A good summary here: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/

My main issue is I’m not shutting down my Pi-Hole, home assistant, NAS etc etc just to plug in something like this in, and then 24h or so later shut them all down again to retrieve it again. That said I basically have a collection of Pis (passively cooled and this silent) and a Synology disk station so the power use is pretty low.

Pi zero W has WiFi, alternatively there are hats available. And yes they can run a full Rasbian OS.

There are already plenty of audio hats available, indeed they are recommended for better quality sound.

Kbin allows users to do this (noting kbin isn’t a client it’s a compatible platform).

It could get interesting with right to repair, that probably includes the right to load custom firmware…

Logical next step, hacker sues the developer for copyright infringement?

Sales tax is the most obvious example of adding to the cost I’ve been shown, but it’s everything. Here if there is a price on something that is the price you pay. Period.
If I have €5 and the price on the shelf is €4.90 we are all good, and I don’t even need to know what country I’m in!

But is is more than that, if I take my car in to be fixed, they have to agree every cost they want to charge me in advance at no point can anything cost me more than I expected and agreed to up front.
Airline tickets, theatre tickets, hospital bills, TV ads, you name it, the price they state or advertise is what I pay, no ifs-no buts.

As a European I’ll never cease to find it mind blowing that it is normal for a Americans that the cost to them of damn near everything is more than the cost initially shown to them.

They are on kbin which doesn’t support saving comments (yet).

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I’ll just presume you agree with everything I said since you didn’t mention any aspect of it.

While some of what your say is true, the examples you give are not good ones. The Amazon example has far more to do with EU/US data residency requirements (e.g. GDPR), and practicalities about how things like local taxes are treated. In games it has more to do with latency and ping times and also you don’t want 10,000 people waiting for one particular mob to spawn because of a quest or drop.

But somehow gun laws work in every other civilised country… Odd.
Well if you are sure it’s not the gun laws then instead fix the other laws which are putting people in poverty and creating the gangs.

I think this instance would have to be aware of the post, so either

• Somebody on kbin.social would have to have followed the user who made the post; or
• A there needs to be direct mention of a user or a magazine here (along the lines of @ random@ kbin.social) in the post.

Once this instance knows about the post I think, yes, it can appear in the Microblog tab.

Sure. I don’t know anyone on firefish, but this is dansup of pixlfed on that platform:
https://kbin.social/u/@dansup@pixelfed.social/posts
If you want to see posts from somebody on another platform just search them, something like “@ dansup@ pixelfed.social” (without the spaces) and follow them. From then on you should be able to see their posts (note you won’t be able to see old posts, just any new ones from when you followed them onwards).

Just spread the word and I’ll be happy!

Yes I was also thinking along those lines. When you create a magazine you can choose hastags to associate with it, I briefly considered whether you could create a magazine specifically to have interesting hashtags for you - problem with that is you end up modding the magazine and anybody can see it, join it and post.

I suspect what you describe might come later, it feels like a natural progression from what we have now.

This is true, but twitter also has an opaque algorithm to choose what appears in your feed. By default Mastodon only allows you to view your feed in chronological order, so there is an argument to make that kbin allows a more twitter like experience…

I do also get there is a steeper learning curve with kbin, and it’s basically still only an alpha release (it’s clearly not going to be right for everyone).

The article specifically says you can’t search federated communities from kbin, but you can from Lemmy. This is just incorrect, both allow you to search local or local and federated.

True, but searching from a Lemmy instance will still only show you the ones which that one instance knows about. (I think?)