I agree. Discord actually had a metaphor that I think plays well for federation. Specifically, they called each group a server. And organized the UI in a way that would make federation pretty transparent.

The only consufsing bit would be the concept of a home server login ID. Like, the lack of a central identity provider. But I think that isn’t a show stopper.

I kinda wish there were fed ID providers that all fed servers used for login and authentication. I’m not sure exactly how that would work, but being able to have a single identity across mastodon, Lemmy, and any other fed service would really simplify things once you were in the fediverse.

For cereal and similar breakfast applications, I quite like oat milk. It does have a strong oat flavor though.

I made a shirt like that before for someone. It was a it had the Hyundai logo, the label S2000(A Honda sports car) and a picture of BMW Z24. It was very wrong but in a way subtle enough that only people who liked soft top roadsters would ever notice.

K.bye.

Not everyone has the money for a copy of Word. There once was a time when free rich text editors were valuable. But at this point I agree it isn’t needed anymore. There are plenty of FOSS alternatives to word that hit that market. Microsoft has probably kept it around this long to prevent people from looking, but now they’ve put their bet on cloud services.

I’d guess that it is doing voice to text, then standard automatic moderation on the text, rather than a new AI that understand hateful sounds. Just a guess though. At this point, you could run the voice to text on local machines and pass that off to the server. Of course that means modders could disable the protection, but the vast majority of users wouldn’t be able to do that. It would also give the added benefit of transcriptions for players that can’t hear voice chat.

If only used to flag, then passed to a moderation team for verification, it would work really well to police something that is almost impossible to police otherwise. That said, I’m sure they wont do that, they’ll just let it handle the moderation and ignore the false positives. Honestly, I’m still OK with that, I haven’t used voice chat in games in 20 years because it always devolves into a cesspool. So even bad moderation is better than what we have now.

But that latency is just too high.

I watched the launch live, they set the expectation that “if it gets off the pad it is a successful test” way before the launch. That wasn’t just post failure spin. They certainly didn’t complete the mission as planned, but they gathered a lot of valuable data. Something tells me that they didn’t expect the pad to be as damaged as it was. I’m guessing their data said there would be damage, but it would be significantly less. Now they know. Unfortunately there are few small errors on a ship that size.

If you find a $100 used server, that server will probably have 2-10 NICs on it. And any time you run a network cable, you should run 2 instead. And nobody wants to connect to a dead port. It all compounds. In a house 48 ports is kinda hard to use, but in a business with 10 people it is easy to fill a 48 port. It’s crazy how network cables multiply like rabbits.

Using cage animals to do your striking is inappropriate and you are aware of it.

We all know which side of the war Elon would be in the non-mirror universe. Not the side that won.

It’s a small thing that I think Flatpak is really missing. Drag and drop should just work, regardless of the permissions of the app, but it doesn’t because what it feels like you are doing is different from what you are really doing doing. What you are really doing is simply pointing the app to where the files are that you want it to access, so I’m unsure how to fix that problem. I would love to see it fixed though, along with an open dialog that gives temporary permission to files.

I’ve heard of it but never checked it out. It will be worth a check at least.

You mentioned customizing your bash prompt, I recommend checking out OhMyBash. https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash.

Alternatively, zsh is also good, and a little bit more modern. I still haven’t found a solution that uses modern keyboard shortcuts and text entry functions. Even zsh things like shift+arrows and ctrl+arrows are an after market hack.

I generally agree with you, but on WordPress it can be quite hard to tell the good from the bad. I deal with it professionally, and it is a real nightmare. And as far as I can tell, WordPress takes no responsibility for quality assurance of plugins in their plugin library. They also don’t have an official system to warn when vunerabilities are found in those plugins. And most people running and designing WordPress websites don’t have the skills or time necessary to monitor and maintain. It’s an entire ecosystem ripe for exploitation.

They certainly have their limitations. I think the same limits are one the gateway I have(I run my own controller, so a dream machine is overkill). Can’t say I’ve encountered a situation where I need WAN VLANs on a home system, though.

I wouldn’t say it’s entirely pointless. You are correct that by the nature of email proton has to be able to read it in transit, there’s no avoiding that, it’s how email(and SMTP specifically) works. But what it does mean is that proton can honestly say it can’t read emails once they move beyond their edge systems. Personally, I don’t use email for anything critical or sensitive without additional encryption.

The guest wifi may use VLANs on the backend, but it is in no way surfaced to the person managing it. I run Unifi equipment at home, which gives me the power to do all of that however I want, but it doesn’t sound like the OP is there yet.

VLANs are a way of separating your network into logical networks without physically separating them. They are useful, but generally require your networking equipment to support them. Most cheap home switches don’t really support VLANs, nor do most consumer routers.