This could have easily been a Flintstones episode.

If ya want to not be plugged into the internet, or use new external media, ya can probably run it safely forever.

Bad eh security advice: use an alternative ssh port. Lots of actors try port 22 and other common alternatives. Much fewer will do a full port scan looking for an ssh server then try brute forcing.

I have both but just use pihole as a local DNS server/forwarder. I bump into too many random times where sites or redirects don’t work properly since they get blocked.

Consider using containers. I used to think this way, though now my goal is to get down to almost all containers since it’s nice to be able to spin up and down just what the one ‘thing’ needs.

If this is your fear, why not just have a will or something that specifically describes what to do and where to go?

My cat is good and eats only what she needs. She always has a bowl full of her regular food. We’ve been like this for almost 10 years now.

It all kind of depends on the cat and how they handle the buffet always being open.

How is signal considered part of the fediverse?

How does a doddle compare to a jiffie?

Makes me think that platforms banning Trump after Jan 6 were just kissing up to Biden coming in. Maybe there is just a cycle of capitalist sucking up.

You’d be surprised to hear that most software devs i talk to think the benefits of ai are overrated. The problem is the bubble keeps growing and growing.

… also leads to worse for all in the meantime.

We’re getting it shoved down our throats too. We get asked to use ai to enhance things… that no one wanted fixed with ai.

+1.

I wish we had type c but all cables were labeled with clear functionality from the start. I don’t like data/power only cables.

I’m guessing this is a cost thing. You don’t need to pay for fact checking anymore.

… still obnoxious and pushing us towards a dead echo chamber internet. Get ready for AI personalities voting on community notes.

That relies on donations which may or may not come. I understand in a perfect world that makes sense, but in the real world even those foundations often rely on corporate muscle. Without that enterprise money, I’m not sure how they’d stand.

This is probably a minority opinion, but I think OSS prospers most when there is corporate muscle behind it.

A company with paid engineers that puts engineering time into fixing and bettering open source software can possibly be a good company.

Closed source ends up being the worst of all worlds. If there is an issue, you’re stuck waiting for someone else to possibly fix it. At least in open source, either you can try to fix it, or you can pay someone else to try to fix it.

At the end of the day, I think a lot of the Linux success actually comes down to this.

Even in ipfs, I don’t understand discoverability. Sort of sounds like it still needs a centralized list of metadata to content I’d, etc.

Hashed by whom? Who has the source of truth for the hashes? How would you prevent it from being poisoned? … or are you saying a non-distributed (centralized) hash store?

If centralized: you have a similar problem to IA today. If not centralized: How would you prevent poisoning? If enough distributed nodes say different things, the truth can be lost.

So you don’t want a free place to upload videos? … why? Is it just because it’s Google or too big or why?

I love the idea of a free place to upload videos, I just wish there was a way without as many ads or with a cheaper ad free prem.

In theory this could be true. In practice, data would be ripe for poisoning. It’s like the idea of turning every router into a last mile CDN with a 20TB hard drive.

Then you have to think about security and not letting the data change from what was originally given. Idk. I’m sure something is possible, but without a real ‘omph’ nothing big happens.

Duh fuq.

I wonder how many people would give their social that easily.