This is why some of us have been ringing the alarm on these companies stealing data from users without consent. They know the data is valuable yet refuse to pay for the rights to use said data.

signing into cloud services and downloading apps is just so much easier to do!

This is actually true, but it doesn't speak to why self hosting is "impossible" and more to how the lack of education around computers have reached an inflection point.

There's no reason why self hosting should be some bizarre concept; In another reality, we would all have local servers and firewalls that then push our content into the wider internet and perhaps even intranet based notes. Society as a whole would be better if we chose to structure the internet that way instead of handing the keys to the biggest companies on the stock market.

I'll give this podcast a listen to though, as it might be interesting. I think the reality is that some more docker frontends might help casual users jump into the realm of self hosting -- especially be setting up proxy managers and homepage sites (like homarr) that work intuitively that never requires you to enter ports and IPs (though fearing that is also an education problem, not a problem with the concept itself.)

There's some irony to every tech company modeling their pipeline off Toyota's Kanban system...

Only for Toyota to completely fuck up their tech by running out of disk space for their system to exist on. Looks like someone should have put "Buy more hard drives" to the board.

Security Experts probably don't log into smart tvs all that often. Just a guess.

I imagine they'll eventually find a way to prevent us from blocking ads. Twitch TV for example has found some ways to make adblock useless.

It's a shame, and it's really just a side effect of google racing to the bottom of the adspace game. If ads weren't as cheap as they are today, they wouldn't be trying to maximize the amount of users who are forced to see advertisements.

You would think, of all the communities that would be comfortable with migration, it would be the folks from /r/selfhosted!

Fellow user from there, btw, nice to see we've got a decent pool of people on this board instead.

I'm not entirely sure I understand the republican strategy around Taylor Swift.

Like, doesn't harassing her for basically no reason only increase the likelihood that she does get involved in political battles, not reduce?

This just seems like another hair-brained, half thought through plan.

Imagine being so petty about people walking out that you decide to vandalize trees for no reason other than to "get at" the people who are voicing their concern.

Like, it's some playbook "evil villain" shit.

The compression artifacts always led me to believe it was computer generated.

I think it's charming.

Won't be able to do much, and even if you can do some stuff you have to keep on mind that the energy efficiency would be poor enough that you'd still be better off with a cheap pi from a cost perspective.

I mean, I sort of get why the developers say it's Discord's policy even if it's a bit misleading.

Game developers don't really want to moderate their own discord server and simply want to use the strictest automated filtering system available and this just happens to include phone number linking. The operators of the servers themselves do not have access to these phone numbers and they are only stored by discord directly to prevent spam.

I would personally prefer games to not have their communities tied to discord, akin to how forums were big deal for games back in the day, but even then they do need some kind of automated way to filter out all the crap. This is a problem with moderating any community, including a lemmy/kbin/mastodon, and I don't blame them for simply picking the strictest option to ease the burden on the 1 or 2 people who are charged with managing these servers (especially if they are unpaid or volunteers, which is a whole other can of worms that shouldn't happen...)

To be honest, it would be a bigger surprise if a Trump lawyer somehow wasn't a real piece of shit.

It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that Valve are forcing you to update windows. You could instead use linux or macos, both of which valve support. They can't just support a platform indefinitely, especially when said platform is essentially at "EoL" phase by the people who make it.

Computers mostly don't make mistake, software makes mistakes.

edit: Added mostly because I do suppose there are occasions where hardware level mistakes can happen...

I feel like a lot of communities could use a few more moderators here and there. Thankfully the spam hasn't been too bad to be noticeable now, but I feel like there'll be an inflection point where the userbase will far outnumber the moderators on certain magazines.

Doesn't support it yet. There's been murmuring that they want to support it, but I'm of the "I'll believe it when I see it" opinion that most of that was just empty promises. I'd like to be proven wrong though!

Big Tech Pinky and the Brain

They almost certainly had, as it was downloaded from the net.

That's not how it works. That's not how anything works.

I'm honestly very surprised by this. What is the point of having data regulations if they can simply host the data somewhere else to avoid them in the first place?
#privacy #europe