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Yeah I don't see it as a problem when the users control access to their own posts.

It's when they require a sign in to see anything, it's a problem.

Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.

The government absolutely uses sql frequently, even if they still have older mainframes with some other database architecture.

This makes more sense. But even then they would surely transfer data from the old system over.

I mean I'm liking the idea that they went down into the basement, started up an old mini computer, with "superman 3" magnetic tapes with data from the 1980s to force them to try to integrate with that and only after transferring the data at 1000cps, find out it's entirely out of date.

I mean, it won't be the case, but I'd really like it to be. 😛

It's a terminology thing really yes. I mean a database (SQL or not) shouldn't need de-duplication by nature of how the record index/keys work.

If they're not using a form of SQL though, I'd be very interested in what they are using. Back in the 90s I was messing around with things like Btrieve and other even more antiquated database engines. But all the software I used that utilised such things was converted to use a form of SQL (even if in some cases there were internal wrappers to allow access in the older way too via legacy code) over 20 years ago.

If I were an American though my biggest concern would be that Musk is able to know the structure AND content of the social security database. His post (if we believe it) demonstrates he must have access to both pieces of information.

I monitor for good deals. Because there's no contract it's easy to add one, move stuff over at your leisure and kill the old one off. It's the better way to do it for semi serious stuff.

I think their auction servers are a hidden gem. I mean the prices used to be better. Now they have some kind of systrem that resets them when they get too low. But the prices are still pretty good I think. But a year or two ago I got a pretty good deal on two decently spec'd servers.

People are scared off by the fact you just get their rescue prompt on auctions boxes... Except their rescue prompt has a guided imaging setup tool to install pretty much every popular distro with configurable raid options etc.

Well, you should at least mute the microphone/turn off the camera on teams/zoom first. Just common courtesy.

Well. Here's what Trump and Musk have in common. They're both incapable of taking advice from people more experienced in a subject than themselves.

So I'm going to bet he'll ignore any and all warnings.

Thanks. I think at the time I made an instance (about a year and a half ago I reckon), there was quite a batch snapping up kbin/lemmy on every tld imaginable.

It's actually not a bad idea. "The front page of the threadiverse" so to speak. There are plenty of instance lookups out there, but they're generally self discovered. Something that helps match a user to a smaller instance cannot be a bad thing.

Having large instances is a good thing of course, especially for hosting larger communities. But, in order to remain fully independent, smaller instances that can be run truly as a hobby on affordable hardware are essential for the fediverse in my opinion.

Well. I don't think I've seen anyone advertising hot local singles using my instance. I've mostly seen medical adverts and random websites (for products not services). So, you're not missing anything I think.

No. I see several genuine looking users that registered and did nothing (fine I guess). But there's a lot with very similar @gmail.com. Some don't do anything and so far I've left them. Some are clearly posting advert crap and they get deleted as soon as I see it. Every now and then I just go through purge the rest that are clearly bot accounts.

If I was actually getting genuine active users I might look into making a form or otherwise making it difficult (not sure if mbin has that ability mind you). But seems I don't really get real users. Just me, posting and commenting all day.

No, I think it's just me on my instance (that probably has the capacity for 1000+ active users) and the steady influx of suspicious accounts that pass the email verification and captcha and then either post nothing, or post adverts get banned/deleted and it goes on.

Mind you I don't really advertise the instance either. So that's likely why.

I suspect people coming from reddit don't understand the fediverse (I know I didn't when I first got here). So they go to the hosting instance and join there, not really understanding they can join any instance and then join the community (if not already on the instance).