veniasilente

@veniasilente@lemm.ee

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veniasilente ,

Catcher of spirals too, apparently!

veniasilente ,

The idea that good men would fight a war for their country purely because it’s the right thing to do

Since when is it the right thing to do? 93% of wars, particularly ones where the US is involved, are about making rich people richer.

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Ballpark figure, simple statistics, basic understanding of the capitalist and corporationist mindset.

But yeah it's only an approximation. The real value is likely closer to 100%.

veniasilente ,

You sound so cute and innocent that way.

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Oh, we heard, Rust is the greatest invention since sliced bread. We heard it already. Like 65534 times.

veniasilente ,

Yeah we only need 2 brainRusts more to start seeing some fun.

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Okay, how is Insurrection Day the weakest case? He literally went on to live TV to command his "proud boys" troops to "stand down".

veniasilente ,

"Don O'Evil"

veniasilente ,

Sadly our only option is to not for for Trump, and the only other viable candidate is Biden.

And you don't need to vote for him either.

Just go sharpen your guillotines.

veniasilente ,

Dragon. I think at that point any message I give him is going to be heard so I'm gonna take my sweet time and once I get a bit more bored I'm gonna fly over the WH roaring "hey Joe, it's genocide!".

veniasilente ,

welp, I guess there goes my vote.

(not really, I'm not a US citizen; but if I was, I wouldn't vote for him since a good while ago already)

veniasilente ,

All that sounds cute, but is still no excuse to simply vote Biden. If the choices in the ballot are "get killed" or "get raped", the answer is not to welcome the rapist, but to vote third party (or blank/null) and to go sharpen your guillotines. Trump already demonstrated that he doesn't respect democratic electoral statements anyway, and a 2-party system is rotten and ill-designed to the core, if he's expected to win then playing fair and square in the hopes that you "only" get raped is self-defeating. Even if Biden wins, the RNC and the KKKronies are still going to (and are already doing so, see RvW) wipe their asses on democracy and condemn the US to accelerando the slow death.

veniasilente ,

So this is how democracy dies.

With standing ovation.

veniasilente ,

Ah yes, I also use cat to input text and passwords!

veniasilente ,

Your sense of humor and comedy is pretty good!

veniasilente ,

You have been blessed with the marking of the Provider of Friends. That the cat understands that he can trust to wait around you and then you'll bring a friend for him!

veniasilente ,

Relevantly mandatory

veniasilente ,

I mean, gifs will always play, they're from like 1995. H265 is a whole newer and noticeably heavier thing.

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...Huh. One learns new stuff every day!

veniasilente ,

Should we just give up with federation, and just aggregate all communities on LW?

No. Half the point of federation is that not only communities (instances) can carry their own content but also their own culture. Posting or commenting about a soccer personality in, say, !spain is vastly different from doing it in, say, !soccerdrugs, even if the originating link to the discussion is the same.

PSA: If you're going to write software for piracy, put it on I2P! ( geti2p.net )

movie-web was just taken down with all its repos, Yuzu was taken down, then suyu forked it on gitlab and was taken down, countless clones of nintendo games, platform emulators, and a bunch of other things are taken down because they are hosted on the clear web....

veniasilente ,

Ah yes. Forgejo is the current community fork.

Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

My gf and I have had discussions about teaching morals to kids. In that vein, I asked myself, would I teach piracy to my kids? Yes, it’s technically illegal and carries inherent risks. But so does teenage sex carry the risks of teenage pregnancy, and so we have an obligation to children to teach them how to practice safe sex....

veniasilente ,

mods where is the "upvote twice" button?

veniasilente OP ,

Wow you have given me good things to think about. At first I was thinking I'd want solely text, but now I'm thinking what I'd want would be something closer to hypertext / Rich Text since that's how the content shows in sites already. So something like a "HTML pastebin" or somesuch would work, I guess?

(HedgeDoc looks interesting, am going to look around for a demo)

veniasilente OP ,

That's a lot of info to work with, thanks! Seems there has been a lot of thought and deelopment about this and I just basically didn't know exactly what to search for.

Explicitly mention Twitter, Facebook, is an advancement. Let's see if they have some utility or strategy for Discord-style short snippets.

veniasilente OP ,

Fun that you mention that, I happen to run my personal site, as well as another wiki for my Pokémon-related fanwork, and an internal kb wiki on my job, all on Dokuwiki. Used to advertise the engine more on Reddit back in the day, too. And sure it's quite lightweight and operable (I can edit articles remotely, manage remotely and do lots of cool stuff). Its just, from my experience so far, while it's extremely well-suited for the workflow of a wiki, it's not so much for the "post-it note" workflow, not even with additions like the Blog plugin.

Perhaps I have to yet tune it further. I guess it's time to Do Science.

veniasilente OP ,

Yeah honestly sometimes Dokuwiki feels like it's the Konami cheat code for "simple good personal website". I'm like, why would anyone bother with stuff like, dunno, Wordpress, or Github Pages.

