beSureToRegisterYourPlaceAtVibeCon

posted by @Skull_is_dull@reddit.com - https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1kleb0o/besuretoregisteryourplaceatvibecon/

Oh, this is interesting (and a little scary)

tl;dr don’t use SSDs for long term, offline storage. The data degrades after as little as two years without the drives being powered up

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.