You know, the thing that pisses me off about Friendica is that you can’t easily see what the site actually looks like without signing up for an account. that really sucks. who wouldn’t want a preview of what they’re getting into?

that’s a good idea as well! might consider that.

I want to set up a Lemmy server too (currently still deciding between Lemmy and PieFed) to host some basic content that we create at a university group with the public. It’s more like a blog than anything else, at least as envisioned. I’d also like to add some cool features to it like auto-posting (i.e. we have a bot that automatically uploads certain posts).

LOL

The reason why journals exist is because they’re supposed to do filtering of bad papers. Whether they actually do that, of course, is another question. And whether it could be done in a (much) better way than it’s currently done is also an important question for academia.

I’m not familiar with NixOS

However, short reminder that the internet was largely funded by the US military. It’s not uncommon that the US military brings significant developments for the internet. This is nothing new. The latest outcry is solely because the US is sliding into fascism, not because of the involvement with the US military.

it would be a lot of work

no, CP is copypasta, the thing you put into your food boxes.

this looks amazing! (from the youtube video. also the controls/features seem to be well thought-through) i’ll give it a shot tomorrow

you have to go there in person to cast a piece of paper with your account name on it, similar to a vote in a ballot. it’s anonymous because the pieces of paper cannot be associated to a physical human, just like voting ballots are anonymous, but it still transports the information that a human registered this account.

Cameras (or human observer) undo any sense of anonymity. A bad actor could link participant with account.

hence the mixing (shuffling) of paper cards before they are being registered. so there’s no one-to-one mapping of humans and account names anymore.

today, yes. it’s a very simplistic worldview to assume that AI won’t becomes less distinguishable from humans when writing applications in the future, and i don’t expect it to hold true

if the group of people registering their account names is big enough, facial recognition doesn’t do much, as it can only link the person to one-of-a-hundred-or-thousand account names.

“crypto parties” often refers to key signing parties, i.e. parties where you exchange cryptographic keys. sorry i should have made that clearer

Lol. So we trust local governments and communities now?

I trust my local community more than i trust Amazon, that’s for sure.

Communities might be incompetent with IT (today), but maybe they just need a while to catch up. It could work in 10 years from now, and we gotta work towards that point.

Also, note that “local community” doesn’t have to mean municipality; it can also be your local nerd working part-time at your local library.

emailing his photos to his friends

that’s sometimes difficult, e.g. when you have thousands of photos, and emails have a size limit of 20 MB per email. using matrix chat or sth is also not ideal since the other side will have to download images one-by-one. sending a zip file might work, but the matrix protocol might have a size limit for attachments.

an FTP server might work. also consider that you want to store the images somewhere, not just send them once. how do you do that with messaging services?

the keyword you need is “DDoS protection” i guess

it keeps the server from getting overloaded due to too many requests

What’s bothering you?

• Is it to give out data for AI training? I guess you can’t fundamentally protect against this, except by limiting how much content is provided to each address.
• Or is it the resource strain that it causes on your server? In that case i recommend limiting how much a single client / IP address can request in a day.

I’m not sure whether this should be a “standard”, but we need a Linux Distribution where the user never has to touch the command line. Such a distro would be beneficial and useful to new users, who don’t want to learn about command line commands.

And also we need a good app store where users can download and install software in a reasonably safe and easy way.

What distro are you using, and how difficult was it for you to get started with it?

I’m currently making a list of distros and looking at each’s pros and cons, including:

• what did work out of the box?
• what required more work to fix / workaround?