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  • I am not saying they are mutually exclusive.

    I am saying that the focus of this article seems to be on blaming the victims instead of demanding accountability from providers of the tools making these scams possible. The article treats these tools as some inevitable background, part of the environment – but in fact creating them and making them publicly available is a choice and a business decision of for-profit corporations, making bank on scammers using them to scam people.

    So while these approaches are not mutually exclusive, the focus is dreadfully misplaced. It’s like saying “You Need To Wear An Air Filter At All Times” instead of calling out the companies making the air unbreathable.

    And that’s something I object to on a very basic level.







  • I still think that fedi will help, and in fact I am pretty sure it is helping already, simply because it is quite decentralized. Blocking 20k+ instances is not trivial. And each of these instances is an entrypoint, so to speak, into the broader fedi. Missing even one is thus a big deal. If my instance is blocked, I can set up an account on a different one, follow the same people, and I am back in business.

    At the same time all these instances are run independently. One can’t simply threaten the whole fedi to force it to do a thing (say, take down an account), this just does not make sense.

    Compare and contrast with centralized services like Facebook, gatekeepers like Cloudflare, and so on. Threatening one big entity with problems might be enough to “convince it” to take a thing down.

    The reason governments and other powerful entities are able to control the information flow is because there are these hugely important single points of failure. Fedi is not perfect (mastodon.social is way too big for its own good…), but it is a step in the right direction.





  • rysiek@szmer.infotoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhy do so many people use NGINX?
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    8 months ago

    HAproxy cannot serve static files directly. You need a webserver behind it for that.

    Apache is slow.

    Nginx is both a capable, fast reverse-proxy, and a capable, fast webserver. It can do everything HAproxy does, and what Apache does, and more.

    I am not saying it is absolutely best for every use-case, but this flexibility is a large part of why I use it in my infra (nad have been using it for a decade).


  • W 24h zebrała 100mln USD darowizn na kampanię. W niecałe 48h ogarnęła dość delegatów, by mieć zapewnioną nominację Partii Demokratycznej, oraz zapewniła sobie poparcie wszystkich Demokratycznych gubernatorów i całej wierchuszki partii.

    Ze scenariuszem “Biden rezygnuje z ubiegania się o reelekcję” najbardziej martwiłem się, że Partia Demokratyczna się zachowa jak zwykle – kompletny chaos, obrzucanie się błotem. To by dało Trumpowi wygraną bez problemu.

    Ale teraz, kurczę, nie wygląda to źle! W tych wyborach praktycznie nikt nikogo nie przekona do zmiany, na kogo chce zagłosować. Pytanie jest oto, ilu wyborców i ile wyborczyń zostanie w domach. Wygląda na to, że Harris mocno generuje entuzjazm, a więc mocno pomoże ludzi przekonać, by iść na wybory.

    Generalnie czniać wszelką hegemonię i imperializm, ale Trump byłby realną katastrofą. Patrz: Project 2025.