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@ Jerry @feddit.online

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Just a techie guy running feddit.online to allow people to communicate, make friends and acquaintances. Odd coming from a happy introvert, right? (https://jerry.hear-me.blog/about)

I also own these publicly available applications:Mastodon: https://hear-me.social/Alternative Mastodon UI: https://phanpy.hear-me.social/Peertube: https://my-sunshine.video/Friendica: https://my-place.social/Matrix: https://element.secure-channel.net/XMPP/Jabber: https://between-us.online/Bluesky PDS: https://blue-ocean.social/ (jerry.blue-ocean.social) Mobilizon (Facebook Events Alt): https://my-group.events/and more...

  • Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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  • Does anyone know why it's been put on serverHold?

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    Switched from reddit to lemmy because they banned my account

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  • I got banned from Reddit for mentioning my Mastodon server in a post. You have a lot of company.

  • What are the platforms on the Fediverse doing to prevent data scraping and prevent bots?

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  • There are two answers to this depending on what the reason is for asking.

    If you are asking because you are concerned about scrapers reading your posts and violating your privacy and your rights, then understand that even if an instance is 100% effective at blocking them, the post is sent all over the place in clear text anyway. It doesn't matter for them which of the federated servers your post is read from. They will read your post many times over. For this case, then, there is little incentive for a server owner to block bots if it's just to protect your posts from ingestion.

    If you are asking because you are concerned about scrapers sucking the life out of a server because there are multiple different AI companies trying to read every single post in the database multiple times over for training, which ends up causing gateway timeout errors and poor performance, then admins, for this reason, should take action.

    On my PieFed server, feddit.online, as of yesterday, the firewall discarded 99K requests it deemed were for AI scraping while processing the remaining 300K requests. Those 99K requests would have been expensive requests, not just upvotes and such, but requests asking for huge amounts of text, and so the impact on the server and infrastructure would have been much more than a 25% tax on the system.

    And if the bots realize your server is not well protected, it gets worse. 3 months ago I peaked at 1.2 million requests in one day, of which over 700K were AI bots. Now it's down to consistently under 100K from bots because many of them have given up, I like to believe.

  • Why is the "that word" being censored across lemmy?

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  • Lemmy is t-i-m-eless.

  • Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift 'Super Dumb' Men

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  • He made thousands of dollars a month off MAGA men who believed she was real. But when he tried to create an AI woman for the Democrats, it bombed because they knew it was just AI slop.

    Any questions?

  • Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

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  • I think the article basically says current symmetric key encryption, even 128-bit, but especially 256-bit, is safe from quantum computers, maybe forever. It's the asymmetric encryption that's going to be easily broken, and this is what Google says needs to be addressed by 2029.

  • I am in the fediverse now!

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  • We're glad you are here!

  • White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server

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  • According to the Google Play Store, there are 467 reviews (4.8 stars) but "0+" downloads. Like everything else about the White House, it doesn't add up.

    And maybe most people know to keep it off their phones.

  • Newish to Fediverse - do I use one account across all services?

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  • You are asking a reasonable question that many ask.

    Each account will be a unique and separate account on each instance. Instances do not share accounts.

    Although you can, on some applications, authenticate with a federated account, like Google or even a Mastodon account, you still will have an entirely different account on the server.

  • A refreshing Zorin review. No, it doesn't match the hype.

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  • Wine requires Linux knowledge to get the configurations correct. I don't think many Windows users will be able to get any Windows applications running under Wine. And it's the same Wine that any Linux user can install for free.

    If Zorin came packaged with Crossover, then maybe it would run Windows apps better because Crossover would manage the Wine configurations and the required Windows infrastructure installs.

    Maybe.

    But not many old machines will have the capacity to run Linux, Wine, and a Windows application. But Zorin's hype leads one to believe that a 15-year-old machine won't struggle.

  • A refreshing Zorin review. No, it doesn't match the hype.

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  • I tried it about a month ago and found it had nothing more than what you get with an Ubuntu install, save for the look of the screen. I couldn't understand why the media was making a big deal about it. And I saw no reason why anyone should pay for Pro. My conclusions matched what is in the article.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    A refreshing Zorin review. No, it doesn't match the hype.

  • 7zip.com Is Serving Malware

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  • The headline of this post is technically accurate but purposely provocative. The article's headline is more informative: " Fake 7-Zip downloads are turning home PCs into proxy nodes".

    The point is that 7zip.com is not the official website, and this is where many people are going for it, and getting malware.

  • Small or medium-sized Mastodon instances?

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  • https://hear-me.social is one possibility. It has the added benefit of a 12,000-character posting size as well, especially nice if the 500-character limit at .social was frustrating.

  • TIL that in 1820 some 20,000 pigs roamed NYC to clean up the streets

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  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that in 1820 some 20,000 pigs roamed NYC to clean up the streets

    www.nypl.org /blog/2024/07/17/views-digital-collection-milestones-nycs-trash-revolution
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    Another missed promise from Dandup

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  • I'd ask for a refund.

  • Snitch – a friendly netstat alternative for humans

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  • It's very nice to use!

  • I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero

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  • Seems that if the uninvited code never tried doing network scans, it may not have been detected for quite a while. Good thing the hacker was a bit greedy.

  • Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

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  • I read the post and understood the problem. Then I read Dan's reply. And he's fixing it. In fact, he's fixing it in the exact way the blog post says it should be fixed, "... but those filters should be manually triggered and always removable."

    Here's Dan's reply:

    "... I hear the community: you want text-only posts. We are going to build this as an opt-in feature. If you want microblogging, turn it on. If you prefer the classic media-only experience, nothing changes."

    Why was this blog post even written then? Now it's seeming to be personal.

  • Looking for a PeerTube instance that actually accepts new users

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  • my-sunshine.video is one with no restrictions and has open registration. Don't know about others.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the Guillotine was named after a man who neither invented it nor believed in the death penalty

  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works
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    AI hacking. Downloading images can allow your computer to be hijacked

  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works
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    My Pixel 10 warned me 8 times in 30-minutes that there was a rogue connection made. Deeply concerning

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Short video that show what Friendica can do

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    mysql or postgresql? Which is better for an Internet-facing application

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    The elf in the swamp

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Digital Ocean's long outage on 28-Nov-2024 caused by a Network Solutions blunder they [NS] didn't know how to fix

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Schrödinger's Supermarket

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    It could be worse

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    This Building Looks Like It Was Designed In Microsoft Word

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Different perspectives on dogs

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Depends what you base it on

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Schrödinger's Code

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    My Nose At Night When I'm Trying To Sleep

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Presidential Material

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    New McDonalds offering

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Prevention is the best cure