A tool for wiping free RAM space offers several benefits, particularly for enhancing security, system stability, and performance

What?

The chorus of people who just now learned something new and were so excited they left a comment is absolutely wonderful.

I like how everyone else is saying, “Oh sweet! Look at this thing I just learned today!”

And then this guy is over here with “Well aktually espresso is totally different from drip coffee and so this totally unrelated thing Wikipedia was saying is all wrong I’m so smart.”

I think Lemmy needs some kind of daily “smart person contest” to draw off the energy that otherwise gets spent on trying to find someone to prove wrong in the comments at the expense of everything else. Lord knows, I need one of those too.

I’ve been trying to limit my election posting to the explicitly politics communities. I think that by blocking all of them, the non US people can hopefully keep the election chatter down to at least a dull roar, although I realize a lot of it is also spilling out into everywhere.

You folks have my sympathy, in other words. Hopefully in a week or so, we won’t need yours.

All sounds reasonable. I think I just had an instant eye-roll reaction to the crack about “shitty admins” as the reason for your unusual configuration and making me do extra work to talk with you, and decided not to bother. But sure, if you want to talk with me I’ve got nothing against it.

Borg borg borg

You can combine it with a FUSE mount of the Google Drive, I’m not sure if that works but I don’t see why it wouldn’t.

How long did you wait? Sometimes it takes some time for things to get federated.

As long as someone is subscribed to it from your home instance, it should get there, though.

Edit: A word

If they link directly to {instance}/c/{community} but not to !{community}@{instance} it can chime in with that second thing.

Most people link to something, but they don’t always link to the thing that works everywhere.

There should be a bot.

Actually, do you want me to make a bot? It wouldn’t be hard.

!lemmy_check@lemmy.world

Somebody pointed out that when he does that weird jumping thing he’s started doing in stage appearances, he’s sticking his arms and legs all straight out spread apart, like he’s trying to make an X with his body.

I don’t know if that’s his goal, but a lot of people are saying it.

It is an an immune system against the normies.

I am dead serious. I think it’s a good idea. It won’t last forever before they think it’s cool and start adopting it, but it’ll work for a while.

Fifty four THOUSAND dollars?

Are you high?

A lot of Lemmy mods, especially on Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world, see themselves as arbiters of what people are and aren’t allowed to say.

It’s very weird. It is the Reddit model that they’ve inherited, and you can avoid it to a certain extent by just avoiding those communities and instances that tend to do things that way. But I think at the end of the day that this model of moderation is simply always going to have this failure mode attached to it. It’s a silly thing for anyone to agree to who is an adult who can speak their mind unmonitored by a chaperone who is approving or banning each message like some sort of schoolmarm overseeing the class discussion and ordering someone out if they get out of line. We only put up with it because most mods are fine, the damage is slight most of the time, and it’s hard to find an alternative.

I wrote more on the topic in this exact community a while back if you want to read. I plan to write up a part 2 which includes some guesses for what could be done about it. If you want, I can send you a note when it’s written.

They’re not allowed to be collaborating with people who work for certain Russian companies. It’s not a question of security, it’s a question of US law requiring US entities to punish through non-cooperation certain companies that are assisting in the war effort or whatever.

It might or might not be fair, but it isn’t up to the kernel developers, it’s a legal requirement for them.

Hey guys we’re going to blow up the maternity hospital and shell the nuclear plant: I sleep

You can’t work on your software project anymore: REAL SHIT

Because cheaper. And now, I know why.

Any man who must say, “I am hilarious,” is no true hilarious.

It’s basic economics in its ugly application.

Usually, the people who are buying stuff come in different tiers: The people who want to pay the least at all cost, people who are careless enough to get fleeced out of a few dollars for the same crappy product if paying less is difficult, and people who are willing to pay a premium for really good stuff. There’s an art to structuring your service to catch all of the tiers, and make sure that they’re all going to pay the highest price they will accept, and I think “basic economy” is a new technological development in drawing a more effective distinction between tiers 1 and 2.

What makes it ugly is that they’re designing deliberately punitive features into the service to push people up into tier 2 who would otherwise be going on Kayak and just clicking the “cheapest” button. If you have any willingness to pay $40 more, they want it. They’re going to put you to the test a little bit, to make sure that you’re committed to the lowest price, and then if so they’re going to punish you a little for it, while still taking your money.

American and United are now both on the no-fly list for me, I think. I may have to see what airlines are decent, when you fly them one tier up.

Preemptive defederation, along the same lines as, “You can’t fire me, I quit!”?

I’m just trying to wrap my head around it. I’m was asking because another of their communities is coming up for posting in my community tool. Thanks for the link.

We’re not federated because it’s just too much drama and not enough reward. There are too many instances, many of them inactive, lots of people uploading sketchy shit which federates across, it’s impossible to keep tabs on everything and lots of resources go into hosting that bloat which nobody here would care about. Fediverse politics are also cancer and every shitty admin thinks they’re important somehow.

I’m not opposed to federating selectively, with your instance for example. I mostly care about knowing that you actively admin it and I don’t have to worry about dodgy content making its way across here - if that’s the case and you’re keen, let me know.

My God.

Since they’ve decided I’m a shitty admin, I’ve instructed the community posting tool to skip over their stuff, and I consider the matter closed. I wish them luck.