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Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

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It's an election year and Kim Kardashian has a massive Instagram following. That's all this is.

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Yep, the faster the better. The worst thing would be a slowly boiling frog effect where people don't notice and stay put.

‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living (www.theguardian.com)

The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back.

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There is a book "From Mondragon to America" which goes into excruciating detail about how it all works. It's not just a few factories there are credit unions, food coops and more all doing business together.

ChatGPT combined with Wolfram|Alpha, for more reliable results (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

ChatGPT—for all its remarkable prowess in textually generating material “like” what it’s read from the web, etc.—can’t itself be expected to do actual nontrivial computations, or to systematically produce correct (rather than just “looks roughly right”) data, etc. But when it’s connected to the Wolfram plugin...

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Thanks

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture

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Couldn't you demonstrate the same principle by comparing their answers to a (carefully chosen) programming assignment from the previous week?

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You could use a VPN to obscure your IP address. Then with the VPN enabled, create an email account using a privacy-focused provider like Proton and use that email address to create a Lemmy / Mastodon account. Then post.

Perhaps you can get more technical advice in one of the privacy communities.

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AfD, in bed with the chinese AND the russians.

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I have not run a Lemmy instance, only a Kbin one. I can't compare directly.

Currently, the CPU load average on piefed.social is 0.50 and it is using 2 GB of ram. There is 6.5 GB of storage used for images (after 4 months of operation).

70 monthly active users, subscribed to 1000+ communities. There is a high amount of federation traffic but not much UI usage.

Until last week this VPS had 2 cores and 4 GB of ram.

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  1. What are the warning signs in your behavior that signal that you are becoming increasingly suicidal?
  2. What are the ways you have available to calm or sooth yourself that might lessen your need to suicide?
  3. What can you do to make the environment safer for you (like getting rid of the means of harming yourself)?
  4. What are reasons for living? Often this one boils down to “Who would be harmed if you were to die?”
  5. Who in your personal life can you talk to about how bad things are?
  6. Who are the healthcare professionals you can call on if things get really bad?

I know what you might be thinking! A lot of people looking at these questions have told me that they can’t see it coming, they don’t know how to sooth themselves, there are no valid reasons for living, they have no friends or people who care about them and that they can’t access healthcare because it is too expensive (which is often true in the profit-obsessed USA unfortunately). Even so, it is worth trying to engage with these questions so as to write out methods and names and resources as well as you can. Even a little bit of hope and a little bit of planning in advance can become critical in a crisis, making the difference between life and death.

A final word about reasons for living. Many times suicidal people have told me that even though they have children or loved ones, that their children will be better off without them alive. Such is the warping influence of the suicidal trance which commonly argues that the suicidal person is and can only be a burden and that children or loved ones will be better off without them. This simply isn’t true. Children get FUCKED UP when their parents commit suicide. Loved ones get FUCKED UP when their loved ones commit suicide. Particularly for children who lose their parents to suicide, the effect is to traumatize them rather permanently for the rest of their lives. I have seen it up close and personal. Nothing I might say can make the influence of the suicidal trance less strong, but at least hear me in that this part of what that trance says is a lie. Nothing good comes of suicide except maybe that your own personal pain is discharged. The others around you will suffer. If you don’t want to contribute to the suffering of others, please consider looking for another way. That other way might be very hard to find or very expensive to access, but when it is life or death, it’s a good investment to make.

General Suicide Information

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/index.html

Suicide Helplines In the USA: call or text 988

https://findahelpline.com/i/iasp

https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/

Suicide Safety Planning:

https://www.verywellmind.com/suicide-safety-plan-1067524

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-recovery-coach/202306/how-to-develop-a-safety-plan-to-manage-a-suicidal-crisis

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No

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/appeal-to-authority-fallacy/

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It's not a black and white thing - some reliance on experts is of course necessary.

Google "appeal to authority fallacy", there are many examples.

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Human brains pay more attention to bad stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

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Ubuntu has a set of scripts you can run to harden a new server (not advisable on a server that has already been configured for something). You need an Ubuntu Pro subscription to access them but you can get a free trial and then cancel it after you've finished.

More info at https://ubuntu.com/security/cis.

I did this process for a customer recently and it was pretty straightforward and much much more thorough (over 100 configuration changes) than just tweaking SSH and fail2ban.

I expect other commercially-oriented distros offer something similar.

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Telegram, again. It's always Telegram.

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Here are a whole bunch of free online beginner-level politics courses from major universities: https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=politics

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Ok, I've changed how this works, as discussed. Now only one lemmy.ml community has a warning.

Thanks to cabbage for starting this discussion to resolve it.

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PieFed has keyword filtering

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Yes :)

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