Nasreddin_Hodja

> Why Is It So Hard for Men to Make Close Friends?

But do we actually need it?

> Meanwhile, Western partners were continuing to undo ties with the company.

> As to whether his apparent passivity in the face of the war in Ukraine amounts to a moral stain on his reputation, history and his own conscience will judge.

I don't understand what the author expects from him after unfriendly behavior of the West.

> Django does many things but “efficient” is not one of them.

It depends on how you code. I wrote a user instance in django and and I'm happy with it's performance.

For blogs I'd prefer classic blog with activitypub support though, Plume for example. Also wordpress has activitypub plugin.

Biggest instances are https://mastodon.online and https://mastodon.social but there are a lot of it https://joinmastodon.org/en/servers

Also Mastodon isn't the only platform, there are some other activitypub compatible engines which are able to federate with Mastodon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse https://fediverse.party/

> Mastodon doesn’t solve the underlying problems

Mastodon doesn't but standalone activitypub compatible blog does.

> It shouldn't be acceptable to glorify

Profile pictures are not necessary used for glorification. It often used for trolling also, especially on classic forums.

> The next guy is very likely to be more hard-line than Putin.

Yes, there is big chance that it will be this guy https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmTofb6peQmSFekcFAnufAsyQEm...

> I really want a hybrid solution. Where my files are in both the Cloud and my Local NAS.

IPFS?

I don't disable JS but block all 3rd party requests by default. This also blocks all scripts loaded not from current domain.

> And that said, I can't imagine how reddit threads would work if paginated.

It's not that hard. I saw good example of paginated threads at livejournal.com: it paginates root comments and collapses large subthreads. https://ammo1.livejournal.com/1348094.html?view=comments#com...

> and that if I wanted a web forum, I'd consider putting a web front end on an NNTP server.

If I was developing a new forum engine, I'd base it on federated activitypub protocol.

> $9-an-Hour Engineers

It doesn't make sense due to low prices for everything in their country.

> woman dies after being beaten by morality police

Reminds me of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Ames#Death

Fsarchiver works better for me. With tar I have to manually specify a lot to exclude when making full filesystem backups, at least submountpoints. With fsarchiver you don't have to.

Unfortunately fsarchive files aren't mountable. But mksquashfs is not useful for archiving due to its lack of some options. There is squashfs-tools-ng though, which can convert tar into squashfs.

But anyway, fsarchiver is my tool of choice for fs backups.

Plus there was also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_January

Aren't sites like HN and Reddit forums-like platforms?

This one https://github.com/rekcufniarb/pswrd#readme

I'd like to see native RTSP support in browsers. WebRTC is based on it, I see no reason why it is ignored.

Why not to just write entire project in cython?

> Let’s Get It Back

It's easy, just don't use sites like Facebook. Alternative is fediverse, it's not that big and unlikely will be too popular.

But why are they stopping development? Google is not the only place. I prefer f-droid if an app is available there.

Why not to just write in Cython?

> Why do you waste so much time on the internet?

Why not? It's not a problem. Before internet era people spent much time on useless things like reading books (mostly fiction), watching TV, playing video games etc.

Internet is just a communication tool people use to exchange information.

Ok, here is more transparent picture for ya https://s15.stc.yc.kpcdn.net/share/i/12/10297121/wr-960.webp

> There has got to be better way to communicate

Unfortunately most of those "better ways" are not federated.

> Most of the spam I receive on my fastmail is from @gmail.com accounts.

Do they really come from gmail servers or it's just fake "from" header?

It could be interpreted this way: the woman on the picture symbolizes Europe saving refugee child.

How do they ensure that server passes these requirements, especially 2 and 3?