A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
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If you aren't going to fully wipe your drive in horrible events like this, at the very least use shred instead of rm. rm simply removes references to the file in the filesystem, leaving the data behind on the disk until other data happens to be written there.
Do not ever allow data like that to exist on your machines. The law doesn't care how it got there.
I nuked my personal instance because of this :(
Dealing with pictrs is just frustrating currently since there's no tools for its database format and no frontend for the API. I half-expected this outcome but I hope it gets better in the future.
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Pict-rs has been the single largest pain of self-hosting a tiny Lemmy instance. I really hope things improve. I like hosting it myself but I can't do it as a second job, having to figure out my own hacks and workarounds just to keep it running and not serving up illegal crap.
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Thank you! I was looking into running this a week or two ago when I was doing some maintenance but I gave up and shelved the project for later due to the complexity. My Lemmy instance is running in AWS and I'm going to have to put some work into my network setup on both ends to be able to connect to a computer with a GPU at home.
I'm glad the community is working to resolve some of these issues. Hopefully some of this will get easier and more cost-effective.