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Mastodon users donate a quarter million dollars in 2 days for VP Harris
Mastodon users donate a quarter million dollars in 2 days for VP Harris #MastodonForHarris
Over the last two days users from the social media service Mastodon have started a campaign which has raised over $250,000 for VP Harris. User Heidi Li Feldman started the modest campaign on ActBlue two days ago, with a humble goal of one thousand...Daily Kos
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Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
US elections certainly takes way more money than it should but until Citizen United gets overturned, donating is an unfortunately important part of elections for those who can afford to do so
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Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
That's not true.
Candidates of both stripes can, and do, loan their campaigns money at interest, and it's legal. Both Clinton and Trump made headlines for it in 2016.
Further, the federal minimum wage hasn't gone up since 2008, and that's more than enough proof to me that neither party cares about people.
Don't contribute money to these assholes. Put it in your savings or investments instead.
The Supreme Court takes up a case, brought by Ted Cruz, that could legalize bribery
Ted Cruz wants the Court to kill an important anti-corruption lawIan Millhiser (Vox)
She's not especially wealthy for a politician (in fact, neither was Biden) compared to others running for office.
If it takes donating to a millionaire to prevent a billionaire from dismantling our democracy, I'm ok with that.
Kamala Harris' wealth comes mostly from her and her husband's investments, records show
Her net worth rose when she married Doug Emhoff, due to their combined assets.Laura Romero (ABC News)
I have a rule.
I won't donate to a political party or politician who hasn't done something significant to raise the federal minimum wage.
Sadly, that's both of them.
Put the money in your investments instead (stocks, bonds, ETF's, etc) as no matter who we elect, your investments will get some measure of representation as our elected leaders continue to use their confidential briefings in order to make stock moves AND investment companies have been deemed too big to fail.
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can. For instance
August 08, 2023FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Raise Wage Standards Over Time For More Than One Million Construction Workers
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She has advocated for $15/hr minimum wage and joined protesting and striking workers in that push before
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Kamala Harris joins protesting McDonald's workers in Vegas
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris marched with protesting and striking McDonald's employees Friday in Las Vegas as they called for a $15 minimum wage and better working conditions.MICHELLE L. PRICE (AP News)
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can
I said 'something significant'. Broken promises and pledges aren't significant. We've had almost two decades of broken promises and pledges on the federal minimum wage, and now people can be legally paid less than cup of Starbucks per hour in 2/3 of the US states.
You're so right.
I'm just going to ignore that they pretended the parliamentarian's word was law, which the Republicans did not do when Trump's tax scam was passed.
Let's engage in a thought experiment.
If Harris were to have negotiated a $15 minimum wage with Republicans but to do so had to give up the EPA. Would that earn your favor?
Let us assume that giving up the EPA is too much, do you see a world where the Republicans agree to anything while getting anything you are OK with giving up?
Perhaps you and the Republicans share some common wedge issue, do you think you would get any Democratic support for a bill that makes that trade?
Minimum wage is currently a partisan issue, a party that believes it should be increased and a party who doesn't think it should exist. Just keeping it is as is is a negotiation.
Minimum wage is currently a partisan issue, a party that believes it should be increased and a party who doesn't think it should exist.
False.
It's 100% a bipartisan issue. Both have agreed that the status quo is a-okay, judging by their actions on the issue over the last near-20 years.
Most of those claims about treatment of trans people are just false. They are primarily based on misattributed actions of other people which harris has denounced
Here's a good article looking at just that
Not saying she's perfect, but consider with the two party system in the US, the alternative is far far worse
Mastodon users love US prosecutors with a history of scandals it seems. Or they're just ignorant of that history.
Anyone else get the sense that a Hillary-style astroturfing campaign is getting started now?
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Hacking with carehackingwithcare.in/wiki/doku.php
Hacking With Care is collective composed of hackers-activists, caregivers, artists, sociologist, growing quite literally by contact and affinity.
Together we imagine, circulate, put in common resources and tools for care in accordance with hackers ethics and peer-to-peer philosophy.
We create occasions for body & soul rejuvenation and collective (re)appropriation of care. We work with an understanding of the needs and requirements of specific contexts, as can be found in hacking and activism. Similarly, we like to transmit to caregivers some hackers-activists tools and best practices, for example in relation to privacy/data protection, technological independence, operational security. Other aspects we like are creativity in care, access to knowledge, interdisciplinarity, questioning of norms…
Our actions evolve around two principal axis that could be (but not limited to): Care for hackers-activists and Hackers ethics and tools for caregivers.
They include care corners at hackers-activists events, pop-up massage sessions at the quarters of activists organizations, massage and well-being workshops and tutorials, compilation of resources and creation of original resources, research, news watch…
Indeed, we are aware big-hearted hackers and activists are exposed to life-threatening levels of stress and emotional challenges. Some burnout, some are imprisoned or experience limitations or abuse of their rights, in retaliation for their deeds. Some die. Meanwhile, the health-care sectors (where the most vulnerable people become yet more exposed) serve corporate and shady political agendas by default. We, as individuals, as communities, are being “holistically” attacked by the systems in governance : attacks and restrictions on life and freedoms keep intensifying everywhere, motivated by unchecked power and greed. They affect all, in all areas of life, including access to healthcare.
These converging realizations and the great joys we have in doing what we do all, inspired us to put together this initiative. We want to help become aware of vulnerabilities in our movements and organize so that each and everyone’s capacities to care and be cared for will not be compromised.
That's some dedication. :/ I even got down vote for video in sign language, i don't understand their point as they don't talk.
As soon as i can check who vote, i will ban them.
Nope, I'm just a moderator. Maybe i will setup my own instance : sublinks or piefed. Lemmy will soon allow moderators to check vote and it's up to the admin to activate it. if i recall correctly.
So i will simply ban on my own community**, that mean only the smallish community on the fediverse about sign language. Why ? because it's about deaf culture, deaf history...so i don't see the point of downvoting.
Wonse, when you downvote, my post diseaspear from the timeline.
Honnestly, I don't accept people with this kind of mentality. I prefer people that explain why they disagree.
if i could disable downvote on my community it would be better, but currently it's not possible. Or maybe a popup to blacklist the community when you click on downvote ?
Well, month ago,i wrote a post for rewanping the voting system. For example instead of dowvoting because the post is in german instead of english, we can have a tag/hashtag system with threesold.
As #spam and 10 people vote. Or good article, bad article, complex, sad, scary, not fun...and everyone add them and vote for the most revalent tag/hashtag.
And with this we can improve by leap and bound lemmy search.
Sorry for the long off topic, i let my toughts loose again. :)
There still can be points such as low post quality, misinformation, outdated data, discrimination of certain people etc.
True, but not in this community !pi_sourd@jlai.lu if them don't like those post, they can leave it as it is.
Awww that's called egoism. And also idk what client you use but on mine (Jerboa) downvoted posts stay in the timeline. Probably you just confused Lemmy with Reddit.
Nope, we noticed that some of our post diseaspered on our timeline. It was part on a heated debate about desactiving downvote 4 month ago.
Maybe it has been patched since on Lemmy.
Too complex. You'll have 2-3 votes on every hashtag at most. Implement subcommunity categories instead. It'd be more useful
I believe the opposite, it is way more informative compared to the voting system. I can upvote because of a cute cat, in the picture, it doesn't tell you why i upvoted. Maybe people downvoted because the post wasn't filtered with langage option ? Or maybe because it was boring ?
I believe collaborative hashtag would greatly help semantic research.
I don't see why, my idea is in fact closer to gitlab/github where issue have their own tag.
That's what i dream for lemmy and it would improve its organisation :)
It hugely depends on what post, and what community. Political, scientific one, i post plenty of them and often i don't care. Video game, interesting topic, environmental, art design...i don't care.
And the one about sign langage i just want to deactivate downvote on this community, Why ? So you just have to chose between ignore or upvote. Because 99,99% of you, in the fediverse aren't deaf.
Masto, iceshrimp doesn't have downvote system. I often post from them to lemmy and it works well.
Latest Verge article about their review of Asus ROG Ally X (and this is why gamers are preferring Steam Deck)
Asus ROG Ally X review: the best Windows gaming handheld by a mile
The Asus ROG Ally X has the most comfortable grip, the smoothest gameplay, and the longest-lasting battery among Windows gaming handhelds.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
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Ah oke, didn't know that to be honest. So you don't boot up on desktop environment anymore? I saw some videos that showed it was a regular windows 11 installation and barely usable with the touchscreen.
