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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They are laughing at you, not with you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No alt-text makes me sad. Can't be an xkcd without it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

It's not XKCD

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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."

[I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only mistake I see is attributing the work to XKCD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hm, I guess I assumed based on the style. It's an edit? I'm not really sure what to call it then. I've edited my post but if you have any suggestions please let me know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an original work in the style of XKCD

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

The image is a cropped xkcd with the text replaced but the same joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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. 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Most self hosting isn't even needed but it sure as hell is satisfying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

insert Thanos stone meme.

We self host an instance to share knowledge about self-hosting that instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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!

....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Self hosted

Cloud provided media storage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You want to talk about it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I realize that now. Well done!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also did not create this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In that case. It's terrible! I hate it!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you remember what the original was?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is original work. The source is in the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For a generous definition of "original".

Edit: very generous, since it's just new text on the second panel in https://xkcd.com/1269/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny, now it's easy to check for birds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m in this picture and it’s making me feel uncomfortable