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nitroemdash

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  • Is a FOSS decentralized peer-supported backup service feasible?

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  • Well, the internet runs on encryption. If the algorithm behind HTTPS is cracked, no conventional data storage service is safe. Overall I'm quite confident modern post-quantum encryption is quite secure for the task.

    As for the legal staff, well, PeerTube works the same by sending arbitrary content through your device and no one got in trouble.

  • Is a FOSS decentralized peer-supported backup service feasible?

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  • That was one way I was thinking to handle this. As I don't have friends, I had to think of some other ones.

    One way to confirm participation is to require participants to regularly calculate and send to other hosts hashes of stored chunks + random strings that were generated by the chunk owner in advance and were unknown to the peer before a given point in time. They would confirm to the network they still have the file daily, if they won't verify it for 14 days other peers would be liberated from an obligation to store files they uploaded.

  • Thank you for your service

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  • I don't know what you're referring to. Copy-pasting content instead of linking directly to the source is frowned on for numerous reasons.

    Pasting a link is even easier than pasting text.

    Sure, that's a secondary and perfectly valid use. The OP of this thread posted an image promoting memes. That is what I criticized.

    So, no more memes on /c/memes@lemmy.world?

  • Thank you for your service

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  • Calling articles "lazy content" is extremely unintelligent. I'm disgusted that you should say that.

    Reposts, not articles themselves. Reposting someone else's writings from the web as a link is objectively low-effort work that could be handled by a dozen-line script.

    Reddit and Lemmy are link/news aggregators.

    Maybe they started as such, but now it's a small part of their scope. I don't perceive them as such, rather as a general-purpose forum. I go to Lemmy/Reddit to ask a question (e.g. how to repair a thing), voice an opinion, start a debate, talk about stuff, read comics, etc. I don't recall following a single community that is about link aggregation.

  • Just a friendly welcome post

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  • That's concentrated on .ml instances

  • Thank you for your service

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  • So you hate original content lemmyers put effort into (discussion posts, memes, photos) and praise the laziest form of content (reposting articles someone on another platform made)? Do you want lemmy to become a parasitic platform depending on content from elsewhere to sustain itself?

  • WhatsApp is officially getting ads

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  • It asks for your phone number, so it can't be truly private.

  • Do you have any baseless predictions for the future that you nonetheless expect to occur?

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  • Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US

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  • Natural gas power plants are one of the most efficient and clean in terms of COP.

  • When typing took that long, you had to prioritize what was important to say.

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  • Usually it's slide to type

  • These medical AIs for diagnosis and treatment decisions are at least as good as doctors

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  • Can be huge for developing countries where doctors are constantly understaffed. These AIs rivaling with American doctors make them on average more qualified than people currently employed there.

  • Microsoft is killing Office 2021 in October to push you onto Microsoft 365, how to fight back

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  • Based on Microsoft's proprietary OOXML format and still makes you dependent on Microsoft's will. LibreOffice better.

  • We live in the future!

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  • What country and why?

  • The totally hypothetical button thought experiment

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  • A good charity can save a dozen lives with a 100k donation. It would take a few million button pushes until well-being of the global poorest gets so good that the cost of saving one life rises to 100k and you are no longer morally obligated to press.

  • Making the bed

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  • Fun fact: it is scientifically proven that messy beds, thanks to more exposure to UV light and better distribution of that exposure per various points of surface, have lower populations of harmful microorganisms and are better for your health.

  • AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs

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  • FFMPEG in the command line generally has permission to access the entire non-sudo filesystem and delete files.

  • Say it ain't so

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  • I've seen an incredible number of people who were never taught to properly touchtype and where each finger goes and developed bizarre techniques to type with 4, 6, or 8 fingers that may be almost as fast as the proper one but horrendously non-ergonomic. Ubiquity of staggered layouts (instead of proper ortholinear) does not help — it's almost like it's begging to type Z with ring finger and X with middle one.