slsks is good for music, but it's not as automatic as lidarr (which is broken anyway)
And for books / audiobooks I think manually with telegram and/or plain old torrents is the only way. Readarr again is just broken and unable to manage books and audiobooks.
And Audiobookshelf is an amazing audiobooks and podcast playback platform that you can self-host.
Lidarr is still very much supported and the issue is being actively worked. The only people bitching about it are entitled users who demand the free software be fixed and maintained on their schedules instead of that of the volunteer devs who have lives of their own.
To be fair, i have a paid Spotify account and occasionally sync my playlists using Spotizer. I have long removed lidarr because it's pretty bad experience overall anyway. Slskd is there for all the other music needs.
Not as popular but there are other apps that do TV automation, SickChill and Medusa for example are still active forks of the old SickBeard/SickRage software.
There are probably others I'm not thinking of right this second, nowadays people mostly prefer using the *arr stack for automation (Sonarr, Radarr, all the other arrs).
Couch Potato is pretty much dead, Radarr is the way to go.
Back in the day Sabnzbd was considered slow and inefficient so Nzbget was usually recommended. These days both are pretty much indistinguishable performance-wise and Sabnzbd seems to get more active development.
That’s still the case so automation + multiple providers is still the way to go. This guy here makes Usenet provider maps so that you can figure out what combination will work the best for you: gnu.gl/users/rexum/statuses/11…
Lidarr uses musicbrainz as the primary metadata source and mb changed the format of the data given by their api. They are posting details and updates here:
Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing open and closed issues Current Behavior Unless I miss something there might be a issue serverside. Especially since I am able to ge...
In his annual report to the UN Security Council on conflict-related sexual violence, Guterres said that Israel and Russia could be listed next year among the parties “credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence”.
In his warning to Israel, Guterres said he was “gravely concerned about credible information of violations by Israeli armed and security forces” against Palestinians in several prisons, a detention centre and a military base.
“Cases documented by the United Nations indicate patterns of sexual violence such as genital violence, prolonged forced nudity and repeated strip searches conducted in an abusive and degrading manner,” Guterres wrote.
In the case of Russia, Guterres wrote that he was “gravely concerned about credible information of violations by Russian armed and security forces and affiliated armed groups”, primarily against Ukrainian prisoners of war, in 50 official and 22 unofficial detention facilities in Ukraine and Russia.
Western “democracies” will still support the genocidal Israeli regime no matter how many reports come out detailing the atrocities it commits. Hell, the most powerful “democracy” has a rapist pedophile leading it. They won’t let their Zionism and dehumanization of Palestinians be dissuaded by such pesky concepts like ethics or humanity.
In his annual report to the UN Security Council on conflict-related sexual violence, Guterres said that Israel and Russia could be listed next year among the parties “credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence”.
In his warning to Israel, Guterres said he was “gravely concerned about credible information of violations by Israeli armed and security forces” against Palestinians in several prisons, a detention centre and a military base.
“Cases documented by the United Nations indicate patterns of sexual violence such as genital violence, prolonged forced nudity and repeated strip searches conducted in an abusive and degrading manner,” Guterres wrote.
In the case of Russia, Guterres wrote that he was “gravely concerned about credible information of violations by Russian armed and security forces and affiliated armed groups”, primarily against Ukrainian prisoners of war, in 50 official and 22 unofficial detention facilities in Ukraine and Russia.
Western “democracies” will still support the genocidal Israeli regime no matter how many reports come out detailing the atrocities it commits. Hell, the most powerful “democracy” has a rapist pedophile leading it. They won’t let their Zionism and dehumanization of Palestinians be dissuaded by such pesky concepts like ethics or humanity.
Ett av de projekt som Föreningen för Digitala Fri- och Rättigheter (DFRI) driver är att ta fram en ny och bättre digital legitimation. Anledningen till varför det behövs en bättre e-legitimation anger de tydligt i projektbeskrivningen.
In this short little howto we will be setting up a simple Jail via Bastille and host a static website.
Beware: The article assumes that sudo is configured. You can of course also use doas or switch to root, if you so desire. Some commands need root right
In this short little howto we will be setting up a simple Jail via Bastille and host a static website.
Beware: The article assumes that sudo is configured. You can of course also use doas or switch to root, if you so desire. Some commands need root rights to work – keep that in mind as you go along!
First, we need to install Bastille itself. $ sudo pkg install -y bastille After installing, we enable the bastille service. $ sudo sysrc bastille_enable=YES And finally we start it. $ sudo service bastille start The next step on the list is to acually alter the bastilleconfig to adapt it to our needs. Beware that in this guide I assume that you’ve installed FreeBSD with ZFS – or that you have a ZFS pool on hand that we can leverage. By default FreeBSD calls this pool zroot (Which can be altered during the install of FreeBSD). If you do not use ZFS be sure to not alter the variables below – the default is not leveraging ZFS.
Edit the configuration file. $ sudo vim /usr/local/etc/bastille/bastille.confbastille_tzdata="Europe/Berlin"...bastille_zfs_enable="YES"bastille_zfs_zpool="zroot"... In my case, as you can see, I’ve adapted the timezone and set up ZFS for the coming Bastille Jails. Be sure to alter the timezone according to your needs.
Next up is creating a loopback interface. $ sudo sysrc cloned_interfaces+=lo1$ sudo sysrc ifconfig_lo1_name="bastille0" Start the newly created interface after creating it. $ sudo service netif cloneup Now we can move on to the bootstrapphase. The following command will get the newest release (As of this time) and prepare the environment. $ sudo bastille bootstrap 14.3-RELEASE update Alright, with that done we can create our first Jail.
The command given will create a Jail named “web” and give it the IP address of 10.0.23.60. Also specifying the interface after the IP address is important.
Note: Be sure to alter the given address to your own needs! $ sudo bastille create web 14.3-RELEASE 10.0.23.60/24 vtnet0 So far so good. Check if the Jail is created with the “list” option to bastille. $ sudo bastille list If the output shows our newly created Jail called “web” we are good to go.
Now we want to enter our freshly created Jail to continue the setup. $ sudo bastille console web First, let’s install pkg and update the repository. # pkg# pkg update Next we’ll install the needed software (Webserver) to host our website. We also install a editor – pick the one your prefer (In this example we’ll use vim). # pkg install -y lighttpd vim Enable Lighttpd and start it afterwards. # sysrc lighttpd_enable="YES"# service lighttpd start We could now configure Lighttpd to our needs and change quite some settings. But in the interest of keeping it simple we will use the default configuration for now. If however you want to change things you can always take a look into the configuration directory which can be found under /usr/local/www/lighttpd (Multiple config files).
By default Lighttpd serves the directory /usr/local/www/data (Document Root). This is where we will put the needed files of our little website.
But, the directory “data” is not yet created. So let us just do that. # cd /usr/local/www/# mkdir data# chown www:www data Make sure the owner is set correctly since Lighttpd will by default leverage the user www and groupwww.
