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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hello, sorry for taking some time in getting back to you. Yes, I should make an announcement in the following days after reviewing the final system.

Thank you for reminding me!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh you're right. I wonder why that is.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Nature is healing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the post. I confirm this is definitely a problem.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Install proxmox on a computer with plenty of RAM and CPU and you'll be able to create VMs which you can give out or rent out to anyone.

In regards to access, ipv4 is not a good idea. Especially not residential IP addresses., You should get ipv6 addresses maybe from a tunnelbroker. But anyways, first you need the server with the hypervisor (which is what you're looking for) and then you can slowly run tests, learn and eventually figure out networking.

Btw, it might be cheaper to simply rent a server, which would solve the issue of ip addresses. OVH has cheap servers and a proxmox install wizard.

Just please don't use it for anything sensitive until you can find someone to give a quick check up in regards to security to make sure you haven't missed anything. Unlike a regular PC, this one is expected to receive inbound connections which has its risks.

But don't worry about that too much now. Find an old computer or rent a server, install proxmox and start testing, playing around and learning.

Edit: chatgpt is good when wanting to learn this stuff. Especially gpt-4, but even gpt-3.5 will do. Just don't trust it blindly as it still messes up about 20% of the time. But it's often better than googling for tutorials since you can't often find what you're looking for.

Edit2: the setup I propose will allow you to divide a regular computer into 100s of virtual ones limited only by the total RAM, disk and CPU. If you only want a web server on dedicated hardware get a raspberry pi, because my proposal would be overkill. But it's the closest to "being your own cloud provider".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Am curious. Are you able to run a modern windows 10 virtual machine / virtualbox vm on XP?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes. If your country is authoritarian use cryptocurrency such as Monero. Even Bitcoin can be much better.

The bank would know the amount, the merchant and other details even if it's a merchant from abroad. The bank might have a duty to report certain transactions or could be forced to give out a record. Other international payment process or foreign banks will generally not refuse a request if it comes from a country government you are a citizen of.

You can use crypto to buy gift cards to shop at regular retailers. This is your safest bet if you're concerned about a state surveillance of your transactions.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Damn, if that's the case, how and where can I please surround myself with cybersecurity experts? Please... for security purposes of course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I love this artist's kink related pictures, especially petplay ones. This one is amazing too. He looks so happy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes! I agree. Please see this post where I might have found a reasonable solution. Let me know what you think: https://yiffit.net/comment/2829711

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think it would be difficult to tag based on context since often we can't know a character's personality, story, beliefs, identity, etc... just what we can see. At least most of the time.

In this case, the terms 'andromorph' and 'gynomorph' literally translates to 'male form' and 'female form', and I believe that it is referring to the physical sex instead of gender, especially since 'form' in this case is alludes to the physical representation of the character.

What I'm trying to say is that the terms 'andro' and 'gyno' refer in this case to the physical sex and are translated as 'male' and 'female'. In this sense it would make sense to use [M*] and [F*] since the original [M] and [F] tags are also related to physical sex instead of gender, since the gender of a character can't be determined by just the character's physical traits. A character with breasts and a vagina might very well be the fursona of a trans male furry and he feels it better represents him because it's closer to his physical appearance.

Wait a second....

Please stand by....

googling

Okay, I think I got it.

Here's the definition for the term 'prime' used in mathematics:

"In mathematics, the prime is generally used to generate more variable names for similar things without resorting to subscripts, with x′ generally meaning something related to (or derived from) x. For example, if a point is represented by the Cartesian coordinates (x, y), then that point rotated, translated or reflected might be represented as (x′, y′). "

Thus the most respectful way of tagging andromorphs and gynomorphs could be [M′] and [F′], since it does indicate that an element such as a function in mathematics is derivated, differentiated but by no means does it indicate that it's inferior in any way. Technically the prime character ′ is it's own character but I think that using apostrophes will suffice.

I would still like to campaign for [G'], [S'] and [L'] because I think it's a way simplify tags when there's 3+ characters. Most of the time when you browse yiff what matters to you is the orientation of the characters / scene, instead of the amount of characters by counting the number of Ms and Fs.

Thus, how about this:

  • [M], [F], [M'], [F'], [I], [A] for solo pictures
  • [M/F], [M/M], [M/F'], etc... for two characters The above categories probably encompass the vast majority of yiff and they're easy to understand. Then we relegate group tags such as [G], [L], [S], [G'], [L'], [S'], [Bi], [Bi'] ONLY for pictures with 3+ characters as an optional representation that can save you from having to write many letters and making searching and filtering easier. (G-L-S-Bi notation would change from being discouraged for pictures with just two characters where two letters can give us full precision at a minor extra cost of a single letter and from now on only encouraged for pictures with 3+ characters)

In this case I realize that some precision is lost, but pictures with 3+ characters aren't the majority, it's optional and it could be tidier in many circumstances where you care about the orientation.

I think we might be getting close to having a solution? What do you think?

 

Apologies for not having replied yet to some posts that have been created in /c/meta. I've been on and off these days. If you believe that a post would benefit from getting my attention (such as a proposal) feel free to mention me so that I get a notification.

Thank you!

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By ClayTheFox (I believe) https://furaffinity.net/user/claythefox

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**Edit: migration completed. Apologies for the reboots. **

Everything is working smoothly except for the network configuration. I wanted to make some changes but I didn't manage to get this new network configuration to work. For now I've left it with the old configuration and with some time I'll fiddle around with subnet masks and static routes in order to improve VM isolation. Since Yiffit is currently the only VM on the server (packmates.org is next), it doesn't matter that much right now.

OLD POST BELOW


I'm preparing a migration to the new server that I've set up. The change should be transparent for you as users for now except for the small downtime of about 1h that could happen between today and tomorrow (I'm sorry for not being able to be more exact since it depends on some variables such as me doing testing to ensure that everything will work correctly).

After the migration, I'll share more details and also explain the new setup and which benefits we can expect from the new server in the future.

Thank you and apologies for the inconvenience <3

 

When this instance was created, I put in place a ban on certain content that could get us in trouble in regards to federating with other instances since we weren't yet too well known.

Now that two months have passed I hope we have established ourselves as an instance with good moderation and have lifted the ban for most content.

There are currently two content categories that are still banned:

  1. Underage characters & characters that very evidently look underage to anyone who doesn't know the character's lore (ie. 1000 year old spirit trapped in the body of a minor). This ban is permanent.

  2. Content featuring gore, mutilation, death and non-trivial amounts of blood. This ban is indefinite but can be overturned once lemmy has better moderation tools and I find a way to ensure that by allowing this content we are not inadvertently allowing the glorification of problematic behavior or allow networking of malicious sadism.

Thank you.

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Sorry for not being too active lately as I have some health + work related issues going on right now.

In any case, as always, please feel free to report any bugs you experience!

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Awoooo!

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