Automatically generated AI music slop!

LLM hallucinated news (in French) slop!

There's two down, now someone give me a billion dollars in start-up funding please so I can tackle the others.

Email probably could not happen today.

While I love the Internet and all sorts of modern life fixtures (in a developed country), I feel a bit like I missed out by not being alive when all the crazy drinks were around.

Boy have I got news for you about the availability of drugs in modern days

The thing is the drugs are known to be drugs. Back then "patent medicine" could be whiskey, could be Dr Pepper, could be cocaine.

Or Arsenic - it really cures what ails you - you won't be bothered by whatever it was you were complaining about before.

Probably best to have missed out on radium water.

You can still get your Radium Spa treatment in the Czech Republic: https://www.axxoshotels.com/radium-palace-spa

Cocaine is still readily available.

Pour yourself a nice glass of wine with some coke on the side?

Unadulterated cocaine is not readily available to 99% of people. Who wants to risk getting some fentanyl or whatever else as a layperson wanting to try it?

But from reputable sources

This comment seems addressed to the portion of the population that both doesn’t know how to safely buy illegal drugs and also is able to determine which drug sellers are reputable. i can only assume this is an extremely small amount of people

I get concerned when a product’s reviews are all: “received and looks good, will update review when I try it”

I can only assume they all died.

I deleted your calendar, I'm sorry.

But you BET that person is never, ever making that mistake again!

Our child is only 6 but these fears are done of the reasons we have immich at home (amongst other things). We still have Google storage for photos, but just in case they take a photo or video that gets flagged we do not want to lose everything. I am though trying to get in the habit of having an annual photo book printed to have some used copies of memories.

My spouse is more tired to Google, but for myself if I got cut off i'd just have to change some recovery email addresses.

Totally unlogged and anonymous too, right?

I'm being completely serious, but what is the current fav open source forum software these days? I'd love to host a forum for a small community I'm involved in. Not a stranger to hosting other things across a variety of stacks, so I'm not particular about technology used.

Every single forum I see now is using this:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

Seems to work okay in general. I'm not a big fan of the gamified notification system it seems to have - whenever I sign up for an instance, it'll send me things like "Super reader achievement unlocked! You read 10 threads." or whatever. I suppose it can be turned off since it's OSS.

I work at Discourse. As a regular user, if you want to prevent these new user badges (and notifications), head to /u/yourusername/preferences/interface and check "Skip new user onboarding tips and badges".

It is in our plans to eventually rework how this new user education and notification system works, and I suppose eventually with https://id.discourse.com/ the intent would be that your preferences follow you to every Discourse site you sign up for, so you could just set it once.

As an admin, badges can be disabled entirely, or individually.

I just wish that the whole badges thing was off by default. It's a forced gamification that's just annoying and doesn't really teach anything.

Except for that, I love Discourse.

It's their way of attempting to fight user churn. Forums need all the help they can get in that regard given the attention economy of today and the giants they're attempting to fight against. Anything novel is a win.

You are just being extremely nitpicky.

Discourse is awful software, from a user standpoint.

But its better than all the other forum software I've seen...

I hate the scrollbar hijacking and lazy loading on larger threads.

I just want pagination and to use my stock browser features...

Thanks, I'll have to look into it too, though the gamification sounds annoying AF.

I responded to the other comment, but I work at Discourse. As a site admin you can disable badges (which is our gamification system) entirely, or you can get rid of individual badges.

If you're interested in trying Discourse, our lowest hosting plan is $20/month, or if you want to self-host there have been a bunch of improvements in the setup process recently, see https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-just-got...

You could take a look at https://nodebb.org/

Thanks, I'll check it out :)

I wonder if it was a bit of a power display. Showing they are untouchable.

Canadian here, could you share the name of the provider? I'd love to move to something more local and just need a basic small vps for a simple apache host. I know of a couple providers but never talked to anyone actually using one.

I did a detailed review of a few Canadian VPS providers last year.

https://lukecyca.com/2025/canadian-vps-review.html

Last year, I moved from DigitalOcean to FullHost (their Vancouver datacentre) for hosting a small SaaS and a bunch of personal projects. It's cheaper and FAR better performance.

Thanks! I'll check it out!

It was ServaRICA as someone else suggested. It was a Black Friday hybrid VPS deal from a few years ago, looks like they still have comparable stuff on their site. For the cost I would generally assume anything important needs to be duplicated in case the company folds or a fire unless you pay them for such a service. (I don't have any vested interest in suggesting them.)

Thanks! Nothing important, personal site with the source stored in a git repo replicated to a few places, so them folding would just be a minor inconvenience.

They're probably talking about ServaRICA. They post deals on LowEndTalk.

Thank you!

So autotools but for execution instead of compilation?