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  • cog@sopuli.xyztoComic Strips@lemmy.worldDebate
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    1 month 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.




  • Correct me if I’m wrong but you can select multiple viewing languages. It’s just slightly unintuitive in lemmy-ui: hold either CTRL or SHIFT (I forgot, apologies) while you select languages in your profile settings.

    The default posting language/allowed languages are decided on community level by mods.

    Edit: didn’t want to just say unintuitive without offering an alternative, so: visible checkboxes would maybe be more intuitive?




  • Throwing this out there in case you are just scrolling through “all”:

    Your instance is small and you won’t see content from communities no one on your instance has subscribed to. An example:

    I see posts from a community on “all” that I haven’t subsribed to, but someone on my instance has subsscribed to said community. Otherwise we on sopuli would not be fetching updates from those communities and I wouldn’t see it on “all”.

    There is a project (forgot name) that makes bots on instance subscribe to new communities from an instance but not sure if it’s still working/set up on your instance.




  • cog@sopuli.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 months ago

    Thanks for the links. I recall reading that installing windows 11 with bypasses might break after some future update? I just didn’t want to offer a solution that might cause issues as well.

    For some linux was a good option, but for some I said you can either get a new computer or pay for the LTSC. Thankfully I was able to find some affordable win11 compatible laptops for their usecases.