Adding certificates is a 5 step process: Settings -> Privacy and Security -> View Certificates -> Import -> Select file and confirm. That's on firefox at least, idk about chrome, but probably not significantly more complex. With screenshots, a small guide would be fairly easy to follow.
Don't get me wrong, I do get your point, but I don't feel like making users add client certs to their browser storage is more work than helping them every 2 weeks because they forgot their password or shit like that lol. At least, that's my experience. And the cool thing about client certs is they can't really break it, unlike passwords which they can forget, or change them because they forgot, just to then forget they changed it. Once it runs, it runs.
The "average user" shouldn't selfhost anything. Might sound mean or like gatekeeping, but it's the truth. It can be dangerous. There's a reason why I hire an electrician to do my house installation even tho I theoretically know how to do it myself - because I'm not amazingly well versed in it and might burn down my house, or worse, burn down other peoples houses.
People who are serious about selfhosting need to learn how to do it. Halfassing it will only lead to it getting breached, integrated into a botnet and being a burden on the rest of humanity.
And I kinda don’t want to know if complex passwords and low retries before an account gets locked out are enough.
I've created a custom cert that I verify within my nginx proxy using ssl_client_certificate and ssl_verify_client on. I got that cert on every device I use in the browser storage, additionally on a USB stick on my keychain in case I'm on a foreign or new machine. That is so much easier that bothering with passwords and the likes, and it's infinitely more secure.
People who don't care about security are the cancer of the selfhosting-world. Billions of devices are part of a botnet because lazy/stupid owners don't care about even the most basic shit, like changing the stock password. It's insane.
the country that invaded, couped and otherwise subjugated the majority of the world
Correct. That one. The chechen wars, the georgian wars, the war for transnistria, the invasion of ukraine ... and that is not even mentioned all their support in the middle east.
the country with almost countless military bases around the world
Yes. True aswell.
While america certainly has more, let's not pretend that russia has little or even none. They have a heavy military presence in africa, the middle east and the occupied regions south of russia.
the country of Native genocide
My man, after the georgian wars, there has been an ethnic cleansing of georgians in the affected regions, most noteably abkhazia and ossetia. Now, I don't know the total numbers and could only find total death tolls, but it's still an ethnic cleansing on a large scale.
gunboat diplomacy
True, russia isn't doing that - because they are just straightup invading the country instead.
three letter agency destabilisation
Yes, the FSB (the direct successor of the KGB) is certainly not engaging in any destabilization around the world. They would never bomb their own people and blame chechen insurgents for it so they can break the peace treaty and attack again ... ah wait. That's exactly what they did.
You’re dipped head to toe in propaganda
Nah. I know exactly that america is a shitty country, especially under trump. But when putting all their misdeeds side by side and looking at it from a neutral point of view, russia has been way more harmful to the world than america. That does not mean that america has been a net-positive btw - both are shit. But russia is way worse.
A few years ago, I would have agreed with that statement. But I've read people on lemmy unironically saying "Hitler was at least sorta right" and so I just can't really believe that anymore.
People's moral compass got seriously screwed over the past couple years. They hate america so much that they think every enemy of america is literally the reincarnation of jesus christ.
That's not just the fediverse, sadly. That's most of humanity. Everyone is complaining "Oh big tech is sooo bad I want to get away from those companies" but the second you suggest options they will say: "Oh no it's too inconvenient". Hell, you can get away from big tech today if you wanted to, but you want it to stay as convenient as it is. You can get a privacy respecting browser, install addons that block any tracking, get an old pixel, install graphene (via the extremely comfortable web installer that every dummy can use), install linux, use an alternative search engine like DDG or searxng and you're like 80% done.
People like to complain about big tech. But they don't want to do anything that inconveniences them. Online activism at it's finest.
I think it's moderation. If you have a differing opinion from the mainstream (as in what the moderation team thinks), you'll get banned from the current community and any other community that mod is moderating. It's absolutely insane.
That quite obviously leads to a chilling effect where people aren't willing to discuss anything controversial freely, like their political stance, unless of course it's the one mods have.
I like piefed and Lemmy, but this is by far the worst place for any political discussion
For example, a friend of mine is landscape gardener and he regularly uses AI to basically help customers understand what he plans and how it would look. I made him a small webapp where he can simply snap a pic and writes a prompt like: "To this garden, add a small, round base filled with pebbles in the middle, add a bench and two metal poles left and right". AI generates the pic, he rewrites the prompt a few times and once he's satisfied, can show it to the customer who then exactly knows how it looks. He used to do that with photoshop himself which took him a lot longer and customers were more often unhappy with the outcome because the picture didn't show it as clearly as the AI generated pictures do, so he had to do some adjustments, which obviously eats into the profits.
So yeah, there is actually a good amount of use cases. However, none of those use cases requires literal trillions being pumped into the AI industry.
Lmao no. That guy is just a fucking nutjob. It's nothing new really. The only thing compromised is his brain really.