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As a postscript for this discussion only, be aware that virtually all the replies to my comments quote me out of context, or claim I’ve made arguments I haven’t. It’s safe to disregard them.

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pqdinfo ,

I agree, pleading up to guilty is dumb. But I do have to question the wisdom of this law anyway: Do you not normally go to prison for manslaughter in Texas? According to www.findlaw.com/…/texas-manslaughter-laws.html you can end up in prison for up to 20 years (though it can be as little as two, but I’d assume it’s not two in the case of drunk driving.) Intoxication manslaughter is also usually accompanied by a fine of up to $10,000.

Even two years imprisonment for a felony will result in the felon (1) selling up all their possessions to pay for lawyers, etc, and (2) losing their jobs and being unable to get jobs for years afterwards. Something that’ll be made worse if they’re on the hook for child support they’re unable to pay for and therefore will, I assume, be unable to get a driver’s license, in a state where driving is mandatory.

So, other than theater, what is this for? Making child support “someone else’s problem” so the state can avoid helping people in dire financial circumstances by pointing at someone else and saying “Well they should be paying for it.”?

I appreciate a lot of people are posting here agreeing with the bill because it sounds like something they should support. But it’s either not thought out, or the intentions behind it are rotten. Given it’s Texas, the latter seems probable.

pqdinfo ,

That’s an orthogonal thing though. Downvotes and removals are generally triggered by different things, even if they intersect occasionally:

  • “I think The Mandalorian is the best sci-fi western ever” is a reasonable thing to post in c/tv, c/scifi, c/westerns, etc.
  • “I think The Mandalorian is the best sci-fi western ever” might be a reasonable thing in an open topic about comparing Firefly to other space westerns in c/firefly
  • "I think The Mandalorian is the best sci-fi western ever" is clearly an off topic troll if posted as a top level reply to a question “Do you think Mal will ever find his true love” in c/firefly

In all three cases, it’s entirely possible the comment will get a lot of downvotes. But the fact it’s off-topic and, in context, intended to troll, that means the third case is the only one where you’d want it removed.

Indeed, it’s possible to envisage a highly upvoted comment that also ends up being removed because it’s off topic or an attempt to derail. Those are actually harder to remove, and I’ve seen (Reddit) moderators make the wrong call on them when they’re successful attempts to derail because they’re not always as obvious.

A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on. (bc.ctvnews.ca)

Zhao says having data on how people who did get the money actually spent it is something she thinks will help counteract stereotypes, increase empathy and potentially get skeptics and the public on board with the idea of providing cash transfers....

pqdinfo ,

It isn’t much of a shock to me.

My spouse has just had a two week stay at a local hospital due to a difficult to diagnose issue that started as “pain in leg” and escalated to “can’t walk” in the space of a month. We have regular insurance, and the hospital bill after insurance so far is $4,000 but we know it’s going to probably triple or more by the end of the entire process. The yearly “Maximum out of pocket” on our plan is $14,000 but there are many ways in which the OOP can be exceeded by, say, a doctor being involved who isn’t in network, or a treatment the insurer doesn’t cover.

We are “lucky”, we have ways to cover the inevitable bill. If it had happened ten years ago, when my daughter was still an infant, when our finances were bleeding, my job was barely covering our debt payments, raised in part because of disorganization during the birth, etc, there’s no possible way we could cover the bill that’s coming.

I know people don’t like the ACA being criticized because it’s considered a well meaning attempt to fix the health care system, but here are the problems with it:

  1. For most people, it had a net negative effect because of the skin-in-the-game mandate. This is a principle the ACA’s writers signed up to early on to try to get right wingers to support the bill by massively increasing copays and deductibles. Suddenly an ER visit was no longer $100-500, but $1,500 or more. Doctors visits are up from $10 to $50-100. Specialists from $25 now to $75-100. These increases aren’t inflation based, they’re intentional policy. For a software developer like me, I can afford them. For someone working two low income jobs to support their family, a real “hard working American”, it basically makes healthcare unaffordable and unreachable. And all because some swivel eyed ideologue thinks that when you’re lying unconscious bleeding out on the pavement in front of the car that hit you, you’ll save the system money by using your smartphone to call the lowest cost ambulance service in your area.
  2. The ACA mandated a “maximum profit” as a percentage of premiums insurance companies are allowed to make, while coupling it with no effort to make insurance companies non-profits (ie not beholden to investors.) The result is that insurers have to intentionally negotiate higher healthcare prices with their providers! No, seriously! Because regular public companies like health insurers have to increase profits every year, and the only way to increase profits if you can’t increase margins or customer base is to increase your supplier costs so you can increase your own prices.

