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What even is an actual cornball…? Genuine question. Never heard of it.

Of course mass surveillance existed long before the US had a fascist president, no one is implying that it didn’t.

It’s just that fascism is a great reminder why no government should have as much power to invade in privacy as the US has. Especially for those who are not subscribed to this community and forgot about that, so share this with them!

For anyone wondering what “TDS” means:

Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a pejorative term, used to describe criticism of or negative reactions to President Donald Trump that are perceived to be irrational and to have little regard for Trump’s actual policy positions.[1] The term has mainly been used by Trump supporters to discredit criticism of him, as a way of reframing the discussion by suggesting that his opponents are incapable of accurately perceiving the world.[2][3] Some journalists have used the term to call for restraint when judging Trump’s statements and actions.[4][5][6]

Despite the usage of the term syndrome suggesting a medical condition, TDS is not an official medical diagnosis.[7] A 2021 research study found no evidence to support the existence of TDS among Trump detractors on the left, but instead found bias among his supporters.[8

Source: Wiki

GitOps + Renovate.

Tools that allow you to work GitOps (everything is defined in text files in Git) are:

• Kubernetes
• NixOS
• to a lesser degree, Ansible

Here’s a nice starter template for running your own Kubernetes cluster via GitOps with Renovate pre-configured: https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

Mostly yes, but there are some closed source services which are still good options for this specific threat model.

And I just thought the clear explanation of the why combined with the list, makes this an excellent blog to send to people who don’t get it yet.

The list itself is something most of the people in this community know already, but you might want to send this when someone asks “why?”

Took a look at the specification, this is what I found:

For federated servers performing delivery to a third party server, delivery SHOULD be performed asynchronously, and SHOULD additionally retry delivery to recipients if it fails due to network error.

So they should retry. Note that should is not the same as must. So there is no obligation. There is no timeline in the spec about for how long or how often retries should be done. The wording says network error.

My interpretation: the spec leaves a lot of room for implementations to differ. Network problems don’t normally last for days though. I’d guess that if your server is down for 5 minutes, you’ll still receive most or everything you’d normally receive. I wouldn’t trust on that if your server is offline for more than a day.

Check the sidebar.

It’s about self-hostable alternatives to closed online software. It doesn’t say anywhere that the hardware has to be in your own home, just that it is about self-hostable software.

Similarly, !selfhosting@slrpnk.net is about self-hosting services, the hardware part is (even with the slrpnk folk) only a prefetence.

So feel free to discuss hosting your own services on a VPS here

Won’t something like MicroG allow you to use the full features without Google on your phone?

@lemmyrolinga@lemmy.ml I second Bitflip’s comment.

F-droid repos are amazing and a must-have, but the default F-droid front-end is not the most user-friendly.

I have been very happy with the Droidify front-end, as have other F-droid users to whom I recommended it.

You can get Droidify using F-Droid, of course.

Don’t stop me, don’t stop me, hey hey hey HEEY