I've used a similar site for DNS and some hosting.

The main reason was having to deal with CSAM and copyright reports, the more common registrars/providers would threaten to pull me if I didn't reply in 24 or 48 hours and eventually I would get kicked off.

I was hosting copyrighted content, I wasn't hosting CSAM but there was legal content involving minors but average provider doesn't care and will argue with you or say it violates their TOS. These shady hosts/registrars just don't care, sure they might vanish one day but if you have backup it's fine.

I used a shady domain registrar (.com) for fun. They had their legal contact in Ethiopia, didn't ask for anything other than an email address and would even accept cash money sent to them. All kinds of crypto currencies, too. I used Paypal and their annual invoices were shady looking too, always ending up in spam.

Yes, they just didn't care. Then one day they said I had to send them a copy of my passport to continue. Also if I wanted to cancel or transfer the main. I let the domain expire instead (got domain squatted but I managed to get it back a couple of years later).

This is too expensive compared to VPS for lots of personal and hobby use cases or minor side business.

I've seen lots of less experienced people overpay for hetzner and similar when a $5-10 vps would've worked.

Why use SQLite?

My postgres process doesn't come close to using up enough resources to push me out of even the cheap VPS tiers and I don't have to worry about locking if there's a heavy write load.

Backing up an SQLite database is as simple as copying a single file. As long as nothing is writing in the file, you're good.

That's not a reason.

Plus setting up a nightly back up of any SQL database, regardless of creed, is like a 10 line cron job.

Some developers have never written a cron job.

I think the point here is, SQLite setup would provide satisfactory results at this scale.

If the choice is betweeen a PAAS database offering and SQLite, you can pick SQLite. If you have skills / are prepared for managing dbserver yourself, then do that.

I made an account on a lark and it's actually nice.

Their image related grouping works way better for the things I'm interested in (art/illustrations) than other sites.

Is the manga being right to left the outlier then these days?

Manga is normally right to left (both pages and lines) because it's written with vertical text. "learn statistics through manga" type books are left to right because they're written with horizontal text (because of formulas, etc.).

(I don't know if I agree with the comment you're responding to, by the way.)

It's irrelevant for computers because text on computers is basically always left to right though.

EDIT: huh, I opened a couple manga I had nearby and my original post was dead wrong

> Text within speech bubbles is generally left to right.

This isn't true in Japanese which is what limteary was asking about.

Horizontal text in modern Japanese is virtually always written left to right.

The primary exception is where the context of the writing itself implies a direction, e.g. text on the passenger side of a bus, or on a directional sign pointing to the left, may be written right-to-left so that the text "flows" in the same direction as its container. This would never be used for a longer text, though.

I liked /r/watchpeopledie in a morbid curiosity way.

I know you're just expressing a common curiosity. A friendly reminder that snuff film production is a thing and if a community creates a big audience/market for this stuff then the consequences are horrific.

Isn't this the justification for every kind of moral panic? If we let kids watch sex scenes they'll become prostitutes. If we let kids play grand theft auto they'll shoot up their school. Everything has the potential for negative externalities. I don't expect anyone to "think of the poor morbidly curious people" because it's strongly taboo in our culture but suggesting that - cause and effect: gore equals more murder for snuff - is a stretch.

You got it the wrong way around. If a lot of people consume a type of content, there are going to be people wanting to produce it for <money, fame, kicks, ...>.

To push the analogy to the extreme, consuming illegal pornography doesn't actually harm anyone, the production does, however the consumption drivers production, therefore the consumption does harm.

Yeah but we're not talking about "the knockout challenge" or destroying milk jugs in the supermarket. Most people don't murder for the lulz and they also enjoy not being in prison for decades. Despite the FUD pushed by popular media there aren't going to be that many people producing it for money/fame/kicks. The vast majority of gore on the internet is a product of security cameras or otherwise hidden cameras.

>there aren't going to be that many people producing it for money/fame/kicks

I agree.

I must be the opposite. After and during socializing I often feel manic but I terribly shy initially and spend all my time alone.

Drat.

Same here. I was invited to a party late last year and it was the first time really getting out in a long time. It was enjoyable, but I didn't do much socializing till the end. Haven't had an opportunity to get out since tho

Some good news though! Shyness, social anxiety, etc, can be overcome with effort, if desired. I've definitely witnessed a number of people "coming out of their shell" so to speak over the years.