Final stretch ahead. Let’s cd into the directory and clone a simple website from git – After installing git of course. # pkg install -y git-lite# cd data# git clone github.com/jhx0/bsd-website.gi… mv bsd-website/* . Our frehsly cloned site should now be moved into the data directory.
The only thing left to do is opening your webbrowser of choice on our client system and navigation to the IP address previously configured. $ firefox 10.0.23.60 Finsihed!
Beware: This is a default setup – There are many ways to improve this! Look into the configuration of Lighttpd, esp, consideringsecurity related alterations.
Hello me hearties. I have a question about the Streamio app/Service.
I travel full time and with all the paid streaming services requiring a 'home' IP address I'm now looking for alternatives.
Streamio seems to fit the bill, however I have one question. Although I will be streaming to one or maybe 2 devices, I would probably like to use REAL DEBRID, But, Can I use different IP addresses, for example, one week I might be in Japan, the next week I'll be in Thailand.
In my case would it be best to purchase my own private IP from a VPN provider?
"AIOStreams consolidates multiple Stremio addons and debrid services into a single, easily configurable addon. It allows highly customisable filtering, sorting, and formatting of results and supports proxying all your streams through MediaFlow Proxy or StremThru for improved compatibility and IP restriction bypassing."
Du musst nur an die richtigen Orte fahren. Vor ein paar Jahren hatten wir auch eine Hitzewelle und eine Kollegin fand das ganz angenehm, weil sie gerade aus dem Death Valley kam und da ein paar Tage knapp 50 Grad hatte.
A group that has been searching the burnt remains of a heath fire for surviving animals has said it is "devastated" by the loss of wildlife.
The Dorset Heaths Partnership is made up of 10 organisations working together to protect and enhance the Dorset heathlands
Paul Attwell is the partnership's team manager and said the blaze, which started at Holt Heath near Wimborne in Dorset on Saturday morning, was "horrendous".
A Sowerby's Beaked Whale, a poorly known deep sea species, has perished after washing up on a beach in Norfolk.
The animal was found in The Wash near Holme-next-the-Sea on Wednesday 6 August by a member of the public, who alerted it to British Divers Marine Life Rescue. By the time a BDMLR representative arrived at the scene, the whale had died, according to Wild Ken Hill on Facebook.
The whale was found to be a female. At this time of year females move south from Arctic breeding grounds – and it may be that this individual was with a young animal.
Google is making it easier to see news from your favorite outlets. A new feature, called “preferred sources,” will let you choose the outlets you want to see featured the most in Search’s “top stories” section.
Google’s top stories hub appears when you search for something related to a current event, and displays a bunch of relevant articles from around the web. Along with prominently featuring articles from your preferred outlets in the top stories list, Google may also include them in a new “from your sources” section. Google first started testing the preferred sources feature in June, and now it’s rolling out to users in the US and India.
I've been using Kagi.com as my main search engine for over a year now exactly for this feature and still Google is behind here only offering for news and blogs. On Kagi you can just click any domain and select priority level which works incredibly well!
It doesn’t incorporate LLMs per se. Read their mission statement on LLM. I also use LLMs for $dayjob and at home, and only use Kagi because I can access all models directly from there, and it’s seriously great.
The LLM stuff is fully optional, but the money we pay goes to develop that too, and I can see how one might not want that. I’m personally irked that Proton did that very thing.
I can respect holding to the principles the previous poster has.
Well, yes and no. If you can choose your media sources, then you avoid accidental drifting (trust me, I’ve accidentally drifted before, almost ended badly)
Let's consider the source: Nietzsche was very insightful but lacked faith in anything besides the self. I choose hope, even if I don't know how we'll get there. 🙏🙃
Sarah Z did an amazingly prescient and compassionate take on this over 2 years ago with .
I urge everyone to try and approach this with some level of compassion and understanding; even though it seems ridiculous to most of us they are actively preying on the emotionally vulnerable to profit. In the same way that "you are not immune to propaganda", the ability of AI tools to parse language and wield emotional payloads in a calculated manner (something a lot of us already refer to as "the algorithm" in various ways) shouldn't be underestimated. Even when you're not directly using those tools yourself, they could be used against you. Dead Internet Theory and AI posting chatbots are already a part of this.
People using AI companion apps are juts the leading edge, the volunteers. I urge you to take the danger seriously and please have some compassion for your fellow human beings, especially the vulnerable.
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.
We also typically think of these individuals as mature adults with some understanding of the world and social skills — but a lot of the people getting pulled in are kids and teenagers, which are particularly vulnerable for exactly the reason you elucidated.
Unnecessary? Well, considering that many people can't find a real partner and soulmate, I think this outcome of lovemaking with AI was pretty damn obvious. I think it started when anime became popular and a lot of people started fantasizing about perfect girls with perfect personalities and this is the result, although I'm not sure if it started with anime or some actresses...
LOL that ain't it. It's shifts in society, and the gap in how men and women see the world is widening. Speaking as a man myself, it ain't looking so good when I look at my fellow men's behavior and values. Dude's are sliding to the right and turning inward just because they strike out a few times. It happens, you're going to have failed relationships. you're going to get rejected. You're going to even get divorced at times. It's part of the process. You can't turn against women because of it. It's not a moral failing of society.
For me LLMs have been the biggest thing since podcasts. Feels almost like gaslighting to read this AI hate here virtually every day as it doesn't even remotely align with my personal experience of it.
I bet like "free to play" games they'll find a few "whale" users who will spend inappropriate amounts of money. There's a long history of people paying for companionship... Now it's even more fake 🙁
Damn, I think I'll try this crap to feel the rot, come back with new knowledge and tell you what it's like. Who's going to go with me into this swamp? Will you be able to come back without succumbing to the forbidden fruit like Anakin from Star Wars?
My stupid QNAP TS-251A--I hate this thing!--just started beeping at me out of the blue, for no reason, and I now I can't access it on its web interface to see what it's complaining about. Turning off VPN and firewall had no effect. Also, can't even ping it. Tried restarting it once, without effect. Would be much obliged for any help troubleshooting this.
The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to release its own records.
A Brazilian court has ruled that Boeing can continue hiring engineers, rejecting a lawsuit that sought to limit the US planemaker's recruitment practices.
A Brazilian federal court has rejected a lawsuit seeking to restrict Boeing's recruitment of local engineers, allowing the US planemaker to continue its hiring practices in the country.
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
I'm hoping someone can give me some advice on an issue that means I can't access the main user account on my Linux Mint (Cinnamon) operating system.
Context:
I'm using a dual boot setup of windows and mint on my laptop. I use mint (or used to, when I could access my user) for pretty much anything that doesn't require things* only my windows instance has. (*things such as support for video games that support windows but not linux, for example)
When creating my main user account, I made a mistake in the username. It was irritating enough for me to want to change it, and as doing so seemed like it should have been fine, I settled upon three guides and ended up (mostly?) just following this one:
I cant remember all of what happened anymore, but I have the following screenshots, along with the stuff I do remember.
