A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.

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  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhich RAID?
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    10 hours ago

    I’m fine with RAID5. Though I’ve seen the case where one drive failed and another one had several bad sectors and maybe was at the brink of failure, too. We were able to rebuild the RAID and replace both drives succesively but lost a few files. I think chances are slim, though. And even with RAID6, chances are your house burns down or lightning hits the neighborhood or a thief breaks in and takes the entire server. Or you or someone deletes stuff. So it doesn’t really replace a backup in any case. I’d say RAID5 is fine for home use. Take backups of your most important files.





  • I think it’s unlikely that they mess with people’s DNS settings. That would just break lots of stuff and internet would stop working for a small amount of people. But there are things like certificate pinning and probably similar things for DNS. We nowadays often circumvent DNS servers and use DOH on an application level. Plus there are things like connectivity checks (made for public wifi portals etc), AGPS… that all connect to Google servers… Well, unless you have that changed, as I said. But that’s not something the user can change. You need the whole operating system re-built with different servers in place.



    • A lock or panick button that immediately wipes everything and makes the logs unusable

    • Easy support for canaries and transparency from the admins, like on Peertube where you’re incentivised to write something about your newly installed instance, where it’s located etc

    • Maybe take inspiration from European GDPR, assess which information can be used for what, make it transparent to the user what gets stored where and why… Somewhat assisted by the software ao not every admin has to figure that out on their own.

    • secure DMs

    Btw, nice atmosphere here /s I don’t think the general Lemmy audience is very receptive to change. I mean sure, this contradicts with a few fundamentals within how this place is designed. But I think we should make an effort. If I remember correctly, social media played an important role in recent (peaceful) protests and opposition. Like the Arab Spring. And nowadays the big social media platforms are bootlickers and likely to cooperate with the problematic administration. So it’s down to the Fediverse if we want to address a general audience. I don’t think a complex peer-to-peer solution, maybe backed by onion routing and elaborate encrytion is going to be appealing to the masses. It’d be the correct tool for proper confident conversation. But likely not the tool that connects the millions of regular people.

    And I’d aegue “defederate from instances in unsafe countries” doesn’t work. We have to treat every one as unsafe and not federate private information in the first place. All other optiins are just error-prone and likely easy to circumvent.


  • Honestly, I don’t think this is common practice in non-oppressive countries. I mean sure, this happens in North Korea, Iran, China… But I’m relatively free to consume what I want with a few minor exceptions. For example we don’t import food that isn’t food-safe by our standards. Regardless if it’s common practice to eat it in other places. Also food may not be able to enter the country due to laws on animal cruelty. Similar things apply to electronic devices that aren’t up to code. And some select few things are banned altogether and you can’t have them and neither can someone import them. Other than that, regulations aren’t super strict. I can use all American social media platforms despite them stealing my personal data and violating European privacy laws regularly, can use Russian or Chinese websites… I think I live in a free country.

    Helping domestic economy is done with tariffs / import tax. And not by banning things and putting people in jail.

    And mind that this isn’t about the service that collects your data and gives it to the Chinese government. This is about downloading the model file and using it all by yourself. So no data gets transferred to a foreign country. And it’s not because people could get harmed or anything. This is just because the vice president doesn’t want it personally. Like in some dictatorship. Otherwise they would have banned transferring data into foreign countries, if that’s what it’s about. But they didn’t do that, because it’s not about protecting the people.

    Or did I miss something and there are other examples for limitations on import?





  • To be fair, the US doesn’t really have a culture in anything useful. regarding the topic at hand. So everything needs to be learned from scratch anyways. Take for example the Fridays for Future. I mean make of this what you will. But even a 15 year old Greta Thunberg and their schoolkid-followers can have an impact on the world. But I can’t imagine anything like that becoming reality in the US. Over there, even the adults struggle with very basic things like protecting their schoolkids from getting shot at. So I think every positive societal change will take an immense effort and a big change in everything. Maybe even a revolution. Idk, but I’ve kind of become disheartened as you can probably tell. It’s been a while since some big change happened in the US. But you gotta start somewhere… And maybe it’s still somewhere within the country or the people to demand change.


  • You should probably look up what other people do and connect with them. Like worker’s unions, charities and non-profits, people with influence, the political opposition. The big part of “organizing” is connecting with people. So call them, go to their meetings, find individual supporters for your cause, or whole groups who are willing to collaborate with you on topics or the whole thing. Once you have a few hundreds or thousands of supporters, do meetings. Let people talk and discuss their ideas. Form a plan of action and who does what. And once you have a proper organization in place, people to do the various jobs, interconnections which allow you reach lots of people, you can start with the organization of the general strike and the simultaneous protests spread out through the country. But at that point you should have the acceptance of every major union and their promise to back you with their members, plus lots of other people who are ready and waiting for you to give them the go.

    If you’re young and more inclined towards internet activism, have a look a Fridays for Future and events like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Strike

    Other than that you can always look at the French people. They do a lot of protesting and general strikes. I’m just not sure if that translates to countries like the USA.



  • I’d agree. At that age it might to be more appropriate to learn how to ride a bike, explore the real world, practice social skills, dexterity, balance, learn to read and write… And kids have lots of energy and sitting on their butt in front of a screen kind of takes away from other things. It might be better to wait until they’re 10 or 12 or something. But yeah, I think at 6 you should be able to hold scissors. Or cut the meal on your plate with a fork and a knife.





  • I still wonder how they do security. With every other internet facing service, you’re told to do updates as fast as possible. Or you’re going to be vulnerable against all sorts of attacks. And either Lemmy has far fewer bugs than other software, or someone must be backporting the patches. Or it’s just vulnerable and no one cares bc Lemmy is small and unimportant. But yeah, I’ve been around that time where there were some database issues. And the one or two times federation broke altogether, and people didn’t notice right away, so lots of instances had already applied the broken update…

    I think it’s a bit unfortunate that the biggest instance does these kinds of trade-offs. Sure it’s going to help some users with outdated clients. But probably at the cost of security, and if the Lemmy project makes some progress, or fixes bugs, that means most users on the entire platform won’t benefit from that. Until maybe months or years later.