Honestly it’s so annoying we just can’t natively crossposting from mastodon and we have to keep using screenshots.
Could someone reply with tagging the community?
Sadly no. Replies don’t open new posts
And even if they did, you can’t reply from Lemmy. You can’t even load the post from Lemmy. You’d need to use something that actually interface with Mastodon posts.
Would be cool if fediverse instances auto created a “Fediverse” topic/thread/etc that was only dedicated to federating ActivityPub things from other services.
Like I’d love to go to c/Fediverse or even something like c/Mastodon and c/Loops and whatnot to get some more content from within Lemmy
Edit: maybe f/Mastodon or ap/Mastodon for “Fediverse/ActivityPub” to differentiate them from the user made communities?
Hard coding other website engine names into the structure of your own website engine seems… not great.
Lemmy doesn’t show posts from Mastodon for the exact same reason it doesn’t show posts from Loops. Or PixelFed. Or Miskey. Or Bookwyrm. Or other Lemmy users.
A “Mastodon” feed would encompass all of those things. And it would promote the idea that all that exists outside of Lemmy are the most popular wish.com versions of existing mainstream services. It neither leaves room for acknowledging less popular options, nor anything that’s genuinely new.
Plus, there are already website engines that let you follow both groups and users. If that’s something you want, mbin is right there. Why not use that?
You know how there’s All, Home and Local? I’m basically suggesting adding “other federated services” to that list so that you can specifically go and look at things outside of the service you use that have found their way to your instance.
Would it actually be a useful way of perusing that content? Not particularly, but it would probably get a lot more people to see and get interested in the other federated services and actually see how federation works
Would this be better as a front-end project instead? Definitely, but I wrote that comment literally as the words were flowing out of my brain while on a work break and didn’t realize that at the time.
Would be cool if there was a way to basically display a toot with mastadon-like formatting simply by linking it in Lemmy. Since it’s all in the Fediverse it could even display the live number of likes, boosts, etc. and provide an easy link to the toot author’s profile
Sounds like a fantastic feature to add in. Linking the feds together to promote useage.
You have my support. I don’t do twitter-like feeds (never got the appeal), but absolutely love the content on Mastodon. Having that content on my Lemmy feed would be golden.
Go ahead and submit a PR then.
ORACLE: One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison
I always heard it as One Rich Asshole. TIL
It’s the problem with their “always free” virtual machines. Use too much, and they delete it for abuse. Use just a little, and they delete it for inactivity.
Those aren’t free because Oracle is benevolent, but simply because probably they had a contract with Ampere to purchase millions of those arm server CPUs and they have vacancy
They’re “free” in the hope that they will catch a whale: someone gets used to their infrastructure with a test, then spin more paid virtual machines
If in a specific datacenter, suddenly a whale is asking more resources, the free ones are getting the cut
Ah but this guy said he was paying them, in this reply on Mastodon, and that in fact they didn’t even stop the charge for next month.
I’m kinda excited about my free tier. Gonna see what happens in the future.
I wanted to try them but then I would have to register with Oracle… Yuck
What negative experiences did you make in the past, I’m interested.
Not just oracle. Couple years ago Google nuked an Australian pension fund cloud environment with no way to restore. Just poof all data gone.
That was mistake on Google part if I remember correctly, it wasn’t intentional.
Oopsie, the photos of your dead wife/husband/father/mother/pet/children are all gone. Pleasure doing bussiness with you! 🤗
We’re sowwwie.
As someone who had that misfortune to work woth their products, this tracks just great. Honestly. I’ve used their Apex and SQL developer. Both of them are unintuitive to use, inconsistent, lacking features, and just a complete resource hogs in their own ways. Makes me wonder how they are still keeping themselves afloat, considering the abhorrent state and quality their products are.
Oh god, Apex. I was trying to enjoy my morning. Unintuitive isn’t even the right way to describe it. It has to be the most complicated way to build an application and that’s just sticking with the templates. Even knowing what I would need to change would require guess work and 5 minutes of hunting to find the action that may not even work
I sincerely despise how it hides the primary keys of a table when creating a interactive grid with a form subpage for entering new data, I have to unhide the primary key twice, on two different places. I know it does that for the master details as well, and I think it does the same for reports as well. Like, come on! It’s so infuriating how much time i have to waste just changing the primary key to be visible. Won’t even gonna mention how much it’s necessary to scroll to change a field to a dropdown list. The RESTful services are at least somewhat straightforward. Really like when it gives me “Under unscheduled maintenance” and then I gotta figure if it’s my SQL or they being down for real… Also for some reason, all of Oracle’s pages just take foooreever to load on my network. It’s not my router, it’s not my connection, since all other websites just load fine…
In both cases, I was using Oracle products for seminar projects. Specifically for Apex, I had to make a simple database with 15 tables, and visualise all of them in the Apex as a page. I am empathetic to anyone who has to use either in a production environment on a real project…
I thought you could just go to the UI settings within the SQL Workshop and unmark the PK as Hidden for that
I don’t seem to be able to locate that option in the SQL Workshop… If true that’d saved me so much time, since that wasn’t shown to me during the course. Thanks anyway, though! 👍
It’s been a while since I’ve used Apex so I hope you find the solution, I remember messing with the default settings a lot before it became useful at all
We used JCaps for hospital interfaces… when the time came to renew licenses, they literally ghosted us until we just moved to a different engine
Makes me wonder how they are still keeping themselves afloat, considering the abhorrent state and quality their products are.