(note: red blocks represent the new username, blue blocks represent the old username)
At the used-by-process error, I first tried following the guide precisely, then hoped that "PID" was Process ID, and that the guide expected me to put the ID that usermod stated after "PID", and tried doing that.
Idk if that fvcked something up...
Then I guess I fixed that somehow, idk if I did so by restarting and logging in only as tempuser, or if I had already done that and fixed it some other way.
Anyway I meant to run each line of the command separately to avoid stuff going wrong, but accidentally did both at once. I hoped it'd be fine anyway.
Then stuff happened I guess.
Anyway,
I cant remember much more but I know that I tried to log back in as my main user account and I found out that:
The username had been successfully changed.
I could not log into my main user account.
Imputing the correct username and password was successful, and acted like it was logging me in as usual. Then after the usual black screen, it just throws me back to the login window.
This still happens.
I went through a fair bit of internet searching, followed some advice. All that most people were saying was to check how much disk space you have left - and to not keep timeshift snapshots on the same drive as your OS.
(this is one such post, and (I think) the only one I found that I definitely recognise from the previous searching: reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comment…)
I did ctrl-alt-f1 and ran df -h, and deleted most of the timeshift snapshots I had (I think I had maybe 6 and deleted 4 or 5).
Here's the output of df -h that I think is from after I deleted the timeshifts:
Idk what to do, hope someone can advise.
(TL;DR: tried to change username on mint, now whenever I try to log in to the user it throws me back to the login window after the usual black screen. Hope this suffices for a summary...)
This is a step by step guide on how to change your username on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint (and other Linux distributions based on Debian/Ubuntu), and Fedora.
Check permissions on your home folder. Make sure everything is owned by your new username.
I had a separate partition mounted on /home on my old system. I remounted the same partition at /home on the new system, and got the same bootloop issue. The problem was that the old permissions were for 1001:1001, not (newuser):(newuser). Had to log into a TTY and chown (newuser):(newuser) -R /home/(newuser) to get everything working.
I tried logging in with tempuser and remembered that I have no idea how to access the files on my main user. In the file manager the home folder for said user isn’t accessible, and I assume that’s because I set it to be encrypted when setting it up. Thus I can’t access the files to copy them over to a new user or anything. Also, I assume I wouldn’t be able to rename the homedir as such, and don’t know where to start checking or changing user settings and permissions and such.
First, check if you can login, with your new user, on the Linux console (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 through F7). If you can, the username change probably went through correctly. Report back if you cannot login via console or you get warnings/errors.
Your login session does automatically terminate if the session process for Cinnamon exits, booting you back to GDM (or whatever login manager you have). So probably the Cinnamon session process, started by GDM, craps out for some reason. The reason is probably, I suspect, that it cannot access or cannot find some file it wants to open.
Check ~/.xsession-errors, it might tell you what went wrong.
Also check the permissions of your home folder, the files in your home folder, and check if you correctly set up the symbolic link from /home/olduser to /home/newuser as the guide suggests.
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VPNs as soon as they can tap a screen. Raise them with online pseudonyms they change annually. They don't learn their actual PII until they're at least 10. Can't give it out to strangers if you don't know it yourself!
I like and understand where you're going, but I can offer some actual experience. I learned my legal first name at 8.
It didn't go down well (I cried because the teacher didn't call my name and sent me to the school office to get it sorted) and I had a weird complex about the real name into high school. There's no rhyme or reason to the two names, so it is actually sort of surprising to pair the two. To this day I still go by the nickname I thought was my real name. My nieces and nephews still enjoy discovering my real name and calling me by it thinking it's a big secret they've discovered. I still have to explain it a hundred times a year to new coworkers and acquaintances.
If I were to be slightly more earnest, I would say that the authoritarian concepts they learn from enforcement of arbitrary restrictions like "no screens in the bedroom" are far more harmful to their well-being than the information they could put on those screens.
The best "tech rule" I could give instill in them is an understanding of the concept of "click bait". The sooner I can immunize them to paywalls and microtransactions, the better.
I mean, I was somewhat serious. Maybe not the "you don't get to know your home address until you're 10 years old" part.
The arbitrary nature of the rules is the problem. I don't want my kids limiting themselves just because they think they are supposed to. If they know and understand the reason for the rule, the rule itself doesn't need to exist.
Have you had any sucess with explaining the concept of clickbaiting and the whole predatory environment of the internet? I've tried, so many times, in different ways, with different examples and analogies. It just doesn't really stick, they are simply too inexperienced to fully understand the consequences and will fall prey to it the next day or two.
What would compel you to announce the multitude of screen names you've used over the years? Never practice necromancy. A dead name stays dead; it is never to be referred to by the living.
I dunno, maybe because some of them are still used in other places, or for other purposes =\
It's unfortunately not quite dead - the Internet is scraped and not anonymous, but pseudonymous, and a bearer of a pseudonym can usually be discovered. If someone really wants it, of course.
But that's a good thought, maybe it's time for a few new names.
Young people are still social but they do it differently, if you are no not online you wouldn’t know their is a social gathering nor would you be invited. Not from malace but because all information about any event only exists online.
The person you consider your best friend needs someone to talk to. All their friends are available but not you. You become hard to bond with because your not where everyone else is in digital space.
Many events even require smartphone, even boring restaurants sometimes do with a QR code to see the menu/order.
I hate that kind of stuff but since a few years it has become clear that not having a smartphone is basically a social disability.
I understand that it is harder to bond to someone who isn't immediately digitally available. I understand that "kids these days! " do their social stuff online, but at the same time, they seem to have largely lost all skill at interacting with real humans of slight or no aquaintence.
It is easy to make sarcastic comments on your phone about how stupid this or that is. The sterotypical basement dweller can snark all day. What takes social skill is actively engaging with people you don't care about and finding common ground.
Yes, digital people track some of this on facebook and such, but in real life: in which community groups do they participate? Do they know what their neighbors do and what they like beyond snapshots of events? That is: yeah, they saw that pic of that cookout, but did they know that he volunteer teaches English as a second language Tuesday and Thursday at the library? When was the last time they went into a neighbor's home (or had one visit theirs) to share a cup of coffee and complain about that road that needs fixing and who to push about it?
Edited to replace 'you' with 'they' so there'd be no confusion that I mean multiple 'you' readers rather than a single person.
Do you realize how hostile the outside is to non-adults? Like genuinely I've seen people call the cops because there was a kid riding a bike unsuprivized in a suburban neighborhood. Malls are dying and there's nothing to replace them as a meeting spot.
This isn't even getting into the seeming requirement to spend what feels like 100$ to see a movie now or any of the other stereotypical hang outs. Or how many people have parents that simply do not have time to drive them places.
I'm genuinely interested in your response because I genuinely think the world has become actively hostile to kids being kids.