And the cynical part of me says they knew this but didn’t care. The two obsessions were with “pre-existing conditions” and “bankruptcies”, but these are both sides of the same coin. People were facing huge medical bills because their insurers didn’t cover them and bankruptcies were the result. And bankruptcies hurt… banks. And banks seemed to be what they cared about most of all in 2009-2012. They did nothing to stem the foreclosure crisis, for example. Maybe, ultimately, what the ACA was about was protecting banks, creating an environment not where bankruptcies wouldn’t happen, but where those bankruptcies would be about debts in the region of $14,000, not $1M. Something much easier for banks to handle.

That’s the cynical part of me. Part of me hopes that the majority of Democrats who voted for the ACA merely thought it was the best they could do. But those two flaws need to be fixed. Get a Public Option in so there’s at least one non-profit insurer, and abolish the high taxes on “cadillac” plans - the plans that, like pre-ACA plans, had token co-pays and reasonable deductibles.

pqdinfo ,

Anyone in the US considering running a public Lemmy or Mastodon instance should check what their obligations are under the DMCA and Section 230 and do them.

Section 230’s protections and limitations are documented here: www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230 - note that the limitations are not unlimited but generally if you act in good faith you’ll be covered for almost all of the non-copyright related situations you’re concerned about.

The DMCA requires you take action to protect your forum, notably registering an agent (which can be you!) with the Copyright Office, and posting contact information on your website. borgheselegal.com/…/85-reducing-company-website-l… has information on how to remain DMCA compliant, but basically it means responding to take down notices in a timely manner. It’s bureaucracy you don’t want to do, but it’ll protect your website from Sony if someone uploads the whole of Morbius to it.

Remember when you’re panicking about evil people posting to your website that there’s a whole host of websites everyone knows about such as the various American *chans that have never, to the best of my knowledge, been the subject of a raid.

pqdinfo ,

Yes. Section 230 has no requirements that someone needs to form a non-profit or anything like that. It applies to anyone who has responsibility for a website that accepts user submitted content, or more widely anything on the Internet not created by yourself. whether a private individual or a giant corporation.

www.eff.org/issues/cda230 describes it in more detail, but to give you an example, even forwarding an email from someone else to a mailing list has some protection (www.eff.org/issues/cda230/cases/batzel-v-smith)

pqdinfo ,

Or just mark the resource as private and only serve it to the user who created it until they associate a post with it.

You would probably need a separate server to stage images like this, as your main image server probably shouldn’t have a login wall, which probably slightly complicates things but not badly.

pqdinfo ,

I still don’t understand why the trans thing has suddenly become a “problem.” I’ve known trans people for 30 years. And I knew they existed before that. How the hell did it suddenly go from “Man wear skirt ha ha ha funny” at worst (not that that was good, just that it wasn’t what we have now) to “Fad! Groomers! They should die!”

We seem to be lurching as a society to a direction I don’t think I can live in.

pqdinfo ,

I would agree with this logic if it wasn’t for:

  1. As I said, I’ve noticed that they didn’t care about this until recently. So this isn’t a “What marginalized group are we still allowed to be shitty too”, this is “Hey, let’s pick a group we never cared that much about and treat them the same way reasonable people treat pedophiles”. (This I’m spelling out in different words because it was supposed to be implied by my original question but nobody has addressed it)
  2. They’re still, STILL, shitting on gays. The groomer crap? That was originally aimed at justifying an anti-LGBT bill (all LGBT, to the point it was described as “Don’t say Gay” by many) by a DeSantis spokeswoman, trans people were, at that point, just another target, not a primary target.

I appreciate the optimism here about how oh this is just because they can’t be crappy to lots of other groups, but they’re still being crappy to the other groups. Transpeople have not replaced gay and poor black people in the Conservative lexicon of “others” that should be blamed for society’s ills, they’ve joined them.

pqdinfo ,

I would say this is actually an ironically encouraging sign that we are lurching in a good direction. There’s always going to be some level of racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc., but those things are mainstream enough that you have to be really hard right to beat the drum for them.