Is it something like steam now? That start at nice clean interface.
From a theft perspective, being able to hijack someones steam account is likely to be more lucrative than most. There's a window where they might be able to resell the account to someone who doesn't know how easily valve can verify true ownership and fix it.
You've still got a lot of botnets and cryptocurrency miners flying around. Ransomware is the big one that targets people with important data that a gaming device is immune to.
I don't think you'd want to swap
India isn't something you'd be able to handle
well i don't much like the way their political wind's blowing to be frank. it's like our political pollution got carried up to the 'nucks just like the rest of the pollution we unfortunately pump north.
THAT said i have briefly looked into it. The only reason Canada might take me is because of my tradeskill as an electrician, but there are significant roadblocks even so.
It's not going to be great, they can't refrain them selfs to put some kind of ads into it. But it's still windows, so easier to play those few games that can only be played or is easier on windows.
But I've no experience with Windows handhelds, they'll need to pry my steam deck out of my cold dead hands
No, it's still the desktop version. Have you noticed how ugly Windows 11 got recently? It's because of these optimizations.
Menus have become more touch-friendly and window controls become comparatively more robust as your screen size decreases. I'm surprised how much more frequently I interact with my touch screen than my keyboard and mouse sometimes.
I bought my Legion Go for portable photo and video editing and get a free Adobe license through my work, which is why I went with Windows. I've heard that you can install Creative Cloud on Linux, but I've been told by our technologists that the Enterprise login might not work when it detects the operating system.
At this point, most of my reasons for sticking with Windows boil down to laziness. If I really felt like taking the time to test Adobe, my eGPU, StarCitizen, and the various Legion Go hardware features, I could probably deliver more informed explanations. But alas... I'm too lazy right now and spend my non-lazy time working on other projects.
I had it running on my PC for awhile but switched back to 10 because my performance wasn't great. It isn't even running anymore because my videocard died this week, haha.
If only I could get the steel series software to run on Linux for my apex 350 keyboard I would've stayed on Linux. My next one will be Linux compatibiliteit, haha.
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Edit: it's easy to say Stefan was the idiot here, but he's some 20 year old kid that's built only 4 PCs at this point. The editing, continuity errors, etc were all the Verge management.
The fact that a tech news company has no one that knows how to build a PC is mind boggling. Then it was sponsored by Capital one....
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I mean, Windows would be fine if the OEM stripped it down instead of bloating it even more. They can totally do with with group policies.
I honestly don't know what they were thinking here.
I wouldn't agree either, but I think there's some kind of logic: At a certain point familiarity can be a detriment to learning if it leads to you adding invalid assumptions to your mental model because everything else is so familiar. If everything is unfamiliar however you're less likely to start making assumptions.
As for how true of effective this is, I don't know. Anecdotally however I had less problems learning entirely different keyboard layouts for example as opposed to layouts that are just slightly different.
I am slightly ashamed to admit the reason I'm not going to consider pop os is the stupid way they write it: Pop!_OS.
I'm already running 11 Linux VMs (and 3 bare metal Linux OS's) in my homelab so I think I've got plenty of Linux here anyway.
I own an OLED Deck, and while I absolutely love it, it isn't perfect from a compatibility standpoint. Getting other launchers to work can be a pain, and certain games that the hardware can easily handle have issues due to obnoxious shit like EA's launcher, e.g. the Dragon Age games. Additionally, mods can be fickle to get working on certain games. The majority of these problems can thankfully be overcome, but implementing the fixes can be tedious/annoying on a handheld.
That all being said, I'm amazed how far gaming on Linux has come. Valve and people like Glorious Eggroll have done excellent work in making Linux gaming possible. I hope as more and more Deck users get accustomed to Linux and make the transition on desktop, that developers start making native Linux clients so all these wrappers aren't even needed in the first place.
Valve has made Linux gaming stupid easy and still people are more worried about FOMO of that small percentage of games that don't run on Linux.
Unfortunately, most of the non-working games are also the ones people tend to have FOMO about. I feel like they're mostly online games with anti-cheats which, by their online nature, means that you will feel really missing out when all of your friends except you play the game, more so than single player games.
I mean there’s a time and a place.
What if someone has gamepass or a ton of free games on EGS?
You can play non streamed games on steamos now?
Edit: Gamepass games
You can play non streamed games on steamos now?
Non streamed? You mean just running the game on the device? You could run games on steamos since it first released in 2013.
He means from Gamepass. On many non-microsoft platforms, the only way to play Gamepass games is streaming via xcloud
On Windows, Gamepass games can be installed locally from the GP app, but last I checked the GP app was still Windows-only
Unsure about EGS, but Gamepass can only stream via xcloud on non-microsoft platforms
The GP app/store for installing games locally is only available on Windows
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Dude, same. I cannot understand it (for games. I'm sure people have valid reasons if they're using the Deck for some other purpose). It seems there is a cohort of otherwise relatively tech savvy people who are just terrified of all things "Linux."
Maybe they heard horror stories from friends or family while growing up and aren't aware of just how close to complete compatibility Proton is. In fact, in some cases, it can somehow run games better than if one were to dual boot and install in Windows.
Even Valve's own Steam Deck verification should be taken with a grain of salt, it seems as though they're being extra conservative with those. I've gotten several "unsupported " games working (very easily), for example , Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition is listed on Steam as "unsupported," but it works great (with DSFix even) on my Deck.
ProtonDB is a far better resource for anyone reading this who hadn't heard of it.
But yeah, it's almost like this subconscious aversion to Linux. And they want to be in their comfort zone I guess.
The only times it's OK are when it's planned for specific softwares. For example, I can't run Rocksmith 2014 on native Deck but it works fine in Windows. Similarly, software that's OS limited would be another use.
But if your main thing is gaming, and you aren't dual booting... Yeah, I'm judging you. (And I mainly use Windows on PC. But why, why, why would you need to only run Windows on a Steam Deck without a specific purpose
I had similar thoughts when I first discovered Pop!_OS. Just the name alone gave me vibes of some Fisher-Price toy operating system like it was meant for children, all cringe happy-smiley.
But I honestly suggest you get over your aversion to the name, and give it a try. It's actually one of the most pleasant desktop experiences I've had with Linux, and it's especially a treat on bare metal. Looks great, runs great and everything just works, including steam gaming.
Prosumers aren't going to care, because if the hardware is still OK, they can just re-install.
But consumers end up buying gear that is hobbled with shiteware.
But I agree, it is a little bit of a fiddle. Keep at it!
TBF that is literally the exact motivation behind Cinnamon. Mint was like "yo, GNOME 3 sucks for what were trying to do" and forked. I think that's also why you see such string MATE support with Mint, too. Those developers fucking loved GNOME 2 (with good reason, GNOME 2 was genuinely excellent).
Back in the day I thought GNOME 3 would eventually stabilize into something suitable for daily use, but their constant breaking of APIs frustrates me to no end and makes me view the GNOME project as just being... Out of touch with the reality of the kinds of people who use computers. They're so hyper focused on their usage patterns they don't recognize they've made themselves irrelevant to most of us.
I genuinely mean it when I say KDE and LXDE-Qt (these days just LXDE, but I want to make sure its clear what I'm talking about) are the future. Its not so much because I think their platforms are intrinsically superior, but instead their philosophy to how developing for the desktop works. And for those who think KDE is too heavy and LXDE is too idiosyncratic, running a desktop without any desktop environment has become downright easy as of late. I'm running MX Linux with fluxbox and Antix with IceWM and I rarely miss features of the big DEs and I'm just running what those two ship with.
