You have probably (deservedly!) blocked me by now, but in case you have not, I apologize from my other comment. Apparently the standard you all have in the lemmy.ml memes community is different from other memes communities, so what looked to me like you were posting a meme that was completely inappropriate was a complete misunderstanding on my part. I have unsubscribed from this community to preclude the possibility of future misunderstandings.
Ah, I only just now noticed that this post was made in the lemmy.ml memes community, which is very different in the kinds of posts that it has than most communities that call themselves “memes” communities. Personally I think that you all have awful taste, but taste is subjective so I withdraw my objection that this particular meme is trash.
I was about to unsubscribe, but curiously I don’t seem to currently be subscribed to it, which is odd because it definitely appeared on my front page at one point; if that is because the admin kicked me out, then I would like to kindly thank them.
Just so you know, since you are apparently now going to start spamming the meme community with trash, you have become one of a select few on my block list.
No worries! Pronouns in the English language are sufficiently ambiguous that it is easy to make that mistake.
Hey, now, just because I am an overly paranoid person does not mean that you have to be as well!
Thanks, your comment is an antidote to my paranoia that it is impossible to do anything to address all threats. 😀
Given that your advice is very sound, I have a question: would I gain much by using OpenBSD? The conventional wisdom when I last checked is that it is the most secure unix-like operating system on the planet.
Right, but there is an entire spectrum of plumbing maintenance. I am perfectly capable of plunging toilets, but when a drain fails to work after several attack on my part then it is time to call in the plumber.
I mostly just like building and tinkering with things, and I really like the idea of setting up services that I control that host my own data that I can access from anywhere. I have no real interest in learning about more than the minimum amount needed to do that simply because that is not how I would like to spend my time.
(Lest you continue to have the wrong impression that I am afraid of learning new things: There was a period in my life where I was constantly learning new technologies, programming languages, etc. Eventually I realized that I had demonstrated that I was capable of learning anything that I wanted, and there were so many things out there to learn that I needed to start becoming more selective. At the moment my learning goals tend to be more math focused; currently I am trying to learn graduate-level category theory and measure theory.)
If I really need to master all of the steps that you’ve described before deploying my host on the Internet, then my conclusion is that it is more trouble than it is worth, because my concern is that if I screw up then I will make the Internet a worse place by contributing to botnets.
That does not sound so bad; the parent comment made it sound a lot worse than that.
I admit nothing.
Everything that you mention is sensible, but it seems like it would take so much time not only to set up but to perform the ongoing maintenance you described that it just is not worth the trouble to self-host, which is a significant factor in why I have not taken a shot at it.
Then sadly, the code shall remain a mystery for me.
Just be wary of writing ravioli code which forces the person reading your script to have to constantly jump around it in order to figure out what is actually going on.
Is it normal to need an account to view code on GitLab?
Game support.
What game? I used to need to occasionally boot into Windows to play games, but it has been over a year since the last time I had to do this.
Actually, you make a pretty good point there.
Whence the skepticism?
Ok i doubt anyone is going to be willing to have this discussion, but here i am.
You’re right; here I was enjoying a silly comic–written in 2011–about computers turning programming into human daycare, and someone had to turn it into yet another excuse to start talking about AI, as if we didn’t have enough of that!
Yes, it is the scripting language of TempleOS.