Nice UI work. I’ll wait for it to be open-sourced before I use it to login to my account.

Just create a really huge mouse that you can sit on and control with your butt. You could call it a capybara clicker.

Wireshark is the best FOSS for packet inspection, but you’ll have to test the efficacy of your solution on enterprise hardware directly if you’d like to know which ones it works for. You can virtualize many of these FW on Azure cloud for an hour and it won’t cost much, but you’d need to know what you’re doing.

You don’t need to buy server hardware, although it is nice. Depending on where you live you might be able to buy some decent second hand server hardware.

If it was me, I would buy new desktop hardware. Here is a fairly decent server that will do almost anything: Go for around 16 or 24 core CPU with high Ghz per core. 64GB or 128GB DDR5 RAM. Your most important factor will be storage speed. Go with NVMe drives. You have some choices here. JBOD: One or more independent M.2 key drives. Software RAID: Use your CPU to manage the RAID configuration. Hardware RAID: Use a RAID controller HBA card to manage the RAID (faster but single point of failure). Use RAID 1 for data protection (can lose one drive and still have all your data), RAID 0 (double the speed of your drives), RAID 10 (best of both but needs double the drives). Choose a motherboard that suits your choices.

Things to take into account: If you go with a RAID controller card, make sure that the PCIe lanes it uses can take the full speed of your RAID configuration or you might be bottlenecked there. Choosing an Intel or AMD CPU doesn’t make much difference. If you are not good with linux distros and don’t want a learning curve, stick with something like Ubuntu LTS 22.04 server. You most likely won’t need any graphics card, but it depends what you want to do.

You can run a minecraft server on an old laptop, so these specs might be overkill, I just put what I would get and it will do almost anything you want to do with it. An 8 core CPU, 16GB RAM, with 1 NVMe drive will also be capable of all your described needs just fine.

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You are so intelligent that you didn’t realize I’m not the same person who made the original comment.

Care to explain in more detail? Or are you going to just leave that low effort diss and ghost?

There is no way to know if a Lemmy instance is running the official FOSS software or a modified closed source version. But to answer your question, anyone can scrape the public data even now. Your private data like DMs would need a backdoor or a zero day exploit to scrape.

Potentially yes but then it becomes coders vs coders and FOSS doesn’t pay out the same salaries.

Additionally, closed source can leech all the good code from open source (or in an arms race, inspect their methods of detection) while open source has to make their own code. Its an unequal relationship.

If your Fediverse client is proprietary then no I don’t think it goes against FOSS social media. When there is corporate incentive for profit and all their stuff is closed source it makes sense why FOSS would want to block that.

Sure they can. But if the actions are automated on the side of the mega corps then a human admin stands no chance of stopping them. Bot vs human, the bot always wins. The only solution is closed instances, which sucks because that goes against the whole idea of FOSS social media.

Its not as easy as that. If you have open signup on your instance you would have a hard time stopping a user signing up, creating a community, and then filling it with synced data from another location. There is no instance to defederate. They are in all open instances.

One thing that people are not talking about is that it would be fairly trivial to create communities in the fediverse on open servers and then just sync a bunch of your corporate drivel from what ever company like meta into those communities. Its already happening. Reddit was the first one to do this. There are communities where every single link goes to Reddit here on Lemmy