I loved GNOME 2. It got so much right and really did a lot to get out of your way. GNOME 3 meanwhile has some truly stellar core ideas for how humans computer interactions can be performed but everything surrounding those core ideas (the ecosystem) sucks because GNOME doesn't value stability anymore. That's probably somewhat fine on a rolling release distro, but... I don't... Think the average person looking to GNOME's ease of use are going to trend toward rolling releases and are going to prefer pointal releases. Probably the best place to run GNOME on a pointal releases these days is Fedora since that's where so much GNOME development happens anyway, but Fedora has issues I frankly don't want to deal with because fedora doesn't offer me (emphasized because if fedora is offering you special value, that's fine abd valid) value thanks to being a somewhat unstable pointal release distro (be stable or be rolling release. Ideally be both. Don't be neither)
And all of this is kind of a shame, too. There's a whole ecosystem of GTK apps that are effectively decaying because no one trusts GNOME to provide a stable platform and for people who've come to rely on those apps, there's gonna come a time they're gonna have to migrate to unfamiliar Qt apps. They'll be able to handle it of course, but most people just want their shit to work how they know it works and to not deal with their system being different from how they're used to.
I did the same transition a couple of months ago (the Windows to Pop! OS one, not the desktop environment one) and even though I'm a gamer (something which has stopped me from moving to Linux on the main usage of my home desktop since the late 90s - were I've usually had it on dual boot but not used it that much) am very happy with it.
I've actually been familiar with Linux since way back in the Slackware times, but only now have I started using as my main desktop.
I do think it's getting to be the Year Of Linux On The Desktop for a lot more people than ever before thanks to the aligned forces of Windows "all your computerz belongz to us" 11, software as a system with general enshittification and just how much easier it is to game on Linux thanks mainly to Valve and the steady, unrelentless, stream of improvements being done by the Wine devs.
Isn't it interesting how operating systems have a culture? From my early days of working with windows, it was completely normal for every other program to want to run itself at startup, no matter how useless it was to do so. And people just accepted it. They thought that computers literally get slower over time or something. Oftentimes I'd glance at someone's system tray and see 15 icons or so.
On Mac and Linux though, this behavior is far less acceptable. Today on Mac it is by far worse than ever but still probably better than it was, say, on windows 98. On Linux I could literally install 50 apps in a row without any asking me (or doing it without asking) to run on startup.
It's just up to what users will put up with. So windows consistently getting shittier shouldn't really surprise us. People have put up with that from the beginning. Both in terms of the app ecosystem and the os itself.
Like we went through at least a decade on windows where most free apps people used would literally attempt to, or force malware on your machine, in the form of toolbars or other useless shit running in the background. People were so complacent they wouldn't even uncheck those boxes when offered a choice in the installer. We really need better education in this world.
100% agree. I was getting tired of the start menu notification to sign in to windows, and how the updates would reenable telemetry.
I shouldn't have to constantly run a debloat script. I should be able to disable "create a windows account" notifications.
The steam deck showed me that Linux can run games, the only thing left for me is a decently running adobe suite, but I can live with the occasional dual boot for that.
Linux distros are waay worse!
They keep on advertising things like Desktop Environments and Window Managers and Display Managers and Printer Drivers!
And they don't even go about it subtly, like, one at a time. A single ad contains a list of around 10 or so Graphical Environments and even after you select one, it keeps on showing you the other ads, because you, apparently, can install as many of those things at the same time as your have HDD space for.
And then they keep advertising GRUB and systemd-boot! (Though I must give them credit for giving me the option of "No boot")
And even after you have finished installing, it is not enough, because you have to see an ad of 2 Network Card drivers, both being different versions of the same, because why not ?!
And turns out, everything that they give you in the package is actually third party! Meaning, stuff that has access to the lowest depths of your hardware, to stuff that you use to enter your bank details are all made by different people. So many people you have to put your trust into.
And if that's not enough, the people who compile it and send it to you might be totally different people from those who made the code!! What kind of heresy is this?
And turns out, everything that they give you in the package is actually third party! Meaning, stuff that has access to the lowest depths of your hardware, to stuff that you use to enter your bank details are all made by different people. So many people you have to put your trust into.And if that's not enough, the people who compile it and send it to you might be totally different people from those who made the code!! What kind of heresy is this?
You joke but I've met people that actually think like this
Gnome 3 was a regression of what I still believe is a perfect UX metaphor for computing. Gnome 2 was perfect in every way. I've since gone to Xfce, but it feels like Gnome 3 and beyond is trying to make using Unix fool-proof for a touchscreen paradigm, and you really can't.
You should give people the keys without difficulty, but give them everything they need to not need them. And you're never going to run Gnome on a tablet. There's no point in making everything pronounced, you'll have an input device that's not a finger on a screen. Emulating something else like Windows or macOS doesn't make you seem unique, it makes you seem similar and if the paradigms aren't the same, its confusing. Have some audacity to be different.
It's important to remember Gnome exists because KDE was in a license fiasco of its own making. And we're in a new fiasco with GTK over mismanagement.
This is a sensible recommendation. Even though I despise windows and Asus has support issues historically ( very lame ones even), the hardware itself is very good and any Linux distro can be easily flashed.
I wouldn't dismiss the handheld based on a windows review really ( hint : windows will forever suck).
In what games do you get 120 FPS?
I stay under 60 fps the vast majority of the time and while the games i play are fairly demanding I personally think going over 60 or even 40 is a waste. I would rather increase the quality and/or reduce the power consumption.
And gamepass was my number one reason to not get a steamdeck. I play Xbox too, I might as well get the most bang for my buck if I already subscribe.
I should probably get Hades 2 someday, I should just finish Hades 1 first and probably wait for release.
What FPS and battery life are you getting on Hades 2?
I really want an OLED deck but I can't really justify the additional cost. The bigger battery and slightly improved efficiency seems like the best part about the OLED edition.
Anyways I usually only play on the train and most often on the bus to work, so as long as I charge the Deck each day it usually holds up well both ways.
I know there are working ones, unfortunately all but overwatch don't work from current games I play.
This was all in response to why anyone would choose a windows machine. I'm a use case that needs windows. I don't love that I do, but it is what it is.
Their questions are actually pretty straight forward, I really don’t understand the comprehension issue you’re having or why you feel the need to add the incredulous response.
Do you find the need to call people out like this in everyday conversation?
Because they've set up a false quandry. They're setting it up as a three option problem with no other options.
a. Use a Windows desktop to game because they prefer mouse and keyboard unless Steam comes out with a desktop.
b. Use a Steam Deck with mouse and keyboard but it has alleged poor support for that and isn't viable (I'm saying alleged because I've never used a Steam Deck though my son has one).
c. Use SteamOS and hope it has better keyboard and mouse support than the OS on the Steam Deck.
Those aren't your only options. You could also.
d. Use pretty much any other Linux based distribution on a desktop and install the Steam app on it. Why would you need a Steam based OS? Clearly they don't have a problem running Steam as an app in Windows, why not do the same on Linux?
If anything the bigger struggle has been that every time I change machines or distros I have to manually get yakuake to start on login again.
On the off chance that you use KDE Plasma, it's just here FYI:
They were probably thinking that they'd use the cheapest Windows license (no gp manager) and make more money by putting bloatware on there via deals with other companies.
I know you know but why are they so short sighted? I just don't think actual consumer experience is at the forefront of priorities. Deadlines and budgets are.
Eventually Microsoft is going to be forced to adapt and make an operating system that doesnt use 20% of your system resources, right?
surely they wont continue to make the same bloated, sluggish OS every year since windows 7 right?
Open Source Street View...
I was wondering why there isn't or if there is, an Open Source (Free, or not) Street View like Google Maps. I like geography as a hobby, like my other hobbies, and found GeoHub which sparked my interest in being a free geoguessr alternative. I just don't understand why Google is the only Mapping service people go to, is Google the only one that has street view? is this a hard business model to achieve?
Please, I'd love too know :)
Well, if you want to do it properly you'll have to mount a 360° camera on a car and drive a car through every street of the whole world. Takes a while. And then you'll have to obey the countries privacy laws and at least blur all faces and licence plates.
There are other mapping services that do it but Google were the first who got really popular and did it on a massive scale.
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Yeah, if you use OsmAnd it shows you mapillary images in the app. You can click around the same as with Google, but the images are all open source.
Thus problem has already been solved :)
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I was also looking into this recently, and I think one of the limiting factors would be the storage and processing power you'd need to blur faces and license plates and then let everyone have access to millions of photos on demand.
Gathering street view like data, processing it, running the service and keeping it up to date would require millions if not billions of dollars/euros in capturing equipment, server farms, wages, electricity, lawfirms.
If you want something thats compareable to the google service, its entirely impossible to do it with a project structure like osm has.
Even if someone had the funding to get started, they would most likely get bought out by google or apple or microsoft very quickly once they got comparable results.
