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TestFlight for Voyager in c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
[–] techie@techy.news 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the native app proxy through your server like the PWA, or does it connect directly with the instance? Thanks for all your work on this!

If I self host a Lemmy instance for just myself and maybe a few friends are there any risks? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] techie@techy.news 3 points 1 year ago

The Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote a pretty good blog post on the legality of the Fediverse, around the time Mastodon was getting popular. It probably applies to Lemmy too. It’s worth a read to familiarize yourself of what kind of legal things you’ll be getting yourself into. You’re on the right track; you can control you and your friends’ content, but you can’t control remote content that gets pushed to your server and that’s the part to worry the most.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

One thing that stood out is to register yourself as a DMCA agent. It costs $6 or something. Having an agent on record gives instance admins certain protection.

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TIL in 1997, a Reply All storm took down all of Microsoft's internal Exchange system (techy.news)
 

It started off with an employee sending an email to a distribution list called "Bedlam DL3" asking to be taken off the list. With 13,000 recipients and everyone replying all with, "Me too!" and other messages, it was estimated that over 15 million messages were sent through the system in an hour. This crashed the MTA service due to a recipient limit. Each time the MTA service recovered, it would attempt to resend the message again which lead to a crash loop.

As a result of the incident, the Exchange team introduced message recipient limits and distribution list restrictions to Exchange, which is something we all use today!

More on the story here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me-too/ba-p/610643

cross-posted from: https://techy.news/post/2224

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TIL in 1997, a Reply All storm took down all of Microsoft's internal Exchange system (techy.news)
 

It started off with an employee sending an email to a distribution list called "Bedlam DL3" asking to be taken off the list. With 13,000 recipients and everyone replying all with, "Me too!" and other messages, it was estimated that over 15 million messages were sent through the system in an hour. This crashed the MTA service due to a recipient limit. Each time the MTA service recovered, it would attempt to resend the message again which lead to a crash loop.

As a result of the incident, the Exchange team introduced message recipient limits and distribution list restrictions to Exchange, which is something we all use today!

More on the story here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me-too/ba-p/610643

cross-posted from: https://techy.news/post/2224

Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] techie@techy.news 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft has a track record of having excellent uptime! /s

I find it somewhat funny that this article came out on the day Microsoft 365 had an outage for most of the day.

Guys, what’s your go-to bar of soap? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] techie@techy.news 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like Harry’s bar soap, specifically the Stone scent. It’s very subtle and not overpowering.