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This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far.
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Source by joedeandev
XKCD is amazing.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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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.
Next you’re gonna tell us you don’t even selfhost
What is this I don't even
🤫
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.
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/
So, basically ham radio but with more Kubernetes.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
I was curious and looked up the origins of 'ham'. Apparently it originates from "ham-fisted" describing second-rate morse-code skills of telegraphists before radio was a thing
Interesting. I've originally heard it loosely attributed as a kind of homophone aberration where 'ham' comes from 'hamature'. But maybe it's vice-versa, or that's a corporate line from the organization ARRL Amateur Radio Relay League.
Self hosted
Cloud provided media storage
You want to talk about it?
Don't threaten me with a good time
I’m in this picture and it’s making me feel uncomfortable
Most self hosting isn't even needed but it sure as hell is satisfying
They are laughing at you, not with you.
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. 🤦♂️
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!
....
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?
No alt-text makes me sad. Can't be an xkcd without it.
It's not XKCD
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. 💜]
The only mistake I see is attributing the work to XKCD.
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.
It's an original work in the style of XKCD
The image is a cropped xkcd with the text replaced but the same joke.