You appear to be already using Cloudflare so it might be doing a “good” enough job to combat spambots and other adversaries.

Since I don’t much like cloudflare, my instance uses Crowdsec which uses a crowd sourced block list aggregated from other servers to block out nasty IPs that have a bad reputation for attempting to run automated exploits, spam, overzealous crawlers, and other assorted nasty stuff on said servers that the list is crowdsourced from. A lot of Tor exit nodes, to no surprise, are on that list too.

Idk this is something that might pique your interest if you want to further harden your setup.

I’m a unique case because my first foray into Linux was using the CLI via SSH on a server, and I thought the CLI was insanely cool and was immediately hooked. So I don’t really have any good advice other than to just force yourself to use it I guess?

Ironically, I have a more difficult time using desktop Linux just because it’s not a headless environment like I’m used to. I still use it ofc.

Wow. That’s pretty bad if the servers accept many different injection payloads. Now I have further reason to dislike them since they arbitrarily kicked AI_Sponge off of their platform.

Bingo. Easy DRM. You will own nothing bullshit.

God, FUCK pocket. The last thing I need are ragebait articles staring me in the face.

Yeah, I just use Librewolf. But unfortunately unless if they manually keep this feature out, they’re going to get it too when they update.

Holy shit what a sperg:

Seems like every tech company is trying desperately to monetize their stuff and turn a profit now that they’re running out of investors to pass the bag to.

Yeah and who would want to archive videos? They take up so much space. Especially if you’re wanting to archive stuff like stream vods, etc. I just hope Piped and Newpipe can stay under Goolag’s radar, but I’m sure by now they’re well aware of them. They’re definitely aware of Invidious after they sent that legal threat to them.

Oh, and for some reason Dr. Fauci is thrown into the mix too for god knows why.

I can see it now. Bill Gates along with “The Experts” come out and tout a lot of studies saying that cloud computing is good for the environment and that you’re paranoid or le ebil and have something to hide if you don’t want to use their servers to store your data and do computing with from a thin client.

Unsurprising. All these companies have backdoors into your hardware and all it takes is someone with knowledge who’s as unhinged as a reddit janitor to tell you, “Nuh uh. You can’t use your spy devices you paid good money for because you violated our purposefully vague TOS.”

With how all in Microsoft is on the ESG crap, I can see them locking you out of your Microsoft account (which is mandatory on Win11 btw) if they catch you being mean online.

That’s not how it works. Instances don’t cache images from other instances. If you hover your mouse over an image you can clearly see the site it’s hosted on is in fact not originating from the instance you’re browsing on. It works like Pleroma, Akkoma, Rebased, and other Pleroma forks.

IANAL, but I believe you can’t be held liable for hosting links to other images on a site, regardless if they’re embedded through the website’s UI. They’re not stored there, afterall. The client is rendering them.

All that gets cached, I believe, is the text and users from remote instances. And by cached, I mean stored in the postgres DB.

Yeah, it’s kinda a no-brainer. If Edge used its own engine then I could see an argument for using it if it has a specific feature that you need, but it’s just Chromium underneath. Nothing really special about it.

Good. Enough of this consolidation where companies own literally everything.

Yes. Edge is just Chromium with a different coat of paint.

I just virtualize Windows for rare cases where I need something that requires it.

I never got that too. They complain all the time about Microsoft fucking them over with a Windows update but then they say, “No I can’t use Linux because $X isn’t implemented” And then when $X is implemented they come up with another reason. “$Y isn’t implemented.” And so on and so forth.

I really do hope the slow DB query bottleneck can be ironed out before D-Day (API shutdown) happens.

I have a beefy server box so I think my server can handle the increased traffic (if it happens), but anyone on a VPS provider is going to get lots of timeouts and other nasty stuff when people try to signup and use their chosen instance.