Like coming to Lemmy and all the content is memes about the number 4

That’s an interesting experience. Sometimes I feel like my feed has too many cat pictures.

It feels like the kind if thing that someone, somewhere would have a script running constantly testing for private keys with low values. That it went 18 months without being found is a miracle!

I think there’s a good chance people will be looking for this now so will get caught a lot quicker next time.

So why did it take so long for someone to try it?

Browsing through the list… ok how do I tell if my server has been compromised, because I run a fuckload of those…

Someone send firefox that spiky corner design that I saw in /all

Have one. Love it. Except mine doesn’t mark where the electromagnets are so you just have to guess 🫠

I had a colleague missing a hand once, and it me more than 9 months notice, even though I saw them in the office each day…

We have two laptops and a desktop, and we have three kids, so they get a bit of a LAN party experience playing Mineclonia.

The desktop also has a big screen (34 inch ultra-wide I think) and 4 xbone controllers so we play 4 player games like Overcooked, Stardew Valley, Sackboy, Tux Cart.

Generally we don’t have screens on when their friends come over but perhaps when they are a bit older they might still have a chance for that gaming with friends experience.

Legally? I’m not sure.

But if I had to explain to a jury, I’d sure rather have “the social media site’s server was in a data centre and hosted user content” as the explanation instead of trying to explain to laypeople “yes the material was on a computer in my house but akshully a computer and a server are the same thing, and there’s this concept among people online about hosting your own internet services” and so on.

Most people are answering the title question but is your question about why people use a VPS or paid server for a Lemmy instance instance of hosting at home?

Content is federated in. My home server is not a good place to keep unknown images, videos, and links to other content. The risks associated with hosting user content are the main reason for using a data centre instead of home hosting.

There are also other benefits like complete separation from my personal hosted services that are actually hosted from home, and privacy and security reasons. As an example, my home hosted services are not available from outside my country, which virtually eliminates the malicious vulnerability scanning bots that constantly hit the domain before I added that limitation. But you can’t have that limitation for a federated service or it wouldn’t be able to federate. I have this country restriction on my router as part of the port forwarding rules.

But mostly it’s that first thing about the user generated content.

Nor are Linux users conditioned to download programs from random sketchy sources the way Windows users do.

I think about this every time install instructions for something are “run this terminal command to add our repo to your sources”. Would probably be pretty easy to get an auto-updating attack path for the unsuspecting. The first drop doesn’t even need to be malicious, just ship the virus as an update.

I find it interesting how Americans see the word “fortnight” as some archaic thing but it’s still in regular use in English outside of the US.

I probably miss out on that aspect as I have everything automated 🤷

I thought that was the number one rule of reddit? Everyone was acting like they didn’t know what it was.

The two main benefits I’ve seen of private trackers are that you avoid the issue in the OP which happens all the time on public trackers, and that shows download in seconds.

Not sure how helpful they would be if things weren’t automated. I just have things set up so my Jellyfin users can request shows and they get downloaded automatically.

But with that said, “private” doesn’t mean it costs money, just that it requires an account (and usually that is an application process). It means they can kick people off for uploading things they shouldn’t.

Oh on private trackers it’s hard to keep a genuine ratio like that. Instead they typically assign points for time you spend seeding, and you use those points to “buy” upload credit that counts for your ratio.

Many private trackers have a requirement to log in every X months so occasionally I just go log in to each and spend all the points.

This seems like a one off for them, but for me whenever tracking ongoing TV series I would regularly get malicious files as they appear before the real ones, and get found and downloaded by sonarr.

These days I only automate from private trackers, and enable a public tracker for an interactive search only if something can’t be found on the private trackers.

At one point they did a big blog post about why Proton Drive for Linux has taken so long.

It basically boiled down to “the clients for Windows/Mac are so poorly written, they are barely working and we spend all our time trying to keep them working. There’s no way we can handle a Linux client as well unless we rewrite everything to make it actually ok”.

They were trying to rewrite at that point, to one decent shared codebase. I guess it’s progressing ok, if slowly.

Haha seriously this. There weren’t any coffee people in there to judge.

I literally had a work meeting with someone I’d never met, they asked to meet at Starbucks. Then when I arrived he got up and said “where should we go for coffee?”