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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

Mutemath.
Drummer Darren King (an amazing drummer btw) abruptly quit the band for good in the middle of a tour one year, and while they did find a replacement for him to finish out the tour, that was the thing that started the unraveling of the band. It wasn’t long before all the remaining members left, leaving the founder and lead singer, Paul Meany, alone with the name. He’s tried to do some small things with it since that time, but he admits (as he should) that Mutemath’s real existence is in the past now.

IMO a full third of Mutemath’s essence was Darren King’s drumming. It made sense for the band to cease existing without him or someone like him. The replacement they used on the tour was ok but just not the right fit. He (seemingly) couldn’t do what Darren did.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

In terms of song quality, even I as a fan can admit they were hit and miss. But I still loved their stuff overall and there was no denying the talent involved, ever.

Also, I’ve seen them in concert 4 times, which makes them my #2 artist on setlist.fm :)

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, 10 months ago

Those kinds of things are slowly being ironed out, I believe.

garrettw87, 10 months ago (edited 10 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, 10 months ago

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

garrettw87, 10 months ago

I’m not so sure, given that it’s more of a Twitter replacement. I think it would capture more potential Mastodon users than Kbin/Lemmy users.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Sure, as long as Section 230 remains the law. There are those who want to dismantle it, unfortunately.

garrettw87, 10 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, 10 months ago

Probably going to get downvoted for this, but I tend to agree that AA, as it stood, had run its course. Getting rid of it now clears the way for new and better solutions.

When I read these excerpts from this article https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/06/29/supreme-court-affirmative-action/ - I get a strong sense that AA really just allowed schools to be lazy.

“Universities all across the country will begin to experiment with a whole variety of admissions techniques that are race-neutral in the sense that race is not an explicit factor, but not race-neutral in the sense that they’re intended to produce diversity,” says Jeremy R. Paul, a professor of law and former dean of the Northeastern University School of Law.

Paul says many universities are going to have to up their recruitment efforts, increase partnerships with community colleges and high-poverty high schools, and invest more in scholarships and financial aid.

“These are things that universities will want to do anyway, because they’re good things to do,” Paul says.

Dan Urman, director of the law and public policy minor at Northeastern, who teaches courses on the Supreme Court, says the ruling means that universities will have to redouble their efforts to maintain diverse student bodies. Urman says there are examples of states opting out of affirmative action policies to mixed results.

“My home state of California abolished affirmative action in 1996 in a vote called Proposition 209, and California universities spent a lot of time and resources recruiting, establishing programs,” he says. “They were able to get diversity, not back to where it was before … but let’s say they were able to avoid some of the worst predictions of what would happen to diversity.”

One potential solution to maintain diversity are so-called percentage plans, where students who graduate at the top of their classes at each respective high school are guaranteed spots in universities. The first percentage plan was signed into law in 1997 in Texas by then-Gov. George W. Bush. It permits any student from “a Texas public high school in the top 10% of his or her class to get into any Texas public college, without any SAT or ACT score.”

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Affirmation action mandates a historically and currently racist society to demonstrate commitment to end subversive racist policies.

Maybe, but with some amount of collateral damage that will never be truly avoidable, because it’s still a system explicitly based on race. Society can never fully heal under a system like that. It can make some progress, but that progress has arguably already been largely achieved and somewhat plateaued; continuing an upward trajectory now requires different tactics.

Declaring everyone equal under the law doesn’t begin to put forth the required effort to actually make the country a more equitable place.

That was true at one point, but a lot has changed since that time.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

I’m not so sure. I understand your cynicism but I don’t share it just yet.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Yes and yes. I for one welcome efforts to increase diversity by looking at these other factors.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Same. I haven’t used it in ages, but I’ll never forget.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Just go to: https://kbin.social/m/startrek@startrek.website

And hit the + button at the top, followed by Add New Article, Add New Link, or whatever.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

This is how the Fediverse is. That said, I’m pretty sure there is functionality being worked on in some way to accomplish exactly what you are looking for.

garrettw87, 10 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, 10 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.