There are some credible rumors that Durov had financial issues during the pandemic and went back to Russia to strike some sort of deal with the regime there, which would also explain why since then there have been no further attempts to block Telegram in Russia.

I think you need to be more careful with your use of “scaling up”. You mean vertical scaling, while ActivityPub is good in horizontal scaling.

Indeed, with ActivityPub you will probably never have a single point that has a global view of the network, which (at least for now) is the way ATProto presents the network. Arguably that is not a desirable feature anyways, but lets just say that people have different opinions on that.

This is what you get if you use silly generic terms as names for your chat protocol 🙄

Quake 1.

The game is kinda meh, but the modability spawned an endless amount of awesome stuff to this day. Even Half-life is basically just a Quake mod.

You are overlooking the idle power-consumption. A 7600 basically idles at 5W or so (and turns off all fans). Now think about how many hours you surf the web etc. with your PC Vs. actual gaming and you can see that this makes a big difference.

Depends… its a very capable 1080p card with extremely good power efficiency.

There is the overclocked “xt” version that is generally considerd bad value as it loses the power efficiency aspect and costs significantly more for only little extra performance.

Dunno, realisticly speaking it is a slightly cheaper 7600, hardly a market shake-up.

No, that divide isn’t political. Its about utilitarianism.

The side you are opposed to cares more about getting many people “good enough” privacy, than getting the best possible privacy for a few while alienating most other people.

I ran it some years ago, and over all it wasn’t bad.

The UI is a bit old fashioned and some of the built in plugins seem pretty useless, but the webdav/carddav/caldav integration is nice.

Nomadic identity also works fine, but if you are selfhosting it there will be probably not much use for it.

Due to checksum based auto-correction ZFS and btrfs (in raid1) are actually less sensitive to data-corruption due to non-ECC ram.

This is a common setup for WiFi routers, where the idea is that most traffic will be on WiFi.

I disagree, and Gmail and Facebook do engage in censorship by hiding stuff the advertisers that pay for it don’t want you to see or be themselves associated with. That’s not even close to what moderation is and confusing the two things as “just two perspectives” is not helpful at all, as you end up justifying censorship through that.

I think you (and the Nostr people as well) are just muddling terms here. Censorship is about an external 3rd party (usually the Government) preventing you from seeing things you are potentially interested in, not (as in the case of Lemmy) your service provider and their trusted moderators helping you curate your social media experience. If you are unhappy with the moderation you can easily switch to another instance and use other communities.

If Lemmy isn’t meeting your needs, why not go back to Reddit? /s

lol, what? A project migrating away from Codeberg to Github? That’s a first I think, and also stupid.

It nearly certainly happened to you, but you are simply not aware as filesystems like ext4 are completely oblivious to it happening and for example larger video formats are relatively robust to small file corruptions.

And no, this doesn’t only happen due to random bit flips. There are many reasons for files becoming corrupted and it often happens on older drives that are nearing the end of their life-span and good management of such errors can expand the secure use of older drives significantly. And it can also help mitigate the use of non-ECC memory to some extend.

Edit: And my comment regarding mdadm Raid5 was about it requiring equal sized drives and not being able to shrink or expand the size and number of drives on the fly, like it is possible with btrfs raids.

One of the main features of file systems like btrfs or ZFS is to store a checksum of each file and allow you to compare that to the current file to notice files becoming corrupted. With a single drive all btrfs can do then is to inform you that the checksum doesn’t match to the file any longer and that it is thus likely corrupted, but on a btrfs raid it can look at one of the still correct duplicates and heal the file from that.

IMHO the little extra space from mdadm RAID5 is not worth the much reduced flexibility in future drive composition compared to a native btrfs raid1.

Btrfs on a single storage prevents it from doing auto correction via checksums. I would get rid of the raid5 and do a btrfs raid1 out of these devices. Makes it also easier to swap out devices or expand the raid as btrfs supports arbitrary sizes.

Apple also runs an ad business these days and their devices collect more types of data than stock Android does. And contrary to many Android phones there is very little you can do against that in Apple devices.

Storage space and bandwidth, as well as compute for re-coding lower resolution versions (although you can do that on another machine these days).

A cheap VPS will probably be insufficient rather soon, but something around 50€ a month should do it for quite a while.