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Ok, so it’s actually good that you are noticing that part of yourself that is afraid of abandonment. That is very common with people that have a bit of a tough background. It is also possible that she had some fear of abandonment when she was a child, so she may be doing a kind of trauma-reenactment. To an extent, I understand where you’re coming from and how you feel. Sometimes when people say “Oh, I totally understand!” doesn’t really help. It sounds like you might have had a bit of a rough childhood, due to social standards, such as hiding mental disabilities. I ask you to not turn to drugs, alcohol, or sex when you’re struggling. It might feel hard. It might feel impossible. But if you ignore it, then you can’t help yourself help yourself. Hurt people hurt people, because they were hurt by hurt people. And the cycle continues. This isn’t just directed to you, but anybody that needs help and doesn’t know how to ask for it in person. A river can only flow after the storm.

Ok, that’s good news! Also, I checked the activitypub.space, and see they have a related communities section, but it wasn’t clickable for me (maybe it just requires login, or some other simple issue inm missing) - regardless that is a great feature and might be a good way to pull content into the forum without muddying the content within my primary categories. :)

Now that would be an interesting outcome.

Thank you!

Thank you. 1. I’ll definitely check out Anubis and your configuration to see if it will work for my scenario. 2. Ok, good to know - if it’s simply a bug then that that’s fine, mostly I wanted to make sure it wasn’t an indicator that something deeper was broken or getting blocked in the communication. 3. Sorry, I used the term instance when I meant community. But it sounds like the federation is more so to bring traffic into the forum, rather then out. Did I understand that correctly? If that is the case, then I may not opt to use it - as I was originally hoping for a way to push forum content into communities. I’ll explore this further I guess - because I’m unfamiliar with relays and fedibuzz.

Overall, I appreciate the detailed response :)

Linux-libre turned 18 recently, and I’m told there are still some people who try to pass as security experts who disapprove of the refusal to load binary blobs that claim to fix security problems.

I kind of understand the appeal of security bug fixes, but delivering them in the form of binary blobs mean that the one who accepts them has to trust them blindly and to give up any pretense of security from the vendor, and that seems to be a problem that many pretense security conscious minds seem to disregard, for whatever reason

They disregard the risk from the vendor because you are already using their hardware. The hardware has firmware already included which is proprietary, the hardware itself is proprietary, and hardware effectively runs as root anyways. You should already trust your hardware or you shouldn’t be using it. Linux-libre is a purity test, that is it. It is security theater which actually, definitely, really makes you vulnerable without doing anything meaningful. The only time it makes any sense is if you only use open source hardware.

mhm, you think it was vibe coded?

The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing. Systemd 260 finally does away with System V service scripts support. Also notable to systemd 260 is the work around the new “mstack” feature.

Sounds like a pretty good argument for ditching both gnome and systemd in one swift go, which can only sound like a win. Perhaps we’ll be seeing a supervisord- or openrc-based Linux distro for the EU.

So I decided to set up a nodeBB server on a VPS and am trying to get everything set up - and I am trying to get the fediverse working. I have a couple of questions for anyone who might have some experience.

1. I am using cloudflare for the domain host, and it seems that I need to turn off bot fighting in order for the federation to work. Is this actually the case, or is there something I am doing wrong? If it is the case, is it that big of a deal? Will I get a lot of spam or bot traffic? Is there a custom rule I can make that night not be as good as bot fighting, but mitigate it slightly? (Without paying for additional cloudflare services) I’m not sure what I’m doing with cloudflare tbh, I’ve just been asking an LLM to help me correctly set it up.

2. I think I have it working, but I followed my piefed account within my nodeBB profile to test it - and while my profile shows that I am following the piefed account, the actual indicator that shows number of people following remains at 0. (See photos. On mobile atm, but it’s the same on the desktop.)

3. How does the federation actually work - I’m new to the fediverse, but I’m curious of how to actually use nodeBB with the fediverse. Is /world for people to simply use the forum as a hub to browse their other feeds? Is there also a way to set up each category posting to specific instances? What is the “standard” or “expected” way to integrate the forum into the fediverse - and can it be used to help bring new members to the forum?

Sorry if some of this is trivial, slowly trying to navigate and wrap my head around things. Hopefully someone on here has some experience with this?

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