Howdy

$25 or less is the US Fed rule.

Worked in higher Ed for a decade. Can confirm.

Damn, also would break ublock I assume?

First OS: Win 95 (As a wee lad). First Linux: early lubuntu and backtrack that I used in college around 08-09.

As a fellow jenkins miner. I know this red (x) all too well.

I ran into that when I worked at a university…

Yes.

I unironically did for production apps (some of which that are still running). The last thing I did with JS was vanilla. I’m a simple person.

No different than any other project the PM/PO team cooks up. Tons of work for no user base.

Never used brave, I think DDG is actually a pretty decent search engine overall. I use it as my backup to searxng and used it primarily for years now before switching to searxng.

Google results work fine for me on my home instance:

If it works for you… I agree with the general sentiment of “if its free you are the product”. However, I see kagi come up so often around here that I feel like it’s some astro turfing. I tried it and was not impressed. SearXNG is by far the best search engine I’ve used in a long time and the best part is I am hosting it locally on my PC, traffic is going out a VPN. You get the privacy and the best results possible since its a meta engine using many different engines.

Yep, I have an fully enclosed case. Only RGB is my water cooling block on my cpu that I left the rgb header unplugged. Even though I would never see it, I am a person of principle, damn it!

Pretty accurate… I am just realizing I’ve moved out of the despise stage and into acceptance.

I totally get it. When I travel I take caffeine gum. So I don’t have to worry about finding coffee or resort to a energy drink. Instant coffee I drink instead of soda at home. Lol.

We had an ai demo at work last Friday where we just were showing off a local running llm with some test input. Best part was the demonstrator had it output something unexpected and they were like “I’ve ran this twenty times and it has never said that”. Lol. We’re alright but it’s incredibly useful already it’s pretty exciting.

I did for awhile. For me, it wasnt worth the effort. Hot tip: go ahead and switch to blob storage for pictrs or your hosting fees are gonna get expensive quick.

Yep same. 2.5 years. It was a blast. Some of the best times with my friends ive had.

Im pretty sure meta give zero fucks about joining the fediverse beyond trying to destroy it. I imagine they only started threads to nullify it by either proving it doesnt work (threads looks pretty garbage) or they want to control the content where mainstream fediverse will never take off.

Im here because i liked reddit but hated being a product. Meta/facebook was zero percent of that initial switch calculation as i havent been on their stuff for nearly a decade. The api shutdown ay the alien site was the last straw. I dont want to interact or give data to facebook/meta. Just my two cents.