Thanks for the post, it persuaded me to get off my bottom and add another one to the list.

I’m not sure if there is a way to quickly find this. The best bet is probably trying the bigger instances, and seeing if it’s accessible through them.

You’ve made me think now: it might be a nice project for a some instance admins to flag when an instance they had received posts from goes offline. (I should probably check what I have from feddit.de!)

For components and wires that are made to a spec, I feel far more comfortable buying from CPC or Mouser.
Amazon sellers just feel like a coin flip if the guy is going to ship you CCA 24 AWG instead of OFC 23, in the hope you don’t notice or bother complaining.

Yes. It’s a legitimate inserted banner that goes on every inbound. It just blew my mind a bit that the correct action was to click a link in an email!

This is the thing, the balance of anonymity and preventing people using that anonymity to be a tit.
In my opinion, one of the answers is keeping the signal-to-noise high: Make sure that there are enough sensible people in a community that if someone starts acting up, they’re alone. And then they can either correct their course, or get banned, ideally before the next moron shows up.

And part of the way of achieving that is raising the barrier to sign-up, if only a little, and rate limiting.

Just for context, the full database of feddit.uk compresses down to about 4GB. I am not sure what’s going to happen to the ghosts long term, but I don’t think storage will be a huge issue.

And the shoe will probably drop at some point. Something like “communities must have nitro to access posts from more than 6 months ago”.

Or that 50% of the users on the discord only went there to find one thing, and probably won’t ever interact again.
So it looks like a bigger community, while losing accessibility.

Why Discord took off as a medium to replace forums is beyond me

My theory is that it was used as the primary form of informal communication by groups doing something, then it felt like a community.
And since everyone was there…Why not put the documentation there? Sure, it’s not indexable, but the group is open-sign-up, right? Right?

Then a few years down the line, someone suggests switching to another primary storage location…Then faces huge amounts of push-back from people comfy sitting on discord.

I can absolutely see that happening in vsphere.

The local cats love the grease trap.

Also not helped by gammons migrating to the sunnier bits of europe, then talking about how GB news has it right.
So people in european countries get Barry, 60, as their reference for UK media, making it look more legitimate.

What’s even more crazy, is Adobe has a system called something like “docusign”, where you can just fill the document in in-browser.

I’m fortunate that I haven’t yet hit a form I couldn’t just edit in GIMP!

I’m just going to bump this: The deadline to register is 11:59 on Tuesday the 18th.

If you are not yet registered, you have less than 35 hours to do so.

I emailed my IT team when I saw something suspect (which was a phish test), and they said “good job, but in the future click the link we insert in the email body to report”

Hmm…actually, I’d rather not click anything in a dodgy email, thanks.

We took about 34 hours, iirc.

Flamingos handled it (which was so appreciated), and it was run on a lot of threads.

Let us know if you want to check anything.

I half expected it to say “by closing inheritance tax loopholes prior to Edmund Bridgerton’s death”.

I was planning to keep bees, until someone informed me that honey bees outcompete native bumbles.

And I fucking love bumbles.

So now I’m modifying the garden to be bumble friendly, and living without enormous amounts of honey.

It depends on the version of atmos.

Full fat cinema atmos can scale to (iirc) 512 channels. (Things may have changed since I last was involved!)

In that case, it’s a 7.1 bed, and all the other channels are effectively coordinates in the room, and the processor steers objects between them in real time, rather than having defined tracks.

Man, the early poster draft for My Neighbour Totoro sure was something.