Having summer and winter start around the same time every year is a pretty good thing to have.

You missed a /s marker

Even when running an instance for yourself, you’re not really safe. The threat to your privacy goes from being a third party in control of your data to your own operational inexperience.

I tried to host my own personal Lemmy instance and ran into a lot of issues hosting it. On the one hand you want to be safe by restricting unnecessary access, but on the other hand you have no idea why federation doesn’t work, or the postfix-relay docker cannot send an email, or why you cannot ssh into your own host, so you want to just allow everything and just get it to work somehow. In the end, unless you are already an expert at this stuff, trying to host your personal instance safely is a tall task.

It’s also going to be very costly. Especially for an image sharing website like Pixelfed.

Maybe there is a market for self-service managed hosts like we have with Wordpress blogs.

Hi, I’m Dr. Mordecai Tutu on this glorious day.

You know, saying that everyone except caucasians are “people of color” itself reeks of inherent racism.

Racism is quite common in the world. It always has been. It’s just that in most of our history our out-groups were still local so racism didn’t manifest.

Right now we’re at a point in the human journey where we see people of different races quite often, but we don’t interact often enough that it is no longer relevant for anyone. It’s improving.

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Thank you, kind stranger.

What’s with the washing machines?

Finding international books is also much easier in the age of the Internet. Younger readers (the article talks about people under 35) might be savvier at researching and exploring books from different cultures.

That said, the sales of Tombs of Sand, which eventually won the Booker prize, had had a sales of just five hundred books before it was nominated. It had twenty-five thousand books sold in the nine months since. Maybe we are talking about a really small market and like the article suggested, awards embracing translations make the biggest difference.

to be is an irregular verb that takes the forms am, are, and is in the present tense. to become is a different verb which has the forms become, and becomes.

Well, I’m here for the fanfic about British intelligence gathering devices.

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@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world is hotter than the surface of the Sun. He’s just Ken.

It’s hard work but pays handsomely.

Well then so is a Mercedes. . . . . .

But you wouldn’t steal a car, would you?

Thank you!

Halp. I don’t understand how it went from step 2 to step 3.

Classic lemmy

Google employees who work on the Linux kernel.

Diaspora* has never supported ActivityPub and doesn’t intend to.