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Nibodhika

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  • Following the recent tipping question, what's a good wage for a server? What are they paid outside the US?

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  • Following the recent tipping question, what's a good wage for a server? What are they paid outside the US?

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  • Sounds like you need to increase your minimum wage then as it seems you're implying it's not a livable wage.

    Moving the responsibility to pay employees from the company owner to random people tips is a bad idea. It only works because you peer pressure people into tipping, but people who don't feel pressured to do so will stop tipping and others might look and ask themselves why should I?. You don't tip doctors, programmers, artists, drivers, or any other professional, why are servers different? If the tipping system is so great why is it not used on any other profession? Would you be willing to work your profession for tips?

  • Following the recent tipping question, what's a good wage for a server? What are they paid outside the US?

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  • AFAIK here in Europe it's minimum wage or slightly above, possibly much higher for high end restaurants. But it is a job like any other, they work fix hours and receive a fix wage, if they need to stay late they get overtime. In Brazil it's a job that gets paid minimum wage but there is an expected 10% tip that is almost always put on the bill by the time you get it.

    Here in Europe it's not customary to tip, the expectation is that people earn enough to live well regardless of the job, and if a waiter is not earning enough we should change the minimum wage and not rely on people willingly paying extra. Imagine if you applied the same logic to any other job, no one would be willing to depend on tips from random people to pay their wages, but company owners would be very happy if they can convince people that it's better for them to not get paid.

  • Following the recent tipping question, what's a good wage for a server? What are they paid outside the US?

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  • The term usually means that the skill is something an average person could pick up easily and has a steep and quickly flattening learning curve, so while a person that has worked as a server for 2 years would be much better than someone just started, they will not be that much better than someone who's at it for 1 year. And the difference between 2 and 20 years on that job is neglectible. Compare that with something like programming or medicine where the difference between 2 and 20 years of experience is absurd and you start to get a feeling of what the term means.

    That being said, skilled or unskilled labor everyone deserves to have a basic income that covers all of their needs and at least some of their wants.

  • What is your favorite TV show of all time?

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  • Have you read the books? The first season is the only one based on the books. I'm not saying the books are good or better, but they are.... Different.

  • Ways to Expose Services Publicly

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  • Why do you want to expose them? This might limit the solutions.

    The way I do this is in 2 different ways:

    1. Tailscale, my server connects to tailscale so all I have to do is connect to it from my phone and I can access things remotely easily. This is the best for most things, but has the downside that others can't access it as easily
    2. I have a VPS (two actually at the moment as I'm switching providers from Vultr to IONOS) that also connects to tailscale so it can access my home server through it, then using Caddy I expose the services on a subdomain of the VPS. This is what I do for things that others might want to access, or things I don't want to have to connect to tailscale to access.

    If you're going down the second route do consider that you will need to:

    • Add something like fail2ban or crowdsec to the VPS as attacks will happen.
    • Same reason you should add a dedicated authentication on front of most things. While I don't expect the auth on services to be weak, it might be more vulnerable than a dedicated authentication service. You should look into Authelia, Authentik, or similar to put on front of your services so any attacker would first have to pass that to even get to your services.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • Installers are just fancy zipped folder. And AFAIK, all games that are DRM free on GoG are also DRM free on Steam. So you can download the game, zip the game data folder, copy it elsewhere, unzip it and play it there. I've done that with several games, in fact when I was trying to convince some friends to buy a game I did that so we could play it in lan with a single copy so they would try it and buy it so we could play it online later.

    So, yeah, you can absolutely do that in Steam, which is why I never get the "oh, but GoG has DRM free games" appeal.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • and that is because the one thing they do better:

    DRM-free games.

    Which games are DRM free on GOG but not on Steam?

  • From the day you were born until today, what was the best piece of advice you still follow?

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  • Spanish is my native tongue, and the one I read that comic in.

  • From the day you were born until today, what was the best piece of advice you still follow?

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  • There's one piece of advice I got from a Mickey mouse comic of all places. When I was a kid I read this Mickey mouse comic where he gets kidnapped and has to escape, but it's cold outside and he doesn't have any clothes, so he wears a mattress for warmth. Everyone laughs at him, but he keeps thinking something like "as long as I'm warm, they may laugh at me", and for some reason that piece of advice stuck with me forever.

  • Why do YOU think men commit more crime than women?

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  • It's because of several factors. In no particular order, crime statistics are skewed, they only account for crimes that have been discovered and considered solved, if a certain demographics were better at hiding or getting away with crimes it would be underrepresented. Even if we could trust the statistics, some crimes are less severe than others, and it's hard to judge all crimes in the same bag, even all murders are not equal so statistics can get skewed by a demographic committing more of the crimes you're analyzing even if they commit less if you were to look at specifics. Even if we could trust that, and have crimes organized neatly into completely independent and equally severe categories there's the social factors. Most societies around the world tend to educate men more violently than women. Finally, even if you were to have a society with humans educated equally, and have a 100% crime rate solved with 100% accuracy and analyze crimes in a completely unbiased way, there's still the biological differences, and men have more testosterone than women, and testosterone is responsible for aggressive behavior, so even in such a society there would still be some tendency for men to commit more crimes, although I imagine it would be a lot less skewed than today.

  • [AIT] The Codeberg ban on LLM content

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  • I'm not a law expert, but I think even in Germany you would need to prove a pattern not a one off banned a black/trans person to accuse of discrimination. Otherwise any negative repercussion to a black/trans person would generate a discrimination lawsuit, and that just seems absurd.

