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I also really like the tunnels feature. It makes self hosting at home easy for those under NAT/CGNAT or whatever it was called.
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I also really like the tunnels feature. It makes self hosting at home easy for those under NAT/CGNAT or whatever it was called.
The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter)
Any of Satoshi Kon’s works (Paranoia Agent, Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, etc). IMO, he’s one of the few animation directors who really takes advantage of everything animation has to offer.
This Lemmy instance is much harder to maintain due to the fact that I can’t tell what images get uploaded here, which means anyone can use this as a free image host for illegal shit, and the fact that there’s no user list that I can easily see. Moderation tools are nonexistent on here.
0.19.4 provides a way to see uploaded images (although not the best) but this version was only recently released so I can see where the frustration is coming from especially since the CSAM attacks happened nearly a year ago. At the time, I had to make a copy of pictrs, view everything on a file manager, and manually remove those images. People can still upload images without anyone seeing it however.
It also eats up storage like crazy due to the fact that it rapidly caches images from scraped URLs and the few remaining instances that we still federate with.
This was fixed in 0.19.3 (released 7 months ago) where you can disable image “caching”. This has solved storage costs for us together with pictrs’ image processing.
plug in an expensive AI image checker to scan for illegal imagery
It’s unfortunate that we need this. Not everybody has the resources to run fedisafety nor does everyone live in USA where they can use Cloudflare’s CSAM scanner. I think a good way to deal with the issue is to have images that are not public, not be stored (or have no private images at all). This way images can be easily reported.
Overall, I understand the frustration and to some degree I also feel the same but I also limit my expectations considering the nature of the project.
Qwant isn’t available in a lot of countries though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant
I have a few professors who have wikipedia pages if that counts.
Are server costs just generally cheaper/easier in colonial countries to run or is it purely a money and time thing?
They are cheaper. Locations outside US/EU and very few countries in Asia are sometimes called “exotic” and can be a bit expensive. Lemmy also has this issue where servers that are distant from each other lag behind.
Porkbun asks for your ID now so that might not be “privacy-respecting” but their CS is very helpful from my experience.
I have domains in Netim and Spaceship, and I have no problems with either so far.
Good work-life balance.
Political campaign ads. Not a product so it might be different. I remember watching one that took advantage of homeless people and it made my stomach hurt.
The mod tools are too basic and barebones. I’d appreciate if we can get:
I don’t know if I should split this comment into three or not but they’re some general suggestions to address the complaint of basic mod tools.
I really want to say Gandi but they charge too much now and removed the free mailboxes.
Anyway, I’ll vouch for Netim. Their prices are similar to (old) Gandi and they have a mailbox too. I’m looking into Spaceship for some other domains because they’re really cheap.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3897
It does say “thumbnails” but as far as I know, Lemmy (or pictrs) makes a copy of the full image too. I don’t know if this PR includes full images.
images hosted on the same server as the federated community will directly link
https://ani.social/post/288601 - This image is uploaded from a user on the same instance as the federated community (lemmy.world) but the image is cached.
images uploaded somewhere other than the federated community will be copied into cache
https://ani.social/post/285354 - This image is uploaded from a user on a different instance (lemm.ee) from the federated community (lemmy.world) but the image is not cached.
The behaviour is pretty weird. Hopefully we can disable image caching/copying-over-locally so we don’t have to deal with problematic images hosted by other instances.
You can refer to this post. The full image is copied to my instance (and transcoded). Not just the thumbnail.
Not just the thumbnail. The full image is cached. There’s a PR request to disable thumbnail caching but not the full image.
It’s pretty inconsistent from my experience. Sometimes images do cache and sometimes they don’t.
edit:
Here’s an example from my instance:
https://ani.social/post/284147 - JPEG image that isn’t copied/cached by my server.
https://ani.social/post/285861 - WEBP image copied/cached by my server.
Images do sometimes. At least in my instance they do. See this post for example. There’s a local copy stored in my server.
edit: I’m running pict-rs 0.4.2
How did you check this? From my understanding, images from external servers are copied (and transcoded) over locally. At least in my server (running 0.18.4), they do.
“Sans Soleil” by Chris Marker.
It’s a documentary that only uses “stock footage” and a woman reading letters. It’s about time and memory and other philosophical stuff.