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Dave , 14 hours ago to Comic Strips in Hit one for me

They put the site in the body of the post, though the watermark seems to have been removed.

Here's a direct link to the comic: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/a-hit-for-bobby/

Dave , 6 days ago to Technology in The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

Lemmy has algorithms, it's just that they aren't designed to maximise profit.

If you have the sort type set to Hot, posts are ranked based on score (upvotes minus down votes) with a decay based on post time. Active is the same but based on the last comment time.

If you are on the website, there is a ? next to the sort option that will take you to a page explaining how the different options work.

But long story short, most sorting options are affected by down votes.

Dave , 12 days ago to Memes in Not cool

Are we talking kraft or made from scratch?

Dave , 20 days ago to Selfhosted in ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

I think it's like this: if your game is not on Steam, you won't sell many copies. Publishers fight to make sure the game is on Steam.

If your movie isn't on Steam, the company doesn't care. No one goes to Steam for movies. So Valve has to fight to get the rights to distribute (and compete with streaming services).

Dave , 20 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to Memes in Check your email for the verification code we just sent you.

I don't know about that guy but you can't even get cheque books in NZ anymore. They were phased out, mostly because electronic payments are ubiquitous and most places already stopped accepting cheques a decade or two back.

Dave , 20 days ago to Privacy in I found a worm on my USB

Personally, most stuff is in cloud storage. For local stuff I use syncthing.

But for the average person, I'd expect using iCloud, Google Drive, Onedrive, or Dropbox and then creating a shareable link for the other person.

I also can't remember the last time I used a USB drive for anything other than installing an OS.

Dave , 25 days ago to Technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

Hey ChatGPT, how can I ...

"Locking as this is a duplicate of [unrelated question]"

Dave , 1 month ago to Technology in DropBox says hackers stole customer data, auth secrets from eSignature service

What a weird thing to say about a company that had $2.5B in revenue last year and 17M paying subscribers.

It's like saying "who users gmail these days?", where the answer is a shit ton of people just not the early adopters that have moved on.

Dave , 1 month ago to Memes in Thank you Raymond Hill

I think performant is probably the key thing here. There were ad blockers before and there are alternative ones now, but the thing that sets unlock Origin apart is how light weight it is.

Dave , 1 month ago to Technology in Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic

What proportion of the bots were fediverse servers syncing with each other?

Dave , 1 month ago to Memes in Public Service Announcement

I worked full time in a produce department years ago. It was physically demanding for an hour or two in the morning unloading the truck and stacking it away, then it was mostly playing cricket out the back with a plank, an onion, and a rubbish bin for the wicket.

Dave , 1 month ago to Privacy in As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline

Interesting how there are so many mentions of people worried about AI and only sharing photos in closed groups on Instagram/Facebook. I'm not sure that's actually keeping the photos away from AI.

Dave , 1 month ago to Memes in class war

Are you talking about capital gains tax?

First, let's be clear, the reason the rich pay little tax doesn't have much to do with the capital gains tax rate being lower.

Now the reason for the lower rate (at least ostensibly) is that while income is earned at a point in time, capital gains happens over large amounts of time. Therefore often a big part of the gain is inflation. Let's imagine you bought a house for $100k and 20 years later you sell the house for $140k. Over that time inflation has been a steady 2%.

Due to inflation $148k is now worth what $100k was worth 20 years ago. But when you sell you have to pay tax on the $40k profit even though you actually made a loss?

Lower capital gains rates are meant to adjust for this. Basically saying we understand part of the gain is inflation, so let's call it half inflation and half profit and we'll account for this by setting the capital gains rate at half the income tax rate.

Remember companies (that you might have shares in) or yourself as a land lord are (ostensibly) paying tax on profits as you go. Capital gains tax is in addition to this.

This comment is already long enough so I'll leave the conversation on whether this stuff is true in practice as an excercise for the reader, but it at least starts from a sensible place.

At least where I live (not the US), if you're day trading stocks or flipping houses you'll pay income tax not capital gains tax (ostensibly 😆).

Dave OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Beeper is joining Automattic [WordPress]

Ah I see now there's another post about this: https://lemmy.world/post/14092260

Dave , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in My Overconfidence Killed Me and My Immich Installation

I have minor beef with Immich and basically any larger project and the way they go about their Docker Compose. Basically I feel they make the assumption that they’re the only thing running.

^Disclaimer: I fully accept this is all just me being too stupid and not the Immich development team.

This might be my turn to be too stupid but isn't the point of docker that they all run in containers so it doesn't matter? They can all use the same database port, because the database is in a container and so doesn't prevent another database container using the same port. The port doesn't need to be exposed to the host.

The only issue that comes up when running lots of services is accessing them all over http, and that's what a reverse proxy is for. I run a dozen services on the same machine, mostly using the default docker compose files, and never have to mess with things like you have here.