hendrik

Maybe send the follow-up mail to the moderation team anyway, including full username. And maybe a explanation that you were just questioning the unavailabily of the report, not intending to endorse the wannabe nazi party. So they get what this is about.

How many days did you wait for an answer? Sometimes people are just very impatient and this week thursday to sunday might have been days off for some German people.

I think unless you want to send some money to a shady self-proclaimed hacker, you’d just go with a regular computer security company. They can do it and they’ll have people who know what to look for. You can’t do red-teaming without any of the background knowledge, it’s a proper job and takes lots of experience to get meaningful results. And before you yourself launch a large DDoS attack on “your” rented virtual server, contact your hoster and give them a heads-up, since that’s really their servers, their datacenter and netwoking infrastructure which might get affected.

If it’s a smaller website and not super critical, you might be fine hiring some single freelancer who know what they’re doing as well…

(And other than that… I’d just rent 10 AWS instances from Amazon, or the equivalent from Microsoft or any of the cloud providers. For all intents and purposes, that’s your proper botnet with a lot of bandwidth. But please don’t do this for nefarious purposes.)

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Nah, I don’t think there’s a lot on IPv6 in that book. I think OP’s concern is valid. Accessing devices at home isn’t unheard of. The amount of smart home stuff, appliances and consumer products increases every day. And we all gladly pay our ISPs to connect us and our devices to the internet. They could as well do a good job while at it. I mean should it cost extra to manage a static prefix, so be it. But oftentimes they really make it hard to even give them money and obtain that “additional” service.

I wonder how often the assigned prefix changes with most of the regular ISPs. I’d have to look someone else’s router since I’m still stuck on an old contract. But I believe what I saw with some of the regular consumer contracts: the prefixes stay the same for a long time. You could just slap a free DynDNS service on top and be done with it.

But yes, I think this used to be the promise… We’d all get IPv6 and a lot of gadgets like NAS systems, video cameras and a wifi kettle and they’d be accessible from outside. Instead of that we use big capitalist cloud services and all the data from the internet of things devices has some stopover in the China cloud.

Yes, that’s likely a longer argument. I think I’m not completely considering it a bad thing… I think the old time forums had some charm to them, where you’d just contribute something to a discussion, no matter what and who you are… It’d be just about a certain topic. But that’s not really what we do here. So it’s a bit out of scope. I feel we could do that, though. The technology and set up of the platform itself should allow for those kinds of conversations… Bus yeah, it’s complicated. And this might be more social media than internet forum.

Sure. And since Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, it is embedded into some context… I mean we also connect to services like Mastodon with a very different approach. And we have things like Mbin with a hybrid approach. And as mesa said, Piefed tries to do some additional things as well. But the way Piefed currently handles missing avatars is to just not show any, it’ll just be the username as text aligned to the left.

(And I think the stream of faceless opinions is part of the idea behind Lemmy… Whether that’s a good or bad thing, or could be improved.)

I think this platform is less about people and more about commenting. That’s also why we can’t even subscribe to people on Lemmy, just communities. So naturally, your profile ends up being less important. And I have close to no incentive to care about avatars. This place is more or less just about the text content and the links. And I don’t even want my real face to show up next to my stupid comments.

I mean developers add avatar to all kinds of things, whether that’s useful or not. I myself don’t need one in Spotify or the fitness tracker app or my computer user account. They’re there nonetheless, and once you implement them, you have to deal with the UX representation. I think some users like to customize stuff so it get’s implemented. But it might be meaningless to most of us.

This uses Cargo and Rust. Not npm and NodeJS… I mean go ahead and try, this is an entirely different programming language. Nothing in your comment will do anything. It is like if you were talking Portuguese to someone who only understands English. So I think you can skip the long non-working code examples. Focus on the idea insted, flesh it out and contribute that.

You’d need to change the idea a lot and make it more specific. This way it’s not a good idea. I guess a local instance chat could be useful for some specific things? But then this is a platform to discuss underneath posts in communities. So we can already talk to each other…

This is not NodeJS, so it won’t work that way. Also tracks users a different way. Also this is the Fediverse community and this doesn’t federate.

Of course. These all are different issues. Encrypted messaging has nothing to do with handing out my phone number to everyone.

I can’t remember why I skipped SimpleX. I tried it some time ago, maybe it sucked too much battery on my old phone… Should I have another look at it? Respectively, is it any good for someone like me who already uses a Matrix messenger? I mean not theoretically, but for every-day use.

Yes, this. And with WhatsApp or an dedicated app they’re either directly on your phone. Or have your (personal) phone number. Which isn’t great. With eMail you can just have another spam address. And that’s more complicated with phone numbers and most people don’t have a second one dedicated to spam and advertisements…

More often than not, internet fights have little to no direct effect on the real world. We all love drama. And fighting some rando on the internet genuinely feels like you stuck it to someone. That’s the thing with them. But we all need to ask ourselves if it did something for the people, or the cause we claim to support. If yes, it might be warranted, if no it was just mire selfish than helping.

I suppose it’s like with the boiling frog syndrome. Temperature increases gradually. But there is no such point when we all jump out.

Maybe the internet already was tainted before generative AI, with all the tracking, selling of userdata, big soulless services, the attention economy… Maybe that was it and we’re way past it already?

But that’s very hypothetical. I’ve been running servers for more than a decade now and never ever had an unbootable server. Because that’s super unlikely. The services are contained in to several user accounts and they launch on top of the operating system. If they fail, that’s not really any issue for the server booting. In fact the webserver or any service shouldn’t even have permission to mess with the system. It’ll just give you a red line in systemctl and not start the service. And the package managers are very robust. You might end up with some conflicts if you really mess up and do silly things. But with most if them the system will still boot.

So containers are useful and have their benefits. But I think this is a non-issue.