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any sane people would same the same about a map covering the whole world, and yet there is openstreetmap.
yes there are many challenges, but if you start small and grow from there it could work and maybe span a town or two in a couple of years...
any sane people would same the same about a map covering the whole world, and yet there is openstreetmap.
No sorry, that's a completely different amount of data. Look at how large (or rather, how comparatively tiny) the OSM data set is. Now see how much photo data you'd get for that amount.
you have a point there.
and yet we have the internet archive... so it seems to be possible.
Even the internet archive is nothing in comparison to the image data used for street view.
Its of course totally "technically" possible, but it would require some veeery generous donations from some pretty rich people.
Even if you get people to use their phones to just record everything around them, geo-tag it and upload it.
All that data would still have to be stitched together by some big ass GPU cluster that does things that currently only big tech companies can do properly at scale.
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Even the internet archive is nothing in comparison to the image data used for street view.
honest curiosity, don't want to flame war: do you have numbers for that?
stitching is no longer a requirement because of 360° cameras, is it? it could also be made on the client side if really needed. if people can use josm to contribute to osm, they can use some other software for stitching?!
have you seen that the internet archive has also quite high res books scans and videos?
if your aiming for covering every small street of the whole world tomorrow, you are right: it won't work. but nothing would stop to start with a single city or a region?
lets agree to disagree 
Is the current generation of street view still just snapshots from different positions with a 360° camera?
I thought it was proper 3D scans with images mapped onto it by now. I admit i havent actually used it in years.
But yeah if its just isolated 2D images then its probably not as much as i thought. The processing would still be tough i think but i dont know enough to even guess that properly.
I think doing small scale demonstrations would be cool. The community would probably be able to learn and improve from it a lot and eventually it could be scaled up.
Documentation re: ActivityPub integration in NodeBB
Now that the alpha version of NodeBB v4 has been released, it means that people are starting to look into using NodeBB for testing (or if they're really looking to have fun, production.)
The first step in enabling those intrepid individuals is providing documentation!
While a little bare-bones at the moment, I've written up a brief summary of what NodeBB brings to the ActivityPub landscape, as well as a run-down of various settings/toggles/switches, and how to switch over to the code branch that enables ActivityPub integration.
What I don't know is what's missing. There's a lot about NodeBB's integration that's very obvious to me, since I built it, but what don't you see that you'd like me to write about? Let me know.
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This is exciting! Is it compatible with Lemmy and Kbin/Mbin? And what about any other forum software, such as Discourse with the ActivityPub plugin?
I'd like to see some info in the docs about how to use it from a user point of view. For example how do I find a thread on another forum (or Mastodon etc) and reply to it from NodeBB?
Familjen Ahlström från Fiskebäck är en stor fiskarsläkt som består av flera olika grenar. En gren är delägare i Ahlma Fiskeri AB, en annan gren ägde tidigare fiskebåtar med namnet Ganthi och en gren lämnade fisket för länge sen och blev fiskhandlare, En gren som heter Claesson äger Fiskeri AB Ginneton och slutligen finns det en gren som äger Tor-ön […]
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Familjen Ahlström från Fiskebäck är en stor fiskarsläkt som består av flera olika grenar. En gren äger Tor-ön Fiske AB och Torland Fiske ABAnders Svensson (Svenssons Nyheter - Njord)
I tisdags exploderade en bomb på Rörstrandsgatan 5 i Kvillestaden i Göteborg (officiellt heter stadsdelen Brämaregården men ingen kallar den det). Det var en sprängning riktad mot en känd gängkriminell i Göteborg. Han har en koppling till Bandidos MC men om han fortfarande är medlem är oklart. Under en period var han president för Bandidos MC i Göteborg […]
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Sprängning riktad mot en känd gängkriminell i Göteborg - Svenssons Nyheter
I tisdags exploderade en bomb på Rörstrandsgatan 5 i Kvillestaden i Göteborg.Det var en sprängning riktad mot en känd gängkriminell iAnders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)
Fängelsestraff för bolagsförmedlare. Stockholms tingsrätt har meddelat dom i ett brottmål gällande bland annat näringspenningtvätt, grovt brott. Domstolen dömer tre åtalade personer till fängelse upp till ett år och sju månader. En fjärde åtalad dömdes till villkorlig dom medan en femte frikändes.
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Setting up a secure blog (or any kind of website) using hugo, certbot, haproxy, and crowdsec
This is my first post on my new site, I hope someone finds it helpful!
Setting up a secure blog using hugo, certbot, haproxy, and crowdsec
A howto guide on setting up a simple and secure blog server using haproxy to serve https, hugo to serve the website, cerbot to generate the tls certificate, and crowdsec for defenseh0bbl3s blog
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My site is on a rented server at digital ocean. Some providers do more or less to protect you themselves though. I don't think digital ocean does much monitoring or protecting, I've had servers on there compromised in the past that would have been caught by my current setup. It can't hurt in any case.
I also run crowdsec on my home setup but I don't have any open ports at home and never get alerts. I had suricata running and plugged into crowdsec as well so it would handle blocking for both, but suricata never got to get any action with crowdsec blocking malicious activity, so I disabled it to save resources.
Oh gotcha. It was late when I replied :p. You absolutely get security with a layer of separation from hosting remotely. I monitor my home network and have a similar setup but I don't host anything from here. I never get attacked or probed at all compared to my remote server. Just having those open ports makes you a target. Once a few scanners pick up on you hosting content you will absolutely start getting attacked. Another benefit is you don't have to have any passwords on your remote host, just an ssh key. They can bruteforce all they want, good luck without a zero day. You also keep your personal IP address out of peoples scope by not hosting from the local network.
I used to run much heavier protection on my home network, but after keeping an eye on all the logs and alerts for a while I realized I was just wasting ram and storage space mostly. Sane firewall settings is enough for a typical home, and something like crowdsec is probably overkill.
Now if you are hosting stuff it's a different story. I would actually harden my local network MORE than I did the remote one due to much more of my personal stuff being on my local network. My remote host being compromised would be a mild hassle at most, It does self backups once a week, and I have my entire site in a private git repo I sync to. It would take a few minutes to throw up another server, if my home stuff got compromised a lot more damage could be done.
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sudo apt-get install certbotYou also can use a container
Hey,
cool seeing another bearblog in the wild (I also use Hugo + Bear for my blog).
Quick question: Why do you deploy the Hugo dev server and don't build your page to static HTML?
I use CI to compile the page and add it to nginx, which I then build into a docker container. Once it's finished, I deploy it to my server and it gets served by traefik.
That's another thing I was curious about. Is there a reason why you didn't use docker?
You mentioned in another comment, that you used snap, because it is used in the official certbot instructions. Did you intend this to be 100% faithful to official docs?
Nice. I might have to clone that setup for fun. What do you use for CI? I've got jenkins running but I've been wanting to play with gitlab CI/CD too.
I do a lot of my dev work in docker containers, simply so I'm in a clean environment. Doesn't hurt in ease of backup either. No particular reason not to use docker, I also wanted to keep it kind of brief and simple. The guide I originally read that inspired me had a lot of things that were very outdated, and as I worked through getting it working on debian 12 I generally stuck with the source providers instructions when things weren't already packaged for dpkg, or alternatives were more complex.
I am currently mulling around doing extensions on this guide and adding links at the bottom, or just extending this one a bit. Also just thinking about writing a guide for other stuff too. I've been helping people on discord and irc a bit recently and some of what I know might be useful to someone.
I don't know everything by any means far from it, but I've been around since my first beOS and slackware installs a long time ago and I've picked up a lot. I worked developing and deploying pfsense images for a company years ago and have just had a lot of random experience in linux and bsds over the years.
I'd love to see more on something like Envoy as the reverse proxy. I tend to think of reverse proxies in "generations":
- Apache and Friends
- Nginx and Buddies
- HAProxy and Pals
- Envoy and Associates
I'm rather familiar with 0-2 from my previous work. It's really a pity, to me, that nginx is favored so heavily over HAProxy as in all perf and HA testing that I've done has resulted in nginx being left in the dust. The benchmarks that I've seen for Envoy show similar standings. I just haven't spent the time yet to get familiar with it.
Any repo containing creative commons food recipes out there?
I am not looking for a recipe software that is open source.
