LedgeDrop

The end user's ip is hidden in the onion network. The server will get the ip address of the "last node" your client routed it's request through (and that node only has the ip address of the previous node, etc).

However, the clients ip can be leaked if a server creates some Javascript which makes an Ajax call (basically, an additional http request). A malicious Ajax call will not go through the onion network and thus expose the clients real ip. Hence, it's recommended to disable Javascript and other features while using tor.

Yeah, I had joined Beehaw shortly before they defederated. I knew this happened, but I thought "meh, it'll be alright". I tried to make the best of it... but at the end of two weeks I was asking myself "Is this all there is to the fediverse? It's pretty disappointing".

So before I gave up on Lemmy and the fediverse, I looked for a new Lemmy server that wasn't defederating nor defederated from the fediverse. Eventually, I settled on Lemm.ee and I see know just how much of the fediverse was being filtered out for me.

disclaimer: I don't fault Beehaw for their decision to defederate. It is their choice to make, and I greatly admire and respect their transparency in the matter. However, for myself, I don't need, want or appreciate these extra guard rails "to keep me safe". I'm an adult and are willing to act and be treated like one.

Windows (and most other operating systems) have a "user land" and a "kernel space".

"user land" is where all your applications run. A "user land" application can only see other applications and files owned by the same user. Eventually, a user land app will want to do "something". This can be something like read a file from disk, make a network connection, draw a picture on the screen. To accomplish this, the user space app need to "talk" to the kernel.

If user space apps were instruments being played in an orchestra, the kernel would be the conductor. The kernel is responsible for making sure the user land apps can only see their respective users files/apps/etc.

The kernel "can see and do everything", it reports to no one. It has complete access to all the applications and every file. Your device drivers for your printer, video card, ect all run in "kernel space".

Basically, the OPs link: they've ported Doom to run effectively like a device driver. This means that if doom crashes, your PC will blue screen.

This has no practical purpose, other than saying "yeah, we did it" :)

"The Fediverse promise is one where the user has the power today." ftfy

The concern people in the fediverse have with companies like Meta joining, is that:

1. Embrace: they will "start off" by making the fediverse easy to access for the masses. There will actually be great growth in the fediverse. People will flock to Meta as their choice platform because they will be faster and more reliable than self-hosted fediverse servers.
2. Extend: Big companies will begin to introduce new features, some of it will be added for the open source community to use. Eventually, there will be new proprietary features added (integration with WhatsApp for example) . This means that Meta's Fediverse will be different from the open source fediverse. It'll probably start out as something innocent like "needing a Facebook account to post a message / comment in their channels." Then it gets worse...
3. Extinguish: Now the masses have flocked to Meta because it's fast and stable. This results in many/most of the Self-hosted services to become extinct. Then Meta starts to add more" security", like a fediverse "reputation". Meaning, if your self-hosted service submits "enough" posts/comments that are not spam, then your allowed to read/post on their platform. This means if your self-hosted and/or a smaller member you will be barred from accessing/posting content. Thus, the fediverse is now owned by big corps and you need to use their platforms (and watch their ads or subscribe) to access content.

Source: Compare the history of e-mail (the original fediverse) before Gmail and Hotmail compared to what we have today. I (as an individual) can run my own mail server, but most of my messages will be marked as "spam", if I send it to a friend who has a Gmail address, because my reputation is too low. This forces me to "pay" for email.

Neat trick.

_... longing look across from Lemmy. _

STOP! You're scaring the children!

This did give me a chuckle. Thanks for that :)

I found both Connect and Thunder to have the "baconreader feel". However, thunder's performance is significantly faster than Connect.

I use Connect to view a thread... and would see the loading icon (for a second or so), but with thunder I click on a thread and it's just there.

Probably because Reddit never really liked "non-adversing friendly" subs. Reddit tolerated them, because it did drive users to the platform. However, there was a fine line between "acceptable piracy" talk vs the ban hammer.

On Lemmy, we have admins who aren't fixated on "the users are the product" and advertisers... So, we can let our guard down and have meaningful discussions.

Welcome to the fediverse!

If you're looking for dense content, I've been very happy with thunder.

I tried handful of apps and Thunder gives me that baconreader feel (a lot of content compress on a single screen)... and it amazingly snappy.