Saw reddit thread about this. Apparently the jail sentence is all but symbolic, since the defendants are currently outside Switzerland. As long as they don’t go back, they will never see the inside of a jail.

Do you want something that also has CDN like Cloudflare? Bunny.net is good, but way more expensive than a cheap VPS if you use a lot of traffic.

Plain text or org mode file.

I feel like video is a Borg that assimilates every communication medium ever invented, and turns it into crap after a while. So this report doesn’t excite me.

Flac for me has been about half the size of wav, at least for normal 16 bit 44 khz audio. Maybe it’s worse at higher bit depth? Anyway bulk storage is pretty cheap. You could have Flac in your archive while keeping ogg or whatever on your everyday playback device.

Paywalls just don’t mix that well with federation. The teasers are basically ads, and why would fediverse volunteers want to propagate some company’s ads? The non-federated model they are using now seems fine.

Wait their articles are paywalled. Are they only going to federate the clickbait teaser intros?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_server

Leopards ate my face.

They are generally used for speech recognition and image classification, sometimes in a BAD way, like face recognition in surveillance cameras.

You could ask on lowendspirit.com for other cheap storage. Yeah Storage Box is mostly raw storage with RAID-6 but no automatic replication or backup. The somewhat.more expensive Storage Cloud product is backed up nightly.

Two locations in Germany and maybe one in Finland iirc. Check their website to be sure. None outside Europe for now.

I’m pretty happy with Hetzner Storage Box at around 2 euro/month/TB with no bandwidth fees.

If you want a fancy multi-user site, the source code for archiveofourown.org is on github or gitlab (idr which). But for a small single user site I’d just go static. You could go full nerdy and write in texinfo then run an html converter. Texinfo is actually for computer manuals so it has chapters, sections, cross references, indexes, link navigation between pages, the whole bit. It is a markup language which I think is better than a wysiwyg formatter for documents that will be read in more than one way. I think there is a way to make epubs from texinfo docs.

In a sort of similar spirit there is Org mode (org-mode.org) but you have to be or become an Emacs zealot to use it.

Look also at pandoc.org which converts between lots of formats.

It’s better than nothing if you record that account X voted in poll Y without recording how they voted. Just keep count of the # of votes for each option. After the poll closes, delete the list of voters for that poll. It might be possible to do something fancier to get more privacy.

I’m kind of against this unless people’s responses are kept private for real (i.e. not stored on the server). Otherwise it’s just more kompromat piling up.

It’s somewhat private. Like when you enter your email address to make a Lemmy account, the address is stored on the server. The admins can see it and it could potentially escape in a server breach, but it is not intentionally made public. So most of us don’t worry. The interest in encrypting pm’s is that they can potentially be more sensitive than email addresses.

Yes basically. And also use the pm system for literal crime, bringing heat on the admins.

Of course you can PM your email address to someone. It’s not encrypted but it’s not exactly public in the sense that spammers can see it.

Lemmy (at least lemmy.world) has relatively little appetite for edgy content even compared to reddit. Look at the communities and instances that have been banned already.

It may be worthwhile to offer secure deletion of stored DM’s after some interval, even if they are stored in the clear. I posted some code for that a long time ago. Maybe I can dust it off of rewrite it.