The things I paid attention to was

USB3 - you need this otherwise connecting external drives will be a joke Motherboard needs to accept up to 32 GB of RAM. Mine currently has only 8 but knowing I can upgrade is nice.
Quiet - must be silent when idle.
CPUs of less than 8th? gen will suck at video transcoding due to lacking certain capabilities. Important if running jellyfin, etc.

The beauty of self hosting is it’s all about your individual circumstances so you priorities and acceptable tradeoffs will differ.

In 2023 alone, USAID provided assistance to 130 countries, disbursing $71.9 billion in foreign aid – the majority of which was spent on economic development (27 per cent), followed by health (22.3 per cent) and humanitarian assistance (21.7 per cent) to other nations.

Between 2017 and 2020, USAID responded to more than 240 natural disasters and crises around the world – from famines in the Republic of South Sudan to conflict in Afghanistan, Yemen and the Lake Chad basin.

From 2012 to 2017, it supported more than five million survivors of gender-based violence through services including medical care, counselling and legal help. Such care is vital considering that one in three women will experience gender-based violence in their lifetime.

And in 2016 alone, the organisation provided food assistance to more than 53 million people across 47 countries.

https://geographical.co.uk/news/usaid-the-successful-projects-that-changed-lives-around-the-world

https://web.archive.org/web/20201001161549/https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/reports-and-data/key-accomplishments

Video tour of plastic burning tofu factorys here https://youtu.be/WPyRAcdZHDo

It’s hardcore

Rolling stone is selective about who they show the paywall to. I didn’t get it but my gf did. No idea why.

Did you read the article?

Yep, I’ll document it in some way. A FEP seems overkill as it’s really just adding a bit more data onto Actors and Activities, not a big deal.

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

Lemmy users missing out is THE reason they’ll become PieFed users.

I did the DB structure changes at the same time as the ones needed for community flair as they’re quite similar. Might be able to do the rest tomorrow.

Tags, aka hashtags, are instance-wide (not just in a community) and interoperate with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Mbin. Anyone can make a new hashtag and they are completely unmoderated.

Flairs are a limited list determined by each community’s mods and are only used in that community. They will federate with other PieFed instances and with Lemmy (when they finish coding what they’re calling “tags”, a really unfortunate choice of name).

Watch this space.

Lol, rip

You’re going to have to prioritise.

Find changes that:

Save a decent amount of money Are low risk Don’t take too long to do Can be easily backed-out of

There are probably a variety of mindsets that will do it.

For me, I think it was just really wanting to get away from being under the boot. Get away from the walled gardens. Like that feeling after using LinkedIn, except for the OS. Hearing the call of freedom, authenticity and humanity.

Increasing amounts of code running on my computer and in the online services I use will be written by generative AI.

Emphasis added by me.

Thing is, it’s not black and white most of the time - usually a developer is using Gen AI as an assistant in some capacity. There are a wide range of ways to do that with really big differences in how firmly their hand remains on the wheel of where things are going. Only in the most extreme “vibe coding” scenario would it be fair to characterize the code as “written by AI”.

There reaches a point somewhere on the spectrum of dependency on AI where quality would suffer and developer capacity-building would be stunted. Where that point is, is a more productive question than a binary Yes or No to all AI.

“Do you regularly watch videos by Jordan Peterson?” kinda needs to become one of those before-first-date screening questions.

Cool, but now SSH into a remote server and then try to open nano. It doesn’t.

After using it for 3 weeks I concluded that as Kitty breaks the fundamentals all the nice shiny isn’t worth it.

This idea is quite similar to what Bluesky is doing, with “Labels” https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation.

We’d need some way to crowdsource the verification and validity of the labels so people can’t just put low-quality or abusive labels everywhere.

It could potentially reduce the amount of work moderators need to do because spam would be labelled as such by anyone and if a few others also label it the same then it would reach a threshold where the label becomes active.

Does anyone have experience with this way of moderating content on Bluesky? How well does it work in practice?

That was more interesting than 18 downvotes. Thanks!

It is against the Geneva Convention to use POWs for propaganda.

Imagine you want to write a competitor to PostgreSQL and you start out by importing SQLite into your project and building on top of that. To you it seems like a good idea because you’ve never written a DB app before and the only DB you’ve ever seen before is SQLite. You’ll get a prototype real fast but you’ll never build a PostgreSQL equivalent because you never learned the foundational knowledge of how a DB works and because SQLite forecloses all the pathways you need to get there.

Same thing.