I am looking for markdown formatted recipes for making food dishes, in a git repository, to which lots of people contribute.
Any ideas? Heard of such a thing?
Google is zero fucking help welcome to 2024 worst timeline.
Edit: Found one so far: github.com/obfuscurity/food-re…
Not an easy thing to search for.
Edit: Here's another one, but it's small: github.com/panozzaj/recipes
Edit: Oh yeah, here we go! github.com/hrs/recipes/tree/ma…
Edit: Fuck yeah, now I'm on a roll: github.com/Thalagyrt/recipes
Edit: github.com/NicoleSchwartz/Food
Edit: Jackpot! One of those "awesome" lists: github.com/bbbenji/awesome-rec…
Edit: Had already found some on that list already, but not this one! github.com/DEAD10C5/1337-Noms-…
GitHub - obfuscurity/food-recipes: Honest-to-goodness "real food" recipes
Honest-to-goodness "real food" recipes. Contribute to obfuscurity/food-recipes development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Grocy has a recipe feature, it can even recommend you recipes based on what you have in your fridge: grocy.info/#recipe-details It can run on your server or you can use it a standalone desktop app. It's a full systems to manage your fridge, e.g. it notifies you if something will expire soon.
But I think four use case any wiki or note manager software would be enough. You can hyperlink there ingredients for example.
These are self hosted, but you can use your desktop as a server, and a lot of them works completely offline:
- awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/no…
- awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/wi…
Grocy - ERP beyond your fridge
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That's really cool, thank you.
Any idea how many people are contributing to the recipe inventory actively?
I would love to see lots of forks and sharing where folks contribute their own variation of recipes.
Edit: Oh, I see, it's a tool for managing recipes and other stuff. I was hoping to find a git repo of recipes to which folks were actively contributing.
No recipe inventory, you should write your own.
It wasn't clear from your post if you are looking for actual reciepes or a software managing them.
If the former, than I see why your search queries yield no results. "Open source" usually associated with software, open written works usally ha ve some kind creative commons license. Search for that instead
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There is cooklang which I use in Obsidian. Maybe there are shared repos out there. They have a discord server you could check on
Honorable mention: completefoods.co/
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Perfect! So many stars!
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GitHub - LukeSmithxyz/based.cooking: A simple culinary website.
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The problem with recipes is that people tend to add their flavor to it. Meaning, importing bulk recipes imports a lot of trash.
I started that way and quickly went back to: add one recipe after the other. Sometimes you may add a couple but only a couple which will be altered over the weeks to meet your standard.
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Google search for "open source recipes". Does Lemmy come up in the results?
If not, compile this list on some website that will get indexed by search engines, so it will help the next person who is searching for this information.
Many sites are well-indexed by search engines. Personally, I recommend asking this question on the cooking stack exchange. You can answer your own question and then link from there to this thread, and it will help search engines index this thread.
Installation of language pack openSUSE
I appreciate every help, thank you.
Where can I find a list of the languages supported by Ubuntu in the UI?
Where can I find a list of the languages supported by Ubuntu in the UI? I find this list https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=language-pack but it strikes me as incomplete because there is n...Ask Ubuntu
There are language packs for the desktop, the apps etc. I guess. I never did this, you could install them individually.
If they are not in the repositories, it will be harder but possible.
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You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.trufflesecurity.com
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After reviewing the documentation, it’s clear as day that GitHub designed repositories to work like this.
Sounds like they wanted to find a problem but it turned out to be a feature.
Yeah, pretty much everyone agrees that once something goes to git it lasts forever.
The fact they call out that secret keys must be rotated if committed, makes me think they thought just deleting a commit was enough 🤦
Misleading title.
~~If my thing was public in the past, and I took it private, the old public code is still public.~~
That's... How the Internet works anyway.
Edit: See Eager Eagle's better explanation below.
TL;DR - be careful who you allow to fork your private repos. And if you need to take a public repo, which has forks, private, consider archiving the repo and doing all the new work in a new repo. Which is arguably the reasonable thing to do anyway.
Still a misleading title. This isn't a way to break into all or even most of your private repositories.
I don't think you can create private forks from public repos (the fork is public upon creation). This is more like the opposite:
If there's a private repo that is forked and the fork is made public, further changes to that original private repo become public too, despite the repo remaining private and the fork not being synced.
Misleading title.
The title literally spells out the concern, which is that code that is in a private or deleted repository is, in some circumstances, visible publicly.
What title would you propose?
If my thing was public in the past, and I took it private, the old public code is still public.
The “Accessing Private Repo Data” section covers a situation where code that has always been private becomes publicly visible.
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The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.sfconservancy.org
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Mint for years but i forget. In the updates make sure fully updated first. Then i remember some sort of upgrade command.
Im not much help but i think i did it once. Or you can preserve your home folder, broweser bookmarks, etc... the load the new os from scratch, but im sure theres an upgrade option.
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Open the Update Manager (click on the little shield icon down near the clock) and click Edit > Upgrade to Linux Mint 22.
Their website will have more thorough details.
Yeah. Everyone should be clear that both Mint and LMDE follow about the same release spacing as their upstream, but offset by a couple of months. Mint's upstream is Ubuntu LTS, LMDE's is Debian. Both release about every two years. Mint and LMDE cannot possibly do major version updates faster than their upstream!
The point of these distros is stability and polish. If you want the absolute newest updates, mint/LMDE is not the right distro for you, and getting the newest updates inherently sacrifices some stability.
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just making sure: i am talking sbout the xapps and the releases they bring, not debian security or other updates of debian packages. i am familiar with the concept of up/-downstream, just wanted to know about cinnamon specific releases, which answers my question, i guess...
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I wasn't trying to call you out! I was more responding to Jcreazy, but I wanted to emphasize what NaN said.
As far as I know, the xapps are largely updated in line with when Mint gets updates -- Mint doesnt get super frequent updates on those either, they often get bundled with a new Cinnamon release.
Hyprland is now fully independent!
geteilt von: discuss.tchncs.de/post/1937702…
[...] I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and MR 6608 is now merged.
I like niri, but I'll be damned if I can get any kind of stability out of it. I'll have myself a flawless time at home testing, but as soon as my laptop enters University Grounds it stops launching apps, or crashes, or whatever else.
Right now I'm using Gnome/PaperWM since Infinite horizontal has changed my workflow so dramatically, and Gnome is more stable for me.
If you bother to read any of the posts you'll see he claims he apologized already and then re-appologized in the post. But that doesn't fit the narrative and since we've all forgotten how to make mistakes and grow from them together why bother even reading the links people share, they just way down your snap judgements that lead to your outrage fix.
But don't mind me I'm just a random internet person who saw a cool project being posted noticed a bunch of controversy, wanted to see what was reasonable so I waded in and was met with a bunch of people getting high on their outrage.
Still not decided but certainly not as clear as one side is acting like it is and they seem to just want to stay mad.
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And on that note, I condemn in the harshest terms the response from communities like /r/linux on the subject. The vile harassment and hate directed at the FDO officer in question is obscene and completely unjustifiable. I don’t care what window manager or desktop environment you use – this kind of behavior is completely uncalled for. I expect better.
Oh wow. That community is just hateful
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This was a Discord dumpster fire that was thankfully put out months ago.
Right, but the original mail from FDO basically said "we know about these examples of bad behavior, we want to notify you that they are definitely unacceptable and we expect to never see something like it again". And Vaxry had a meltdown over that. Among other things, he doesn't get why he should be held accountable for behaviors outside FDO. He has also rejected and commented negatively on the idea of any code of conduct at all for his project. Vaxry is making it as clear as possible that he will make zero commitment to oppose toxicity in his community and people took his word for it. The idea that he was punished solely for a couple of comments that happened years ago and are definitely "fixed" is Vaxry's own misleading interpretation.
To his point: if not "discuss", what is the correct approach against fascism? war and murder? dismiss it, try to "cancel it" without giving any arguments so it can continue to fester on its own and keep growing in opposition?
To me, fascism is a stupid position that doesn't make much sense, to the point that it falls on itself the moment you "discuss" it.
I would have expected that it would be the fascists the ones unable/unwilling to discuss their position, since it's the least rational one. So it's certainly very jarring whenever I hear people jumping to defend against fascism while at the same time stopping in their tracks when it comes to discussing it. Even if those unable to reason might not be convinced by our arguments, anyone with reason would. Rejecting discussion does a disservice, because it does put off those willing to listen and strengthens those who didn't really want an argument anyway.
