muddybulldog

It’s not a matter of finding instances that are on board with those things so much as You’ll be hard pressed to find an instance that cares either way.

While I’m a huge advocate on many of these topics the correct answer is still select your instance based on your criteria. Your evangelism is wasted on 99% of the populace.

People are seriously confusing the fact that Lemmy being open source means all the admins are privacy evangelists that are going to do everything they can to protect privacy. That’s absolutely not the case. Pick and choose your instances based on those measures but you are going to be hard pressed to find many, if any, who are going to offer anything close to perfect privacy due to the huge overhead involved.

I’m not going to engage every point here but on #3, mitigating a DDOS is not just simply closing down firewall ports. As a matter of fact without a distributed IP space for you’re more than likely going to assist the attack by shutting out your own users. You need methods to absorb and deflect that traffic. That’s a lot of infrastructure that is NOT available to last typical VPS.

It's no win scenario for developers. While you're ok with "one up front payment and then maybe in app purchases to pay for new features going forward" there's a whole other slew of voices who are going to complain about being nickled and dimed.

Given those choices (and other factors), as a consumer I prefer the subscription model. If nothing else, it lets me forecast my expenditure and continually re-assess the cost/value proposition of the application in question.

So, somebody may have just just SWATted the US Capitol. Going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

There’s not even a way to count words at this juncture never mind anything resembling a rules engine.

TIL... Thanks for the tip. I'm going to search some of that stuff out.

Somebody needs to find whoever was responsible for the original NT task manager and learn a thing or two. That thing was bulletproof. I had servers over the years that were so broken nothing else would run but you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and tada!

Three times in six weeks. That’s practically moldy. Blow the dust off that thing.

We've been unseasonably mild her in the mid-Atlantic. We're just getting our first run of 90F/32C+ days this season, whereas we usually see that sometime in June. Seeing what's going on in the rest of the country I consider us to be damn lucky.

We've been getting hammered with rain, though. About 3-4x normal in June.

We’ve got nobody to blame but ourselves for that.

I’m of the mind that the truth already is noise and has been for a long, long time. AI isn’t introducing anything new, it’s just enabling faster creation of agenda-driven content. Most people already can’t identify the AI generated content that’s been spewing forth in years past. Most people aren’t looking for quality content, they looking for bias-affirming content. The overall quality is irrelevant.

I can see wanting to run your own DNS to serve personal clients for privacy purposes but for self-hosting class stuff I can think of plenty of downsides and zero upsides to privatizing this.

Definitely a “yeah, you could” vs. “yeah, you should” situation.