BaconWrappedEnigma

Maybe we could broker a deal between the different national bodies to form Fedi-CANZUK

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you really want to have control over what is in your house

I hadn't considered this. That's kinda scary.

Another option is a legal structure that can have a bank account and pay for infra. I know they just made Incorporated Societies a bit more complex to manage. Even an Ltd with a clear constitution would work.

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BaconWrappedEnigma @lemmy.nz 3w ago

1. Use Cloudflare

Cloudflare has the power to be evil but that haven't shown that streak yet. The biggest risk IMHO is that, in the most useful configurations, most of the traffic passes in cleartext. So, if Cloudflare were compromised by hackers or a nation state, then passwords and emails and private messages could all be slurped up. I won't speculate which kind of nation state would be powerful enough to compromise Cloudflare.

Cloudflare R2 is pretty cheap for serving images (we just pay for storage, not outgoing bandwidth). BlueÆther mentioned Object Store. I would look at R2 first.

2. Consider Self-Hosting

I don't know what kind of load lemmy.nz has been under but I would imagine you could run the services using docker compose and still meet the demand. The hardware likely doesn't matter too much as long as it has enough RAM and an SSD. The most complex part about this is making sure the backup and restore strategy works. Mostly, that the restore strategy works. I have an Intel NUC on a cheap Eaton UPS that broadcasts my renegade signal to the world. You can run this using Cloudflare Tunnels so that you don't have to open a port on your router or expose your IP address. It helps to treat the server as if it were on a hostile network. So, you want to lock it up into its own VLAN or network segment to prevent a server compromise from pawing through your draws.

Postgres has a lot of different ways to keep "hot backups" with one of the more popular ones being WAL. Rclone with BackBlaze and a USB hard drive will get you pretty far on the backups.

I'd be happy to help set it up.

3. Consider Seeking Sponsorship

A local hosting company like SiteHost or Catalyst might offer to donate a VPS in exchange for "Thank You" in the footer.

If you are trying to gauge the potential for community financial support then I feel like you'd find enough people willing to support the hosting to make it viable.

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BaconWrappedEnigma @lemmy.nz 1mo ago

The Electoral Commission last week published a return for a $50,000 donation from Les Mills gym franchise managing director Phillip Mills on January 8 to The Opportunity Party (Top), formerly The Opportunities Party.

Now, if only they can figure out the whole connecting-with-voters problem that TOP seems to have.

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BaconWrappedEnigma @lemmy.nz 1mo ago

If you are OK with connecting them via the internet then consider an MQTT backhaul: https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/integrations/mqtt/

Please let me know if you want a dead-simple "How do I connect two towns via the internet?" There are obviously traffic implications, so please coordinate with Town 2.

If you are looking for non-internet options then it sounds like you are already on track. High up, line-of-sight, and a directional antenna are a good start.

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BaconWrappedEnigma @lemmy.nz 2mo ago

This does not look like it was generated by an off-the-shelf LLM. It could be from a custom fine-tuned LLM (or even few shot) but it's likely not written by vanilla ChatGPT, Gemini, etc...

It can be really difficult to detect LLM written text but the easiest heuristics are:

Specific keywords
The use of three examples, often bullet points (Hah!)
"Final thoughts" or a summary

That said, there are many techniques to make an LLM sound more like an author; so, you never really know...

Final thoughts

In conclusion: we can't be sure, but at first glance, this looks like it was written by a human.

And when the government comes knocking - and they are knocking, right now, today - these companies will hand it over

EDIT:

I have seen many people convert the em-dash into a single dash, much like OP uses. e.g.

And when the government comes knocking - and they are knocking, right now, today - these companies will hand it over

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BaconWrappedEnigma @lemmy.nz 2mo ago

Not sure why @abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es decided not to include any details about the talk. The host is

Dr Lucy Rogers MBE is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Former Visiting Professor at Brunel University, she’s an award-winning engineer, author of Up: A Scientist’s Guide to the Magic Above Us and former BBC Robot Wars judge. Her creative projects span animatronic dinosaurs to carbon-negative technologies. She’s passionate about nature and sustainable engineering solutions.

It looks like an interesting talk! Unfortunately, the title: "Up: A Scientist’s Guide to the Magic Above Us." sounds like some pseudoscience bullshit.