I don’t know if five years is long enough for this to be a problem, or how long it would have needed to stay powered on five years ago in order to avoid the problem, but beware: Electrolytic capacitors that have been sitting for too long can behave badly when first powered up again.

I suggest you read up on the topic, and consider whether it makes sense to replace or reform the relevant capacitors, before you flip that switch.

A couple links that came up in a quick search, to get you started:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/56474/should-i-discard-my-inventory-of-old-electrolytic-capacitors

https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/protect-vintage-gear-with-easy-capacitor-reforming/

Lemmy generates RSS for every community. Look for the little wifi-like icon next to the sort-by selection box on the community’s main page.

Example: https://programming.dev/feeds/c/programming.xml?sort=New

You can append .atom to various GitHub URLs and get a link that will work in many RSS readers.

Example: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases.atom

Lots of blogs have RSS feeds, even if the links aren’t displayed. To check, view the page source in your browser, and look for the href URL in <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://example.com/feed/" />

Also:

• Simple sites allow visitors to stay safe from browser exploits by keeping scripts disabled.
• Simple sites pose very little threat of fingerprinting or other invasive tracking techniques.
• Simple sites can look beautiful, with a bit of well-crafted CSS.

The menu I wrote is built in HTML and CSS, the galleries digiKam exports for me do use Javascript but only to aid in navigating the galleries with the arrow keys, so everything loads instantly.

I love sites like this. Fully functional with plain HTML and CSS. JavaScript used only for optional enhancements. Fast, light, and trustworthy.

1. My first two points make a distinction between fingerprinting and more invasive attacks that JavaScript has enabled, including data exfiltration. You might not have encountered the latter, but that doesn’t make them the same thing. (Also, the analytics you refer to that are possible without scripts are far less invasive than what scripts can do, as is hinted in my second point.)
2. It’s not unrealistic, since scripts can be turned off by default and enabled selectively when needed. (But were that not the case, it would be reason to use them less, not more.)

You joke, but Matrix has been working on protocol design specifically for the Digital Markets Act. If iMessage were to be ruled subject to the DMA, it might mean Apple having to interoperate with (a future version of) Matrix.

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3345-opening-up-communication-silos-with-matrix-2-0-and-the-eu-digital-markets-act/

(The DMA part of that talk starts at 25:00.)

Reminds me of the time Facebook adopted another open protocol (XMPP), got lots of people using it, and then shut down their gateways to the open network.

It was both of them. I didn’t mention Google because this article is about Facebook/Meta.

There is a sentence in that article that, if taken out of context, could give the impression that one particular Seagate model is especially good. I’m guessing GP didn’t read the rest.

Many forms of abuse that we know today (and the harm they cause) came to be recognized relatively recently.

It makes me wonder what behaviors that are unremarkable now will be seen as horrible in future generations. I’m glad we’re learning, at least.