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Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

I understand that people enter the world of self hosting for various reasons. I am trying to dip my toes in this ocean to try and get away from privacy-offending centralised services such as Google, Cloudflare, AWS, etc....

Confused_Emus ,

I host a handful of Internet facing sites/applications from my NAS and have had no issues. Just make sure you know how to configure your firewall correctly and you’ll be fine.

iOS keyboards that don't censor "bad words"

Does anyone have any recommendations for alternate keyboard apps on iOS that don’t censor my less-than-polite speech? Having to type certain words out letter by letter is annoying enough since swipe texting won’t spell them out. And lately it seems like even after I type that stuff out, autocorrect will still go back and...

Confused_Emus OP ,

I demand efficiency! I’ve got angry things to scream into the void!

Confused_Emus OP ,

Thanks for the detailed response! I’ll look into this one.

Confused_Emus ,

I mean… I’m not totally against this.

Confused_Emus ,

Yeah… that’s not the genius solution you seem to think it is.

Confused_Emus ,

I feel like even without religion we’d find ways to make each other miserable ‘cause we’re just an awesome species like that.

Confused_Emus ,

Amen to that!

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

Confused_Emus ,

So far in this thread only one person has actually shared a source of any kind. Care to share with the class?

Confused_Emus ,

So in your ideal world, there are no actors, artists, musicians, public speakers, or any other people whose work involves being in front of an audience? Can’t wait to live in your beige cubical farm of a metropolis.

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...

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Confused_Emus ,

I'm no fan of Fox News in general myself, but just because we don't like them doesn't make everything they publish false. And yeah, the PETA kills site clearly has an agenda, but their agenda is to try and save animals from PETA's "love." There's sensationalism on that site, but there are also numbers, many of which come from PETA themselves.

I linked the Snopes article knowing that it supported points from both sides. The point in linking that article is that it's despicable that any of those reports of PETA's disgusting behavior are true at all.

You know what no-kill shelters try to do when they don't have space? Coordinate with local foster programs, coordinate with other shelters to see if they have space. There are other alternatives besides taking in a perfectly healthy animal and dropping it in the euthanasia queue.

I'm quite sure there are quite a few things PETA has been accused but not convicted of. When you're a group of assholes as big as that, you get pretty good at skirting the fine lines of what's legal and what's not. They're hardly the first example of groups like that.

Confused_Emus ,

I'm sure PETA shelters would have more capacity if they didn't prefer to see an animal dead than a pet. They have significantly higher kill rates than any other shelters, and have made their stance pretty clear that they're against animals being pets. No wonder they just keep killing them.

Confused_Emus ,

And I’m sure you’ve worked enough jobs for your anecdotal experience to be statistically significant.

Confused_Emus ,

I’m not even a fan of HR departments and even I recognize there’s more to their job than sorting through every resume they get every day.

Confused_Emus ,

Tell me you only read news headlines without telling me you only read the headlines.

Confused_Emus ,

The main shelves look like they can rotate out “lazy Susan” style? That could absolutely be useful.

Confused_Emus ,

Horror crossover of Veggietales and The Hills Have Eyes.

Confused_Emus ,

It’s used both ways, it’s just context dependent.

Confused_Emus ,

Both sides have done some fucked up shit, but let’s not pretend a terrorist attack that killed ~1160 people is on any sort of equal footing with a thinly veiled genocide campaign that has so far wiped out over 35,000 people, about half of which were children.

Let’s not forget we learned soon after Oct 7 that Israel’s government/intelligence was aware of the impending attack and did nothing. I’d wager my next paycheck that Führer Bibi saw the opportunity for an excuse to wipe out Gaza and let it happen.

Confused_Emus ,

Never underestimate the depths of my shame.

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