TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

I don’t see a link for this, but found the github page for Mentions United.

The original Facebook was just “hot or not” for a college campus, and required invites.

I don’t buy music like I used to, but when I do it’s probably a CD from the artists site, or something like nugs.net that usually have several lossless download formats. I listen to mostly live music these days though, so anything else is probably on etree or archive.org.

“If OpenAI were to retroactively remove profit caps from investments, this would in effect transfer billions in value from a non-profit to for-profit investors,” Jacob Hilton, a former employee of OpenAI who joined before it transitioned from a nonprofit to a capped-profit structure.

I’m sure the investors weren’t selling him on the idea that if they got a bigger return he would as well, surely.

Except for the narcissist that honestly believes they are crushing it, because to believe otherwise would shatter their whole world/existence.

And they pump them out at a steady clip these days, which is great for people into the sport, but at that price it adds up quickly. And like Tyson fights back in the day, you might only get a few minutes of actual fighting for that price.

What percentage of Signal users is “grandma” that uses Linux and would be messaging from her PC? I would have to imagine the overwhelming vast majority of Signal users are on mobile only, so packaging for specific distros is probably far down the priority list.

OP, what distro are you running? You mention a whole bunch of package formats they don’t provide, but never mention what format you require. Depending on the distro, making a build script (or converting the .deb) really isn’t Rocket Surgery ™.

Or, if you are running one of those distros you could just take the .deb and repackage it for whatever distro you’re running. Expecting a project to package for every distro, and then be required to support them for every release is a lot of work. And unfortunately some people have no issues expecting from others, but baulk at the idea of doing it themselves.

Sometimes it comes down to support. For every distro specific format you build and package for, the more you need to do with every release (and need the proper config and to be comfortable packaging for each).

Could always do what looks like the Arch AUR package is doing and build it yourself from source. Or if you are running a Fedora/OpenSuse distro you could find a package on COPR or something that converts a package from a .deb to .rpm and just change source and stuff to match signal.

Agreed, it can work for those wanting to be an admin (and know enough to be “dangerous”). I think the bigger issue comes when you want to open services to the internet, because unless you are an admin you probably don’t want to do that without a proxy (and possibly firewall) of some kind in front of your home network. Which is kinda what I was thinking with this anti-Cloudflare post. If you are interacting with the Internet you have to trust a network and hardware outside of your own. And I think it’s naive to fear the 3-letter orgs being inside Cloudflare, and then thinking that putting your data in a datacenter you don’t control is any “safer”.

I think ultimately if the 3 letter groups want your data that bad because you’re on some list, I think the internet as a whole is something you should probably be avoiding anyways. And for randoms, if they are sweeping up data like that you can be sure they would do it at more than just Cloudflare.

So does everyone here that fears Cloudflare as secretly out to get them not believe that the NSA doesn’t have their hooks in all the major datacenters? The same datacenters used by all the major web hosts people are using to “self host” for privacy.

Personally I think you have to have faith at some point that everything from your node to the destination is on the up-and-up unless you have a concrete reason to assume otherwise. Otherwise you should be suspicious of your ISP’s network and every switch/router/firewall/node your data traverses on the internet. And being that paranoid basically means anything you didn’t review the code of and compile yourself should be out of bounds.

This rant is about using Cloudflare as a proxy, nothing to do with who you buy your domain name from.

Or his CFO, who is currently serving his 2nd sentence in Rikers to protect “the boss”.

I think in this case “self host” would be on a VPS, not at home. But you definitely would want to lock it down so it was open to the public.

Using that site and doing my instance to Lemmyworld , your site is listed under the working ones. I know spam has been on the rise again on big instances, so that could be playing a part in this also.

This looks like it could be fun, but also looks like it’s been in the works for almost 2 decades. It also has no pricing on the site or Steam.

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Yeah that’s pretty much the point, but it’s a real world method to get work done , see the bounties here, it might be especially important if the developers make a mistake when prioritizing (which is expected because they are humans, if there are bugs in code there are bugs in priorities).

It’s open source, feel free to contribute. Throwing money to support a dev doesn’t entitle you to anything, let alone to be the arbitrator of their priorities. And this is the thinking that leads to dev burnout, and likely why Lemmy devs are not interested.

I think one of the big issues with bounties on features for an open Source project is that some people will see them paying into a bounty as them paying a developer to implement a feature, and that goes from “supporting” the developers to “I pay your salary” territory. These people want timelines, and a return on their investment. I can’t blame a dev for not wanting to go down that path.