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[–] cole 2 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry, this is naive.

You may have voted for a pedophile and you just don't know it yet.

People's true colors are not always so readily apparent

[–] cole 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

that's a very black and white view of things but real life isn't so pretty.

some people are intentionally misled or just not informed enough.

you alienate people by assuming they're racist when they're often not. I mean, it's a choice. but it's not gonna win you an election and I don't think it'll move the US forward.

[–] cole 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I really think it isn't fair to generalize all rednecks as racist. I grew up in Kentucky and that definitely isn't how it is.

There's 3 types of rednecks:

  • Not racist
  • Ignorant but welcoming (they may say something questionable, but only because they don't know better and will apologize)
  • Racist.

I think most I've met have been #1 or #2. If you ostracize a large portion of the population, of course they aren't going to be on your side

[–] cole 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

the tank has a giant gas turbine why do you need a battery

[–] cole 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

sounds like you want a miata

[–] cole 1 points 1 week ago

It's not an intentional snub, I just answered this question in a different reply.

I don't know with enough certainty to list out all the issues, but the biggest one that sticks out to me is information control.

The government restricts citizens access to the Internet (among other things). I have talked to people from Russia, people from China, etc online. But I have never talked to someone from North Korea and that is a pretty big red flag for me.

I pretty strongly believe that anybody who tries to control the flow of information amongst supposedly free people is not a "good guy". Yes, this includes the United States, UK, China, etc. Many do so to some extent and I am against all of them for that.

But, none so draconian seeming as the DPRK.

[–] cole 1 points 1 week ago

sure, go for it.

although I think it's pretty obvious that it's not comparable here.

it's called the Korean peninsula. One country is on the north, one is on the south. pretty hard to argue that North Korea and South Korea don't logically follow from that.

[–] cole 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not ok with being called racist. I'm sorry that you think I should just sit and take that but that's ridiculous. You have no right.

The burden of proof lies on you for making an extraordinary claim without evidence.

[–] cole 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You stated that employers can use cell towers to track your phone.

This is not true. If my employer pays for my cell phone service then it is not "their" phone. It is mine because I still own the device.

Moreover, they do not directly pay for my cell service. Instead, I am reimbursed monthly.

They do not have any special permissions or legal basis they would not otherwise have by doing this.

And yes, I have read my contract (you should too!)

[–] cole 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's cool to use this to discount my personal direct experience but I don't think it's a strong counter.

Dating somebody typically means you get to know them and their cultural background really really well. It's extremely relevant here whether you like that or want to discount it

[–] cole 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

you're gonna have to cite some sources here because I don't think there is actually a legal requirement for these things.

the work apps require Internet access to even open and the contents are encrypted. this has all been figured out

[–] cole 3 points 1 week ago

that's fair, actually. I'll avoid it in the future.

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Recent Slowdowns (self.lemdroid)
submitted 3 months ago by cole to c/lemdroid
 

Hi! I know lemdro.id has been a bit slower than usual lately. I'm working to move us to totally dedicated hardware to mitigate this.

Expect early January, although I will make efforts to speed us up on our existing hosting provider.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by cole to c/birding@lemmy.world
 

Captured these beauties near Olympic National Park

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by cole to c/lemdroid
 

Retrieval of most pictures seems to not be currently working. I am still attempting to understand and resolve this.

Edit: This has been fixed

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Maintenance Tonight (self.lemdroid)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cole to c/lemdroid
 

UPDATE DAY 2: backend has successfully been migrated onto new dedicated hosting after some pain. there should not be major downtime from here on. tomorrow I will be working on integrating a better backup solution and then I'll leave it alone for a little while.

UPDATE: I was able to deploy the database onto dedicated server hardware tonight, but have not finished moving over the other components I wanted to. You may notice a performance degradation due to increased database-backend latency (...or maybe it will just be better anyways, lol).

I will finish off work on this tomorrow!

Lemdro.id has been struggling with some performance issues lately, as you've likely noticed. This is due to changes made by our hosting provider that causes the database to run much slower. Tonight at 10pm PST, I will be putting lemdro.id into maintenance mode to migrate some parts of the infrastructure to a new dedicated server.

Thanks for your patience!

 

Hey all! I've done a lot of database maintenance work lately and other things to make lemdro.id better. Wanted to give a quick update on what's up and ask for feedback.

For awhile, we were quite a ways behind lemmy.world federation (along with many other instances) due to a technical limitation in lemmy itself that is being worked on. I ended up writing a custom federation buffer that allowed us to process activities more consistently and am happy to say that we are fully caught up with LW and will not have that problem again!

Additionally, on the database side of things, I've setup barman in the cluster to allow for point of time backups. Basically, we can now restore the database to any arbitrary point in time. This is on top of periodic automatic backups which also gets pulled to storage both on my personal NAS as well as a Backblaze bucket (both encrypted of course).

Today, I deployed a new frontend at https://next.lemdro.id. This one is very early stages and experimental but is being developed by https://lemm.ee and seems promising!

If you live outside of the US and experience consistently long load times I want to hear from you! I am deploying the first read replica node to Europe soon, so if you live in that region you'll soon notice near-instaneous loading of content. Very exciting!

Finally, looking for feedback. Is there anything you want to see changed? Please let me know!

 

Google today announced a handful of wearable and navigation updates, starting with public transit directions in Google Maps for Wear OS.

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submitted 2 years ago by cole to c/android
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10370094

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole to c/lemdroid
 

I am rolling out the Photon UI as a replacement to the default lemmy UI right now. Initially, only about 50% of requests will be routed to Photon, determined by a hash of your IP address and user agent (sorry for any inconsistencies...). As I determine that this configuration is stable I will be slowly increasing the percentage until Photon is the new default frontend for lemdro.id.

If you have any difficulties, please reach out. Additionally, the "old" lemmy frontend will remain available at https://l.lemdro.id

Edit: I am aware of some problems with l.lemdro.id. It wasn't designed to run on a subdomain so I'll need to add a proxy layer to it to redirect requests. A task for tomorrow!

FINAL EDIT: https://l.lemdro.id is now fully operational, if you choose to use the old lemmy UI it is available there

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submitted 2 years ago by cole to c/lemdroid
 

Over the course of the last couple weeks, I managed to root cause and solve the problem causing stale sorting on lemdro.id. My apologies!

 

We typically like Pixel phones a lot, but we have some reservations about Google's quality control

 

Google Maps is changing with pretty significant redesigns across key surfaces, including when searching for directions...

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