try to play normal movie/audio from that exact terminal session

You can see from the errors that mpv is unable to find your sound card so it won’t play any sound not just movies played over ssh

The upgrade itself is never a problem.

The real problem is when your server is running an old software that breaks after the update.

For example I had an old php/drupal site and it broke after upgrading debian because the upgrade also updated php to a newer version that is not supported by that old version of drupal.

Run this command

grep -ir ask ~/.config/k*

see if there is any relevant file/line or just past the output somewhere and provide a link

isn’t this something you could just do anyways, with your own instance?

Yes

I don’t like the concept of users not being credible unless they’re from a well-known instance.

Neither do I but it is what it is.

Same thing with email servers. I could create my own email server and fake entire conversation with anyone in my inbox/sent folders but I can’t do it on a server I don’t control like gmail.

Also couldn’t this be mitigated by having something like a “this user used to be xyz@uvw” tag on their profile

It’s a good idea but it would need to support multiple migrations. (user x migrated from a@instance migrated from b@instance migrated from c@instance …)

or you can just turn it off from settings

I agree. This could be abused.

1. create your own instance
2. manually update your instance’s database to make it look like your account is so old with tons of comments and posts
3. migrate your account to another instance.

Now your 1 week old account appear as a 10 year old account with 100s of contributions and 1000s of upvotes.

This could be mitigated by having migration tool validate each comment/post against the data obtained from the instance the comment/post was placed at.

But this is too much work and probably still not fool proof

If you create a new account you always start fresh regardless.

OP is asking why there is no mechanism for migrating an account available for those who need this feature.

Humans infested every place including oceans honestly

I am in the same boat but I am aware that it will eventually replace me whether I helped or not :(

You’re very welcome!

Firefox has few tricks to prevent finger printing

1. There is a built in finger printing protection which helps a little bit but not perfect
2. There is containers: Putting different websites into different containers isolate them from one another so for example opening a website selling toys in one container would prevent your facebook account that is running in different container from knowing about this fact.
3. There is an extension called NoScript. This allow you to do what you want (block javascript) but since - as many others said - 99% of website won’t work without javascript, u could selectively allow certain javascript from certain domains while blocking others. By default all javascript are blocked but then u test enabling some to see what is the absolute minimum for certain website to work. NoScript remembers your selections so you only need to do it once per website.

Abdul Nassir of Egypt did that in the 1950s, didn’t end well

Ironically those are all bug fixes.

“But it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.”

does this also block blind people who depend on an e-reader?

what is the problem with saying: is this your flashlight?

when you try to connect to a VPN you send certain request. firewalls could read that request, determine its an attempt to connect to a VPN and block it.

wireguard protocol is easy to identify and block. wireguard was designed for efficiency and speed not for circumventing censorship

There an Arab historian called Maqrizi who lived in the 15th century. He wrote about south Egyptians monasteries saying: "… and most Christians of these monasteries the knowladge of Southern Coptic dialect [ Egyptian language ] followed by Northern Coptic dialect and Christian women of the south and their children almost speak nothing but southern Egyptian and have complete knowledge of Roman language (he means Greek since Romans in Egypt spoke Greek).

In addition to that many christian prayers are almost entirely in Greek. Its possible that really simple people like farmers may have not spoken Greek but most Egyptians had to understand it since it was the legal language of the country

Exactly this. Most Egyptians could speak Greek by the time Romans ruled Egypt and continued to learn and speak Greek until Arab conquest when Greek eventually became irrelevant