Your PC is an unused server.

Whatever makes you sleep at night. ☺️

- Hey ChatGPT, is it normal for my A4 to be burning this much oil? …

- Yes.

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This reminds me of the Jill feature of Google+ - Circles. The abilities to trivially share “follow lists.” Adding Blocklist sharing to it makes perfect sense. Both of these are features Mastodon might want to implement.

This kills.

Yup. Tags are the solution, however it’s incomplete. It needs user-assignable weights. Otherwise all sorts of noise seeps through them.

Another solution or additional one is to do it the way Lemmy does it. In Lemmy every post is added to a community. The community serves roughly the function of a tag. E.g. /c/Linux -> #Linux. Then from all the topics in /c/Linux, users up/down vote to get what everyone following #Linux wants to the top. When I look at #Linux in such an environment (sorting as top) I get the stuff that others found useful, while the noise is hidden away. Organic sort based on user votes per tag or collection of tags if you will.

Same here. It’s the least I could do.

Trust is one of the most fundamental parts of any monetary system, so brute forcing hashes in this case is directly related to it.

Bitcoin can easily serve the world on 100 Mac Minis. Probably even fewer. The fact that currently people beat themselves into burning ridiculous amounts of electricity to run Bitcoin nodes is a function of the profitability of doing that. If that profitability decreases, so will the electricity burned. If I remember correctly, the protocol is designed to reduce that reward over time and unless the dollar value of Bitcoin dramatically increases, the energy waste should decrease long term.

A secondary point on energy consumption is how that of Bitcoin compares to the traditional financial transaction systems. I don’t have the numbers at the moment but last time I checked it wasn’t pretty for the latter.

With all that said, if PoS is proven to be as robust as PoW, it would probably be adopted by systems currently on PoW, like Bitcoin.

Internal data, not user data.

I don’t know about banning. The text sounds a bit like it’s voluntary.

I wouldn’t do it. Not on a device with other important information. Maybe on a separate one like some suggested.

There are no fees to publish on the Google Play Store.

Your friend is right. Listen to them, read and understand. Don’t feel obligated to necessarily change your habits. If you get the time and desire to make a change, that understanding and knowledge will inform your actions. ☺️

Great stuff.

Honestly, even if most folks from Reddit don’t stay, the ones that know will most likely stay. I’ve been here for a week and I know I will. In the worst case scenario it’ll turn out like Slashdot used to be. Frequented by knowledgable folks sharing News for nerds, stuff that matters. If that’s all we get in the end, it won’t be so bad. 👌

But I think a lot more will stay.

Anyway, good night!

Heavy agreement. Having seen how corporations host and treat data, it’s a clown show. Everyone knows noone can be held accountable beyond being fired and execs and shareholders know they can’t lose the money they already made. It’s certainly better than that in some places but that’s the baseline because those are the incentives. It’s only better if there’s lots of money on the line in case of a data breach. Real scenario from a corporation:

So should we update from Ubuntu 18.04 since it’s running out of support? Weeeell… we should but let’s write this feature first. It won’t be too bad if we run for a few months without security patches.

That’s of course security patches by some random dudes, for the software written by the random dudes.

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

Anyway, what’s your instance?

I didn’t have the energy to write all that and what I woud have written would have been 90% the same so thank you! The parent doesn’t know how things actually are in corporations. Neither about hosting stability, nor data security, nor regulation, nor financial security, nor responsibility. Most of the concerns they had with the random dude are valid for any typical, in other words limited liability, corporation. And the big instances are not at all hosted by some random dude. You can’t run a big instance without sysadmin knowledge at the very least. The three I have looked into, lemmy.ca, lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, are all run by either software developers or system/database admins. At least two of them are also well funded which we can tell due to the transparent funding and available track record. Small non-profit teams and organizations have made much bigger contributions to my life and society than many big corporations. From Wikipedia, through Mozilla to all the outfits behind most open source software that literally runs the world. Two random dudes write the crypto for the security that nearly every corporation uses (OpenSSL). Anyways. I’m not writing this to change minds. Just expressing my thoughts and reaction. 🥲

Some instances are just like any other. Others have more distinct communities. E.g. lemmy.ca is mostly comprised of Canadians and Canada-related communities.

Oof. Well done sir.

🍻 Here’s to hoping he’s right!