I don't understand the purpose of some selfhosting
Selfhosting is useful when you either need a lot of storage or a lot of processing power. For example, Kiwix is useful to selfhost on a server because a lot of its content can take up terabytes of storage, which a phone may not have. LLMs are also useful to selfhost because they require a degree of processing power that, again, a phone may not have.
In both cases, there is also a need for perpetual access. If you simply hosted an LLM on your home computer, it wouldn't be very useful to access from your phone since your computer won't be running all the time. So, a separate always-on server is needed.
However, there are some selfhosted software that I don't see a use for. For example, Immich. Immich requires to be run on a server to function, but a lot of (or even all) of its functions are things that could reasonably done entirely on-device. Aves combined with some automatic backup solution such as Nextcloud gets (from what I can tell) most of the functionality Immich offers. Obviously, some features like AI image tagging are missing, but you get the point. AI image tagging is also something that could be run on-device as well, since it's mostly lightweight (iPhones are capable of it). Having a setup like that also comes with the benefit of automatic backups being completely optional, rather than required.
There's no reasonable need for extra storage or extra processing power needed for that use case, from what I can tell. (Disclaimer: I haven't actually used Immich before, so this is speculation. I apologize if I'm missing something obvious) There's a lot of other selfhosted tools like spotDL which have a selfhosted web UI, but no GUI that can be installed outside of a web browser.
I guess my question is why there are so many selfhosted tools that unnecessarily require being run on a separate device. I do understand the legitimate use cases some of them have, but others seem better off on-device airgapped. This especially became an issue trying to find a notes app for Android that requires no account and runs fully locally, or an RSS reader that loads from the device itself. I found Joplin and Feeder or Read You as the software for each of those. I don't like "server-based" selfhosting for things that could be done from the device itself.
I'm sorry if this turned into a rant. If someone could help me understand, I would appreciate that very much.
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Secret 'BADASS' Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones
Secret ‘BADASS’ Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones
Britain and Canada spied on the location, apps, and device identifiers of smartphone users by piggybacking on ad and analytics software.Micah Lee (The Intercept)
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Problems with my domain, docker, caddy and thingsboard. Need help networking/routing!
Hi!
I have a server with static ip, that runs docker with caddy and thingsboard (iot dashboard).
I have my domain, that points to the servers ip (both ipv4 and ipv6). (I tried using with "www" and with wilcard "*" in the A and AAAA records)
Thingsboard can be reached in the browser via ip:8080
, or domain.com:8080
(or with the wildcard "*" set in DNS records with (anything).domain.com:8080
). It is set up this way by the creators, where i got the compose file (without caddy) guide here. So i guess no routing is done via caddy.
the caddyfile looks like this:
thingsboard.domain.com {
tls internal
reverse_proxy thingsboard:8080
}
Thingsboard cant be reached via
thingsboard.domain.com
which i would be expecting with this config. Below is the compose file.They are all part of the same docker network (they get listed when i inspect the network).
some specific questions:
- how do i have to setup my dns records, so that all requests to any subdomain get send to caddy and i can do all the routing (from the subdomain to the service) in caddy? What am i missing in the caddyfile
- can i deactivate the port from the thingsboard container, so it cant be reached via the port from "outside" only from inside the docker network, by caddy?
- why am i struggling so much with this basic docker and networking stuff "docker is easy, you should try it" 😁
Thanks a lot for reading, i hope someone can help! I dont know what to search for to get this working, networking stuff is still a blurr.
Here is the docker compose file:
services:
caddy:
image: caddy:latest
container_name: caddy
restart: unless-stopped
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
ports:
- "80:80"
- "443:443"
- "443:443/udp"
volumes:
- /srv/caddy/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
- /srv/caddy/site:/srv
- caddy_data:/data
- caddy_config:/config
networks:
- caddy_network
kafka:
restart: unless-stopped
image: bitnami/kafka:3.8.1
container_name: kafka
ports:
- 9092:9092 #to localhost:9092 from host machine
- 9093 #for Kraft
- 9094 #to kafka:9094 from within Docker network
environment:
ALLOW_PLAINTEXT_LISTENER: "yes"
KAFKA_CFG_LISTENERS: "OUTSIDE://:9092,CONTROLLER://:9093,INSIDE://:9094"
KAFKA_CFG_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: "OUTSIDE://localhost:9092,INSIDE://kafka:9094"
KAFKA_CFG_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: "INSIDE:PLAINTEXT,OUTSIDE:PLAINTEXT,CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT"
KAFKA_CFG_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: "INSIDE"
KAFKA_CFG_AUTO_CREATE_TOPICS_ENABLE: "false"
KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: "1"
KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR: "1"
KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR: "1"
KAFKA_CFG_PROCESS_ROLES: "controller,broker" #KRaft
KAFKA_CFG_NODE_ID: "0" #KRaft
KAFKA_CFG_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: "CONTROLLER" #KRaft
KAFKA_CFG_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: "0@kafka:9093" #KRaft
networks:
- caddy_network
volumes:
- /srv/thingsboard/kafka-data:/bitnami
mytb:
restart: unless-stopped
container_name: thingsboard
image: "thingsboard/tb-postgres"
depends_on:
- kafka
ports:
- "8080:9090"
- "1883:1883"
- "7070:7070"
- "5683-5688:5683-5688/udp"
environment:
TB_QUEUE_TYPE: kafka
TB_KAFKA_SERVERS: kafka:9094
networks:
- caddy_network
volumes:
- /srv/thingsboard/.mytb-data:/data
- /srv/thingsboard/.mytb-logs:/var/log/thingsboard
\#general networks
networks:
caddy_network:
driver: bridge
ipam:
config:
- subnet: 172.20.0.0/24
\#general Volumes:
volumes:
caddy_data:
caddy_config:
kafka-data:
driver: local
Installing ThingsBoard using Docker (Linux or Mac OS)
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Yes, it's pinned on his twitter page
Petro is cool, he was an ex-guerrilla fighter. He had ties with the 19th of April Movement which was a Bolivarian, Socialist and Rojista (Left-Wing Nationalist Socdem Military Dictator of Colombia) guerrilla and political party.
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Trump, a mi no me gusta mucho viajar a los EEUU, es un poco aburridor, pero confieso que hay cosas meritorias, me gusta ir a los barrios negros de Washington, allí ví una lucha entera en la capital de los EEUU entre negros y latinos con barricadas, q…Nitter
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Wow, incredibly beautiful. Get his ass, Petro!
There was more: peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/26…
And more: Tremendously embarrassing surrender.
US suspends tariffs after Colombia agrees to deportation flights
Hours earlier, President Trump had announced 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods.Ian Aikman (BBC News)
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US-American fascism isn’t new for Latin America. I’m not surprised that there are good people there who can recognize and name it. Kudos to him for stating it so plainly and not trying to soften it.
That said, I’m going nuts here- any ideas which miller?
"We accept these people, but we will no longer do business with the US" would have been nicer.
The coup would come swiftly after that..
Sweden seizes vessel suspected of 'sabotage' in undersea data cable rupture
Sweden seizes vessel suspected of 'sabotage' in undersea data cable rupture
An fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and a Swedish island was damaged.The Associated Press (ABC News)
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Some background about the preliminary suspect, m/s "Vezhen".
- not an old hulk, but a relatively new ship
- registered on Malta
- operated by a company in Bulgaria
- owned by a company in China
Additional source (Reuters): Sweden opens sabotage probe into Baltic undersea cable damage
A source about how the ship maneuvered near the cable.
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P.S. A secondary suspect has been identified. "Pskov" (name implies that it's a Russian ship) had its transponder off while crossing the cable.
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The primary suspect was the right one: Vezhen has damage to its anchor. Swedish authorities have boarded it.
Finnish "Yleisradio" reports here that the owner company admits causing the damage: "anchor fell down in harsh conditions".
The "harsh conditions" here in Estonia, about 300 km from the scene, include a wind speed of 1.2 meters per second. 😀 On an image from the scene, courtesy of YLE, the sea is flat like a glass table. That's some harsh conditions...
Vezhen-aluksen omistaja myöntää videolla: Ankkuri putosi kovassa merenkäynnissä
Vaurioitunut kaapeli kulkee Latvian Ventspilsin ja Ruotsin Gotlannin välillä. Seuraamme tässä artikkelissa tapahtumien etenemistä.Anu Pekonen (Yle Uutiset)
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Hollywood is about to face its greatest enemy ever: itself
Last year we saw Mickey Mouse going public domain and now every year more and more talkie movies are going public domain too. The talkies began in 1928, and I would say they got very close to what we have today in about 1934 or 35.
That means that every year people will have hundreds of "new" releases on public domain, making paying for watching new movies unnecessary. One thing is preferring the new movies when you have to pay both for new and old movies. Another thing is paying for new films when you have hundreds of old movies as good as the new ones (or better) for free.
I don't know about you, but I could spend the rest of my life watching public domain classics, no problem. For instance, I read a dozen books last year, only two of them were less than a 100 years old.
I would say Hollywood is in a pinch right now, something that will make them miss the days when their biggest enemy was piracy.
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The Count of Monte Cristo is excellent. No movie has done it justice. No movie has come close to doing it justice.
The Three Musketeers Saga is very, very long, and very, very inconsistent in quality.
Moby Dick is really good. Also makes for a good movie, because there's a lot of stuff about whaling that nobody cares about anymore.
Start with those, I expect a report when you return, along with an essay about what you did during the summer.
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I expect a report when you return, along with an essay about what you did during the summer.
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Thanks for the recommendations! Haven't read any of these books and after reading some reviews, I'm intrigued.
If you liked the details in Moby Dick about whaling, you may also be interested in this great BBC series I've discovered a few weeks ago: Inside nature's giants where they dissect large animals and explain their anatomy and evolution. There are also two episodes of stranded whales being dissected ;)
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White Nights - Dostoevsky
The Demons - Dostoevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
Polikushka - Tolstoy
Short Stories Collection - Tolstoy
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Trial - Kafka
In Search of Lost Time - Vol. 1 - Proust
Well, I read around 20 books last year and neither was older than 50 years old. I've also seen a few movies and neither was older than 34 years old.
If I was watching a movie made in 1934, I'd be bored as hell. My point kinda is: don't assume people have the same preferences you do.
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There's no need for most people to agree with me. Even if 10% of Netflix subscribers decided to cancel it and move to classic movies, that would already be a crisis for them.
And don't forget that humans have flock mentality. If this gets a little popular, it will be easy for it to explode. Just look at Nintendo now trying to contain the retro gaming boom and emulation.
Next ten years we will see classics led by John Wayne, James Stewart and Kirk Douglas going public, and that would be enough for millions to drop the new so-so movie stars.
None of that makes any sense. An old book and a new book aren't different in the way a rotary phone and a smartphone are. They are functionally the same object: text on paper.
You could have, for example, a story about someone stranded on an island, and the era it was written in would make almost no difference at all because technology doesn't have any bearing on the story, and we haven't changed as a species. The culture of the author would influence things, but that's true even of media today since we don't all share the same culture.
Old media can also be very illuminating when it does affect the story because it can teach you something about the era in which it was made. You might think to yourself, "Gosh, people used to be able to feed and house their families on a single paycheck? Why can't we do that today?"
And yeah, having stuff in black and white is less visually interesting, but I'm not going to rule out something I might find enjoyable just because of that. I watched quite a few old sitcoms in my childhood that I enjoyed just as much as the modern cartoons, and I still enjoy some of those cartoons today alongside modern TV.
Do you think the Home Alone sequels are better than the original?
Well, you don't really have to understand, that was my whole point - different people like different things.
For me it's mostly the pacing and the horrible acting in old movies.
Acting techniques improved massively during the XXth century, so stuff that relies on that (basically anything but slapstick Comedy and mindless Action) will feel less believable, which impacts mostly things from the 60s and earlier.
Then there are the Production values: the scenarios in early XXth century films were basically Theatre stages whilst more recent stuff can be incredibly realistic (pay attention to the details in things like clothing and the objects and furniture in indoor scenes in period movies) and Sci-Fi benefited massive from the early XXIst century techniques for physically correct 3D rendering and Mocap techniques so there is a disjunction in perceived realism between even the early Star Wars Movies and something like The Mandalorian.
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Method Acting (which is a pretty powerful Acting technique for getting actors to genuinely feel the emotions of the character) dates back to the 60s in Movies (it dates back even longer to Stanislavski in 19th century Russia, but its popularity really took off mid 20th century) so before that actors were just faking it whilst after that it will be more and more them reacting genuinely to imaginary circumstances (in terms of the audience it means we will actually empathise with what's hapenning to the character because the emotions on display are genuine).
So the quality of the acting in the kind of Films that are now coming into the Public Domain will be lower than what we are use to (though in stuff like Comedy and certain kinds of Action it's seldom noticeable).
And this is before we even go into the quality of the Production (in audience terms, how believable are the scenarios).
I doubt Hollywood will be threatened by this for at leat a couple of decades.
Another thing is paying for new films when you have hundreds of old movies as good as the new ones (or better) for free.
Yeah, no. Movies made in the past, say, 20 years, are WILDLY different from the ones made 90+ years ago. I'm not talking about technology, image quality or special effects, I'm talking about cinematography (shot composition and camera angles), acting and the kinds of stories that they're trying to tell. Some stories are classics and timeless, but not all of them are, many are a direct byproduct of the historical context in which they were created, thus serving as interesting glances into the past.
If all you end up watching are these movies, you will get alienated from the world you actually live in. For instance, I bet there isn't one of those public domain movies that portrays native americans as anything other than uncivilized, tent-living indians; or any movie that attempts to portray, even somewhat respectfully, the struggles they had to endure against european descended settlers. Movies that don't shy away from showing some grim, dark realities? Not gonna be in public domain for another couple decades.
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Basically nobody opposes deporting actual criminals
Deportation as a mechanism of punishment for state and federal crimes is generally bad policy. It is excessively draconian (it effectively renders them homeless, unemployed, and indefinitely denied their family and friends for... what? Too many parking tickets? Working construction without a license? Illegally camping?) for some. And entirely too lenient (deporting hardened criminals and cartel leaders like serial rapists or murderers effectively guarantees their release in states that can't afford to jail them) for others.
