They could create a system that picks one person out of the millions that do it, and then still make a random number generator pick a number that they have to choose out of 1000, and it would still mean that “You have a chance” to win. Sure, a chance, like, but at what odds, and that’s only if they were actually checked if it was true.

We all know there was never a chance.

I think they’re similar enough where it could work, and thinking about it from mastodon too it’s essentially just a long trail of messages. It wouldn’t be a plugin system (I’m real sick of business people telling me to just ‘plug in’ my code), but I don’t think it’s impossible

That would be awesome!

I would love to see integration with the fediverse. There’s still a few forums I jump in on every once in a while, but it’s so hard to keep up. I’d love it if I could see them here via federation

Ok torn on this. Against censorship 100% by governments. Also against using CSAM as an excuse. But discord IS rank with abuse like that, and they aren’t really doing much to curtail it

Another great point, if I lose my Linux isos, sucks but I’ll redownload. If I lose my family videos, sucks but I’ll log into my backups and resync. If I lose my credentials I’m fucked. Plain fucked. I can’t decrypt my backups, can’t log into services, it’s done.

I don’t, specifically because I don’t trust myself to host that. I know what people will say here, but I trust 1pass way more than I could do it myself.

1pass uses your password plus a secret key to generate your full “password”, meaning you need both to access your vault. The password you memorize, the key you keep safe somewhere (inside the vault is even good, since you probably have it open on another device should you need it). They publish their docs, and show how they encrypt your vaults. To them, your vaults are truly just random bytes they store in blob storage. They don’t store your key, they don’t store your password, they will not help you out if you lock yourself out. That’s the level of security I want for a password vault. If they ever get breached, which hey, it can happen, the most someone will get is a random blob of data, which then I’d go and probably generate a new password and reencrypt everything again anyway.

Vs me hosting myself, I’m sure the code is good - but I don’t trust myself to host that data. There’s too many points of failure. I could set up encryption wrong, I could expose a bad port, if someone gained access to my network I don’t trust that they wouldn’t find some way to access my vaults. It’s just too likely I have a bad config somewhere that would open everything up. Plus then it’s on me to upgrade immediately if there’s a zero day, something I’m more likely to miss.

I know, on the selfhosted community this is heresy, but this is the one thing I don’t self host, I leave it to true security researchers.

Speakers at home. Nothing compared to dynamic range there.

Over the ear headphones on planes. More comfortable for longer wears, good sound quality, and they block out the crying baby if you get active noise cancelling

Ear buds for short rides on the bus/train. Pop em in and go

I run mine on digital ocean and it’s great. Mine is slightly more powerful, but you can always start small and upgrade. It’s much harder to downgrade

Oh no we only slowed climate change by half! How terrible. Nope better just throw up our hands and give up, thanks for your sage advice.

You just hit the nail on the head for things that bother me. People just throwing out ideas that “only partially” work. This isn’t just Monday’s, or climate change, but literally every fucking bit of politics. It drives me up the wall.

“Yeah but it only makes things 50% better, so I don’t support it”

So we’ll sit with 100% bad rather than 50% better because Jim in Arizona thinks we need to only have perfect solutions, and that anything that only makes things better aren’t worth investigating. Better transit, electric cars, heat pumps, hydrogen trains, gun control, sex education, free lunches? All horrible things to Jim because “they don’t solve the problem”. No, they just make it much better. Maybe we could use them while we search for the perfect solution, you know slow incremental change? No, okay then fuck you too, Jim

And while I clearly call out one side, us liberals are very guilty of this too. In fact, there’s already an example of that elsewhere in these comments.

The WD elements drives are pretty rock solid. The drives themselves are WD reds inside, which are very reliable. The only iffy thing is if the control board (the device that converts USB to the internal drive) can fail, but that’s true for any external. It’s my go-to backup solution.

Hell I don’t even buy “New” on Amazon anymore, it’s all way too shady. If I want a 3d printed novelty I’ll go there, but something I need to know won’t catch fire? No way.

Literally the only times I have EVER seen it was when I was at concert and a woman came in and exclaimed that the line was too long for the women’s. I have never once seen a man go into a womens room

There is no one size fits all for how someone should do their backups, it really depends on what you have and how much. What do I have? Over 100TB on a redundant unrais server with it backed up off-site. That’s probably overkill though. Most people would just benefit from an external hard drive with automated backups set up.

If you want to know it’s safe, the go to solution is 3-2-1. 3 total copies of your data across 2 different types of data storage, with one of them off site. That’s the only way to truly know your data is safe.

They really think billionaires are like them, the only difference is that someone else goes to Walmart for them

If you’re into self hosting check out Owncast. There’s a very small group of us who are trying to get it off the ground. You host your own streaming platform that’s shared to the fediverse

Neat! I’ll check it out!

Anything better you know of? Most of my usage now with it is through its api

I’m not 100% what you’re asking for, but I use text-generation-webui for all of my local generation needs.

https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui