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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Mostly commenting though the Fediverse, yes, but they also develop the possibility to follow other Fedi users and have a timeline when logged in.

    I think most current blog commenting systems have some drawback (closed platform like discuss, limited to WordPress, or something that requires email confirmation, captcha or something else) so the ability to comment from another service is a huge factor for me.







  • If you are afraid of your PC infecting itself by background outbound connections, you should not turn it on at all. Running 24h vs 6h a day barely makes a difference in this regard - yes, there are fewer “random internet noise attacks” in less hours, but if your LAN is that dangerous, the computer should not be on for 5 minutes. Either you trust your LAN enough to have a computer running, or not.

    Double that if you haven’t disabled UPnP on your ISP router which is probably on by default.

    Talking about the sane defaults I mentioned earlier - my router has it off as a default. But if it wasn’t, my approach wouldn’t be to turn devices off¹ but change the router setting.

    ¹ I actually do turn off/plane mode all my non-server devices when I’m not using them but not for that reason.




  • Yes, I think I’m getting your original question now. I didn’t even look into their hosting offers because I’m actively looking for things I can self host. It’s the same reason I self host many things, I don’t care if someone else offers it for free. I’m 100% owning it, I don’t have to rely on someone else’s server, and I enjoy the process of setting up my own infrastructure, figure out ways to make it reliable etc. It’s also a learning experience for me.