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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Eh I figure everything you put online is on a marketplace somewhere. If it’s not the website that sold it, it’s the hackers that stole the data. Even when they claim they don’t store the data there always seems to be a plain text storing backup server that they forgot about. Then there’s data scrapers and 3rd party embedded trackers (looking at you share to Facebook button). And good luck convincing a court that thinks a PC is just a chrome portal that your owed damages for a company leaking your data.

    Much easier to control the data at the source and keep websites from getting data in the first place. Trust is long dead online.



  • A combination of Micro Center, FS.com, and eBay for computer parts. Anything worth researching I’ll try and buy direct from the manufacturer.

    Dumb cheap stuff still goes to Amazon because if I need a $2 female USB-B to male USB-C adaptor or something like that I’m not willing to go through more than about 5 mins of searching and I know there’s some random blob of letters company on the Amazon marketplace that will give me something that functions. I definitely wait until I have something critical or reach $30+ before actually placing the order though.


  • 2 right now, one on Lemmy.ml and one on my own instance. 3 if you want to count the server admin account. I’ve been thinking about adding more accounts on my server to segregate content so frontpage for each account could be somewhat focused while all would be a mess of everything.

    Tbh I don’t really see much point to accounts on different instances. I might be missing something, but the only difference that I can see from a user’s perspective is what instances get federated/federated. You certainly don’t need an account to just browse instances for new communities to subscribe to on your instance.



  • I prefer to use a local DNS for internal services just so there is less publically available information about my internal network. No need to let everyone know what address space I use or which vlan certain services are on. Also means you don’t have to wait for public DNS servers to update.