JubilantJaguar
@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Obama wasn't a hero; he just wasn't terrible 2 days ago:
Is not really a showerthought and flagrantly breaks rule #6. Put this elsewhere.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 2 days ago:
This is the only answer you need to read. It’s a non-problem if you just do this, and there’s no reason not to do it.
- Comment on Heck is just "hell" and "fuck" combined 3 days ago:
Occasionally the showerthoughts here reach the quality level of the R-site.
- Comment on Federated Blogging Options 6 days ago:
Sure, it’s fine. But if I’m only publishing text and photos, and I don’t need tons of specialized plugins, and I’m dealing with things myself - then personally I will go with a static-site generator every time. It’s at least as fast, and more secure by design.
- Comment on Federated Blogging Options 1 week ago:
Did not know that. Useful.
- Comment on Federated Blogging Options 1 week ago:
Full DB-driven monster for a full bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.
- Comment on Federated Blogging Options 1 week ago:
Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?
- Comment on Upvote/Downvote is the first mental skill that infants learn. 1 week ago:
And then some of them learn that downvoting is obnoxious and toxic, while others never grow out of infancy.
- Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server? 2 weeks ago:
Possibly it’s about personality types. I was only going on my own experience. Of always being told by a chorus of experts “Oh no you don’t want to do that!” and ending up being terrified to touch anything. When I now know that I usually had nothing to be afraid of, because dangerous things tend to be locked down by design, exactly as they should be.
- Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server? 2 weeks ago:
it depends how secure you want your network to be. Personally I think UFW is easy so you may as well set it up
IMO this attitude is problematic. It encourages people (especially newbies) to think they can’t trust anything, that software is by nature unreliable. I was one of those people once.
Personally, now I understand better how these things work, there’s no way I’m wasting my time putting up multiple firewalls. The router already has a firewall. Next.
- Comment on To most, consensus and truth are the same 2 weeks ago:
The opposite is also dangerous, i.e. believing reflexively in heterodoxies and conspiracy theories. But your point stands.
- Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? 2 weeks ago:
Immutable distros like NixOS don’t stop you from tweaking stuff, they just record every tweak centrally, so that you can undo them and do rollbacks.
Others can confirm that I’ve got that right. Haven’t tried it but the idea sounds great.
- Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? 2 weeks ago:
I would like to have a system when I know what I did, what is opened/installed/activated and what is not
Story of my life after 20 years on Linux. Maybe we could call it “modification anxiety”.
I believe this is the case for an immutable OS.
- Comment on lemmy-like fediverse forum that lets you post things to your "profile"? 2 weeks ago:
Ha, good analogy.
- Comment on lemmy-like fediverse forum that lets you post things to your "profile"? 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like an elaborate way of saying you want to blog.
Or, as the kids call it these days, “to post on my Substack”. The two things being identical except that the latter sounds cooler and allows them to indulge their corporate Stockholm syndrome.
- Comment on Substack open source rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Very interesting perspective! And yes, I keep all my data locally, literally all of it, and the only bits of it that go on my VPS or - worse! - mobile device are either encrypted or not private. So your theory is right on the mark.
- Comment on Substack open source rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Worth remembering that the benefits of open source are less critical with server-side software compared to when it’s your own personal computer. Personally, if it’s SAAS then I’m not much bothered what they’re running it on. Not to invalidate your general point.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Contravenes rule #3. Moderation please.
- Comment on Gratitude for open social media alternatives. 4 weeks ago:
True in spirit but not to the letter. You can fire up your own server and federate Bluesky. The issue is that Bluesky’s centralized design means that you would be hosting a clone of literally all the data, which requires serious infrastructure and expense. But the protocol is open, so in theory an alternative provider (with resources) could do it.
If all Xitter users decamped to Bluesky, that might create incentives for more providers to step in, creating some competition and accountability. Non-profit foundations with deep pockets could do it, for example. That would definitely be an improvement compared to today’s corporate social media.
But I agree that ActivityPub is the more democratic solution.
- Comment on What if we called instances providers? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 4 weeks ago:
Same, same, and same.
- Comment on What if we called instances providers? 4 weeks ago:
I like it. The reasoning’s good.
I hate the term “instance”. It’s hopelessly geeky (it derives from object-oriented programming). It brings to mind nerds and gamers in basements.
- Comment on What RSS feeds are you subscribed to? 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t this like saying “What phone numbers do you have in your address book?”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This is not a showerthought and it obviously breaks rule #3.
Moderation please.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Incomprehensible. Ungrammatical. Not even a showerthought.
Moderation please.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
#notashowerthought
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 month ago:
True, but it still gives the Malian government an ultimate authority over the domain, which just seems completely dumb to me. The also-semi-failed Libya has ultimate authority over
lydomains (like bit.ly) and has actually used its power to shut down domains for being against Libyan law. Domain hacks are not just ugly, they’re dumb. - Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 month ago:
Firstly, the French troops were invited by Mali’s government to help it put down its jihadist insurgents. The Russian ones were invited, in turn, for the same reason, after a media-propaganda campaign by Russia that played on historic animosity dating from the colonial period. A propaganda campaign filled with angry rhetoric and sounding much like your rant.
Meanwhile, Mali is still a semi-failed state with a jihadi problem which was caused by neither France nor Russia. And on top of that it now has brutal boorish Russian mercenaries instead of generally well-behaved French regular soldiers. Mali got a terrible deal and it was their own fault.
You know why I’m not embarrassed to say that? Precisely because I’m not a colonialist. I believe that Mali is not a child, it’s an adult. It has agency, it’s not a colony of anyone, it’s a sovereign country that can make choices for itself. If anyone’s views here are colonialist, it’s yours.
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 month ago:
Mentioning the French troops was a bit offtopic. But my point stands. Mali is a semi-failed state that seems to have exchanged one set of foreign lords for another, much worse, set.
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 month ago:
This seems to be missing Mali, the home of
.ml. It’s in West Africa and since the French soldiers left it’s been an authoritarian client state of Russia. Very appropriate.