That's why we'll often extradite gang leaders into the US from overseas, when the crimes are severe enough. Its also why "sanctuary cities" regularly look the other way for petty offenses in order to avoid the mass economic disruption of ICE interference in municipal matters.
Injecting immigration penalties into the civil justice system fucks with all the basic functions of local courts and prosecutors. It raises the stakes on minor offenses and gives the worst offenders a get-out-of-jail-free card.
All that is assuming you even have somewhere to send undocumented criminals. For people who are functionally stateless - migrants who came over as children without papers, refugees from countries that cannot repatriate them or effectively no longer exist, Native Americans who the Feds don't want to recognize as legal US residents - the ability to deport is little more than
Penal Transportation. Nevermind how it routinely violates the 5th and 8th amendment, it mostly just means bribing a small, bankrupt satrap of the US to accept planeloads of random people, often without so much as a proper conviction.
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it effectively renders them homeless, unemployed, and indefinitely denied their family and friends for… what? Too many parking tickets? Working construction without a license? Illegally camping?
the u, s and a are actually deporting people over misdemeanors?
Racist Laken Riley Act would lead to anti-immigration crackdown
Immigration and Customs Enforcement worksite in Canton, Mississippi. Credit: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (public domain) The first bill that could be passed by the 119th Congress oEstevan Hernandez, Maristella Tuazon and Victor Urquiza (Liberation News)
It's really simple if you have a basic, or very tiny, ability to think about it for two seconds. Let's see if I can help. Criminals being deported are a huge problem for any receiving county, you see, they often don't have any legal pretext to imprison or arrest them, if they committed crimes in anther nation, it's unlikely the can collect evidence, or call witnesses to a legal process, also, it's quite rare to have laws that apply to actions that occurred outside all legaly boundaries. It's it illegal if an American goes to a county they don't have documentation to be in, then commit crimes outside the US against other people without any way for the US to detect or prove these actions? So if Colombia has an American who kills dozens of people in their country, and is charged and sentanced to life without parole, and then the decide YEARS after the fact to put them on a plane to LAX and throw them off the plane with no other effort, do you want to let that plane land? That's fucking insane. The solution to this problem already exists. Instead of being a fascist stupid fuck, you can create an extradition process where we can accept the Colombian legal process and transfer them ourselves to a US prison without dumping serial killers at an airport on their own.
Being a threatening authoritarian isn't solving this problem, and thinking every country in the world will simply accept people who have been convicted an sentanced in another nation is fucking stupid. And thinking they can't manage to exist outside US economic good will it's also stupid. If he think burning every ally in Latin America is going to hurt them more than us, he's as dumb as everyone already knows.
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We don't actually know what is going on. We had a system that favored protections for people presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Now Trump is moving so fast with a process that is not transparent and a rhetoric that is hostile and unsympathetic towards all immigrants. People are understandably suspicious that the immigrants were given a fair chance to defend their legal presence in the USA.
Shit, I won't be surprised when legal us born citizens get deported in a mix up.
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Shit, I won't be surprised when legal us born citizens get deported in a mix up.
They're already rounding up native Americans in these groups. It's only a matter of time until they start deporting randomly to other countries because ICE was already an incompetent organization and has done that previously numerous times, speeding things up just means more fuckups. Which is of course, the plan. Because it's not about illegals, or immigrants, it's about non-whites.
Because we're not entitled to force some other country to take them!
WTF did you think the answer was‽
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Stop using that label as an excuse to treat people as subhuman.
The state is rounding up people en masse and shipping them off to a foreign country. This process took a week. Due process is not present. This is some straight-up Nazi shit, and if you can't at least mutter "fuck that," then please shut up.
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Yeah, why shouldn't we send all Republicans to another country? Or how about those criminals guilty of being Jewish, or black, or gay? Or how about the crime of "looking too Mexican," like the US did to US citizens during Operations Wetback 1 & 2.
Also, love how you even say "some of them are criminals," not all of them. Meaning that you're okay with gathering up some amount of innocent people and sending them to a different country with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
And let's get this clear, sending someone back to their "home" country without a plan or an actual home to go to should be a criminal act. These people are often productive members of US society who pay more taxes than Aotus. They already have homes and family in the US.
This is beyond despicable and crosses into the the realm of pure evil.
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The best middle-men in this situation are the ones sidestepping the tariffs entirely.
Not like Colombia doesn't already have a rich history of smuggling high-demand US contraband over the border, but it will be weird to start getting all my coffee shipped by way of Langley.
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The best middle-men in this situation are the ones sidestepping the tariffs entirely.
Can't wait to get me some bootleg coffee beans
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So his default for Canada is this energy measure?
Go fuck your self trump.
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Once again the orange toddler throws a tantrum and gets his way.
His cult is right about one thing - he gets shit done. It's horrible shit, but he gets it done.
And I will keep pointing out that getting shit done is not fucking shit up and making things worse. That is just making a shitty mess.
I don't care for the opinions of his supporters mainly because they have no real opinions. One Trumper I ran into today said good thing Drump is a making Federal workers go back to work because they are waiting on their SSD determination.
You can't make this level of brain dead up.
"Criminals they forced into the United States" = "Invasion"
"Repatriation" != "Deportation"
Repatriation is what happens when you return a POW to their country of origin. Deportation is when you return a criminal to their country of origin.
POWs are not entitled to access to the criminal justice system. They can be held indefinitely without charges, or returned to their country of origin, without judicial oversight. Since deportation is a judicial process, POWs are not subject to deportation.
POWs are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of US law; Trump is arguing that the children of "invader-immigrants" can't be citizens.
True. I should have been more clear: Deportation requires the involvement of the judicial branch. Repatriation has no such requirement. "Repatriation" is a more generic term for returning to one's country of origin.
I did not mean to suggest that "repatriation" was exclusive to POWs, and I apologize if I gave that impression. I meant to distinguish between judicial and non-judicial.
POWs are not entitled to access to the criminal justice system.
That's... Not true.
POWs do not need to be charged with a crime. Indeed, under international treaties and laws governing armed conflict, POWs generally can't be criminally charged for simply participating in hostilities.
They can be held without charge until the conclusion of hostilities. They are not entitled to the protections afforded to the accused, because they are not accused. They are not entitled to access to the criminal justice system.
By describing them as "invaders", he is suggesting that immigrants be treated as enemy combatants.
They are criminals, because they were here illegally. It would be different if they were legal migrants, but they're not.
And it wasn't an overreaction, it was a warning, meant to bend Colombia's will. And it worked, immediately.
Yeah, I just saw the news that Colombia gave in.
Trump is going all in. He's reverting to the 19th century way of strong arming other countries over petty things. He's reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.
He’s reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.
It never went away...
I suppose, but we're talking about international diplomacy. And a modern one at that.
Trump's strong arming sounds so 19th century though. His open threat of taking Panama canal, Canada, Greenland, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico is so manifest destiny.
Trump’s strong arming sounds so 19th century though
20th century too! If a government didn't do what we wanted them to do, we just couped their government, and installed a dictator.
I mean, how do you think Sadaam Hussein got into power?
You missed the point where the people were cuffed the whole flight, were dehydrated and transported in military planes like cattle. That's why those planes were rejected.
The president send his own jet to get these people back because they are people not cattle.
So he saw these people were transported like cattle, dehydrated and mistreated, and instead of letting them get off the planes, he's sent them back in those same planes so he can retrieve them with normal planes?
Unless I am missing something, I feel like you'd want those people to not fly in a plane like that again.
Either the plane didn't take off in the first place, case in which rejecting it would make sense.
Or those planes landed in Colombia, then sent back so they can be brought in proper planes, extending the suffering for no reason.
The planes (there were two) landed in Brasil. I don't know if that's where they came from in the first place.
A note: Usually these people are brought back using normal commercial flights. Only this time they used military planes.
I see. I thought they landed in Colombia but were sent back to the U.S.
Thank you for the clarification
Seems like Trump's strategy is to now bully countries into getting what they want. "I want them out!!! I want Canada!!! I want Greenland!!!
He's basically the equivalent of the kid that flips over the monopoly table when someone bought a property before him.
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What do they care about the exchange value if they're not exchanging anything with the US?
Adjusted for PPP, the Russian economy is the 4th biggest in the world, experiencing a boom after the start of the war. Largest than any in Europe.
Everyone knows the USD is artificially inflated and has been for decades, propped up by oil and the threat of violence. Y'all gonna learn when this mother of all bubbles pops.
The problem with that is that anti-Russian sentiment is highest in the East, so there's no way they will break off.
Also Russia is not China, they barely have anything to give in a trade relationship. Also, the Ukraine invasion is scrounging up bad memories in most of the member states, so there's that.
In Hungary, arguably the country closest ideologically to Russia, EU membership has had a consistent 70-80% approval. They won't break off.
Also, the EU is designed to protect EU business interests against international ones, so they will go where the money is, and under Trump, that may cease to be the US.
It's highest in the North-East, lowest in the South East.
There's currently no direct land connection between Russia and Moldava/Slovakia/Romania/Hungary,
and without it, there's no potential protection.
Georgia is already slowly turning around.
Russia is an ally of China. What they have to give is the same as the EU (Germany) has to give with the US as their ally.
So far the EU has done everything in power to not protect EU business interests and favor US business interests over anything else.
Are you from the Eastern EU?
It's not like that. The EU invests insane, Marshall-plan amounts of money into its Eastern member states, and it very visibly goes into infrastructure. Even stuff that is stolen by corruption is just money that goes into shit nobody needs, but still gets.
Every second playgorund, every motorway and new line of rail, every scientific lab and every second pub has a big-ass sign next to it saying "Built for a kajillion Euros by the EU".
Relations with the US are also independent from relations to Germany/France/the EU, especially since the US doesn't like to deal with the entire EU at once, since they can't flex their muscles as much. The US also doesn't really understand it, look at the new chip restrictions cutting the free market zone in half. All that also goes for China by the way.
Russia is simply incapable of giving a better deal than the EU. It can't afford and is not credible to even want to spend as much as the EU. Also, Estonian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish are official languages in Brussels, would they also be in Moscow? It's just not comparable. And nobody needs Russia to trade with China. In fact, the big BnR rail line China/Serbia/Hungary is doing - the one that sparked the current protests that might mean the fall of the Russia/China aligned Serbian government - specifically avoids Russia. Most of current Chinese trade actually is mediated by the Netherlands and Romania/Bulgaria.
All I'm saying is that from the Eastern European viewpoint, if the EU/US and China/Russia are both a bundle deal - I believe they are not - then everyone will choose the one that doesn't have Russia in it. If it's not, the US and China are not necessarily different as a trading partner.
Trump is actually doing a good thing, Now tye global south will rally against USA
& US citizens will get to feel like what it's like to be Iraq
When did you submit the marriage visa? Also congrats! My wife is also Colombian and these last few days have been a fun time
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Ironically, so does your comment. You mean actively and forcibly ejecting refugees.
The economic vs. refugee character of the people he ejected is unclear AFAIK, though.
Oh, negative morally.
How does it do that? These were Colombian citizens being moved unwillingly, not refugees.
Saying the president is already unpopular and now he won’t take these people makes it sound like taking refugees would boost his popularity
Trump however by doing this shows he thinks taking refugees is a bad thing
Forcibly relocating refugees doesn’t make them no longer refugees, it just makes you (the one relocating them) a bad person/in violation of international law
I don't think Finkelstein's quote takes into account a severe narcissist.
In the narcissistic mind, the only right is something that benefits them, and the only wrong is something that harms them.
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Remember the whole secret code involving narwhals and bacon that some of Reddit leaned into while others cringed? And a good portion weren't even aware of it despite using Reddit.
Though that's more like 16 years ago now I think.
I never told anyone I used Reddit, but I've def told many about Lemmy (within my foss propaganda I regularly administer upon the unsuspecting, if need be at the urinals).
(Still won't ever share my username, I don't like people like that)
I started using Reddit in 2008 (kill me). One of the of the defining traits of the site at the time was the fact everything was anonymous. It was considered taboo to expose your Reddit persona to your irl circles. Hell, I still don't have an email associated with my Reddit account.
It's been interesting, and a little tragic, to watch that attitude erode over the years and then see Reddit itself encourage the idea of creating a unique identity to cash in.
Lemmy is way more like the original Reddit & I'll actually admit to using Lemmy, even though no one knows wtf I'm on about.
Yeah, was on Reddit almost daily since prob around 2008 too, up till only a bit over two years ago.
The anonymity within one account(name) is great, don't need or want more for interaction online.
It's great for introverted social interaction.
(Still won’t ever share my username, I don’t like people like that)
someone in IRL asked me my username once, and I thought it was so weird. Of course, I didn't tell them.
I only mention Lemmy as a caution, like what to avoid, while I’m mentioning other fediverse social media..
Because I’m a woman and most of the people I know who want social media alternatives are also women, and I’m not subjecting them to this shitshow. I like them too much to bring them here.
I read a similar sentiment yesterday in a thread about apparent misogyny on lemmy. As someone affected, what would you suggest be done to improve the situation?
I must say I have rarely observed the issue myself and if so the offenders generally get down voted to hell and eventually mod deleted. Though I am of course a dude and not frequenting the women centric spaces, so my perception is definitely skewed.
I don’t really think there’s anything that can be done other than policing your own and letting the platform grow.
It’s a whole vibe thing, not just obvious stuff.
For example, whenever there were questions aimed at women (hey ladies, what’s your hair routine? Sort of thing), it’s nothing but a bunch of men spouting off about what their wives or girlfriends do, and maybe a few actual women, but their comments always ended up buried. Nobody actually wants that “the woman in my life does this, I think..” sort of input at all, except other men (which unfortunately is the vast majority of the platform, so those “as a man” comments get heavily upvoted, even when they are obviously full of complete shit). It drowns out the few female voices that actually are around. And if you correct some dude in a post for women voices, about something men typically know nothing about, you’ll get heavily downvoted for it. Not at all welcoming.
