The MPAA absolutely would. I’m happy they don’t know where I live.

“You wouldn’t mail it to his grieving widow?!”

Your voice-print is worth protecting.

There’s already retirement funds activating “my voice is my password” by default, now. (You can, and absolutely should opt-out, if yours does.) And you can’t change your voice-print if it gets leaked. (Maybe with a professional voice coach, you could…)

Personally, I would change employers over this, if I had the option.

I think we’re heading towards having a group of citizens with compromised voice-prints leaked to the dark web, who have a harder time day to day through no fault of their own. Like the early SSN breach sufferers, history tells us that society says “it’s a shame”, and tries to protect the next generation properly, but doesn’t recompense those hurt by the early bullshit.

While job searching, I would also request an accomodation, and not use the voice system. It’s much easier for the employer to retain a secretary for you, than to deal with the legal hassles that will come up if they try to fire you for not using their legal-gray-area solution.

Even granted the accommodation, I would be looking for my next job though.

however I want

isn’t going to work for anyone.

“Good fences make good neighbors”.

Declare a payout method up front, and stick to it.

An RSS feed is such a simple plain text file. I can’t imagine using a dedicated solution for it.

If I needed a dedicated RSS Feed, I would be inclined to generate it with CRON job, and Jinja2 file, and about 3 lines of Python code.

What I typically do use is an extension for my current static site generator. At the moment, that’s EleventyJS. But I’m only using that to create RSS because it’s already creating the rest of my website.

Yeah. An eInk device that can run an Android file browser and just grab eBook files off the local network is a fantastic solution.

I can’t help but think that every case of mental health that has ever hit my radar could have done with more help provided much sooner.

I’m all for starting things right, but this feels like a “get this going and perfect it later” topic.

It would be a shame not to shamelessly plug author (and anti-DRM activist) Cory Doctorow here. He has some really fun science fiction, and sells his audio books DRM-free through various sources.

Shamelessly, because lots of his protagonists are self-hosters of various types.

Very cool.

It gets weird fast, because before privacy controls in the Lemmy source code mean anything, we need trusted third party verification of a server’s patch level, and security controls.

That can be done, and I think Lemmy has a shot at getting to that point, but it’ll be awhile.

In the meantime, I suspect the Lemmy developers are hesitant to add and advertise features that you can’t be sure are actually correctly enabled on your instance.

But yeah, let’s not let perfect be the enemy of moving toward better.

Edit: Assuming you completely trust your instance admin, we could start adding some basic privacy to actions taken on your home instance.

But as soon as the user starts interacting via federation, all bets are off - because the federated instance may he malicious.

I think we might see one or more “trusted fediverse” groups emerge in the next few years, with instance admins making commitments to security controls, moderation, code of conduct, etc.

So, in theory, the lemmy software could start implementing privacy controls that allow users to limit their visibility to whichever part of the fediverse their instance admin has marked as highly trusted.

But even then, there’s risks from bad actors on highly trusted instances that still allow open signups.

Anyway, I totally agree with you. It’s just a genuinely complex problem.

I’ve had this happen when I had too many USB devices plugged into it. It was having power underrun, and acting unresponsive while trying to compensate. I solved it with a powered USB hub.

Edit: I’ve had pairing it with an off brand power brick cause the same problem, too. Apparently the 3 and later Pi really want better power quality regulation, and some of the cheapo bricks I had lying around - while providing the right Volts and Amps, didn’t control the variation well enough for the modern Pi computer.

Keep in mind that support for SMB is technically either available or not, in each so app. I don’t believe anything hides SMB from apps, on Debian derivatives, by default. (It seems inconvenient, but, anecdotally, it causes fewer headaches. Access over SMB is different enough from local storage that lying to apps about it causes issues…specifically the kind of issues we see with network shares on Windows.)

SMB is old enough that a huge number of apps support it, but it’s still extra code that each app might not include.

For apps that don’t support SMB, I sync a folder between Synology and a local drive, using the sync app that Synology provides.

https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_to_sync_files_between_Synology_NAS_and_your_computer_using_Drive_desktop

adding a warning on posts made by accounts with low reputation, meaning that their posts get downvoted a lot.

Sounds very nice.

Howdy!