I did not read the link, but two of my biggest concerns do not appear in the summary you provided :

• the burden of hosting an ActivityPub enabled service is often duplicated for each instance instead of being split between them (for example, my Lemmy instance has a large picture folder and database because it is replicating all posts from communities I’m subscribed to)
• it’s a privacy nightmare. All instance admins now have as much spying power as the single centralized service it is replacing

(Edit: typo)

In my experience, OnlyOffice has the best compatibility with M$ Office. You should try it if you haven’t

It’s not that I don’t believe you, I was genuinely interested in knowing more. I don’t understand what’s so “precious” about a random stranger’s thought on the internet if it’s not backed up with any source.

Moreover, I did try searching around for this and could not find any result that seemed to answer my question.

Can you give examples of countries where mainstream media is not owned by billionaires ?

2 years ago was already amazing for someone who tried to play CS 1.6 and trackmania using wine 18 years ago

With all the botting going on on Reddit, this whole Google AI deal makes me think of the recent paper that demonstrates that, as common sens would suggest, deep learning models collapse when successive generations are trained on the previous generations’ output

never stopped POSTing, even though I configured nginx to always respond 403 to anything from them for about a year now.

Lol, there are definitely some stubborn user agents out there. I’ve been serving 418 to a bunch of SEO crawlers - with fail2ban configured to drop all packets from their IPs/CIDR ranges after some attemps - for a few months now. They keep coming at the same rate as soon as they get unbanned. I guess they keep sending requests into the void for the whole ban duration.

Using 418 for undesirable requests instead of a more common status code (such as 403) lets me easily filter these blocks in fail2ban, which can help weed out a lot of noise in server logs.

Your sensitive data and logins are tied to email addresses, which are tied to domains. Lose your domain, someone can access everything.

I recently stumbled upon an article showing how bad this can be when the expired domains were used for important/serious stuff

I think they do get marked as dead after the Bodis subdomain does not act as a Lemmy instance. But I was wondering if a large number of instances “waking up from the dead” and acting maliciously could cause some trouble. Or would such “undead” instances pose no more threat to the fediverse than the same number of newly created malicious instances ? I’m mainly thinking about stuff like being in a privileged position to DoS most instances at once, or impersonation of accounts that used to actually exist on these “undead” instances

The closing parenthesis got caught into the link (at least with my client), turning it into a 404. You should add a space

I don’t game that much on pc anymore, but this reminded me of this post about Linux gamers providing good bug reports.

This was the first (and one of the few) game I completed to 100%. It took me so long to find the masr warp zone!

I did not play the last Kirby on the switch, but is definetly in my list

I admit they hid it pretty well, but look again. Radworks, the entity behind Radicle, is a DAO, which makes anything they do related to cryptocurrencies

Can you elaborate?

I was under the impression that there was some kind of consensus around rust being one of the safest languages to use. However, I’ve seen comments about rust being bad pop up in a few threads lately but they never explain why they think so.

For anyone who wonders, this is related to cryptocurrencies

I had a great time using Qubes. It made me learn about the Xen hypervisor and CoW filesystems.

However, if OP complains about build times being too long on their CPU, I’m not sure they will get Qubes running smoothly on the same hardware. I’m especially worried about every VM besides dom0 being software rendered.

Well, it kind of makes sense to give a figure in such an unit. It allows you to quickly calculate how much you’re gonna spend on your electric bill (but only if you’re based in the US), since all weird conversions are already done

Well, Watts are just a different way to write Joules per second. The unit we should eliminate is {k,M}W.h which introduce a 3.6 factor in conversions to/from the regular unit system

Nice paywall :/

Github is not really independent from Git, it’s a git provider. (you could see it as Github being to Git what Gmail is to e-mails)