I know we have some strong transfem comms, and I’m all for it because all women are women, but the experience of those women is wildly different from cis women, and a lot of the memes and stuff coming from those comms are sort of… cis-excluding and often very off-putting. Which is sort of the only fem representation on here.
It’s just not friendly for women. And so so many things need to change before it really is.
Thanks for your insights, now that you mention it I have noticed the tendency for husbands of women to chime in instead of the wives themselves quite a bit. I didn't realize it was that ubiquitous.
I will try to make a conscious effort to pay attention to these tendencies you describe, and also thank you for sticking it out 💪
There used to be, but it was mostly men commenting, and mostly men upvoting, which drowns out any actual women’s voices that may have been there.
Pretty sure all the woman-focused subs have shut down.
My issue was them asking what social media I used.
I sometimes said Reddit cause saying nothing sometimes got me perplexed looks.
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Trump imposes tariffs, sanctions on Colombia after it refuses deportation flights
Petro said even though there were 15,660 Americans without legal immigration status in Colombia, he would never carry out a raid to return handcuffed Americans to the United States.
"We are the opposite of the Nazis," he wrote, in a jab at Trump.
Mexico also refused a request last week to let a U.S. military aircraft land with migrants.
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I would beg to differ. We have a lot to lose. We get millions of dollars for our armed forces and anti drug forces to fight the guerrillas (narco terrorists). If Petro keeps pushing, Trump could take that away. We are going through an increase of violence in the Catacumbo region. That means investors are already nervous. This issue with the US government could affect our economy even more. As always innocent folks will get caught in the middle of the armed conflict and any terrorist acts. We also have a ton of export trade with the US obviously starting with coffee, but lots of other industries (flowers, cacao, fruits, etc.)
Anyway, we could get fucked if Petro and Trump can't work things out. I don't expect they will, since they both behave like children.
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Colombia Agrees to Accept Deportation Flights After Trump Threatens Tariffs
The country’s leader, Gustavo Petro, backed down after a clash with President Trump, which started when Mr. Petro turned back U.S. military planes carrying deportees.Genevieve Glatsky (The New York Times)
Nobody's ever gonna trust the US ever again after Trump. Guy just thinks he can bully entire countries to his will.
It's a showing of everything that's wrong with american exceptionalism...
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That we elected him twice, not even consecutively, means that we can effectively never be trusted in our current state. Even if a psychopath leader is voted out, the American people are stupid enough to vote him back in once our goldfish memories fade.
May Europe and Latin America find their strength to be the democracies the world needs. The US, always a flawed example, can no longer be relied on even in matters of self-interest.
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Even if a psychopath leader is voted out, the American people are stupid enough to vote him back in once our goldfish memories fade.
Or a different psychopath leader doing and saying the exact same things, but: "The Republican party have learned their lesson, they've changed!"
The random policies is the thing for me.
Talking (and sometimes going through with it) about pulling out of random international agreements and organisations like the Paris climate agreement and WHO. Then talking about invading other countries (including allies) and imposing tariffs on everything and everyone.
Also, both times that he got in, it seems like he had the previous administration’s achievements as his todo list for things to undo.
It’s like dealing with a whole new country every four or eight years.
Guy just thinks he can bully entire countries to his will.
He leads the US. He was handed the most powerful military in the world and one of the most influencial economies.
He absolutely can bully whomever he wants.
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"Can" does not mean "should".
America has a long history of bullying Central and South America. The current situation is unfortunate, but not entirely surprising.
Im just not surprised by anything these days. Whatever is the worst thing I can think of happening is nearly always an underestimate.
The United States is just an embarrassment on every level.
Colombia folded.
Edit: People are down-voting an objective fact?
He forgot the tagline to actually affecting American exceptionalism as a goal:
"Speak softly and carry a big stick"
Doing this bombastic stuff just makes him / the government look weak.
Note that I'm not subscribing to American exceptionalism, but describing past efforts to achieve / demonstrate it.
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Trump speaks biggly and carries a soft stick.
Trump thinks tariffs are some great threat and yeah they cut into US imports but countries will just export to other countries instead. Meanwhile the US implodes from lack of goods since nobody can afford to pay the tariffs. The only thing Trump is going to achieve is accelerating this coming recession into a full blown depression.
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Since WW2, when has the US ever fought anyone for Europe?
Korea, Vietnam, Libya, Iraq 1 and 2, Afghanistan, Syria. All US incursions. A number of them had European countries backing up the US. Even today it's the US giving Israel unwaivering support (when it really should be waivering) that's dragging NATO countries into a conflict it really doesn't want to be a part of.
Europe has backed the US again and again so that it wasn't seen as acting as unilaterally (even if it was).
The only European operations I can think of Bosnia and Serbia, both of which were NATO operations with multinational forces.
Korea, Libya, Iraq and Syria I will concede. However:
Are you not aware that the Vietnam War was directly precipitated by the First Indochina War, in which the French failed to maintain control of their colony and the US stepped in when they pulled out?
Are you not aware that the US initially got roped into intervening in Afghanistan by the British in the 1970s, continuing a British-Russian rivalry/series of proxy wars going all the way back to the "Great Game" in the 19th Century?
(Also, re: that previous Libya/Iraq/Syria concession: let's be honest, the whole current Middle East clusterfuck is the legacy of European colonialism, including shit like the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the various Allied-controlled protectorates formed from previous Axis colonies (e.g. Libya) after WWII. I'm conceding those points because I can't be bothered in a Lemmy comment to do the research to trace exactly how the US involvement was rooted in a need to clean up messes left by the British and French, but I'm pretty darn confident the link is there.)
Yes, a lot of the areas are post European colonialism. Most of the world is post European colonialism, including the Americas. Vietnam wasn't fought for the French though. The French were expelled in the first Indochina war and the North and South Vietnamese had independence. The French lost and went home. The US never tried to re-establish French rule.
You might argue that the US fought in Vietnam for the South Vietnamese, to maintain their independence from the North. However I think we all know that the US fought in Vietnam to block Russia and China getting more influence in the area. It was a choice the US made for it's own reasons to do with the cold war.
Now, the US might feel that because nobody else had the military might to stand against "communism" they had no option but to get involved. They did it to protect their own interests though.
you guys need to get your shit together and police your own continent.
We do? Increasingly we're having to secure it against US threats and meddling, though. And of course our actual police aren't as corrupt and murderous as yours, and our legal system offers far more basic human rights and protections than yours does (I've heard you don't even get the most basic rights like mandatory holiday and sick pay? Wild. You need to start fighting against your government for your basic rights).
we can start to take care of ourselves and our needs instead of blowing billions on places we destroyed
Have you tried not destroying places? You might not have to spend quite so much on reparations if you pace yourself a bit.
The world doesn't revolve around your country, and all of your nation's current major problems (oligarchy, late stage capitalism rot, poor citizen rights, poor/absent social services, poor education system, large class gap, poor environmental protections, etc etc) come from within, not - as your fascist self-proclaimed Dictator would have you believe - the evil foreigners trying to oppress/abuse you.
Nobody's country is perfect, mine isn't, yours isn't. We all have problems, and it's difficult to admit that our problems are more often than not of our own society's making...
Don't believe the oldest fascist trick in the book though - being told it's all somehow the fault of foreigners - to rally the people against a common foe whilst stripping away your own rights and building an authoritarian state bit by bit, destroying your own freedoms and eroding the moral core of your nation, all in the name of fighting that foe.
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If it comes from China, it won’t have a tariff. That’s why those tariffs won’t work in the US. We will just work with “other vendors” who eventually are just China, with extra steps (and cost). I can’t think of much that the US exports, besides weapons, that can’t be bought somewhere else.
The only one suffering is the USA. The entire world does not need us, and most of them are sick of our shit.
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and the US will be left increasingly alone when it is eventually forced to aid Taiwan in its defense.
The US has recently convinced TSMC to open latest-process fabs in the US so that soon it won't have to do that. Within a few years the US's military policy in the event of a invasion from mainland China is going to shift from defending Taiwan to bombing TSMC ourselves and then leaving them to the wolves.
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U.S. goods exports to Colombia in 2022 were $20.8 billion, up 24.2 percent ($4.1 billion) from 2021 and up 27 percent from 2012. U.S. goods imports from Colombia totaled $18.5 billion in 2022, up 40.3 percent ($5.3 billion) from 2021, but down 25 percent from 2012.
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Colombia
The United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) was signed on November 22, 2006. Colombia's Congress approved the CTPA and a protocol of amendment in 2007.United States Trade Representative
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20 billion. So, like the budget of any of our tech companies. I think they will be just fine.
Me, on the other hand, really enjoy coffee. So this is gonna suck.
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No. Not after all their rights and their citizenship were taken away.
See that's the thing a lot of people don't understand. Fascists often use the law and the system to LEGALLY implement all their horrific shit. Just because something is the law does not make it right. Laws can be changed, thus we shouldn't use them as an argument for what is and isn't right.
Let's just imagine for a moment that tomorrow Trump and his little friends push through some law that allows them to strip every person with Swedish ancestry (for example) of their citizenship. Suddenly they could be deported, sure. And it would all be legal. Would you think it was right?
Your government is already talking about taking away birthright citizenship. And the GOP has shown us they are perfectly happy stripping at the very least some people of some of their rights already. Are you telling me you don't think it could get any worse? Are you telling me that as long as it's legal, it's okay?
First of all, many countries, including Italy, are literally installing lagers in other countries (in Italy's case Albania) to "take care" of illegal migrants, so they are not easily sent back.
Second, the place they come from could well be akin to a death camp for them.
Third, rules like those can be subtly change in a minute to acquire ever more vicious features.
Fourth, as Zexks said, things could escalate once those countries serving their xenophobic policies start caring about the internal externalities of such deals.
Most places in the world are not death camps. We live a pretty cushy life here, but even the disparity between us and most countries are equal to cushy or death camp.
On top of that, no one is completely stopping immigration. We still have an asylum law that is in effect. We're just going to be screening people claiming asylum to make sure they actually need asylum. Nowhere near most of the people coming across the boarder need asylum, and even then, Mexico is perfectly safe for most people. They don't have to come to the US. They just have to go to the nearest country not trying to kill them.
Yes, any rules can be changed, it's how we got into this illegal immigration mess to begin with.
What other countries do are up to them, but we're not responsible for the world population. If there's a genuine need for asylum in the US, cool. Otherwise, no
Again, this is how it starts...
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"Prior to the Nazi regime taking power, Roma had been a subject of fascination and hatred in Europe. Though many viewed Roma as outsiders—and they were closely monitored by the authorities in Germany—the roughly one million Roma people in Europe lived diverse lives across the continent. Some Roma lived in caravans and traveled from town to town, selling horses and handcrafted products. Others lived in cities, towns, or villages doing a variety of jobs, from farming to fortune-telling to medicine.
[3]When the Nazi regime took over in 1933, little changed right away for the Roma. They were already subject to travel restrictions and investigations by the police. But in early 1934, a number of Roma came under threat from the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases.” This law legalized and encouraged forced sterilization for people who were considered medically likely to have children with a “defect” of some sort—disabilities, mental or physical, that the Nazi regime considered damaging to the “German race” and workforce. Between 1934 and 1945, over 300,000 people were forcibly sterilized, most of them women. Many of these women did not survive the procedure, which often had to be repeated, was extremely painful, and was often done without any anesthetic. In the 1930s, 500 German and Austrian Roma were sterilized.
[4]In 1935, there was another harsh blow to German Roma when the “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor” was enacted. The first of the Nuremberg Laws, this law denied Jews their citizenship, banned marriages between members of “foreign races” and Germans, and took away political rights of so-called non-Germans.[5] Passed in September, the laws were expanded in November 1935 to include Roma. As a result, marriages were broken up, many Roma lost their jobs, and families faced destitution.
During this time, Roma began to face further restrictions on their lives. High rental prices, foreclosures, destruction of caravan sites, and harassment by the police were some of the ways the government controlled “Gypsy” populations. As part of a policy designed to “prevent” crime, Roma men capable of work were frequently rounded up and sent to concentration camps as “vagrants,” “work-shy,” or “asocial” prisoners. Families of traveling Roma were confined to small geographic areas, enabling the police to monitor them closely."
The Genocide of the Roma
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime persecuted Roma across Europe, killing over 250,000 Romani people and sterilizing around 2,500.kevindupuy (The National World War II Museum)
If that were true, they wouldn't also be arguing to remove birthright citizenship from Native Americans.
cbc.ca/news/indigenous/trump-b…
Look, you have no idea what you're talking about, it's past time you stop.
Again, you don't know what you're talking about and need to stop.
FTA:
"Over the past week, there have been Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across the country.
Citizens of the Navajo Nation, which spans across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, have reported being incorrectly identified as illegal immigrants during ICE raids"
Okay so then what happened after? Were they shipped off to another country? Or were they let go when they realized there's been a mistake?
Mistakes happen. It sucks, but no one is perfect
Tariffs hurt America. The messaging is that simple.
Watch as we fuck up the messaging.
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White House backs off on tariffs on Colombia after agreement on unrestricted acceptance of migrants
The White House said Sunday that Colombia backed down and agreed to accept repatriated citizens on military flights, after President Donald Trump threatened majBarrons (Ground News)
Important to note that the agreement came after the deportees would be transported humanely on commercial flights as I understand it.
Can’t let the MAGA morons claim victory as though Colombia just caved in fear
That doesn't seem to be true: elespectador.com/politica/petr… Translating, it means that the Colombian government agreed to all of Trump's terms for the deportation of immigrants. Additionally, militar planes have been used for deportations for some years now, it's not a Trump-only thing.
Colombian government did just caved out in fear, no VISA for anyone and 50% tariffs is a way too big thing for Colombian people to just let Petro (our already impopular president) do it, specially right now when there's a internal commotion status due to the rise of violence in Catatumbo, something that is mainly already his fault.
“Seguiremos recibiendo colombianos deportados”: gobierno Petro tras choque con Trump
El Gobierno informó que se llegó a un acuerdo con los Estados Unidos. Trump retiró sanciones.Redacción Política (El Espectador)
Ah yes it's way better /s
See that's why we hate liberals. You're ok with the idea of ethnic epuration, you just don't want your feelings hurt.
