For the record the domain provider I selected masks my info at no extra charge.

Huh. I hadn’t really thought too much about having to block that kind of traffic, I’ll add that to the list to think about.

Interesting. And yeah I’m aware of the federation issue, I was gonna use that to my advantage in terms of my plans to slow roll who to federate to to keep my bandwidth and storage allowances under control. I also know there is a script you can set up which will handle the initial contact to federate automatically.

I get it, but the whole point of this is for me to utilize hardware I already have. If I get to a point where it’s not working out I can always go that route but I want to learn on my local machine and I can always switch later.

Not complete randos, but yeah it’ll likely be a very minimal group of people if at all. And I’m not looking forward to modding so I doubt I’ll go the route if having a lot of comms in my instance, but we’ll see what happens.

Well in general I know I’m an idiot, so for the moment I’ll just stick with Lemmy instance feedback cause that’s at least easier for me to address without expensive therapy.

Good to know, I’ll take a look at those. Thanks!

32gb, not unlimited but good enough that I am willing to proceed, then limit bandwidth usage through restrictive federation.

Yeah that’s a future line item if I make it far enough, heh. It’s under the “who to federate with” bullet point.

Sure I am, but depending on how much of my free time goes into this we’ll see if it stays that way…

One of my earlier deployment plans had me using Ansible, then a bot aided revision had me remove it since I’m doing a single machine install and a fairly straightforward process. From my understanding I’ll get a better learning experience not using it so I figured that was better.

You sound like my wife.

Good point, that was purely a vanity issue: I have a specific name I want for my instance, and I wanted it to be as short a URL as possible so I was willing to spring for the domain. I’m not saying I’m doing all this just for the pun I have in mind, but I did spend far too long on that step of my deployment plan.

If at some point in the near future you step outside and hear a weird screaming sound echoing around the globe, that’s me.

Good question, mostly just cause I use Lemmy so wanted to stick with what I know more of at this point.

Well I had a big lunch, my insulin pump couldn’t keep up.

I worked at the Overstock home office back in the day. Patrick Byrne was nuts long before he hitched his wagon to Trump, and did way too many drugs in the office.

I need to correct myself. The messages would be admissible either way having nothing to do with hearsay. The messages are direct, documented evidence on their phones. As you pointed out the statements made (or not made) in the car, absent video, audio, or a third party, could only have been available from the 2 parties statements and therefore needed both parties to be available in court to be entered.

No. Hearsay is when person A claims person B made a statement when person B is not available in court to be cross examined. The messages were admitted as evidence and were a main point in the defenses’ argument. They were admissible because the messages were between the 2 parties to the lawsuit, therefore both were available to be questioned.

“Ward consistently maintained that the encounter was “wholly consensual”. His defense highlighted that the two exchanged friendly messages afterward and that the woman gave no indication she wanted to leave the vehicle during their interaction.”