Pup Biru

but that’s a compromise… it’s not categorically better

you can’t run a bank like you run distributed instances, for example

services have different uptime requirements… this is perhaps the first time i’ve ever heard of signal having downtime, and the second time ever that i can remember there’s been a global AWS incident like this

and not only that, but lemmy and every service you listed aren’t even close to the scale of their centralised counterparts. we just aren’t there with the knowledge for how to build these services to simply say that centralised services are always worse, less reliable, etc. twitter is the usual example of this. it seems really easy, and arguably you can build a microblogging service in about 30min, but to scale it to the size that it handles is incredibly difficult and involves a lot of computer science (not just software engineering)

that’s pretty disingenuous though… individual lemmy instances go down or have issues regularly… they’re different, but not necessarily worse in the case of stability… robustness of the system as a whole there’s perhaps an argument in favour of distributed, but the system as a whole isn’t a particularly helpful argument when you’re trying to access your specific account

centralised services are just inherently more stable for the same type of workload because they tend to be less complex, less networking interconnectedness to cause issues, and you can focus a lot more energy building out automation and recovery than spending energy repeatedly building the same things… that energy is distributed, but again it’s still human effort: centralised systems are likely to be more stable because they’ve had significantly more work put into stability, detection, and recovery

no matter where you host, outages are going to happen… AWS really doesn’t have many… it’s just that it’s so big that everyone notices - it causes internet-wide issues

i think they need to use smaller words for themself because that is not the correct way to use that one

local storage isolation is the less interesting part, because that’s achieved much more cleanly with containers… profiles allow a kinda separate instance of your browser with different browser settings, addons, addon configuration, bookmarks, etc

i guess you’d need to expose both options: the ability to sync some profiles to some accounts and others to another… for example, i probably wouldn’t want my personal profile to sync to my work devices but id want my work profiles to sync between each other and be accessible from some of my home devices

totally; and i think that’s very fair for the large majority of use-cases… most people don’t need different browser settings: they just need different local storage

containers are for general browsing; profiles are for the whole browser

profiles allow you to have different addons installed, different configurations between addons in different profiles, different browser settings (eg a SOCKS proxy for work profile, or a different default search engine, default fonts, etc… or for technical users you can have a profile with experimental settings turned on)

also different addons, and different configuration for addons etc

profiles also allow different addons and addon configurations, default fonts, browser config, etc… it’s kinda like having a whole other user account or a whole other copy of the browser, rather than just cookie and storage isolation

which they handled about as well as you can: prompt and clear notification without trying to pass the buck

the potential of a data breach is just a fact of life with any SAAS product - bugs happen… and it’s exactly the SAAS part of the product that makes the invites/login/aggregation of servers so smooth

there are some admin endpoints that are authenticated using any local IP, but the method they use allows spoofing the IP so those endpoints become accessible essentially without authentication

there were some other issues to do with unauthenticated enumeration and playback of content i believe too

i’m not likely to wrangle installing and maintaining wireguard on my mums cheap smart tv

and if that’s the solution, as i said you get plex local playback so that’s free still anyway

my main issues

• jellyfin has known security vulnerabilities and shouldn’t be run on a public network. that means everyone using your server remotely needs to be on a VPN… and then you may as well use plex because it’s “local” so the remote streaming thing doesn’t apply
• swiftfin (which i need for apple tv) doesn’t support media segments

the thing that everyone always glosses over is that jellyfin should not be run on a public network. it has known security vulnerabilities… that includes VPN remote proxy, so now you have to have external users on your actual VPN, and if that’s the case then plex will work fine because it’s “local”, and has a lot more features

(and my main issue: media segments don’t work on swiftfin)

the mozilla foundation is largely responsible for the whole adtech and ai slop nonsense that nobody asked for

the mozilla corporation is responsible for firefox. there is no way to support firefox development

selection of stuff they think sounds really good for business stuff, all the buzzwords

aka brochureware

of course you’re right! we should just shut down some of the largest mines in the world

i foresee no consequences from this

(related note: south australia where one of the largest underground mines in the world is, largely gets its power from renewables)

people should probably move from canada and most of the north of the USA too: far too cold up there during winter

sounds reasonable… i’ll just go tell large parts of australia where it’s a workplace health and safety issue to be out of AC for more than 15min during the day that they should do their bit for climate change and suck it up… only a few people will die

there are lots of different covers for license plates which block photography only, and allow humans to see the plate. i’m not sure how all of them work