Notices by Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social), page 4

@thatguyoverthere @white_male I mean, yeah, if you never want to actually upgrade, then you may have to pay. But the free tier for Ubuntu ESM is fairly generous for "the poors" anyway.

To each their own. I would never go back from a rolling distro on my local machine, but I would also never run one in production on hundreds of VMs.

@thatguyoverthere @white_male If i were to switch to something else in prod, it would probably be more along the lines of nixos I think.

@white_male @thatguyoverthere Nobody has staging for all of their production VMs, unless they run very few systems. Wanting hands-off security upgrades for all of your production environments is not lazy, but rational. Staging is mostly for testing application updates, not basic system upgrades.

@thatguyoverthere Everything's a tradeoff. It's nice to never have to re-install or dist-upgrade, but it's also nice to be able to update continuously and without human interaction, with nothing breaking in the process.

Just stumpled upon this new #DID method, and I think this has a chance of working, because it's based on the Mainline DHT that BIttorrent uses:

https://did-dht.com

> State-owned Aerolíneas Argentinas should be transferred to employees, says president-elect Javier Milei

https://www.airdatanews.com/state-owned-aerolineas-argentinas-should-be-transferred-to-employees-says-president-elect-javier-milei/

@ente @lain That's great. Thanks for the detailed write-up!

@ente Looks great! May I ask what you're using for that? Looks like the demo is running on GNOME, so I assume whatever it is is open source?

@lain Sheesh, I hope he won't interfere in the country's long history of top-notch, ever successful economic and monetary policies. Who knows what could happen!

@colby Turns out companies are just groups of people.

All exactly as in real life, and why I love Colombia.

Some interesting thoughts on alternative timelines for #fediverse feeds:

https://unterwaditzer.net/2023/mastodon-timelines.html

@lain I guess NVMe drives may have changed that situation?

@silverpill @ZekuZelalem @rrb Nice! Have a link for what's to configure?

@rrb @ZekuZelalem There's nothing special to the fediverse in this case. Just making your instance *also* available on a different network for client-to-instance communication.

If you want your instance to live exclusively on Tor or I2P, then you would create a new fediverse, which cannot communicate with the rest, since all normal instances run on clearnet and use DNS for addressing.

@ZekuZelalem @rrb No problem at all. We also make our instance accessible as a hidden service. The steps are basically:

* For convenience, create an Nginx snippet for most of the config so you can easily add more domains/vhosts
* Set up Tor hidden services pointing to port 80 and 443
* Advertise the onion address via the "Onion-Location" HTTP header, so visitors can easily discover it when opening your normal domain in the Tor browser

Example config here: https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/chef/src/branch/master/site-cookbooks/kosmos-mastodon/templates/default/nginx_conf_mastodon.erb

@lukem E-Mail is the only federated protocol that pretty much everyone on the Internet knows and uses, and the user addresses are the same format even. What do you think is a better analogy, if you think this one isn't good enough?

@lain How to improve your shitty fries: dump air fryer in trash, fry in tallow.

@lain However, it's a fairly small target, so if they have decent uplinks anyway, I imagine live surveillance (and thus evidence collection) of all physical vectors wouldn't be that difficult.

@lain I would expect this to be handled by certain pipeline experts instead.