Generating a large amount of utterances to train your cloud service language model for a bot because I’m sure not writing hundreds of utterances all asking the same thing.

It’s fine. He just exchanged trademarks with Egosoft https://twitter.com/EGOSOFT/status/1683477783584858115 so he is in the clear 👍

In addition to what the other commenter said, Mozilla doesn’t have the will to improve Firefox into a market contender.

They get a lot of free money from their competitors to prevent legislations from attacking chromium for market monopoly which makes them prioritize making Google happy more than their users.

They also have very controversial opinions regarding actual useful features such as progressive web apps (where support was given exclusively on Android but after a lot of complains). You can’t make your browser into a market contender if you act like Safari on PC.

10 years ago when we had a 3 way market, Mozilla actually cared about making a good product.

Nowadays, they are just Google’s shell company to keep Chrome’s dominance away from the anti-competivity law suits.

If you are not using any HA feature and only put servers into the same cluster for ease of management.

You could use the same command but with a value of 1.

The reason quorum exist is to prevent any server to arbitrarily failover VMs when it believes the other node(s) is down and create a split brain situation.

But if that risk does not exist to begin with, so do the quorum.

How is that a rip off? You pay 20€ once and get the ability to sideload any UWP app and develop for the console.

Compare it to both Nintendo and Sony where:

• You have to pay multiple times the price of the console for the dev kit
• You don’t own said dev kit
• Their SDKs are not publicly accessible
• You have to sign multiple NDAs on top of all those issues
• Assuming you have no problem with all this, you can be rejected as a developer for any reason

Considering how locked consoles were and still are (Except for the PS3 “other OS”) period. Being able to get a decent current gen console, that doubles as an emulator, with development capabilities for an additional 20 euros is a gift, not a rip-off.

Thank you for the information I’ll definitely check that out.

It’s really good. There are some issues here and there like some games not launching when using upscaling or some non default settings.

But otherwise, most games run on it and better than on PS3 with recent CPUs.

The database isn’t really the problem in the current state of things. The server is because:

• Until 0.18 there was no caching (for the UI) and the poorly implemented websockets
• The developers have admited that they aren’t proficient in SQL, in which case, why not using an ORM instead? Sure, they aren’t perfect but they will do better than the average developer at scale.
• There is no queue system for activityPub requests
• Because there is no queue, user requests and federation have the same priority when it shouldn’t and one can bottleneck the other
• Live inserts are used meaning that regardless of the DB used, performance is going to be killed since inserting data 1 at a time several times a second is a major waste of resource

Tl;dr: It’s trying to do everything and not that well. So users suffer because they have to share resources with non-UI related tasks.

The database suffer because it has to do an insert of 1 object X 50 times in a second when it could do it once for all 50 items.

Federation suffers because you can’t offload it to a seperate machine farm whose job will be to receive and send ActivityPub requests and send/read data from the correct queues to do so.

Not just posts. Any message you are sending to anyone is unencrypted and can easily be looked at by instance owners.

Unextended ActivityPub makes it so that everything is shared without privacy, any operation is “best-effort” and also depends on the goodwill of the target (ie: a server could refuse all delete on purpose or refuse to deliver messages/posts without any hints)

Oracle Linux is 100% the cause of this change.

Imagine supporting 2 other distros to make your own enterprise linux that is your only source of money through optional subscriptions to it.

Then some other big unethical corporation (much like your own parent company) comes in, use the GPL license to clone it and slap an “Oracle db certified” sticker on it. Finally, they decide to use the same subscription model as you except they get insane margins since you did 99% of the work for them.

But looking at what Rocky Linux is saying publicly. It’s not impossible that Red Hat won’t levy their right to remove access to the sources to non-commercial forks of RHEL.

Even if you own an instance, the tools are non-existent.

Some basics things that should be present but aren’t:

• A user directory for search and deletion
• Possibility to block communities for your whole instance
• Basic statistics. Both on the community and instance level
• Possibility to mute a user without banning them
• Allow creating a community but only after admin approval (right now it’s free for all or admin only)
• Easy access to server logs without having to dig directly inside the hosting server
• Importing block/allow lists for federations using a file or url
• Adding an administrator from the server admin UI

The API is also lacking in a way that some of those things are not possible without deploying your own API talking directly with the postgress database.

For example, if you wanted to see upvote/downvotes for each individual users, the data to calcultate it is in the database but the Lemmy API doesn’t provide that functionality.

While Lemmy is great as a platform, the management side of is glueing everything together just enough to not let it implode.

/api/v3/site returns an object with the property “my_user” which itself has a property “follows”.

For more details on the objects structure. The api documentation on join-lemmy should suffice.

The issue is that it could still be abused against small instances.

For example, I had a bit less than 10 bots trying to signup to my instance today (I had registration with approval on) and those account are reported as instance users even though I refused their registration. Because of this my comment/post ratio per user got a big hit with me being unable to do anything (other than delete those accounts directly from the db).

So even if you don’t allow spam accounts to get into your instance, you can easily get blacklisted from that list because creating a few dozen thousands account registration requests isn’t that hard even against an instance protected by captcha.

Oh you definitely can. When I was around 8 I had a sever case of constipation during summer and couldn’t poop for around 2.5 weeks. During which I had to eat primarily rolled oats and medication before being able to free the path.

Thanks for the correction. In that case going to be interesting how this issue progress.

This is also the vulnerability that made many people delete Keepass 2 for XC many months ago so it is very strange that they make an article that sounds like it’s a new vulnerability.

Meta aka Facebook plans to create a new product compatible with ActivityPub (What allows the feddiverse to federate).

No one wants to allow cancer to spread so this list came to exist.

Probably the best one I have found so far.

By the way, do you have any plan to expose an API or daily extract of the data you have?

While those websites are useful for manual searches, I think it would benefit the feddiverse much more if there was a way to integrate all those lists into an app. At least without resorting to web scrapping.

Apollo also reported having around 1.2M users while not being a small app at all.

So with 400M MAU as the lowest possible amount of users, somehow all others 3rd party apps have over 118M users between them?

I could believe 30% of users being old.reddit ones due to it not being axed after all those years. But for mobile apps, that 5% quote seems the most realistic.