Telegram was built to protect activists and ordinary people from corrupt governments and corporations – we do not allow criminals to abuse our platform to evade justice.

So who gets to pick what’s a lawful request and criminal activity? It’s criminal in some states to seek an abortion or help with an abortion, so would they hand out the IPs of those “criminals”? Because depending on who you ask some will tell you they’re basically murderers. And that’s just one example.

Good privacy apps have nothing to hand out to any government, like Signal.

Because AT&T doesn’t have confusing branding such as the whole 5Ge which is really just them catching up with 4G+ that everyone else already had but totally not to trick users into thinking they’re getting 5G

I’d at least get a plumber to check it out. You could snake it yourself probably but you could also make it worse. If the pipe’s broken, you might as well just get more debris falling into it and clogging it further.

A regular plumber visit/check usually isn’t that expensive. Not cheap but far from 20k expensive.

It could also be connected to your flooding too, so you probably actually want to at least evaluate the damage ASAP. If the pipe’s broken, you just have a convenient pipe to drain all the rain water straight to your basement.

I’ll take the autotools over Gradle, that’s how much it sucks.

If they want them unintrusive they could just bring back the good ol’ notification ticker in the status bar. Zero space wasted by annoying notifications 99% of the time.

Having the web server be able to overwrite its own app code is such a good feature for security. Very safe. Only need a path traversal exploit to backdoor config.php!

Yep, and I’d guess there’s probably a huge component of “it must be as easy as possible” because the primary target is selfhosters that don’t really even want to learn how to set up Docker containers properly.

The AIO Docker image is an abomination. The other ones are slightly more sane but they still fundamentally mix code and data in the same folder so it’s not trivial to just replace the app.

In Docker, the auto updater should be completely neutered, it’s the wrong way to update the app.

The packages in the Arch repo are legit saner than the Docker version.

I’ve heard very good things about resold HGST Helium enterprise drives and can be found fairly cheap for what they are on eBay.

I’m looking for something from 4TB upwards. I think I remember that drives with very high capacity are more likely to fail sooner - is that correct?

4TB isn’t even close to “very high capacity” these days. There’s like 32TB HDDs out there, just avoid the shingled archival drives. I believe the belief about higher capacity drives is a question of maturity of the technology rather than the capacity. 4TB drives made today are much better than the very first 4TB drives we made a long time ago when they were pushing the limits of technology.

Backblaze has pretty good drive reviews as well, with real world failure rate data and all.

OpenAI: Here’s a new model that can think in steps and reason about things!

User: How did you conclude this is the correct answer?

OpenAI: No! Not like that! banhammer

That is simply not possible. Blocking is entirely done on your local instance by filtering API results according to your preferences. Nothing about it is federated out.

It would also open the door to harass those who block certain users/communities/instances, since federating it out would give everyone the detailed list of who blocks what.

That’s fine, the ad co struck a deal with speaker co to not bill for those sound-seconds.

Soon: when you pause a video, it starts playing a video ad with audio, to make sure no silence time gets wasted from your speakers.

Ethernet splitter

What kind of splitter? Not a hub or switch, just a passive splitter?

Those do exist to do 4x 100M links on a single pair each, but you can’t just plug those into a router or switch and get 4 ports, it still needs to eventually terminate as 4 ports on both ends.

If you’re behind Cloudflare, don’t. Just get an origin certificate from CF, it’s a cert that CF trust between itself and your server. By using Cloudflare you’re making Cloudflare responsible for your cert.

What’s the problem with SwanStation? Forks are perfectly okay and normal with the GPL, that’s the fucking point of the GPL.

There’s also Cockpit if you just want a basic UI

And the instance’s sidebar:

A lemmy server for, but not limited to, leftists in the Midwest USA

Less and less about OpenAI is actually… open at all.

I don’t understand what’s up with the US and this will to always hand out the harshest punishment in every situation. Locking someone up for 20 years in prison does nothing to reform them, the whole system is designed for them to fail and get locked up again too. Can’t get jobs because you’re forever tagged as a felon, and the conditions are so harsh nobody can employ them anyway because they can barely do a normal 9-5 because they put probation appointments in the middle of the day so you always have to ask for time off, can’t do overtime because you have to be home outside of 9-5. All those institutions are biased towards locking them up again because that’s how they make money, it’s in their financial interest and duty to shareholders to keep a market of criminals to lock up.

The only option left for those people upon release is to go right back to crime because that’s the only thing that doesn’t discriminate against them forever and allows them to make sufficient money, or jobs that are basically slavery with extra steps.

And in this case it’s pretty clear they got the biggest possible sentence because they weren’t white.

Upon Ms. Polk’s release, she earned a doctorate in public policy and administration and is an advocate for the elderly

That seems like a perfect example of someone that has been reformed and is no longer deserving of punishment. Only someone made out of pure anger would have a problem with that.

I have both. I find that YouTube Music has a much better algorithm, but the app really does sucks, although at least it doesn’t crash for me. Spotify’s app is a lot more polished (although lately it too has started to enshittify), but the music discovery is a bit lacking. Audio quality is better on Spotify, YTM just sounds compressed to be as loud as possible.