6 year old account deleted. I came here, just trying to understand the differences in the way things work but should sort it sooner than later. Glad someone already has the UKCasual subreddit sublemmy community going. Where else are we going to talk about cups of tea and what order jam and cream go on scones?
Thanks, I’m having a little peruse around. It feels similar but at the same time different. I’ll get there no doubt after reading some of the tutorials but will message if I need some help. Cheers
And the weather, obviously, which is roasting right now. Had a hailstorm a couple of nights ago (in June!) which got the pollen out the air for a bit, so that was nice.
Same dude I was really looking at cutting my usage down but reddit was such an easy “default” gotta say props to spez for curing my addiction haaaaaaaaaa
When you buy a domain, you buy the right to (among other things) edit the address book for that domain, also known as DNS zones.
Once you buy the domain, for example, you can tell your domain provider “I want example.com to point to the IP address 1.2.3.4”.
Most importantly the domain provider has been given the rights to sell these domains by ICANN who manages what is known as the “root DNS servers”.
When a computer has no idea who to contact to resolve a domain it contacts the root DNS servers first and these tell them to check the entries of the domain provider. It all trickles down from there. If the domain provider wasn’t approved by ICANN then their root DNS servers would never point to them.
In reality there’s more organizations involved including: resellers, registrars and registries. But they all follow the same principle and create a chain of linked address books (DNS zones) that flow from the root DNS servers.
There is not stopping you from setting up your own domain system. You can get all the domains you want for free, but no other computer would be able to access them because by default the convention is to trust only the ICANN DNS servers.
If you use windows, Google “hosts file”. In that file you can enter any domain you want and an associated IP address and your computer will comply with it. You could even have google.com point to your own homepage, but of course that would only be your computer.
By the way, if you hear about DNS servers like google’s 8.8.8.8 or cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1, these are not the root DNS servers. These are called “resolvers” and they are the ones that talk to the root DNS zones and cache their response so that it can be resolved faster instead of having to go down the whole chain every time.
Jesus christ. Cant even post it to reddit and it feels wrong. But jesus christ. It was like gods library of content in there. great service, high quality, little to no scummy ads. I remember it from day one. Fucking christ.
My guess is that it didn’t. I wonder if all of the subreddits going dark left the front page and r/all open to god knows what from more unsavory subs, and when Reddit realized that it was happening, pulled the plug until they were able to filter out anything less-than-corporate-allowable on the front page.
I don’t use Brave anymore but god, I remember really loving that bottom search bar layout (with the search icon rather than the whole bar). It was probably one of the hardest things for me to get used to not having when I switched to Firefox.
I run a restic backup to a local backup server that syncs most of the data (except the movie collection because it’s too big). I also keep compressed config/db backups on the live server.
I eventually want to add a cloud platform to the mix, but for now this setup works fine
In the process of moving stuff over to Backblaze. Home PCs, few clients PCs, client websites all pointing at it now, happy with the service and price. Two unraid instances push the most important data to an azure storage a/c - but imagine i'll move that to BB soon as well.
Docker backups are similar to post above, tarball the whole thing weekly as a get out of jail card - this is not ideal but works for now until i can give it some more attention.
*i have no link to BB other than being a customer who wanted to reduce reliance on scripts and move stuff out of azure for cost reasons.
Funny enough I already made a few changes to the traefik configs, I saw someone else’s post and if it’s safe to assume that any request with Accept header starting with application/ should be routed to the Lemmy server, the following would work as well:
Make navigation & reading work without javascript.
Make dark mode available when not logged in.
Indicate which comments are new when returning to a recently-visited post. (old.reddit.com does this if you have premium.)
Display user and community names with the domain part dimmed (and maybe on a separate line), for less visual clutter at a quick glance.
Display user names without prepending an @ sign, for the same reason.
Allow sorting community lists by name.
Horizontally align all community names in lists, regardless of whether they have icons.
Reduce wasted screen space.
When reading a post/comment on any random instance (perhaps found via web search) make subscribing & finding that post on the user’s home instance a one-click operation, so they can reply.
Optionally hide avatars & community icons.
Optionally (admin choice) mirror remote instances’ images, so they can’t be abused by remote parties to track local users.
Optionally (user choice) disable or replace remote images, for the same reason.
Stop auto-inserting new items into a list that’s being viewed. (It causes what I’m reading to suddenly shift or disappear off-screen, which is disorienting.)
Make buttons work reliably. (Clicking them sometimes applies a border without doing anything else.)
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