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movedx commented on Discord Just Killed Anonymity michael-dev-tech.github.i... · Posted by u/f0r3st

movedx · 3 hours ago

I’m going to do a video on this soon, but I was able to get Ergo IRCd and TheLounge up and running pretty quickly; https://chat.crilly.au/

I’ll be building a new platform on these two technologies and using Zoom or something else like Jitsi on the side for video/audio sharing.

It’s time accept the loss of “features” and go back to something simpler but also something that can still be here in 38 years — like IRC has been.

movedx commented on Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation pol.is/home2... · Posted by u/mefengl

lazyasciiart · 4 hours ago

Radicalized spaces are offline too. You can't cure anyone of being irrational while they still live in a cult.

movedx · 3 hours ago

So just throw away this solution then? Never use it because it can’t solve this one tiny issue you’re putting forward as an argument?

What’s your point? Everything you’re saying on this thread seems negative and puts the product (Polis) into a negative light as if somehow it’s trying to do more harm than good, or can never work because <insert extremely small issue here compared to the task of country-wide governance of millions of people>.

movedx commented on Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation pol.is/home2... · Posted by u/mefengl

sapphicsnail · 6 hours ago

I don't understand the utility of this. Maybe it works for things like noise ordinances, but I can't imagine finding common ground with people who want me dead or imprisoned simply for existing.

movedx · 6 hours ago

Every Body Corporate Strata in Australia basically goes through something like this at least once a year (by law.) Questions are posed about what to vote on and you either vote for, against, or abstain.

Something like Polis would be good for putting forward ideas throughout the year leading up to the vote, as it would find a consensus of ideas and help shape what you eventually vote on (you decide as a body corporate.)

Some Strata are hundreds of people in size.

movedx commented on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout e360.yale.edu/digest/chin... · Posted by u/mrtksn

noosphr · a month ago

Even the people who understand the scale don't understand the purpose.

The Chinese grid isn't renewable or non-renewable. It's built to keep the lights on for anything short of a thousand year catastrophe.

Their 2060 plan has enough non intermittent base load that they can run the whole country off it for a decade.

That half of your grid capacity is there 'just in case' is something no one in the west can wrap their head around. China building out massive solar and wind farms isn't because wind and solar are the future. It's because they can tick off their 30 year plan 25 years ahead of schedule and focus on the hard parts next.

movedx · a month ago

I feel like energy is the most critical aspect to any economy and military. It's the beginning of anything and everything you want to achieve.

movedx commented on Apple Creator Studio apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/lemonlime227

jwr · a month ago

After Apple suddenly discontinued Aperture, which left users like me with huge complex photo archives hanging, I will never trust any professional software tool from Apple again. It is a disaster that I still haven't fully recovered from.

I've learned my lesson — all my archives will now be maintained by me, in file structures, with metadata in text files.

movedx · a month ago

Please don’t take this as me saying you were wrong to ever trust Apple, however the best way to organise any data is usually just files on a disk.

That’s becoming a recurring theme for me and even some of my corporate clients now. Confluence, for example, is out the window for secure documentation around sensitive environments and Word Docs in One Drive are back in. It’s surprisingly refreshing and gets the job done way better.

movedx commented on UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors reclaimthenet.org/uk-orde... · Posted by u/worldofmatthew

ThePowerOfFuet · a month ago

>If by some miracle the UK and EU agree on a new Youth Mobility Scheme I'm out of here.

https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asy...

movedx · a month ago

UK isn’t an EU member state.

movedx commented on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-... · Posted by u/jakelsaunders94

Computer0 · 2 months ago

Still confused what I am supposed to do to avoid all this.

movedx · 2 months ago

Learning to manage an operating system in full, and having a healthy amount of paranoia, is a good first step.

movedx commented on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-... · Posted by u/jakelsaunders94

seymon · 2 months ago

What's considered nowadays the best practice (in terms of security) for running selfhosted workloads with containers? Daemon less, unprivileged podman containers?

And maybe updating container images with a mechanism similar to renovate with "minimumReleaseTime=7days" or something similar!?

movedx · 2 months ago

You’ll set yourself up for success if you check the dependencies of anything you run, regardless of it being containerised. Use something like Snyk to scan containers and repositories for known exploits and see if anything stands out.

Then you need to run things with as least privilege as possible. Sadly, Docker and containers in general are an anti-pattern here because they’re about convenience first, security second. So the OP should have run the contains as read-only with tight resource limits and ideally IP restrictions on access if it’s not a public service.

Another thing you can do is use Tailscale, or something like it, to keep things being a zero trust, encrypted, access model. Not suitable for public services of course.

And a whole host of other things.

movedx commented on A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images docker.com/blog/docker-ha... · Posted by u/anttiharju

movedx · 2 months ago

Thanks for only doing this like, ten years later after all the damage is done.