git is a very complex undo/redo tool designed to simultaneously track the changes made to multiple documents by multiple users while being efficient with managing disk space and other resources. (It also has other clever tricks it can do). It was created by Linus Torvalds, current development is led by Junio Hamano.

Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner and Scott Chacon made GitHub.com, which was eventually sold to Microsoft. GitHub does two things well: -You can easily clone any project hosted with them to your own git repository using the command ‘git clone https://github.com/[Username]/[ProjectName]’ -The rest of the public website is basically a looking glass for everything git does under the hood natively (but with a nice webUI instead of a cold command prompt).

Personally I lost faith in GitHub when it started offering Copilot assistant. We’re only a two heartbeats away from Microsoft saying that using Copilot for any of your projects code constitutes Microsoft contributed to that project as a precursor to Microsoft saying it basically ‘owns’ all this open-source stuff. Embrace, extend, extinguish (I recommend everyone run docker and GitTea to create a personal clone store (give your favorite projects insurance) and that all developers move away from GitHub)

The first vehicle I owned had no name. My friends kept asking what was named and I kept explaining “it’s a car. It gets me from point 🅰️ to point 🅱️.” I selected the car for it’s high fuel efficiency (record-breaking at the time) and general low total cost of ownership (TCO).

Not wanting to repeat the same conversation again, my second vehicle was named “Prius” and had they/them pronouns. Prius was a simple minded car, and liked car related things. Unfortunately, Prius met an untimely early end it got totaled by another driver (roommate was driving it, but the accident was 100% other driver’s fault).

For my third vehicle - another Prius, I immediately noticed her subtle feminity and her adventurous spirit. I’m gay, so it’s an immediate gal pal vibes .I named her, “Yetta” - and I knew we were destined to do crazy things together (and indeed we have!) She deserved a middle name fitting my plans for us. Taking a sort of mad hatter vibe, she got the middle name “Nutter”.

And that is the story I now tell my friends about how I got Yetta Nutter Prius.

Just a quick reminder, if you give yourself some time and a small budget (or upcycle older tech), there are more good (sometimes great) alternatives to everything listed here that you can build yourself (often pretty quickly, thanks to docker)

https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted

This made me laugh. Not wrong though!

People are complicated and FOSS isn’t as simple as all or nothing.

Sometimes people have things setup before they discovered FOSS - it’s hard for me to give up my gmail account from age 14, even though I run my own domain now.

Sometimes FOSS gets captured - Microsoft owns githib now, which makes tough decisions for all the projects hosted there.

I should have remembered that. I had to lend my card out to my friend who was in a credit lock at the time they needed a rental. Still, I don’t think my advice is invalid, just irrelevant here.

Yes. I agree - on paper all three have a chargeback process that appear similar enough. However, assuming you aren’t a financial expert who never needs help, I’m discussing the behind the front politics at play and each group’s motivations to go above and beyond.

It’s about who’s lawyers you can rally to your defense in a dispute.

With a credit card you’re spending the bank’s money. If you can convince the bank you’re in the right, it’s you and the bank’s lawyers recovering the bank’s money.

As a debit card user, the banks will support your legal rights, because it’s good business for your clients to prosper. While the bank’s lawyers won’t go to bat for you, many will be willing to give you quasi-legal and quasi-financial tidbits or point you in the right direction.

As the bank’s client’s employee, you’re basically on your own. Good luck.

Too many people these days don’t use or have access to credit cards for services like this. Many people I know only use bank debit cards, or worse, use the debit preloaded cash cards issued by their employers’ payroll service provider.

Credit cards motivate banks to help you, because if you won’t pay, and the business doesn’t pay, the bank has to take the hit.

Debit cards will work as well if your bank values it’s reputation - but not all banks do.

And I would not trust a preloaded card provider to assist. You are neither their business partner nor their customer and that puts your interests at the bottom of a very long list. You have to hope some law is on your side or that your issue is so trivial that resolving it is more cost effective then dealing with you.

Oh. Well, I was worried for a bit but you’ve put my heart at ease.

Now that we’ve made our problems go away by redefining them, I’m ready to tackle cancer, a natural body resource management issue.

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That’s the problem.

Valve already had a process to flag titles as illegal in specific jurisdictions, and as far as anyone can tell, was doing an okay job at that (not perfect, obviously), but they were forced to add an extra clause of, ‘oh, plus anything visa et al. don’t like’ the extra layer is adding minimal protection and is rife for abuse.

