Comparing python to rust, rust has far fewer breaking updates than python, and thats a fact. Feature updates can and do break older code in python, whereas in rust this is simply not allowed with few exceptions.

The language is allowed to change in compatible ways with editions. Every few years a new edition is released which allows otherwise breaking changes to be implemented, but the old and new code can still work together. Developers can rev the edition version when they want. I also think cargo might be able to help upgrade to a new edition as well.

Rust isn’t perfect, but python fails to learn the lessons that even perl implemented decades ago.

This might be of use to you:

https://looking-glass.io/

You might still need a dummy hdmi/DP plug/adapter.

That's fine and easy on desktop/web browser, but for mobile devices it is not quite as easy. You would either need to use a hacked version of the app or a third party app.

What I'm thinking. If it took that long for my server to shut down, I would just sync and force reset. Although tbh, most things are VMs now, and those reboot pretty fast and would likely not be affected much by these improvements.

Yes, but that is always possible with most protocols, including imap.

Take a look a FUSE and you will see all the creative things people have done with filesystems. Or DNS, lots of fun things have been done with that also.

You are right, you can't use only information Ukraine or Russia provides. But it probably is the case that Ukraine was stomping Russia for pennies on the dollar earlier in the war. However, Russia is not a static force. They learn and change their tactics, and Russia spends more resources now than they did earlier.

It would be a grave mistake to stop aid to Ukraine while they are still willing and able to fight.

Note that v1 and v2 torrents use slightly different url fragments, so this won't work quite as easily as you think. It would be possible tell the difference because they use different hashes with different lengths, but most people probably won't know.

Tbh, I don't think encryption matters that much for are usually public chat channels.

The private communication should be safe since i think the users will usually pin the keys for each other.

Tbh, just stop using software well past it's prime, or pay the cost of developing the fixes.

Everything can't be free, at some point it's gotta cost something.

I more or less was just looking for a general survey of what other people used.

I agree installing a binary for this small kind of thing might be excessive.

In software, keeping things small means they can be simpler. And simple things tend to have better uptime for less effort. Lemmy is rust based, so performance should be reasonable for most instances. Also, due to the federation, the work for instances is distributed like email, so the system naturally distributes load.

It's probably a lot like IRC, there will be different servers or networks with different specialities, but from a user perspective you can be on many at the same time.

You could either outright defederate now or wait until possible spam starts and then defederate it. The community at large might want to maintain a list of bad instances.

The problem is probably similar to email spam. It's not easy or fun to deal with.