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XKCD is amazing.
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.
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.
You're right, but you could say the same about the National Park GIS lookup.
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!"
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/
I’m in this picture and it’s making me feel uncomfortable
And this is why I love my admin(s) be they human or ai i have no idea how or why but thank you for doing it.
i feel like i am showing up to a garden party in a nice pair of slacks, blazer, and shoes and everyone else is in a mecha
insert Thanos stone meme.
We self host an instance to share knowledge about self-hosting that instance.
Reminds me of early days of Linux.
You should ditch windows and switch to Linux! It has everything!
What I can I do on it?
You can compile your own kernel!
....
Most self hosting isn't even needed but it sure as hell is satisfying
LMAO. So, so true and I have no problem with it. Self-hosted seems to be one of the most active communities on Lemmy. I learn a lot and y’all all seem cool.
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.
Wow, that comments section is really nice! How did you implement it? Does the site also use ActivityPub and subscribe to the thread?
Love it. . IMO opinion self hosted instances are the coolest thing about federated social media and it's part of how we will take back the internet from the corporations that have captured it.
IMO opinion
You know what 'IMO' is an acronym for, right?
SMH my head
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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Hey why the personal attack.
Collateral damage can't always be avoided.
Meh, it's a hobby. Lots of people talk about their hobbies.
Still a funny comic, though.
Hope that’s mostly a joke.
Of course it's a joke. We also host other things not just Mastodon. 🙄
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. 🤦♂️
I feel seen.
Privacy compromised!
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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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?
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).
Now I have to self host mastodon to join the party 🥳
I don't host a Mastodon but I can feel this.