My hoster has been so nice to get me access to the docker on-site, so I'm gonna be testing stuff for a few days. I can't take a look at logseq until the weekend alas, due to work suddenly being work.

veniasilente OP ,

So I'm running a Hedgedoc instance this week to test how things are going. Feels like one of the better choices.

veniasilente OP ,

At the moment I'm testing Hedgedoc, I took a quickie look at haste-server but from what I read it got enshittified a while ago while I was busy not looking at it lol. Anyway I've looked at other alternatives from the link and from selfhosting communities and both OpenGist and ExBin are looking at the things for me to try next for comparison. Thanks for the guidance!

veniasilente ,

Other than "manufacturing them releases fumes", I don't see how any of these forms a coherent message.

veniasilente ,

I did say "coherent message".

veniasilente ,

You can blame both corporations, you don't need to suck any corpo cock. Nintendo sends the takedowns in the first place, which sure is Nintendon't, and Discord heeds them despite otherwise profiting from those communities and without allowing any sort of measure.

veniasilente ,

Not to mention Discord is not forced to take communities down. There's lots of stuff like right wing nutjob communities that are still up no issues. Discord is just sucking Nintendo dick, just like the communities that host solely on Discord are sucking Discord cock.

veniasilente ,

In order to make it into a Discord or Zoom competitor you would need to solve far higher bandwidth things like HD video and low latency audio, and both of thouse are fundamentally very different things for a server to handle as compared to high latency short text messages.

That falls into the same two fallacies as the ones of complainers against Youtube alternatives:

  • that in order to offer an alternative to a service you have to replicate all of it
  • that you have to provide an alternative to only one service

Like, really, you don't need to replace all of Discord, only the parts that matter. The alternative to build not to Discord but to "Discord is being used for documentation" already exists, it's called web forums. Ditto, the alternative to "Discord is being used for communities" also exists, it's called XMPP or IRC or Matrix depending on who you ask. The alternative to "Discord tracks user data" is simply called "you don't do it", etc.

Like, we are literally on Lemmy. Just about the first thing that we Get It from the internet is that centralization is bad, be it Products or Services.

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See, it's the entire premise that voice conferencing is needed to have a replacement for "Discord is used for documentation". It's not. Almost by definition. If anyone wants videoconferencing there's Jitsi. That's the thing I'm aiming to: you won't ever to get anyone to "replace" Discord if they have to replace all of it. Capitalism doesn't allow for that. We are trying to do better here. Splitting problems into their component and significative parts makes them much easier to solve.

The closest use case that in the case of these kinds of communities would even need videoconferencing would be something like "Discord is being used for live tech support for modchipping Switches" and for that case there's also already established alternatives... and it would be wise to not implement for that anyway.

veniasilente ,

I mean sure, no country technically has an inherent right to exist. But the difference is in the details. The US, Canada, etc, simply don't have that inherent right. Israel, in addition to that, only exists because of pity to a bunch of whiners and a (in retrospective bad) decision of everyone else to throw them a bone.

veniasilente ,

Excuse me while I go to your store and buy your choicest items with make-believe hand shadows art money.

veniasilente ,

Any contract is legally binding

Exactly. And a TOS is not a contract.

If you go to law definitions, contracts have a number of requirements to be such, of which to my knowledge a TOS fails two (Negotiability and Certainty).

veniasilente ,

Negotiability, or more precisely offer and acceptance, are achieved by the simple “take it or leave it”.

Maybe in the US, where that kind of this would honestly be expected. Here in more decent countries, Negotiability requires that both parties can exercise offer an acceptance to the contract. I consulted to our local digital ethics group about it and they are in accordance, at least to what pertains to my country.

Appreciation post for db0 admins in light of .world blocking /c/ piracy and similar /c/'s .

I understand why they did what they did and it makes me think of how db0 and other admins are saying fuck all and taking a very big liability for making and supporting a free internet and i want to say all the work you do is very much appreciated. Also shoutout to lemmy.ml admins for running a similar community on their own ....

veniasilente ,

Shipping has gotten weird these days. I knew there was countries-as-waifus (Hetalia et al) but never expected now instances-as-waifus so as to see lemons of.

veniasilente ,

learn evil, love laugh

Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software ( www.pcgamer.com )

Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times.....

veniasilente ,

So, lemme get this straight: allowing remote parties to install malware (DRM) on your system results in allowing remote parties to install malware on your system? Wow, who could have known! Certainly not the distributors of the step-one malware, am I right?

I'm certain there's a couple of lessons to be learned here (install and run games as normal, non-elevated users, people! It's easy to do on Linux) but I'm also somehow certain Big Corpos are going to stick their heads into the sand regarding such lessons.

Oh well, the pirate way it is.

veniasilente ,

Would go well with my former teacher's point-shaped cows.

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I hate that I understand all the layers of this one except the duality one.

veniasilente ,

I think this is the part I've always have had issue trying to understand, thanks for helping clarify with an example.

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Gamifying the editing of other people's posts and editing semantics of content after-the-fact

Yeahhhhhh no, I think you just suggested StackOverflow without taking even a look at the recent or not recent discussions on how it behaves (eg.: the moderator strike) or why.

I think there are ways this could be kept in check, but basically you'd be providing an incentive towards just going around and adding tags for content nilly-willy, potentially leading to something very similar to SO's "closed as duplicate" (duplicate is on a completely different language / software stack / problem domain) issue.

veniasilente ,

We have NO issues with the people at db0 - we are just looking out for ourselves in a ‘better safe than sorry’ fashion while we find out more. As mentioned in the OP we would like to unblock as soon as we know we can not get in any legal trouble.

Words are empty, offers are void in Nebraska. You already took steps against people who simply mostly discuss piracy. What concrete steps can you take now to show that you'd actually unblock "as soon as we know"?

veniasilente ,

I think the problem is that because of the way that the fediverse, they ARE hosting the content.

And the "content" is discussions about piracy, not piracy.

Come on. Small instance indie devs don't have the bandwidth and storage to save all seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 4K.

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