• mindbleach@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Jesus Christ, the usability nightmare of this website is worse than the goofy animated GIF they think is an exaggeration.

    www.wired.com##.sticky-box to get rid of the autoplaying video go fuck yourselves, www.wired.com##.journey-unit__container to get rid of the assorted gigantic flyover bullshit.

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      2 years ago

      I forgot how bad the default site was, I’m a regular Wired reader and have blocked things on at least a weekly basis.

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    Looking at old defunct forums and blogs on the Wayback Machine, spam and security problems are frequently-cited reasons for shutting down or going read-only.

    Over time, the internet has gotten more hostile.

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    2 years ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer

    [Thread #17 for this sub, first seen 10th Aug 2023, 17:55] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • lemming007@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Us, selfhosters - sure.

    Average person who value convenience over privacy/cost - no. They’ll continue to pay and be in prisoned by the cloud.

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      2 years ago

      Some might say they’re freeing themselves in a way though. Self hosting requires dedicating time you could spend doing other things especially when things break. People pay for convenience and saving time. When we simplify self hosting and updating to a point people can just download apps and press go then it will make sense for the average person

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          2 years ago

          Docker kinda does it by being like an app store but for servers. It’s not very flexible but everyone using a particular image gets the same experience.