The fediverse as designed is actually pretty inefficient. If it ever were to go to Reddit scale it would melt down.

That’s because there’s effectively no batching for federation currently … every single vote from an instance is forwarded back to the instance hosting the community and must be processed individually. So if you get 500k votes on something even if it’s from 200 servers, the servers hosting the community have to be able to withstand the flood of votes and store the associated data… And that’s just votes.

Worse yet, those votes then get replayed to every single one of those 200 servers one by one. So every server needs 500k vote entries and all the associated traffic … even if half of the servers are just 1 guy looking at cat videos once a month.

Federating actually is way more expensive than just adding another user as designed.

I’m really glad AT&T and Verizon decided to step in and start competing. At least in my area it’s changed everything, Spectrum (formerly the only cable provider) is now offering much more competitive pricing and better service (though AT&T has earned some loyalty because the fiber and symmetric speeds have been really great.

Following the Biden admin pricing transparency regulations I was able to get a better price as well.

Gotta say, Americans do seem significantly dumber than the average world citizen.

Presumably what an American once said about Germans. It can happen anywhere with the right stream of propaganda.

That’s really interesting! I’d heard the white flight explanation for downtowns falling apart, but this adds a new layer to it

Old School RuneScape potentially fits this description

Depends on the particular telling I think. DC has IIRC gone both ways with that.

They always are … they’re a scam and should be illegal IMO

I don’t think it really takes a side … just kind of points out that it’s super weird that it’s more socially acceptable in one direction than the other.

I do hope the author intended for what I said to be the point though.

I would argue the top picture is also a big no no.

IMO, it shows security is not a priority for them. Just because you’re on LAN it doesn’t mean encryption is insignificant. There also isn’t really “LAN” there are just networks, so this necessitates using some sort of server even in the case where you have an IPv6 or IPv4 address that would otherwise allow you to directly connect to your peer.

Seems interesting. I’m a bit concerned that they don’t see encrypting direct traffic as an issue though https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/wiki/FAQ#i-only-use-rustdesk-for-a-few-devices-on-my-local-network-with-no-internet-connectivity-can-i-still-use-rustdesk-with-direct-ip-access

Mixed feelings on that since games that get delisted often get delisted because some critical servers they depend on are going offline.

I’m not sure if that applies to Forza … but personally the last thing I want is something that’s about to be delisted.

I’m not blind, but … there seems to be quite a bit of progress in this area to the point where (at least on the surface) your claim seems outdated.

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/18/update-on-newton-the-wayland-native-accessibility-project/

flatpak for something as low level as a VPN is just not a great use case. I say that as a huge proponent of flatpak.

It’s really weird to think I put out feed to attract the colorful cousins of alligators to my back yard.

They couldn’t even be bothered to report the correct keys if you use anything but an xbox controller or allow custom key binds in Dark Souls 3. I will never understand the praise the Dark Souls 3 PC port got.

I don’t know if I would call that a Muppet but fair enough lol

People are allowed to not like games you like …

I also find souls likes to feel janky. Elden Ring is playable for me, Dark Souls 3 I just rage quit rather than dealing with its UI.

The muppet on the wall?

Don’t count standard notes out just yet!

They offer discounted plans upon request!

https://standardnotes.com/help/56/what-if-i-can-t-afford-the-price-of-extended