lemmyreader

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lemmyreader OP ,

Fair point. An they managed to get their email delivered on that newsletter announce mailing list (Which I expected to be moderated). Not sure how that could happen.

lemmyreader ,

Is journald still binary? That alone made me turn away.

Yes, unreadable with a text editor. Meaning that if you have a computer problem and journald or systemd is broken you have can't consult the log files, unless you did install rsyslog or sometimes before that. Meanwhile by default journald will eat a few GBs of disk space soon.

lemmyreader ,

“on nooo i’m gonna stop using what make modern linux OS good just because they save logs in binary, istead of binary w ith .txt 😭😭” go ahead them, make your life worse

😒

One can keep on using systemd and complain about journald and install rsyslogd and then you'd have the journalctl -f command to impress your Linux noob friends ;-) and /var/log/syslog when there's trouble when journald would be dead.

lemmyreader ,

As far as I remember Poettering worked for IBM's RedHat for some time and then the systemd lobbying vibe became stronger (with Fedora being the RedHat toy). Nowadays Poettering works for Microsoft, btw.

Should I join "free speech" alternatives?

Hello! I've been searching for a reddit alternative, and yes, I've picked Lemmy and Raddle, but here's the thing. My morbid curiosity is perked up, and a part of me wants to join the "free speech" alternatives, like Saidit, Poal, etc. What's wrong with me that I want to join toxic places? I mean, yes I'll find a whole new...

lemmyreader ,

I guess lots of people can relate to this on Tw(X)tter. After it was bought by mister X. it went downhill. Still a lot of left leaning people are on it with the idea to fight from within (or because they think "everyone is on it" or "important people are there". Personally I think it is a lost cause and would leave as soon as possible. Apart from that do not underestimate how you can be influenced if you don't do fact checking. A person I know told me year ago that they liked to read on a far right forum years (for fun or something) and is now like "yeah, I also think migration is a bit of problem". Go figure :(

lemmyreader ,

I remember I had a 386 with or without co-processor.Later upgraded to a luxury 486!Wow.That brings back a lot of memories.Floppy disks, text consoles. 🙂

lemmyreader ,

Thank you all.
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/596b8794-e05e-42d0-8ccb-2d9593f36897.jpeg

lemmyreader ,

Thanks for the update and the hard work. You all rock!

lemmyreader ,

A pinned post at the top for everyone to see ?

Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet

I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...

lemmyreader ,
  • Most folks will probably freak out when they see a terminal window ("DOS box") on a computer.
  • Most folks in my country have no idea that there is something else than WhatsApp as alternative to SMS.
  • Whenever I've tried explaining to people that stuff on their website violates privacy or when I try to explain why they are having email delivery problems almost always results in permanent silence or disbelief.

Technology appears to be a scare factor for a lot of people. But in this case the librarian maybe thought that Ethernet was only for their qualified IT department to use.

lemmyreader ,

I’ve dealt with Patrons like you before and the instant someone starts yammering at me about ClearNet / Tor I know exactly what kind of person I’m dealing with.

You selected your path for whatever reasons you chose and the inconveniences that come with that path are yours to deal with. Suck it up buttercup, you weren’t promised that a privacy respecting internet lifestyle would be easy or convenient.

I guess Meta, Google, Amazon and countless other companies are with you on this one for the ad and tracking riddled mass exploitation Internet of today.

lemmyreader , (edited )

Now get the hell off my lawn.

We are in a public community on the open Internet here where the following is written in the sidebar :

  • Be kind

Tor was created by the USA military and the USA government has funded with millions of dollars. Many years ago Tor had a negative word association to it. But not so much anymore. Countless volunteers run Tor nodes from home, and Tor is not that slow anymore as it used to. I use Tor myself because I strongly dislike all the tracking, snooping and scandals by large and even small companies. The Clearnet Internet has become a disastrous place :(

lemmyreader ,

Before you throw the pi5 out, buy a USB Ethernet adapter ? I have a few of them and they work fine for me with Linux and BSD.

lemmyreader ,

At this point, I’m not sure why someone would buy a Pi. I used my Pi 3 for years and got it super cheap on release.

You mean why anyone would buy a new Pi that is not a Pi3 ?
Pi4 can boot from USB meaning that the usage of a SD card can be omitted completely. Not sure a Pi3 can do that or do that easily ?

lemmyreader ,

At the ever increasing cost of the pi and how limiting it is, the n100 is a no brainer.

