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Cryptocurrency’s transparency is a mirage: New research shows a small group of insiders influence its value in c/personalfinance@lemmy.ml

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

In crypto there are no real options. Please stop with this rhetoric.

Bye bye Garmin, hello Polar (from Finland) in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gentle reminder that you should not use this as an excuse to buy things imo. I see too many people just replacing perfectly good items. It's much better if there's an anti consumption stance (use what you have, repair, buy used, buy, local, buy regionally) in that order.

Someone made a nonviolent luigi post and it was deleted.. wonder why? in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I dunno, that poll reads very much in favor of Luigi. The fact that a poll needs to be run in the first place for an act like this. To me anything that's not strongly against this is showing some sort of support.

Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No but where are you going to go. The options are shrinking.

Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Even if this isn't entirely true, you know Google wouldn't pass up the opportunity to reduce Firefox market share to scare everyone back to Chrome.

Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

And if it changes, I will leave and stop paying. They are a user centric model. They thrive because of paying users.

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It's a really fun time to self-host today (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by betternotbigger@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've never had so much fun self-hosting. A decade or so ago I was hosting things on Linode and running all kinds of servers for myself but with the rise of cloud services, I favored just giving everything to Google. I noticed how popular this community was on Reddit/Lemmy and now it's my new addiction.

I'm a software engineer and have plenty of experience deploying to AWS/GCP so my head has been buried in the sand with these cloud providers. Now that I'm looking around there are things like NextCloud, Pihole, and Portainer all set up with Cloudflare Zero Trust... I feel like I'm living the dream of having the convenience to deploy my own services with proper authentication and it's so much fun.

Reviving old hardware to act as local infra is so badass it feels great turning on old machines that were collecting dust. I'm now trying to convince my brother to participate in doing hard-drive swaps on a monthly basis so I have some backup redundancy off-site without needing to back up to the cloud.

Sorry if this feels ranty but I just can't get over how awesome this is and I feel like a kid again. Cheers to this awesome community!

EDIT: Just also found Fission and OpenFaaS, selfhosted serverless functions, I'm jumping with joy right now!