Currently there is a system. One number, three letters, three numbers. So no chance of mixing up certain characters. If you introduce a different system you will need to make sure you know what system is being used. With your plan you could get a plate that looks exactly like the old system except it's using 0 instead of O.
I suspect there is also a lot of benefit in knowing where numbers and letters will be for having more accurate plate recognition cameras.
The issue is probably that those I, O, Z, and Ss are already on plates since the system is different?
Interesting! I see there is a community specifically for Lemmy.ee questions such as this, you could try there if you don't get an answer here?
I just really want to see where the numbers come from.
You know people self hosting email, I know people self hosting email. But that is certainly not the case for the vast, vast majority of individuals. For businesses, I have seen Exchange take over what used to be smaller hosts, and Google has broken into the small/medium business world as well. I have searched and searched and found nothing, but I don't see why it should be so hard to do. Obtain a list of email addresses from some data breach (I dunno how but I'm sure security researchers do it all the time) then check their DNS to see what proportion point at big tech. My gut feel is that it's a large proportion, but maybe that's just the corner I work in.
Lemmy by default only has an on/off switch for admins. Either users can or can't create communities.
Your instance is lemm.ee, and as far as I can tell there is no custom limitation happening.
The side bar on the lemm.ee home page says:
About this site
- Sign-ups are open
- E-mail verification is required
- Downvotes are enabled
- User community creation is enabled
- Image uploads are enabled 4 weeks after account creation
- Image upload limit is 500kb per image
- We have a policy for administration, moderation, and federation
- We have a status page
Feel free to create or join communities for any topics that interest you!
It doesn't mention a time limit and says feel free to create communities, so you should be able to do it.
email can be run using hundreds of servers on dozens of platforms even from your own house and interact with the email network.
It's nice that it can, but the point of this list is is that what actually happens for the majority of people?
And from my experience, the answer is no, the vast majority of people use Microsoft or Google.
This claim is "Top Provider User Share: Google ≈ 17% → Score: 27/30"
Where does this number come from? Gmail alone claims 1.5 billion active users. Outlook.com has 500 million. But then you have to start adding up all the email users worldwide that are using services hosted by Microsoft (all the Exchange business customers), and the google customers as well (that may or may not be included in the Gmail figures). Then there are all the ISP email addresses that use these services as the provider.
I find it hard to believe that email is as decentralised as claimed here, and I'm really keen to see more data on how it was calculated.
The reason I find it so hard to believe is that when Microsoft fucks up (and given time they always do), a significant portion of the business customers I deal with get affected.
The process manager lets you kill any process.
You can also click the do it anyway button when it's waiting on shutdown, but I've had less consistent success with that.
What surprises me is that they count using an email service as self-hosting. With that logic wouldn't bluesky get a high score because people can bring their own domain easily?
Whaaaaaaaat? Pivot tables are a 2 second job to summarise large amounts of transaction data or similar by month or year. Lookups or countifs would take so much longer!
Not to mention that you can drill into the data using them.
If that is your most unnecessary comment then you must not comment very much because it seems helpful and well placed.
I tend to find we more tech savvy people vastly overestimate how tech savvy the average person is.
However, I suspect you are right about the people interested in home automation eventually hitting that point and coming across Home Assistant.
Home Assistant have done a great job reducing the barrier to entry. Significant improvements in UI editors and all but removing the need for any YAML config for an average user. Plus the Home Assistant Yellow and Green meaning you no longer need to know how to set up a server and can instead buy a hub off the shelf. Surely these efforts are a big part of why the number of installations has increased so much.
Hey how can we troubleshoot when communities are not being federated?
For example, this community shows that there was an error federating to Lemmy.nz (but not what the error was). Previously it was showing as not allowed.
Here are my settings:
There are other communities listed in this post, though really I'd like the tools to troubleshoot myself: https://lemmy.nz/post/21531352
Any help appreciated 🙂
I was trying to get it to pause Pi-hole on request. I'm using Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa) for speech to text, and have also got OpenAI plugged into it for if it doesn't recognise a command. The screen shot is from the debug logs that I eventually found after struggling to work out why it wasn't running my automation.
I'm using the new Home Assistant Voice Preview. Don't get me wrong, overall very happy with it for the price point, but for some reason the cloud speech recognition (I believe powered by Google) is very good at understanding me until I start trying to talk about ad blocking.
Ah, interesting. Thinking about it, do they have vanity plates? If so then all my arguments are invalid.