Like flat-earthers, they should be challenged with reason, with discussion. Not dismissed as if it were true that there's a huge conspiracy against them. Whether they listen or not to that reason, dehumanizing them and rejecting civil and rational discourse would play in favor of their movement.
Stating "genocide is bad" should NOT be a statement of faith. Faith is the shakiest of the grounds, if we are unable to articulate the specific reasons that make genocide be bad, then we are condemned to see it repeat itself. So, I'd argue it's for the sake of the victims in Auschwitz that antifascism should not be turned into a religion, but into a solid and rational position that's not distorted nor used willy-nilly.
And now in the r/linux thread about these news people are defending Vaxry, misrepresenting what the ban was about, and hating FDO.
Indicatively, this blatantly wrong comment chain is upvoted:
Is this the project where some red Hat dev started dropping legal threats from their corporate account over offline activities by third parties in unrelated communities years past?
Sort of. You got some details wrong but essentially, yes.
But this is downvoted and has replies telling them they're wrong:
Congratulations to the hyprland project, but I definitely will not be using or contributing to the project as long as it's an exclusionary and intolerant space.
the blog post inside the linked blog post goes over some points. each point is copy and pasted more or less.
- like for example the multiple times I've spent dozens of hours debugging a single issue only for it to turn out a small typo or a careless mistake that any language would catch at compile time, except for C
- Memory safety issues arising from the absolute lack of any documentation whatsoever of wlroots have also been quite the annoyance
- The development of a display server is very complicated, as they are very broad and complex pieces of software. Mixing a C library with 0 documentation is basically asking for trouble.
- new wayland features that require changes in wlroots tend to take ages to get merged into wlroots, like for example tearing, where a basically ready MR took 9 months to merge
- explicit sync still not being a thing, despite KDE and Gnome having implementations already (I believe it is now, but not at the time of the blog post)
I'd say, read Hyprland's responses linked elsewhere in this thread before making any hasty decisions.
It seems (but I'm not sure, to be clear), that it was a situation that got solved, and people are still hung up on it.
It's like that "but you fuck one sheep" joke.
I don't know, man. I read Vaxry's response and I think that he has a point. There was an incident, and it was dealt with.
Then someone from redhat (because they e-mailed him with from RedHat address) told him "hey we saw improvements on you moderating your community. Great! But if you break our CoC again, we'll ban you!" To which he replied "Uh, we don't have a CoC, we don't belong to your organization, what's is this about?" And the person replied "This is not a RedHat position. And again, we'll ban you!"
He explained this in a blogpost and posted the full e-mail conversation.
He also said that the misrepresentation got to such point that a another transgender coder made a contribution to Vaxry's project, expecting that it would be rejected, and got surprised that her PR got merged.
Aw, man. I think Vaxry's got entrapped here.
He is saying that if nothing can sway you from an opinion, then it is a belief, including being 100% opposed to genocide.
(Please note: I don't side with genocide!!! But I understand his point. Read on.)
I think he's the positions armchair arguing type, not necessarily the evil type.
I can totally see him say "If a group of people's solely reason to exist is to exterminate the rest of the human race, if that's all they think about, if all they do is to accomplish that - induce terror, kill babies, spew propaganda, castrate humans of all races; then it's safe to say that that group of people should not exist and it should be exterminated."
That's an extremely wild scenario, of course! But I think that's what this guy is saying. We may find genocide in general heinous, but he won't say that all genocides are bad because of thought examples like the above one.
Then the other party takes that personally, and extrapolates that Vaxry is in favor of exterminating all trans people - something he didn't say or mean.
My two cents.
I whole-heartedly agree with this one and I am genuinely not surprised about the behaviour of Vaxry.
To give some context around this, ThatOneCalculator (aka Kainoa, the person behind Firefish) and I maintained the AUR package for hyprland-git back in 2022. When I initially made the AUR package file, it wasn't great (and there were a lot of points to improve these packages) but it worked mostly. Of course there were edge cases where building broke, especially this was my first bigger AUR package to maintain. With it being a -git package in the AUR, breakage is to be expected.
Fast forward about a month, a month and a half. Hyprland rolled out some big changes which caused some build errors. But because my personal life got in the way, Kainoa got sick (IIRC) and I had troubles getting the build scripts working again, so it took a few days to get this resolved.
Vaxry came complaining to comment section of the AUR package "when are you gonna get of your lazy ass and fix this shit" (or something similar to that meaning, I can't find the original comment anymore). After that, I promptly disowned the package and let Vaxry handle it himself.
Because fuck that shit, as package maintainer, I refused to be treated like this. If you think it takes too long, sure, fine, ask if I need help, offer support, anything. But just don't be an asshole towards people, that offer your software to a wider audience.
I have contributed to other projects without really needing to get involved in their community in any personal/parasocial level, though.
I just make a pull request and when the code was good it was accepted, when not it got rejected. Sometimes I've had to make changes before it getting merged, but I had no need to engage in discussions on discord or anything like that. I've been in some mailing lists to keep track on some projects, but never really engaged deeply, specially if it goes off-topic.
If I find that a good code contribution is rejected for whatever toxic reason, then the consequence of that is the code would stop being as good as it could have (because of the contributions being rejected/slowed down), so it's then that forking might be in order. Of course the code matters.
Which is why you should only care about the personal opinion of those people when it actually relates to that reliability.
I don't care whether Linus Torvalds likes disrespecting whichever company or people he might want to give the middle finger to, or throw rants in the mailing list or mastodon to attack any particular individual, so long as he continues doing a good job maintaining the kernel and accepting contributions from those same people when they provide quality code, regardless of whatever feelings he might have about whatever opinions they might hold.
You rely on the performance of the software, the clarity of the docs, the efficiency of their bug tracking... but the opinions of the people running those things don't matter so long as they keep being reliable.
Wrong. This was originally technically motivated as hyprland had been limited by wlroots in the past and often had different update cycles from sway causing packaging issues.
Vaxry never condoned hateful trolling of trans people. In fact, he publicly acknowledged, and apologized for the lack of moderation that lead to the incident, said he would do better, DID better, and THEN after everything had blown over FDO tried to ego butt into his server even more.
I've also read Vaxry's response and it's complete nonsense. It's even apparent in your condensed version.
Uh, we don’t have a CoC
Exactly. This is more than "an incident" as you put it. It's a long-lasting pattern of Vaxry refusing to commit to any standards of behavior. He explicitly calls "upholding any value" nothing but an inconvenience. His only reaction to his community ridiculing the concept of a CoC is to say "nice one".
What's funny is that the person who opened the issue said "Instead of attacking the post, could you provide some evidence against it? (e.g. say "Trans rights are human rights")" and it was completely ignored. See, the CoC is not about the text itself. It's about taking an open stance against bigotry. Vaxry can cry all day about how this one incident is misrepresented and how moderation has become more strict now, but nowhere in this discussion or the FDO emails or his own blog about the issue have I seen him take an actual moral stance on the issue.
we don’t belong to your organization
What does this have to do with anything? FDO, a space that aims to be LGBTQ+ friendly, banned a bigoted person from participating, as they should. It's such a stupid childish argument to say "but I didn't out myself as a bigot in a commit message I submitted to you, checkmate!". No-one cares. You can't leave your "fuck trans people, lol" sign at the door and walk in, mate. You're still a toxic asshole and you're still a threat to the LBGTQ+ people we want to participate in our community.
He also said that the misrepresentation got to such point that a another transgender coder made a contribution to Vaxry’s project, expecting that it would be rejected, and got surprised that her PR got merged.
This is just so funny to hear from Vaxry himself. After people have repeatedly tried to explain to him that not enforcing any code of conduct on a toxic community is going to make it an unsafe space for LGBTQ+ people, Vaxry is shocked to find that LGBTQ+ people are afraid of being discriminated against!
Oh, but no, you see it's because of the "misrepresentation"! Vaxry's had made it so clear through his words and actions that trans rights are human rights and that bigotry is unacceptable, so it can't possibly be on him. Even as he's posting pictures this conversation where he's accused of being a transphobe, and a trans person is expecting to get rejected, does he point out how he's not a transphobe and how he respects all human rights? Nope, he only says that he only cares about the code.
