Mastodon already does this

That’s only for showing a domain on your profile. What I meant is using a domain as your username, so if you own example.com and used that as your username people would mention you by writing @example.com. A DNS record delegates the domain to the right server.

Interesting, I hadn’t heard of that. Does everyone who’s following the old account automatically refollow you when you do that?

IMO it’d still be useful to be able to use an identity you control, like a domain name. I’ll have to find those proposals you mentioned.

The Fediverse has been around for over 15 years now. In order for one app/server to talk to another, they need to support the same protocol. Mastodon and Lemmy (and Pixelfed and many others) use a protocol called ActivityPub. Since they both use it, you can actually reply to Lemmy comments using Mastodon.

Not all of the Fediverse uses ActivityPub though. For example, the original Fediverse apps like Identica and StatusNet used Activity Streams or OStatus instead. ActivityPub didn’t exist yet.

AT Protocol is another protocol, created specifically for Bluesky, although there’s no reason other apps couldn’t use it, once Bluesky actually enable decentralization.

It does have some useful features that ActivityPub doesn’t have, like identity portability - you can move a profile from one server to another without having to change username or refollow everyone. AT Protocol lets you use your own domain name as your username, even if you don’t host your own instance. With Mastodon and Lemmy, your identity is tightly coupled to the instance you use (i.e. an account on Lemmy.world is always going to have @lemmy.world at the end), which makes it a pain to move to a different one.

Which parts of the protocol’s design are mostly centralized?

I’ve only seen this on third party booking sites like Expedia. I’ve never seen it when booking through the hotel directly, which is usually cheaper. In the rare case where it’s more expensive, they’ll almost always match an online price if you call, as it avoids them having to pay a commission to a third party.

I’ve also never seen this happen on Costco Travel, which I sometime use because they have good deals and 2% cash back for Costco executive members (which is in addition to any credit card cash back). Costco focus on quality over quantity - they list a small number of good hotels rather than a large number of average ones.

Something strange in this article is that they didn’t include the price of booking directly through the hotel in the comparisons.

Bots are much easier on Lemmy compared to Reddit, so I’m surprised we don’t see a huge number of them.

I’m from Australia and remember when gas hit $1/litre in the 90s. The pumps could handle it, but the signs only had space for three digits (cents and tenths of a cent) so petrol stations (as we call them in Australia) had a hand-painted “1” at the start of the price, until they could upgrade the signs.

True, but the common libraries for date/time handling are widely used and heavily tested.

Sure, but anyone can just spin up a new instance that federates with the large instances. For example, my instance is literally just me using it.

Also, if that were to happen, Lemmy could be modified to restrict it so that only admins could see that list.

It’s going to take a while since all the software that uses kernel-level code has to adapt. Windows has very good backwards compatibility, but this would be a non-backwards-compatible change, so it’d require a lot of planning.

Most developers don’t write their own date handling code; they instead use code that someone else already wrote. Good programming languages have useful date and time libraries.

The good thing about Lemmy is that due to its distributed and federated nature, it can’t be fully blocked. You can just use a different instance and see all the same content (assuming instancea that don’t block the other instances).

Why would someone use an Afghanistan TLD for that, given it’s illegal to be LGBTQ there? If course the domain is going to be removed.

I’ve always preferred w3m or links over lynx.

You can do quite a bit with 4GB RAM. A lot of people use VPSes with 4GB (or less) RAM for web hosting, small database servers, backups, etc. Big providers like DigitalOcean tend to have 1GB RAM in their lowest plans.

Just keep an eye on the power usage, depending on how expensive electricity is in your area. I live in California which has very expensive electricity, and buying newer, more power efficient hardware works out cheaper than 10+ year old Xeons over the long run, even if you get the Xeon system for free.

I got so worked up today over someone calling restaurant work “entry level jobs for teenagers that don’t deserve 15 an hour

The people that say things like this are usually people who have never had to work in the job.

Microsoft are going to significantly limit what can run in the kernel (including anti cheat) after the Crowdstrike issue. A side-effect of that should (hopefully) be better Linux compatibility.

Android also runs each app as a separate Linux user (separate UID). That, combined with SELinux sandboxing and the Android permission model, makes it a pretty secure OS.

I’m still surprised that Australia didn’t do more with the HFC network. Seems like a missed opportunity. Some ISPs in the USA are trialing 2Gbps symmetric (2Gbps up and down) over coax using DOCSIS 4.0, and even DOCSIS 3.1 can get you at least 2Gbps down and ~400Mbps up.