spudwart

Shrek has had enough with people in his swamp.

Some run the servers with the expectation of donations. Some run them at a loss. Some of us selfhost.

There are all a variety of ways to keep Lemmy free, where as Reddit is hosted by Reddit. They decide everything about Reddit.

Good, now the in-fighting among the tech titans shall begin.

Google funds Mozilla, And nearly all non-firefox browsers are chromium based, which means google gets to set the standards of the web.

Android is a similar story, many forks may have removed google from the equation, but google makes a decision regarding android, and it will shake all forks downstream from it.

The others really aren't that concerning because there are real alternatives to them.

But Google's AdSense might be the one that gets them in the end.

"Wait, who's roger?"

I guess that's an L for crime-coefficients.

enthusiasts become industry professionals.

And if substantial documentation were the only thing that kept networks from security and absolute anarchy, then all of the internet would be lost.

It's not documentation, nor is it absolute knowledge that brings someone to understand a sane amount of security. But also trial and error.

One of the most important first rules of security is, start testing in applications that pose the least amount of risk.

If you're looking into hosting your own DNS server, you've already proven you understand a lot more than the average user does about networking in general.

No, this summer has been nothing but non-stop record-breaking heat. I'm glad it is over.

~~All of which is obviously a coincidence and has nothing to do with the endless carbon we've pumped into the atmosphere.~~

opening ports on a private network is fine as long as you exercise a sane amount of security measures.

You do have two DNS options on most devices. A Primary and a Secondary. If you're worried about your primary's stability/reliability, put a different dns as your secondary that you trust.

"Embrace Extend Extinguish"

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