DigitalWebSlinger @ DigitalWebSlinger @lemmy.world

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Musk says he’s unbothered by the criticism. “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”

What

What censorship bureau is he talking about? A purely theoretical one (where is that coming from?) or one he's actually had to deal with in the past?

And of course griping, powerless plebs are better than a "censorship bureau" that can presumably force you to do or not do things by penalty of law 🙄 tell me you're rich and powerful without telling me you're rich and powerful.

I would say "humiliation kink confirmed?" but this is just a guy enjoying being able to do things that other people don't like, with no one to stop him.

If you'd like to support entertainment workers during the strikes, check out the Entertainment Community Fund.

https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

It does have some weird crypto stuff it promotes/offers after a vanilla install, but you can hide literally all of it. Brave is my daily driver, and looking at my installs you'd never know it had crypto stuff integrated.

If you'd like to support entertainment workers during the strikes, check out the Entertainment Community Fund.

https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

Two things can be true.

I've seen a few lemmy discussions on this so far, and honestly the best option I've seen is to just ignore Place.

To participate, even to advertise lemmy, we would have to engage, which is what reddit is looking for. Even then, admins will likely take the reigns and prevent any serious effort from being fruitful. There's just not that much benefit and plenty of downside.

It's attention seeking behavior. Ignoring it and letting the event fall flat (or at least as flat as is in our power) would send so much more of a message than "join lemmy" or "fuck spez".

I recall that L4s' owner stated that the bot's purpose was to "jumpstart communities". Personally, having noticed how much it has posted, and what ratio of top posts belong to it over time, it's achieved just that.

I think it was a nice thing to have early on. But maybe its time has come.

Once upon a time, we had OpenID. You could host your own identity server and log in to websites with it.

Then the social giants introduced third party SSO buttons and OpenID kinda fell by the wayside.

I wasn't calling you out, just contributing my best knowledge to the conversation 😅

All credit where credit is due, it's an impressive project. Just some things where I'm like... "this isn't going to stand up to significant traffic as-is". I've legit considered starting a clone - not least because I'm just not as familiar with rust, yet - but that would be counterproductive to my goal of improving things.

As far as improvements, honestly, if you're just hosting a small instance with a small user count, you'll probably be fine. If you start getting significant amounts of traffic, that's where I see problems starting to arise.

Personally, the instance I'm working on, I'm trying to build to support scaling to multiple geolocated servers (and multiple processes on each server to support traffic) with centralized database and image hosting among them. The docker setup is... not suitable for such 😅 I'd love to see how some of the bigger instances have their architectures set up, to see how much they deviate from the standard.

I've only recently started diving into the code and working on standing up my own setup, but so far, as someone who has a bit of devops and architecture experience, the architectural decisions of the project seem less than ideal.

Hoping I'll be able to contribute some improvements before too long.

The docker compose file in the lemmy-ansibe mainline still has postgres 15, so I'm not seeing any evidence of a downgrade.

This is what you might call a "public-private partnership".

What kind of network traffic and disk usage are you seeing with 3500 incoming communities?

Consider a worse fate: they do exactly as we tell them to, until we become incapable of existing apart from them.

And then they break with no one to fix them.

The part about keeping it connected to internet also struck me - what happens if my internet goes down for hours? Or my power, which will take my internet with it?

To receive the free TV, Telly users must submit detailed demographic info (such as age, gender and address), as well as purchasing behaviors, brand preferences and viewing habits, and they must agree to let their data be used for serving targeted ads. Telly’s TVs include a sensor that detects how many people are in front of the screen at any given moment.

So what’s the catch? Telly users must agree to several conditions under the company’s terms of service. If someone doesn’t abide by the TOS, Telly reserves the right to demand the TV be shipped back — otherwise, it will charge up to $1,000 to the credit card associated with a given account.

Among the Telly TV requirements: You must “use the product as the primary television in your household”; you must keep the TV connected to the internet at all times; and you are not allowed to use any ad-blocking software. In addition, users may not make “physical modifications to the product or attach peripheral devices to the product not expressly approved by Telly,” the company says in its terms of service. “Any attempt to open the product’s enclosure will be deemed an unauthorized modification.”

Why don't we just invite big brother right into our living rooms, eh?

Also, I guess you need approval to connect an Xbox, Playstation, or set-top box? What about my htpc?

A company is creating unauthorized derivative works of copyrighted materials for profit.

I feel like most traditional situations that would fall under that description would be clear-cut copyright violations. Why does AI get a pass?

I'm OOTL, could you eli5 or link to some good reading?

Once the herd settles, they'll suffer just about anything to avoid having to move.

As the late great Thomas Jefferson once wrote:

all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed

Funny how we keep seeing this same tendency play out in soooo many ways in so many contexts.