Additionally, let’s talk about what makes porn. Does “https://yakuza.fandom.com/wiki/Be_My_Baby” of Yakuza 2 count? Or does it get a free pass because it’s a large publisher?

What if players take the elements of the game to create something the developers didn’t prevent? Like if a map contains a baby on one side of a map and an orgy (in another office) on the other side of the map, is it CP if a player picks up the baby and brings it into the orgy room? Is this something you want the banks deciding? Couldn’t we - have therapists or other behavioral health development experts make this call?

Most importantly is the recorded history of how these systems are routinely shown to be used against smaller publishers, and assorted minorities (including LGBT people) have a woman show a boob, it’s polite adult fun, but if their twin brother shows a pre-op trans boob, now it’s magically porn.

Just a reminder. Self-hosting is a hobby that is both useful and satisfying, and the skills you pick up will change how you see computers that are increasingly part of everything.

You probably won’t be going off-grid overnight, but the tech industry has spent 30 years promoting propaganda that ‘only skilled engineers should worry about what goes on under the hood’ and have conditioned us to expect tech to just be magic.

Fighting back means educating yourself, and that means grabbing an old laptop, learning how to install Linux on it, fire up a few Docker projects, and exploring all the options that opens up.

It will take a few weekends to get started, and it will require some upkeep. But for that price you will gain some sovereignty back over your digital life.

For extra credit and when ready you can pay $15 /year for a vanity domain (you’d only need one, as you can freely create an unrestricted number of subdomains), once done you move from being a serf to a digital landlord.

You make a good point. But the issue here is that, the leaders should be leading and not just talking about what leaders should do.

They always seem to get lost in their own noise.

Voices like Bernie, AOC, et al. will often start taking real action and garner positive national attention, but it regularly falls apart because the party as a whole seems uninterested in falling into line.

Nobody is supporting their good ideas because they keep waiting to get together on their perfect ideas, but spoiler that basically never happens. (They can be barely effective if they control the presidency and Congress, with Congress aligning to the president’s agenda, but without that perfect environment they are effectively ineffective.)

My apologies, I’ll concede I knew what you meant, but my poor brain tripped on the word ‘system’. Your comment was apt on a human-scale system of our planet - we are fucked. But it’s way fun and often useful to remember that’s not the only lens available.

We are still a product of nature in many ways and all our society could be viewed as nature featuring yet another bloom and collapse - and our blip as a species isn’t even special - check out the great oxidation (extinction) event whereby anaerobic organisms created so much waste oxygen that they killed of almost all life on the planet (organisms that live on oxygen and the air cycle we know today were ‘born’ from this event).

None of that changes the fact that I did deliberately misconstrue your statement; please excuse any offense I may have caused. I meant no harm.

I’m just needlessly waxing poetic, as is my wont. They said ‘system’ which is an ambiguous term.

I also considered noting that my local baskin-robbins gets delivered more ice cream than I’d ever want to eat.

But since I’m called out I’ll add that any person can only imagine so much, and as such a finite group of peoples’ collective imagination can only be arbitrarily large, not infinite.

But don’t mind me, I’m just a dog on the internet.

Strictly speaking, its unknown if we live in a finite system or an infinite one - but it’s certain that the local topology isn’t infinitely dense.

(We speculate one can technically go infinitely far in any direction of space or indefinitely backward and forward through time; but there’s not any infinite amounts of stuff here which is the problem.)

And why is she serving mold?

Not sure if you’re out of the loop or playing along, but this post is an allusion to a recent scandal regarding the coldplay concert CEO fiasco. The CEO was caught in an intimate embrace with a female employee who was not his wife.

Personally, as a polyamorous guy, I don’t see what the commotion is about (and it all seems suspiciously timed as an attempt to distract/bury bigger stories - release the Epstein files - specifically, I don’t think the CEO intended to get caught, rather some news media is giving this ultimately near-harmless scandal far more attention than it deserves.

Perhaps? But you can get extradited from the US to the UK, and there’s all sorts of dumb agreements for international evidence and standing precedent. I don’t expect the current administration to forge new ground here, but navigating the waters of international law is byzantine at the best of times.

Or have your site taken down by your own country because of its international obligations. You still have to abide by your own country’s interpretation (and political alignment to) of foreign laws.