You still have local second-run theaters where those still exist, plus parks and playgrounds where those haven't been ruined yet, and depending on where you live, there may even be various art/craft places to hang out at, splatter-painting places included in that, and some of the nicer parts of the country even have interactive museums that are kid-friendly (as in actually interactive, like the patrons can actually interact and play with the exhibits there).
Aside from those, yeah, there isn't much for kids to do. sarcasm, but also not really if you're in a *really* low-income part of the country where there really *isn't* anything to do, think of places like Appalachia for a good example of that extreme
So all you have to do is for everyone to move to a better neighbourhood, problem solved.
Sarcasm aside, in my neighbourhood there where some attempts to get together. Then people started complaining about eachother. Now at most a neighbour may wave back when i wave at them.
You're still ignoring the core problem in that children can't do any of those things by themselves anymore and all of them cost some amount of money with the exception of playgrounds and parks. Growing up the closest one to me was about a 30 minute drive so I would never be able to get myself there.
First bit: Why do we as a country (speaking from the U.S.) allow police to assualt the citizenry? Why aren't we all in our town halls demanding the removal of any cops who handcuff kids, tackle people who don't speak English, or fire guns at anyone who isn't at that moment attacking someone? The police should be under our control by our consent. We elect their bosses if not the sheriffs themselves. Why aren't we showing up in numbers in person to demand better?
Second bit: I know there are still some communities where kids can ride their bikes without fear because the parents still know everyone on the block. They might not like all the neighbors, but they know them and aren't calling the cops on them. The bad part of that is a distrust of outsiders and unwillingness to accept anything different. Humans fall into us/them thinking too easily. As far as I have heard/read/seen, the best way to mitigate that is first-hand exposure to the 'other' because people tend to be better than whatever sterotype someone worries about. Reminiscing here: I remember visiting my grandparents and having them walk me into various houses on the block to chat with neighbors. It never occurred to me as a bored child that this was socially incorporating me into an insular community that might have been sucpsious of a strange kid biking around the same streets over and over if they didn't know I belonged there.
That said, I don't understand how the kids like me who grew up running wild wherever we wanted became parents who didn't allow any roaming, and who's kids then became adults that will call the cops before asking the neighbors. Maybe we move too often. Maybe we fear litigation. Mostly, I suspect, we work too many hours for not enough money such that adults don't have the energy to form old-style communities where people banded together (both for good and bad), and instead everyone only bitches online just as I am doing right now.
I don't disagree, but wouldn't it be better if society rejected that demand from capitalism and forced them to change because people aren't interested in using an app to shop in a fucking grocery store?
I know kids who's parents kept them away from computers growing up, where as I was allowed to play with computers and broke several by the age of 10.
Now I'm good with computers and have made a good career out of it, those kids who weren't allowed around computers aren't very computer literate, their parents definitely did them a big disservice.
Teach your kids a healthy ballance with new technology, but don't withhold it especially when their peers are all using it.
My kid is 3 but this has been a big issue on my mind lately. I’ve read The Anxious Generation, The Screentime Solution, and The Art of Screentime over the past 9 months (with some other tech-adjacent books). My husband has also recently had a turn-around on tech for kids. I think our big thing is no personal devices for the little one for a long time. Family computer in a common area. Family cellphone that can be used when she’s not with us. Family tv in the living room. Family iPad that is used for specific tasks.
Hotfix:
Fixed video playback in Ghostwire Tokyo
Fixed video playback in Castlevania Dominus Collection
Possibly other games fixed that use webm/vp8/vp9 video
Hilariously, all of those issues could be resolved if those same developers that are complaining donated some of their skills and expertise into contributing to the fixes and features they need.
This reads very much like an "Old man yells at cloud" moment.
Two of the things in their list of "Hardware and Driver Issues" look way false from my experience.
Nvidia compatibility had been getting steadily worse on x.org for the four or five years prior to the switch to wayland. It is getting steadily better on wayland now and I would pick wayland from a stability point of view right now.
Multi GPU setups are night and day so much better on wayland. I look after a few different wacky multi monitor setups and the support for them is so much better on wayland, particularly 7+ monitors across multiple different physical GPUs, mismatched refresh rates, mismatched sizes, weirdo physical layouts and monitors that are being turned on and off during a session work considerably better.
Nvidia compatibility had been getting steadily worse on x.org for the four or five years prior to the switch to wayland. It is getting steadily better on wayland now and I would pick wayland from a stability point of view right now.
Sadly, that has not been my experience. I tried using wayland on several different computers with nvidia cards (yeah yeah I know, would not buy them again today), and the result was pretty terrible. Random crashes terrible. The same is not true with X. It is also not simply the case of the nvidia propriatary drivers being terrible (they are), because on one of the machines, I installed the open source driver instead (mostly because the proprietary driver would spin the fan full speed all the time, and I found no way to stop it from doing that).
Upfront they describe two monocultures and then a thriving diverse ecosystem and then conclude that the thriving diverse ecosystem is the unsustainable option.
Yeah, Linux as a software ecosystem is complex and messy like a forest or the animal kingdom. It’s a feature.
However, I think there is some hesitation from folks who actually rely on x11 and one thing Wayland and its projects are not great at is suggesting ways to bring apps into the Wayland "way" of doing things.
Projects like wayback are probably going to end up being the best approach to these: bring all the x11 apps forward into wayland, which buys time for devs to adapt or adjust or abandon.
Generally, I don't particularly care for one over the other. But I also use xfce, and I will continue to do so.
I have no compelling reason to move to Wayland yet, but I'm getting a bit concerned that this "thriving ecosystem", as you call it, will force me into a DE I don't want to use for a reason that isn't clear to me right now.
This urgency to move to Wayland that has surfaced in the last year or so is strange. Wayland has been around for more than 20 years, I don't get why this all has to happen in such a short time frame.
I see the point and I find the article honest in exposing its authors views.
But honestly Wayland is better than X in most ways and while it's taking time to grow and replace X fully, well, on 10 years from now X will be rightfully forgotten.
This is not a systemd/sysinit issue. Wayland actually fix issues, deep issues, in an old outdated and broken also mostly unmaintained stack of tech that didn't age well.
I did not yet switched to Wayland everywhere for various reasons, but the fact that where I did it worked very well and didn't even noticed the transition is proof that Wayland is the wayforward.
Fegmentation is bad? Well, it's the core of Linux, so get used to it and let everybody pick what they prefer....
To be fair, systemd also fixed a bunch of issues (by making the boot sequence declarative and also consolidating a bunch of previously disparate services into a cohesive ecosystem); it also introduced new ones which are now difficult to fix due to compatibility. I still prefer it.
I never felt systemd as addressing any issues I personally had, so meh, I still don't use it and don't feel the need for it. Of. Course, this is only my personal choice. Good to have.
Maybe systemd fixed issues for other use cases, so there is that.
Wayland too, but the rel difference is that X has been an unmaintained mess for decades and was designed for different technology. Hard to adapt to modern issues like privacy, security and hardware acceleration. So Wayland is a good way forward, and still backward compatible which is a cool and needed feature too.