See? The liberals reflex to dehumanize everybody who remind them of their flaws is as automatic as the MAGAs.
Somebody wish to point out the numeral, documented biden's war crime? Must be a russian robot.
My friend died under american bomb, asshole.
Source?
I'm sorry; whatever search engines I've tried are f*cked and only give me articles about US tarrifs on other countries' exports. It's been ridiculous trying to find what I'm looking for.
I think Lapar made a mistake. With a brief search, I found an article from 2019.
[https://www.reuters.com/article/world/china-strikes-back-at-us-with-new-tariffs-on-75-billion-in-goods-idUSKCN1VD1BG/](China strikes back with tariffs on 75 billion in goods.)
No source. Just read in on bluesky that why I wrote "I heard".
But it seems that it was wrong. Sorry for the confusion.
It seems the specific problem was that military planes were being used instead of civilian planes:
That is why I returned the U.S. military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants... In civilian planes, without being treated like criminals, we will receive our fellow citizens.
That does make sense to me, since I'd feel less comfortable if a military plane was flying into my country, whereas I'd be more comfortable if a regular civilian flight was used instead. From the perspective of a Colombian, I would be concerned about how national security would be affected by giving permission for military planes to operate when they wouldn't otherwise have permission.
This is the main cause for every country that refuses the migrants, who the heck would want militaty planes to enter their air space?
If he really wants to do this he'll send them over in civilian planes not military ones...
Mass deportations of legal citizens, sure. Nothing wrong with deporting illegal migrants.
If it was Americans illegally living in ,Colombia you'd be cheering for them to send the American back to the US.
Also, the actual prelude to death camps is banning and removing guns from the population.
Mass deportations of legal citizens, sure
you realize that's what he's already trying to do right?
That's what ending birthright citizenship is all about. Millions of people who are currently considered to be American citizens will have that stripped from them and then they are free to be deported
Even before Trump, the US illegally deported lots of citizens by accident. Because practical legal protections against deportation were shit even back then.
So they don't even have to make it legal. Just impossible to practically fight illegal deportation.
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I think Trump has a long history of racism and it will either bake it into law that Europeans get preferred treatment or it will be selectively enforced.
Btw, why are you using two questions marks? Do you think doing it makes you look more expressive?
Trump does not have a long history of racism. Nowhere in his past has he ever been called racist until he started running against the establishment.
Not sure why you think Europeans will be the only ones allowed to immigrate to America... There are people from all over the world who come here legally. That's not changing. It's just the mass that's the problem. Let them come from all over in healthy numbers.
I really don't care what you think about the way I type how I express myself when I do so. You can read why I write more than well enough. 😀
"Donald started his career, back in 1973, being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination — because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood that was the policy," Clinton said on Monday night.
No, I don't support deleting the constitution.
It doesn't have to say it, that's just what it's for.
It's so easy when you claim everything you dislike are "Nazi things"
If Trump came out and said breathing is good, you'd start screaming that breathing is what nazis do.
Rich coming from the people who call everything they dislike 'woke' and uncritically believe any stupid shit that comes out of the host of celebrity apprentices' mouth.
Enjoy the consequences of believing that everything will just work out in the end because god loves you
I only call things that are tied to Marxist theory by way of identity politics "woke". Firing people who head giant departments and are doing a poor job of it isn't "woke", it's holding people accountable. If you don't do your job well, you should be fired. It's not that hard.
And I'm agnostic, but love that Insta-hate towards people who practice religion, that'll work out for you in the end. 😀
I personally think making changes takes action, and that's what we're getting now. Action.
Lol, what? There was just a crash near Hawaii in 2021. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
And the recent crash had literally nothing to do with anything trump has done.
First major commercial aviation accident in the U.S. in 16 years, since the 2009 Colgan Air crash.
And the recent crash had literally nothing to do with anything trump has done.
Lol, so all those executive orders, firings, they have no effect at all on operations? You're delusional.
They're getting went emails like this, tryong to cajole them into resigning
This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash
This was sent out a week ago: democrats-transportation.house…
Only a dipshit ostrich with his head in the sand could say 'nothing trump did had anything to do with the bad thing that just happened that we were warned would happen'. It's pathetic worm shit.
Ranking Members Larsen, Cohen Statements on Trump’s Dangerous Freeze of Air Traffic Control Hiring | The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructuredemocrats-transportation.house.gov
This person's outright sadistic blindness or trolling aside, anyone reading this comment with good faith and not immediately having an aneurysm should remember that the once and current president once said, and I quote:
I like taking guns away early. Take the guns first, go through due process second.
Did Trump Say 'We're Going to Take the Firearms First and Then Go to Court'?
U.S. President Donald Trump said "We're going to take the firearms first and then go to court."David Mikkelson (Snopes.com)
In your own damn link it says he was talking about those who are "red flagged", or is alerted to authorities as someone who might do something. You know, like when someone posts a manifesto online, he was saying they should be able to confiscate their gun and then have the court process.
He certainly wasn't saying he wants to disarm regular citizens.
I wish the lunatics voters that support this would realize how expensive each of these flights are, at tax payers expense!
I see that the US finally got a taste of the Rwanda plan.
After TikTok, the WiFi router in your home may be next Chinese tech ban target
After TikTok, the WiFi router in your home may be next Chinese tech ban target
TP-Link routers, among Amazon best sellers and according to some estimates up to 65% of the U.S. market, are on the radar of the U.S. government.Kevin Williams (CNBC)
Relaunching PeerTube.wtf
cross-posted from: lemmy.wtf/post/15733096
cross-posted from: lemmy.wtf/post/15732861
First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃
I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:
- PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.
- The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.
- Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.
- The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.
- Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.
- Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.
- Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.
- A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.
FAQ
.wtf?Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?
Where is the server hosted?
It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.
What's your specs, bro?
The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a:
- AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores
- 16GB of RAM
- nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding)
- 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS
- 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage4TB of storage ain't much
That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.
Why no 4K??
4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.
I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.
Relaunching PeerTube.wtf
cross-posted from: lemmy.wtf/post/15732861First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃
I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:
- PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.
- The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.
- Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.
- The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.
- Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.
- Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.
- Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.
- A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.
FAQ
.wtf?Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?
Where is the server hosted?
It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.
What's your specs, bro?
The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a:
- AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores
- 16GB of RAM
- nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding)
- 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS
- 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage4TB of storage ain't much
That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.
Why no 4K??
4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.
I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.
Sepia Search
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by FramasoftSepia Search
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Relaunching PeerTube.wtf
First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.
I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃
I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:
- PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.
- The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.
- Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.
- The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.
- Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.
- Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.
- Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.
- A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.
FAQ
.wtf?Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?
Where is the server hosted?
It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.
What's your specs, bro?
The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a:
- AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores
- 16GB of RAM
- nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding)
- 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS
- 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage4TB of storage ain't much
That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.
Why no 4K??
4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.
I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.
Sepia Search
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by FramasoftSepia Search
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Relaunching PeerTube.wtf
cross-posted from: lemmy.wtf/post/15732861
First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃
I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:
- PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.
- The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.
- Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.
- The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.
- Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.
- Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.
- Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.
- A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.
FAQ
.wtf?Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?
Where is the server hosted?
It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.
What's your specs, bro?
The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a:
- AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores
- 16GB of RAM
- nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding)
- 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS
- 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage4TB of storage ain't much
That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.
Why no 4K??
4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.
I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.
Sepia Search
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by FramasoftSepia Search
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Sia - Decentralized data storage
Cryptography has unleashed the latent power of the Internet by enabling interactions between mutually-distrusting parties.Sia
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I love the concept of decentralized storage and look into a bunch of em all the time yet I've never stumbled upon Sia.
What made it shite for video?
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I have been considering to use this: garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documen…
Might make it easier to use an external server as a kind of CDN as well.
Apps (Nextcloud, Peertube...) | Garage HQ
An open-source distributed storage service you can self-host to fullfill many needs.garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr
Me: "Oh no, that wtf means it's gonna be a LiveLeak site isn't it?"
platform for general use
Me: "Ah, so maybe not so bad then."
Every topic is welcome.
Me: "... and yet..."
Seriously though, I'm all for the Fediverse in all its many forms, and without people like you it wouldn't exist. Thank you.
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So, you're in Denmark. I'm in the United States. Does that mean you as the host need to comply with Denmark local laws, and then also just for me, incorporate USA laws as well?
I don't know Denmark law, so lets just asssume that marijuanna is illegal there. In the USA it's illegal on a federal level, but legal in my local state level. Yes, it's confusing. We don't know how to make laws work.....and it's about to get so much worse.
But, lets say I upload a video of me smoking and promoting marijuanna, something that's legal for me to do. If we assume the act of promoting marijuanna is illegal in Denmark, would you be allowed to host that video? Would people in other states, where it's not yet legal, be shown a black screen?
They would not be able to host that.
Also, it's not legal for you either. Federal law overrides state law.
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this right here. So many people say "Well it's legal in my state"
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No what that means is that State officials will not arrest you for doing it, a Federal official can and will arrest you for it if they wanted to. Thats the biggest reason why most of your pot shops don't accept bank/credit cards. Because that makes them more open to federal insight and regulation.
Currently the usage of it isn't a concern of the federal system, so while it's illegal they are not actively enforcing it, but that can change at any moment, and you can bet your ass that if they needed some more dirt on someone, they would use that to their advantage for a search.
In the US its definitely not illegal to host a video of people smoking and promoting illegal substances.
In the US its only illegal to possess and sell.
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This is great news.
Are the videos that were at peertube.wtf/c/startgametraile… lost forever? It's no big deal, but I'll delete 'em from piefed.social/c/startgametrail… if they are. Thanks.
I already had some experience using the P600 with Plex.
It’s essentially just installing the nVidia drivers, install the HW transcoding plugin for PeerTube and then select the nvenc transcoder in the settings.
There’s some extra steps if using Docker or a VM.
Ah, right. Nvidia.
I am kinda thinking about using Peertube with an Intel Quicksync capable CPU, which seems to be a bit more complicated.
What about it is more complicated? The experience with qsv has always been easier IMO for anything transcode, and I (maybe mistakenly) thought it used ffmpeg for that under the hood?
FWIW, qsv does all my Jellyfin transcoding like an absolute champ, which is why I'm surprised and curious.
Remote Runners | PeerTube documentation
Documentation of PeerTube, a free software to take back control of your videos!docs.joinpeertube.org
Using Matterbridge :: Peertube plugin livechat documentation
Using Matterbridge to bridge with other chatsPeertube plugin livechat documentation
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It just means the server doesn’t have a general theme or topic. No gore.
Does the gTLD make you think otherwise? 😅
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Lol
Usually when a server allows anything, it collects the things other systems block.
how do I connect my account on the android app?!
I've tried Peertube many times and it's always frustrating. I want it to succeed but it needs to be way simpler
If you've used reddit before it takes 5mn to adapt to Lemmy.
I don't seem to be able to login, it tells me my password and username/email is incorrect.
Do we have to make a new account because the server is new or am I just running into some kind of error?
Also where can we best see updates about this peertube instance is here on Lemmy good or will they be through peertube or is there not really any solid plans for this yet?
I really appreciate the work going into this it seems like peertube.wtf has the goals in mind that I want out of a YouTube alternative!
Unfortunately you have to register your account again.
I’ll probably post here on Lemmy, but also via the broadcast function in PeerTube.
Possibly also a Mastodon account at some point.
Eh always iffy on putting ads on other ppls content (thats all of the internet lol), at least the beauty of the fediverse is they can always leave and host it themselves. I'm sure ads could be done right but I've yet to see it.
People will say you cant expect ppl to do stuff for fre but thy always do they just get overshadowed by ppl making ad money spending money on marketing
DWL with hot-reloading
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Why Wine 10.0 Is Gonna Be Amazing
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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It's a year's worth of improvements.
Though if you're using Proton Experimental, you've already been receiving these improvements since it uses the staging (or git?) branch.
I believe Proton stable releases use the stable version of wine with fixes backported.
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KDE Is Ready To Claim Its Rightful Throne
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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I've never understood how or why this is an issue.
Shortly after Spez's petulant AMA, I ran across a link for Lemmy. org. It looked interesting, so I followed it. I poked around a bit, and it still looked interesting, so I picked an instance and created an account. I played with it a bit, then I went back and found a different instance that looked interesting and created an account there too. And I just kept reading and posting, just like I'd done on Reddit (and half a dozen different sites before that). Some instances came and went and I lost some accounts and created others and eventually settled into a few that I like best, and just read and posted and didn't leave. The end.
But it seems that every time I turn around, someone's going on about the hardships of moving to a different site and all the difficulties to be overcome and yadda yadda yadda, and I just don't get it. At all.
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There's an easy solution for that.
F em.
I did that back in 2015 when I moved to discord for my primary social platform. "I am am leaving Skype and Facebook, anyone who wants to reach me can do so at discordname"
Did all my friends move? No, did I lose anything of value doing so anyway? Also no. The people who still wanted to message me either reached out to my family or myself for a phone number, or added me on discord.
You don't need all your friends to follow, what you need is enough people to leave the platform anyway that more people use that than other platforms in your friend group. That's why Skype died as fast as it did, a combination of instability and enough people deciding they didn't care who they left behind and just went to discord anyway.
If their job or uni asks them to use a piece of software they'll try it no bother but if a friend asks it's impossible.
normie and/or bootlicker mind set.
Daddy asked me to do this, so obviously it is right and proper
My friend asked me to use Signal due to "privacy", I think he roof is starting to leak again, give him lip service and continue using whatapps as the "smart" move.
Their life would be easier if you didn't use Signal, simple as.
I don't agree with it, but that's the reason.
There's an xkcd about this: xkcd.com/1810/
Same here. About 25% have picked up Signal, the others haven't. Even though, like you say, they don't have to drop WhatsApp to get Signal. They aren't mutually exclusive.