Their main business model is patent/trademark infringement lawsuits.
I recall My company at the time was getting free rehosting pro serve and 6 months active credit. Heavy oracle rac shop. Now, 6 years on they are stuck. I offered to migrate them off oracle but the CEO likes oracle. Down with the ship, I guess.
This is exactly why you don’t use anything from Oracle, especially free stuff like OCP. If you think you’re not going to regret it eventually, you’re fucking wrong.
a good reminder to back up your shit regardless of what service you’re using.
Something about eggs in one basket.
Two baskets of eggs? Have you seen how much they cost?
It’s just the basket not the eggs
My much brainier than me friend was telling me about the courses he was taking to apply to Oracle. I had to break it to him how far down they’ve fallen, and not to expect anything working for them. He’s smart, but not in the right social channels like the Fediverse to see what the real people are saying.
All of the tech people everywhere know about Oracle. You’d have to be actively avoiding the info, or be coming in from a completely different subculture at this point.
He’s been so deeply invested in code itself and cloistered in Udemy courses. Trust me, I know how it sounds.
He really doesn’t communicate with others in the business, which right now I think is his downfall. No connections.
He’s the “no distractions and dive into paid resources” type of learner and I’m the “scour the web and find news and free resources” type of learner, but I’m easily distracted.
Nice to know that they go above and beyond to uphold GDPR
We don’t move your data across borders… Because we don’t have it any more!
Oracle cares so much about your privacy they delete your data before you even send a request.
Once had Optimum (the ISP) do this to a business I was working with. Just yeeted all their email accounts and their contents and all backups thereof one day. Declared it was because no user on the account was accessing their email via the webmail system so all the email was nuked for inactivity. IMAP and POP do not count, apparently.
Short version, do not use Optimum unless they are the only option, and if they are the only option seriously consider moving to fix that.
I’m not a fan of victim blaming but who the heck thought it was a good idea to use Oracle to begin with??!??
I use oracle always free server. It’s actually some generous resources… but yeah, It’s oracle. I intentionally have a backup script run regularly for precisely this case. It’s saved me $1200 in costs* so far so I’ll keep freeloading until they screw me over
*based on what i was paying previously at another cloud service
TikTok being forced to host on Oracle instead of Google/Microsoft all but confirms that Oracle is CIA Cloud.
Historically, the only thing Oracle ever made which was good was their database, and even that is only worth it beyond a certain size of dataset and number of simultaneous requests being served.
They didn’t make Mysql if that’s what you’re referring to and Oracle DB was nothing revolutionary.
I think your most demanding use of databases was in tiny environments with tiny datasets and relaxed performance metrics compared to my own experience in designing systems that include databases.
MySQL and Oracle DB are totally different beasts for totally different needs, even if they’re both relational databases.
Further, the Oracle DB predates MySQL.
MySQL was created exactly because at the time there were either these massive Enterprise Class behemoth expensive databases such as Oracle DB and IBM’s Db2 or stuff like Access and hacked Excel sheets being used as “databases”, so there really wasn’t a proper database for things like inventory systems for small and mid-sized companies - they either used Access which was a joke (didn’t even had Transactions, so prone to get corrupted) or they paid a lot for licenses for the big databases which also required expensive machines to run them on.
One could say that MySQL made a lot of the modern Internet possible because it was Open Source and ran on Linux so you could for free make a dynamic website (say, a small online store) on top of a stack with it at the bottom (and Apache at the top and some custom middle layer in something things like PHP - remember that these were the 90s and Python only became popular later) on a pretty basic Linux server somewhere and that was enough until you got really big. You could do it with Oracle DB at the bottom also, but it was expensive and not really worth it unless you were serving tens or hundred of thousands or requests per minute.
That said, I agree that Oracle DB wasn’t revolutionary, it just worked well with all kinds of loads, even extreme ones, as long as you knew what you were doing.
The point I was making was that the Oracle DB was the only decent product Oracle ever created, not that it was revolutionary.
A couple other entertaining Access facts: 1) Access databases did at least have an audit table - which was manually editable; 2) Access databases were used by the Diebold electronic voting machines that were in use in numerous states during the 2000 presidential election cycle. It’s possible that 1 and 2 are unrelated.
On a more amusing note, I remember making fun of Access on StackOverflow around 2008 or so and running afoul of a dude who was still making a living doing Access work. I’ve never been more fearful that a person online was going to track me down IRL and attempt to kill me.
I think you replied to my comment combined with someone else’s. All I said was OracleDB was nothing special and they didn’t create Mysql which was revolutionary for many reasons including some of the stuff you mentioned. So I think we’re in complete agreement, but
DB sizes from 1980s are laughable by modern standards and by the time storage got cheap enough to have TBs in DBs OracleDB was not significantly better at handling those datasets than MySQL.
Nice try, larry. While their database is completely decent, you cannot use it beyond certain size/performance requirements because that would require buying yet another yacht for the fucker.
