I'm looking forward to more sites supporting Webauthn / FIDO2 one day. Many companies are moving this way for internal systems, since TOTP is vulnerable to social engineering attacks (eg an attacker calls and says they're from IT support and need a TOTP code for security purposes).
You don't always need a hardware key though, I don't think. At my workplace we use Yubikeys with a certificate stored on them, but on my phone (Galaxy S22) I can use my fingerprint to authenticate. I don't know a lot about it.
For backups, I have two storage VPSes (one in Los Angeles and one with a completely different provider in Canada), and have an individual backup to each one. I'm using Borgbackup for that.
Borg lets you enable an "append only" mode for particular clients such that even if an attacker were to gain access to your client system, they couldn't delete your backups. This is a common issue with rsync/rclone solutions.
Borg dedupes across all backups, so you can have months of daily backups without using a lot more disk space. Neither rsync nor rclone can do this.
Don't forget to test your backups by doing a data recovery run - act as if your data was lost, and try to set everything up again, maybe on a VM or something. If the backups aren't tested, you don't really have backups :)
Lemmy differs from Kbin in that it can be franchised into an independently owned and operated instances
Just a small correction - you can do this with Kbin too. However, as far as I know it's newer than Lemmy, and it's still an early beta version, so there's fewer servers running Kbin at the moment. https://readit.buzz/ is one of the only other Kbin servers I'm aware of.
New housing developments are always a good thing to have, and an extra 7000 residential units would really help Mountain View.
I'm surprised they're doing this though, given the layoffs and budget cuts. I thought they wanted to stop construction of their similar development in San Jose...
Definitely a built in obsolescence built into the industry that needs to be fixed.
This is why I'm a fan of the right to repair and wish more jurisdictions would enact laws around it. If the EU ends up having stricter regulations than the rest of the world, it's possible manufacturers will just end up having totally different models in EU vs elsewhere.
The apartment I used to live at only wanted a $500 deposit - rent was around $3300/month. This was an apartment complex owned by a large company (Equity Residential) so honestly it confused me as I thought they'd try to squeeze as much money as possible from tenants. They did that for rent increases - the increases were always the maximum allowed by law (5% + CPI, capped at 10%), down to the cent.
The apartment I used to live at only wanted a $500 deposit - rent was around $3300/month. This was an apartment complex owned by a large company (Equity Residential) so honestly it confused me as I thought they'd try to squeeze as much money as possible from tenants. They did that for rent increases - the increases were always the maximum allowed by law (5% + CPI, capped at 10%), down to the cent.
I had it when it was $8.99 and included Google Play Music... I unsubscribed once they discontinued Google Play Music and replaced it with the (far inferior) YouTube Music. Even now, YouTube Music is still missing some features and songs from Google Play Music.
That plus music disappearing from both services due to licensing issues is why I canceled my account. It convinced me to set up my own Plex server, rip some CDs, and use Plexamp instead.
Right now, there's no viable alternative anywhere near YouTube's size. Hosting that much video content is expensive and very few companies have sufficient money and servers to support it.
Their post announcing it, has comments disabled. I have been going on reddit looking for polls to vote "yes" to continue to participate in the blackout. This was kind of a bummer....
I'm glad to see another Relay user! It's underrated - it seems like a bunch of other apps get the spotlight, but Relay is still my favourite reddit app.
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
Honestly, this is like "the old days" where there were lots of small forums across the web. The big difference now is that you can be a member on one of them and subscribe to others hosted elsewhere, and there are sites like lemmyverse.net to find them. We used to have to find forums ourselves, through word of mouth, search engines, etc.
There's still forums today, but not as many any more. IMO Lemmy/kbin are a great replacement for 'traditional' forum systems. Lemmy even has a theme that looks just like phpBB.
Another update and possibly a solution for some case where posts were not properly deleted. Seems I jumped the gun on this and the restores haven't been intentional - at least not in this particular case....
When an account is deleted, all the comments still exist, the author's name just changes to "[deleted]". You'd need to use a third-party tool that deletes all the comments individually, or potentially send them a GDPR or CCPA "right to be forgotten" request (although I'm unsure as to if this actually deletes the comments).
Sites like this will likely die off once they make the API cost money, since they all work by calling the API and getting a list of all the newest comments.
Not sure if it's still the case, but they used to be a reseller for a lot of TLDs (I think via eNom), rather than directly selling the domains themselves. It caused issues with slow support since you'd open a ticket with them, then they'd have to open a ticket with their upstream provider and relay any replies. It was a pain.
Wait, so there's ads playing in the car, but the driver doesn't get any extra revenue as a result? Why would the drivers even allow that? If I were a driver and was forced to install those tablets, I'd probably just unsolder the speaker.
Its been a hectic week everyone, so I apologize that I haven't been as responsive as usual. We realized that we could either spend all our day answering questions, or coding to make lemmy better, so we're prioritizing the latter....
By "switching entirely to HTTP", do you mean Server-Sent Events, or do you mean polling? I havent tried 0.18.0 yet, but in general polling can end up using far more resources unless you're doing something clever like passing the last update timestamp to the server and only querying the DB for new content since that timestamp (and timestamps are indexed in the DB).
Reddit had separate bayarea and sanfrancisco subreddits, where most of the posts about San Francisco specifically would go to the sanfrancisco subreddit rather than the bayarea one. Should we do the same thing here?
Just started hosting Vaultwarden. It's freaking awesome.
It was one of the easiest to setup and it works flawlessly. I'm a bit paranoid about losing my data even with the backups.. Any recommendation?
Honest question, will the tech situation improve soon?
I get time out on every single post I make and have to refresh the page, also every time I sign in.
What do you NOT want to see replicated on kbin?
Or the fediverse in general....
Google gets go-ahead to build 153-acre Mountain View neighborhood (www.sfgate.com)
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
CA considering bill to limit deposits to 1 month (calmatters.org)
I've done 2 months personally (first and last), but most of my places have done 1 month. 3 is insane....
Reminder that this is a thing that could happen. (lemmy.world)
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/xfnihd/no_just_no/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
We want to move away from Reddit, is kbin suitable?
Update: we're live @rimworldporn...
Reddit's largest subreddit, r/funny, has opened back up. (reddark.untone.uk)
Their post announcing it, has comments disabled. I have been going on reddit looking for polls to vote "yes" to continue to participate in the blackout. This was kind of a bummer....
I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
OC Updated: Reddit is quietly restoring deleted AND overwritten posts and comments (mstdn.games)
Another update and possibly a solution for some case where posts were not properly deleted. Seems I jumped the gun on this and the restores haven't been intentional - at least not in this particular case....
Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace (9to5google.com)
Time to migrate I guess.
Video Ads Are Coming to All Your Uber Apps | The Wall Street Journal (archive.today)
Archive Link from archive.today...
Lemmy v0.17.4 Release (github.com)
Its been a hectic week everyone, so I apologize that I haven't been as responsive as usual. We realized that we could either spend all our day answering questions, or coding to make lemmy better, so we're prioritizing the latter....
Is this community dead?
Hey - refugee from /r/csharp here, looking to find a Lemmy equivalent. But this place looks dead? Is there a C# community on Lemmy anywhere?
Welcome to the Bay Area community!
Welcome everyone! Would love to see this community on Lemmy take off....