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A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.

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But isn’t that besides your initial question? I think we can all agree that shooting people is wrong in 99.9% of cases and should be condemned. I suppose even the majority of edgelords will agree if you ask them for their true opinion and they’d share that.

But as I understand that wasn’t your question? Your question was if it’s okay to crack jokes about bad things. Or if you can anticipate a joke will lead to negative consequences?! That’s why I’m drawing that parallel…

And it’s a different question. Commiting a crime and talking about it (in whatever form) are two seperate things and need to be discussed seperately.

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So your argument is nobody should make jokes because you’re afraid of his followers rioting…

What’s your opinion on jokes on Islam and the prophet Mohammed? Because we occasionally have similar discussions. Like back then, when people were afraid of terrorist attacks because of the Mohammed caricatures and people already got stabbed, flags burned etc…

Of course we could outlaw offending people who are easily offended. Currently that isn’t the case and people are allowed to use dark humour to cope with things.

Back then, with the caricature situation, we concluded we have to defend democracy and our values… Even at the cost of someone blowing up a subway station and a few hundred people. But there was the same big argument, and some people didn’t agree.

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So who owns the certificate files then? It’s got to be some user and group?! Usually certbot is set up in some way to fetch and renew the certificates periodically. You might want to take the other advice and check the file permissions first and find out who owns them.

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Maybe sth like usermod -a -G letsencrypt coturn which puts the coturn user in the letsencrypt group. Allowing that user access to files owned by the group. I haven’t checked the names. Maybe the group is called differently, certbot or something. Obviously that grants that coturn user access to all the certificates. You might want to set some directory permissions instead, if you have multiple certificates and don’t want coturn be able to read or mess with certificates of other domains.

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As far as I know Lemmy doesn’t even want an Email address on sign up… So there’s that. The IP address is gonna end up in some server logs, so they should probably have someone else post it on their behalf. Or use a VPN or a free wifi that doesn’t keep logs.

I wouldn’t be super worried if it’s just an opinion piece blog article about politics. But I can’t assess the situation. It might be better to not tie it to you if you teach small children or something. And their parents might complain. I wouldn’t expect such people to find out though. You need like a court case to get an ISP to tell you who is behind some IP or other address. Or be a good hacker. Or befriend some corrupt cops. But that’s all very unlikely.

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With “better solution as of today” I meant more a viable solution as of today. And I don’t see any.

I completely agree that some in-built, more convenient monetization would be great. But… That’d immediately make them a whole different business. Now they need to handle money for people and become a payment provider. That’d probably require them to change their legal form. They need to hire people to manage that money. They get liable for it. And where money is involved there are disagreements and lawsuits. So they need an additional customer service. Probably also a proper legal team. All those people want a salary, so they have to make profit to pay them.

I think it’s a nice idea, but it would turn Peertube from a nice project that’s made by some programmers for us, the people, into a business halfway alike YouTube. And we already have YouTube. The nice thing about Peertube is that it’s about freedom and the content and less annoying business things involved.

And that’s often the case with smaller projects. Now the programmers do the thing they’re good at: program the software. If we make them do something else, that’s gonna be at the cost of the project. They’ll become managers and can’t attend to the thing they’re good at and what we’d like them to do.

Feel free to come up with a solution. I’d like to hear it. Because I’d also like to see some bigger Youtubers on Peertube. And they won’t come if they have to spend money on servers, instead of earning money.

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Hehe, I read that sentence, tried it on google.com

But forget what I said. I have the ungoogled variant of Chromium installed. No wonder that’s not in there…

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executing that command from the post returns the following on my Chromium:

VM68:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'sendMessage')
    at [HTML_REMOVED]:1:16
(anonymous) @ VM68:1

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Peertube has a solution built in. Creators can put in links to their Patreon, Liberapay, Ko-Fi or other donation platforms, and it’ll show a “Support” button underneath every video.

They don’t do crypto or ads in the core Peertube project. However, you can install add-ons as an instance administrator.

I don’t see any better solution as of today.

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FYI: Lots of the managed switches or the expensive wifi access points should be able to show the link status in their webinterfaces. It should be pretty easy to figure out if they’re running at 100M. (Sometimes also some LEDs light up in a different color.)

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