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Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg Posts 5Comments 2,032Joined 2 yr. ago
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Yeah, this reminds me of a core conclusion in this article I read earlier today: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/?gift=LfMDGClsXPxuFi6NzzlsSmMf2SO62OLofWrLa23Hg1Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Basically all of this isn't about convincing people of anything new. It's just information to reaffirm existing beliefs and prevent people from coming to terms with the fact they've gone down a rabbit hole of crazy.
I really think the blue sky is bad stuff is overdramatic xbox vs PlayStation kind of stuff.
The fediverse needs a lot of work, blue sky is a different and interesting model that's different from what we've seen so far (even if they haven't let people start hosting their own blue sky instances).
I say let them complete...
I'm eyeing Piefed and Sublinks. I've done a lot with Python and Java... Maybe at some point I'll find the time to contribute more than the bit of PR review I've done for Sublinks.
I'm also watching mastodon, particularly because they're working on groups... And I don't mind the Twitter style, I've just come to prefer following topics over people... And hashtags just get flooded with low effort crap.
Which president pushed for the infrastructure bill that serves the public, including the poor by increasing mass transportation? Biden.
Will it take decades? Yes, but it would not have happened under Trump.
Which president got drug prices capped? Biden.
Which president got the ACA passed giving poor people health care? Obama.
Which president sent poor people that joined the military to get through college into pointless wars? Bush.
Which president gambled with Ukraine's security risking WW3 and a draft of poor people? Trump.
Which president killed net neutrality risking ISP price gouging on popular services? Trump.
Which president killed abortion and attempted to get contraception off the ACA? Trump.
Which candidate is working on universal pre-K so families that can't afford childcare don't have to have one parent stay at home? Harris.
Which party wants to empower charter schools to take money originally targeted towards public schools which will keep poorer folks disadvantaged? Republicans.
Most people aren't actually at the minimum wage anyways, they're somewhere between minimum wage and a comfortable wage. It'll never be what folks want it to be. The best way to improve quality of life for poor folks IMO is to cut stupid crap that gets in their way of getting a better education, better housing, and keeps them poor with junk fees like overdraft fees.
Oh, btw, Harris is working on junk fees https://www.fidelity.com/news/article/top-news/202410100607RTRSNEWSCOMBINED_KBN3BG0MD-OUSBS_1
I honestly don't know if there's any convincing you, but if there's any part of you I'm resonating with you should SERIOUSLY reconsider your position that it doesn't matter. It may very well be the difference between poor people living an okay life and fighting on the front lines. Maybe even you personally, we are in a very dangerous point in history.
The whole Regan "are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" measure is some serious "do you feel better 4 minutes after maxing your credit cards on a sports car" logic. Long term effects are what matter, not whether a candidate increases or decreases your salary in the next year.
Oh damn it, good catch I got mixed up... Trump had so many guys.
There were lots of folks that pushed back on Trump up to and including Pence in his act of patriotism certifying the election. I wouldn't be so skeptical that Miley was one of them, he seems genuinely intelligent and Trump likely only picked him because he has a bad ass nickname "Mad Dog." (EDIT as another person said, I was wrong on this part -- though consider reading https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/?gift=LfMDGClsXPxuFi6NzzlsStWAlW-QPG1x0JcWnXcGjog&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)
The terrifying reality is, a 2024 Trump might not have any of those roadblocks.
Well that's good!
And right, I had the exact same thought... It seems like the lemmy devs are not highly experienced web developers, at least not that have worked on anything at the scale lemmy became after the Reddit exodus.
I really wish more people took security seriously. Something that is not receiving security updates is not working just fine.
Just make sure your network firewall is good I guess. That's the only proper way to run outdated stuff and even then it's sketchy.
Also it's an operating system not a browser.
Because it will run jellyfin, with fewer system resources, and still get security updates (that you can configure to auto install at the correct time) for ... free.
You also won't at some point find yourself running such an old version of Windows that jellyfin no longer updates unless you buy the latest version of Windows.
You can just go download Ubuntu desktop LTS and do everything by just opening a terminal, plopping that one liner, and letting it run: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux/#repository-automatic
I'll flip the script and ask "why in the world would you use Windows for something that doesn't require it?"
I build my own desktops, but they do sell their case individually. I'll definitely be considering that for my next upgrade.
(If true) that's actually really terrible for federation performance, particularly because lemmy doesn't do batch synchronization. So basically every comment, post, like, and community is being sent to all Lemmy servers as individual sequential requests. That's a lot to handle.
You've got until late 2025 before 10 stops receiving security updates. I would not stay long after that.
Their laptops are built on third party chassis. I have their keyboard and that thing is SOLID. I expect their desktops (that are custom made) are also quite solid.
Laptops... I'd lean frame.work if you know your way around a Linux installer. That said, there are rumors that system76 is working on a custom laptop chassis (still, framework is hard to beat for modularity).
Edit: while not specifically QC related... I suspect the things that aren't really custom built for them might not get the same level of care/might be more on their supplier depending on the issue.
If it was BitWarden where I can see the client side code ... and there wasn't a better option, quite possibly.
I give my ISP and many other places my BitWarden vault all the time and I just trust they're not recording the traffic and trying to decrypt it.
I recommend against hosting a password manager yourself.
The main reason is self hosted systems require maintenance to patch vulnerabilities. While it's true that you won't be on the main list if e.g. bitwarden gets hacked, your data could still be obtained or ransomed by a scripted attack looking for e.g. vulnerable VaultWarden servers (or even just vulnerable servers in general).
Using professional hosting means just that, professional hosting with people who's full time job is running those systems and keeping people that aren't supposed to be there out.
Plus, you always have the encryption of the binary blob itself to fall back on (which if you've got a good password is a serious barrier to entry that buys you a lot of time). Additionally vaults are encrypted with symmetric crypto which is not vulnerable to quantum computing, so even in that case your data is reasonably safe... And mixed in with a lot of other data that's likely higher priority to target.
That would be cool!
As much as I'd like to agree, it can't be understated how close this election is forecasted to be. If Trump is not once again rebuked this vile goes straight back into the mainstream of our government and it will take decades to get it out.
Yeah... Lemmy's code and the way it implements activity pub is not the greatest... A lack of batch operations means that every single federated like is an HTTP request of its own.
It might not even be in the kernel next year if Kent doesn't stop ticking off Linus.
Interesting, I missed that they'd opened that up.
Do you have any good information on how the ATProtocol requires interaction with their servers?
My quick look at it suggests that everything occurs on the same network (presumably there's some way to override that) but the servers are independent. So you seemingly can "get to everything" regardless of who your provider is.