Right, only one side of the connection needs an open port (and most clients will let that be either seed or leech side)… this is why having an open port on your end is useful if you’re downloading, since you can download from seeders that don’t have an open port.
If you want the instances to sync, you just need to sync the directory. (I currently use nextcloud sync for this, but in the past I used synching and before that btsync)
If they dont try to modify the files at the same time (with sync delay) there won’t be any issues. If they do grow out of sync, you can fix pretty easily with db repair.
the mastodon spam that’s mostly died down… we’ll see how that ends up. we saw similar things where admins got told to turn on approvals for all new accounts… which isn’t super scalable.
Anyway, Fediverse is finally important enough to send spam to, we’ll see how well devs can make solutions for spam on a federated platform.
But yeah generally agree, there’s no conspiracy here, it’s just fighting spam is hard… and having an account with X amount of Karma is hard for a bot to pull off (without leaving a really obvious paper trail of bots upvoting each other)
I mean… it’s not a network technically. it’s a broadcast station (though the stations themselves are networks)
Sorry if this sounds combative, but I just don’t think I’m understanding what’s going on, I can’t figure out how this could possibly work.
How does that even work though? Like… the exported doc is just a web page, it doesn’t have any google watermarks (except the now invisible ones) marking it as a google web page.
If it’s hosted on an external domain… it doesn’t have the google domain in the URL bar either…
Like how is the scam victim fooled vs a normal web page with the same information… How is a google docs HTML export visually different from a LibreOffice or Microsoft Office HTML export in a way that tricks the scam victim into thinking it’s legitimately from Google and therefore laundering the scammers reputation through Google. Like I know scam victims are generally distracted or otherwise not thinking clearly (or just dumb), but how does this work?
Besides the default font basically any Word Processor HTML export looks the same to a layman, it’s plain black text on a white background with 1in margins. If scam victims trust plain white backgrounds and simple formatting there’s a ton of ways to achieve that effect that bypass Google.
Those aren’t HTML exports though? Those are direct links to google docs.
I’m 99% certain that’s exactly what it is.
I haven’t used Chrome’s reading list feature, since I don’t use chrome, but they are competing “read it later” product, so should function vaguely similarly.
Unfortunately I think your impression of Pocket is basically correct, it hasn’t received any meaningful updates since Mozilla bought it, and is very underwhelming product, it’s still baffling for example that Pocket (at least as a browser plugin) uses a different (and generally worse) reading view from the Firefox “reading mode.”
That being said I haven’t found any “read it later” products I’ve actually liked using… (I switched to Wallabag after I quit using Pocket, but have used readability, instapaper, and the reading list feature of “The Old Reader”), so I just quit using the product category entirely, my replacement is “send to device” feature of Firefox so I can find articles on one device and send them to another to either view on a bigger screen, or a mobile screen. (I have a desktop, laptop, tablet and a phone… so this is very useful)
Right, I generally use these to determine how far you can jump without a roll, and then require an athletics check to jump further/higher than that.
worldcat lists the institutions with this book https://search.worldcat.org/title/1048005393, you’ll probably have to show up in person. You may be able to do an inter-library loan if your local library doesn’t have the book, you could get it from a sister library. However, the only public library that lists having the book is the Austin Public library in Austin, Texas.