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New comment by yangm97 in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

yangm97 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:08:16 +0000

The good thing about nostr is that, contrary to popular federated protocols, your identity is not tied to any single server, you own the keypair to your account, so you can continue using it just fine even if some relays experience a downtime.

New comment by yangm97 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

yangm97 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:13:32 +0000

As much as I am a nixOS user myself, I think regular users should be directed to use atomic, immutable distros (as is the case with most of the distros growing in popularity) because of the robust update system along with the ease of rollback should something go wrong. Regular distros (really comes down to the package manager of choice) are much more brittle, perhaps even worse than Windows Update.

New comment by yangm97 in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

yangm97 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:33:40 +0000

There’s a platform called Odysee which hosts mirrors of many YouTube channels, might want to check that out instead of alternative frontends like invidious.