I should docker a Mastodon instance behind my reverse proxy asap!
I think you a word.
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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XKCD is amazing.
Do you remember what the original was?
I think it’s https://xkcd.com/1425/
Funny, now it’s easy to check for birds.
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.
We spent the five years training the model. Manually. With Captcha data.
Now we’re teaching it not to run traffic signals, hit motorcycles or busses, or try to drive up stairs.
I’m waiting for the day Google Recaptcha will ask me “is that traffic light red?” and after a couple of seconds “hurry up, I’m approaching the intersection!”
But if my tesla cant go how will hit those last few pedestrian
also fooled by drawings and if it’s shit enough the model will be fooled by text saying “bird”
You’re right, but you could say the same about the National Park GIS lookup.
*yippies in image processing degree
This is original work. The source is in the post.
For a generous definition of “original”.
Edit: very generous, since it’s just new text on the second panel in https://xkcd.com/1269/
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A bit of reverse image searching reveals this was the original XKCD comic (more specifically, the top middle panel): https://xkcd.com/1269/
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.
I realize that now. Well done!
I also did not create this.
In that case. It’s terrible! I hate it!
It’s perfectly adequate, i tolerate it.
Next you’re gonna tell us you don’t even selfhost
What is this I don’t even
🤫
You made this? I made this.
Yup
This sounds complicated, but it’s pretty standard practice and probably a matter of minutes to set up if you have self-hosted other services before. What takes more time is the stuff that’s not standard, like ominous configuration options.
Very easy to set up and almost no work to maintain*
If you, despite knowing better, rarely update your containers and host OS and often think about a list of other important tasks that you have yet to do.
No alt-text makes me sad. Can’t be an xkcd without it.
It’s not XKCD
“Found myself moderating chats about my Mastodon moderation setup.”
They are laughing at you, not with you.
All my life.
Now I have to self host mastodon to join the party 🥳
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.”
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The only mistake I see is attributing the work to XKCD.
Hm, I guess I assumed based on the style. It’s an edit? I’m not really sure what to call it then. I’ve edited my post but if you have any suggestions please let me know.
It’s an original work in the style of XKCD
The image is a cropped xkcd with the text replaced but the same joke.
I don’t host a Mastodon but I can feel this.
I hate googling things and just being lead back to reddit… Where my account was permabanned for “Report Abuse”, something literally not even discussed in their TOS
And they’re not every clear on if I’m allowed to use an alternate account, they just said “If you go onto another account and continue this misbehavior it’ll be banned”, which sounds like I’m allowed to use an alt, but… only if it plays by the rules, but else where I’m seeing that “Ban Evasion” is against the rules, so which is it Jim Jam?
Their stance is that you personally are banned for life from subs regardless of which account. Would be a real shame if your IP got changed between accounts, your cookies and local storage got cleared, and you never mentioned the old account again. You could accidentally post in a sub you got banned from, and they wouldn’t be able to helpfully re-ban you from the sub!
If you were still trying to spend time on reddit in the first place at least.
That’s what my “friend” did. Reddit banned every account he used on his phone at once, but with a different IP, desktop browser, and cookie isolation, they haven’t noticed so far. He might sound like some professional troll, but he was actually banned for a stupid reason.
huh
I genuinely think Reddit might be the worst social media site just cause of the egregious amount of echo chambering. And I’m not even talking about only one side of the political spectrum is on the site, it’s sub-dependent. If you don’t fully agree with anything in a community you run the risk of the ban hammer at the very least in the community and possibly even site-wide. Every single community (and apparently Reddit) has at least one rule that’s vague enough for them to justify removing posts/banning people they don’t like with it. And even worse, everyone on the site thinks they’re the epitome of intelligence cause they’ve been in their circlejerk forever.
tbf I feel like lemmy also has a lot of echo chambering, it’s literally 70% tech nerds and nearly everyone is atheist
The kind of people who mistake their own ass for an air freshener.
I hate googling things and just being lead back to reddit
This is so far my biggest problem med Lemmy and federation in general, all content is not in one place. It was nice just searching for problem x reddit and you found a solution 9/10 times (because you had everything in one place).
That and the Specific Fandoms aren’t here, no FNAF, no Sonic, no Taco Bill, no Mudkips, nothing
Make them
Meh, it’s a hobby. Lots of people talk about their hobbies.
Still a funny comic, though.
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. 🤦♂️
So true
Maybe let’s not suggest that all self-hosting is just container-bros and related struggles?
Wow, gate keeping self hosting. I guess there’s one in every community.
…… am i a container bro?
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.
Mmmmmmmm Emisar… I picked up the DT8 recently and it’s absolutely hilarious. I love it so much.
Wow, that comments section is really nice! How did you implement it? Does the site also use ActivityPub and subscribe to the thread?
It uses the Mastodon API in a client-side script adapted from this one.
