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  • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"~~Don't~~ be evil"
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    1 year ago

    This whole episode is giving me flashbacks to the ActiveX days.

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    The tyranny of the default.

    “Here mum, I’ve installed Firefox for you, it’s better than Chrome in every way!”
    “My knitting circle website doesn’t work, I can’t download patterns, it says I need Chrome”

    Internet Explorer was effectively abandon-ware for a decade after Microsoft used their OS pseudo-monopoly to crush Netscape.
    It took another tech giant abusing THEIR monopoly to relegate IE to the trash heap it should have already been on.



  • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"~~Don't~~ be evil"
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    1 year ago

    So you won’t use your banks website?
    Or your utilities (gas/water/electricity/internet)?
    You won’t let your kids use the portal at their school for submitting assignments?
    Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

    I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.





  • I want to be clear, that I disagree with his “federation is stupid” point, but email has problems right now.

    Theoretically it’s federated, theoretically you can spin up your own mail server and self host.

    But even if you do that absolutely perfectly (SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc), you can falsely end up on spam list, that effectively block delivery of your email to large segments of the network for days if not weeks.

    Whilst theoretically federated, email falls under the broad dominion of google, microsoft and a couple of other large players.



  • Individual instance owners can do literally whatever they like.
    Put up ads.
    Charge a subscription.
    Anything.

    Let’s say instance A is hosting a community that everyone on instances B and C love to participate in.
    But A want’s to earn some money so they start charging access to their local users.
    This doesn’t effect users of B and C at all, because the data is federated.
    The owner of A get’s grumpy and defederates B and C.
    The users on B and C find somewhere else, either on one of their instances, or on D.

    Everybody wins.








  • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSelfhosting behind VPN?
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely possible.
    The key to simple self hosting is to have a dns record that points to your externally accessible IP, whether that be your real one or an external one hosted at a VPN provider.
    If that IP changes, you’ll need to update it dynamically.

    It’s becoming increasibly common to be a requirement to do so as CGNat becomes more widespread.

    One of the newer ways to do that is with a Cloudflare Tunnel, which whilst technically is only for web traffic, they ignore low throughput usage for other things like SSH.