While systemd, after decades, I can still do without in all my use cases (personal use laptop, various servers, work workstations, and a largish work laboratory with a few mixed workstations and servers). Don't get me wrong, it's good to have. But also yo have choice.
It's been more or less a scandal here in Norway that we even bought into these companies. We do have an ethics committee that designate what are off limits for the unscrupulous stock managers.
i hope the safe guards in place for the members of the ethics committee guard against (a) leader(s) who get to decide on future members of the ethics committee.
i say this because the united states also has such committees but both our president and our congresspeople sabotage it by either refusing to certify new members or appoint members with conflicts of interest (eg fossil fuels executives in charge of the environment protection agency).
Is it worth paying for a direct download website? When downloading for free it takes 6-8 hours (and for some reason it got interrupted and failed, so I have to attempt again) but if I paid for it I could download it in 3 minutes. I'm worried that the free version just doesn't support having a download take that long, so it will be impossible to obtain.
I'm not sure if it is safe, nor stupid to do so though. Specifically, I'm talking about torbobit (dot) net
Would you consider torrenting (from non-private torrents) safer than ddl? I can either pay the ddl or a vpn and use a torrent. Idk.
No, I don't think it's worth it because I checked rsload and v4.3.0 is avaliable there. DDL there are not speed limited. The version on Rutracker is older, v3.5.4 .
is it rsload (dot) net, org, etc.? I couldn't find it on the megathread or from other treasures links. However, I did see this on Wiki Index's list of unsafe sites
RSLOAD - Uploaded the same version of malwarebytes that got FileCR in trouble / Utorrent malware
DLL links are always down, torrents can die too, but overall they are much more reliable, you can just have your torrent search engine to organise by seeders.
Much more content on torrents
Much higher quality, DLLs at least back when I used those had terrible quality.
Much easier to manage 100 downloads at the same time, sure Jdownloader exists, but...
RSS downloaded, you can get your favourite anime torrent or RSS and qbittorrent will download it for you every week.
Security, if you download software, popular torrent websites are much more trusted and moderated and you have less probably of getting malware.
If you subscribe to a DLL site you can use that single website, if you torrent you can download from many websites.
it honestly depends on how much you use the service.
i had an account for a while to a site that shut down. while i had it i was downloading a bunch of different files, not necessarily pirated stuff.
i'd say if torrents isn't a viable option and you would be using that site downloading at least 500 mb worth of data a day, it might be worth it. if something you want is available only on one of these sites, it depends on how bad you want it and how soon you want it.
A California-based biotechnology startup has officially launched the world's first commercially available butter made entirely from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen, eliminating the need for traditional agriculture or animal farming. Savor, backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates through his Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, announced the commercial release of its animal- and plant-free butter after three years of development.
The revolutionary product uses a proprietary thermochemical process that transforms carbon dioxide captured from the air, hydrogen from water, and methane into fat molecules chemically identical to those found in dairy butter. According to the company, the process creates fatty acids by heating these gases under controlled temperature and pressure conditions, then combining them with glycerol to form triglycerides.
While I think this is pretty amazing science stuff, the writing is terrible. Here is the progression of the story as written:
They made butter from carbon...
Well, it's actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen...
OK, it's actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, and methane...
Well, no, it's actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, methane, and glycerol...
Wait, hang on, it's actually made from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, methane, glycerol, natural flavor, and lecithin...
Now, the source of glycerol is in question, because they say this butter is both animal and plant-free. Glycerol can be made synthetically, but it's WAY more expensive to do it. Also, I'm not seeing any way to create lecithin without plants. They never say what the "natural flavor" is.
A reminder that "natural flavor" doesn't mean healthier or even something you might want over the artificially created flavors. It just means it comes from a natural source and is not lab created.
Castoreum, sometimes used for vanilla and raspberry flavoring, comes from beaver anal secretions. That would be labelled under a "natural flavor" and you'd never be told more than that.
I'll take the artificial stuff any day just on principle there.
I think it's worth pointing out that vanilla extract is from vanilla beans and artificial vanilla is whatever the fuck they feel like that tastes like vanilla. Also, modern artificial vanilla extremely rarely, if ever, is derived from Castoreum because it's hard as hell to farm beavers and expensive as all fuck. The "artificial vanilla comes from beaver anal glands" is basically a prevalent internet myth that gets passed around like the, "You eat 7 spiders a year in your sleep." myth.
You said artificial vanilla is whatever the fuck. It's not, artificial vanilla is the main ingredient of natural vanilla, but without the other flavors
Ah gotcha! I for sure was not following what you were saying. I don't know if that's he real thrust of the point in my above comment, but I was more referring to the fact that artificial vanilla doesn't necessarily come from vanilla beans. I should've been more precise with my language, but it's worth noting that artificial vanilla is largely synthesized and comes from a variety of sources, not just vanilla beans (see below for the source/pertinent excerpt).
It also gets weird as to how the FDA regulates the term. I believe the key term is actually "Pure" in the "Pure Vanilla Extract" but don't quote me on that. Not sure how it's done by other regulatory agencies but it's probably equally convoluted in a lot of places.
However, many alternate routes to vanillin are well documented, including vanillin derived from spruce tree lignin, corn sugar, rice or wheat bran, clove oil, curcumin, or guaiacol.
They can still be your prime years in terms of quantity of beaver ass eaten, if not in quality. But I think you sell yourself short. They're gonna love you!
My ex wife's uncle was the director of the south American division of the arm that made coloring and flavorings of one of the big Food/Chem groups, Procter & Gamble, or unilever, or one of those. Can't remember.
No one in his household ate any processed/ultra processed foods.
It kind of sounds like the beginnings of star trek's replicators...
But that aside, somehow I doubt those are the exact only "ingredients" they use. And it wouldn't surprise me at all if the end product contains all kinds of trace elements of various not so healthy chemicals used to get the parts to combine into the actual butter. Like the process to get the glycerol or lecithin in a state they can use.
Ofcourse a lot of our dietary ingredients are contaminated in various levels anyway.
I'd actually be willing to give it a try if it's vaguely price-competitive, but their website is all glam shots of butter and people doing things with butter and not only doesn't sell it but doesn't tell you where you can get it.
Also, they did not do a good job of choosing that name. It looks like there's a very-similarly-named French Canadian manufacturer of butter, Savör, which apparently isn't too religious about using their umlaut:
At Savor, we believe the best butter starts with the best environment. That’s why we source our grass-fed dairy butter from New Zealand, a country renowned for its pristine landscapes, sustainable farming, and exceptional dairy quality.
Savor makes delightfully rich foods without animals, farmland, fertilizers, hormones, or antibiotics. These are real fats, not a substitute. That means all the calories to carry all the flavor.
Pretty sure I know the factory that this butter comes from. The Miraka plant; north of Taupō. Geothermally powered, restricts it to a relatively small region in NZ.
Maybe the manufacturer is in New Zealand and the French-Canadian people are the guys who package and sell it or something. Dunno, just did a quick skim of their site.
