I selfhosted my Nextcloud and really enjoyed it for personal use. One of my friends took a look into it and thought that it could be a good thing for his company that employees +200 people and growing… They are currently using Google Workspace but want to ditch it completely in favor of something that they can control...
Personally, I think yes, it is worth it, However your friends bookkeeper might shit a brick. Building up IT infrastructure from the ground up is not cheap. Although storage cost is coming down.
Seriously, running with Google and company will be cheaper in the short term. What you can potentially gain doing it yourself however is resilience from catastrophic 3rd party events. If your not dependent on a third party for your IT infra, it doesn’t matter what they do, or don’t do. For a recent example: www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…/ar-AA1dIPX2
After taking the global economy hostage to secure painful cuts to aid programs and other federal spending, House Republicans are proposing a pay raise for themselves and other members of Congress for the coming fiscal year....
So this is inspired somewhat by a question about somebody wanting to have a non-GitHub way of contributing to Lemmmy. I’ve really enojyed some other discussions on this community so felt somewhat inspired to ask this one too....
Not a new question. When I first got into Linux every one was asking “How can we get everyone to dump Windows and use Linux instead?” I long ago got tired of hearing about THIS year being the year of the Linux Desktop.
The answer is the same in both cases. Make it default, because most people don’t really care so long whatever is default does what they need it to do. Add in the network effect GitHub has and things would have to get incredibly bad before everyone would switch.
The reason everyone uses Windows? Because “everyone” uses Windows. Why does everyone use GitHub? Because “everyone” uses GitHub. Both have become the default. That would have to change.
Amazon Prime is a remarkable success but also dystopian. It has made convenience and speed the norm, habituating consumers to buy more products. Prime’s flywheel effect - where more customers lead to more data and scale which attracts more customers - has fueled Amazon’s dominance. Prime subscribers spend twice as much and...
Posting this link here as I, personally am fixing to find this incredibly useful in a few hours as I’m about to do a full body transplant on my home server. Hopefully someone else will also find it useful.
You must have either grown up post-internet or in one of the bigger cities. I assure you, in small towns like where I grew up, (particularly before the internet) old miss Busy Body down the street would never let ANYONE forget every embarrassing moment anyone ever had. The more scandalous or embarrassing the moment, the more likely it was to be retold. And retold. And retold. Till EVERYONE knew.
The only thing that has changed is the detail of the retelling. The tales still seem to get bigger and more scandalous with each retelling.
Saving this to read later, when I have time. So my apologies if this is not relevant.
When using any sort of social media you are effectively shouting, at the top of you lungs, in the middle of town square. What privacy are you expecting? If you want privacy, join me in “bed”. For “pillow talk.”
I do expect my account to be secure, in that no one should be able to pretend to be me. But privacy? Not in town square, while standing on the bullpup. Holding a megaphone.
I am a truck driver. I make $75,000 per year. Required a license that cost me 2 years of my life or $10,000 (my choice) for school (12 weeks) and roughly $1000 in admin fees to my State to aquire.
My wife is a mental health therapist. She makes roughly $55,000. To do her current job required a Master’s degree($80,000 +6 years), and 2 separate licenses with an unknown (to me) cost but required a total of 5 years on the job to acquire. Before she got that second license, she made more money working at McDonalds. And she still has continued education requirements costing upwards of $800 per course.
She loves her job (usually) and I love that she loves it, but if you’re looking for money, THE TRADES PAY! And usually a heck of a lot earlier and better than jobs that require a college degree.
In both services you are basically shouting into a giant megaphone. What’s so private about it? If you don’t want say it in public, don’t say it there.
If you need privacy there are much better tools available such as pgp encrypted email or Matrix DMs (a nonfederated Matrix sever would be even more secure but rather overkill).
I'm not sure where to post about problems in the platform, if here or at lemmy.ml but there's a problem that's quickly getting annoying and that's the fact that whenever I choose All communities and choose anything other that "Active" the posts constantly refresh themselves rather than refreshing when I want. It makes it hard to...
Once upon a time, long before you were born, most food was grown by children on what were called “family farms” owned by the family. Youngsters as young as 4 even….
Ok, Ok, I’ll set the Staff of Sarcasm down now, but seriously, a lot of folks on both sides of this are suffering from significant cognitive dissonance.
Is NextCloud worth it for a company?
I selfhosted my Nextcloud and really enjoyed it for personal use. One of my friends took a look into it and thought that it could be a good thing for his company that employees +200 people and growing… They are currently using Google Workspace but want to ditch it completely in favor of something that they can control...
What do you recommend to selfhost code repositories?
To use with Git
Republicans Look to Give Themselves a Pay Raise After Securing Benefit Cuts for the Poor (www.commondreams.org)
After taking the global economy hostage to secure painful cuts to aid programs and other federal spending, House Republicans are proposing a pay raise for themselves and other members of Congress for the coming fiscal year....
Reddit is replacing / modifying the Reddit gold feature, what are your thoughts ? (www.theverge.com)
What do you think it would take for people to leave GitHub?
So this is inspired somewhat by a question about somebody wanting to have a non-GitHub way of contributing to Lemmmy. I’ve really enojyed some other discussions on this community so felt somewhat inspired to ask this one too....
Cancel Amazon Prime [2021] (archive.ph)
Amazon Prime is a remarkable success but also dystopian. It has made convenience and speed the norm, habituating consumers to buy more products. Prime’s flywheel effect - where more customers lead to more data and scale which attracts more customers - has fueled Amazon’s dominance. Prime subscribers spend twice as much and...
Booting Linux after replacing UEFI motherboard [SOLVED] - Linux Mint Forums (forums.linuxmint.com)
Posting this link here as I, personally am fixing to find this incredibly useful in a few hours as I’m about to do a full body transplant on my home server. Hopefully someone else will also find it useful.
This is the only time I hate having decided to self host. (i.ibb.co)
I figured most of you could relate to this....
iOS AppStore privacy preview for Meta’s upcoming ActivityPub-based app Threads
Guide: Self-hosting open source GPT chat with no GPU using GPT4All (forum.tuxdigital.com)
French Govt. Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly Into Web Browsers * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
A tale of a new Lemmy instance, a bot infestation, the fallout, and how we dealt with it (lemmy.ninja)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ninja/post/30492...
Major store's CEO blasts self-checkout theft & warns of closures due to crime (www.the-sun.com)
Lemmy (the wider community) privacy *does* stink (and how to change that)
Sensationalist title yes, but this is something that is partially true....
To reduce dependence on China, more of us need to work in factories (www.politico.eu)
Mastodon's Eugen Rochko in talks with Meta?!😱 (news.ycombinator.com)
Reddit alternative? Google introduces Perspectives, a search feed with results from humans (tech.hindustantimes.com)
Google is trying something new on the search feed
Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)
Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it's visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit....
Sudden barrage of new posts don't let me read a thing
I'm not sure where to post about problems in the platform, if here or at lemmy.ml but there's a problem that's quickly getting annoying and that's the fact that whenever I choose All communities and choose anything other that "Active" the posts constantly refresh themselves rather than refreshing when I want. It makes it hard to...
Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users (www.techdirt.com)
A 12-year-old might’ve grown your food. In many states, that’s perfectly legal. (www.vox.com)
Greg Abbott Axes Water For Texas Construction Workers Amid 3-Digit Temperatures (www.huffpost.com)