Yeah, Pipewire is pretty great IMO.

People love to go “you hate on Systemd/Wayland? you just HATE PROGRESS!!”, but like, no, new stuff itself isn’t the problem and this proves that. Pipewire doesn’t seem to be all that controversial, I don’t really see anyone hating on it, or people going “YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT IT!!!”.

– Frost

There’s also plenty of good GUI editors if vim and emacs aren’t your cup of tea. Personally I think Kate’s fantastic, for instance.

– Frost

The moment you get a TLS cert, it’ll show up in Certificate Transparency logs and apparently the attack bots scan that for targets.

Oof, yikes. 🧡 Maybe switching instance to a more chill place would help?

If people are jumping on you like that, that should a thing your mods can deal with. I don’t know if lemmy.world has the kind of mod team that would go out of their way to protect you from this kinda shit (since they’re a big generalist instance), but if not, you’re likely to get better moderation on a smaller server. Like how we’re on pawb.social and it’s probably pretty good here. Just like, having a place with admins who care.

(We’re not teen here, but are also Super Online. And also various forms of queer and otherwise marginalized so yeah, I get it.)

– Frost

You can totally do that yeah!

We have our stuff set up so inbound VPS traffic (for HTTPS) comes in on port 4430, while LAN traffic is on 443. It’s not done for firewall reasons, it’s so we can pass the client’s IP through with Nginx’s proxy_protocol feature, but you could just make your local-only services not listen on 4430. Boom, done.

Fail2Ban on the VPS is probably good. On the home server, it might just lock out the VPS (since everything comes from there).

Anyway yeah, I’ve got a whole guide on this sort of setup! https://frost.brightfur.net/blog/selfhosting-with-a-bounce-vps-part-1/

– Frost

Ah yes, “medical condition”. As if being trans is like having a cold or a busted knee or whatever.

It, uh.

That’s not how it works.

Fedi, tracking accounts? What do you mean by “tracking”?

Semi-permanent, yeah, I’ll give you that one. That said, if you delete something, generally it’s actually deleted. Any servers which turn out to be ignoring delete requests tend to get cut off from everyone else pretty quickly. I guess there’s always the possibility your “hey this post was deleted” notification might not bubble through to a given server, but it should work.

We have a spindle of CD-Rs. I wish it was DVDs! We’d have a use for DVDs! It’s WAY easier to just burn a Linux ISO than it is to faff about with a USB stick. Less convoluted to boot from, too (hybrid ISOs are a bit cursed; it doesn’t matter if you’re doing the usual pure “overwrite the entire stick” thing, but it’s not great if you’re also using the drive for other stuff – that’s not an issue with DVD[-+]Rs, they come in packs and each individual disc is cheap enough it’s one disc per thing).

Wee do have a couple OpenBSD install CDs. We don’t use them enough to be super useful. But a Debian install DVD? I’d use that.

– Frost

Honestly, IMO it’s by definition real because we’re all here and experiencing it.

Even if it is a simulation (I personally don’t think it is, but wouldn’t really mind if it were) that doesn’t make it less real. It’s still our reality, after all.

I can’t prove to you that I exist, of course. But like, who cares about “actual existence” anyway? I’m clearly here and talking to you. Even if I were a simulation NPC or “just in your head”, I’m no less real. Probably the more important thing is that I can’t prove I’m not an unthinking NPC just following a program.

Then again, Occam’s Razor. It’d be weird if you were the only one who was actually thinking and everyone else was just mindless NPCs. It’s way more likely that we all exist and think independently (whether that be in a simulation or otherwise, doesn’t really matter).

– Frost

Man, it’s so weird to think about misogynistic/degrading/abusive porn existing. I’m used to furry porn which, generally, is much more positive “yay let’s do [insert rule 34 of literally anything you could possibly think of] and have a great time!” type stuff.

– Frost

I bet we’re thinking of completely different implications, which is pretty hilarious!

(‘knot’ is furry terminology (possibly outside furry too, it might be what the scientists call it, but it probably doesn’t come up nearly as much in other contexts) for… does lemmy not have inline spoilers?)

Hah, as a furry, that one has implications. :3

– Frost

(Okay, what the hell did Lemmy do to my quotes?? I used straight quotes for a reason! It just went and decided to guess opening vs. closing ones and totally scrambled them. If I want open/close quotes I’ll type open/close quotes.)

Hi, we (personally)'re various types of queer, and plural, and otherwise don’t really have local “”“”““real-life””“”“” community. The internet and such is crucial to our continued existence and we know literally nobody offline.

Don’t throw out computers just because “oh Real Life is More Real”.

(yes, you didn’t technically say “throw out computers in general” but it feels like you’re implying it with the “throw out games in general”.)

Also singleplayer games exist and those are good too.

Games are not purely a means to be social to other people in the same room with you. They’re still good for that! But societally we’ve moved way beyond that being the only reason.

(English could really use an inclusive and exclusive we, heh)

Games are actually among the LEAST enshittified regions of tech these days. And that’s with all the shit Ubisoft and their ilk are pulling. Games are like the one category of proprietary software where you can update relatively safely and expect to not be screwed over. Most of the time.

– Frost

We actually use a 90s clock radio that has a “radio alarm” feature! So we get whatever the radio station we last used is playing. It’s nice.

– Frost