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1·8 days agoIt’s really up to you how you set up your server and the datastore. This has nothing to do with Hollo. Again, there’s no difference between this and running a Mastodon server that will also need infrastructure like a db to back it.
pretty much nobody runs servers on bare metal nowadays
Yes, it’s a virtual server that you can get from a provider like Digital Ocean. It’s not running on your machine locally, it’s the same thing that the admins of Mastodon instances have to do to run Mastodon servers.
No, it means you run your own VPS to host your personal blog.
This is about making your own personal instance of a microblog that’s ActivityPub enabled. It’s much lighter than running Mastodon that’s mean to be a hosting platform for a lot of users.
Sure, VPNs are marketed as a security measure, but for most people, the security benefits of VPNs are negligible. VPNs can be useful for hiding your browsing activity from your ISP or for appearing to be in a different country in order to access streaming services, but a lot of the claims made about them are pure nonsense. VPN companies make misleading claims about the security benefits of their products. For example, some VPN companies claim that their products use “military-grade encryption,” but the speaker points out that this is just a marketing term and that most websites already use encryption.
Tom Scott did a pretty good video discussing this in more detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
35·14 days agoYet, that’s not what’s happening in practice.
It’s somewhat amusing how western liberals once touted freedom of speech as a defining characteristic separating them from states like China, which impose stricter limitations on freedom of expression. The argument was made that the pursuit of personal liberties is what sets western liberal culture apart and makes it superior to others.
However, this narrative succeeded primarily due to broad public agreement within mainstream Western society. When economic conditions were favorable and people generally content with their system, there was little reason to suppress dissenting views. In fact, allowing such opinions on the fringe even served to reinforce the narrative. But now that growing discontent is causing this illusion of freedom they once believed in to unravel.
VPN services
32·15 days agoin fact, we should send every billionaire there
I do that now, but it’s a bit clunky I find. Basically, I don’t really want a calendar, so much as just getting a reminder sometime in the future, and if I have time and I’m in a mood I’ll look at it, and if not then I snooze and it’ll pop up later sometime.
I’d like to see a reminder app that figures out how to space out your reminders, and if you nooze a reminder then it gets slotted at some random future date.
I find I end up making reminders for shows I want to watch, books I want to read, etc. These don’t have any specific day associated with them, but I do want o get to them at some point. So getting a reminder once a week or so to check out one of the items on a list would be really nice.
lol I’m definitely in the news checking to pass the time boat :)
Software development here. Never, ever, connect your appliances to the internet, and check whether appliances you buy have an offline mode as some are now aggressively forcing users to connect in order to use them.
oops put it in the thumbnail field by accident, fixed now
Definitely Haiku, BeOS had a lot of neat ideas in it.
The United States has done far more harm than good for humanity at large. The individualistic values it champions have led to a society that is fragmented and leaves many citizens in misery. Its global hegemony has resulted in the destruction of numerous countries, with countless lives lost due to its military interventions, coups, and regime change operations around the world. Moreover, the US’s extractive policies have prevented other nations from developing their own economies, perpetuating a cycle of underdevelopment and dependency. Additionally, as one of the largest consumers of energy per capita and major producers of fossil fuels, the United States is among the worst offenders when it comes to climate change, exacerbating global environmental crises with its unsustainable practices.