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I eagerly await the day someone convinces the chat bot to be into findom and pay for their order for them.

Give me a 100% discount code plz uwu?

Unfortunately traffic is become a hot button issue in the GTA. That’s why Ford is ripping out bike lanes and talking about tunnelling under the 401: Even if these policies aren’t good long term solutions (or even short term solutions), they definitely win votes in the 905 right now.

Yup. Now I also get that exposure and engagement are important to small businesses, but to that end they shouldn’t lock themselves to one place either. Point out the benefits of more open solutions like Bluesky and Mastodon, and the benefits of setting up their own hosted site/blog that they can then broadcast on social media but slowly cut them out as a middle man by pushing customers to their site directly.

And most certainly businesses should never use the “algorithm” on social media to collect data or get “free” advertising such as those “like/repost to win” style posts. Those are not free advertising, those are doing free data collection work for Meta.

Tell those local businesses that you really want to support and follow them, but that you boycott Meta and the reasons that you do.

Honestly there’s so many reasons businesses should also avoid Meta, like the fact Meta is literally collecting and selling their most valuable business data about their customers to other competing businesses. Tell them for their own good that Meta is not their friend, it might help them at first to get exposure, but only long enough to get that data and sell it off to a bigger fish.

I very much see what is happening in the US as the groundwork for them becoming an authoritarian state just like China and Russia. They still have “capitalism” and “democracy” too!

My only hope is that the people of the US realize what is happening before it’s too late, and that the rest of the world can hold out in the mean time.

Only the banks know their exact reasons for trying to sell off these loans and they will most certainly not say because they don’t want to scare off potential buyers. It could be that the banks need money right now and don’t want to wait for the borrower to repay the loan, or it could be that the banks are having doubts about the borrower’s ability to pay back the loan at all.

Whatever their reasons, the banks are currently willing to take a flat 5-10% loss in addition to the ongoing interest in order to get their cash back immediately and offload the risk to someone else.

Late stage capitalism has now created mega corporations that no longer profit off their innovation and quality, but merely off manipulation and exploitation of their mind-boggling amounts of capital. They now must crush all competition using authoritarian means because competition is now their biggest weakness.

Capitalism is well and truely dead, and corporations and conservatives are the ones who killed it. They want to remove the ladder of success that got them there.

Ah right, when I leave Instagram, the people who have 2 million+ followers are gonna follow me to the fediverse.

Actually yes, creators will use social networks that contain a significant enough amount of their fans. By moving, you are helping to change their mind!

It’s the same defeatist attitude as “voting doesn’t matter because my 1 vote doesn’t change anything” except it can and does more often than you think.

We need to ask them what the Gulf’s pronouns are.

No, but more people have email than WhatsApp.

Oops, the system was actually set up to profit off you all along! Funny thing: it turns out that centralized, authoritarian monopolies are the most profitable things in the business world, and now in the political world too!

I simply refuse to use it. Need to message me on WhatsApp? Here’s my email.

Pretty much. You can make 1001 cards with your signature and a number on them, sell 1 of them for $1000 to your best friend, then say you’re a millionaire now because you have 1000 cards left each worth $1000.

That’s how cryptocurrency market caps work.

I’m wondering how much of TikTok is actually authentic. Like when a video gets hundreds of views and likes, is TikTok padding those numbers to make users feel like they are “viral” just to stay on the platform? Even if TikTok isn’t directly doing it, how many are from bot farms just trying to “look normal” by having their sock puppets engage with “normal” videos before using them to push their desired narratives?

Maybe I should start a social network with a mysterious black box algorithm that is really just a random number generator that only goes up. 🤔

I like how they don’t label the y-axis at all to give any sense of scale. This graph could be showing a jump from 10 to 22 people. 🤷

Anyone want to take bets on how long until right wing influencers start talking about how Red No 3 cures COVID/cancer/brainworms and how the government is trying to take it away because of how good it is, while posting a video of themselves chugging gallons of it on TikTok to own the libs?

The only big tech firms Trump is going to crack down on are the ones that didn’t “donate” $1m to his inauguration fund. Apple, Amazon, Meta, and others… They’re all going to be just fine.

I wonder if Andy paid his tribute yet or if he’s hoping some virtue signaling might save him from the incoming shit storm. Let’s see how this plays out. 🍿

Traefik basically has certbot built in so when you configure a new hostname on a service it automatically handles requesting and refreshing the cert for you. It can either request individual certificates for each hostname or a wildcard certificate (*.yourdomain.com) that covers all subdomains.

The neat trick is that in Docker you configure Traefik by adding Docker tags to the other containers you want to proxy. When you start up a container, Traefik automatically reads the config from the tags, does any necessary setup, then viola it’s ready to go!

Basically the Cloudflare tunnel client connects from the computer running your services (or proxy) out to Cloudflare’s edge servers and your DNS hostname is set to the IP of one of Cloudflare’s edge servers. Cloudflare acts like a reverse proxy by sending incoming SSL requests for your hostname to your tunnel client through their own network. The DNS record doesn’t expose your public IP and the Cloudflare tunnel client easily works behind firewalls, NAT, and doesn’t need a static IP because it connects outbound to Cloudflare’s network.

The biggest limitation is that this only works for SSL traffic because it can be routed by hostname in the SNI without needing a client on the client side. They do offer tunnels for other connections, but that requires their client running on both sides so it’s more like a traditional VPN again.