And yet here we are and they do. Do you remember how the term “Groomer” appeared? It was the DeSantis administration justifying the “Don’t say Gay” bill. That was a bill that, sure, mentioned gender dysphoria in passing, but it was primarily aimed at gay people.

I don’t see any evidence at all the Republicans have become less racist or less homophobic. Racism seems no better, maybe worse, than it was in 2008, and as the mainstream Republican establishment has declined, the party seems to have given in to the homophobic grassroots.

None of which really explains though why they’ve gone from merely laughing at transpeople to turning them into villains, while continuing to demonize the groups they’ve always done. Perhaps, far from transpeople being the only ones left, they’ve realized they can get away with scapegoating more groups than they previously have done.

pqdinfo ,

I said, they haven’t stopped shitting on gays and black people.

This is getting to be a very frustrating conversation where each time I ask “OK why have trans people been added” everyone claims to be living in some alternate universe where the Republican party is now nice to black people and gay people and are claiming they’ve had to switch to trans people because blacks and gays are just too popular.

I’m glad for you that you live in this alternate universe where there you’re not seeing racist and homophobic (and sexist) motivated mass shootings in Orlando every few months. I love that in your alternate universe the Republicans are not trying to suppress the black vote and haven’t put up blockers to prevent, for example, constitutional amendments aimed at dealing with Jim Crow laws from being effective.

I’d love to fucking live there! Really I would!

Especially as in that world, there never was a “Don’t say Gay” law targeted primarily at Gay people that was so major that even a major corporation ended up on “our side” and spoke out against it for one time before going quiet because the Republicans were so unashamed of that law that they removed that corporation’s rights to manage infrastructure on its own property, even though that’d raise taxes for the rest of us.

I’m so glad you don’t live in that world!

But I do. Which is why I’ve asked the question multiple times now. It’s why, in the comment you responded to, I wrote:

They’re still, STILL, shitting on gays. The groomer crap? That was originally aimed at justifying an anti-LGBT bill (all LGBT, to the point it was described as “Don’t say Gay” by many) by a DeSantis spokeswoman, trans people were, at that point, just another target, not a primary target.

and

I appreciate the optimism here about how oh this is just because they can’t be crappy to lots of other groups, but they’re still being crappy to the other groups. Transpeople have not replaced gay and poor black people in the Conservative lexicon of “others” that should be blamed for society’s ills, they’ve joined them.

So obviously this has FUCK ALL to do with black and gay people being able to defend themselves, because if that was the reason, THEY’D HAVE STOPPED FUCKING OVER GAY AND BLACK PEOPLE.

On Earth One, they haven’t. Glad to hear that isn’t the case in your universe though and the other people responding to me.

pqdinfo ,

Also the installer and compatibility. For years I recommended Ubuntu over others because while the rest was six of one, half a dozen of the other, the installer was pretty much guaranteed to work on everything from the most standard White Box PC to the most finnicky Thinkpad.

Whereas virtually everything else I’d tried was hit or miss - worked with some hardware, had major problems on others. As an example I recall five years ago trying to get Fedora to run on an old Dell laptop, and I had to disable the built-in AMD graphics in favor of the Intel integrated in the BIOS otherwise it just wouldn’t display anything.

(Right now I don’t recommend Ubuntu, but it’s only because they went too far with the snap thing.)

People forget the importance of the installer and how it can mean whether you spend 15 minutes installing and have everything set up, or whether it takes hours to find the right set of hacks and BIOS settings, and even then you’re left with something where you’re playing with Wifi drivers for the next six months.

pqdinfo ,

This is compounded by the fact that people don’t take care of their teeth so feedback from dentists is almost always poor

I love the way this conversation is usually “What type of toothbrush are you using again?” “Uh, the spinny one you get from the supermarket, it’s disposable so I have to buy one every month, but it seems OK”, “Ah no, what you need is the $250 Philips SuperScrubacare Plus, which has bristles on the end of the bristles, and on the end of those bristles are more bristles, and on the ends of those are little robots with tiny vacuum cleaners and flame throwers. Those really kill plaque. Also stop eating so much sugar.” “Ummm OK” “Anyway, we’re done. Here’s a cheap ass regular unpowered toothbrush. And a starlight mint.”