And there's no rhyme or reason for who starts using Signal. Some of my most tech-illiterate friends jumped on it, because they were sick of Facebook and Meta. As I've if them said: it's not at all difficult to start using it. So it's all about motivation.
It didn't help that there are several other similar spots or there, like Viber. So some people who have multiple already installed don't want to get yet another. I get that. But Signal is such a solid and unobtrusive app
I've had some luck getting some of my people to switch over by asking them to switch as a favor to me specifically (if they want to of course... And they can always just not use it if they end up not liking it).
Asking them in a more direct way like this seems to work, even if there's some reluctance at first. I tell them that it helps me out because I can also send stuff to them on my computer, which is true. Then there's the fact that I just really like all of the extra features it has (it's just a really good chat app in general), emoji replies, reply quotes, and read receipts to name a few.
If they need any other reasons, the last things I tend to get into are the privacy/security aspects.
Boom, all of a sudden they're using something better, and even though they're probably still using those other (shit) apps, at least I don't have to. You have to start somewhere, right?
The problem is community.
Lemmy doesn't fill every hole that reddit filled. There are a lot of industry and hobby subs that just don't have the audience here. Especially the more niche ones.
Shitposting and memes...yeah, we got that in spades. But that's not what keeps people coming. You can get top-notch shitposts anywhere.
My subscribeds here are dead. I can't find direct matches for communities I have in reddit, and I have no interest (let alone time) in modding one.
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Shitposting and memes...yeah, we got that in spades.
We got Linux, don't forget Linux mate
That is a critical mass thing. Reddit 15 years ago didn't have a thriving pokemon community either. Things grow naturally over time. I think Lemmy is in a good place 😀
But, for example, on Reddit there is r/hockey and a sub for each team. On Lemmy those team subs are graveyards, but if you post on c/hockey you might get enough traction to have a conversation. Find the larger community and help grow that first before fracturing to smaller ones.
Yeah I suppose. I came on to reddit early, before there even were subreddits, and comparing young Lemmy to an over-the-hill reddit isn't a fair comparison.
Still feels like Lemmy tries to be a drop-in replacement for Reddit (sent from Boost for Lemmy), and it really can't be until it sees much, much more growth.
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The internet as a whole is also different than it was 15+ year ago.
Your typical reddit user now doesn't know what digg is or who Kevin Rose is or the significance of something like 09 F9, sites, people, and events that were big things on the internet are just nothing now.
Hell, tons of users on reddit were literally babies when reddit was young.
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At every corner of every street, at every TV station, in the faces of others you must see the guy that you hate and you can't do anything about it.
It's relatively easy to quit things like Reddit. There's no attachments to anything, and the content is mostly links to other sites.
When you have followers and follow specific accounts for the content, users are less inclined to leave unless those they follow and their own followers also leave.
Being on lemmy at all is going to come with huge confirmation biases.
Something to consider is that most of these issues with common social media are intangible at best and straight up invisible at worst for most users.
Most people don't care strongly enough about any of these apps or websites to be bothered. Go ask strangers on the street what they think of spez's this or that and they will say 'who's spez' followed by, 'oh, I don't really care'.
Most people's relationship with any given corporate / algorithm driven social media platform is akin to a drug addict.
Start viewing people who can't imagine quitting cold turkey as drug addicts, and it makes a lot more sense.
This is what happens when corpos have oodles and oodles from data on how to drive 'engagement'... and then they do that, via algorithmic content feeds and dark patterns and other kinds of manipulation.
These people are addicted to convenience, to the dopamine hits, to the rage bait, to their validating echo chambers.
They don't care that it makes them stupid, misinformed, angry, takes all their time, ruins their attention span, makes them feel like ugly failures amidst a sea of beautiful, rich influencers.
If you can't stop 'voluntarily' doing something that's bad for you without a giant fuss, without needing a guided intervention, you're an addict.
Extremely well written!
Most people simply don't care or if they do they don't need others to care. And then there are the people that want to change something and expect others to do the same, then being surprised they have their own opinions. The next step is of course to rant about it to other random people on the internet just so they can get a confirmation that they are not the problem ¯\(ツ)/¯
I think it depends on how you use those different sites
I transitioned from Reddit to Lemmy pretty seamlessly like you did. Around the time it became clear they weren't backing down on the API thing and other bullshit, I looked up some reddit alternatives, chose Lemmy, and kept right on doing what I was doing on Reddit.
On the other hand, I'm having a bit of a hard time ditching Facebook.
The difference is I know the people I'm friends with on Facebook, I have actual relationships with them, I'm there to interact with those specific people. Leaving Facebook without finding a decent alternative and getting those people to switch with me (which probably means they'd also have to convince their other friends to switch too) means losing contact with those people.
On Reddit and now Lemmy, I'm basically here to read articles and have conversations with strangers about those articles. I don't really form lasting relationships here, I don't recognize usernames outside of maybe 2 or 3 big names. If they weren't full of the worst kinds of idiots, trolls, bots, and scammers I could pretty much get what I'm looking for from the comment section on a news site.
Some people do build those kinds of relationships here though, they come to Reddit or Lemmy, at least in part, to interact with specific users and communities that they have some sort of connection to, and when you have connections like that, it gets pretty hard to leave that platform. Unless all of your friends leave at the same time and go to the same platform, you need to either lose some friends, split your time between the two platforms (neither of which may be as good as what you had because not everyone is there) or you have to find some other way of staying in touch and keeping the friendship going (which is often much easier said than done)
A lot of people don't seem to get that social media services are almost entirely about their userbases, not their companies. Facebook and Meta are unbelievably terrible, but that is where most of the people you know can be found. Switching to something else is easy, but pointless, if your reason for being there is the people.
I have slowly convinced friends and family to begin using MeWe, but only a small number. And most of them still primarily use Facebook. At least recent events are pushing a few more away from it.
Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade
Milestone passed with the debut of Linux 6.14 rc1.
Llama 3.1 Community License is not a free software license
The FSF has published its evaluation of the "Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement." This is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software released under it.
Canada, Mexico steelmakers refuse new U.S. orders
Canada, Mexico steelmakers refuse new U.S. orders
Some steelmakers in Canada and Mexico are refusing new orders to the US on concerns that Donald Trump soon will reimpose duties. Read more.Bloomberg News (Financial Post)
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Let him. Stelco has regulations to follow. He can shut it down and then nobody gets steel and start fucking with trade agreements, but big corps aren't gonna like his scorched earth tactics.
Let him burn it all to the ground so we can start moving the economy away from the US.
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with minimal effort
no, none of my action items are minimum effort, sorry. Defending democracy will never be a low strain activity. I'm organizing unions in my workplace by following the disruptive and worker-led Minnesota Model of organizing. We workers make the world go round. As the US labor movement gears up for a genuine general strike in 2028 (yes, we're following through with Fain's call to action), we need unions of all stripes to form. Labor unions, tenant unions, debtor unions, etc. Then after forming, we need unprecedented inter-union cooperation. It's ok to be tired and burnt out. Let yourself recover, and then continue the good fight.
The Minnesota Model Is Transforming Organizing as We Know It
“We can win more together than we can on our own.”Gridwork
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I feel you. Ive been way sadder this week than I thought Id be.
Im sure you know, but its ok to take a long break, not read the news at all and just turn your brain off for as long as you need to sometimes
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So, to me it's the shield over the sword.
You can do so much more good protecting, sharing resources, building community programs, etc. If they burn the country down to ash, well your oasis might survive.
Then for aggressive stuff, non-compliance would be way more effective. Think simple sabotage manual, a bit of sand really grinds up the gears of fascism.
Wait until they see what other countries are willing to tolerate to decouple from the Nazi bully country.
Made in the USA is a mark of avoidance. Fuck visiting your country. I will sign up to die to defend Greenland from you for our friends the ~~Dutch~~ Danes.
Edit: I’ll die for the Dutch or Danes against Trump.
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they’re so lacking in class consciousness that they wouldn’t know what to rally around.
If I have to read "it's not left vs right, it's top vs bottom" one more goddamn time
“I’m a big boy. I bought Stelco knowing that Stelco is in Canada. And you know what? America first.”
South Park character irl
Good. Love to see it.
Starve the beast. Don't pay your taxes either. Go to HR and change your tax withholding to tax exempt.
You'll catch fines eventually. But in the meantime your check will be a little bigger and you'll be denying tax funds to a fascist government.
If we ever get a sane government I'll pay those fines happily.
Thanks. Remember, it's nothing against you, or even against people who were lied to in order to get their vote.
At some point, some random billionaire will become slightly less billionaire-y and freak out about tariffs wrecking their bottom line. Until then, we've all got to grab on to our sanity and hodl like never before.
and freak out about tariffs wrecking their bottom line.
Nooooooooo. You got it all wrong! (seriously)
The ruling class wants the tariffs because tariffs artificially increase the price of their competitors' products! The entire point is to literally block people from getting a better deal outside of the US, so those same people can get screwed over domestically.
Tariffs are not good for the working class.
They only exist to protect the profits of the rulers.
I don't doubt what you're saying.
This all assumes that businesses and consumers can absorb the bump in prices due to the lack of a better deal. There are going to be plenty of construction contracts that Just Won't Happen because they won't be able to get the building materials they need to actually build something for a price that someone is willing to pay. That's the kind of thing that can wreck a bottom line.
Edit: this isn't about the article itself so much as an idea it gave me. Companies are refusing quotes for legal, not political, reasons. But they should be refusing for political reasons, something those of us in the US must start doing ourselves.
I'm obviously not happy it came to this. But, with the US being a genocidal, neofascist oligarchy, it's entirely necessary. This is real, we are the resistance, and we need to start acting like it before we get disappeared. It is absolutely the duty of every country that values equality, liberty, and solidarity to implement a total blockade on the United States and seek maximum sanctions until the genocide in Gaza ends, until threats of US expansionism end, and until the people reject neofascism, whether in the midterms, in a coup, or in a revolution.
For those living in the US and allied countries, it is our moral imperative to sabotage and destroy all machinery in the US that is being used or soon will be used by fascists. Just be careful who you target and be sure you know why you're targeting them. (Vandaling small Black businesses accomplished nothing. Targeting ICE will make you a hero.) Make evidence-based vandalism and sabotage your playbook to buy time for immigrants, trans people, Muslims, and Jews in your community by slowing the machinery of ethnic cleansing before it's too late. (I worry it may already be too late.) See:
Red Flag Alert for Genocide - United States
What the US is doing is based in an ideology of manifest destiny, liebensraum, expansionism, imperialism, and colonialism. See:
P.S. If you do anything, don't tell me. Anyone can be a fed or a militant neofascist infiltrator.
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*Lebensraum. They don't have room for love.
Syria's New Government Cancels Russian Port Lease at Tartus
Syria's New Government Cancels Russian Port Lease at Tartus
On Monday, the new government of Syria canceled Russia's 49-year operating lease at the port of Tartus, potentially bringing a multi-decade Russi...The Maritime Executive
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This is a bigger deal than I suspect people might realize. The reason there’s been destabilizing civil wars in Syria and Libya is their Russian bases. Now they might have to go through NATO country waters for basically everything in the Mediterranean.
Whether it’s wise is going to be up to history. I’m not saying that. I’m saying you could have predicted who would have a civil war 15 years ago with a map of Russian bases.
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This is as significant to Russia as the US losing Israel in the Middle East with regards to ME power projection.
Russia's situation is worse. If the US lost Israel, the US would still have bases in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and Djibouti in the Red Sea for power projection in the ME plus others. Russia's other warm water ports are in the Black Sea (which can be cut off by NATO member Türkiye or Kamchatka in the Pacific far from most everything else in Russia.
Brainstorming: how should we name a Lemmy community dedicated to the promotion of the Fediverse?
Hello everyone,
@spaduf@slrpnk.net created !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net to synchronize efforts to promote the Fediverse on existing social media (e.g. that Reddit thread on /r/Technology which got a few people joining Lemmy)
Spaduf wasn't aware of the existence of !fedigrow@lemm.ee , which is an existing community focused on the internal growt on the Fediverse, mostly between mods and regular posters trying to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed communitied grow.
To avoid confusion between the two communities, we are thinking about a potential new community to replace !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net, but with a different name.
Potential options we came up with:
- !fedimigration@slrpnk.net
- !fediversesupport@slrpnk.net
What do you all think? Do you have any other ideas for the name of that new community?
Edit to clarify as it seems it wasn't as obvious in the post: the objective is to keep !fedigrow@lemm.ee with its current focus: growth of communities already here (so more internal), while the new community would be about advocacy and promotion of the Fediverse on other places (so more external).
Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren't automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.
One strategy that I'd like to specifically promote is fediverse users calling attention to spaces of the internet where people are talking about the fediverse but there's relatively few users there that can share their experience.
To that end I've been considering things like:
- Fedimigration Reinforcements
- Fedimigration Support Team
Keep in mind that whatever name we pick will also be the hashtag that the Mastodon contingent of this project will end up using.
As it stands, they would see posts from this community under #growthefediverse
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Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren’t automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.
Same reason there is !fedimemes@feddit.uk separated from !fediverse@lemmy.world , the intent and type of content are different
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Have to agree with Blaze here.
Even though growthefediverse and fedigrow have similar names, they are about quite different things.
Ie. maintaining a lemmy community, vs getting the word out about lemmy.
Obligatory xkcd.com/927/
I wouldn't call it anything with just "support" in the name, or I'd imagine you're going to get a lot of tech support questions regarding Fediverse software.
And keep in mind the attention span on the internet is reading half of the title of something. So the topic of conversation has to be very clear from the name alone.
Or maybe you want to join efforts? It's still not clear to me whether both are about the same thing, just on different instances. I think both fedigrow and growthefediverse are good names that make it clear what it's about. What about fedipromotion? or promotethefediverse? But I don't think my ideas are as good...
in order to promote the growth of the fediverse, we want to merge these two communities from two different instances into a third one.
Feels weird.
No, we want to keep !fedigrow@lemm.ee on its current instance with its current objective.
