jherazob
@jherazob@beehaw.org
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, i was not necessarily looking for a hosting by the project devs, just seeing if there was some company offering managed hosting like masto.host and others do for Mastodon and so on, i have a general idea how much would it cost to have managed Mastodon and was curious about other Fedi options for this
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
If i were so inclined, is there recommended managed GoToSocial hosting somewhere?
- Comment on epidemiology 2 weeks ago:
That’s why you get a T.A.R.D.I.S.
- Comment on bicurious 2 weeks ago:
Mandatory
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
That’s why you need a T.A.R.D.I.S.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Had a longer answer that went away for some reason 😭
Your criticism is fair, but:
- Using the email as a seed on the generator goes halfway there, here’s an example, although of course it could never change
- Centralizing the avatar opens that service up to be grabbed for tracking like Gravatar did, or breaking the security of a site by injecting code without the consent of the site owner. The usual tradeoff between security/privacy and convenience.
Would be good to have a good user-managed way to do the same (well, beyond using an image on your own hosting, i guess)
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Dammit yes! Mandatory shot out to David Revoy and his replacements of it (and the blog post where he mentions how he divested himself of CDNs).
- Comment on Why did they move the comments to the right 5 weeks ago:
HOWEVER, there’s cases where you do want to be able to like and comment: My main use case for Youtube these days is following crafters, people who make awesome stuff. And i do want to like and comment on those videos, not just for the obvious feedback to them but also to give them a hand in spreading the word of their stuff.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Bought by Automattic? After they non-consensually took all of Tumblr and hosted Wordpress to train AI? And after their big boss revealed his transphobia? I guess i’ll skip this one
- Comment on Can I lick it? Yes you can. 1 month ago:
Herpetology: Bed plan bad plan BAD PLAN!!!
- Comment on Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers 1 month ago:
Here’s the actual source, the original investigation post is linked in it too
- Comment on Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked 1 month ago:
That’s just a different color of casino chip, in the end is still cryptocurrency, which as mentioned is not where we want to be
- Comment on Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked 1 month ago:
Just earlier today i saw this phrase about cryptocurrency: “price discovery for bitcoin happens on an exchange that admitted a few months ago to being a criminal conspiracy”. Yeah, there’s HUGE problems with central banks, but by this point it should be very clear that a wild west casino full of scammers will not save us from that, it doesn’t matter what were the initial ideals of people about crypto, it’s main function now and for many years since it’s beginnings has been scamming real money out of people.
- Comment on Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub 1 month ago:
Can’t say i feel like i have fully wrapped my head around this solution, but having migrated Mastodon instances before i see the need for it, this could help a lot as mentioned. And in addition, lots of people usually have multiple accounts across Fedi (“Here’s my main Mastodon one, here’s a Lemmy one, here’s one on Bookwyrm to rate books, here’s a Pixelfed one, etc.”) and this could help unify them which is good, “I’ll log in with this account on this server i had never seen before and it just works”.
That said, having either repeatedly seen (or occasionally, personally had) TERRIBLE experiences in the past with linked accounts on commercial platforms (like when somebody gets their Gmail account banned for whatever reason and suddenly their whole online life is halted down to banking, or when linking two unrelated accounts lets one company access to spy on the person much deeper than before, or many other cases) i have to say that i feel a visceral level of discomfort at the possibility of this coming to Fedi, even if i feel this might just be paranoia I’m still not sure what kind of power would bad actors gain over you in this setup, like admins of rogue instances, Big Tech spy-happy corporate entities once they do fully arrive here, hackers who suddenly have a magical key over everything yours, etc.
- Comment on Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot? 2 months ago:
I use this, it’s very much not perfect but works: github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy
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- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 4 months ago:
Do you mean Babbel? Hadn’t heard of it, will keep it in mind
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- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 4 months ago:
Half plausible, but honestly I’m more inclined to lean into Occam’s Razor and believe there’s no conspiracy and the CEO just got AI mind worms, which is an epidemic right now
- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 4 months ago:
I am worried about the direction of Mozilla, it VERY FUCKING MUCH needs to invest on the browser instead of wasting time on “AI”