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nix , 3 months ago to politics in Biden says he'll ban TikTok if Congress passes bill, but he's campaigning on it until then

An american company that sells data to foreign intelligence so they can manipulate the public. Facebook is a way bigger threat to peoples freedom than TikTok but the CCP boogeyman has y’all in a chokehold so you’re distracted from the real threat

nix , 3 months ago to politics in Biden says he'll ban TikTok if Congress passes bill, but he's campaigning on it until then

So Facebook is getting banned?

nix OP , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Is there a way to preserve my comments before closing my instance?

Oh I thought closing the instance sent a delete request to all instances to delete all user data.

Do you know a way I can backup the database without any of the pictrs data and still be able to resurrect the instance? We didnt really upload images anyways and id rather keep the backup small making it more likely i can resurrect the instance in the future when i get more money and find cheaper hosting

nix , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | March 2024 Update - Support for Sub-Collections, Bulk Actions, API Keys and more... 🚀

This looks amazing! Any chance in the future itll be possible to also preserve videos? Maybe if i download a webpage and provide the mp4 myself? So i could save a YouTube link and then upload the mp4 of the video i saved using yt-dlp

nix , 3 months ago to Fediverse in My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog

I dont want to block full federation i want to block image federation from other servers so when the big ones are attacked with csam my server doesnt download it. If someone uploads an image to a community on my server does it not federate and get downloaded by my server?

nix , 3 months ago to Fediverse in My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog

“Anyways they would have taken too long to implement” seems like a very odd take considering this is an ongoing issue that is pretty damn important. Some features that should be available is for instances to wipe images from certain dates, “muting” instances to prevent storing any images from instances that are not on an approve list and prevent users outside this list from uploading images to your instance, and an option to prevent any user outside your instance from uploading images to your instance.

Theres many mod tools like these that need priority right now but it seems like they keep getting pushed away

nix , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Free and Open Source Software in My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog

These are some really good points. I’m personally more interested in the development of PieFed than SubLinks due to the focus on making it easy to contribute, the developer cares about usability and mod tools, its in Python, and the developer posts dev blogs and answers questions on mastodon https://join.piefed.social/blog/

nix , 3 months ago to Technology in Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out

Waterfox is a good fork to move to

nix , 3 months ago to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation in Where do people make friends online today?

Instagram and discord

nix , 3 months ago to Fediverse in The Great Monkey Tagging Army: How Fake Internet Points Can Save Us All!

Stack Overflow employs it for moderation and quality control.

Ive had almost every question ive ever posted on stack overflow sites locked claiming the question is answered elsewhere even though the question they point to is not the same as mine. Its so frustrating posting on those sites cuz everyone claims i should do what im asking some other convoluted way or that the question is the same as others which are outdated or completely irrelevant.

nix , 3 months ago to World News in Cuba for the first time asks UN for urgent aid to provide milk for children

But it ruins their economy which makes it harder to afford food

nix , 3 months ago to World News in US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation

https://merv.news/pictrs/image/344b3f67-d3ef-453e-ba89-23cb30372ae4.jpeg

From the documentary “Killing Gaza” 2018

nix , 3 months ago to World News in Cuba for the first time asks UN for urgent aid to provide milk for children

Its still absurd Cuba is under sanctions. The foreign policy of the US is so horrendous

nix , 4 months ago to Fediverse in About federation with Threads: how is it possible that lemmy.world is federated?

Threads isnt really federated yet. They have enabled an opt in federation for some accounts on threads like the CEOs account but its not like mastodon etc that have instances that are federated

nix , 4 months ago to World News in US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War

He specifically livestreamed the video and sent links to the livestream and archive to various journalists and anarchist press so that the video would be shared and viewed. Its a disservice for it to be censored and weird that person also watermarked it with their @

Uncensored version: (GRAPHIC VIDEO WARNING) https://x.com/v4p4l/status/1761995206465888567?s=46&t=xtlq_1V7eXJ31HI_SLdE9g
It will likely be removed soon so download while you can if you think it deserves to be archived.

Twitter is terrible so heres an upload on archive.org that has a torrent and driect download
https://archive.org/download/rpreplay-final-1708967255