Pup Biru

what.cd was a bigger loss than just privacy - what.cd was an enormous loss to preservation of music history

the amount of content that has simply never been available for purchase was incredible, and made available in one of the cleanest and most comprehensively complete taxonomies was amazing

apparently this is an issue with some part of the hardware that lots of hardware security devices use too, so not as simple as just buying/building an alternative

facebook is social media, therefor friendica is social media

instagram is social media, therefor pixelfed is social media

twitter is social media, therefor mastodon is social media

at the VERY least, all the latter platforms can interact with each other via activity pub, as can lemmy. by interacting with lemmy, you’re making interactions with social media

social media isn’t just big tech - social media is a way of interacting with a system

is reddit social media? most people would say yes it definitely is… and this makes lemmy firmly social media

do the thing first - nobody is going to find out about it for a while, which gives you time to think and build a defence

if it gets successful, then worry about takedowns

worst that happens is it goes away

carrot man in melbourne, australia

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/12/melbourne-fitzroy-carrot-man

that’s not what the quoted text says at all… let’s rephrase this:

much like how users of one lemmy service such as lemmy.world can still reply to users of another service such as kbin.social, users may still view content and interact with users on any other instance in bluesky

this doesn’t say that lemmy/kbin isn’t part of the fediverse. it takes no position on that fact, merely saying that the things conceptually work in a similar manner

peer to peer is an option too

both of them are very competent for the role.

well la de da mr “functioning electoral system” over here

… the president made remarks about Israel’s military response to Hamas being “over the top.”

IP is still information you don’t want falling into just anyone’s hands… the issue is you don’t want a big list of people, locations, and “dating” metadata all gathered in a single place - ESPECIALLY if that information includes things like sexual orientation, and in the case of grindr, HIV status etc

grindr in particular would be tricky! the location data has to be kept safe from bulk collection and targeting, but public for limited queries

it also has to update fairly quickly

totally agree on almost everything you said, but whilst we’re kinda “expecting it to be paid back”, we realised some time between the end of WW1 and the end of WW2 that expecting to be paid back for stuff like this tends to leave a country very very bitter and generally unable to pay back the money anyway (from what i understand)

i think whilst it’ll be “on the books”, in the long run it’ll be a case of “you owe us one; make sure you vote to align with the west”

and TBH, that’s good for everyone (not that the west is perfect, but it’s - in general - a heck of a lot better than the other alternatives)

afaik this is specifically not for weapons: it’s for helping to run the government

could definitely backfire… who knows if NATO want an excuse to show russia that no matter how small they’re not fucking around

this is correct, yes

and afaik any entity with a banking license must trade whatever (perhaps within reason?) amount of 5c pieces for larger denominations, so it’s not like you couldn’t pay if you only had bunch of 5c pieces; you just have to do the work to convert it to something less annoying

huh interesting… in australia there’s an upper limit on the amount you can pay with low denomination coins

5c coins are legal tender for amounts not exceeding $5 for any payment of a debt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_five-cent_coin#cite_note-4

worth noting though this is not like a “you sort it out” thing or anything… it’s basically a tax

i wouldn’t say wrong… it’s SSO. i have multiple servers on my plex account, and i much prefer to have a single login for all of them than different for every server. it also allows things like login with plex for overseer etc

it’s a trade-off for sure, but i’d argue a very worthwhile one

perhaps you could argue that you should be able to run the auth server yourself, and sure… maybe… but i think that’s the worst of both worlds

let’s play word association! okay

… Russia … Pyrrhic