Yeah well... I never liked Savör products too much. They go out if their way with all their branding and claims, but you can get very tasty butter from local creameries at similar prices, without the need to ship it frozen halfway across the globe. Especially with milk sourced from the eastern townships or the Saguenay region. And Quebec (where Savör is operating) runs on 100% hydro power, which is equal or better to geothermal. So whatever Savör is gaining from the Miraka plant, is lost on the need to import basically.
You're probably right, but I can't wait to see the egg on your face if it does turn out to contain glycomacropeptides, α-lactalbumin, β-lactoglobulin, serum albumin and immunoglobulins!
To put it in simple terms, Savor says they take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heat them up, oxidize them and get a final result that looks like candle wax but is in fact fat molecules like those in beef, cheese or vegetable oils.
So their process sounds like it creates synthetic lard, not butter. This can still be a good thing as the extra ingredients to make it "butter" aren't really the hard/impactful part of butter.
I'm not giving up a small pleasure like butter just so that a billionaire can buy another private jet and wipe out whatever tiny carbon footprint savings comes from giving up butter
We focus too much on efficiency and cost sometimes. Sometimes efficiency is only a "nice to have" while being outweighed by practicality, convenience, safety, and any of the other factors we choose to make a priority.
It is expensive and inefficient for an airplane to have two engines instead of just one. We do it anyway because it's required for safety and redundancy. We made that the priority, and that was an active choice. We need to start making more active choices about what the priority is when it comes to our energy futures. All priorities have tradeoffs. Cost and efficiency have their own tradeoffs. Question it when people tell you that things can't be done because of "cost" or "efficiency". When they do that they're presupposing what the priority is, but often it's billionaires trying to cut corners to make themselves richer at our expense, our safety, our futures. We can do inefficient things. Sometimes it's even the right choice.
I think you're missing that there are better ways to produce fuels for cars than to chemically synthesize petroleum. It's all about cost and efficiency if you're just looking for portable energy. Or we could burn more coal so we can generate the energy needed for synthetic gasoline....
Or we could burn more coal so we can generate the energy needed for synthetic gasoline…
The problem is, people can, do, and will use that exact same argument to say we don't need any more solar panels or wind turbines, because we don't need and can't use or store the excess power for anything and that's why we need to keep thermal plants as backup for base load generation. Look, when we produce too much electricity, the electricity cost goes to zero and negative! It's "wasteful and inefficient"! But these two problems can solve each other. Synthetic fuels (doesn't have to be gasoline, hydrogen is step 1, methane/LNG is a bit more manageable as a chemical fuel. As long as the carbon source is atmospheric, then it and other synthetic hydrocarbons are carbon neutral to burn) provide an on-demand energy sink/storage method that can support and drive more electrification and renewable power, it just has to be part of a consistent and systemic approach with strict regulation and a clear view of the big picture (something sorely lacking these days).
We need a solar grid that can meet our demand during a 9-hour, overcast, low-angle winter day. That same grid will be producing more than 4 times as much power as we need during a 15-hour, high-angle summer day, even after we include air conditioning loads.
We need massive, seasonal loads to soak up that excess power and keep solar profitable.
Fake butter isn't going to do it, but things like desalination, hydrogen electrolysis, and Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbon production are all likely candidates.
A federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent on a Chicago area task force used Palos Heights Detective Todd Hutchinson’s login credentials to perform unauthorized searches this past January.
A Palos Heights police officer has been disciplined and retrained
That is automatic fired in any place I've worked IT.
The detective stated it was “common” to allow others in the group to use his login for drug investigations
That's an investigation in any place I've worked IT.
State legislation prohibits Illinois license plate reader data from being used for immigration enforcement purposes.
Like that matters.
Meh, read the damned article. It's more damning than I can post about.
As usual, I'll sign off by saying, get strapped, learn gun safety and local laws, practice, be ready to fucking die in a firefight. Human rights will never come cheap to defend. But in no caselie down for this shit. Don't have a "brown people" pic, but they're as important as any of us.
If your life is more important than your liberty, you do you, I will not judge. But I've made my own decision on the matter.
I wish more people who believe in justice had your attitude. We wouldn't be degrading into Orwellian 1984 standards if the powers that be received just 2% pushback with the same magnitude of force they employ.
Democracy dies because Americans, the gun-toting, freedom-fighting, liberty-loving citizens they are, are in fact giant. fucking. cowards. In general.
They do feel pretty free to do that, and they also heavily signal that if you’re of a darker complexion, even if they barge in unannounced, that they’re going to fill your house full of holes but if you’re white, even if you knew what was going on, they’ll detain you alive. It happens all the time, and in “unarmed” societies that aren’t massively shit people don’t need to worry about it anyway.
“Greatest country on earth” but everyone needs to be constantly afraid of their neighbours and government.
A bit of missing context - the officer with the access to the FLOCK system shared his account details with many other officers including the DEA agent because he thought that’s just what was done since he was the only one with an account.
Also on this:
State legislation prohibits Illinois license plate reader data from being used for immigration enforcement purposes.
Why?! Why is immigration enforcement being stifled so much? Imagine if there was a police database that could help find murderers whenever they drove their car in public and legislators said “no you’re not allowed to use that to help find wanted murderers”. It makes no sense.
A bit of missing context - the officer with the access to the FLOCK system shared his account details with many other officers including the DEA agent because he thought that’s just what was done since he was the only one with an account.
LOLLLLLLLL
And I suppose any arrests or convictions based on that were not legal or overturned, right??
Because immigration enforcement is a civil violation, not a criminal one. Imagine if the government said that license plate readers could be used to enforce copyright violations, or defamation. Say a bad word about the President and they will use the system to find your car and wait for you to send you to Alligator Auschwitz without a trial.
Entering the country illegally is a crime under federal law, not civil. Remaining in the country after your legal immigration status is up is a civil issue, but deportation is a lawful response.
Why do you think people should get to stay in a country illegally? I’m genuinely curious.
Do you think a person should be seperated from thier families, put into prison, subjected to violence, and sent to a country they've never been to for a misdemeanor?
Because thats a criminal misdemeanor, not civil like immigration. But you dont care do you? You got yours..
If law enforcement had access to all of your social media, e-mails and live video feeds from inside your house then they would be able to catch criminals more effectively.
We have laws specifically limiting police powers because we recognize that there are more things to consider than simply maximizing arrests.
Protection against unreasonable search is written into the constitution, after all
It does make sense. Police are not perfect saint-like beings, and the government is not composed of perfect beings either. I'm not sure what kind of person you are, but I'm sure there are some things you enjoy and partake in which some other social group really despises. If you're religious, it may be militant atheists who despise you going to church. If you're not religious, it may be militant theists who despise you not going to church. The point is, there's probably some social cultures out there that hate you for the things that you love. Those people may not be in charge right now, but they might be one day. Those people can end up in police departments, as developers for these camera companies, as administrators for the database that collects information on where you drive and when. Those people, being imperfect as they are, may not always resist the temptation to use this system in a way to track down and identify people like you for doing whatever it is that you love and they hate. Now you end up on a list for that.