But that's just me picking apart his comments in a few specific discussions. What if he has in fact taken a moral stance, but just not in these particular discussions where's he's felt attacked and pressured into making a statement?
He did post this in one of his blog posts:
With that, I believe that every human's opinion is valuable and important, and most crucially, equal. There is no point in having some people's opinions be more important than others. That is the essence of discrimination.
Hey, that's not bad. There's mention of equality here and he seems against discrimination! Now let's read the rest of this Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS blog post and see what it's really about! Oh no, the above statement was only to set the stage for accusing SJWs of not understanding that not everyone agrees with them and how they shouldn't "cancel" us for "saying bad words". So he does think to talk about equality and discrimination, just not in any of the above discussions. But he'll do it here to defense people acting like assholes on the internet!
And then he says this:
if I run a discord server around cultivating tomatoes, I should not exclude people based on their political beliefs, unless they use my discord server to spread those views. which means even if they are literally adolf hitler, I shouldn't care, as long as they don't post about gassing people on my serverthat is inclusivity
So there you have it. Vaxry will literally accept Hilter into his community, just casually interacting with Jewish people (presumably he doesn't ban them from participating). It's all fine, just as long as the gassing happens outside his own platform. Gosh, I wonder why people are feeling unwelcome in his community. Surely it is the misrepresentation of his views.
Here's an archive link for the above article just in case:
web.archive.org/web/2024051114…
Add a Contributor Code of Conduct · Issue #3209 · hyprwm/Hyprland
Description Contributor codes of conduct are very important to all open source projects as to avoid discriminatory practices. I feel that Hyprland could really use a Code of Conduct that may also a...GitHub
I'll quote Vaxry from his blog:
"Obviously, the fact that I am banned from contributing to Freedesktop - and by extension wlroots, is another big factor, and probably the one that finally tipped the scales, because I am no longer allowed to participate in discussion or contribute code to wlroots."
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"I definitely am not a fan of how seemingly weak people online, especially teenagers, have become. Words are just words. Someone calling another person a "retard" shouldn't really be a big deal."
"I said:
if I run a discord server around cultivating tomatoes, I should not exclude people based on their political beliefs, unless they use my discord server to spread those views. which means even if they are literally adolf hitler, I shouldn't care, as long as they don't post about gassing people on my serverthat is inclusivity
Which I definitely stand by."
I think you're attributing malice to something else. Bear with me while I point out these two things:
First, The tomatoes quote is a consequence of something he mentioned later:
I firmly believe that FOSS is literally for everyone.
And second, he goes on to write this:
It's important to note that there are many people who disagree on topics like religion, economic systems, LGBT issues, geopolitics, and other. For whatever reasons they may, we still should not ostracize them as long as they can interact with the FOSS community in a respectful manner, without arguing about those issues in places not meant for such discussions.
Here's what I think: The dude is dogmatically dense. Not a literal nazi or transphobe. His response about moderation is part of that. "Ugh, I just want to code, not to babysit. If no one is spewing hate in my turf, they are welcome." And even though I don't agree with his stance, I still think he has a point: extremes are bad. And if the far-right is bad ("you're either with us or against us; death to you!"), the far-left is bad too ("you're either with us or against us; cancelled!")
I've been there. Even after explaining that I was a transgender rights ally and supporter, and asked a question about sports - a question, as in I was trying to get myself informed, this one mod lashed out at me as if I was the devil, simply because my views didn't perfectly align with hers before getting answers. It really caught me off guard. And she wouldn't budge. It's either her view or "pure unadulterated transphobia," which I found ridiculous. That's extreme.
But I'm capable of trying to reach to a middleground, whereas Vaxry stays firm - and that's fine. Don't like it? Don't participate in his community! But don't demonize him for some imaginary intentions you're placing on him.
My partner is Korean, and I asked her if she thought this was racist. She said "it is (technically), but who is getting offended by that?"
I never used the term in the first place, but if I did, I wouldn't stop saying it because I know about its past.
I'm fully convinced that anyone who is sincerely offended by that term is looking for something to be offended by.
I don't waste my time thinking about how "smooth brain" is offensive to people who literally have a smooth brain.
I don't waste my time dictating to the English; their colloquial term for a "cigarette" is inappropriate nowadays.
And I don't waste my time replying to comments on Lemmy regarding semantics.
Oh, wait...
There are only so many ways "I don't care if Hitler is active in my community as long as he doesn't talk about the gassing in my discord" can be interpreted and "I just want to code" is not one of them. For starters, the practical issues of moderation and whether he wants to do it are never relevant to his argument throughout the blog post. He's saying that "we should not care about people's political views on a community unrelated to politics, as long as they do not use it to spread their agenda". The words "we", "should", and "care" are pretty clear. This is a moral statement.
There are many more quotes that make it clear he is not talking about moderating his own community. His point about Hitler is clearly used to demonstrate his thoughts on how communities in general should be run, and why FOSS communities are getting it wrong.
Inclusive communities, in the eyes of such advocates, are often the opposite of inclusive. They will try and find things that you do outside of your proffessional persona, or often infer, guess, meddle with, or lie about what you say and stand for. Then, once they have the "ammo", they will ostracize you. Ban, kick, call for removal, censorship.Unlike those people, I stand by my stance that even if you are something that the country I live in disagrees with, you still are free to use, contribute to, and be a part of the greater FOSS community.
It's also sad to see that the inclusive communities for which such people "fight for", are accepting this type of, ultimately hateful and bigoted, behavior..
Bonus points for explicitly listing LGBT issues as a topic one might disagree with.
It's important to note that there are many people who disagree on topics like religion, economic systems, LGBT issues, geopolitics, and other
It's all unambiguous. Vaxry is at no point talking about the practicalities of keeping Hitler out of his community. He is explaining why he thinks Hitler should be welcome into his community and the FOSS community in general, just as long as he doesn't use these communities to further his goal of gassing people. If there was ever any confusion over whether Vaxry doesn't care about the toxicity or just can't deal with it, this blog post definitely clears it up. He doesn't care. He's welcoming evil and harmful people in his community and in all communities and he takes a stance against the people who have an issue with this.
Your interpretation doesn't work unless you ignore all the words he uses, the logic of his arguments, and even the fucking title. Not to mention all the other times he's talked about these issues. In so many blog posts about how his community is unfairly represented and how his ban was unwarranted, Vaxry has not once just simply stated in any terms that he is not okay with evil and harmful people in his community, or that he even acknowledges trans rights. The only thing I've seen him say on the incident of harassing a trans person by editing their profile to change their pronouns is that it was "unprofessional". No mention of ethics or possible harm done.
And if the far-right is bad (“you’re either with us or against us; death to you!”), the far-left is bad too (“you’re either with us or against us; cancelled!”)
Ah yes, seeking people to harm because of their race and innate characteristics and banning people from your platform because of their morals and behavior. Equally bad things. I see the rights and wrongs of both sides now.
is another big factor, and probably the one that finally tipped the scales
means that it is not the sole motivating factor.
which means even if they are literally adolf hitler, I shouldn’t care, as long as they don’t post about gassing people on my server
Literally means that if they go around spewing crap, they get dealt with. This is not condoning hateful trolling at all. He is on the free speech side of things, but that doesn't mean he condones it at all. If you start posting bad crap, you get dealt with. Minor slights, are as the name implies, minor. Those are allowed but within strict limitations, if you start going full blown idiot, you get dealt with.
He's completely right about everything there.
Unless he is selectively banning trans people, not making a tech discord server about those discussions is perfectly fine.
Watching the discussion here I finally get how it feels like to be a centrist. And it feels dirty.
Anyway, good for them, or whatever. Hyprland was a'ight when I tested it, even if it ain't my thing. Still hoping for a Wayland Compositor that gives an XFCE-type experience (that is to say, UX without Gnome's 'opinionated' weirdness, and without all the fancy effects that Plasma has. Relatively lighter, also looks a bit retro)
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A Wayland Compositor with an XFCE-type experience
XFCE is working on Wayland support!
You may want to look into gnome classic, it comes default with gnome.
It's not fancy or even popular, but it was made specifically for people like you.
I lost some faith in humanity upon reading that such drama over attitude that I would consider juvenile at best and mildly inappropriate at worst is still sparking debate.
