It’ll tolerate a few hours no problem, mine’s been down for a bit over 24h and caught up fine.
I think it marks instances as down after 2-3 days, but I’m not sure if it’ll resume once it comes back up at this point. I think if your instance reaches out it might start pushing events again but it could also result in dropping the previous days.
No, I would simply give them a box of condoms or whatever.
If they’re gonna do it, they’re gonna do it, and as a parent, you’re way better off with your kids comfortable not hiding it because if there’s complications you can intervene quickly. If the condom broke, you want the kid to come to you so you can get plan B and not have to deal with an abortion a couple weeks or even months later. It’s also way better they get caught doing it at home vs in a car and now be on the sex offender registry.
What you’re describing is abstinance and is common in religious families, and well know for being ineffective. Plus as you’ve described, it completely falls apart when bisexuality is involved, and it makes even less sense if it’s physically impossible to even get pregnant.
The same extends to alcohol, drugs, porn, whatever evil vice people are worried. If your kid’s gonna do drugs, you want them to feel comfortable calling you if they have a bad trip, and also feel comfortable giving you the drugs so you can get them to the hospital and they can quickly identify what you’re on and give the necessary medications.
They’re gonna learn about all that eventually, better they learn it from you. Punishment and “you’ll understand when you’re grown up” doesn’t work. If they’re old enough to ask, they’re old enough for the answers too.
Yes, a lot safer. Even bugs in the renderer or media player would typically be triggered by JavaScript by say, moving elements around really fast or whatever.
Without JavaScript, the browser renders that page and that’s it, there’s no JS to modify it or open popups, nothing to dynamically load/refresh content. The most you can do without JS is animations and responding to simple events like changing the color of a button when the mouse is over it. So your only shot to attack this is the renderer during initial page load, once.
You need to set up your PC to be on that IP address first, TFTP doesn’t magically listen to a particular IP, you need to configure the PC with that IP.
ip link set eth0 up
ip addr add 10.10.10.3/24 dev eth0
ip addr add 10.10.10.1/24 dev eth0
Then you can start the TFTP server on the interface:
dnsmasq -d --port=0 --enable-tftp --tftp-root=/path/to/tftp/root -i eth0
This is why when an app pops up that permission dialog, you always say no. The number of permissions Meta apps ask immediately upon startup is a red flag on its own.
Can’t collect and upload what it doesn’t have.
For all its flaws and mess, NFS is still pretty good and used in production.
I still use NFS to file share to my VMs because it still significantly outperforms virtiofs, and obviously network is a local bridge so latency is non-existent.
The thing with rsync is that it’s designed to quickly compute the least amount of data transfer to sync over a remote (possibly high latency) link. So when it comes to backups, it’s literally designed to do that easily.
The only cool new alternative I can think of is, use btrfs or ZFS and btrfs/zfs send | ssh backup btrfs/zfs recv which is the most efficient and reliable way to backup, because the filesystem is aware of exactly what changed and can send exactly that set of changes. And obviously all special attributes are carried over, hardlinks, ACLs, SELinux contexts, etc.
The problem with backups over any kind of network share is that if you’re gonna use rsync anyway, the latency will be horrible and take forever.
Of course you can also mix multiple things: rsync laptop to server periodically, then mount the server’s backup directory locally so you can easily browse and access older stuff.
Also worth noting that the computations don’t have to be expensive either, it’s only there in cryptocurrencies to artificially limit the number of blocks generated on a public system and tie it into the reward system.
So for a bank, that could be a plain single iteration of a sha256 hash, and once share everyone agrees those were the transactions and you can’t go back and change one without having to change the whole chain.
Make it sha1 and you basically have git.
A blockchain is more or less just an append-only database. Or even an append-only replication log with built-in checksums.
That’s what the off-site backups are for.
It helps hackers sure, but it also help the community in general also vet the overall quality of the software and tell the others to not use it. When it’s closed source you have no choice but to trust the company behind it.
There’s several FOSS apps I’ve encountered, looked at the code and passed on it because it’s horrible. Someone will inevitably write a blog post about how bad the code is warning people to not use the project.
That said, the code being public for everyone to see also inherently puts a bit of pressure to write good code because the community will roast you if it’s bad. And FOSS projects are usually either backed by a company or individuals with a passion: the former there’s the incentive of having a good image because no company wants to expose themselves cutting corners publicly, and the passion project is well, passion driven so usually also written reasonably well too.
But the key point really is, as a user you have the option to look at it and make your own judgement, and take measures to protect yourself if you must run it.
Most closed source projects are vulnerable because of pressure to deliver fast, and nobody will know until it gets exploited. This leads to really bad code that piles up over time. Try to sneak some bullshit into the Linux kernel and there will be dozens of news article and YouTube videos about Linus’ latest rant about the guilty. That doesn’t happen in private projects, you get a lgtm because the sprint is ending and sales already sold the feature to a customer next week.
