Lemmy is open source. You could start an instance and run it this way, as a trial.

I’m not sure it would work. It’s very hard to effectively replace volunteer effort with an algorithm.

But would they though?

Their terms of service tend to say “fuck you, talk to our lawyers”.

So… they remain committed to giving away free stuff… just not so committed to taking in donations?

I’m waiting for Google to get refreshingly direct, and simplify their terms of service to:

“1. Fuck the law. and 2. You agree to take personal responsibility when the law eventually notices Google’s bullshit.”

I’ll just point to the sign:

“Sometimes rich assholes reveal themselves to have (once again) done exactly the kind of shitty behavior we suspected them of.”

Not very catchy. Maybe I should workshop it.

Besides being abhorrent, it looks like desperation. It is difficult to control or influence anything with conscripts.

Yes. It’s a genuinely solid game. I still see reprints every so often. It’s well worth the maybe $25 I usually see it going for.

Thank you for your service.

This was such a good play set, for the number of pieces.

The ramp could set upright or down for use, and could be used where it is pictured, or with the trailer - and stayed put reliably everywhere it could go.

The fork blade fit under the palets. Both vehicles had an inlet to refuel at the refueling pipe.

And the forklift stayed put when parked on the trailer.

Really neat set, overall. 10/10.

Yes. I think we just need a cultural norm where indie instances proudly proclaim their indie credentials and the associated risks, while large reliable servers share how they are backed up and managed, as well.

Oh! Thanks!

No. Put the Genie back in the bottle. We need air traffic control for this shit. Or we just have to shut down all the PHP and NodeJs servers. (This is sarcasm…mostly.)

Allowing private corporations to have the ability to block what is seen on the internet seems to us to be a dangerous and infinitely deep problem.

Is a great quote, and gets to the heart of the issue.

But the French authorities are idiots. So there’s no win to be had, here.

Maybe deep packet inspection to drop any traffic that happens to be in the French langauge.

There are more important reasons geoIP blocking will not work. We already prevailed in a similar legal case in Germany in 2021-2023 in which we learned an important lesson: we tried to use geoIP blocking as a “hack” in a similar circumstance at the start of the legal proceedings, allowing us to continue services in Germany until the case concluded. The plaintiff (Sony Music Entertainment GmbH) then used a VPN to access the blocked content from Germany in circumvention of the geoIP blocking. The court agreed with Sony in their assertions of noncompliance, and we were fined for contempt of court.

A very “fuck you” to Sony, once again, as well.

We could start a buy/sell/swap space using existing Lemmy technology, if we left the messy details for users to figure out for themselves.

Messy details add up quick, though. Payments, currencies, mailing addresses, reputation, conflict resolution, returns, scammers and spam.

But “Craigs List” solved very little of that on day one, and went on to be pretty successful.

So it’s possible. happening now, I’ve just learned. Neat!. https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/buyselltrade

(Edit: Added link to the surreal thing. Thanks!) (Edit 2: I swallowed the onion whole. Mostly jokes, there, I think. I’m gonna leave the link anyway.)

These resources helped me successfully switch from Ollama to Lama.cpp. Thanks!

Oh shit! No dip!?

I always thought it would be…them. Exaclty them.

I plan to operate on expired certificates for two to four years, forcing all three of my users to click past a terrible warning.

Then I will automate my six day certificate rotation with Ansible (officially), but maybe actually with a stupid bash script in CRON (unofficially).

The real value is in the agility needed to update certs every six days.

Six days is still too long to leave a compromised key in play, but anyone who can rotate their keys every six days can probably also rotate their keys quite quickly if there’s a comprise.