WilfordGrimley

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Be Aware of the CTF in c/canada@lemmy.ca
Be Aware of the CTF in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There was (is?) a pilot project including randomly selected taxpayers with extremely simple tax situations where they had autofiling.

The Unique ID You're Giving to Everyone in c/privacyguides@lemmy.one
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 5 points 3 weeks ago

The guy behind The New Oil is half of the team behind Surveillance Report. It's a killer podcast well worth your time. Videos are on YouTube and elsewhere.

Is it possible to increase the RAM in a laptop whose memory is soldered to the motherboard? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With a fast enough ssd you can use zram or a swap partition to emulate having more RAM.

UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 32 points 1 month ago (20 children)

...We've all been doing that for years.

Snowden implicated Google and Apple in 2013.

Does Leaflet Distribution in Bath Actually Work for Local Businesses? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 1 points 1 month ago

What a cringe, and obvious attempt at promoting your leaflet distribution company through fake online engagement, @cheetahdistribution@thelemmy.club.

'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Trump threats are inspiring Canada to tackle trade war from within in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 2 points 1 month ago

Great idea, Sam Porter Bridges.

Ford 'ripping up' Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink in wake of U.S. tariffs in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 5 points 1 month ago

Having used Xplore when I lived in an unserviced rural area, the service is extremely shotty.

This is the right decision non the less.

China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threats in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 8 points 2 months ago

So does ChatGPT, and I can't run that offline...

If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 2 points 2 months ago

A distilled DeepSeek R1 model.

Why haven’t we seen a peer-to-peer (P2P) social media platform yet? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Check out aether.

I really wanted this to be as popular as Lemmy, but it never caught on in a big way.

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Is Lemmy Federation with Aether possible? (linux.community)
 

Aether is a reddit alternative not dissimilar to Lemmy in that it is distributed and open source.

Some advantages to Aether over Lemmy are:

It is entirely decentralized rather than federated giving it superior censorship resistance and smooth horizontal scalability. Each user on the Aether network acts as a node operator allowing other users to connect and view the communities that they subscribe to.

Moderators within each community are elected by, are impeachable by, and their decisions can be individually ignored by the users of each community. All mod actions are public information and, as mentioned, each mod action or moderator can be ignored by each user. This maximizes the accountability of the network and greatly reduces the chances of censorship.

The biggest flaw with Aether is that it is not currently maintained (to my knowledge). With such a massive migration of users to Lemmy and the Fediverse as large, I would love to see an increased interest in decentralized solutions like Aether.

Would it be technically feasible for Aether to join the fediverse through modified Lemmy instances? If so it could act as a silver bullet to enable horizontal scalability of the network at large.

I welcome any discussion on the topic.

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