Yeah, I don’t know what defines a city. I’m guessing each state has it’s own definition based on population.

I’d personally call less than 1,000 a village.

Your usage of city and their usage of city differs.

They are talking about cities like Cameron with a declining population not even hitting 1,000.

My fuzzy memory says this is super accurate to SLP mode… but I’ve been too far removed from that old analog video standard to actually remember the quality. I know for sure it’s better than most plugins I’ve tried at least.

the article is about all the information being harvested (and sent to private companies) from people visiting the .gov sites. It’s got detailed receipts on who the info is going to as well.

wait is that why DNT was removed from browsers??? I always thought the “nobody respected it anyway” reason was stupid.

a very good way to get your opinion thrown out as automated spam.

The only problem I see with public wifi is the peer-to-peer nature of it. You no longer have the protection of a gateway if somebody is trying to be nefarious. They won’t sniff https traffic, but might attempt to connect to open services like an unsecured listener for the cat feeder.

In that instance, locking down the internet connection with a VPN would prevent an attack.

This confused my parents too. They saw a sponsorship for some no-name VPN, with a bunch of scare tactics, and were afraid they would get hacked without a VPN. I had to explain that the VPN was only the entrance to the internet. We already have plenty of encryption in place with https. Only time I really “need” a VPN is for hotel/airport/mall public Wifi.

Your title has it a little bit backwards. It doesn’t affect you, until it does. That’s why privacy is so difficult. People are naturally reactive. Their phone number gets leaked, they get spam calls, they suddenly care who has their phone number.

But a license plate capture? There is no immediate affect. If the driver was given a monetary charge for every single license plate capture, there would be rioting in the streets and so many laws would be written and repealed… but there isn’t. So people don’t care because it doesn’t affect them.

I tried explaining this to my parents, and they got the concept in general, but again they are naturally reactive in their habits. They won’t discuss banking details in front of their Alexa microphone, but will happily install a driving tracker in their car at the behest of their insurance agent. When their insurance went up because of excess braking (they have those BS short yellow lights to help the red-light cameras) then suddenly they cared that they were being tracked. The surveillance didn’t affect them, until it did.

It’s so easy for people to just not think about it, or assume it won’t happen to them, because that’s the easiest method to cope with the shrinking amount of privacy we get.

I know of no way to champion privacy. No call to arms about an offense to rally behind. It’s a slow erosion that people don’t immediately notice, until it finally affects them.

I love the fact that federation means we could have a grandma-focused instance that applies all my hypothetical filters by default. It’s possible… but there is currently no desire to become the front page of the internet. We’re a niche, and that just means we aren’t the place to try to advertise for the little guy.

Lemmy suffers from the same discoverability issue… so we aren’t exactly the best place to tell others about obscure websites. From the start we’ve inherited an open-source community that leans liberal, and aside one very large recent shift that means that the community also leans mostly Democrat.

What does that have to do with discoverability? Well, one look at a front page can clue you in. (gosh I hope these screenshots shrink in size for display)

IT, Politics, and Star Trek all over the front page of my instance. Possibly worse on others. Imagine if your 80 year old great-grandma landed on this page. All she knows is what Fox News says. Instant close on the website. Not even going to open one discussion. But let’s say she did open the one about the FBI director being missing:

oh my

Now let’s see a competing website:

Oh, new Chinese food place! Remote work isn’t working? Carrying your dog to pick up food? that’s silly! 2.7 million of wine! She must have really hated that job!

So what is my point? How can Lemmy increase it’s discoverability? I feel like community diversity would be the #1 concern. Well… one obvious action is to sanitize the front page of the popular instances. I’m going to assume that’s a highly unpopular opinion, because then it wouldn’t be Lemmy anymore. Maybe perhaps there is a different frontpage for logged out and logged in users? With politics being an opt-in for active sessions? Or maybe we should just post more cute cats.

What do you guys think? Am I completely wrong about community diversity? What changes would you make to Lemmy? It’s not an easy answer.

right right. Totally agree. The community here hurts it’s discoverability. My criticism is only in the way to the post was worded.

I had this big explanation, but I realized it’s not worth it. I already covered what I wanted to say.

Even if the post is true, it was the worst way to present it. It reads like trolling:

Call out people’s politics with grandiose rhetoric, not backing up any claims with links to evidence.

Declare the other side is unbiased.

I mean, Internet 101 would dictate you downvote and disengage. It’s not going to generate a discussion that would change minds or be constructive. Even now we’re not talking about small website discoverability, but instead downvotes.

EDIT: I’m going to put my money where my mouth is. I’ll try the same post.

I wouldn’t use archive.is anymore. They tampered with the captures.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

I’ve always wondered about that, since in theory you can flip the removable bit on some of the USB flash media out there. Is that enough to trick the Windows installer? I don’t know.

Yup, 60W.

More than enough to power one or two drives but when 3+ were writing I’d have a random disconnect.

Tried different hubs, of increasing power. Same thing.

How do you keep it properly powered? When I tried something similar, some drives would randomly vanish because the peak power demand exceeded the supply of the hub.

I had to switch away because of incompatible websites (Cloudflare hates it) but Pale Moon is still hanging around.

Source available here.

…and I’d like to add, if they are showing ads relevant to the website you are on, you are clicking those ads and thus giving away what interests you really have.

My 10.11 migration blew up because one of my directories didn’t have enough space for the migration.

The path /var/lib/jellyfin/data has insufficient free space. Required: at least 2GB.

It looked like the jellyfin service started after the package install, but it was stuck in a loop attempting migration.