The question is about the other one, which is about promotion of the Fediverse rather than growth of communities already here
I think there is more of a need to make the fediverse feel like a community. Use my account on one service as a automatic validation to any other without requiring a formal sign up. Something like how "login with GitHub" etc. works. If these were interconnected in a low effort and seamless way, the existing community would be less of a walled garden and more of a culture. Posting video, pics, blogs, or even more forum like persistent topic threads should be seamless. In my opinion pursuing growth as a community has small returns. Becoming the most effective tool and the path of least resistance while being positive and stable is the real key to large scale growth. Updating LW is absolutely critical for Lemmy's future IMO and is our weakest link.
These were the thoughts that came to mind after I saw fedigrow. That name was very intuitive.
I've been saying this the entire time I've been here.
You shouldn't have a lemmy account, and a mastodon account, and a pixelfed account, and a peertube account, and a misskey account........you should have 1 account. A fediverse account. One account, you log into and any activity you have on your array of services would go to one account.
So if you post a picture on pixelfed, and a someone says "oh, thats a pretty butterfly!" And then you post a video on peertube about the ghostbusters, someone might reply "Oh, slimer is my favorite". And BOTH replies go to the same notification area, and you canreply from the same page.
I would say it's a different type of growth. A topic that regularly comes up is consolidation of similar communities (the most recent example being !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com as the suggested alternative to !privacyguides@lemmy.one !privacy@lemmy.world , !privacy@lemmy.ca , !privacy@fedia.io etc.)
So it's a type of growth, but more internal than external.
Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren’t automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.
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Tags are coming soon, which I think would be equivalent:
Lemmy Development Update 2025-01-10
Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.There have been lots of changes since the last dev update. Contributors have been more active than usual during the Christmas holidays, and also the last dev update was already a whole month ago.
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Integral-Tech
- refactor: avoid using format! when String creation is unnecessary
- refactor: replace static with const for global constants
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- reset_password API to always return success
- Add Thumbnail URL When Crossposting
- Enforce required validation on signup Answers
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- Fix incorrectly using delete instead of uplete in update_banned_when_expired
- Add custom migration runner, forbid some
diesel migration
commands, fix old migrations- Fix incorrect comment in report_combined_view test
- Shorten "options" variable name
dessalines
- Combine comment and post reports
- Automatically marking posts created in an NSFW community as NSFW.
- Adding combined person content and person saved tables.
- Don't send out new user email verifies to admins, if already verified.
- Applying some clippy fixes.
- Hide NSFW field for create post form, for NSFW communities.
- Using video tag for embed video urls that are videos.
- Adding a bottom-margin to spoiler details tag.
Nutomic
- Change default image_mode to proxy, remove deprecated option
- Remove unused apub audience field (fixes #5278)
- Correct HTTP status for NotFound error (fixes #5309)
- Remove unused params on CreateSite/EditSite
- Error handling for thumbnail generation (ref #5196)
- Fix startup errors, add unit test for scheduled task errors (fixes #5209)
- Reorganize api endpoints (fixes #2022)
- Increase metadata fetch limit to 1 MB (fixes #5208)
- Allow admins to view deleted users (fixes #5249)
- Consider remote instance as dead if it returns any status 4xx or 5xx
- Only accept database connection by uri
Support development
@[url=https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] and @[url=https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic]Nutomic[/url] are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.
- Liberapay (preferred option)
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Community post tags (part 1) by phiresky · Pull Request #4997 · LemmyNet/lemmy
This is the first part of an implementation of post tags based on LemmyNet/rfcs#4. It implements the following: The necessary DB tables Fetching the post tags while reading PostView (list and sing...GitHub
this community here is thriving
Which one? !fedigrow@lemm.ee , !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net or !fediverse@lemmy.world ?
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Ew
It's quite a lot worse than "fediverse," and "fediverse" was already pretty bad.
The new one would replace !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net
!fedigrow@lemm.ee would stay the same. I edited the OP to clarify
Why confusion? It’s good there is more than one community! Can’t trust any instance to stay up
Edit: I’m was yapping and missing the point
I personally think lemmy users for the most part are technical enough to get that based on the descriptions you two may add. Those communities already have followers right?
I know asklemmy@lemmy.ml is not gonna censor me like asklemmy@lemmy.world is though they “have the same name.”
Those communities already have followers right?
!growthefediverse@slrpnk.net was created less than one week ago
fedipromote
fediversepromotion if you feel the need for a lot more letters, but y tho? 😉
Half of the general public endorses fascism.
Who gives a fuck what the general public is interested in, how do you reach the people who would be interested?
Des imposteurs usurpent le SEM pour faire fuir des étrangers
Des imposteurs usurpent le SEM pour faire fuir des étrangers
Le Secrétariat d'Etat aux migrations (SEM) a été victime d'au moins une vingtaine de cas d'usurpations. Des faussaires se sont fait passer pour lui le printemps dernier apparemment dans le seul but de faire fuir des étrangers.Radio Télévision Suisse
‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media
At a time when established social media platforms are facing criticism and turbulence — from TikTok's temporary shutdown to Meta's withdrawal from fact-checking and growing criticism over political content moderation — a new approach to social media is gaining some attention.
"Help us put control back into the hands of the people!" declares Canadian developer Daniel Supernault, whose open-source platforms aim to provide privacy-focused alternatives to mainstream social media.
Supernault's Kickstarter campaign, launched on Jan. 24, has already exceeded its initial CA$50,000 goal, TechCrunch reports, raising CA$93,022 (approximately US$64,839) as of 11:02 a.m. PT today. The funding will support the development of three platforms within the Fediverse — a decentralized network of interconnected social media services. These platforms include Pixelfed, Loops and Sup, designed as privacy-focused alternatives to Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp, respectively. Each platform rejects traditional venture capital funding and ad-based revenue models in favor of community-driven development.
Forbes - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes). The reporting is factual and usually sourced.Media Bias Fact Check
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My only issue is having WhatsApp in my circle is a must.
Friends and families are more than happy to text or call. But the numerous contractors and engineers I work with and request their service, to them WhatsApp is a must to send photos of issues or videos of faults.
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Yeah but you see the point? They offer us one option. We offer them ten.
"You don't have any of them installed? Well, I don't have Whatsapp installed. So one of us is going to have to go out of our way. Why should you assume that's for me to do, just because everyone else including you behaved like an unthinking herd of sheep?" That's what I feel like saying, and occasionally do actually say.
It's a difficult conundrum. Speaking personally, but at this point resisting the Whatsapp fascism has become a stubborn article of faith for me. I won't do it.
My point was about the social scenario, which is a genuine puzzle because most people want to have friends. I've lost some over this.
For the business context (this was the subject, true), I find that's much easier: "F*** off and send an email." Impossible? Well then that's one less customer for you. I have lots of experience of doing exactly this. Almost always the email suddenly becomes possible after all.
Someone should create a mastodon instance called "Masta Dom"
Something something about race play domination kink
One thing we need to mention is funding.
While BlueSky may benefit from venture capital, free (as in beer) open source projects where user data is not commercially exploited for revenue do not have the same benefit. They rely a LOT on donations for running the infrastructure and for the hours and hard work that people are putting in.
Good point. Theoretically surmountable because Wikipedia.
But donors are going to have to be convinced that social media is a social good.
I know ads are very hated here, but I wouldn't be against an ad at a reasonable cadence to increase sustainability. Then create a pro version that gets rid of ads that's like $2-5 a month or $30 a year. The real problem is the exploitation of this system like Reddit/Insta feeding an ad every other post. Or Twitter charging nearly $13 a month for a check mark.
The sync app got so much hate for having ads during the original migration, but a lot of us here are devs and we should definitely get paid for our effort and be able to maintain our infrastructure without our of pocket money.
Agreed.
However these ads need to be curated as well. This is the other thing that makes ads unbearable, is that a lot of them are just blatant scams.
I have learnt about proton and tuxedo from ads as well, which i use both.
Yeah I think this is a very important point.
I think people will need to learn to accept that there is no such thing as "free". The current social media sells you to advertisers, taking every bit of data they can get.
So for independent and privacy focused social media, we're going to have to accept we have to pay for it.
I've moved to paying for my email, my file storage, my VPN and my password manager - all for privacy and security. I pay for subscriptions for streaming to avoid advertising. So I would pay for social media.
In the early days of the internet, people accepted paying for things but then the "free" model came along. The fediverse will need to persuade people to pay for it. That may limit it from being the big everyone social medial, but it could be able to become the high quality version of social media that people pay for.
It’s owned by Brian Acton
No, he is a founder and a donor. It's owned by the Signal Foundation, which is a classic non-profit that seeks funding from lots of sources.
In what way is it insecure? If the user was going to message someone off platform they'd still be sending them an unencrypted message anyways if they have to switch apps to SMS. If users didn't understand the distinction, that's a design failure on signal's part.
To a lot of us, SMS fallback was the killer feature signal provided.
At least with matrix, it's decentralised. If they ever try to rug pull like signal did, their users can at least choose to not update if they self-host their own instance. I'd imagine a lot of lemmings would appreciate that, considering.
If the user was going to message someone off platform they’d still be sending them an unencrypted message anyways if they have to switch apps to SMS.
It sounds like they don't want to take responsibility for that user choice or be connected to anything that happens because of that choice.
It would still be an insecure choice, even with obvious UX distinctions. It would only be a matter of time before headlines muddy the waters with "intercepted Signal messages reveal..." or "Judge rules in favor of subpeona for unencrypted Signal messages..."
That's such a poor excuse. If they really really thought it was a problem, they could obscure-gate the feature. Make it so you have to long press on the 3rd word of the ToS or something ridiculous, and share that info online.
This is a fairly common practice for potentially dangerous android features, for example. It keeps the less tech savvy audiences from accidentally impaling themselves in the foot.
Usually the vanguard of adoption for platforms like these are fairly technical users. When you start cutting the feature set that brought them to your platform, it starts the death knell for your platform. They'll go elsewhere to find a platform that respects them more, and they'll drag everyone else with them sooner or later.
When was the last time you saw android getting a severely bad rap for including ADB?
They literally were not given any out (and were unwilling to take the one they had, or forgot they had it). People were complaining that SMS isn't secure even in Signal (when SMS by design can't be), which buils undue mistrust on the project, and Google is the one who controls all the keys to RCS so implementing that was not an option either.
The part where Signal dropped the ball hard is that they could just as well perfectly revived their old, perfectly functional SMS app with a new name and add it to the project,and thus be able to claim they still support SMS. Since SMS is pretty much a build-and-done for thing, it would barely if ever need any maintenance or updates.
In practice Matrix isn’t decentralized in the slightest. Almost every account is on Matrix.org or a server they host. The whole protocol is a data/metadata syncing machine that isn’t good for privacy & is prohibitively expensive to run anything beyond a single-instance since all history of all users in all rooms necessarily needs to be synced onto the server. Many medium-sized servers have shutdown on storage costs & system resource requirements (especially RAM)—which forced its users often to flock back to Matrix.org. This is wild since it is mostly text chat.
Luckily there are actually decentralized chat alternatives with low system requirements to encourage self-hosting, but man is Matrix so overhyped & misunderstood.
Luckily there are actually decentralized chat alternatives with low system requirements to encourage self-hosting, but man is Matrix so overhyped & misunderstood.
Thank you for the illuminating post. Could you name a few alternatives that better align with the ethos of the fediverse?
Impressive that a site like Forbes is writing about the Fediverse. A small step to helping it into the mainstream.
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This right here.
Look at the objective. The objective is to kill corporate sponsered social media. Well what better way to do that then by normalizing non corporate social media in the minds of the masses?
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Heads up @dansup@lemmy.world the creator of these apps refuses to open source the projects stating (Loops):
Not until it's stable
Anyone who's followed any project of any kind knows that this is just a formal way of saying they just won't do it.
Not only is it not truly OSS, but he's a bit of dick. Like weirdly so. Banning people for reverse engineering the API, creating a poll on whether or not ads should be introduced (only to 180 on the matter claiming the poll was a joke but also emphasizing that the poll was in favor of ads)
On the plus side he dislikes Trump, so there's that I guess.
In any case I highly recommend people read this comment and the sources linked:
I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, "C'mon, guys; I'd never cozy up to Meta," and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.
Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I'm not the only one getting that.
EDIT: just read through what you linked to and wow; that's so much worse than I originally thought. That's an inane degree of unprofessionalism.
So get them on there.
"Hey dummies, this here is the place that isn't trying to fuck us, let's move it over."
For me the way bigger issue is clunkiness. The fediverse needs a massive push for UI, usability, intuitiveness. Not having that will turn people away, but part of what will get it to happen is more people showing up and saying "stop making this otherwise objective improvement so janky that I second guess coming here in the first place." Maybe a few will be inspired to help, if they have the skills.
To everybody working on the fediverse in any capacity: thank you. You are building a digital Noah's Ark for the future.
I've been getting into the fediverse for less than a month, and it seems the biggest barrier for a newcomer like me is settling on a select few out of many clients/apps. One question I think a lot of people migrating want to know is (and I open this up to anyone):
What's the fewest signups needed if we want to enjoy all of the federated replacements to corporate social media? It sounds like each client demands its own account but I'm wondering where/if there's overlap, because…
My Lemmy account already worked on movim before i discovered movim. That's really cool but I don't know 100% how that worked (same community server, I think), and how many other apps/clients offer that.
Movim is XMPP and I don't know how that overlaps with ActivityPub, but I want to better understand so that I know how few accounts are necessary so I can micro and macro blog, share original/repost images videos and music, have group communities, and have a personal page to post things on as opposed to thread/conversations/forum posts and not have to manage ten separate accounts if I can help it
Sup
Signal is better as a centralized alternative and Matrix is better as a decentralized alternative. We don't need another messenger.
They don't just kill science: that's inconvenient and dumb but it can be put on pause fairly safely.
In this case, they're putting public health in grave danger. That will turn them into literal mass-murderer if a new pandemic takes hold.
Science is a tool.
20th century facists used eugenics (which was considered scientifically sound at the time) to argue for genociding disabled people.
