Sounds like I have a new test pod to set up. Lemmy is nice, but the devs are kinda out there. Lack of app support has been the big holdback from trying out PieFed.

You won’t believe what it is!

DVD? walks my pet dinosaur out of the room

Really though, Labyrinth is the one that comes to mind.

Donnie soon; ‘computers are for nerds, I don’t use em, we where a lot better off without all this cyber nonsense, and their Intel is wrong, Tulsi is wrong here, should have gone with AMD, sound a lot like and, and this and that, brings things together…’

It doesn’t look like a list to me, but a riddle.

Would putting a Q: and A: in front of them satisfy you or would that send you off on a different tangent of chastising web users on their formatting?

Maybe instead of people needing to apply exacting rules to accommodate an accessibility tech, the tech should get better at interpreting human tendencies of writing. Even today I can write in a non-structured natural language form and a decent chat bot can typically make a reasonable interpretation of it without help.

In some ways the kid’s poem about an old lady who swallowed a fly/spider/bird/etc is a good image of our attempts at controlling invasive species. Eventually, nature will figure it out without our help.

Shh, you’ll spoil the surprise…

Some comms are treated like the mod’s personal sounding board. Post what they want but refuse any discussion on it.

Reality doesn’t actually consist of an unending torrent of bullshit drowning people in misery, that’s just what sells in the media and outrage algorithms.

Sometimes people like to see a win in their life rather than be told it’s all going to hell.

I would think this all this is perhaps a personal preference on a given instance, but not practical on a global scale.

If an instance owner wants to accept the risk of a chaotic, unmoderated space on their server so be it. Other instances are quite capable of blocking a comm or defederating if it’s an instance wide problem.

There’s also the potential to blockade new comms on small instances when I think of it here. If I, as an admin of a single person instance, try and set up a few niche comms for personal interests and they where report-bombed by people just being trolls, there would never be a way to get them off the ground. You would spend all your time responding to reports rather than creating content in order to avoid them being locked.

Well then you make the fine 11X what it was originally to make it have bite.

Not bad at all, we got about 5M users since the 27th it seems.

That’s pretty well what I started with 20 years or so ago, had them in some little box with some funny Nvidia CPU. That go upped to a pair of 3 TB that have somewhere around 10 years uptime on them if I recall by now, and kind of spiraled from there. Rsync on a schedule is nice for that.

Just part of a lab built over the years. Primary storage is a Dell R730XD filled mostly with 12 TB drives all set up in a ZFS array comprised of mirror vdevs, so redundant by default plus the built in ZFS snapshots for the rare need for a rollback on a dataset.

It only recently got that big because I had a mixed set of drives going back years and finally decided to work on getting them all to the same size and picked 12 as a good cost/volume balance, can find them at used server parts shops for a bit over $100 each.

Major risk is I don’t have a good auto alert for smart monitor issues, so just make sure to occasionally manually copy the vital stuff like photos to an external drive.

How do you stream it if nobody downloads it to seed things? The whole premise of seed ratios isn’t just a bragging score, it’s aiding the communal health.

Besides, I have around 60 TB of space here, that’ll hold several versions of damn near every Linux distro out there for a while, it’d be a shame to waste it.

Despite being comprised of similar letters Lemmy and LLM are not interchangeable…

Right, I just use the term sometimes to say hiding things, even if it’s hidden via encrypting it.

Will have to delve into the papers for simplex later here, but in the end there needs to be some type of known identity to pin a communication to, otherwise you’ve already breached the confidentiality point of the security triad by not authenticating the recipient.

I would say no criminal uses public services to do their business, but then there was the whole Signal thing at the DOD…

It depends on how many layers of obfuscation you are looking to deal with. There always needs to be some publicly shared token to initiate a connection, even if that’s only the public key of a asymmetric key pair to a 3rd party auth system.

There are ways to do it, but part of the difficulty is there are so many ways to do it that coming to an agreed method is like herding cats.

Which means encrypted messaging without a backdoor would be illegal if this passes! That’s a slippery slope!

Metadata is not content, so no E2E would not be illegal. Metadata is things like who sent messages to who at what time, duration, volume of data, other externally parsable metrics like that.