I agree with the premise that selfhosting is not something the layman can or want to do, but the assumption that self-hosters only host software that serve themselves is very, very dumb, and clearly comes from the mouth of someone who self-hosts out of hate for corporate services (same, though) and not for the love of selfhosting.

He complains that the software he uses can’t handle multi-users, but that sounds like a skill issue to me. His solution is to make his government give him metered cloud services. What he actually wants is software that allows multi-users. What he wants, by extension, is federated services.

The bulk of users on the fediverse are on large, centrally/cloud hosted instances, but the vast majority of instances are self-hosted, and can talk to the centrally hosted instances, serving usually more than the 1 user who’s hosting the instance in their attic.

The author conflates self-hosting with self-reliance, and I understand why, but it’s wrong. If you’re part of this community, you’re probably not some off-gridder who wants nothing to do with society, self-isolating your way out of the problems we face. If you’re reading this, you already know that we don’t have to live on our own individual and isolated paradise islands to escape Big Tech. Federation is the future, but selfhosting is fundamental to that, and not everything can or should be federated. Selfhosting is also the future.

Tuta are better, but not much. They’ve been getting worse every year.

I switched to Disroot early this year and it’s been smooth sailing. They’re not a corporation, and I can talk to them directly and not some dumb outsourced support staff.

It’s a corporation, so, no.

You need to specify what you want an alternative to, as Proton hosts a lot of services.

fuck no they won’t lmao

Please don’t get your hopes up

Most people with a driving license can’t even drive a regular car.

If your land, serving you and your family of 6, could serve a thousand people instead via infrastructure or urbanization, then yes, I think the government has the right to uproot and resettle you. Obviously, on the condition that you are compensated and helped along, which I know doesn’t happen in either country, but clinging to ideals isn’t helping solve the issue.

Why not vote against subsidies for farmers then?

What makes you think I don’t? Farmers also hold a disproportional amount of political power. My one vote isn’t going to uproot the fundamental flaws of how we choose to do democracy.

I think it’s more useful to talk about how insane the status quo is, like that land is a speculative market that effectively locks lower-class people out of living on their own terms, as it might awaken more people to the reality that we live in, and the inevitable far-worse future we’re rushing headfirst into.

There is world of difference between displacing a million people and doing little to help them along, and telling a small group of farmers to fuck off or get rolled over. It’s not either / or. It’s that in the western world, we attribute too much to land ownership because it’s deeply tied to peoples personal economy and nebulous concepts like freedom. I think that’s insane. Decomodify housing and ban the trading of land as a speculative market, and I think you’ll see people give less of a shit about it.

Here in Denmark, farmers (and suburbanites pretending to be rural, let’s be real) have an immensely disproportionate amount of power to veto infrastructure projects that benefit us all for the dumbest reasons, but I can’t veto the parking lots they demand be built on my street even though it only benefits them.

Last month, some-200 farmers got off their subsidized ass to bitch and whine about how some electric poles off in the distance would, and I quote, “ruin my life”. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/niels-bliver-nabo-til-44-meter-hoeje-elmaster-vi-faar-oedelagt-vores-livsvaerdi

I didn’t imply that you can’t strip the protocol down to its bare essentials and still use it, but what’s the point of a protocol if everyone is on their own personalized version of it? Version / Feature fragmentation is a massive problem and basically none of the third party clients are up to snuff. Synapse is a massive bowl of lukewarm dog water, and most alternatives to it die in a year because it’s impossible to keep up. There’s too much shit in the protocol.

It is, distilled down to its most basic point, about how powerful people have realized that disasters invite opportunity, and are now deliberately creating disasters to exploit the opportunity it creates.

Entire towns flooded due to climate change and bad policy becomes dirt-cheap land to buy and develop for the same people that caused the increased flooding risk to that area.

It feels like that is part of what’s going on right now in the US.

Bro it never stopped

The idea that you get to put a stake in the ground and then that plot of dirt yours forever is insane. The amount of infrastructure projects in Denmark that are put on hold indefinitely because locals are upset, not at being forced to move, but because they think they own their land and the view, is nuts.

The protocol is bloated to hell so third-party clients stand no chance, and the foundation spends more time bikeshedding or pissing away money than they do developing. It’s a doomed project.

I’m not backing up any databases that are so intensively used that I can’t live-copy them. Most of my databases (SQLite) sit idle until I explicitly do something to them. SQLite doesn’t really care about it unless it’s actively writing to the database.

There’s a balance to pick between ease of use, ease of recovery, and security. You have to define exactly what you want, and then look at what solutions are available to do that.

I wrote my own bash script for rsync that simply pulls copies of the vital folders and files over SSH from the machines I want backups from. Then it pushes a copy of all of that to an offsite (in-city friends house) location. There is no encryption at rest, because I choose easy of recovery over security. I also trust my friend, and there really isn’t anything that would compromise me totally, if that harddrive became available on the internet. There also aren’t multiple versions of old files, and if a file is deleted, then it is gone, because I don’t need that feature from my backup system.

Define your needs, then shop around. No one solution does everything easily.

I would assume this https://scribe.disroot.org/post/3486289/5751938

:)

I have 750 bots stuck in HTTP tarpits right now, and another 13 stuck in an SSH tarpit.

You can fight back! If we all fight back just a little bit, then mass-scanning and scraping becomes too expensive to do.

I built my own https://drkt.eu/files/ https://drkt.eu/files/fileindexer.zip

get wobbly with it, fellow glorper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKw6s8w9rAI&t=1s