pqdinfo ,

Yeah, most supermarkets have them where they have regular toothbrushes. Usually aimed at kids. At least in the US:

Some examples:

www.amazon.com/…/B003CP12QG/www.amazon.com/…/B07J9W7TP7www.amazon.com/…/B001J4ID5K

pqdinfo ,

There are two problems here:

  1. Most of the disposable toothbrushes don’t have the ability to replace the heads. Some of them do, as the GP mentioned, but most don’t in my experience.
  2. The ability to replace the heads is not the same thing as actually being able to find the heads in the store that sold you the toothbrush.
  3. The entire assembly costs typically something in the same ballpark as a head replacement anyway.
  4. The entire assembly often costs less to replace on a regular basis than the heads for, say, the Sonicare - $24 for 3 heads at the time of writing, compare this to the $10 two pack of disposable brushes, $8 per unit (plus the cost of the rest of the system) for the “right” way, $5 per unit for the disposable route (all inclusive.)

Most of these disposable systems are cheap in every sense of the word (cost and build quality) and not really intended to be used for a long period of time.

From a consumer standpoint, they make a lot of sense. From an environmental standpoint, not so much. How did we get here? Well, Sonicare would probably argue they make a superior brush and therefore can charge more which may or may not be true. More likely the volumes involved combined with the “Upscale”/“Downscale” marketing associated with each brush makes it genuinely much, much, cheaper to create an all-in-one unit that’s only supposed to last a month compared to the alternatives.

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How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him?

I am asking here because all the political subs don’t allow a question, and US politics used to seemed so simple until to understand this man came along.

pqdinfo ,

There are multiple reasons, but one thing I’ve read is that part of the strategy of taking down someone big is to take down the people who work for him first. The process results in more evidence being gathered, plea deals that result in yet more evidence, etc.

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pqdinfo ,

It’s not always possible but it’s generally good practice to configure your applications to use external storage rather than file systems - MySQL/PostgreSQL for indexable data, and S3-clones like MinIO for blob storage.

One major reason for this is that these systems generally have data replication and fall over redundancy built-in. So you can have two or more physical servers, have an instance of each type of server on each, and have these stay synchronized. If one server goes down, the disks crash, or you need to upgrade, you can easily rebuild a set of redundant servers without downtime, and all you need to do is save the configurations (and take notes!)

Like I said, not always possible, but in general the more an application needs to store “user data”, the more likely it is it has the ability to use one of the above as a backend storage system. That will reduce, significantly, the amount of application servers that need to be backed up, and may reduce your need to consider using NFS etc to separate the data.

pqdinfo ,

I’m not directly familiar with either, but syncthing seems to be about backing up, so I’m not entirely surprised it’s file oriented, and jellyfin doesn’t look like it’s about user maintained content so much as being a server of content. So I’m not entirely surprised neither would support S3/Minio.

Yeah it took me a while to realize what S3 is intended to be too. But you’ll find “Blob storage” now a major part of most cloud providers, whether they support the S3 protocol (which is Amazon’s) or their own, and it’s to be used precisely the way we’re talking about: user data. Things clicked for me when I was reading the DoveCot manuals and found S3 was supported as a first class back-end storage system like maildir.

I’m old though, I’m used to this kind of thing being done (badly) by NFS et al…

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Having done it before my honest advice to anyone planning this is:

  1. Start with a Mastodon account on a regular server.
  2. Build lists of friends etc.
  3. After a few months, once you’ve curated a feed you like, move to a self hosted one.

That’s if you intend to use it “socially” as opposed to, say, “commercially” (ie an cartoonist publicizing their work, for example, or even the corporate Mastoverse account for a burger chain), in which case it makes sense to have that account on a private server (where it’s essentially self verifying, and can’t be killed by a single confused overworked instance admin - in the case of the burger chain, also by an instance admin that would rather not host commercial accounts), but also a private account on one of the main servers for just being yourself.

pqdinfo ,

I suspect you can find ways to read into the Bible whatever you want to read. As a basic example, modern Catholics are convinced the Bible outlaws abortion, and there’s a ton of road side billboards next to Catholic churches that supposedly quote Biblical anti-abortion statements. But the Catholic church didn’t adopt this position until the late 19th Century. It literally took nearly two millennia for anyone in the primary Christian religion to notice their book had these (supposedly) anti-abortion messages. What’s more likely, they missed them, they ignored them because it was inconvenient, or none of these quotes are as clear cut as the billboards would imply?

