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Don't Trust, Verify (or: Validating Origin and Integrity without Public CAs)

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Sorry, I think I misread the comment when I made my initial reply.

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If you mean the key provided for the demonstration, you could ensure that you get the correct one by checking the signature (it's signed by my personal key) or by doing the initial download through i2p or tor. Once it's added to your keyring, you maintain that same key for all the subsequent checks. Or, if you don't want to do either, you could consider it as a Trust-on-first-use system.

The important point is that it's a layered system, rather than a single point of trust, and that once you trust it, it cannot be compromised.

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Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

Isn't the Fediverse supposed to be open?

You can show your personal support for something by upvoting it or your opposition to something by downvoting it, but if you don't want to take a stance on something at all, you don't have to.

It's an entirely optional mechanic. You can fully utilize Lemmy to view, post, and comment without ever voting if you don't want to.

As far as I'm aware, the votes don't really matter, anyway. Lemmy doesn't seem to use karma the way that Reddit does. i.e. I've never seen a post removed because the user didn't have enough karma, etc.

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Convenience. Unless you live right near the border, it's probably faster/easier to shop in your own state than drive all the way to another.

But if you do live near the border of a state without a sales tax, then it's pretty common to shop in the neighboring state, especially for larger purchases.

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Podman or rootless docker?

I use podman almost exclusively at this point. I like having the rootless containers and secrets management. If you're on Debian, though, I strongly suggest pulling podman from Trixie. The version in Bookworm is very out of date and there's been a lot of fixes since then.

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My childhood Pokemon Blue cart - 157 hours logged.

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I have! That actually is a restored file.

I used to back up my save and then start new games to help friends collect the starters. After I traded away the new starters, I'd restore my original save and keep playing, so that save has been backed up and restored a number of times along the way.

I'd like to actually get a dumper at some point so that I can more securely save the file, but for the time being it's saved on the same Mega Memory Card I was using back then.

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If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?

I have two domains through Cloudflare. They don't mark up to price at all, so they're basically the lowest price you'll find that isn't a gimmick.

I pay $6.50 for one and $10.46 for the other. Privacy is free and by default.

No harm in getting your domain from them. Just beware that when you create a DNS entry, they default to proxying the incoming connections. It is super easy to turn that "feature" off, you just have to remember to do it whenever you create a new record.