What's crazy to me is that eugenics is largely sound... It's literally a forbidden branch of science not because it's unscientific, but because our species can't be trusted with it
So much so that it becomes worthless. Elon Musk is doing his best to spread his genetics, even inappropriately offering up his sperm to female employees... He thinks he's one of humanities best and brightest. The kedamine addicted failed programmer turned conman, a guy so insecure he faked being good at video games and has created nothing himself, thinks his genes need to be spread far and wide
We are animals, we can indeed be bred for traits like animals, but we're so bad at evaluating ourselves we literally cannot use this branch of science
Eugenics is not sound because
1) It makes moral judgments as to what human traits are desirable and undesirable, which are non-scientific and largely based in prejudice.
2) It treats all traits as heritable which neglects socialisation and other complex factors.
Like for example eugenics in the Nazi regime genocided 90% of people with schizophrenia to try and wipe it out. But now, in 2025, schizophrenia rates are largely the same between germany and other western countries, because schizophrenia only has a small heritability factor.
Many people left Meta after Zuckerberg's changes, but user numbers have rebounded
Many people left Meta after Zuckerberg's changes, but user numbers have rebounded
Earlier this month, Zuckerberg signaled that he wanted Meta to be more like X by removing politically biased third-party fact checkers in favor of community notes and...Rob Thubron (TechSpot)
La nave Cassiopea è partita per l'Albania con 49 persone migranti a bordo - Il Post
Pronti per un nuovo psicodramma con giudici brutti e cattivi che seguono la legge invece che i desideri governo?
IIRC dall'ultima volta non è cambiato nulla sul piano normativo (forse la cosa di spostare la competenza alla corte d'appello dal tribunale ordinario? immagino non farà nessuna differenza, non è che le corti d'appello siano più malleabili dei tribunali ordinari).
A voler esser stronzi (e contemporaneamente ottimisti!) si potrebbe sperare che si stiano preparino a far un gran rumore su questi 50 poracci per coprire quello di un qualche altro evento (eg. magari un certo ministro finalmente si dimette?). Ok, 100% speculazione.
La nave Cassiopea è partita per l’Albania con 49 persone migranti a bordo
È la terza operazione di questo tipo da quando sono stati aperti i centri di accoglienza: le altre volte però i giudici italiani non avevano convalidato i trattenimentiIl Post
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Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse
Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse | TechCrunch
Before there was social media, there were internet forums. Millions of forum sites continue to operate, which is why it's notable that one top forumSarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Fallout: The Frontier Rework Master Document
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Most people know of the disasterous launch of (Legacy) Fallout: The Frontier, but did you know about the rework which is underway? That's right, The Frontier's release is still ahead of us, and the team released a master document outlining their plans for the future early September, last year.P.S: The rework is currently looking for chinese-american voice actors fluent in both mandarin and english for an upcoming faction, if this sounds like you, please consider applying!
Fallout: The New Frontier
Helianwin Rework A non comprehensive look through of what we’re planning on doing for the rework. What happened? In 2021, almost immediately after the release of legacy frontier, a rework was begun to remake the NCR MQ primarily, and to facilitate…Google Docs
Hey, c/Fallout! We over on c/FalloutMods are working on building a community, and so I see it as apt to promote ourselves with the occasional crosspost!
So what would be better for our first crosspost than some news you may not have known about the Fallout community's controversial darling, Fallout: the Frontier? If you're interested in more discussions about the Fallout modding scene, come check us out!
And don't worry, I won't be spamming you guys neither, this is the last one this month, hope to see you around!
Core Elements of Capitalism, Socialism (Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced Stages), and Communism
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It’s based on the writings of professor Cheng Enfu, President of the Academy of Marxism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and Director of the Academic Division of Marxist Studies of CASS.
Socialism and communism are not one and done processes. They are gradual changes, both Marx and Lenin have addressed this extensively. We can’t just instantly press the big communism button unfortunately.
IPTV: Why XtreamCube is the Best Choice for Modern Viewers
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Introduction
In today's digital age, IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) has become a household name, revolutionizing the way we consume television content. As viewers, we are now well-acquainted with the benefits of streaming TV over the internet. However, with numerous IPTV providers available, choosing the best one can be challenging. In this article, we will explore why XtreamCube stands out as the premier IPTV provider, offering unmatched quality, affordability, and flexibility.
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In every BGS game ghouls all look identical, and it drives me insane. I feel it really detracts from the fact that ghoulification should be a unique experience to all that undergo it. Unless the Followers have invented some new kinda wasteland plastic surgery trend, of course, but I doubt that.
also ferals look so different from sane ghouls in all the bgs games which I feel is kind of a missed oppurtunity
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I think they just were in f1 (iirc they were mostly moral device in the game, like who cares they are zombies or oh god I can't just steal from people), in f2 they were exposed to fev, and in later games not sure probably retconned one way or another.
If there is no fev in the air where all other mutants come from? 🤔
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radiation works differently in fallout cause the devs wanted cool monsters
Commonwealth ghouls have access to a wig shop.
That’s the only way i can figure it.
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All feral ghouls should look like the top.
Non-feral ghouls should mostly have their heads totally shaved because they're still ghouls and can't grow a full head of hair. Although some of them might wear wigs lmao
Ghouls are too cute now, at least in Fallout 3 they were clearly disfigured (if unvaried and lacking expressiveness) I agree, we gotta lean into the horror of ghoulification. As of present the anti-ghoul sentiments seem really hard to hold up in setting. Like, we coulda had ghouls with half-attached ears, and cancerous growths on their necks, but now we just get kinda melty mannequins.
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also presumably bg3 is better integrated, but idk i've never fucked a bear yet
What's the best way to add a secondary drive?
I'm on a Fedora Kinoite system that is entirely on one LUKS encrypted drive, I recently added a second drive to have more space and I'm wondering how I should make use of it.
For now I formatted it completely with a new btrfs partition encrypted with LUKS and to actually add I thought I could:
1. automount it to some location, not sure where I should mount it though, I've seen many questions online that say to avoid /mnt
for permanent drives and also /media
(there are contrasting opinions on that, though), so I thought I could maybe sidestep this question by going with the second option which is the following
2. extending the already existing btrfs /sysroot
to span across the 2 partitions on the separate drives, but I didn't find good information on this process when LUKS is involved. It seems like that kind of operation is heavily discouraged due to risking data loss
So I wonder, what is the best approach and the one that will give me fewer headaches? If it is the second, how do I do it?
Edit: going with the first option I had an issue where the drive wouldn't be mounted automatically at boot, I then read through my /etc/crypttab
more carefully and saw that the UUID was wrong, I had used the partition UUID (PARTUUID as seen with the blkid
command) instead of the actual device UUID, after correcting that it works and mounts correctly. Just a small oversight, the hardest to notice sometimes.
References:
- docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/KDE_P…
- blog.lambda.cx/posts/adding-a-…
KDE Partition Manager Auto Mount Guide - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.docs.bazzite.gg
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If you want to just extend storage space, maybe mergerfs?
/media
is now for the system to mount stuff automatically. Using /mnt
for something you're configuring personally is fine.
You could mergerfs the new drive with some folder you're already storing a bunch of stuff, and it will pool the storage capacity of the drives for that folder.
Looked up this mergerfs, I have to say that it goes over my head quite a bit, if the point is to pool the drive capacity then what's the advantage of using that over the native capabilities of btrfs?
pool the storage capacity of the drives for that folder.
So I could do that for the root folder as well I imagine?
Good point about the /mnt
thing, I think I'll go with that, at least initially
then what's the advantage of using that over the native capabilities of btrfs?
btrfs multi device file systems have some limitations. Adding a drive is instant, but if you want to stripe the data using raid0, that requires a lengthy balancing operation. The alternative is "single" mode, which does not concern itself with striping, and just pools the storage available. The disadvantage, is that in single mode you get the risk of raid0, with no performance benefit. btrfs does not actually make sure that the different blocks that constitute a single file end up on the same drive, which means that if one fails, you still likely lose everything.
MergerFS does not mess with any of the filesystems being combined. It can be configured to work in different ways, but each drive will remain its own, consistent, functioning file system. Drives can be browsed individually, removed, added etc. Instantly. To "empty" a drive, you just move the files on it to the rest by using the non merged folders. By default, "writing" a new file will always go to the drive with the most free space, and individual files cannot be stored "across" several drives even though the contents of a folder can be. This way, whatever is on each drive, can never be damaged by the failure of another drive.
So the benefits are isolation, and convenience. The downside is a definite performance hit, which may not be significant depending on your system or what you're storing in the merged filesystem.
So I could do that for the root folder as well I imagine?
No. And you wouldn't want to. First for the performance hit. Second, because mergerfs merges folders (drives have to be mounted, first), and uses a third as a mountpoint. As an example, to "expand" your home folder, you'd move your homefolder somewhere else, then merge that moved folder with the new drive (which you still have to mount somewhere), and then you'd mount the resulting file system where your old home folder was before.
You could even have two folders on the second drive. Use one to merge somewhere you want to pool all your storage, and the other to put stuff on the second drive in a way where losing the first won't make half the files go missing. You might use that to store a copy of the OS install from the first drive, for example.
If you have a specific purpose in mind for the drive, then mounting it statically is probably the easiest solution.
My setup is:
- 2 TB NVMe
- 200 GB partition at /
- The rest (~1.8 TB) mounted at /games
- 1 TB SATA SSD mounted at /home
- 3 TB HDD mounted at /hdd
/mnt
and /media
are used differently based on the OS. /mnt
is supposed to be used for temporary manual mounts, but you can use it (or a subdirectory) as a permanent mount point. /media
is meant to contain mount points for dynamically mounted removable devices, but modern systems generally use /run/media/$USER
for that purpose; I would personally avoid it nevertheless.
(Solved, explained in the post)
I'm trying that right now, but I can't figure out how to decrypt and mount my drive at boot, I've read that simply giving the drive the same passphrase as that of the first drive would enable unlocking both at boot (reference), but it didn't work for me, the drive remains encrypted and also not mounted despite me adding the entry to /etc/crypyttab
and /etc/fstab
Adding a Second Encrypted Drive to Fedora
This post will cover creating a second encrypted drive on Fedora that automatically decrypts on boot and mounts to a set location. I had finally run out of room on my SSD.blog.lambda.cx
How does that increase the risk compared to something like JBOD or overlayfs?
It doesn't - they all do. I wouldn't recommend any of them.
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OpenBike: A lightweight, open-source NextBike client for Android.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/7235899
A Nextbike client without Google Play service dependencies.The only feature from the normal app that is not available is the booking via the map (no Google Maps, bikes must be booked via QR code) and thus the reservation function.
The rest works without any problems.
OpenBike: A lightweight, open-source NextBike client for Android.
A Nextbike client without Google Play service dependencies.The only feature from the normal app that is not available is the booking via the map (no Google Maps, bikes must be booked via QR code) and thus the reservation function.
The rest works without any problems.
How privacy friendly is Odysee ?
I'm trying to use YouTube as less as possible. I found some of creators I follow from yt here.
How do you rate it for privacy.
Slightly moreso than YouTube, but you should really use Librarian or the LBRY app.
Also, be warned that Odysee is alt-tech.
I consider odysee to be a longer term pump'n'dump scam for the reasons outlined here:
slrpnk.net/post/11302039/97499…
Personally I wouldn't place much trust in them.
Odysee is dominated by far-right people, a lot of the content is straight up fascistic and comments usually suck
Still, I follow some creators I like there through Grayjay, but no interaction with Odysee
OpenBike: A lightweight, open-source NextBike client for Android.
A Nextbike client without Google Play service dependencies.
The only feature from the normal app that is not available is the booking via the map (no Google Maps, bikes must be booked via QR code) and thus the reservation function.
The rest works without any problems.
OpenBike: A lightweight, open-source NextBike client for Android.
A Nextbike client without Google Play service dependencies.
The only feature from the normal app that is not available is the booking via the map (no Google Maps, bikes must be booked via QR code) and thus the reservation function.
The rest works without any problems.
Thank you Microsoft, for the final push
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I get how people need to use micro-shit for work but I don't get how a any freedom enjoyer is willing to use spyware on their own hardware
Just make the adjustment, deny the parasite engagement and profit.
Paying micro-shit anything is funding your oppressor. This is a class war, act like it folks
I feel like Windows tries with every change to push it’s users to Linux.
Even their core applications move to being web based.
They got me, installed Mint a couple of weeks ago
I purged the Windows partition yesterday, fellt like pouring bleach on a stain...
Same across the board.
I stopped buying Skype credit once subscriptions were forced.
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You have to pay if you want to stop a year's commitment early. Iirc you have to pay half of what you promised you would pay them over the year. So if you changed your mind it's cheaper to cancel than to continue paying for the months you have left.
If you sign a contract agreeing to their terms (and receive a discount in exchange) you have to follow them. The same goes for any other contract where you have a year's commitment like for an ISP. It's all pretty standard.
Is it annoying? Yeah obviously but they make it pretty damn clear when ordering that it's a year's commitment and that you receive a discount. Any reasonable individual should be able to figure out why you get a discount.
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Ooh it's an early termination fee. OP made it sound like there was a fee on top of the subscription cost. Which I guess still fits the definition.
Still scummy.
Adobe signed me up for a "trial" over the phone, which they then ended up trying to charge me to get out of.
I ended up just blocking their payment and never heard anything else about it. Fuck Adobe, they are in contention for shittiest company in my eyes.
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Obviously you have to pay to cancel a year's commitment.
They give you a discount for your commitment to pay for a year and they make that pretty clear on their website when ordering. I can post screenshots of that but I really hope that won't be needed, just check for yourself.
If you don't want a year's commitment you can just pay the higher price for a months commitment.
Pretty sure you have to pay half of what you promised to pay them had you kept paying for the whole year. I highly doubt that they legally have to even do that. I doubt that an ISP or utility company would let you cancel at all if you had a years commitment.
P.S it's ridiculous that I have to say this but yeah I know that Adobe suck. Fuck em and all that. I'm just saying that this particular thing isn't unusual or should be in any way unexpected when you sign up for a year's commitment.
