I use my searxng instance several times a day.

DNS server/cache/pihole. If that goes down I can’t browse anything.

I also selfhost a SaaS that I built. It’s essential to me that it’s available to my customers although I don’t use it personally.

China raises the price to $6 to compensate, Taiwan to $5.90

Not quite. It’s not the foreigners who pay the tariffs, it’s the locals. The tariff is charged at customs when the product enters the country and the people paying that are the people doing the importing. Tariffs don’t bring more money into the country, they just penalize local people who import goods from overseas. It’s a tax. Back when Republicans were consistent they hated all taxes, heh.

From the point of view of the local consumer it makes no difference - the price rises unless there is a locally made substitute they can buy instead.

Same goes for downvotes - giving something a downvote is the equivalent of giving everything else an upvote.

After X attempts to log in, it bans the IP address.

It will scan your wordpress files and alert you if any of them have changed in suspicious ways (hacked).

It can disable the xml-rpc endpoint which is rarely used and is a big vector for hacking.

… and a lot more but those are the main ones for me.

The WordFence plugin is a must-have for security.

If you use Caddy instead of Apache then you get SSL automatically. You’ll need php-fpm as well, tho.

genuine investigative journalism

It’s 2024, in case you forgot ;)

Parallel federation sending is a big deal because it’ll mean servers can be physically located further away from lemmy.world (once lemmy.world upgrades, which could be a while).

Elon Musk produces roughly 5,497 tonnes of CO2 per year, equivalent to 834 years’ worth of emissions for the average person, or 5,437 years’ worth for someone in the poorest 50 per cent.

Per year. And Musky has been himself for decades.

Don’t forget that Trump is completely inept and this time doesn’t have any help from people even trying to be “the adults in the room”. He’s made some huge huge promises and I just don’t think he has the ability or the team to make much of it happen.

Being registered “as a republican/democrat” is weird.

Electoral college is weird AF

One party trying to stop people voting is weird.

Queuing for hours to vote is weird.

Purging voter rolls is weird.

Rallies are weird.

Townhalls are weird.

Flags everywhere is weird.

The orange one is super weird.

This is huge. Of course they shouldn’t have been left trapped there for decades but it’s great to know their situation is improving 👍

Anytime someone says “it has to be that way because that’s how federation works” they’re wrong. It can be however we want it to be, it’s just a choice.

Ahh yes, the walled garden trap.

I self-host a copy of FreshRSS which does most of those things. No Android app but the PWA works.

Whether you can read the full text in the app or not usually depends on whether the source provides a feed with the full text in it - changing your reader app won’t make much difference.

I subscribe to ~100 feeds but I have no idea what you’re into so dumping the list on you won’t help.

Instead, check out these directories that list RSS feeds by topic:

https://ooh.directory/

https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds

Most women could not open their own bank accounts or have credit cards until the 1970’s. That’s just about within the lifetimes of nearly half the people here.

In your best actual solution, how do refugees apply for asylum?

It’s not so much the hair itself as it being a symptom of god knows what else.

Scalability. Federation adds overhead that increases as the number of instances increases. It is unclear to me when we will hit a wall but it’s probably not far off.

How will we pay the bills. Some instances get enough donations to pay server costs but none get enough to pay for staff or developers.

Both of those are only really problems if the fediverse grows, which it hasn’t for a while now. But that could change at any moment.

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https://bimmerlife.com/2020/10/31/study-bmw-drivers-are-the-rudest/

BMW drivers are the worst. It’s science.