I am but a cog in a machine. A lazy one though.

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  • Two empty spaces (or more) at the end of the line is the usual way in markdown, but not whether it works in every lemmy app since they all have different levels of markdown implementation but it should work.

    Edit: damnit sorry forgot about the table part… No idea sorry :(

    Edit 2: so I got curious and tried everything I could think of, and checked out what lemmy default web UI uses as it’s markdown flavour: “commonmark”, which doesn’t natively seem to support newlines in tables sadly.





  • While I agree with you in general, we have a few issues that are too big to ignore:

    Fragmentation of communities, dead / inactive communities affecting new users’ experience.

    We linked those communities because they are active and have been alive for awhile so that new users find them. I know you and I know the quirks of lemmy and how to find communities, but I’ve seen more than enough new users all excited about lemmy but abandoning it because they can’t find communities of interest and in /all feed they only see memes and politics.

    But you are right the python community is empty and could be just removed.



  • I’m not forced to, but occasionally my job kinda requires it so I dualboot (most of my coworkers who are on linux run a windows virtual machine when they need it).

    But my previous job required windows due to all the industry specific software only working on windows. No chance of getting that to work on linux sadly. Then I just used windows at work. It’s always my employer’s hardware anyway and I like to keep work and free-time separate so it was ok.





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    2 months ago

    I’m happy someone is pointing this out. There is so much trash out there that is just maximised for “citation count” because that’s how you get recognition in academia.

    One more thing for folks who don’t know: peer reviewed doesn’t always mean someone actually verified shit, let alone read it all.

    I’m not saying don’t believe scientists or that the whole research field is a hoax, I just am severely disappointed in the broader scientific community.







  • I hope someone else can pitch in with a more indepth instructions, but two things I wanted to mention:

    First, forget about hosting your own email from home. Seriously. Even those who do it professionally don’t want to deal with that at home. You’ll find people on fediverse who do it but I’m sure plenty will give you this same recommendation/warning. It’s a huge hassle and it’s so easy to get your domain blocked/ending up on a blacklist and way harder to get out of it.

    Second, I can personally recommend https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/ if you are really starting from scratch ( there’s a community here: !linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev ). This is how I started and set up my own linux server and started self hosting stuff on it. It’s really basic and won’t teach you everything you need but it’s a great start for setting up your own server. You can do everything with a local server at home that you have set up.


  • With how federation works it does really help investigating vote manipulation cases.

    There is a user who is super active on a community and was consistently getting downvoted with 10-15 downvotes, making sure certain post filters would never show this content on all feed. All the downvoters were the same on every post, they were from a new instance that has/had no web frontend and none had comment history.