Technically it wasn’t really designed with megainstances in mind that swallows the entire fediverse.
My instance has no problem whatsoever keeping up and storage is well under control. But we’re few here subscribed to a subset of available communities so my instance isn’t 90% filled with content I don’t care about and will never look at. Also reduces the moderation burden because it’s slow enough I can actually mostly see everything that comes through.
Lemmy itself is also pretty inefficient in that regard, you can very much make software that pulls instead and backfill local cache as needed.
Even my Reddit subscriptions would be pretty easy on my instance.
Technically it wasn’t really designed with megainstances in mind that swallows the entire fediverse.
My instance has no problem whatsoever keeping up and storage is well under control. But we’re few here subscribed to a subset of available communities so my instance isn’t 90% filled with content I don’t care about and will never look at. Also reduces the moderation burden because it’s slow enough I can actually mostly see everything that comes through.
Lemmy itself is also pretty inefficient in that regard, you can very much make software that pulls instead and backfill local cache as needed.
One thing to keep in mind is ActivityPub isn’t exactly made for social media in the sense most people use it nowadays. It’s intended to be more like RSS feeds: you’re support to subscribe to stuff like news sites and be able to bring it all into a content aggregator. Seen that way, its design makes a lot of sense.
It kinda works well for public microblogging as well. It’s when you start involving moderation, voting, sharing, boosting that things get kinda weird.
I’ll add some of my comments to that discussion.
You guys have basically been describing Aether and Nostr
The main issue is when your instance starts federating, accounts are created with a key pair that you will lose when changing software, and generally a whole bunch of URLs will no longer be valid. The actor ID of your user is https://feddit.org/u/buedi, not just buedi. Mastodon might make it https://feddit.org/@buedi instead. As per the spec, that is the canonical URL for the user/actor.
Other instances will still try to push content to your instance assuming the software it was registered with. So you may continue to receive data for Lemmy communities which Mastodon has no clue what that is or what to do with it.
You can host the API/frontend on a different domain no problem, but the actual ActivityPub service should be on a dedicated subdomain to avoid the issues.
That said, I believe after a couple days/weeks, it should eventually sort itself out as your instance keeps erroring out and gets dropped and reregisters with the new software.
Probably some FOSS projects. There’s a few things bugging me and I have a custom DSL/programming language idea I’ve been dreaming about for the last ~2-3 years that’s like if Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes and Nix had a baby together. It’s 2025, how come is it that I can’t just “one Lemmy instance at lemmy.max-p.me please” and get a worldwide multi-cloud multi-million user capacity instance in 10 minutes.
Next on my list would be a filesystem, because for some reason I find myself wanting something that’s LVM, ZFS, Ceph and PostgreSQL all in one. It’s 2025, how come I can’t just be “here’s all my drives, and the drives on my NAS, and the drives on my remote server, figure out some nice unified filesystem for all of this shit”.
Because Russia clearly doesn’t have enough land, especially empty land yet.
I don’t think I’ve ever updated a BIOS from any operating system, always flashed via the BIOS itself. Most can flash the BIOS without even a CPU installed these days.
It’s a good idea to validate the information before being outraged at it.
Wouldn’t it be effective to convince followers of legitimacy if a religion could accurately predict a scientific phenomenon before its followers have the means of discovering it?
No, those were called witches and they burned them out of fear.
That was also just never the purpose of religion. Religion fills gaps in our knowledge and addresses the existential crisis by promising us some form of afterlife because humans really struggle to accept that they’re random and meaningless and that their consciousness just dies with the body.
There’s theories that the talking burning tree was probably a weed tree and they were just tripping balls, and that wouldn’t be the first religion spawned from accidental or intentional use of psychedelics.
It’s also very likely the origin stories are just that, stories. Most likely because storytelling was just how language worked: like the Darmok episode of StarTrek TNG. Or just kids: we don’t infodump on kids, we tell them stories because stories bring context and narrative.
My belief is that at least all the judaic religions are just a metaphor so far detached its true meaning is lost to time, and interpreting any of those further is a complete waste of time. Any scientific prediction is equally likely to just be a coincidence than evidence of divine knowledge.
Unfortunately yes. And even then, just having friends is still a privacy liability. Early on the Facebook app for Android would straight up just upload your contacts without asking, so they knew about me well before I caved in and made an account. Or, I’d give my number to someone and suddenly Facebook knows and asks me to friend them.
Not that it’s a new threat: even pre-industrialization, you’d tell a friend a secret and before you knew it the whole village knew.
People are mostly incapable of caring for anyone’s privacy but themselves.
It’s not the size, it’s a size to content/quality ratio. I’ll happily download a 500GB game if it’s got the content to match.
Uncompressed assets doesn’t bring higher quality visuals or content, it’s merely pure laziness or a scam to make people feel like they’re getting more for the outrageous price games have gotten.