Jason2357

joined 2 years ago
[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Mainly just multi-device access.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

They also never hear no. No struggle in life and people just become playthings. That breaks your brain - even if they weren't already broken, which they would have had to be to become a billionaire in the first place guilt-free.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Because you are not the customer of the ad networks. They are marketing bs to ad buyers, where you actually viewing the ad is merely incedental.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Yes. Because targeted advertising is just selling something in it’s self. It was always a scam, but the mark os businesses that buy into the idea.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Also the eugenics stuff. Yeah, it was just a low-effort way to set up the premis, but eww (and also very incorrect). They had to make sleepwaling into that kind of thing seem plausible with some explanation. Instead, we didn't actually need that.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I see that cosmos advertises running your apps on a vpn built-in. That might be worth looking into. When I switched to self-hosting everything on my "tailnet" and closed incoming ports, a lot of the nice features of Yunohost for maintaining DNS and certs for the various apps stopped being that useful. In this day and age, I think being able to self-host and experiment within a safe VPN environment instead of on the open internet is the way to go.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I'll take a look.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Hot take: For personal use, I see no value at all in "availability," only data preservation. If a drive fails catastrophically and I lose a day waiting for a restore from backups, no one is going to fire me. No one is going to be held up in their job. It's not enterprise.

However, redundancy doesn't save you when a file is deleted, corrupted, ransom-wared or whatever. Your raid mirror will just copy the problem instantly. Snapshots and 3,2,1 backups are what are important to me because when personal data is lost, it's lost forever.

I really do think a lot of hobbyists need to focus less on highly available redundancy and more on real backups. Both time and money are better spent on that.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Do you have a recommendation for consumer-priced outdoor cameras/doorbells? Seems like a minefield.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I get the bitterness, but lets not normalize what he did.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I agree, but for the reasons above, it's a terrible outcome for everyone on the internet. The number of people who will keep their router up to date with security patches are abysmal. Fix the ISPs and it would work, but you can't fix the situation where the majority of residential humans suck at managing routers.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

lol. Tor isn't sustainable? it's been running for decades. There are plenty of other sustainable projects with big hosting bills; Wikipedia, Debian, Arch, Openstreetmap, etc. If you take VC money, though, they come knocking. It's a ticking time bomb.

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