There's no denying that sophisticated surveillance technology does make it easier to catch criminals and does legitimately protect from the threats those criminals pose. But surveillance technology, by it's very nature, cannot surveil only the criminals - it has to surveil everyone to find the criminals. And the notion of what is criminal may change. If your favorite hobby becomes criminalized, or if the government criminalizes your identity itself, these beautifully effective tools are suddenly turned against you.
There is a happy medium to be found between giving your society tools to enforce the will of constituents, vs. giving your society tools that be too easily abused. Given that this tool is already being abused, it probably isn't worth the benefits.
But if they did criminalise my favourite hobby, and they had evidence that I’m continuing to do that hobby in plain sight, they see me doing it every day……I’d expect them to come get me. That makes sense. It makes no sense to have that technology there to be used to find some crimes but not others.
I see what you're saying. You're not talking about "making sense" in an ethical or social well-being sense, you mean it's literally confusing why the technology wouldn't be used for all kinds of crimes, given that it already exists - irrespective of whether the technology should be used. Is that right? I think you're getting downvoted because it kinda sounds like you're saying this is all a good idea when you say it "makes sense". Unfortunate English ambiguities. But you're saying, like, sure it's dystopian and creepy and wrong, but why wouldn't the creepy dystopia use the tech for all cases then rather than just some? That's a good question. I think because there is legitimately some understanding of the dangers of using these powerful tools willy-nilly. While people aren't perfect angels, they also aren't perfect devils either. Another factor is that there is some pressure to appear not to be overly heavy-handed with these tools - as we see in those chats, they knew it made them look bad for this to get out.
And the final most pessimistic factor is that this Flock company almost certainly charges per seat, so giving direct usernames and logins to every officer or even every department is probably absurdly expensive. Companies (in this case the police) will often try to limit their license seats to as few people as possible and then just funnel as much different people's work through that one person's license as they can.
Despite all the downvotes, I think it's a reasonable enough question. It happens to have a very reasonable answer though.
First of all, your concern is largely addressed, since immigration control can still access law enforcement databases if they have a warrant.
As for why this law exists at all, well it's actually to the benefit of law enforcement: the idea is that immigrant communities are more likely to cooperate with law enforcement if they aren't scared that they will be the target of immigration control. This is all the more practical now, when ICE has degraded into a largely lawless and authoritarian organization, since you can imagine most immigrants wouldn't want to say a word to any police officer unless they at least have the protections of the 2017 TRUST act in place.
Now, what I'm a bit confused about is why you are so up-in-arms about the existence of this law instead of the violation of this law. Surely if you are so law-abiding as you make out to be in your comments, you should be shouting for legal action against the police officers involved in breaking the law.
A federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent on a Chicago area task force used Palos Heights Detective Todd Hutchinson’s login credentials to perform unauthorized searches this past January.
Like many teachers at every level of education, I have spent the past two years trying to wrap my head around the question of generative AI in my English classroom. To my thinking, this is a question that ought to concern all people who like to read and write, not just teachers and their students. Today’s English students are tomorrow’s writers and readers of literature. If you enjoy thoughtful, consequential, human-generated writing—or hope for your own human writing to be read by a wide human audience—you should want young people to learn to read and write. College is not the only place where this can happen, of course, but large public universities like UVA, where I teach, are institutions that reliably turn tax dollars into new readers and writers, among other public services. I see it happen all the time.
There are valid reasons why college students in particular might prefer that AI do their writing for them: most students are overcommitted; college is expensive, so they need good grades for a good return on their investment; and AI is everywhere, including the post-college workforce. There are also reasons I consider less valid (detailed in a despairing essay that went viral recently), which amount to opportunistic laziness: if you can get away with using AI, why not?
It was this line of thinking that led me to conduct an experiment in my English classroom. I attempted the experiment in four sections of my class during the 2024-2025 academic year, with a total of 72 student writers. Rather than taking an “abstinence-only” approach to AI, I decided to put the central, existential question to them directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice would be theirs. We would look at the evidence, and at the end of the semester, they would decide by vote whether A.I. could replace me.
What could go wrong?
In the weeks that followed, I had my students complete a series of writing assignments with and without AI, so that we could compare the results.
My students liked to hate on AI, and tended toward food-based metaphors in their critiques: AI prose was generally “flavorless” or “bland” compared to human writing. They began to notice its tendency to hallucinate quotes and sources, as well as its telltale signs, such as the weird prevalence of em-dashes, which my students never use, and sentences that always include exactly three examples. These tics quickly became running jokes, which made class fun: flexing their powers of discernment proved to be a form of entertainment. Without realizing it, my students had become close readers.
During these conversations, my students expressed views that reaffirmed their initial survey choices, finding that AI wasn’t great for first drafts, but potentially useful in the pre- or post-writing stages of brainstorming and editing. I don’t want to overplay the significance of an experiment with only 72 subjects, but my sense of the current AI discourse is that my students’ views reflect broader assumptions about when AI is and isn’t ethical or effective.
It’s increasingly uncontroversial to use AI to brainstorm, and to affirm that you are doing so: just last week, the hosts of the New York Times’s tech podcast spoke enthusiastically about using AI to brainstorm for the podcast itself, including coming up with interview questions and summarizing and analyzing long documents, though of course you have to double-check AI’s work. One host compares AI chatbots to “a very smart assistant who has a dozen Ph.D.s but is also high on ketamine like 30 percent of the time.”
My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…
WPlace is a desktop app that takes its cue from Reddit’s r/place, a sporadic experiment where users placed pixels on a small blank canvas every few minutes. On Wplace, anyone can sign up to add coloured pixels to a world map – each user able to place one every 30 seconds. By internet standards one pixel every 30 seconds is glacial, and that is part of what makes it so powerful. In just a few weeks since its launch tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of drawings have appeared.
Scrolling to my corner of Scotland, I found portraits of beloved pets, anime favourites, pride flags, football crests. In Kyiv, a giant Hatsune Miku dominates the sprawl alongside a remembrance garden where a user asked others to leave hand drawn flowers. Some pixels started movements. At one point there was just a single wooden ship flying a Brazilian flag off Portugal. Soon, a fleet appeared, a tongue-in-cheek invasion.
Across the diversity and chaos of the Wplace world map, nothing else feels like Gaza. In most cities, the art is made by those who live there. Palestinians do not have this opportunity: physical infrastructure is destroyed while people are murdered. Their voices, culture, and experiences are erased in real time. So, others show up for them, transforming the space on the map into a living mosaic of grief and care.
No algorithm, no leaders, but on Wplace, collective actions emerge organically. A movement stays visible only because people choose to maintain it, adding pixels, repairing any damage caused by others drawing over it. In that sense it works like any protest camp or memorial in the physical world: it survives only if people tend it. And here, those people are scattered across continents, bound not by geography but by a shared refusal to let what they care about disappear from view.
