She has less reason to complain than others… when viewed from the outside. People have only themselves as reference (and potentially a closer circle of people that are in similar positions).

But let’s ignore that for a second and zoom out more: if you look at the truly wealthy and how incomprehensibly more money they have, also your sister is poor. It’s not her vs you or the average, it’s us against billionaires.

As long as you have to work, you are not rich. No matter how much you earn.

You can spoof a lot with enough motivation. But it’s likely inconvenient enough that it will “catch” 90% of the targets.

Depends how you define “point of failure”. Technically Reddit (or the other big techs) are much more robust. They are geographically distributed, have backups, multiple datacenters etc.

But organizationally you depend on that one legal entity. If they shut their big system down, it’s gone.

So I think in regards to unexpected/technical failures, big tech wins the reliability race. But in regards to legal dependence… federated self hosted wins.

You are a wonderful human being. I hope you always have equally awesome peers by your side whenever you need them.

Just try to picture email. The different providers on different domains; different people have different addresses (after the @). Yet one can send to the other and back. That’s federation. The protocol behind Lemmy (ActivityPub) does something similar.

Isn’t Lemmy capable of being scaled horizontally now? Of course the DB could still be a bottle neck if it doesn’t work with something horizontally scalable like Citus, Cockroach or Yugabyte (or if the schema doesn’t lend itself towards sharding).

Deezer is also pretty lenient with its family plan so far. However so is YouTube. YouTube family, which includes YouTube music, isn’t even excessively expensive if you actually share it between 6 people.

Discord isn’t federated either and their tenancy is pretty strict (they even call it “servers” even though there is no actual server you create).

In that regard Haven follows that more strictly: your “server” is an actual independent instance you host yourself. You can still link other servers to have basically the same UX as Discord where you can switch between servers from the sidebar.

They are not that dumb. Apparently the code changes every few minutes (or seconds). Just a matter of time until they also check geolocation and/or IP during the scan.

You can also keep an eye on Chatto. For WebRTC it requires LiveKit, but otherwise is self contained.

Noticeable speed? Sure. But I am so pissed if a fucking todo list app is a 100mb download and consumed 300mb memory when running, all because this fucker bundles and loads a whole browser engine to render itself.

I therefore do think tech stack matters as well.

Still illegal, but without consequences.

I just extended my VPN for another year.

It is. But only as data point(s), not as a trend or generalization.

Does this meme nothing to you?!

That does make it weirder, for me. If you have a smoking gun on your opponent, wouldn’t you do everything in your power to use that? And Biden had a lot of power for four years.

A fan moves air. If anything, the energy needed to move it would slightly warm it even (but that can be ignored). How should it improve air quality? It can neither turn CO2 into O2 nor can it get rid of smells nor can it reduce humidity. It moves air around. Nothing more.

If it’s really a PoC, it would actually execute and therefore exploit something (otherwise it wouldn’t be a proof). In which case it doesn’t matter if it’s vibecoded or not. If you succeed in breaching a system with it, there’s an issue that needs to be fixed.

Carcass means already dead, right? I feel like all involved decision makers should be felled like trees. And I don’t mean “one cut”. If you've seen how trees are felled, you know what I mean.

Ahh. So you’re fine with all the ads on YouTube?

No, that’s why I pay for YouTube too. If I wouldn’t use it as much that the price is worth it, I would likely not use it at all (besides the irregular link thrown over my fence ever once in a while).