[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 9 points 7 months ago

Signal and DeltaChat, as well as Simplex and some others e2e communication solutions, are adequate from a technical point of view.

The main issue is always adoption. You can have the most convenient way to safely communicate with people, it'll be useless if nobody you're talking to wants to use it.

So, since Signal is very easy to set up and use as well as the most adopted, it's currently the best pick for regular conversations.

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 8 points 7 months ago

Sweet, now I get to put "worked with NASA" in my résumé.

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago

What? So your advice for improving privacy is to not use a VPN, because the provider may log stuff and instead keep accessing stuff directly through your ISP who will log everything you do and simply use DNS over HTTPS/TLS, which does pretty much nothing for your privacy since your ISP still sees the servers you connect to?

That's terrible advice.

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 8 points 8 months ago

This is something I've not understood yet. If you rent a server somewhere to use as a private VPN endpoint, your clear IP will be pretty much the only one connecting to the server. Correlating your traffic and your clear IP to your masked IP is easy for sufficiently motivated, able actors.

Meanwhile, the main benefit of a shared VPN such as Mullvad is that many users simultaneously use the same endpoint, making it much harder to identify the user (taking only IP and traffic into account), provided they don't log your traffic.

So while having control over your endpoint is nice, how does that actually contribute anything meaningful to your privacy?

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

Gaming on Linux has come a long way and I always prefer to run it on Linux rather than a dedicated Windows boot, if possible.

But if you rely on VRR, DLSS and have a decent HDR display, Linux unfortunately still isn't quite there yet. VRR/HDR is mostly unsupported systemwide currently. DLSS sometimes works, sometimes requires a lot of debugging and ends up actually hurting the performance.

If your hardware setup allows you to run your games at a decent framerate without DLSS/VRR, this likely won't be an issue for you.

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago

Ich schiebe es auf keinen Fall exklusiv auf die Berichterstattung, sondern sehe die Beiträge, z.B. eben vom spiegelTV, als Stimmungsmacher. Das lyrische Vorführen des Dudes hat den initialen Ton für die üblichen Stammtischschubser gesetzt: Aha, das ist also der Feind.

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago

Very interesting read, thank you!

I (self)host a lot of stuff as well as developing and deploying some of my software via docker containers and dabbled in Full-Stack territory quite a few times.

Exposing stuff to the internet still scares the shit out of me. Debugging sucks. There's so much that can go wrong, every layer multiplicates the possibilities of stuff that can wrong or behave in a way not expected. Your journey describes the pain of debugging perfectly. Yeah, in hindsight, it's often something that probably should have been checked first. But that's hindsight for you.

And that's not even accounting for staying ahead of the game while securing your 24/7 publicly accessible service, running on ever-changing software, with infrastructural requirements you basically have no control over. In your spare time.

Hosting something for yourself can be a lot of fun, hosting something for other, potentially many thousand, people makes you kind of responsible. That can be rewarding and fun at times as well, but is also a prime source for headaches.

Deploying stuff is the easy part, knowing what to do when stuff inevitably breaks is where it is at. Therefore, IMHO, it's probably a good thing that most Lemmy admins at least know where to ask/start when shit hits the fan. This unfortunately leads to more centralization, but for good reasons: teams of volunteers taking care of fewer instances will almost always lead to a better experience than a lot of lone wolfs curating a lot of small instances. Improving scalability, monitoring and documentation is always nice, but will never replace a capable admin such as yourself.

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Isn't nuclear one, if not the most, expensive form of energy production once you factor in stuff like maintenance and disposal?

Not trying to do the whole hot take thing here, I genuinely don't get why investing in nuclear is still pursued versus investing in renewable sources when mobility and land isn't an issue.

EDIT:

“Tackling the climate crisis means we must modernize our approach to all clean energy sources, including nuclear,” said Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado. “Nuclear energy is not a silver bullet, but if we’re going to get to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, it must be part of the mix.”

kind of provides at least a partial answer: Time. Though this quote gave me graphite control rod vibes:

Some Democrats and Republicans in Congress have criticized the N.R.C. for being too slow in approving new designs. Many of the regulations that the commission uses, they say, were designed for an older era of reactors and are no longer appropriate for advanced reactors that may be inherently safer.

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

People really underestimate the psychological impact of something as seemingly annoying at best as a bug infestation.

I've encountered bedbugs over 10 years ago on holiday, luckily didn't bring them home. After all this time, the first thing I think about when something itches in bed: Bedbugs.

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

That makes a lot of sense, at least from a subjective point of view. Cheers!

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, the article isn't all that great. Still, the fact that the two exposed employees refused medical treatment suggests to me, that the nature of the substance at least wasn't yet known at that time, since it shouldn't be necessary to even offer that, if the substance was known to be something harmless like baby powder.

Cheers, though!

[-] suppenloeffel@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago

Some sort of user-controllable merging of community views would honestly alleviate most of this:

Adding something like user-specific topics, e.g. allowing the user to consolidate all posts from instanceA.communityA and instanceB.communityA and even instanceA.communityB into a custom community view shouldn't be all that difficult to implement (he stated naively, having never looked at the codebase).

A great addition would also be to allow the merging of posts, e.g. show all comments of all threads under one post where the post URL matches and/or the title matches.

This isn't exact, since multiple communities can discuss the same topic from completely opposite viewpoints, but at least allowing the user to consolidate stuff and control it would be huge.

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