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  • What you're asking for is impossible. Any server that doesn't police your speech heavily online will get defederated by other servers. Its not up to the admin of your server which other servers defederate.

    Defederation is a powerful tool for an admin. They're the ones that make the rules, why would they make a rule against defederation? Who'd enforce it on them?

  • Dude no kidding, I drove for a living for a while and before I did I loved driving. Since then I get ridiculously anxious on the highways, I hate driving in the city and I even moved away partly to avoid the traffic.

  • Oh god which time.

    I was coming down the highway, cruising the speed limit. No sign of slowed traffic in front of me. Left lane, construction wall to my left, no shoulder. I see a cop on the side, lights on, glance over for maybe 1 or 2 seconds to see what's going on, look back in front and I'm 10 feet from the back of an 18 wheeler dead stopped, all lanes dead stopped traffic. My lizard brain took over and I managed to skid diagonally across the entire highway to the right shoulder without even thinking about it.

    That's the one that stands out where I wasn't injured. It's shit like that that makes me wonder if we die in moments like that and wake up in an alternate timeline or something.

  • Not too hard to do with wireguard. You have to split traffic, because if you tunnel all traffic to the paid VPN, you can only access it by pointing at the IP address of that paid VPN so it doesn't really help. If youre using firefox VPN, it's just a private labelled Mullvad VPN, so no port forwarding so this wouldn't work at all.

    So what you have to do is allow your home machine running the wireguard server you use to connect to your home network accept direct connections from your devices. Then all outbound connections tunnel to your paid VPN. It's a bit convoluted but there are plenty of walkthroughs online as to how to set up your firewall and network rules and wireguard configs to do it. You'll be working with iptables and then traffic splitting with wireguard.

  • We all know that. Everyone knows this. But getting over the csrnal drive to shit on people you disagree with is difficult for the individual, impossible for the crowd. That's why I take down voted as a sign of success, or deliberately frame things such that the people who would down vote can't without looking stupid.

  • Yes, but your naive (in the game theoretical sense; I'm not calling you naive) scheme is ripe for abuse.

    The depositee (for lack of a better word) has no incentive to he honest in this scenario. He can lock the deposit, and even if he can't get it without consent of the depositor, the depositor is out money unless he "comes to consensus" with the depositee. It's lose lose for him, he would Either take half his deposit than lose it all. The depositee then has an incentive to hold him hostage, which means the scenario is not trust less for the depositor.

    One way to do this is if the contract says "the depositor will not store this specified set of files with these hashes" that way it could he programmatically proven to the contract that the rules weren't violated. But then you need to know beforehand every file you don't want them to store, this is infeasible.

    This is why most schemes like this have some type of arbitrator, a third party that gets paid to resolve disputes. But then at that point, IMO you're back where you started: going to court. There are very few niche scenarios where this scheme is better than the status quo.

  • I love that quote and have told it to myself for many years.

    "Everyone knew" is not my recollection. I remember the prevailing theory being that Chinese eat pangolins and bats and did this. Do you remember that? The secretary of state at the time said that they were certain it came from a lab and everyone mocked him. Do you remember that? Dr Fauci clearly repudiated any claim that it came from a lab, for 2 years. Do you remember that?

    The idea that the virus came from a lab didn't atomically emerge in each of our heads independently. We talked about it online, showed each other evidence, waded through heaps of nonsense along the way. We were banned from the prominent discussion places online, called nutters and had articles in the most prominent publications written about how stupid we are. Do you remember that? My family called me stupid.

    Now they all act as you do. "So big deal, we knew that already." But you didn't, you're pretending you did. If I had told you it was made in a lab 2 years ago you'd have called me a quack. Yet here we are, me right and you pretending you were right all along.

    So, was it released on purpose? I don't know. I think so, you don't. We will see who's right, if we ever find out, but hopefully you'll have the courage and integrity by then to admit you were wrong, because I certainly will.