Wplace is exploding onling amid a new ear of youth protest.
From political pixel art to vigils over Gaza, this beautifully chaotic internet project is showing how young people are reinventing protest.
Since both lemmy and Mastodon use the fediverse, is it possible to view comment threads under posts from lemmy in Mastodon? How to find a link that works in both/ is it related to the posts id?
You can find Lemmy posts on Mastodon, yeah, but only if it's been federated there.
In regards to Lemmy, there's two means of federation I'm aware of:
When a user of a Mastodon instance is following a Lemmy community, posts made to it are federated to their instance.
Any registered user on a Mastodon instance can enter the URL of a Lemmy post in their instance's search field to actively federate it in
You should then be able to find the post on Mastodon either over the community's profile, via potential hashtags used in it, or possible the author's profile if that got federated over too (idk if this happens automatically).
If the post was made by an Mbin user, then there's also the option to follow the user directly instead of the community the post was made in. Not sure if this also applies to Piefed, but definitely doesn't for Lemmy.
So it is possible if it has been federated to both. There are different reasons why that might happen, in this case it is because that thread's OP posted it on Mastodon but mentioned a Lemmy community.
Another reason why it might happen is that a Mastodon user is following a Lemmy community or user.
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.5 will have automatic day/night theme switching, that you can choose which Global Themes to show on the Quick Settings page, and that you can set dynamic wallpaper coloration to be based on the background color scheme or the time of day, or always light, or always dark.
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.
I see this post on Akkoma by #Fediverse and answered it. Another person from dot social on Mastodon also commented it. It's weird that those comments can't be readed here in the post. I've tried to comment from there before and seems to work. So I'm not sure what happens when you interact outside of Lemmy.
@glowing_hans @AWUutgQ5inc7fMWpTk.fediverse@lemmy.ml hello, in my experience it is possible and yes, hashtags works. Right know I’m seeing your post and giving an answer from #Akkoma thanks to your...
UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought
It’s a brutally hot August across the world, but especially in Europe where high temperatures have caused wildfires and droughts. In the UK, the water shortage is so bad that the government is urging citizens to help save water by deleting old emails. It really helps lighten the load on water hungry datacenters, you see.
The suggestion came in a press release posted on the British government’s website Tuesday after a meeting of its National Drought Group. The release gave an update on the status of the drought, which is bad. The Wye and Ely Ouse rivers are at their lowest ever recorded height and “five areas are officially in drought, with six more experiencing prolonged dry weather following the driest six months to July since 1976,” according to the release. It also listed a few tips to help people save on water. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… The tips included installing a rain butt to collect rainwater for gardening, fixing leaks the moment they happen, taking shorter showers, and getting rid of old data. “Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems,” the press release suggested.
Datacenters suck up an incredible amount of water to keep their delicate equipment cool. The hotter it is, the more water it uses and a heatwave spikes the costs of doing business. But old emails lingering in cloud servers are a drop in the bucket for a data center compared to processing generative AI requests.
A U.S. A Government Accountability Office report from earlier this year estimated that 60 queries of an AI system consumed about a liter of water, or roughly 1.67 Olympic sized swimming pools for the 250,000,000 queries generated in the U.S. every day. The World Economic Forum has estimated that AI datacenters will consume up to 1.7 trillion gallons of water every year by 2027. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has disputed these estimates, saying that an average ChatGPT query uses “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon” of water.
Downing Street announced plans in January to “turbocharge AI” in the U.K. The plan includes billions of pounds earmarked for the construction of massive water-hungry datacenters, including a series of centers in Wales that will cost about $16 billion. The announcement about the AI push said it will create tens of thousands of jobs. It doesn’t say anything about where the water will come from.
In America, people are learning that living next to these massive AI data centers is a nightmare that can destroy their air and water quality. People who live next to massive Meta-owned datacenters in Georgia have complained of a lack of water pressure and diminished quality since the data centers moved in. In Colorado, local government and activists are fighting tech companies attempting to build massive data centers in a state that struggled with drought before the water-hungry machines moved in.
Like so many other systemic issues linked to climate change and how people live in the 21st century, small-scale personal solutions like “delete your old emails” won’t solve the problem. The individual water bill for a person’s old photos is nothing compared to the gallons of water required by large corporate clients running massive computers.
“We are grateful to the public for following the restrictions, where in place, to conserve water in these dry conditions,” Helen Wakeham, the UK Environment Agency’s Director of Water, said in the press release. “Simple, everyday choices—such as turning off a tap or deleting old emails—also really helps the collective effort to reduce demand and help preserve the health of our rivers and wildlife.”
Representatives from the UK Government did not immediately return 404 Media’s request for comment.
Two metro Denver construction sites offer a glimpse into the power and water needs of the growing data center industry as it tries to provide capacity for artificial intelligence and our online liv…
Shimitar
in reply to Gert • • •Sonarr still the best IMHO
And radar ofc.
The others 'are meh, stopped using them in favor or other ways.
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in reply to Gert • • •slsks is good for music, but it's not as automatic as lidarr (which is broken anyway)
And for books / audiobooks I think manually with telegram and/or plain old torrents is the only way. Readarr again is just broken and unable to manage books and audiobooks.
And Audiobookshelf is an amazing audiobooks and podcast playback platform that you can self-host.
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in reply to Shimitar • • •There's chaptarr that is in development as a replacement for readarr though I don't think there is a public download for it yet.
What happened to lidarr is it not supported anymore?
Confused_Emus
in reply to Egonallanon • • •curbstickle
in reply to Shimitar • • •Chaptarr on the way, readarr with rreading-glasses works great for now though.
github.com/blampe/rreading-gla…
GitHub - blampe/rreading-glasses: Corrective lenses for curmudgeonly readars in your life
GitHubslackarr
in reply to Shimitar • • •Shimitar
in reply to slackarr • • •Brickfrog
in reply to Gert • • •Not as popular but there are other apps that do TV automation, SickChill and Medusa for example are still active forks of the old SickBeard/SickRage software.
There are probably others I'm not thinking of right this second, nowadays people mostly prefer using the *arr stack for automation (Sonarr, Radarr, all the other arrs).
GitHub - SickChill/sickchill: Less rage, more chill.
GitHubmisk
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TVA likes this.
Gert
in reply to misk • • •misk
in reply to Gert • • •rexum (@rexum@gnu.gl)
gnu.glVegiforous
Unknown parent • • •Lidarr uses musicbrainz as the primary metadata source and mb changed the format of the data given by their api. They are posting details and updates here:
github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr/issue…
Unable to communicate with LidarrAPI - Lidarr API "Internal Server Error" 500 | Invalid response received from LidarrAPI | HTTP Request Timeout
Legion495 (GitHub)Stillwater
in reply to Gert • • •Sonarr
Radarr
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tarius
in reply to Gert • • •Movies / TV / Anime
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