1 year ago

LMAO. So, so true and I have no problem with it. Self-hosted seems to be one of the most active communities on Lemmy. I learn a lot and y’all all seem cool.

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been self-hosting Mastodon for a while and mostly using it to share bird photography, but also to provide comments on a static site. Since Mastodon and Lemmy both speak ActivityPub, those get crossposted to /c/flashlight so Lemmy comments are also included on my site. Federation is cool.

I don't follow many accounts that post Fediverse meta stuff on Mastodon. While I have some interest in the best examples of that content, the only way to attract a broader community is to promote accounts and content appealing to the interests of that broader audience.

[-] dan@upvote.au 12 points 1 year ago

Wow, that comments section is really nice! How did you implement it? Does the site also use ActivityPub and subscribe to the thread?

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[-] Norgur@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

I should docker a Mastodon instance behind my reverse proxy asap!

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[-] Transcriptionist@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription:

A one-panel XKCD-style comic with the title "The Self-Hoster" One character is seated at a computer, talking to a second character standing behind their chair. Character one says: "It took all weekend, but now that I have a Mastodon instance running in Docker behind a reverse proxy with cloud-provided media storage, I can enjoy interacting with a federated network of other users without compromising on privacy or content moderation." Character two replies: "Cool, what kinds of topics does your network discuss?" Character one replies: "Our experiences self-hosting Mastodon instances, mostly."

[I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

The only mistake I see is attributing the work to XKCD.

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[-] angelsomething@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago

Hey why the personal attack.

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Collateral damage can't always be avoided.

[-] admin@leemyalone.org 20 points 1 year ago

Love it. . IMO opinion self hosted instances are the coolest thing about federated social media and it's part of how we will take back the internet from the corporations that have captured it.

[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 19 points 1 year ago

IMO opinion

You know what 'IMO' is an acronym for, right?

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[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meh, it's a hobby. Lots of people talk about their hobbies.

Still a funny comic, though.

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 16 points 1 year ago

Hope that’s mostly a joke.

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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 18 points 1 year ago

Of course it's a joke. We also host other things not just Mastodon. 🙄

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 1 year ago

I was on Lemmy for a month before I realized this was a community about hosting servers, and not the Lemmy equivalent of a self.post from Reddit. 🤦‍♂️

[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
IP Internet Protocol
NAT Network Address Translation
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
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