I appreciate the perspective. Think I’ll do some instance shopping.

My favorite of the genre. Vintage Unknown.

Interesting. Didn’t know that this instance had that reputation. Is there anyone out there archiving and cataloguing removed posts / comments across instances? I’d be curious to see some data around this. Would be a fun NLP project to try to identify who might be running certain instances based on the ideological bent of their censorship interests. Could be fun to try to parse out state propagandists from the religious extremists, from the single-issue warriors, from the non-ideological power-trippers, etc.

you misunderstand. a Skeloton is a spooky stationary bike that steals your data, but it’s very expensive. You could buy a knockoff skelaton, but it’s more economical, privacy-protecting, and environmentally friendly to just use a dead body you already have lying around.

I’ve never used mastodon and I’m not familiar with mastodon.lol. I’m fairly new to federated platforms in general tbh just figuring it out as I go along. I tend to browse all instances but I made an account on lemmy.ml because that was the one that was recommended to me on reddit. might join a different instance at some point if I find lemmy.ml to be unsatisfactory at some point e.g. if I find out they defederated from some instance I am interested in.

The peer pressure thing… I mean yeah, people voice their opinions, disagree, and if they can’t reconcile they defederate. It’s messy but I think that’s kind of the point. The only alternative to peer relationships is some kind of asymmetry.

I mean, kinda. in the Fediverse anyone can set up a town and appoint themselves sheriff. More towns (instances) -> more sheriffs. And because the power is more distributed, there are more checks, which has a side effect of making discussions about power (and the abuse thereof) noisier. If it makes you feel any more at peace with it, the perpetual argument about norms and rules is the only alternative to having a single faction seize control and enforce their rules, so anything that is being argued about in public (and not censored) hasn’t been fully captured by a single thought-policing entity.

Good call, I haven’t yet but I think I should in any case. I got big plans for this little fella and network administration is one of the gaps in my education I’ve been meaning to fill in for a while now.

They’re both functioning as routers at the moment, the topology is:

internet fiber cable <---> ISP Router <---> OpenWRT Router <---> (ideally VPN'd) client devices

Both routers are handling DHCP on their own LANs, and if the OpenVPN service is stopped, clients connected to the OpenWRT router can connect to the internet without any apparent issue.

I don’t think so, I’m not trying to do port forwarding or anything like that, I just want the secondary router to be treated like a regular client by the ISP router (that only sends traffic to the VPN). Thanks for the rec though, if I can’t get the native client working I’ll give Gluetun a shot.

EDIT: I added some rules for UDP ports 1194 and 5060 to the ISP router just in case there was some back traffic that wasn’t getting back to the client, restarted the server and same result, Host Unreachable :(

It came with the ovpn config file I got from Proton, and I can reach it when the openvpn service is down. Not sure why I can’t hit it (or anything else) with the service up but I think there’s something wrong with how the service is capturing traffic from the wan interface. Not really sure but that’s where my head is at ATM.

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It does something similar, in that you can replicate servers and have one act as a failover for another, but I think you’d need a lot of extra code to sync the primary game host with the failover hosts, and more to make sure all the clients detect a failed host and all gracefully switch to the same failover host, and probably a hundred other things I’m not thinking of. If I were going to build something like this I probably would look to kubernetes as a foundation but there would be a lot of customization on top of that.

I love this idea. As others have said, a distributed game server would be a really tall order, and AFAIK there’s not really anything already made that does what you’re describing. But you could have a setup where one server hosts the game and syncs the game state with the other servers in the network, and if one server fails the network decides which failover server to connect to, all the clients connect to that server and continue playing on the new host. But it would be a gargantuan task to implement something like that.

The first rule of FUDposting club.

I looked it up, seems like some kind of fundraising club for low-ranking enlisted soldiers.

Slightly off topic but what in the All-American fuck is the "Junior Enlisted Association?

My computer was getting older and slower and I couldn’t afford a new one and wanted to squeeze as much performance out of it as I could. That and, I heard it was all the rage with hackers and I fancied myself a bit of a hacker.

This is why I still don’t know sed and awk syntax lol. I eventually get the data in the shape I need and then move on, and never imprint how they actually work. Still feel like a script kiddie every time I use them (so once every few years).

I didn’t realize it until after she died, but I mourned my relationship with my mom for years before she actually kicked the bucket. I had long since accepted that she didn’t want to have any kind of relationship with me and that I would almost certainly never have any meaningful relationship with her, unless she had a serious change of heart. So I just assumed that I would never speak to her again. Then when she actually died, it just kinda… ticked from 0.1% chance to 0.0% chance. Still felt shitty to have it finally close on that note, but I hadn’t really expected anything different. I still sometimes wonder if I could have had some kind of breakthrough conversation with her but the reality is that she made her choices and there was nothing I could do to change her mind.