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i love spreading misinformation (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Years later, I looked at my wedding party of six groomsmen and realized that every single one of them had, like me, grown up in a small Ohio town before leaving for Ohio State. To a man, all of them had found that couches coud satisfy them more than a women ever could, and that books are really just zipped HTML, and nobody really checks PGP signatures.

Okay, *You* Can Stay in c/tumblr@lemmy.world

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 months ago

Someone should start selling balloons at his rallies.

monster high rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago

Can confirm, got halfway wrecked in my upper div statistics midterm during COVID. 24 hours, open everything. Even the Internet can't replace real understanding.

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Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Why couldn't this call be an email? Why would you call, when you know that you are near indistinguishable from spam calls about Microsoft services and Nigerian princes?

2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 4 months ago

The problem is usability for non power users. As a server environment nothing beats it but man the UI on these apps have some horrendous defaults and the CLI is everywhere. KDE still can't get rounded corners right.

How to protect yourself from big corpo in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago

Don't forget acorn posting!

Extensions list removed for Tachiyomi in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 8 months ago

Fresh install, it works! Extensions are required to be "trusted" but other than that everything seems to be in the same place.

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important edit (i.imgur.com)

submitted 10 months ago by abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Wikipedia Edit November 30, 2:04 "changed is to was"

Totally logical and expected functionality in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 11 months ago

Go into grub and set intel_idle.max_cstate=1 if you want it to be elegant. Had the same problem. AMD didn't implement proper sleep states. There's an open PR ranting about interconnect issues somewhere if I can find it.

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35 million hot dogs rule (i.imgur.com)

submitted 11 months ago by abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Alt: a picture of a running skeleton

Text: Just Stop Serving Requests - you can close the socket!!! slowloris, denial of service, ulimit exaustion, slashdot, hacker news, corey quinn, hot dogs. If it sucks... hit da bricks!! Real winners quit - dasharez0ne

TING-TING-TING-TING-TING-TING-TING-TING-TING-rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

goes ting

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call the AI stronk[r]ulence (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Image : boy in suit with thousand yard stare Text [misspelled and garbled]: dropped in another world but I've been turned into starter town

One is not a mango rule. in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

One of these mangos bites back

Bug Fact rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/88300/if-fx-is-continuous-on-a-b-and-m-max-fx-is-m-lim-limits-n

Not a theorem really just homework problems

ruullleeee in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

7.5/10 not Shawshank Redemption, but if you've got time, it won't be a waste IMO. The story covers a lot of ground regarding gender identity and what it means to be perceived as 'good'. Keep in mind that when the source material was written, gay marriage was still illegal in US.

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ruullleeee (64.media.tumblr.com)

submitted 1 year ago by abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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ALT: A redraw of Eminem tossing a hamster at the viewer to Ballister throwing Nimona. Caption: Woe, Nimona be upon ye.

From beepbeepemma27 on Tumblr

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ruli-moto (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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VERY IMPORTANT POLL RESULTS: STAYING ON BLAHAJ.ZONE!!! (THANK GOODNESS) in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

I vote stay.

While the Fediverse is built to be decentralized, social networks rely on network effects. People gather where other people are. There will always be 'winners' and 'losers' in building an instance, or even making an alternative 196. c/196 f/196, c/195, fedi196.gay, ect. The original started out with over half a million members, small by Reddit standards. We're the largest alternative around, and we got less than 10k.

Administering an entire instance for one community seems like overkill, especially when there is a path forward to reducing costs significantly.

Also I like the vibes here.

But if you are concerned with server costs...

The existing plan should take care of the significant majority of costs. AWS charges out the ass for data egress, and while I don't know the billing specifics, this instance moves roughly 1TB a day, and the majority of it is static images by virtue of well, images. It was mentioned that this covers half of existing costs upwards of 1-2k. So whats the obvious solution? Don't use AWS for storage or transfer.

Cloudflare and a significant chunk of other providers are part of something called the Bandwidth Alliance (which AWS declined to be a part of) and most importantly, these providers offer S3 compatible object storage without data egress fees. Lemmy uses something called pict-rs; on default settings, uses local storage that has to be part of the VPS that you rent. Enabling object storage allows you to move storage away from the VPS itself and onto a different provider - one that does not charge data egress fees. (Easy money? idk) Ideally, you also get edge caching as a bonus.

So what about the data transfer not associated with images and can't be easily remedied? Different VPS providers have different benefits. Digital Oceans lets you customize your VPS to the Nth degree, Hertzner offers up to 20TB of transfer with it's VPS offerings. While I can't vouch for them myself, that should be enough to cover a whatever other thumbnails and other data that can't be shoved into object storage. Either way, still cheaper than AWS.

As for AWS load balancing, uhhhhh standard nginx/apache config? I've only used nginx as a reverse proxy but I'm not paying for it.

Not touching DB management with a 10 foot pole

TLDR: AWS is great for small projects and my relatives drooling over A40's but they charge for egress, and other QoL services that typically get used by companies with deep pockets.

The seriouspost state of the union. (aka what do we do now?) PLEASE READ. in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 year ago

I mean, I like it here.

old 196 is reopening -> most likely less traffic
AWS is really expensive apparently, mostly image and transfer

Text is cheap to serve, but images (and video) are a PAIN. If a significant chunk of expense can be mitigated if I use Imgur or some other service and link my silly memes rather than direct upload then yeah sure, but moving the community around tends to lose people.