Am curious. Are you able to run a modern windows 10 virtual machine / virtualbox vm on XP?

Yes. If your country is authoritarian use cryptocurrency such as Monero. Even Bitcoin can be much better.

The bank would know the amount, the merchant and other details even if it’s a merchant from abroad. The bank might have a duty to report certain transactions or could be forced to give out a record. Other international payment process or foreign banks will generally not refuse a request if it comes from a country government you are a citizen of.

You can use crypto to buy gift cards to shop at regular retailers. This is your safest bet if you’re concerned about a state surveillance of your transactions.

One step towards avoiding misuse is to stop considering porn to be misuse.

Not that instance, but Lemmy is missing a lot of moderation and federation tools. Right now you only have sledgehammers to deal with tiny nails, in regards to tooling.

A good decision.

Here it says that this should not be possible in Australia due to the immobilizers.

https://www.drive.com.au/news/us-kia-and-hyundai-thefts-what-it-means-for-australia/

Maybe some thieves believe all KIAs and Hyundays are targets and eventually some are stolen due to other factors.

It’s worth mentioning that this impacts only US vehicles from those brands.

And here I thought this was the nurse from the 90s, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Allitt

But, no. This apparently happened in 2015. Creepy how both cases are so similar.

It should be a signature that is sent together with the ActivityPub Object. Yes, if the signature doesn’t match, the content, whether a post, comment, favorite, upvote, etc… should be dropped.

Here is the source code of the library that lemmy uses to handle incoming objects and you can see that it does a call to verify the signature of the actor:

https://docs.rs/activitypub_federation/latest/src/activitypub_federation/actix_web/inbox.rs.html#18-54

Messages are sent with a digital signature that only the original instance could craft.

Can someone explain what the Intel ME actually does / is? Thank you.

I’m sorry, I need to say it:

Did she check the control singer? If the control doesn’t say she’s a fascist, but the other one does, then it’s not a placebo but her actually being a fascist.

Good point. I think that might be it actually. This could be the reason.

It should be safe as long as you put in a valid timestamp and not some other value. If you run a large instance, then you run the risk of pseudo-DDoSing yourself by sending a large amount of requests to dead servers, but unless you’re a large instance you shouldn’t have to worry about that.

That seems to be the case more or less. In my case times go from 0:00 to 0:25 or so when it finishes.

Check out the Onyx Boox which might cost a bit more but run a version of Android.

In theory that’s what Lemmy now does every day, but I have no idea why it fails to update some instances sometimes. Instances which are very much alive at 12AM which is when this gets executed.

Do you know if you had any cronjob running close to 0:00 (server time, possibly UTC) that could have interfered with the validation of dead instances that lemmy now does?

I’m trying to figure out what could have interfered with these checks in the first place.

It only works for new posts. Try creating something new in a community that you know lemmy.world knows about.

Older posts may appear progressively, but there’s no guarantees.

Yes. That should fix it. There is instances that are genuinely down. Later today I’ll try to share a script to detect which ones are down and which aren’t via curl. In our case we had 350+ false positives.