Technically only some of HK was under the lease, some was indefinitely controlled by the British. However, you're still right because of the military force difference.

The web is built on hot linking hypermedia. It is more fragile obviously, but it distributes the bandwidth and storage load. If nobody hotlinked, then small forum admins/Lemmy admins/etc. have considerably more cost to bear.

As a compiler developer this speaks to me on a deep level lol

I miss circles

The situation in Niger is directly contrary to US interests given that there are moves towards asking the US to leave alongside the French + the coup government contacted Wagner/is already aligned with Wagner-backed regimes. The US does a lot of fucked up stuff in the world but it would make no sense for them to be involved here.

Oh also, mods are appreciated just in case, don't wanna be the only one lol

That's why I made it a config option that defaults to true (defaults to caching on).

I think big instances should cache, but for smaller instances with less funding and resources it makes sense to skip the caching.

I pulled this PR into the version of lemmy I run on my instance and it looks promising.

Oh wow, this is tragic

Poetry is nice for this but honestly, Rust's cargo and the JS npm/yarn have spoilt me.

I host my own, and I already have servers for other reasons so there's effectively no extra cost because I can easily handle the load.

I use an adblocker but I turn it off for sites I like and want to support.