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I’m also @[email protected] , and I have a website at https://www.savagewolf.org/ .

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • It’s relatively trivial, you just need to write a kernel module. You’d just need/want to make it gpl so everything it does is fully audited and transparent. That’s not a problem, is it? Right?

    From a technical standpoint, you could argue that someone could create a fork of the kernel that spoofs the interface that the anticheat uses to make it ignore things. You can, of course, also do something similar in Windows, but security theatre never let practicality get in the way.


  • Daily backups. Then you can have as much wild ambition as you like. Disk failures do not care for your permissions bits anyway.

    Practically though, one thing I find that’s a good habit to get into is to use rmdir on directories that you know should be empty instead of rm -rf. If you’ve made a mistake and try to delete the wrong folder, it’ll error out.







  • It still looks like you’re relying on IP addresses, which means if you want to host a Plebbit server (sorry, “always on peer”) you need one of the following:

    • Use a hosting provider, which is something you want to avoid according to your pitch.
    • Serve it from your own personal network under your own IP. Given that you’re worried about censorship from even the DNS system, I imagine this is something you absolutely don’t want to do.

  • Imagine Bob is hosting a community about cat pictures, and I want to send him a picture of my cat to forward to other followers of that community.

    How do I:

    • Locate bob given a name or some other ID
    • Verify that it is indeed Bob (and not someone pretending to be Bob)
    • Prove to Bob that I am indeed who I say I am
    • Send that cat picture without anyone in the middle snooping on it

    All of this in a political environment that bans the sharing of cat pictures.



  • My question is… What does this do that ActivityPub and ATProto doesn’t do? That’s the angle you should approach this from (and be ready to defend… People on Lemmy seem adamant that ActivityPub is perfect and unbeatable…). We’re technical people here, sell it as a technical solution to a problem rather than using buzzwords or comparing it to Bitcoin.

    You’ve mentioned serverless many times, but ultimately I need to send content somewhere and ask someone to send me content. I can’t just throw my posts into the wind and expect someone else to get them. So how do I make a post if not by sending it to a trusted person?








  • For my main desktop I use Mint because it just works, widely supported and Cinnamon is good (sadly no Wayland yet. ;_;). I also use Home-manager for my configuration because it allows me to easily just specify my config as a set of files I can check into git.

    For my server, I use NixOS, because having all my configuration in a few text files is very nice to get an overview of what my server is doing.