It doesn't help that the devs unironically refer to themselves as tankies.
I mean, it's not a huge deal because, y'know, it's a federated service - but you could probably partially attribute the early population's leanings to that.
Cloudflare is a proxy, so by its very nature it has to decrypt traffic. (I believe their enterprise plans may offer a way around this, but don't quote me.)
I wouldn't worry, however. If someone wanted to attack this site (or any site, really) they're almost certainly going to have an easier time going after the origin rather than trying to take on a juggernaut like Cloudflare.
I would, if not for a combination of a few factors:
Firstly, I currently own an S22 that can't be unlocked, but I'm loathe to trade away a perfectly good phone so soon.
Secondly, Pixels (which seem to be the best supported in the custom ROM scene?) are still kinda shit hardware wise. At minimum they need a proper ultrasonic fingerprint sensor before I consider switching.
And finally, I don't have a strong enough motivation to switch.
I'm concerned about my privacy, yes, but at the same time I really don't do anything interesting with my phone. Most of my computation happens locally on my Linux desktop, far out of reach of any prying eyes.
And it's not like they can use what little information they can harvest for anything, since all my devices are juiced to the gills with adblockers.
Yeah, there's no reason to pay for Premium unless you have an iPhone (and hopefully even that will change once the EU drags Apple kicking and screaming away from their App Store monopoly.)
Hopefully Google moves to a proper ultrasonic sensor like every other brand with the Pixel 8. I really want to move from Samsung so I can take advantage of rooting and stuff like Lineage, but the hardware is just... so awful.
In the face of today's attention, which has included a wave of aggressive responses accusing Hipp of un-Christian behavior – he tells us he updated the preface to highlight the fact that by adopting St Benedict's rules he was not seeking to exclude anyone.
"Nobody is excluded from the SQLite community due to biological category or religious creed," he told us. "The preface to the CoC should make this clear. The only way to get kicked out of the SQLite community is by shouting, flaming, and disrespectful behavior. In 18 years, only one person has ever been banned from the mailing list."
He also said that he considered only retaining the bullet points that would be relevant to the project, but ultimately decided that would be disrespectful to the original text and its author. Seems fine to me.
I love SQLite! My current project actually uses it to serve read-only web content - it's plenty fast, and it's really nice having everything baked into the executable. No need to juggle a separate database server.
Their docs are also superb - maybe I'm weird, but I like reading about stuff like atomic commit.
If you actually read the page, it's intended as a tongue-in-cheek box-checker.
This document was originally called a "Code of Conduct" and was created for the purpose of filling in a box on "supplier registration" forms submitted to the SQLite developers by some clients.
This document continues to be used for its original purpose - providing a reference to fill in the "code of conduct" box on supplier registration forms.
I'll believe it when I see it. There's a long, long way to go between current quantum tech and something that can crack modern 4096-bit RSA.
And honestly, it'll probably come so slowly that we'll have all switched to better algorithms by the time RSA cracking becomes feasible. (Yeah, I know about store now decrypt later, but that won't really affect the average person if it takes decades to come to fruition.)
It's very niche, but I used to really like Hades' Star. It's a mobile game (with a PC port available.) It uses timers and pay-to-rush (not pay-to-win) but it's designed as a long-haul game, so (IMO) the delays don't nag like they do in a game like Clash of Clans.
A big overhaul update is supposed to come out later this year, so you might consider checking it out in a few months.
Firefox and its derivatives. They're the last free bastion preventing a Chromium monopoly on the browser market, which is hugely important - especially these days with Google's push for Mv3.
Media storage costs seem to be pretty high considering how young this instance is. Are you considering adding a size cap (like some other instances) or another solution like rolling deletes in the future?
I was only ever really into Reddit, which Lemmy has handily replaced.
I technically have an Instagram, but I scrubbed it and removed the app to stop me from doomscrolling and giving Meta ad revenue.
Microblogging like Twitter or Tumblr never really appealed to me.
I was born after 2000, so Facebook doesn't exist in my world.
I do use Discord, but mainly because all my friends and family are on there. I would love if a federated alternative like Matrix became the standard. Hopefully the EU's Digital Markets Act will help - if I understand it correctly, Discord and other platforms will be forced to allow seamless bridges (which currently will get you banned) under interoperability requirements.
Earbuds (Galaxy Buds, specifically) when I'm out and about.
At home, I have a pair of wireless headphones (Bose) that lives next to my desktop rig.
I also have some remarkably good Amazon Basics speakers (from 2014! The only thing that survives from my first machine!) that I use every now and then.
The jank is part of the charm. Who doesn't remember Skyrim Horsing their way up a mountain?