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garrettw87, 10 months ago

This is true. I know of one that doesn’t care but I’d prefer not to out them even though a lot of people surely know already.

But how could a provider find out, if they are one that cares? Well, they could sniff all their network traffic, do some SPI/DPI on it, store those logs, and run automated analysis on them periodically.

Even then, they’re not going to do the job of, say, the RIAA or MPAA for them. So in most cases, the only way a host would find you out on their own is things like high storage usage (maybe), high amounts of commonly-pirated file types, and high usage of certain protocols (like torrent). Outside of that, probably nothing would happen until your host gets a DMCA notice.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

AFAIK, web hosting clients here in the US don’t really have any expectation of privacy from their host itself.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

No idea. Maybe hosts typically follow a policy of not snooping in stored files without a ticket requesting or authorizing it implicitly or explicitly. At least that would make sense to me.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

So THAT’S what that’s for.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

It depends on a lot. I currently have an iPhone, and I like it, but I've never had an Android phone that was my daily driver.

If I switched, what would I feel like I'm giving up, without having any experiential knowledge of what it would be like?
iMessage and privacy. Or at least the perception of privacy.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Maybe slide the opposite direction.

garrettw87, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Kbin is built to use an S3 storage provider, yes. I’m not sure if we are duplicating federated media locally at the moment though.

You know, I feel like if someone were to create a paid service to host media files for diverse kinds of fediverse instances, that might be pretty successful…

garrettw87, 11 months ago

If they get paid based on impressions rather than clicks, then even browsing would help them.

garrettw87, 11 months ago

I just want to point out to anyone interested in kbin+docker stuff that OP has published their Docker image of Kbin to Docker Hub. https://hub.docker.com/r/elestio/kbin
I actually ran across this image before I saw this post.

garrettw87, 11 months ago

I have /m/learnesperanto and I am slowly working on sprucing up the CSS. So far all I’ve really done is add a green bottom border to some link hovers in the sidebar.

garrettw87, 11 months ago

What does “too interesting” even mean?

garrettw87, 11 months ago

Visuals definitely would not federate.

garrettw87, 11 months ago

Our rep points are currently broken anyway

garrettw87, 11 months ago

How can you tell

garrettw87, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Jes, mi baldaŭ faros tion. Mi certas, ke mi bezonos helpon por traduki kelkajn aferojn, se mi mem faras la laboron, ĉar mi ankoraŭ estas komencanto uzante Google Translate por skribi ĉi tion ;)

garrettw87, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Dependas de kia estas via denaska lingvo. Por la angla, jes.

garrettw87, 11 months ago

I wish they would all hurry it up and make something law.

garrettw87, 11 months ago

If you're curious...
"Mi" - pronoun meaning I/me
"lernis" - learned (The root is "lern-". The following rules apply to all verbs: "-i" is the infinitive form, "-is" is past tense, "-as" is present tense, "-os" is future tense, "-us" is conditional tense (kind of like could/would), and "-u" is imperative/command form.)
"Esperanton" - obviously Esperanto, but the "-n" suffix denotes a direct object.
"ĉar" - because
"volas" - (verb, present tense) want
"havi" - (verb, infinitive) to have
"amikojn" - (noun, direct object, plural) - root is "amik-", the "-o" suffix denotes a noun, "-j" makes it plural, and then the "-n" for direct object again
"en" - in
"ĉiaj" - all
"la" - the (this is the only article in the language; incidentally, there is no indefinite article)
"landoj"- countries ("-o" is noun, "-j" is plural)
"de" - of (there are actually multiple words that can mean "of" but that's another topic entirely)
"mondo" - world

The letter "ĉ" is pronounced like "ch"; Esperanto doesn't do two-letter phonemes because one of its foundational principles is one letter = one sound.

garrettw87, 11 months ago

Depends what you mean. I've used one before, and it worked well, but with mesh filters you will always get the oils coming through that paper removes. Some people like it that way, others don't. James Hoffman prefers paper filters; when I heard him say that and why, I gave them another try and decided he was right. They do give a "cleaner" quality to the taste.

garrettw87, 11 months ago

Call me weird, but I've done somewhat ok attempting to avoid the oils/fines with a French press by basically putting a paper towel over the glass before putting the plunger thing back into it. So the paper towel wraps around the metal mesh, not only adding its filtering to the mesh but also improving the seal it makes against the side of the glass. It does mean that I have to press it down more slowly before pouring, but that's just because it's doing its job so I don't mind. It also means that the mesh/plunger bit requires less cleaning afterward.

garrettw87, 11 months ago

The cliffhanger... felt appropriate in a way, but I honestly found myself waiting for it to happen for a while. The movie made it feel like it was coming way before it actually did, so after every scene toward the end I found myself wondering, "ok is it over now? no? are they actually going to finish the story and this movie is going to be longer than usual? if so I'd be ok with that but I really hope they don't end it here..." A little on the annoying side. It felt like they wouldn't have had much farther to go to finish telling the story, but what do I know.