WYGIWYG

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Cake day: September 24th, 2024

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  • You make laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. You then attach a multi-million dollar fine to anyone who doesn’t adhere to the bonkers unenforceable stipulations in the text.

    All of a sudden, no one but a corporation with a legal department can safely run an instance without putting their money and eventually freedom on the line.

    They might not be able to just stop it, but you can force us into a pirate scenario where we have to do it in the dark.

    We are likely starting to slowly head into 1984 territory. IF Fascim continues to rise, eventually, non-state-run media will be deemed unlawful and they’ll do what they can to make it go away.


  • There’s more than one style of tar pit. In this case you obviously wouldn’t want to use an endless maze style.

    What you want to do in this case is send them through an HA proxy that would redirect them on user agent, whenever they come in as Claude you send them over to a box running on a Wanem process at modem speeds.

    They’ll immediately realize they’ve got a hug of death going on and give up.




  • The way lemmy (and federation) works, it needs to do a bunch of operations that can’t happen simultaneously, so there’s a job queue. The queue needs to do some database operations and a bunch of communication operations and each of the jobs needs to reach out to distant servers that may or may not be overwhelmed themselves.

    You start with one server it costs almost nothing to host. Sooner or later you want to split out the job servers, then you end up needing to split out the database, when you start getting that many people on your server now you want to consider fault tolerance, Even after tuning you can only fit so many simultaneous users on a web server, you end up needing to do some load balancing. The next step would be trying to split it up geography-wise.

    That’s scaling up and it’s what big companies do and it’s very expensive but easy for a small team to manage.

    Lemmy on the other hand is designed to be scaled out, running smaller individual user bases on lighter hardware with a bunch of individual administrators instead of a organized team.

    If people want to be on a large single cluster application Reddit is still there.

    I like what we have a lot better.






  • I’m really not happy about bluesky their fragmentation of the fediverse protocols

    shrug, I wish they were with us, but they are also a big ole corporate entity, so I’m kind ok with us staying our our side of the fence. As they need to implement payment and corporate protections to their network, we’re free to be free over here.

    is only going to harm us in the long run.

    We don’t have to play ball. not with them anyway,

    I think, If we have any credible threat, it’s going to be from the Governmental gross anti-tampering laws, forced moderation, or backup regulations. They could make it legally difficulty for us to exist.


  • Do you really think Lemmy could handle the amount of people that Reddit has?

    yup. no question. Not one instance mind you, but Reddit is also a giant cluster. (and clusterfuck)

    As far as I know the existing instances are usually running on capacity and always in need of donations,

    We just need the big bois to stop stuffing themselves. There’s 0 reason to have 2/3 of the totally traffic flooding into world because people are scared of Federation that they never even have to deal with.

    Maybe Lemmy would benefit of some way to get people to pay, such as purchasing the ability to give people awards etc.

    Maybe we make some premium pay servers with baller architecture, killer response time, user capacity limits and high speed storage?

    But the point is that without a business model, the Fediverse will only be able to handle a limited number of enthusiasts before it faces scaling problems.

    Eventually, it’s going to be ads, donations or payments. It’s all someone else’s computer, someone has to foot the bill. But at great scale, you should be able to have an ad-free experience for something in the range a dollar or two a month.






  • Tailscale has a generous free account and runs on windows, mac, IOS, android, apple TV, firestick, and shield. You just set it up on your media server and every client, and just use to 100. address for your server in each client.

    If you need Roku,LG,Samsung, it’s no longer fun. The tailnet can be forwarded from a routed device on the network, but that’s deep in the weeds for random people.

    You could install HAProxy and run let’s encrypt, forwarding your JF to an external port (ISPs usually block 443, but it’s not hard to tell the client what port you need. Then your users can just specify your home IP and a specific port.

    Or you could forgo the SSL and just open JF up on a high port. Maybe fail2ban on logins. it’s REALLY not ‘good’ at remote access :)



  • Most of my dem circle knew what was coming.

    My fam is still freaking out at the small shit. He hired this person, he fired that person while the more sweeping horrors are almost passing over them without notice.

    I’m like Focus! Compartmentalize! I don’t care that they replaced the head of the FBI and fired all the generals, that was a given. Watch what he does with those seats. Watch what Russia does. We’re under new ownership and the call is NOT coming from inside the house.


  • I shit you not; my dental hygienist just confided in me that 5g towers scared her while she was taking my xrays. She thought they had adverse effects on the body. She has an associate’s degree. She mentioned they were thinking of dropping thee lead jacket requirement for patients and was shocked when I said yeah I totally agree.

    There’s a reason why there comparisons out there about x-ray exposure comparing a flight to number of dental xrays. She’s better off not getting it multiple times a day, but my annual xrays do no harm to me.

    I personally know nurses who I went to school with who are anti-vax.

    They are not joking. They are 100% conspiracy-theory loving, in it for the propaganda weak-willed individuals who will buy anything that shows the man is holding them down, and through some simple choices they themselves can make, they have an edge on the world in their own minds.

    I told her that I had a HAM radio license and a background in electronics and science and that understanding exposure to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, there’s no serious effects from cell phone towers and that even if there was one in the room with her, the worst that would happen is heat.


  • Neat, I just figured Roku clients were just going to get just enough attention to work.

    I run everything parallel and have the same shares. Unless I set up the video, the wife and kids always go back to Plex.

    I get it, But at the same time, Samsung is trying to sell what I’m watching, plex is trying to sell what I’m watching, roku is trying to sell what I’m watching. I just want to watch some damn videos without being someone else’s payday.