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Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!

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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • On reddit if a post was deleted I could still interact with the thread, even if the content of the post itself was gone.

    So it was a bit more elegant, imho, as it allows continued discussion and being able to link to the thread without it being completely nuked.

    I also think that set expectations for how people expected it to work here, where the post contents and author would be nuked but the thread could still be accessed by hotlink.












  • Wow, usually people lose their shit and complain that Element is too complex and that me and the devs are being assholes asking them to use it… You know kind of like all the people here on the Fediverse who think we need to make it bigger and bring in everyone from everywhere and that the devs and users who defend them are awful for not focusing on user interface first and making it less confusing to choose a server…

    Anyway, thanks for being on team reasonable, because I’m with you on this 100%, but I can’t change how little people want to learn anything sadly so I make compromises with people who cant or wont learn how to do things. It sucks, people really don’t seem to understand that security and convenience are a balance, and every time people argue for shit to be easier they’re actually arguing for everything to be less secure. You sacrifice security for convenience, every time, and the opposite happens because you can sacrifice convenience for increased security measures. Security has to be complex by nature to be effective, and the core of Matrix is being a secure, encrypted protocol, which they have already actually put a ton of work into making easier for fucking normies. Yet, it’s never enough for people. Always screams of “It’s too complex! I hate thinking!”




  • Yes, consumer routers are much lower powered because they’re built to be a router so they can simplify it to the basics needed just for routing. The trade-off is that most off-the-shelf consumer routers don’t support V-LANs. The person you were responding to notes they have a Mikrotic device, which is one of the most popular series of devices for people to put OpenWRT on. (EDIT: Memory was foggy it’s actually devices with MediaTech CPUs is what I am thinking of) The major downside here when it comes to exposing devices to the internet is you lose the strong firewall. Part of why the OPNsense firewall is stronger than what a consumer firewall even with OpenWRT on it is because it isn’t just built to be a router, and being much beefier allows it to handle much more complex firewall rules and things like packet inspection or intrusion detection. OpenWRTdevice has a basic firewall which will do the job, for sure, but I am definitely on the side of using something a little bit more powerful for more firewall features and options. You’d probably still be relatively safe with OpenWRT/, but the low power of the devices may make them less robust depending on how many users you plan on having, in which OPNsense’s beefy nature makes it more robust for more data passing through.

    EDIT: Those Mikrotik devices OP is referring to are different than what I was thinking of, but they also have a good price point and are dedicated routing appliances thus lower power draw (many of them support Power over Ethernet). Their OS isn’t as open as any of the others though, however it offers a full featured enterprise grade router OS. A good choice for someone who isn’t as savvy off the bat, although you lose the powerful firewall.

    https://mikrotik.com/products/group/ethernet-routers

    They also have a demo of their RouterOS which seems like it’s very full-featured: https://demo.mt.lv/