Depends on the use case I guess.I prefer to have an ARM based SBC to play with (rather than an Intel based box) to test different Linux distributions and BSD without GUI.

lemmyreader ,

Perhaps you are thinking in best and better and what most people want. For me there is something like curiosity (Not very uncommon in the open source world) and learning new things.Besides that I am not very amused about Intel and their Spectre and Meltdown failures which is still not a closed book with new attacks being reported in the news.For hobby and work, computer security and privacy is something that I cannot neglect.

lemmyreader ,

I’m guessing the power implications here are minimal as well?

That's an interesting point I didn't think about.I don't know and I have no gadget to test that.

Actually once I've left the USB Ethernet adapter in a smart phone and forgot to take it out (but I did take the Ethernet cable out). The next day I saw that the phone had used a lot of battery power.I guess the phone kept talking to the adapter and the build in small light.I have one adapter without a light so I can test how much battery that would roughly consume, just out of curiosity.

lemmyreader ,

No problem at all. I can try to measure this with a socket wattmeter I have lying around.

The power implications aren’t likely to he a deal breaker, but I do love the idea of operating an application server at approx 7W (that said, the same power envelope is also achievable on certain x86-64 home server platforms now).

Right.Meanwhile the on-board Ethernet port could become more reliable with newer software or some tweaks ?

lemmyreader OP ,

I see, t y.Now I understand the previous comment about Spider Man.

lemmyreader ,

As someone who thinks that "all" phones should have headphone jacks and that sustainability is a precious thing : https://www.sustaphones.com

lemmyreader OP ,

Thank you. iceshrimp looks good.

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lemmyreader ,

PieFed’s sure had some great updates this month.

Can you share more details ? (The web link goes in some endless loop here and the Mastodon post does not show anything about PieFed).

lemmyreader ,

When I saw the title WTF Happened In 1971? I thought of January 1st, 1970 the well-known and recurring date in the computer world,(Ken Thompson, UNIX and so on). And I kinda hoped this would be about how the mass production of computers and its use worldwide had introduced the first step of a collapse of planet Earth. But no, looking at the HN comments it appears to be about Nixon, money, economy and the USA.

lemmyreader ,

👏

lemmyreader ,

Snikket launched their XMPP hosting in March this year. From the looks of it you can pay for one account where you'd be admin for a group of friends, family and give them accounts.

For Android Conversations is really nice I think.
Conversations is available for free on F-Droid but you can support the developer by buying the app on Google PlayStore. Does OMEMO by default.Video calls with Conversations always worked very well for me (but this depends on which XMPP provider the other person uses), better than Signal. There are some Conversation forks on F-Droid as well with different features.

lemmyreader ,

With XMPP you can self-host a server or you can have your own custom domain hosted with XMPP via the Conversations developer. Signal is a centralized service in the USA, hosted on Google servers. And yes, one more app on the phone will cost more battery life.

lemmyreader ,

PlayStation

Hmm, I've tried, 251 results found: 244 videos

lemmyreader ,

but last time I typed « PlayStation » and there was almost no result…maybe it’s just the lack of content though…

Thanks for the heads up ;-)

lemmyreader ,

Dear OP, this whole conversation makes me think of the bullying towards open source developers, which can be seen on and off since years.
Let me also share what I have seen on Mastodon : Unlike on Lemmy, Mastodon has had support for ALT text descriptions for uploaded images for some time. Several people have been complaining when people do not add such ALT text, and even bots were made, that you could choose to follow, for people to have themselves reminded that they forgot to add ALT to an image. What I have seen several times is that people were helpful by responding and giving an ALT suggestion to the OP. That would be complaining and helping in one.
Here in this post conversation several people have asked OP for descriptions and then some tension came up. None of the people complaining took some time to add a description themselves and appear to want to make the OP do extra work.And I understand that the OP is not obliged to do that extra work. Regardless of all this I think that a nice solution here would be if OP or someone else creates a new Lemmy community with a name like e.g. selfhosted_software_releases (For open source software releases there is a Lemmy community like that. Can't be bothered to search for the name now) which is only for software releases for self hosting. Then this and other selfhosted Lemmy community can have the announcement of that new selfhosted_software_releases Lemmy community as a pinned post or in the sidebar. The advantages of that :

  • OP and others will not need to add descriptions
  • Interested people can quickly see when there's been new releases
  • Others can have a peek at software names they never heard of before and dive into the details
  • Selfhosted communities will go back to peace mode ;-)
lemmyreader ,

Only the front-end of feddit.de has serious problems, right ? Why would the maintainers not run another front-end (e.g. Elk) on the same server and redirect their broken front-end link to that as work-around for web users ?

lemmyreader ,

Hmm... Today I learned that lemmy.world is the biggest Lemmy instance.
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lemmyreader ,

That, and maybe one or two fart jokes too many.

What? Fart jokes? Blocked! /j

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