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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the simplest, cheapest way to have a platform where I can post anything I want without being banned?English
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    2 days ago

    You could host your own Lemmy instance. Other instances could defederate from you, but they couldn’t stop you from posting whatever you wanted on your own instance.

    Any option to prevent others from taking something you want to post online down is going to require you to run or host it yourself. But then you’re still beholden to the DNS company, hosting company, and the payment processor for how you pay for it all.

    There are apparently ways to pay for your hosting through anonymous crypto, and ways to route the connection between your hardware and the open Internet in private ways, and even private DNS services.

    Ultimately, this all depends on what your risk profile is, how what you want to post runs foul of the rules elsewhere, how much you’re willing to spend on this, etc.

    You could look into the tech stack and services other controversial sites are relying on, like what PirateBay or 4chan use.

    “How private?” “How censorship resistant?”

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.zip•Windows 11 Copilot now tells you what’s slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itselfEnglish
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    5 days ago

    But that’s kind of my point. 8GB was a good amount of RAM for heavy use with Windows a decade ago. It’s unfortunate with the current costs of RAM, but 16GB is kind of the floor for modern computing with Windows.

    I know the struggle. Around a decade ago I took an Android programming course. I was using a laptop on Windows 7 with only 8GB of RAM. It was fine for most of my other courses and for the light gaming I did on it, as long as I didn’t have much else open. But Android development uses Android Studio. A Java IDE built in Java as IntelliJ, with a whole bunch of awesome but RAM guzzling features. Then Google strapped all their additional Android shit on top. Then to test the app you made, you were supposed to run an Android emulator that used at least 4GB of RAM.

    I ended up having to borrow someone’s old Android phone for testing, and I had to use another program to shut off all other programs and Windows Services while I worked. And saved up, and upgraded to 16GB of RAM, because it’s what I needed for how I was using my machine.

    It sucks. Developers, especially those making shit built into an OS, need to be far more aware of the resources their programs use and optimize better.

    But at the end of the day our options are limited and we have to accept the changing times.

    Or work around them. There are plenty of flavors of Linux if you need something lighter, or options to strip down Windows like tiny11 or Windows Ameliorated for 10.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.zip•Windows 11 Copilot now tells you what’s slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itselfEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Yep, plus, who is running Windows on a machine where 1GB of RAM is precious?

    My work laptop has 16GB. It runs the full suite of Microsoft bloat (CoPilot, Teams, Edge, OneDrive) plus various antivirus and work security/monitoring tools constantly. I usually also have Outlook open, ~5 active tabs in Edge (with up to 20 inactive), an RDP session going, Excel, VSCode (often with long running scripts going), OneNote, Notepad++, and either YouTube for music or a teams meeting with video.

    I’ve never had to close anything for the sake of performance except when I was installing a big program, doing a deep search through tens of thousands of files using very inefficient PowerShell code, while having all the rest open.

    I’m not saying CoPilot using a gig of RAM at rest is OK, I’m just saying it’s not the huge performance impact being implied.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtobadposting@hexbear.net•What's up chat? It's me, your boy Anubis. Today we're gonna be doing a rare twofer senatorial soul unboxingEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Love to see old gods adapting to the times. But bro, when was somebody going to tell me Aphrodite and Nefirtiti had OnlyFans? And they collabed!

    More seriously, I love this sort of shit in fiction.

    Lots of words about a few books that do this

    • Douglas Adams’s Long Dark Teatime of the Soul covers (among other things) just how hard it would be for immortal beings to try and survive in modern bureaucracy. Try getting a photo ID, social security card, passport, etc when you have no birth certificate. Then try getting a job, bank account, etc. He uses it as the most fun twist on homelessness I’ve seen, which is to say it’s still quite emotionally dark, but sometimes they turn into an eagle or destroy something with lightning.

    • If you can pirate it or buy it used, and can put aside the author’s transgressions, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is an interesting one as well. Lots of different takes on how different gods have and haven’t adapted to modern life.

    • My favorite though is probably Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series. MC is intentionally kind of a chauvinist, out of trying to protect women due to past trauma of thinking he’s responsible for the death of his first love, so you do have to put up with that.

      • But back to the point it treats godhood as a sort of mantle that can be taken up by carefully embodiment of what the particular role stands for. And if you are made into a god through other means, the mantle will generally change you to be more like the role over time for better or worse, unless you have a strong enough will to change what people think the title represents by your own actions.
      • Plus, a lot of these “roles” are actually being covered by the same people. It’s not entirely clear if they’ve always been three different gods/mythological figures, if they took up the job over time as a power play, or took it to keep the balance of things.
      • The rulers of the Winter Court of the Fae are also the Greek fates, Odin runs a security company employing all of the creatures that he rules over. He also moonlights as Santa, and the leader of the Fae’s Wild Hunt. The first “classic” transforming and blood sucking vampire was originally an Aztec god.