Depends what you need. Many publishers require certain features from MS Word that are not available or are not as 'compatible' in LO Writer (not that its LO's fault ;), but for most use case I would agree. Things are a bit more complicated in the case of Excel as far as I can understand what I read (edit: I don't use much spreadsheets myself).
I've quit using MS Word a few years ago, fully switching to LO Writer. There are a few issues here and there but nothing that's a deal breaker (and Word had its own issues too), and I must quite like many things in Writer—beside the app not spying on me, I mean ;)
You should try OnlyOffice. It is very similar to MS Office and fully compatible with Microsoft formats. It has fully replaced MS Office for me for all office work. Also it can be easely integrated with your private NextCloud. You can install it from Flathub.
Edit: it also lets you edit and convert pdfs like Adobe Acrobat Pro
I'm not sure, I'm using documents produced by a larger org. The message I get if i try to edit the locked parts is:
The author has locked parts of this document. You can make changes only to the unlocked parts.
Btw i tried using Google docs on these Word files and the formatting broke in all kinds of terrible ways.
I know the idea here is to maintain consistent branding among the franchises. Anything sent back to the parent org needs to be in docx format, with no changes to the locked elements. If that can be done with a FOSS program, great! Local use has more leeway, but broken formatting is a nonstarter
LibreOffice is good alternative if you are not heavily dependant on unique MS Office features, especially Excel.
OnlyOffice is better if you're looking for MS Office document compability.
I went with Onlyoffice but am only 80% satisfied with it
LibreOffice supports .odt and .doc and .docx and a ton of other formats though.
LibreOffice (and its predecessor OpenOffice) have been a solid FOSS and *nix alternative for like over two decades. So I’m a bit confused about what these other alternatives provide that LibreOffice lacks.
PSA: OnlyOffice does/may have close ties to Russia:
dms-solutions.co/blog/dms-solu…
I use LibreOffice for this very reason
DMS Solutions stops doing business with OnlyOffice due to OnlyOffice close ties with Russia - DMS Solutions Co.
DMS Solutions is joining other business in stopping doing business with companies that support Russian invasion of Ukraine | OnlyOffice - russian owned businessDMS Team (DMS Solutions)
I have a hard time making the connection that DMS is making.
OnlyOffice is a Russian company, so it naturally has "ties" to Russia.
They have not condemned their government for invading Ukraine, which can be for many reasons. Maybe they approve of it as DMS concludes. But maybe they don't want to get political at all (hell, look at what a single comment from Andy Yen has done to views of Proton). Maybe they don't want their government making life difficult for them. There could be a multitude of reasons they didn't say anything.
The way the statement is written is condemning for lack of evidence. Which is fine as an opinion. But that's all it is.
Don't get me wrong, I followed your link because I wanted to know and appreciate the heads up. If there's shady stuff then I'll avoid them. I have no ties to OnlyOffice for anything.
But being honest with the info doesn't support the DMS claim. I'm happy to be wrong if there's other information out there, but their biased statement makes me distrust DMS more than OnlyOffice.
Let me preface this rant with that I think only office is the best online web based solution, I loved what it could do 8 years ago and I assume it's a lot better now.
I'm trying to setup nextcloud with only office, again. Nextcloud setup is a btrrze, only office always is and always has been a crime against humanity to setup correctly.
I've used only office successfully only once, some 8 years ago or so, in my own company. I've made some 10 attempts after that, over the various years, and I always failed. I have some 25 years of professional it experience and only office always eluded me.
Issues are either that I just can't get it installed and running at all, or that it's impossible to connect to next cloud.
Installing it with Deb files (or the installation script that does Deb files) is a very bad idea, that never works, the install crashes and usually leaves your server in a broken state, even after removing everything.
So now I am again trying to set it up using docker, so far with little result.
So having said all that: can you give some pointers on what you did to get it working?
Update in my previous message: so now I'm trying to install onlyoffice in a docker container on a server and I can't even get http to work, less even https. A simple connect to port 80 just gives me connection refused, even though netstat shows docker proxy listening there, port 443 gives me connection opened that right away closes, doing nothing. Logs show nothing
This is the sort of WTF that I really don't understand. Onlyoffice is really nice, why is the installation such a headache and fight after fight?
I've installed countless different services and programs in a myriad of different ways, and 99% of the time it's a few commands and done. 0.9% of the time I have tondo some significant extra work to get it completely done (nextcloud is here, not that it's hard but there are so many built in functionalities that you need to perform a number of extra steps) and then there is the 0.1% which is just a right nightmare for no good reason.
I have setup various dockers with little issue, onlyoffice just never works. WHY?
I would go for collabora if it wasn't s shitshow itself when used in an office setting with dozens of users. Colabora is nice for a single user system, that's it. I need perfect multi user document editing and onlyoffice offers this.
How do I set this crap up?
You can also write your problem and questions to !selfhosted@lemmy.world community, maybe they can help you
Cancelled mine too. Don’t particularly care about the AI. But I don’t need it and trying to justify increasing the price for it didn’t really work on me.
I’ve also gone all-in on Linux now. While I have a Mac, my gaming PC was left on Windows. Now it’s running Linux Mint and while gaming on Linux has a bit further to go, it’s night and day compared to 10 years ago. This time I feel like I can actually stick with it.
Like you need to get from point a to b in a hallway. It's just you...and windows inflatable boat they fully inflated in the hallway between a and b. And you have to squeeze through to go to point b.
What was painful about getting the stuff out of OneDrive?
When I did this it was straight forward.
- Sync to local
- Move all to new directory (his triggers a mass deletion on OneDrive)
- Sync to seafile (in my case)
What I've done is just bought a second hand key for Office 2014, and it works like a charm. Got it for like $10, and no money went to M$, and it has been working for several years without a problem.
For my personal desktop, at least. For my laptop rocking Linux I've been using LibreOffice without a problem.
I have to wonder if anyone at Microsoft is paying attention. It’s like New Coke in the 80s. They quickly realized they fucked up and rebranded the original as Classic Coke. I’m wondering if there will be a Windows Classic coming out soon with no AI, no subscription, no forced cloud dependency bullshit. lol probably not but whatever.
Keeping with the soft drink analogy, I think Pepsi tried something similar in the 90s with Crystal Pepsi, which also failed miserably.
If “lime must go up” always, then they need to come up with a better way than product enshitification.
New Coke was different in 2 important ways.
- It was actually a way to hide the flavor change in the switch to Corn Syrup instead of Sugar, and never intended to be permanent.
- Pepsi existed
There's no real commercial competition for Microsoft. Linux is great, but there's nobody for a business to call when shit fucks up. And Apple's walled garden and high prices make it terrible for enterprise.
- People stopped consuming New Coke
As long as people do nothing other than complain and continue to use the product they have no reason to change.
suse.com/services/premium/ (and SEL is a thing) or
ubuntu.com/support
Whether those distros meet the demands is a different animal.
What distro are you using, and how difficult was it for you to get started with it?
I'm currently making a list of distros and looking at each's pros and cons, including:
- what did work out of the box?
- what required more work to fix / workaround?
I started trying out Linux a few years ago, on a few different computers. Well first, a really long time ago, but I was a Mac user for a long time, and then switched to Windows in 2018, so my modern Linux experience started in 2021 or so.
On my home PC I started with Mint, but because I was doing some programming, ran into problems because the compilers and CMake there were too old to compile a few things I needed to work on (CUDA was the problem for CMake, C++20 was the problem for the compilers). Switched to Tumbleweed, was happy with that for a while.
Meanwhile, on my laptop, I switched from Manjaro to Fedora KDE spin after some stability problems, and was so pleasantly surprised by how it was both solid and up-to-date, that I ended up moving everything to that.
Edit: biggest problem I had was when I tried to install Mint on an office PC that I built for myself. Mint didn't support the on-board ethernet so I had no way of getting it online, and after getting lost in forum posts, gave up.
I used to recommend Mint a lot, but it's falling too far behind hardware wise and in the front end. Lack of default Wayland support and so many unsupported hardware is not where you want to be sending new users today.
+1 for Fedora based distros at this point. I tend to push Nobara because it has a lot of hardware tweaks built in to give a better out of the box experience, but I can't really say vanilla Fedora has had issues as long as I was on an AMD platform.
I've heard PopOS/Linux Mint are great starters. I personally run ZorinOS which is based on Ubuntu. It's beautiful, had built in customization, and has a free version (I paid for the pro version because I liked it so much and wanted to support it).
You'll find occasional headaches in all Linux distros just because it's not windows so compatibility can require work arounds depending what you wanna run. But it's worth it. Feels so much faster and in your control which is nice. Also if you screw up the distro you can just boot another distro from the flashdrive you used to install in the first place (keep the ISO handy just in case ;) ).
I can finally say that I'm making the move to Linux now, as I'm dual booting Fedora. I plan to try to do my regular browsing and activity on Fedora, while keeping my school work and what little gaming I do (laptop user) on Windows. Hell, once I get confident enough in my Linux skills, I'll probably move the school stuff over to Fedora too.
I'm doing it mostly cause I've read the privacy horror stories, but also because I just hated Windows 11. Like there's nothing about it that is worth staying for... The excessive resource use, random settings being changed that you have to dig to find, the shitty Co-Pilot ads, and the fact I won't be able to use office once I graduate... Yeah no.
Good thing is I'm a cyber student, so guess I'm just getting a head start for a easier grade in my future Linux class lol.
It can vary a lot depending the publisher, and some will not care at all while others will use, say, tracking features or work collaboratively (they can even be using OneDrive for that, which includes MS Office in its price), or they will require the author to use a specific Word template that they have devised for Word (with the person in charge of the final layout in whatever layout application, in order to streamline or the process and save time on that part of the job), when they aren't that kind of publishers that simply do the final layout directly in Word before sending the final PDF to the printer. Also, as an author, if a publisher has asked you to use MS Word and some specific stylesheet and realize they tried to to be smarter than them... good luck with that, unless they're already one of their best-selling author.
And that's just what comes to my mind and that I have been witnessing first hand ;)
Same, Microsoft is about to force my laptop to update and I am about to own zero devices that run Windows.
There is no coming back either, which is what makes the schadenfeude of Microsoft (the dog) really actually catching the car this time so funny and satisfying.
I think it is going to make heads spin how fast the idea that Windows has unassailable hegemony in the desktop space becomes an antiquated idea. There is an asteroid in the sky, and the time of dinosaurs is over.
All the alarm bells should be going off at Microsoft hq and I know they probably feel like they are sitting pretty and feel nice and future proofed in their business plan, it is amazing and makes my heart sing.
Sorry not sorry you law breaking, monopoly chasing, morally bankrupt losers. You might be richer than I ever will be, but lets be honest, that is because I have standards about what I am willing to do for money.
Yeah I know that is how they see it but the generational wave they have been coasting on was the fact that computer nerdy kids would learn the ins and outs of Windows software long before even entering the workplace.
Microsoft has been taking advantage of the fact that kids like me would be so excited to learn computers that they would learn the basics of just poking around the desktop before they could read.
Nowadays that is gone, there is no playful connection and the sea of change will butterfly-effect into the future and cause a million symptoms of an issue we all know Microsoft will never actually value or address.
Microsoft has been functioning this entire time with a special unspoken in with nerdy kids who grow up to build important and valuable computer tools. Microsoft has steamrolled that, and on the scale of 10+ years I am not sure there will be anything Microsoft can actually do to mitigate the strategic defeat that is going to cause even if they are able to be honest and lucid about it at that late date.
More and more computer nerdy kids are going to learn the shit out of Linux because it is where they game and it feels welcoming to them (i.e. it doesn't feel like sneaking into a suffocatingly boring office full of identical cubicles that gives periodic blaring notifications on a gambling casino nobody your parents know can afford called the Stock Market).
I can't understate how much this will lead to Microsoft completely losing the plot because no one could ever suggest this as a danger in a Microsoft boardroom and be taken as seriously as they should.
gets popcorn I for one am going to enjoy the show
I mean at this point the backline damage the flank of WINE and proton alone have done to the categories of "infeasible" and "impractical" in terms of when you have to throw your hands up and pick another battle and just accept a defacto hegemony of Microsoft in this space is immense and so far reaching Microsoft has likely lost the ability to perceive and evaluate the full extent of things.
A whole generation of computer weirdo kids (can I call them an army?) are looking at Windows and thinking "I mean, fuck that shit why even bother?".
For those of us too old to understand the ease in which kids will do this compared to how excruciatingly long this kind of thing felt impossible in the past... just imagine how you see a fax machine, sure you might have to learn to use one at work but you wouldn't look at one like a creative engine of possibility even if you sat there all day making important business happen with a fax machine at your day job. It is a fax machine to send faxes according to the rules dictated by some organization, that is it...
I am HYPED for steam os desktops and more linux gaming in general, it is gonna be an incredible story.
I was thinking to myself that I need to cancel mine. Then yesterday I got charged $127 for the yearly renewal.
I thought I was SOL but you can cancel and get most of the money back. So it's not too late to cancel and rid yourself of it.
I recently moved my digital life away from google and microsoft. I previously had the following subscriptions:
* ExpressVPN
* Onedrive
* Bitwarden
* Office 365
And I had a gmail account, which I often used for SSO. I realized that, the total monthly cost of these subscriptions together was more expensive than a single Protonmail *family * subscription, so I cancelled them all, got the family subscription, and now my wife and her sister all have protonmail accounts as well as storage, a password manager, and VPN access. In the process of moving my logins to my protonmail account, so that I don't have to keep my ancient Facebook account around for signing into things like spotify anymore. Coupled this with moving to the federated internet from reddit and instagram
I also dropped office for libreoffice. MS Office provides dubious value over the free competition, especially with a SAAS model.
Bitwarden
Do you mean Bitdefender (the antivirus)? Bitwarden is free.
Before anyone well ackhuallys me yes, there is a very cheap $0.80/mo plan if you want an authenticator.
I can't post pictures. Pictrs says access denied to database.
Unsure what to do. Hsjon and yml are standard. Is pictrs only using its own database or is it having an issue with postgres? I have it set in the hjson to http://pictrs:8080/ which is standard
It may have been solved:
I did chown -R 991:991 pictrs to change ownership of the pictrs folder
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