I had a job that used COBOL and programmed in it. Its not terrible. It even works with sql.

The issue is the decades of code with little to o documentation, the fixes for issues like y2k that wirked at the time but now have problems, and greedy companies that want you to pay per processor. All the while you yourself are one of three people in the city that are looking to slowly pull everything out of COBOL, making it just a bit harder to get a job next time.

Theres a reddit community for that. Litterally !reddit@lemmy.world

Thanks! I personally think as long as people land in the fediverse, its going to be ok. But its cool to give some highlights to piefed.

Also congrats on making a “controversial” post! Thats how you know its good :D

Yeah I agree, its all the same TBH.

Because it would address what you talk about above. You dont like it, fix it. Ive done it on quite a few fedi services, its not terribly hard. It makes the world just a tiny bit better.

Create a PR and fix it.

It took 2 days for a PR to go though on piefed. It was a great experience.

Reading the code is VERY easy, even compared to other projects. I was able to get it up and running in about 30 mins with very little knowledge of the project. The “filters” are all optional on the admin side and instances can and have modified them to suit their needs.

Congrats @rimu@piefed.social ! Your project has gained “controversy”, the main way you can tell its getting successful 😁.

Nice. Its a fun one.

is /e/ OS also safe?

I just have a firewall and call it a day. No more extra services, no extra money, and as long as 80/443 are good externally and a couple of others im good. Its a small server, I dont even have ssh open outside the network.

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ICE’s use of facial recognition software was documented in videos and photos from local activist groups in Minnesota this month and reviewed by The Times. Two photos captured fatigue-clad agents using cellphones to scan the faces of protesters in Minneapolis, while in one video, agents could be heard telling people that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology and that their faces would be added to a database.

I dont like my ISP but it does let me use whatever ports I want for self hosting. Comcast does not without extra fees and even then its very expensive.

Its a fun game! I have found sometimes the way of dealing with followers is…just to have less of them lol. Just letting them die, throw them into the compost and call it a day.

I just beat the new DLC. It was really fun! I liked going into the new areas.

Maybe fork bookwyrm? Its a great federated book system like good reads.

Probably. just remember windows 10 is the last OS you will ever need. MS assured us :D

Yep i agree. Although it sounds like its trivial to break lora/tastic encryption from what was discussed online. Ill be honest i never went down that rabbit hole.

Agreed. Im tired after work. Debian/yunohost is good enough.

At work its hundreds of docker containers but all ci/cd takes care of that.

I just have yunohost do like 90% of the work nowadays. My day job is docker/cli so the last thing i want to do is more of it.

If there is an actual emergency, I would say these are a nifty introduction to ham radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZxR-qtGH7c

Its amazing how far you can go with a somewhat simple setup. You can go really cheap with a Baofeng.

Just FYI at the speed meshtastic/core is talking about, it would be very slow. Like dialup would look fast.

But its a fun hobby! Take a look over at !meshtastic@mander.xyz for anyone interested. Meshtastic (and meshcore) are also SUUUPER alpha so dont expect anything polished.