    I assume that if codeberg forces this it will do so with the most egregious offenders, because like you have pointed out it's impossible to differentiate good code written with AI tools from good code written without them, but bad code written with AI tools is sometimes very differentiable from bad code written without them. And at the end of the day they're trying to safe-guard against lawsuits over it (as the person uploading the code is not the owner) and becoming a slop repository.

    But also, here's the thing, they're not making money of you hosting your code there, so it's much harder to force them to take someone's data. You could force Google to host your photos if you were unjustly banned, you can't force me to do so if you found a loophole to use my server for that.

  • [AIT] The Codeberg ban on LLM content

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  • How would it be legally challengeable? No one can be legally forced to host someone else's data against their will, that sounds ludicrous, otherwise people could sue YouTube for removing their videos before they were legally required to.

    The TOS are essentially a way to let you know what they will consider, but legally they can remove your repo without any reason, they're not legally required to host your data.

  • Would you rather be able to magically speak the language, understand the customs/etiquette/etc, or know how to navigate the streets and hills upon visiting a new place?

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  • Language, easily.

    Google maps already lets me navigate almost like a local.

    A quick search on the most important customs would cover that fairly quickly, plus a lot is likely to be overlooked because I'm a foreigner.

    But language, it takes years to learn a language properly, and even then it's not native level. Knowing the customs and streets is pointless if you can't communicate, and google translate is not going to be that much help in a real conversation.

  • What laws (if any) should exist around recreational drugs?

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  • You seem to be one of the only people who think differently here, could I ask you to please respond to the questions? Most others have similar opinions to me so it's not productive to ask them questions as they think similar, but you might actually have something to contribute to the discussion.

    With that, I echo some of the questions that were made, plus a few more:

    • How do you define what's a drug then?
    • Does alcohol/tobacco fit that description?
    • Should alcohol/tobacco be banned under that law?
    • Gambling is not banned, most places have casinos operational, and even the places that don't are still allowed to play with friends for money, would your law be similar in that home use is fine?

  • What laws (if any) should exist around recreational drugs?

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  • Well, we didn't had any of those when it was decided that alcohol was going to be legal but weed wasn't. Since then the amount of car accidents caused by alcohol was so high that someone invented ways to detect that. Had weed been legal we probably would already have similar detectors.

    But also, those tests are not that accurate, if you use a mouthwash with alcohol you can blow up positive for example, and if you get into the blood tests I'm fairly confident THC can be detected in blood tests. But at the end of the day we shouldn't be trying to measure that, we should try to measure the impact, e.g. have a test where the person needs to press a button when a light goes on to measure response time, or similar tests. That's what you care about at the end, someone might be wasted with a single beer and not have proper reaction time anymore, while others might be fine even after a few. The problem with that is that everyone thinks they're the latter, but they aren't.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • An argument about emotions can be good or bad like any other, a simple "just because it offends me" is a bad argument because I can be offended by censorship and find your attempt to censor offensive. However a "Currently that word has been embraced by people with a certain mindset, thus by using it you're giving those people more validation on their beliefs as they think you're one of them" is a very clear argument as to why certain words can be hurtful socially.

    My culture is not a costume to me is sorta a weak argument, think about what people dress as for custome parties: Pirates, Ninjas, Vikings, Nuns, Nurses, etc... Most costumes are either of something that doesn't exist or a culture (and sometimes both). However diminishing someone's culture to just the clothes is offensive regardless of culture, and exalting a problem in that culture as part of your costume is also offensive. For example, as someone born in Argentina I wouldn't be offended by someone dressing as a Gaucho, if a friend of mine wanted to dress like that for a costume party I would even lend him my mate. But I can see people getting offended by someone dressed as a soccer player with white powder under their nose (although me personally would just laugh it off, I can see that as being something someone takes offense with).

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • Yes, bad arguments can be made about true statements, but people need to understand that you won't convince anyone with bad arguments, and that discrediting an argument is not the same as discrediting the statement or attacking the person who made it.

    For example, just the other day there was a thread about how pitbulls are supposedly more aggressive than other breeds, but the argument they used was "they're a minority of the population, yet cause the majority of fatalities, therefore they're aggressive", which is a TERRIBLE argument that discards all other possible explanations for the observed statistics. It may be true that pitbulls are more aggressive than other dogs, but that argument will never convince me as it's just plain wrong. And pointing out just how absurd the argument is brought up a bunch of angry people asserting pitbulls are aggressive and attacking me personally for discrediting the logic.

    I used to work with a guy that would argue with me, and sometimes at the end he'd be like "I actually agree with your point, but I wanted you to be right for solid reasons"

    Yeah, I do that as well, I call it playing devil's advocate, it's helpful to be sure the decisions you're reaching are actually the best ones.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • Every time someone is able to convince me I'm wrong, which is not hard to do, I tend to consider things logically, so empirical evidence that I'm wrong will make me flip immediately. Unfortunately most people use very flawed arguments like trying to appeal to emotions or strawmaning my point (or one of the many fallacious things we all have to deal online). And that will not convince me, in fact it only proves you have absolutely no argument. Which is very unfortunate because I'm wrong quite often, and it only takes one person pointing at actual evidence that I'm wrong to make me realize that, yet the majority of my disagreements online end up at an impasse with the person refusing to find common ground to build the debate up.