Yeah but on one hand you hold the possibility of peace and in the other rampant profiteering.

For an absolute scumbag the choice is obvious, no?

All hypothetical of course. Not convinced things will go that far without some more clear indicators.

The root servers are already spread over the globe. Enough of them are operated by non US orgs too to handle things initially, I suspect that the localised anycast servers located outside the US for those USA based operators would probably go on serving.

It’d be trivial to replace them anyway, and frankly we traffic would be much lower anyway since a lot of the Internet is run by us based organisations.

For domain registration on tlds not run by the us, they should continue to operate fine.

I’ve been to the US twice since 9/11 and neither time was I asked for my phone. Not to say it didn’t happen before now. It happens in many countries if they decide they have even a tiny bit of suspicion.

But, frankly right now I would not travel to the USA for any reason.

Pretty sure I can see a tattoo on that dinosaur!

I used my own content controls to block reddit for a year. Well, a bit longer so far.

Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.

The government absolutely uses sql frequently, even if they still have older mainframes with some other database architecture.

This makes more sense. But even then they would surely transfer data from the old system over.

I mean I’m liking the idea that they went down into the basement, started up an old mini computer, with “superman 3” magnetic tapes with data from the 1980s to force them to try to integrate with that and only after transferring the data at 1000cps, find out it’s entirely out of date.

I mean, it won’t be the case, but I’d really like it to be. 😛

It’s a terminology thing really yes. I mean a database (SQL or not) shouldn’t need de-duplication by nature of how the record index/keys work.

If they’re not using a form of SQL though, I’d be very interested in what they are using. Back in the 90s I was messing around with things like Btrieve and other even more antiquated database engines. But all the software I used that utilised such things was converted to use a form of SQL (even if in some cases there were internal wrappers to allow access in the older way too via legacy code) over 20 years ago.

If I were an American though my biggest concern would be that Musk is able to know the structure AND content of the social security database. His post (if we believe it) demonstrates he must have access to both pieces of information.

Well, you should at least mute the microphone/turn off the camera on teams/zoom first. Just common courtesy.

Thanks. I think at the time I made an instance (about a year and a half ago I reckon), there was quite a batch snapping up kbin/lemmy on every tld imaginable.

It’s actually not a bad idea. “The front page of the threadiverse” so to speak. There are plenty of instance lookups out there, but they’re generally self discovered. Something that helps match a user to a smaller instance cannot be a bad thing.

Having large instances is a good thing of course, especially for hosting larger communities. But, in order to remain fully independent, smaller instances that can be run truly as a hobby on affordable hardware are essential for the fediverse in my opinion.

Well. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone advertising hot local singles using my instance. I’ve mostly seen medical adverts and random websites (for products not services). So, you’re not missing anything I think.

No. I see several genuine looking users that registered and did nothing (fine I guess). But there’s a lot with very similar <somethingnnn>@gmail.com. Some don’t do anything and so far I’ve left them. Some are clearly posting advert crap and they get deleted as soon as I see it. Every now and then I just go through purge the rest that are clearly bot accounts.

If I was actually getting genuine active users I might look into making a form or otherwise making it difficult (not sure if mbin has that ability mind you). But seems I don’t really get real users. Just me, posting and commenting all day.

No, I think it’s just me on my instance (that probably has the capacity for 1000+ active users) and the steady influx of suspicious accounts that pass the email verification and captcha and then either post nothing, or post adverts get banned/deleted and it goes on.

Mind you I don’t really advertise the instance either. So that’s likely why.

I suspect people coming from reddit don’t understand the fediverse (I know I didn’t when I first got here). So they go to the hosting instance and join there, not really understanding they can join any instance and then join the community (if not already on the instance).

I think the top one might be the culprit. But it might be the guy’s account was hacked?

On his repo he has a fork of WSL and the repo is called “free-palestine”, he tried to merge the branch “freedom”. So that PR seems likely to be linked to this. Other than this, activity seems normal for a terminal githubber with 444 repos…

Oh, good. Maybe they will stop trying to scrape my websites at some ridiculous rate using faked real browser UAs. I just blocked their whole ASN (AS45102) in the end.

I feel like the only even remotely acceptable way to do this is to show the ad, prompt for the answer for 10 seconds. They can log the right/wrong answer or if the time expires the lack of one and must move on.

I can imagine metrics knowing if your advertising is actually reaching people is valid. But to make people answer and especially make them watch more if they answer wrong is about as dystopian as it gets.

If (and I say if, I really don’t want to believe it is) that is the case, the only correct response is to uninstall Hulu immediately and put on your pirate hat.

For threadiverse (lemmy/mbin et al) there’s not much in it. It’s fairly easy for an operator to curate their instance by pre subscribing to a whole bunch of communities. I run my own instance, barely any users and I’m constantly banning and deleting them for advertising. But I have plenty of content.

I made my own mastodon instance and connected to a bunch of groups. Only two or three are active. There’s not really an easy way to get content without following a lot of people. So anyone visiting my instance will see virtually nothing. If they go to social they will see plenty.

So it’s a bit of a no brainer for most I think.

Why? Because you can. But in terms of useful reasons?

Cellphones, Internet they need infrastructure to work, and that can be disabled either during a natural disaster or war situation. Even by your own government in some cases.

But if I want to communicate, I just need a piece of wire, somewhere to hang it, and a 12v battery and I can communicate for thousands of miles.

Personally I just think that’s cool.

Good news everyone! Several years ago I tried to logon to AOL. And it just went through!

Yeah, it shouldn’t happen in a release. But, if I had a penny for every time I’ve seen the last minute development that wasn’t tested yet and not even due for the current release squeezed in. I’d literally have a pound, or dollar or whatever else has 100 pennies in.