Have you ever had a near death experience? What happened?
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    IceHouse
    3d ago 100%

    Wow, that is something I never considered as possible. I guess I'm glad I'm terrified of horses. I should carry those around just in case I see this happening even though I don't have allergies

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  • Have you ever had a near death experience? What happened?
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    IceHouse
    3d ago 100%

    That is so scary. Whenever I visit the US I feel like this is going to happen to me when I have to cross a street, glad you got the spidey sense!

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  • Have you ever had a near death experience? What happened?
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    IceHouse
    3d ago 100%

    Wow, that is really scary. It is kind of funny/sad how delicate our heads are and they just kind of hang there on top of everything exposed

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  • Have you ever had a near death experience? What happened?
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    IceHouse
    3d ago 100%

    Yeah, I had a similar but less severe experience with my first and last time trying xanax. I started to flip out a bit but definitely not remembering what was going on. I ended up picking a fight with a friend of mine who punched me in the face to get me to stop wiling then dragged me into my home and put me in my bed. I never thanked anyone for punching me in the face before or since lol

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  • Have you ever had a near death experience? What happened?
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    IceHouse
    3d ago 100%

    No, I was knocked out for an unknown amount of time but definitely less than a day and possibly not even that long. The passage of time wasn't extremely clear. I was awake for most of it but immobile. I was in a lot of pain and the entire event feels like looking back on a really bad dream. I have been told it was a unlikely that I should have survived.

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  • About 25 years ago when I was still in college I thought it would be cool to get a motorcycle. I rode it around for about a year with no problems until one day I was riding down this mountain road near where I lived and a deer ran out in front of my bike and I swerved to avoid it, I flew off my bike and into a ditch on the side of the road and was knocked out, my bike fell off the other side of the road and down a sheer cliff face. It was not obvious anyone has ever been there or that there was an accident. I laid there for almost a two days until people started looking for me after missing work. When I came to my legs were messed up, I had broken an ankle, elbow and wrist and couldn't move. I sat there for hours convinced I was going to die. I was pretty upset about it but after a while the anxiety washed away and I just went completely numb. My next memory was waking up in a hospital. Thank god I was wearing a helmet. How about you?

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    AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds
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    IceHouse
    3w ago 87%

    I do a lot of scripting for cloud infrastructure deployments and linux/windows basic scripting and the bing chat is great for banging out 5 liners in 1 second that would take me an hour even after multiple decades of being an admin.

    Anything more complex it is useless for so it is limited but nice to have.

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  • For me it has to be Malcom X, I'm not American, but I read his autobiography when I was young and it left a life long impression on me about justice and resiliency. He grew up in an extremely oppressive society, his dad was murdered and his mother was sent to the loony bin and he was clearly lost and traumatized. When he went to jail he was smart enough to be like what the hell, why am I here? Educating himself and channeling his energy into caring about others and justice transformed him into one of the most powerful and well respected leaders of his time. He is often denigrated by Americans as violent and contrasted with King Jr. but by all accounts whenever he was in a position to project violence he chose de-escalation like during the Harlem riots and saved lives as there were people in the US in positions of military power who would have loved an excuse to do to them what they did to the indigenous across the entire country. He was angry but principled and really set a template for me about how to be a leader and help me process my own anger and channel it into something more positive.

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    Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances
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    IceHouse
    3w ago 100%

    I mean that is what is is asking, he is looking for a team of people to manage the instances in this post. That is what this post is about, he is looking for a team of people to run them as admins while maintaining his (imo correct) vision for how it should be structured.

    I forgot to mention the biggest fact- the users are where all the risk are. If people are just posting pictures to your instance of communities you have minimized risk as you can just gatekeep what is posted. Once you allow users in who can then post on other federated communities you take on a lot more risk.

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  • Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
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    IceHouse
    3w ago 100%

    I ran a subreddit for my discord server that we would sometimes post pictures to and find new members and after we stopped using reddit about 7 months later bots started reposting my own pictures and random bot accounts were reposting old comments. It was really weird for my ~2000 people sub that was under the radar and never reall popular.

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  • Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances
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    IceHouse
    3w ago 100%

    But nothing needs to be done to meet this OPs desires for community only instances that are well federated with other instances (IE at least one user is subscribed to each community on each instance). This way those admins just manage those communities and Beehaw and Lemmy.ml can run their combined servers.

    The users and the subscribed to communities cause nearly all the load on the servers too, it is a way to keep costs down.

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  • Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances
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    IceHouse
    3w ago 100%

    Even though the community is contained the cloud resources should still be split in two between identity and operations to be in alignment with all the industry best practices and potential for scalability. Remember the unix philosophy is do one thing well.

    Beehaw should operate their own Beehaw fediverse IDP (Identity provider) for the users to sign in with, that would manage their tos agreements, privacy policies and user based security. Separately they should operate their Lemmy server which hosts pictures and links organized by communities. They could just use a single IDP for their instance and have the same experience as now only better with better architecture.

    Source: I am a cloud services architect.

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  • Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances
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    IceHouse
    3w ago 100%

    ITT: People who don't understand IAM or how to build a healthy federated structure. There should be identity services and instances just to host content separately. This way a spammer from a service won't de-federate content from everyone else and there could be easier moderation splitting the task between users and the comms.

    lol I think you are right about this. You'll never get these lemmitors to see it i guess.

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  • Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities
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    IceHouse
    2mo ago 75%

    Are you from another dimension as everyone else where this happened? Because they never federated in the dimension I live in. Very interesting you're able to cross this gap, does the name Nelson Mandella mean anything to you?

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  • Iran: Woman left paraplegic after being shot by police over hijab
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    IceHouse
    2mo ago 60%

    US police have gunned down 48 women last year and 37 so far this year so they're just sharing their love of murdering people with police around the world

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  • I never really did a lot of drugs besides smoking pot a few times but I tried crack once at a party in college and I felt pretty ashamed of myself immediately after despite high. I didn't try it again and am actually a sober adult now, not because I had a drug problem but I just grew out of wanting to try them and never liked to drink alcohol. I never met anyone else who would ever admit to trying it though or even cocaine despite statistically knowing many people have haha. Any crack smokers on lemmy?

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