Illecors

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 weeks ago

That is something I've already run into at my previous workplace. The name escapes me atm...

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 21 points 3 weeks ago

Inatances self report these stats. All you have to do is a single db query and all of a sudden you have 100 million MAU.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 33 points 4 weeks ago

There is no AI.

What's sold as an expert is actually a delusional graduate.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My bad. I thought it was only outbound federation that worked, but have now just created a comment and it has been accepted. Carry on!

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

lemmy.zip, unfortunately, blocks traffic from UK, which my instance is located in. I'd be happy to welcome you to lemmy.cafe, though!

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 month ago

There's a wonderful android app called Imagepipe. Does a few things, but stripping exif data is one of them. Workflow is also great!

I realise that won't help against people simply recognising your cat, but it's useful for protection against bots and stuff.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tell me you don't understand what you're talking about without saying you don't understand what you're talking about.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 12 points 1 month ago

Filled in the survey. A few notes:

  • Some of my answers make no sense on the surface - like the "experiment with new technology" block (4 questions). I've answered "Agree" to all of them, because I have taken time into account, which is not represented on the questions. Long story short - I do love experimenting with new tech, I'm almost always the first one to try something among my peers, but at the same I never blindly jump in (I'm hesitant) as most of the "new technology" is just
    • Someone repackaging foss and relabeling it
    • Some LLM bullshit
    • An inferior product to what already exists

There are also scenarios where I have already found something that's the best solution for my case, so I won't even bother looking at something new, even if it might be the best thing since sliced bread for someone else.

  • TIme and effort setting up/maintaining (4 questions). It doesn't take much time nor effort to set anything up now, but it did when I was starting out initially. I knew very little and a bunch of concepts hadn't clicked, yet, so it took me days to set up Nextcloud and about half a year (on and off. Probably a week or so if it were all squeezed together) for email.

  • The performance and intent to use in the future questions are weird - they feel like the same question, just leveling off in intensity. I've selected the same answer for all of them. They probably should've been a single question with agree/disagree options swapped for intensity levels.

Good luck with your PhD!

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I keep trying to interest the little one with GCompris, but all he wants to play is Unravel 🤷‍♂️

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

What's this bear-porridge symbiosis I've been seeing lately?

 

Hey, we own a few thousand of those! Oh, wait...

Might be a long few days coming 😮‍💨

 

There used to be a www-apps/jellyfin, but it is now gone. Anyone heard of a reason?

 

Admittedly, I have a fairly serious bias against Microsoft, so it's unlikely they'll every say much I can trust; but I am genuinely surprised their marketing department didn't even bother coming up with another name to try selling this atrocity.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/general@lemmy.cafe
 

Due to the recent @Soup's post I have decided to do some housekeeping. I've been getting frustrated at lemmy's performance at times as well and this simply was a wake up call, if you will.

I am sorry about no advance downtime annoucement - Sunday is the only day I can really put any meaningful amount of time into lemmy.


Things done today:

  • Upgraded database VM 1 core 2GB -> 2 cores 4GB. Double the compute, double the memory.
  • Adjusted database config to account for increased resources
  • Adjusted hugepages config to account for increased database's requests
  • Updated both lemmy and database VMs
  • Rebooted the lot

Thank you for your patience. I will also use this moment of focus to write up a financial report in a separate post.

Also, thank you, @Soup!


EDIT: I've also marked all instances known to lemmy.cafe as active. What this means is that lemmy.cafe will now keep retrying to federate to everything very aggressively. This is a compute-intensive process and will also impact performance for a few hours, until exponential backoff kicks in. I've done it to revive any falsely-marked-as-dead instances; there's no fix for it on lemmy itself.

 

The company I'm at right now is on this boat as well

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/folderol@lemmy.cafe
 

Archive link

I have finally found an quick and easy write up by somebody on Reddit that worked for me first time!

Dual display on Sway has become much more usable now!

 

Archive link

There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.

 

According to Mehta this kind of connectivity could support 512 GPUs in as few as eight racks, acting as a single scale-up system.

That's a biggin!

 

Despite early promises, moving between providers remains a complex and costly endeavor

Yea, it feels an awful lot like VC funded businesses - they lure you in with low pricing, bankrupt and buy out the competition and then hold you by the balls.

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