Just a dude who reads stuff online.

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023
  • norb@infosec.pubtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you handle / cope with stress?
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    1 year ago

    Just wanted to say “this too shall pass.” Surgery is never fun but at least it’ll be fixed soon. Losing pets hurts but you have all the good times to think back on, and maybe a new pet to look forward to as well.

    I have been one of those people who are pretty negative with their outlook on life. I started therapy because I was tired of being frustrated and angry and, frankly, depressed all the time.

    One of things I learned is that if you aren’t naturally “happy go lucky” you have to work at it. Why I ever expected to just be happy now seems like a real “no shit” moment. But once someone told me that I’ve been able to look at my life in a different light.

    I’m still negative as fuck, but at least now I can recognize it for what it is, short circuit my thought process a little bit, and not spiral as much as I used to. I’m a middle-aged work in progress but that’s ok!

    Good luck, fellow traveler!

  • norb@infosec.pubtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Visiting the US soon - do I really have to tip?
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    1 year ago

    This is it. There is a kind of understood, cultural part that some of the other commenters are missing.

    There are situations where (traditionally) tipping is expected, and that is at a sit down style restaurant or at a bar. If the restaurant requires you to fill your own drink, bus your own table (clear the dishes), or carry your own food typically Americans do not tip (this would apply to most fast food places, or places as you’ve described where you walk up to a counter). Do most of these places still put out a tip jar? Yes. Do most customers tip? Probably not (check the jar, it might have some token coins or a few dollar bills in it, but it will not be full).

    Are you an asshole for not tipping? That depends on what the situation is. Did you just sit down for a 2 hour meal with 10 people and leave $5? Yes you are an asshole. Did you drive through Starbucks or a burger place and not put a couple bucks in jar? You are probably not an asshole.

  • norb@infosec.pubtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?
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    1 year ago

    I asked another commenter here the same question that I’m going to ask you.

    I was running a my own single user instance, but I had a hard time getting comments to come in to mine. Have you found a good way to get Lemmy to more reliably pull in comments from remote instances?

    I would have to browse out to the original instance to see most of the comments, then back to my own if I wanted to comment (if it was under a comment that my instance hadn’t pulled in, then too bad), then back out to the main site to continue reading. I found that process very tedious so I switch back to a more populated server which seems to pull in most if not all of the comments.

  • norb@infosec.pubtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?
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    1 year ago

    I tried out my own, one person instance, and I had a hard time getting comments to pull in. I would have to browse to the original instance to view all of the comments. Have you found a good way to overcome that?

    I switched back to a more public instance just because I found the process of going out to view the content, back to my own instance if I wanted to comment, then back to the original again to keep reading the discussion very tedious.

    Being on a more populated server seems to give most if not all of the comments directly.

  • norb@infosec.pubtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitelyEnglish
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    1 year ago

    RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.

    Back when blogs were a bigger thing, they would be setup with RSS to “push out” notifications when new posts were published. (Technically your RSS client pulls the RSS feeds but the end result is the same - the feed is just a list of posts basically).

    You open up your RSS client or site and there will be a list of sites you’re “following” and any new posts they’ve made.

    Plenty of sites still support RSS. A lot of readers can pull the RSS feed automatically if you just give them the site URL/web address.

    My personal choice is NewsBlur which is at https://NewsBlur.com. You can get a free account there to try it out.

  • norb@infosec.pubtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Newbie here. Is Reddit Over?English
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    1 year ago

    Inertia is a thing, both in a positive and negative way. What I mean by that is, you can reach a threshold where people are leaving fast enough that Reddit will lose more people than not (positive from our current point of view).

    The other way it works is people are just so used to Reddit and the habit returns quickly once the blackout is over (negative from our point of view).

    Which way will this go? My pessimistic outlook is that tons of people are exploring Lemmy/KBin/whatever fediverse thing now while they have a Reddit sized hole in their daily routines, but once Reddit is back they will go back there. I think this is shown in how Twitter users bailed off pretty hard at first and Mastodon got a bunch of new people but those people slowly went back to Twitter. Some people will stay at the new place for sure, but a lot won’t. None of that is really a problem per se, either.