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  • Pages represent web pages, whereas notes represent “a short written work typically less than a single paragraph in length”. In my opinion, using Page was a mistake on Lemmy’s end. Just like Lemmy won’t support Place objects, I’m not sure if any other platform will ever support Page objects, because Pages are much bigger in scope than anything most Fediverse applications ever deal with.

    Using note was the mistake. Limiting communication to short quips, like Twitter does, is a fucking travesty. The fact that people routinely and often make multiple tweets to extend what they want to say proves this point. Twitter/X was the worst thing to happen to communication in the internet age by further reducing the attention span and ability of people to concentrate on longer bodies of writing, thereby making people even dumber.

    Twitter/Mastodon should not even be a thing, honestly. They are dumb methods of communication for dumb people. You can always post something shorter in a long form system, but you can’t post something longer in a short form system, without making multiple posts. It’s fucking stupid and always has been. The primary reason for the short form, originally 140 char, was because you could text it in one message. This made a bit of sense… just a tiny bit, as it opened up communication where there previously wasn’t any. But as we moved away from that paradigm of 140 char text messages, the idea of a Twitter became more and more stupid, where today, we have Twitter/Mastodon as the bastion of the idiot regime who can’t think past 280 characters.


  • The cloudflare tunnel is the reverse proxy in this case. No particular need to run another. Are you using the docker cloudflared to set up the tunnel?

    In my case, I use NGINX that connects to the cloudflare side and parse everything out from there, and I haven’t used the cloudflared docker, but I imagine that makes things easier. I set everything up before Cloudflare tunnels were a thing, so I didn’t really want to rejigger everything. If were doing it from scratch, I’d probably go with Cloudflare.

    Inb4 the Cloudflare is Bad and is a MITM attack people. Yes, it is, but it’s about opportunity cost. I’m not doing anything I care that Cloudflare sees, so I’m fine using it for simplicity sake, and I imagine they do a better job of security than I do, and I can manage stuff on a well configured dashboard instead of a command line. I’m more interested in blocking people who AREN’T cloudflare from screwing with my shit than I am in keeping Cloudflare out of my business. I use a VPN for things I don’t want to run through Cloudflare (like Torrents).







  • Because you are at a disadvantage against those that do? I guess it depends on how definition of “required” and I feel like the context dictates the definition of “required” to be “required to be competitive.”

    Job listings often list unrealistic or impossible qualifications (such as 10 years experience in a programming language that’s only existed for 6 years, most famously), overblown or unrealistically wide scope (must be expert in Linux, Windows, Cobol, C++, Atari, and to do the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs), etc…

    So to actually get a job you may be perfectly qualified for, it’s requires lying. The trick is knowing what’s bullshit on the job listing and what’s important, and if you are qualified for a particular position, you should know what parts are bullshit. Lying in that instance seems fine to me.



  • HamSwagwich@showeq.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDo you consider AI art “OC” ?
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    People like that surely do see it, they just deny it publicly because they feel threatened by the technology.

    No person with even a basic education can legitimately come to another conclusion and be honest. The only way I can see this happening legitimately is to not understand even the basics of how AI art works. Like, not even the first thing about it.








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    You absolutely can make a general statement. Humans don’t make original content if you don’t think AIs do. The process is basically the same. A human learns to make art, and specific styles, and then produces something from that library of training. An AI does the same thing.

    People saying an AI doesn’t create art from a human prompt don’t understand how humans work.


  • At least at our institution, the code to track and manage incoming and outgoing wires was so old that it ran on at least 4 layers of emulation. Of course, not a single person knew how to maintain it (and this is a billion dollar financial institution).

    But after a wire is sent, especially to smaller, non-us banks, it can literally be received via teletype or fax with relevant account information and recorded by hand at the receiving bank.

    If you send to the wrong route or account in that instance, it basically disappears for you and you need to contact the receiving bank, which sometimes uses and intermediary bank,. If that’s the case, you need to find the intermediary bank and find the exact person who wrote it down, who then can find, hopefully, what account the money went to and fix the problem. This does not work 100% of the time.

    It’s ludicrously analog and prone to errors and it’s amazing it works at all.


  • I get to invoke and tease people about one of thier biggest fears that terrify them and they pay me to do it.

    I’ve only had two people back out on me. After they make it through they are always so happy they conquered it, it’s awesome watching the process from start to finish.

    I also sometimes remember that my job feels routine to me and I do it without thinking most it the time but it’s a crippling fear for most people and I do it 5 to 15 times a day on a tropical island without a second thought.