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I Installed Android on my iPhone (For Real) - YouTube by cole in c/android@lemdro.id

[-] cole@lemdro.id 14 points 10 months ago

and to note hasn't seen any progress or work in 3 years

Preferred Care for Pixel devices is a confusing service by cole in c/googlepixel@lemdro.id

[-] cole@lemdro.id 14 points 11 months ago

deeply agree. it isn't even that well priced. just self-insure if you're worried. put $12 away into a separate account or something. you'll probably end up with extra money.

Remember, insurance companies are for-profit. You are likely not the one benefitting from this arrangement

Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ by cole in c/android@lemdro.id

[-] cole@lemdro.id 14 points 11 months ago

not surprising, but super disappointing. Beeper Mini was a dream come true

‘Stop the price-gouging’: Biden hits corporations over high consumer costs by cole in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] cole@lemdro.id 14 points 11 months ago

I'm sure the GOP-led house would be very receptive to that

Musk's interference to protect Russia allowed Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, and resulted in the deaths of civilians including children - Zelensky advisor. by cole in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] cole@lemdro.id 14 points 1 year ago

A lot of people are missing the big picture here. Look up Starshield. SpaceX is aggressively hiring for the Starlink DoD edition essentially. I suspect the US govt is not as worried about this as you think

YouTube Music rolling out Now Playing redesign with comments by cole in c/android@lemdro.id

[-] cole@lemdro.id 14 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna go against the grain and say this is awesome and I'm excited for it. I love talking to other people about less-popular songs. I think it could really add a cool social aspect

LMG are some Shady ass motherfuckers. Look at this shit... by cole in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] cole@lemdro.id 13 points 1 year ago

I don't mean to stir up anything, this is entirely respectful (remove this if it isn't, no worries), but it is useful for someone who knew who someone named "Anthony" was, despite the fact that they don't exist anymore. I guess it doesn't matter, but I immediately was able to understand who they were talking about since I didn't know she had transitioned. Is there a better way to approach providing this context?

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Chromecast Audio appreciation post (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/androidmemes@lemdro.id

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RIP :(

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The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be Crumbling Into Chaos (futurism.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cole@lemdro.id to c/aistuff@lemdro.id

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Android phone with alternative to iPhone’s camera by cole in c/askandroid@lemdro.id

[-] cole@lemdro.id 13 points 1 year ago

If you're looking for an equivalent camera, the easy bet is a Google Pixel. Personally, I think the photos are way better on the Pixel, although iPhones tend to do video better

Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts by cole in c/android@lemdro.id

[-] cole@lemdro.id 14 points 1 year ago

There are more Android devices, so I'm optimistic Google's alternative could be great

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Android rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by cole@lemdro.id to c/androidmemes@lemdro.id

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[COMPLETED] Proxy tuning (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/lemdroid@lemdro.id

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Earlier today, I identified the root cause of an issue causing annoying 502 errors intermittently. If you've ever had an action infinitely load until you refreshed the page, that is this issue. I deployed a fix, and am slowly scaling it down to stress test it. If you encounter an infinite loading occurrence or an HTTP 502 error please let me know!

UPDATE: Stress testing complete. Theoretically we should be equipped to handle another 5k users without any intervention from me

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[COMPLETED] Image server maintenance (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/lemdroid@lemdro.id

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Hello folks! I am migrating the image backend to an S3-compatible provider for cost and reliability reasons. During this time, thumbnails and other images hosted here will be borked, but the rest of Lemdro.id will remain online. Thank you for your patience!

UPDATE: Image migration is gonna take a hot minute. Should be done in around 6 hours, I'll get it fully fixed up in around 7-8 hours when I wake up (~08:30 PDT)

UPDATE 2: It failed, yay! Alright, fine. I turned the image proxying back on. I am migrating to S3 in the background and will switch over when it is done. Any images uploaded in the next 8 hours or so may end up being lost.

UPDATE 3: Migration complete. Will be rolling out the update to S3-backed image storage in around 6 hours (~6pm PDT)

UPDATE 4: Object storage backend deployed! Thanks for your patience folks.

Lemmy.world and another instance have been compromised by cole in c/android@lemdro.id

[-] cole@lemdro.id 15 points 1 year ago

Hey everyone, this exploit was present in the custom emoji feature of Lemmy. Because lemdro.id does not use custom emojis, we are not vulnerable at this time.

[META] Community Vote: Memes by cole in c/android@lemdro.id

[-] cole@lemdro.id 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As requested: !androidmemes@lemdro.id

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Praise Duarte (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/androidmemes@lemdro.id

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daily Duarte praise

Gboard is preparing to add an "Undo" function by cole in c/android@lemdro.id

[-] cole@lemdro.id 13 points 1 year ago

oh no, they noticed. Shhhh... admin testing comment latency..

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[COMPLETED] Upcoming server maintenance (10:30pm PT-> 11:30pm PT) (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/lemdroid@lemdro.id

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I'm sure you all have noticed the latency problems on this instance. Stage 1 of my 4 stage scaling roadmap is taking place tonight as I migrate the database to physically run closer to the machines running lemmy.

I will do a more detailed write-up on this later, but the gist is that each db operation required a new connection from lemmy, and that means a brand new SSL handshake since the db is managed elsewhere. Pooling would solve this, but lemmy does not handle a properly configured pg bouncer correctly in my testing. So the solution is move the database closer and within the private network to avoid SSL handshakes altogether.

TL;DR instance gonna go brrrr, downtime starting at 10:30pm pacific time tonight, should be done by 11:30pm

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New hosting, and backend information (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago by cole@lemdro.id to c/lemdroid@lemdro.id

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For all curious, Lemdroid now runs via fly.io and neon.tech.

The database is hosted by neon tech while the frontend and backend are horizontally scalable and deployed to fly.io. This should be massively scalable both up and down, so we can handle nearly any amount of users. Pretty neat, right?