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Cake day: October 24th, 2023
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Are the homelab communities dead?English
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    1 day ago

    Where do all the lovely self-hosters here turn when they want to chat networking or server hardware?

    I know this might seem like a strange answer, but… IRC channels on private torrent trackers. Many of the people on these sites actively have large and complex setups running. There often is a lot of talk about hardware for servers and networking in those IRC channels. Or at least there is on the trackers I am on.

    I know that’s not necessarily a helpful answer to anyone not already in the private torrent tracker community, since its often quite a task to get involved if you aren’t already. However, it’s one that I have had great success with, personally. To anyone who already is on a private torrent tracker, if you haven’t checked out the IRC, give it a shot and see.

    Oh and don’t forget you can self-host The Lounge for a self-hosted web-based IRC client.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real?English
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    2 days ago

    Trigger Warning: Existential Crisis

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    Everything about us is young in the context of the wider universe. Human society, the human species, the planet earth, our solar system, our sun. We live near the dawn of creation, even though our universe feels unimaginably old compared to our brief lives. As the skies darken and all the stars burn out, that will take course over a time period longer than our individual solar system will last. When the last light goes out, time doesn’t stop, no the universe goes on and there’s an even longer period of endless empty inky blackness, the deep void. In the end, the universe may spend significantly more time as an endless dead void than it ever did as a universe with hope of life and at least one planet with confirmed organic life. There is no escaping it, and there is probably no way for our species to even survive and adapt to that era as it is.