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Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

Unless they mean something like the Respondus rootkit

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/best-way-to-use-respondus-lockdown-browser-for-school/26098

IMO some exams should just be proctored in person

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Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

If you want a program instead of the website, this one looked decent

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar

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Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

Is this because it's getting difficult for students to mess with the boot options?

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Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

Oh nice! I haven't had a chance to explore the new features yet. While I wouldn't want to change it for piefed.ca, it might be nice in the future if instances were able to customize which community it uses. For the users/instances that block LW/that community

Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

:/

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Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

While I can't speak for the mods there, I can confirm that it's cool to post old communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca :)

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Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

Have you tried the third party ones? I've seen recommendations for Swiftfin

https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

Here is an explanation for each sorting type. It sounds like you're looking for "Top". I personally prefer Scaled so that I get some content from the small communities I'm subscribed to

Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

This reminds me of the "WHY IS THERE CODE??? MAKE A FUCKING .EXE FILE AND GIVE IT TO ME" post that blew up a while back

https://copypastatext.com/i-am-new-to-github-and-i-have-lots-to-say/

And both boil down to

guides can be prioritized more in some projects and it might be in the best interest of the creators to do that
different guides are written for different audiences, sometimes a guide isn't meant for the average person

Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

Pretty much this :)

A while back I switched to using RSS feeds for news, and there are so many free and low cost events out there in my city. Free shows, food festivals, cultural days, free admission days at attractions, music in the park, etc

I've been posting some of them to !vancouver@lemmy.ca, but that's only the events that I was interested enough to click on + think that people here would be interested in as well

For example:

[Science World will have free admission on Friday, Sept. 19, as a part of their 'Tech-Up' initiative]
https://lemmy.ca/post/51805885

There are also free activities you can do anywhere, with lots of good ideas in this thread. Some extras that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Go mapping with StreetComplete (https://streetcomplete.app/) or similar apps where you contribute to public data sets
Go geocaching! !geocaching@lemmy.world

Sometimes cities also have scavenger hunt type guides where you can explore an area

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Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

I think if you don't have an account with them, the only relevant bit is here

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DPRO

If a LinkedIn account shared something with your information, you can file a request about it

Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

!taneggs@lemmy.ca

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Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

The only concern I've seen with the name is that Facebook named their thing "Threads", and so it might be confusing for people familiar with that.

I still use the term 🤷

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Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

I'm not sure which guides to recommend, but in case it helps narrow down your search, you could share more about your situation:

Do you have any existing hardware or are you planning to buy? If so, what is the budget for the equipment and where in the world are you approximately?
What did you want to self host? Some services would benefit from a certain type of setup. For example, if you're serving lots of media, if you need redundancy and uptime, if you're running AI models or something that needs a GPU

General tips:

take lots of notes on your process. This will help you iteratively improve your setup. If it all falls apart, it will be easier to quickly get going again since you know what options you picked at each step.
Make more posts here when you get stuck on something :)

For Linux, a lot of people go with Ubuntu server because there are a lot of existing guides for it. You don't need much Linux knowledge to start self hosting since you can learn by doing over time. Some concepts to explore before getting started might be cron, the Linux file system, and user permissions.

For Docker, you should be fine if you know the basics. I'd recommend using Docker Compose since it's easier to understand what's happening when its written out in a nice yaml file. Install Docker and Docker Compose on the server, and then install something like DockGE to manage the compose files. When you want to run a service, copy the Docker compose file and then swap the port to what port you want to use, and the volume to the location you tend to use.

For a very basic setup, I'd find a video guide for

installing Ubuntu server on the machine
basic setup of the Ubuntu server (file permissions, docker, docker compose)

Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

Thank you for organizing the concept concisely :)

Otter @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

We've had to block a number of IPs for our instance. One was a misconfigured fediverse project that was hammering our instance, and a number of them seem to be AI companies scraping for content.

Maybe something similar is happening on your instance?