Then you have the allegiance to the King James edition of the bible, which most Christian churches do, and that generally feeds into a more direct answer to what you’re asking.

Why King James? What makes him more of an authority on what the Bible means than Jesus, his disciples, and the other contemporaries and near contemporaries who put the Bible together? Well, he’s a King of course.

…crickets…

And God loves powerful people?

…crickets…

Uh, OK, well, what about if God didn’t want him to be King, he wouldn’t be a King, therefore, ergo, God thought King James was a pretty cool dude and should be able to do whatever he wanted? Including edit the Bible and put some stuff in there that wasn’t in there originally?

Ding ding ding!

NOW is it starting to make sense? Because if God didn’t want Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Rupert Murdoch or Peter Theil or Sheldon Adelson or (long list of other rich jerks) to be rich and powerful, they wouldn’t be rich and powerful, right?

Now, never mind the contradictions here, I mean, I’m pretty sure the Bible does, in fact, have some choice words to say about rich people, and they’re not positive, and it’s pretty anti-Roman Empire in parts, especially the bit about crucifixions, but that all requires reading the Bible, and not trying to find double meanings to justify the status quo.

Add to that the fact the rich and powerful control the narrative and always will, and you’re left with Prosperity theology and all its ramifications becoming more and more a consensus in countries that allow people to become that rich and powerful.

What the Bible says… well, “it’s not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products” The eye of a needle might be too small for a camel, but the loophole of not being meant to be taken literally certainly can be.

pqdinfo ,

I’m aware various groups and individuals appeared at various times during the last two millennia that opposed abortion on Biblical grounds. But I was specifically referring to the Catholic church. The quote you’re responding to was “(…) the Catholic church didn’t adopt this position until the late 19th Century. It literally took nearly two millennia for anyone in the primary Christian religion to notice their book had these (supposedly) anti-abortion messages.”

Now, true, “anyone in the (Catholic church)” is probably hyperbole, but certainly “anyone in position to make decisions in the (Catholic church)” is accurate. They didn’t adopt their current stance until the late nineteenth century.

pqdinfo ,

I didn’t say it (directly) supported capitalism, I said the fact modern Christians accept it despite significant changes to biblical canon was a demonstration that modern Christians believe that power is given by God.

Also Capitalism isn’t that new. The term is, but it’s always been used to describe pre-existing market based economies and concentrations of wealth, and pretty much every era has had a significant civilization that had that.

Your thing about English translations: Nobody’s criticizing translations into English. But the King James edition included, for example, the “sodomite” language which didn’t appear to come from any legitimate translation of the bibles. So it did significantly change the meaning of the Bible in places, in fairly negative ways.

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pqdinfo ,

To own my own data and feed and have some control over what’s pushed at me?

I mean, I get it. Some people hate X and Meta. I hate them too. But if my aim was to get away from those two, I’d be on Tumblr, not Mastodon. If I was concerned that my postings to “social media” can be abused, I wouldn’t use Mastodon either, it’s completely open and there’s very little concept of privacy.

To put it bluntly, Meta doesn’t even need to join the Mastoverse with an ActivityPub instance to vacuum up your Mastoverse data. It just needs single accounts to join the big instances and follow the “Federated feed” on them, doing a little algorithmic work to link accounts to Facebook accounts. It’s actually easier for Meta to suck your data from the Mastoverse than it was Twitter or Tumblr. (I deadnamed X, because I assume X’s position is so dire that if Meta offered to pay for everyone’s feeds, Musk would sell it all. But Twitter, for all of its faults, wouldn’t have done that.)

What I’m hoping is that Meta will follow through and join properly, offering ActivityPub feeds and the ability to subscribe to ActivityPub feeds. Doing so will give Meta’s own users an off ramp, making it easier for Meta’s users to feel able to leave without losing their circle. And it’ll give the morons who insist that “OMG MASTODON IS TOO HARD YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE A SERVER!” (I can’t be polite about these people any more, the number who brag about their own idiocy is astonishing) a “simple” social network they can join with that off-ramp available for the future.

