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  • Moderation
  • Handling of illegal content
  • Server structure (system requirements, configs, layouts, etc.)
  • Community transparency/communication
  • Server maintenance (updates, scaling, etc.)

Cross-posts
  1. https://sh.itjust.works/post/27913098
  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    That is a cool feature, but that would mean that all of the web traffic would get returned to my local network (assuming that the server is set up on a remote VPS), which I really don’t want to have happen. There is also the added downtime potential cause by the added point of failure of the GPU being hosted in a much more volatile environment (ie not, for example, a tier 3 data center).

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      Not all web traffic, just the images to check. With any decent bandwidth, it shouldn’t be an issue for most. It also setup in such a way as to not cause a downtime if the checker goes down.

      • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        2 months ago

        Not all web traffic, just the images to check.

        Ah, yeah, my bad this was a lack of clarity on my part; I meant all image traffic.

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        It also setup in such a way as to not cause a downtime if the checker goes down.

        Oh? Would the fallback be that it simply doesn’t do a check? Or perhaps it could disable image uploads if the checker is down? Something else? Presumably, this would be configurable.

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        2 months ago

        With any decent bandwidth, it shouldn’t be an issue for most.

        It’s not only the bandwidth; I just fundamentally don’t relish the idea of public traffic being directed to my local network.

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            Yeah, that was poor wording on my part — what I mean to say is that there would be unvetted data flowing into my local network and being processed on a local machine. It may be overparanoia, but that feels like a privacy risk.

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              I don’t see how it’s a privacy risk since you’re not exposing your IP or anything. Likewise the images are already uploaded to your servers, so there’s no extra privacy risk for the uploader.

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                1 month ago

                “Security risk” is probably a better term. That being said, a security risk can also infer a privacy risk.

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                    For clarity, I’m not claiming that it would, with any degree of certainty, lead to incurred damage, but the ability to upload unvetted content carries some degree of risk. For there to be no risk, fedi-safety/pictrs-safety would have to be guaranteed to be absolutely 100% free of any possible exploit, as well as the underlying OS (and maybe even the underlying hardware), which seems like an impossible claim to make, but perhaps I’m missing something important.