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Very very unfortunately, Pixelfed doesn’t have a way to just start exploring feeds without knowing exactly who to look at. This has been a very longstanding problem with the platform that the engineer has pretty much outright refused to do. Pixelfed-Glitch is attempting to add in better discovery options, but for now it’s a non-starter for me. I turned off my pixelfed server because of the lack of discovery.

Ah floating point math. Works fine for 90% of use cases, until it doesn’t.

I got the Hyundai Kona to be a simple small barebones EV and it has done that. It’s going to have the same bells and whistles most people expect, but I did also get a physical key with it.

Had it just over a year now and love it. It’s a great car

I mean, I completely agree but last time I said that people flamed me over it. If it was still 2013 then I’d look more into it, but today it’s such a monolithic architecture

I’ve definitely noticed the younger ones are used to asking any question and having it simply answered. They grew up with the internet, it’s obvious I suppose, and chatgpt is just going to make that worse. The juniors and entry-level people coming in are smart, but I feel like I’m seeing lower problem solving and critical thinking.

Things like “it doesn’t work”, okay well what you you tried? What things did you attempt before giving up. Idk, definitely a different mindset.

A great example is his handling of Laravel, scaling, and Docker. It’s pretty clear that he doesn’t have a huge understanding of Docker - or at least hasn’t managed docker images at scale. A huge thing there that I ran into constantly is that the Pixelfed containers both are 1) Stateful and worse than that 2) depend on each other’s volumes. These are both anti patterns specifically called out in the docker best practices. It ultimately means that the Pixelfed containers must share the same host as it’s workers. He put a lot of time and effort into building scripts that would simplify the setup for a docker compose file, but never thought horizontally - scaling these containers out on a cluster or separating workers off away from the web-api nodes at all.

I spent 3 weeks trying to de-tangle that all and got nowhere. I’ve been watching the guys over at Pixelfed Glitch ( a fork of pixelfed ), and from what I see they’re trying to do the same thing. I wish them godspeed. Until then, I can’t recommend Pixelfed as it just can’t horizontally scale. Sure you can throw a more expensive machine at the problem, but that’s not a fix.

As for the last, I don’t have any examples - and I think that’s because no one else has gone on a press junket like he has. The owners of Mastodon started a foundation a while back, I think that’s the most official news I’ve heard out of them. I think that’s what bothered me - for the vast majority of people that was their first chance to hear about the open web. Instead of saying “We have a thing called the fediverse. I’ll spare you the details but you can choose Pixelfed, Mastodon, even Wordpress or many others, and they all work together”. Instead all I heard anywhere was Pixelfed. Feel free to call BS there, maybe he did somewhere and I just missed it.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say you’re both wrong. Here me out.

As other commenters have said, there should never be any expectation of privacy on the fediverse. DMs here and private items are not actually private, they’re quite literally blasted out to anyone who listens. I feel like I have to say that a lot. I actually like how Lemmy handles it, it warns you that it’s unencrypted and that it recommends Matrix (and you can put your matrix handle on your profile).

However. I’m also disillusioned by Dansup. He made a great project with Pixelfed. It got off the ground and has a great following. However, I’ve read through the code, I’ve tried to spin it up, hell even tried to help contribute - but it’s a spaghetti’d mess of unmaintainable code. What irks me is rather than dive in and fix the code, help those who honestly want to spin up his projects, he starts a completely separate project (off the same spaghetti’d base that barely scales), and goes on a whole PR junket talking about it. Then when I see people asking questions of his code or how to do things he usually jumps down their throats - or completely ignores them.

And honestly the biggest thing that irked me was that I didn’t feel he gave credit to the hundreds - thousands of other people who work to make the fediverse work. Pixelfed is a great experience - but it’s one of many all working together, and the developers are a huge chunk, but you have the infrastructure, us admins hosting, those out there vocalizing it, those trying to start communities, it’s an ecosystem, and I just felt like he ignored the fediverse and instead pushed Pixelfed.

13 is too young for an unrestricted smartphone for sure. If you do, I would lock it down hard for another couple of years. No spying, they deserve privacy, but you should know who they’re talking to (just not what they’re saying). But the internet is much much too broad of a place to just dump a 13 year old into. (Just look at us cretins here. You just wait, someday someone will offer your child linux and he better be ready to handle it).

Joking aside, the other thing is if they want a phone badly maybe it’s a good time to teach the lesson on finance too. Maybe you offer to go in halfway with them, and they can do a paper route or something. At 15-16 then they’ll start being annoyed at the restrictions on the phone, and that’s their opportunity to buy one themselves.

1. a credit card shouldn’t be about the limit at all. Even with a big project you could have just done it in parts or only done on part on the card. You should never take out cards for a higher limit.

2. you could have just called and asked for a limit raise.

That you don’t know enough about credit. Or fraud.

Okay, after rereading I’m starting to feel like there’s something fishy about OPs story that they’re not telling us. Why was the limit so important? 25k is well more than enough for the first. Take them at their word, they couldn’t use it so they got the second. 10k. That is still more than I have ever put on my card. So why is the limit so important.

It could be pure naivety.

Or, was OP trying to do one of those scams that landed a lot of people in trouble (see: jail)? I believe it was something like you do the check pulls against one card and use it to pay off another, but the scheme depends on each card having the same or higher value. Did OP attempt one of these, and then get desperate when each one was a lesser amount?

Either way. As I said in another comment it’s a life lesson for OP. If it was pure naivety then congrats, now you know the hard way. If it was something worse, then lesson learned that there are no money “hacks”. Only quick ways to be caught. (And trust me, the last hack was discovered within days and the people tracked down, and I think you just witnessed them closing the “loophole”). You don’t fuck with the bank’s money.

Oof didn’t even think about that but yeah. I have a very old retail credit card I got when I was 19 that I keep open just to keep my average high. Put some on it once a year just to keep it open

As long as you pay it off every month it should be the way you pay for everything. It builds your credit score and is more secure. With a credit card you’re spending their money, so if your card gets stolen you won’t be on the hook for everything. Vs a debit card you’re spending your money, it is much harder to do fraud from the consumer side with a debit card. Plus perks .

I understand if you’re bad with credit, but if you’re not, why wouldn’t you use one?

It’s credit, a loan, and I’d say this is actually great example of why it’s useful. OP showed one after the other how likely they are to take out credit. Like it or not OPs behavior is a warning sign

Talk about a life lesson. Credit cards shouldn’t be a willy nilly oh this one sounds fun. They should take research, making sure it’s what you want.

This is the base rule, and I stick to it. Would you have hired an artist before? Hire an artist still. (You should not trust AI with your brand or anything anyway).

You having fun at home or making a meme or something? Go for it

Then they argue that they have a right to go out don’t they? Which I say sure! But then you decided to have kids, so now you need to find someone to watch them. Instead they insist they belong in adult only venues

Everyone here being so serious.

Children in breweries. Fine, fine at least keeping the sanctity of 21 and over areas of breweries. When did breweries become a family affair? How come every place has to become a family friendly place, why can’t we have just a few adults only places?

No matter what I get some child screaming while I’m trying to enjoy a beer. And every parent will say “well where are they supposed to go” and my answer is always “literally anywhere else”. Everywhere is okay with kids. And then others will say “well mine are great” which I would say I don’t care, but other parents don’t care and ruin it for the rest. So if I got to abolish anything, it’s be kids in breweries.

Washed up yes, what is he hocking to try to cling?

I mean, first of all, how dare you.