Mhm… yeah, you could do waves on breasts I guess… if they’re big enough, lol 😂.

Hm, also kinda makes sense.

Lol, gave me a good chuckle 🤣.

Really? I’ve never been on a motor boat, I wouldn’t know.

At least that explains why I couldn’t find logic behind the slang.

You should see how a TB seeded a month feels on 10Mbps. I used to seed about 1.5, 1.6TB a month on that upload speed.

It still beats closed source solutions. We had SonicWall at work, it got breached 3 times. Now we have an OS solution, a company maintains it, we haven’t had a single breach in years.

Security through obscurity is never a good thing, this has been proven many times over.

Basically, both models have been set to the test years after years, open source software always wins in regards of security over closed source solutions. Security holes are patched faster, and in most cases, way before they’re even exploited.

Other benefits are… well, you can change it however you like… or pay someone to change it (not so uncommon as some might think).

I actually think it’s somewhat of a human trait… the need to brag and show off yourself. Some people (most) have it, some don’t. I am really interested at what an IQ test would show about those that post their lives on social media, or do influencer things, whatever. And do the same one on people thay use social media like Reddit or Lemmy. I think the results would favor the ones that use link agregators. But, as I said, this is only a theory I have, it’s not proven or anything, but I would like to actually know. If the results are more or less equal, than that would mean that it’s just a human trait and nothing more… which would surprise me, but you can’t argue with science.

I never said any of this might not be true, I just said what if. The experiment idea seems more plausable to me. And why not make an experiment, as you said, if they’re that advanced, making this experiment would be a piece of cake to them, like us making experiments with ants or bees.

Simple monkey brain people like to socialize

I got told off on kbin for saying 80% of the world’s population are idiots… and then I realized who I was talking to.

Yep, most definitely. They were the first.

Maybe it’s someone’s sick fun… or an experiment.

That would have to be done in the BE, so even if it custom implemented, you’d have to reimplement it after every update. That is a PITA to maintain trust me. Why do you think so many companies contribute to Linux code, cuz it’s a PITA to maintain your custom patches to the code, you maintain a very small subset of those and let the rest be maintained by everyone else.

Yeah, you’re probably right… something could be done in that regard I guess. But the algo needs to be more complicated if it doesn’t actually track user data… or less complicated, but less effective.

It’s crazy any of this shit works well enough in the first place.

My thoughts exactly… I’m still amazed it actually works, lol.

That’s because there is no sorting algo based on… well anything. Tracking your interests and how much time you’ve spent on a comm as well.

If you choose popular/active, it gives you the most active posts, if you choose new, you get the newest ones. It doesn’t prioritize in any way. The idea is NOT to track what users do.

Though I miss comm/sub tracking as well, it gave good suggestions and kept the feed filled with interesting posts.

It could probably be implemented client wise (in app), but this thing barely works as it is now (so do the apps), so that will take time.

Wait for the instance to start caching content from the comm. It might even take a few days, but eventually, it will start caching. Sometimes it might lag though, like cache for a day or two, than stop for a day or two, than catch up… these are all home servers or VPSes, they’re not as powerfull as the servers corps have at their disposal 🤷.

Because some of these disks were proclaimed worn out and not to be used. I still use all of them in 3 custom NAS builds. I sold 2 of them, the owners still haven’t reported a disk failiure, that was 2 years ago. I use one of the NASes as my personal storage, mdadm in RAID5, I still haven’t had a single disk fail on me. They were all full of “bad sectors” (logical, because of the bad contact between the head/preamp and the control board, bad data was being written to them, passed them with DRevitalize, all of the bad sectors were “reparied”), and yet, somehow, they still work.

Not to mention the numerous primary (OS) drives I’ve done this operation through the years and most of them still work fine, even though they have fulfilled their purpose (with the advent of SSD and all that). I’ve also compared the life cycle of identical drives that didn’t get this treatment and ones that did. Most of the ones that didn’t get this treatment are dead now (head crash in most cases).

Do this surgery to all of your drives as soon as you buy them (or at least after they’re out of warranty), disable AAM/APM (wdidle3 in case of WD) (you can do this even if in warranty, it’s a software/firmware tweak) and the disk will practically last forever.

A proxy would do nicely for that, no need for a VPN.

I know, you ran out of arguments.