I regained some faith in humanity upon reading many people trying to put things into perspective - this guy is not evil incarnate.
Also - and this is catered to American audiences - do not forget that this guy is from Poland. American left-wing values do not stretch all over the world.
American left-wing values
Hold up, what? The Overton window of US politics is so skewed to the right that what is usually considered left-wing there is right-wing elsewhere. US left-wing (read right-wing for much of the rest of the world) values are definitely common globally due to American cultural export (read military hegemony and neocolonialism).
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All of these people are just reaching lol. I also don't understand how any of this would do benefit. Most of the people here cheering have not contributed 1℅ of what varxy did.
That drewvault guy lectures all day instead of maintaining his own projects. Why are we acting as if we are in abundance of open source devs/maintainers.
He is some sort of a sociopath. I remember having the same feelings reading his Blogposts. But after rethinking and checking the facts it came to me how awful his own reaction was.
If you use an infrastructure as the project did, the host is allowed to define rules. In his reaction everything was framed like she as a woman would just fire against his project because of she likes to have power. The mailing list told a totally different story. After I realised his framing was again hateful and misleading, I stepped away from the project and till now all news about that.
The development of a dedicated backend is most probably because of technical reasons since wlroots caused some problems, though.
To be completely fair, without the "receipts" (ie, screenshots or something else point towards proof) my comments shouldn't be considered anything more than hearsay.
Personally, this experience is something that's sticking out like a sore thumb. Most people I interact with online, even people I haven't interacted with before, I start out with the assumption that they come from a place with good intentions. And then there is a person, that immediately goes against that, especially on a platform where I didn't expect it.
Edit: grammar
Languages evolve over time. The term "to serve" is derived from the Latin word for "slave". That does not mean it's somehow offensive to use the term to describe the job of soldiers.
The modern day "riced" comes from "R.I.C.E" which stands for "race inspired car enhancement". If you rice a car, it means you put components that look like race car components but are actually just cosmetic. Fake vents, huge spoilers on family cars, exhausts that are optically bigger, etc. The orange Japanese car in the linked article is an example of that. 70s Japan had renown ricing culture so I guess that's where the R.I.C.E and the racist "rice burner" split.
Nowadays people who use the term "riced" don't even know that at some point in time it had something to do with Asian cars or bikes. It's even common to jokingly associate it with the food with the same name to spite other car nerds because you can "um actually" bait someone to correct you that it has nothing to do with food. Which is obviously not true according to the article but if 99 % of people don't know the racist origin, it's not an issue at all to use the word.
I can't find any source to indicate Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement was ever a term that existed as anything other than the Japanese version of an N-word-pass.
That is to say: the acronym only exists as a means to explain why I should be allowed to continue calling your car a RICEr.
The problem here is that someone fabricated an explanation for why they should be allowed to continue to say RICE, in response to a fallacious argument for why they shouldn't be allowed to.
The term is so far removed from any malicious origin, that some people wouldn't even know they should feel offended, unless someone told them they should be.
aiaiaia wasn't fully aware didn't really care, because I don't need #eyecandy but this seems like problem: blog.vaxry.net/resource/articl…
Make up your own mind, folks.
Edit:
invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=…
Regarding The Hyprland & Vaxry Situation
Recently there a situation between Vaxry the developer of Hyprland and Lyude Paul a member of the Freedesktop Board and Code of Conduct enforcement team and the best way to describe this is an absolute hellscape of arguments.Brodie Robertson | Invidious
being normal
Hey. This is the linux community, there is no nornal. Only insanity
This is why people should stop recommending Arch. Fedora or Opensuse TW should be recommended instead for new people.
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This is why people should stop recommending others which distros to recommend or not.
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Looks like open suze is going to experience more corporate bullshyt
The parent is suggesting the non corporate part is going to need to be renamed
I lost interest in open suze after I was dead ended on version 15
SUSE also has multiple controversial pacts with Microsoft, and has for a long time. Such as the Novell-Microsoft agreement.
There was a time when it looked possible that MS was going to sue lots of Linux projects, and SUSE immediately jumped into a cosy relationship with MS so that if it did happen, they'd be shielded. This was interpreted as a fuck you to other FOSS projects by much of the community. (Was a long time ago though)
They aren't, no. But SUSE has continued working with MS, and many of the people that were there are still there.
Perhaps their close relationship is an irrational thing to point at in the current year. Perhaps it isn't. I don't really know tbh.
But it's certainly something some people are still a bit iffy about. And I'm sure some people will still be similarly iffy about RedHat in 10 years too for their recent licencing controversy.
I've seen it a handful of times and find it pretty wild. It's certainly not some widespread thing.
I do agree with the point, though.
Its a good way to learn how different parts of Linux work
After you install arch a couple times you won't be making posts asking why your grub is broken, youll already k ow how to fix it.
I had many problems with installing grub in a dual boot configuration, so much so that I moved to systemd-boot and never had problems after. I don't know why, but it's config file approach felt more intuitive.
I'm actually not sure why GRUB is such a popular boot loader that comes packaged with so many distros. Maybe GRUB does something more complex than just bootloading, but I don't know if most users would care...
Agreed. There is no point recommend Arch for beginners. You need to have some knowledge before using Arch!
Don't get me wrong... Arch is a great system and it's my distro of choice, however I'm on Linux for more then 10 years! For a completely beginner, easier distros, such Fedora and PopOS, should be the way to go.
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I'd disagree with that, mostly.
The media codecs is bloody annoying, yes. Sure it's only a command or two, but it really should just be a tickbox in the installer like it is on, say, Ubuntu. So big agreement there.
As for the Flatpak repo, Fedora switched to Flathub as the default a while ago. IIRC it only doesn't if you choose to have no non-foss software during the installation (in which case of course you'd expect to not get full Flathub access!)
I think Fedora is an overall pretty great distro for beginners aside from their media codecs bone-headedness and their god-awful installer (which is getting replaced).
I'm just saying that privacy newbies always ask about nord (which is far from the top recommended commercial VPN) because they see ads for it everywhere.
And Linux newbies ask about MX a lot because its at the top of the distrowatch list, though its nowhere near the top most-used Linux distros.
I would recommend they follow the full installation guide instead, which is probably one of the best pieces of technical documentation in existence at the moment. The amount of detail, context, and instruction provides both an invaluable learning experience and introduction to Linux.
archinstall is not foolproof; that's why I wouldn't recommend it to an absolute beginner. IMHO, It's more valuable for people who are familiar with the process and want a shortcut.
As great as archinstall is, it can't possibly account for every contingency. Troubleshooting a bootloader issue, for example, is easy if you've installed one before. If a noob managed to navigate the TUI (with all of the confusing questions and settings) and complete the installation only to have something go wrong there, they're off it, maybe for good.
I mainly recommend Universal Blue distros to newbies, like Bazzite or Aurora. The immutable nature more or less means users don't have to worry about performing maintenance of system apps like they might on some distros, mostly don't have to worry about dependencies, and are less likely to irreversibly break the system themselves or in an update.
That said, these distros are Fedora-based, and I think that's fine. No idea who out there is recommending Arch of all things.
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Universal Blue is a diverse set of images using Fedora Atomic's OCI support as a delivery mechanism. That's nerdspeak for the ultimate Linux client!universal-blue.org
I will always recommend people to research their choice of distro. Use the right tool for the job.
What one person needs may differ from what another person needs. Take into account what the use case is for the machine you are using.
I use Arch BTW but I don't run Arch for any of my servers. I use Arch where it makes sense for me.
I wouldn't tell someone switching from Windows to just go balls to the wall and go for something blerding edge and arguably more maintenance or manual intervention needed.
I will give my suggestions but always implore them to research what theyt3 looking for.
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That's fun! It's silly, but I do enjoy thinking about what my favorite thing in xyz category is and jotting them down, from time to time.
Would be cool if this included some pre-populated sample lists out of the box. Love that the import option is readily available though.
Also, mild inconcevenice - after I view a list, rank some things, maybe repeat a few times, pressing back takes me from list, to rank, etc, when I want it to go back to all lists page. If that makes sense.
Thanks for updating it! Newer version is all around much better.
Only nitpicky wishlist item I have left is for an undo button on the match screen. (Though it's not really needed since you can reset an item's stats.)
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