Thoughts about Grace’s sacrifical acts:
I think there’s a big difference between sacrificing yourself for unknown others, when someone else could potentially do it (or you can convince yourself of that) and knowing that someone you know and care about personally WILL DIE, and NO ONE else can do anything about it.
Grace was always a good person, it’s the personal stakes that changed.
I mean yes, but that’s not a federation problem.
To completely strawman AND slippery slope what you’re saying:
As a car safety pro, who primarily deals with car crashes:
STOP
TOWING
TRAILERS
Agreed, dangerous, I don’t want numpties doing it.
But it’s a large part of why I have a car.
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.
I also use this.
Have had to update it in tiny ways in the last ~ 7 years?
The issue was the owners choice of not federating with anything nsfw.
By moving to lemmy.world I could still post as much as I wanted to [email protected] AND upvote boobs.
The stated reason is that there’s too many bad actors coming from here, so it’s too hard to moderate:
https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Hopefully (as they state in their post), federation will resume once things settle into a new norm.
Or I forsee beehaw losing relevance as it continues to pursue an isolationist policy.
I moved from aussie.zone to lemmy.world already to get around federation issues.
Now beehaw.org has stopped federating with lemmy.world 🤷♂️
I don’t want to have half a dozen accounts so that I can access all the niches of this system, and yet it’s beggining to look like the dream of federation is stillborn.
I personally use a bash script triggered by cron on my server to first determine my external IP address: curl http://v4.ident.me/ then if it differed from the last check, would update one of my dns entries via the godaddy API.
This can be a simple or as complicated as you like.
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.
I love the top gear reference, but surely May would have been the obvious choice, Hammond is just asking for a crash!