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  • cm0002OPtomovies@piefed.social•Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, And Emily Blunt Are Back In The Devil Wears Prada 2
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    15 days ago

    I don’t cross post from any other instances except .ml

    Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

    I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.

    Megathread on the issue

    Some highlights from the link:

    .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

    “If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

    "Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

    “See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

    “NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

    General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

    And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

    I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

    On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

  • cm0002OPtoData Hoarder@selfhosted.forum•Need advice about an old hard driveEnglish
    4·
    15 days ago

    @WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world

    When it comes to old drives, you may very well only get one good read out of it before its gone for good. (Or at least solidly in a very pricey data recovery service territory)

    If you have the means to do so, consider a data recovery service first and foremost if you can’t afford it or don’t want to proceed on

    So the first thing you want to do is make a byte-by-byte raw image of the drive(s) with a tool like this https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/

    BUT you will need a destination drive that’s at least the same size as your source. So if your old drive is 500GB you’ll need a destination that has 500GB free or more. Id personally go a tad bigger because ya never know and remember this might be the last time you get a good read

    Second it sounds like you did plug it into android and it tried adding in it’s default folders, but 1) it probably picked up the 500MB or so tiny boot partition windows makes 2) it only adds folders, it doesn’t wipe partitions.

    So in both your data is probably fine BUT

    It does sound like your drive isnt particularly healthy, so until you’re ready to make that image keep it offline and disconnected

    Once you have the image, you do all your work from there and keep your source drive safe until you’re 100% you don’t need it anymore

  • cm0002OPtoPrivacy@programming.dev•The Big Tech Walkout 2026
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    15 days ago

    Because things, unfortunately, cost money to run. Digital crowdsourcing isn’t magic, it requires adequate infrastructure to run and facilitate said crowdsourcing data.

    Static maps are easy, load em up on a server and people just download one way. Sure it might get a little slow when busy but eh.

    Live things however require constant near-real-time communication to be useful. And that requires servers and bandwidth and other infrastructure.

    And that’s not even going into how the premium fee goes back into further development and refinement of other features and maintenance.

    And before you say “Well, federation!” I say well look at the Threadiverse, each is comprised of individual instances that’s true. But each instance, has a bill they have to pay to keep running.

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