But no, in my case, I didn’t join Mastodon to get away from Meta. I joined so I have the network I want.

pqdinfo ,

It’s the two party system. The choices you’re given are what the largest groups in each party are in favor of, not what most people prefer.

So with Republicans, most Republicans are pro-forced birth, so that’s their platform, however unpopular it might be.

With Democrats, you don’t notice it as much because the largest bloc in the Democrats is basically the “Centrist” group. But that’s also why they keep doing these bone-headed “Trying to be Bipartisan” things that nobody except columns for the New York Times really likes rather than actually using solutions that work.

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pqdinfo ,

they both hate truths, so keep spreading truths about them.

Yeah, it’s really working for Donald Trump, he’s not been trying to get into the news or been obnoxious or lied or anything like that since the truth was reported about him ;-)

The real way to cover Elon Musk is the way Trump should be covered but isn’t: just don’t. Don’t at all. If you feel you must, make a point of not covering what he’s done unless he’s 100% truthful and can back up any statements about the future he makes.

Is he lying about minorities on Twitter? Ignore him.

Is he claiming he’s going to release something in six months? Wait six months. You can report on it if it’s true and newsworthy?

In the mean time, why is the media still on Twitter? It’s like journalists covering Trump from cages inside of Trump rallies while he literally calls them terms Goebbels invented like “Lying Media”. Just… don’t turn up, don’t cover the rallies directly (oh sure, report some of the extremist rhetoric, but you don’t have to point a TV camera at him and allow every word he utters to be broadcast live to your audience), etc. And likewise, the media doesn’t need to be on Twitter, it’s not a place to “stay in touch” with the people who read your articles, or the people you report upon, you shouldn’t be there.

Will never happen though. Not my quote but fairly accurate: it’s called “the media” because it’s mediocre.

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Removed as a protest against the community’s support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it’s mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.

pqdinfo , (edited )

Removed as a protest against the community’s support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it’s mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.

pqdinfo , (edited )

Removed as a protest against the community’s support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it’s mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.

pqdinfo , (edited )

Removed as a protest against the community’s support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it’s mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.

pqdinfo ,

Probably cached in that case. There’s almost certainly multiple caches between Reddit and a web browser, and the only time the system feels the need to build a page and not use the cache will be when you’re logged in.

The issue should ultimately correct itself as these pages do become stale and get deleted.

pqdinfo ,

A lot of this is purely teething issues related to (1) the fact federation seems difficult to understand to some people and (2) the fact it’s early and people keep thinking “Hey, wouldn’t it be great if there was a WORLD NEWS forum?” and they create it without realizing that actually a ton of other people have already created one.

It’s not like Reddit didn’t have a ton of duplicate or overlapping subs.

Maybe it should be easier to merge subs and instance admins could maybe encourage it if there’s no obvious reason why they have a sub that’s clearly a duplicate of one on another server.

pqdinfo ,

Remember to log out of the console, as I’ve personal experience of seeing someone at Racknerd type commands into it (presumably by mistake but possibly because that’s SOP - this was shortly before they shut down the server claiming it was responsible for a networking issue after being hacked. Never found evidence it was hacked but Linux can glitch from time to time. So it’s possible they were taking advantage of the fact I was looking at the console at the time to see what the state of the machine was and then realized I was watching.)

Note I’m referring to the console here, not random ssh sessions. While there may be technical ways for them to hijack those, there’s not a lot of point in doing so, there are easier ways to gain access to VMs via, say, backdoor passwords.

pqdinfo ,

In all honesty, there’s nothing you can do with any VPS (or cloud - AWS, Azure, etc) provider to prevent them from accessing your server as you’re reliant on them to make sure there are no back doors in their images or hardware, and they have a vested interest (maintenance etc) in making sure they have at least some access. But it’s usually rare they do actually log in.

You can tighten up security a little bit by:

  • Avoiding use of the console and logging out of it when AFK
  • Checking /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow for passwords for accounts that should be inaccessible, and removing them.
  • Verifying pam.conf doesn’t provide access to an external authentication system under the VPS operator’s control.

But those three still rely upon there being no back doors embedded deeper into the OS.

In the end, if it’s confidentiality you need, you’re better off setting the VPS up as a proxy to data that’s held on a server you have full control over (ie one that’s in your house), with no secrets kept on the VPS itself. That can be a tough one to set up and is beyond the scope of a simple Lemmy post…

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