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rimu , to World News in New Star Wars Plan: Pentagon Rushes to Counter Threats in Orbit
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rimu , to Green Energy in China's 1st large-scale sodium battery energy storage station put into operation
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uses 210 Ah sodium-ion battery cells that can be charged to 90 percent in 12 minutes

Very fast!

rimu , to Fediverse in Mods, what tips or etiquette do you recommend for reporting?
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Report AND downvote. Reports only go to your instance and the originating instance whereas downvotes go everywhere. Highly downvoted content will get noticed by someone, eventually.

rimu , to No Stupid Questions in Will I ever be seen as truly British?
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You might feel more comfortable in a larger city. In London every person you meet has a different accent, it's amazing.

rimu , to World News in Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens
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Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities

This is equivalent to USA threatening to strike North Korean, Iranian or Chinese facilities (all of whom have been arming Russia). No such threats have been made.

Just so we're clear who's escalating things.

rimu , to Technology in Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption
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Yeah I was heavily into peak oil once, too.

Don't underestimate the power of literally everyone on the planet really really wanting to avoid that situation. Life finds a way.

rimu , to Technology in Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
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No - the VPN provider has another DHCP server for use 'inside' the VPN.

rimu , to Open Source in TIL: FairCode is the software model Redis, ElasticSearch, etc. use
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The faircode model assumes that contributions from random outside people are minor and that the bulk of the work is done by the founder(s). To the founders there is little actual benefit from being an open source project, anyway. I can understand the attraction of the model in that situation.

My ideal OSS project would be receiving a steady stream of contributions from a wide variety of people without an elite sub group that considers themselves to be "the authors", which would be obviously unsuited to the faircode model. Sadly few projects achieve that and are largely the work of one person.

IMO it depends on the situation/project.

rimu , to Fediverse in Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ?
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In the comments on the article people have debugged their cloudflare/caching configuration for them and told them what they're doing wrong.

rimu , to Free and Open Source Software in Basedflare - Open source alternative to Cloudflare
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I'm sure kiwifarms and stormfront will appreciate this service. Read between the lines in the FAQ.

rimu , to Fediverse in The Fediverse has a DDoS problem
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Link previews for content from untrusted instances could still be generated just as they are now.

The centralisation that has happened is a separate issue.

rimu , to Fediverse in The Fediverse has a DDoS problem
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Not all servers are equal. I would trust a post from lemmy.world or lemmy.ml to have valid metadata, for example. It'd be great if admins had some way to specify trusted instances (with the biggest 6 instances as initial defaults).

There would be other uses for the trusted instances concept. Automatic sharing of moderation actions, block lists, community lists, etc

rimu , to Fediverse in Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com
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2 requests per instance - one for the HTML of the page and another for a preview image.

rimu , to Fediverse in Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com
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I've found that if left on default settings, CloudFlare is not that great at caching. It requires a bit of configuration to really make it sing. itsfoss.com thought they were "using CloudFlare" but probably not to it's fullest potential.

rimu , to Open Source in Ideas for a federated anime tracker
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You might want to discuss this in one of the communities at https://ani.social.

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