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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Be aware, it's not free as in costs $0, it's free as a "Giveaway," where you must accept these terms:

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (12 children)

The guy you were replying to is saying "People hate GrapheneOS because it requires a Pixel," they were not saying "everyone in the world should be using a Pixel" as you seem to have mistaken.

You're getting very fired up and heated in the comments here... maybe take a break?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (5 children)

He did not really step down, it was just a symbolic public gesture. He's still actively contributing to the project, check the GitHub commits and comments. He just stopped having so many Twitter meltdowns.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Before it got enshittified with an update a few years ago, I used the RealVNC Android app to connect to a few of my own VNC servers. Wasn't interested in any of the fancy features, I just wanted a good VNC app.

Now I use AVNC. It's solid, performs better than RealVNC used to, and it's open source! You can get it on FDroid.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It should still work!

I only go back and make changes to LED if something breaks with a major Lemmy update, but Lemmy hasn't had a major update since January. Lemmy v0.19.4 isn't released yet, but when it is, I'll make sure the deployment is up to date.

Note that it does not have any advanced features that a major instance might want, such as storing images on S3, exporting data, or image moderation. If you intend for your instance to grow for 100+ users, this isn't for you. This is only intended for beginners who are overwhelmed by the other Lemmy hosting options, and want an easy way to host a small single-user or small-user instance.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

I don't think I've been banned, but I did a similar thing. I requested all my data from Reddit, then used that list of comment/post IDs to mass-edit them. I think I'm in the clear because I used the official third party API, with an official "app." If you used the private API or instrumented this via the browser, that may be why you were banned.

Anyway, if you or someone else wants their full history, Reddit will give it to you via a data export request.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (6 children)

You also can't open two spreadsheets that have the same filename. I'm sure that's led to a helpdesk call or two.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Cloudflare Tunnels are black magic and exactly what you're looking for:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

Free, no need to self host a server somewhere externally. Can even be used for SSH!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I’m scratching my head to think what Vultr could do better in this case

There was substantial room for improvement in the way they spoke publicly about this issue. See my comment above.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I still don't like how flippant they've been in every public communication. I read the ToS. It's short for a ToS, everyone should read it. They claim it was taken "out of context," but there wasn't much context to take it out of. The ToS didn't make this distinction they're claiming, there was no separation of Vultr forum data from cloud service data. It was just a bad, poorly written ToS, plain and simple.

They haven't taken an ounce of responsibility for that, and have instead placed the blame on "a Reddit post" (when this was being discussed in way more detail on other tech forums, Vultr even chimed in on LowEndTalk).

As for this:

Section 12.1(a) of our ToS, which was added in 2021, ends with "for purposes of providing the Services to you." This is intended to make it clear that any rights referenced are solely for the purposes of providing the Services to you.

This means nothing. A simple "we are enhancing your user experience by mining your data and giving you a better quality service" would have covered them on this.

We only got an explanation behind the ToS ransom dialog after their CMO whined in a CRN article. That information should have been right in the dialog on the website.

In both places, they've actively done vague things to cause confusion, and are offended when people interpret it incorrectly.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago

There was no judgement, only a settlement. Yuzu is not "illegal." Nintendo can abuse DMCA and request GitHub take these down, and GitHub will probably listen, but Nintendo would not be "legally in the right" to do so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about this:

I agree with the sentiment here, but all the technologies mentioned allowed us to ship a working application in a timely manner. I think that should always be the first goal. Now that this is out of the way, we can start looking at improving efficiency, security, resilience etc.

"Security Second" is not good messaging for a project like this.

But I'm glad my comment was hilarious to you.

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