Badabinski

As much as I despise Oracle and the lawn mower man known as Larry Ellison, I don’t think this is a problem. Oracle also had a lot to do with btrfs, and while that filesystem has problems, they’re not the sort of problems usually associated with Oracle (i.e. rapacious capitalistic practices like patent trolling and suing the fuck out of everyone all the time always). Oracle won’t own XFS, it’s owned by every single person who has ever contributed to that codebase.

Nah, this shit is confusing initially. Think of it like email. You’re using gmail, but you can still see and participate in email threads sent by Outlook users. It’s just that instead of emails, it’s a threaded forum somewhat in the style of reddit.

Lemmy, kbin, and Mastodon all speak the same underlying protocol – ActivityPub. I’ve found that the best way to think of it is to compare it to email. If I send you an email from my gmail account to your outlook account, it just works (well, mostly, email is a bit of a mess lol) even though the two email clients look vastly different from each other. ActivityPub (and federated protocols in general) are like email, but for twitter/reddit.

There are some different message types (it wouldn’t make sense to present twitter-like content in the context of a threaded forum like Reddit), and not all instance types support all the different message types. I’m using kbin (via kbin.social) and I can see Mastodon content, but I’m not sure if Lemmy has that ability.

Not sure if that was helpful, and I hope that others come and fact check me, but that’s my understanding of it.

While I’m glad that furries have a nice space where they can (hopefully) not be harassed, I decided I could use a bit less furry porn in my life. On kbin (on mobile, in the PWA), you can block a domain by searching for it (I think it was yiffit.net, but I can’t remember), then click the kbin logo at the top right, then scroll down to where you see /d/yiffit.net, then click the little block icon. I’m sure Lemmy has the same capability, but I don’t know how to do it. With that, the new feed has a lot less porn lol.

EDIT: it was yiffit.net, not furryit.net

Wait, there’s people making money off of this shit‽ Like, my therapist and I work on mindfulness, but for me that just means being present in my body (not escaping into books/games/videos), considering my wants and needs, and listening to my emotions (even when they’re unpleasant). Is there some other definition? I like talking to people about it, but I’ll have to be more specific about what I mean in the future if there’s someone out there selling something.

TOR was started and funded by the US Naval Research Labs ¯⁠\_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ it’s not perfect, but I know it’s widely used as a first line of defense. I won’t comment on the Radio Free Asia stuff because I have no knowledge of that, but I feel like there’s a lot of privacy tools we use that were initially funded by the US government, and even the US military in some cases. It always comes back to relative threat levels. Are you trying to avoid invasive corporate monitoring and some degree of government surveillance as a regular person? Signal is fine. Are you actively trying to hide from government intelligence agencies? Maybe it’s not so fine. Signal is still preferable to a messaging application owned by Meta, imo.

Some form of metal working, and specifically machining. I really enjoy machining, and I’ve been able to make some genuinely useful things. The tools are actually really quiet and stateful, unlike woodworking power tools which SCREAM at you like horrible demons. Seeing people look at their first top, or pen, or miniature cannon is great. Plus, things made in metal are at least slightly shiny.

For example, you could make dumbbell handles and plates like this: a photo of dumbbell handles and weight plates

Or a metal yarn winder like this: a photo of an all-metal yarn winder

The major downside is that it’s not cheap (not as expensive as boats, possibly more expensive than photography), and it requires at least a bit of space that you wouldn’t mind getting dirty. Luckily, I feel like makerspaces are starting to have more and more metalworking equipment.

Just to be sure — you uploaded the public key to your servers, right? In your user’s directory on the remote server at ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Your private key should never leave your system. That’s a very common mistake in my experience. The wording of your post makes it seem like you may have done that.

Not at this point. I don’t want to give bad faith actors my business, and Mr. Huffman has shown himself to be a big ol’ penis. At the beginning? With unadulterated access (i.e. NSFW content) and gentler rules for 3rd party apps? Sure, I would have been ok with that.