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bionicjoey, (edited ) in What groups you are unwillingly associated with? How you handle it?

I’ve been called a tanky, neolib, fascist, radfem, misogynist, racist, “woke”, republican, Democrat, religious nutjob, and militant athiest over my time on Reddit and I wouldn’t really agree with any of those descriptors lol. People just assume that if you have an even remotely nuanced opinion on a topic then you must belong to the “other side”. I don’t really care most of the time. I know what I believe and I don’t let it be defined by tribalism.

phillaholic, (edited )

That’s a wide spectrum of associations. Have you ever considered you may be bad at articulating your views?

bionicjoey,

More like interactions would play out thusly:

Them: All X is Y

Me: hmm, it may not be helpful to paint with such a broad brush. Sometimes X isn’t Y. (Gives example)

Them: wow, sounds like something a (insert opposing tribe here) would say.

Basically, this

phillaholic,

Using that as an example, if you spend a lot of most of your time let’s say defending little details about bad people it can come off as someone muddying the waters on purpose to downplay the awful things they do.

Or maybe your just on some shitty subs full of dumb people 🤷‍♂️

bionicjoey,

You’re assuming I spend my time defending bad people, which I don’t do. I just use critical thinking and point out logical fallacies. I believe fallacies are always bad, even if they support a position I agree with.

phillaholic,

That’s exactly what I’m talking about. If a lot of your comments are pointing out logical fallacies against bad people then it looks like you’re muddying the waters. For example pointing out logic fallacies in arguments against conservatives but not doing the same against liberals wouldn’t make you wrong outright, but you’d be wrong by omission.

NightAuthor,

I bet you even try to “just ask questions” too… disgusting.

weeeeum,

Haha as well. I’ve been called chauvinist, fascist and other words associated with the super far right, even though I’m center left on the compass. It’s impressive how utterly extinct nuance is in social media and traditional news.

HubertManne,
@HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

I feel for you here. I think of myself as left of center but it is funny how much one side or the other treats the center like the hardest core of the other end. Its funny because I way back when I had started at a catholic college where I seemed waaayyy left but then transfered to the state school where I seemed centerist or at best kinda left and if you compared me to the school population then right of center. I did find the liberal state school seemed to have more of self awareness that the environment was skewed left whereas the catholic institution viewed itself as more center.

tal, (edited ) in When will video support be added to Lemmy?
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

You can link to videos if you want. I don’t think that lemmy or kbin instances will likely provide free hosting for them, though.

There is a Fediverse service that provides video hosting, PeerTube.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

I’m skeptical that it will scale – it costs to host video – but it’s there. You can host something on any PeerTube host willing to serve your content and link to it from the Threadiverse, same as you could on YouTube.

joinpeertube.org

EDIT: For a list of nearby instances:

peertube.fediverse.observer

Valmond, (edited )

For the scaling, isn’t that mostly for those high availability / high demand content creators?

I mean, for me, Lemmy is a place where you interact, create, discuss. Not a platform where a select few have millions of “followers”?

So I think that bandwidth cost can be not that high for “enthusiast” servers.

Also, say you post a crazy viral video on my poor server, well people could(I know it doesn’t work that way automatically today) re-post it elsewhere because they like it and see that it’s just not available on my lil server because the hug of death.

Maybe information wants to be free, and if we share things on the internet, we shouldn’t think we had a right to control it any more. I mean is there a law against to create something being inspired by something else?

A bit like when you say something interesting to someone, and they repeat it to their friends, and they do the same and so on.

Sorry about the rant, it’s just a rant, not anything against you!, thanks for the information you provide.

I’ll try hosting video on my ~700Mb up line (IIRC) to see how it works if I get the howtos.

Cheers Lemmings :-)

tal, (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

I’ll try hosting video on my ~700Mb up line (IIRC) to see how it works if I get the howtos.

It looks like that if you set up a lemmy instance, there’s an upload size cap for things that people can attach.

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3349

If you set that to some insane number, I imagine that people can upload large stuff, and as I note below, at least webm files seem to be doable right now on lemmy.world (just that the lemmy.world size cap is going to keep someone from uploading anything of meaningful size). I’d imagine that if you lift that cap to whatever you want – if you want full-length movies, then probably a couple of gigabytes – the users of your instance should be able to upload. They’d click on “image” rather than “movie”, but…shrugs

The Lemmy Web UI isn’t really designed for huge uploads, doesn’t show a progress bar, so it’s probably not going to provide the best user experience, but I’d expect that it’ll work.

If you don’t want to run a lemmy instance, but do want to permit people to just anonymously upload files that they can link to on other lemmy instances, then while I don’t have a particular example ready to hand, I’m sure that there are no shortage of web-based “dropbox” systems that let one upload and then serve files. Just have people reference the file’s URL the way they would anything else.

If you want to run a PeerTube instance, which is aimed at fediverse video sharing, then I’d look at their docs. I’ve never set one up, but I’m sure that they have some kind of documentation.

Slow,

I would like to add that we are talking primarily about the ability to insert a direct link with a video located on a third-party service. To do this, you need to display previews/thumbnails, which are not available now.

I may be wrong, but I don’t think it will require a lot of additional resources.

Ironfist, in What salary do you think would make you happy?

around three fiddy

Tarquinn2049, in What physical features do you find attractive on a person that would be considered unattractive by your culture's beauty standards?

Natural eyebrows and hairline. Actually most body hair on females is nowhere near as bad as my “culture” treats it. The few things I might happen to agree with are far outweighed by her feeling more comfortable in her own body. I understand special cases like PCOS and stuff like that, but for the most part in my opinion, most women are encouraged to go too far with hair removal.

Asidonhopo, in What physical features do you find attractive on a person that would be considered unattractive by your culture's beauty standards?

I’ve always found blemishes on the skin to be attractive for some reason. Like it shows their humanity or something.

PlzGivHugs, in What physical features do you find attractive on a person that would be considered unattractive by your culture's beauty standards?

Not being super skinny. I know thats broad, but when 99% of models and actresses are just similar looking skinny white women…

ZombiFrancis, in Which carbonated soft drink is the best?

The discontinued Hansen’s Soda Lemon Mint Green Tea soda. I near bought the whole pallet when it showed up at an outlet grocery store over the course of a summer after college.

Fuck I sound old.

solitaire, in What physical features do you find attractive on a person that would be considered unattractive by your culture's beauty standards?
@solitaire@infosec.pub avatar

For women: I like women a bit older than me, I like plus sized women, I like slightly deeper voices, I like flat women, I like a chubby uhhh “mons pubis”, I like muscle women, I like pubic hair. There are so many, often contradictory, things I like that are broadly considered imperfections. Frankly, I just like women who aren’t the typical beauty standard.

For men: I like anything that softens them, makes them seem less aggressive. Some of these are pretty common (e.g., “twinks”) but I also like chubby men, short men, long hair and so on. It’s less broad than things I’m into with women and has a definite reason rather than being a seemingly random assortment of things.

That’s just physically as well. Wealth is a turn off, being really into fitness is a turn off, overly ambitious is a turn off (particularly for work). I like cozy introverts who just want to be content with life.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks, in What is best left unfinished?

That second pizza.

Pea666,

Quitter

captainlezbian, in What physical features do you find attractive on a person that would be considered unattractive by your culture's beauty standards?

I like older women, like middle aged

blazeknave, in What experience crushed your soul?

Childhood and adulthood

Kolanaki, in What is best left unfinished?
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Cookies.

Just gimme the dough 🤤

9715698,

This this same vein, baking cookies. Leaving them half baked and slightly raw in the middle is better than baking them through.

Toes, in What physical features do you find attractive on a person that would be considered unattractive by your culture's beauty standards?

I like small mousy looking people with big ears.

neanderthal, in What are some good questions to ask your boss during your yearly review?

20 year IT veteran here. What are your areas of interest?

Some potential areas:

  • Networking
  • AV
  • End Points (PCs, phones, etc)
  • Security
  • Virtualization
  • Programming
  • Servers
  • Applications
  • Databases
  • Storage
  • Project Management
  • Systems Analysis
LaunchesKayaks,
@LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

I am interested in literally everything. I wanna learn more server stuff and phone systems especially. I am last in line to learn phones though. I do a lot of basic stuff with most of the things you’ve listed, though. I’m currently trying to fix the backups on a client’s server and I’m actually making progress on my own.

neanderthal,

So you want to advance to a higher level and have a broad interests?

You failed some MS cert exam?

You have a review coming up?


Broad interests. Don’t miss the forest for the trees. Learn core concepts and things that are useful in many contexts rather than specifics. This is where a lot of newbies go wrong. E.g. don’t learn about AD, learn LDAP and AD, OpenLDAP, DS389, will all come much easier. In most roles some basic programming with Python will come in handy. Once you learn to write code in one language, learning others comes a lot faster. Some worthwhile things to have a foundational grasp of: PKI and how it is used by SSH and TLS, a high level understanding of common network protocols. Peruse IETF RFCs for that. E.g. if you know how say DNS works, you can manage it using any DNS server software. Ditto http and web servers. You will need to learn configuration management SW and monitoring SW. I prefer salt stack and zabbix. There are many good choices.

Seriously learn PKI and TLS. I can recommend some good sources. TLS is used by pretty much everything to secure connections. Backup server to agent, browser to web server, AV to server, you name it.

Open Source is your friend, learn a bit about big projects. E.g. say you get good with backups and want to work for your favorite product vendor. That fancy backup appliance or cloud service is probably running Linux or FreeBSD on the metal and using something like Tomcat for the WebUI.

Learn a bit about licensing models. You will have to deal with it no matter what path you choose.

I wouldn’t try to impress your supervisor. Chances are, they’ll see through it. They may or may not care about their employees. Assume they don’t. Don’t assume the worst either. You can almost always trust interests. Their job in an MSP environment is to make sure contractual requirements are met and clients are happy. Focus on where your interests are aligned. Happy clients mean less headaches for you and your boss. I would let them lead the conversation, but focus on that aspect. If a lot of clients use X thing, mention that to your boss that you want to learn more about X thing as it will help you close tickets faster.

shalafi,

Solid! This reads like old-school wisdom from /r/sysadmin. Those folks really helped me kick start my career.

Pat_Riot, in What physical features do you find attractive on a person that would be considered unattractive by your culture's beauty standards?
@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today avatar

I like curvy/chubby women. I’m particularly turned on by a bit of a tummy.

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