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Sadly, some ISPs have yet to adopt it. Bell Canada is notoriously slow on it, and shows no signs of starting.

I agree. The certainty is reassuring. I also would never want my computer to touch even the most remotely objectionable material. I've contemplated running a Lemmy instance before, but the concerns you've brought forth are the main contributing factors in my decision to not do so.

Not only that, but TOR is something that becomes more private the more someone uses it. Iirc it's really easy to distinguish TOR packets from regular packets. Combine that with how few people use TOR, you're job of narrowing down who's abusing it becomes much easier.

Finally, just running an exit node opens one up to many legal liabilities. It's not something that's worth the effort, but it's strength comes from many people running one.

Adoption is gonna be difficult. Many users don't care that much about privacy in general. So getting them to change their habits is a tall order. Furthermore, a lot of sites see TOR as suspicious and make the effort to block it/put them through captcha hell. I don't see a critical mass of users dropping convenience for the sake of something they don't really care about anytime soon.

This will likely go in the direction of cable. Starting out paying and not having ads to ending up having the worst of both worlds.

I've never worked in an open office space myself. I imagine there'd be a lot of distractions due to the factors you've listed. It's not that difficult to go up to someone else's cubicle for a chat.

I'm glad to hear that bundling is already a thing. Combining that with a message queue will help a lot to ensure consistency.

Originally USB-C was supposed to be convenient and easy to use. One port for many different purposes. Instead we have what we have now: a complete mess of a standard that makes it more confusing than USB ever was.

ActivityPub relies on a lot of POST requests being relayed from instance to instance in a full mesh style of networking. I have a lot of doubts about its scale, and also it's reliability in federating important actions like moderators removing offensive content. I'm going to need to read through the spec to confirm if this issue has been addressed, but there really needs to be a way to send multiple activities with one POST request, guidelines for retrying activities to ensure eventual consistency, and to accommodate message queues.

It's depressing because short fiction has the ability to evoke strong emotions in such few words. I remember finding Flowers for Algernon much more impactful as a short story, than I did as a novel. Perhaps it was because I read the short story first.

No insight on the cause. My condolences to her family, and hopefully her passing was peaceful and painless.