Sugar Cubes N97 Elite reimagines the Nokia N97 smartphone as a handheld game console
At a time when most handheld game consoles look like souped up versions of classic Nintendo or Sony PlayStation designs, Chinese handheld designer Sugar Cubes is taking inspiration from a different source for its latest mobile gaming device.
The Sugar Cubes N97 Elite is a handheld with a 4.6 inch display and a compact body that measure just 119 x 56mm (4.7″ x 2.2″). But you can slide the […]
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How to stay legally compliant when posting on Piracy communities online?
I'm new around here, so I'd appreciate some context if anyone knows...
What are the legal ramifications of discussing piracy online?
What are the lines in the sand one should not cross?
What do you do to make sure you stay safe out there?
I know linking to specific pirated content is against the communities rules so that seems like an obvious no no.
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I'd say the rules of such a community usually factor that in. Don't directly link to pirated content etc. So the first thing is to read the rules.
It's also always a good idea to watch other people. See what they do and how they talk before you ask where to find the latest pirated Nintendo collection, a mere minutes after creating an account.
General media literacy applies. Choose a pseudonym and not your real name. Don't attach your main email address and phone number to your piracy accounts. And maybe generally don't mix all your online life together.
And some mild trick is to phrase things so you don't outright admit to committing illegal activities. Say you think a friend of yours did this, or what would happen if someone were to do that... But this doesn't really change anything. People can tell. And if law enforcement takes interest in you, they don't really care how you phrased things after they found evidence.
But talking about piracy isn't illegal. And avoiding names and links sometimes is more about protecting the server you're on, since the place could get closed if it's the where the actual pirating happens. So in everyones interest, I think we talk about piracy here, but don't do it here...
And there is a Megathread, a FAQ etc in the sidebar. With all sorts of good information. And lots of links. So if you read that, you can skip asking some questions in the first place.
Yeah, I thought about including a NordVPN advertisement in my comment... Do people do that? I mean sure it's an additional privacy technique. But I regularly just talk about whatever legal things I like and I don't take this too seriously. It's my regular internet connection. I make a clean cut after that, though. If I now were to download something, I'd think about not doing it in plain sight. And I'd use a different username to sign up somewhere if needed.
Though, I forgot to talk about different jurisductions. And for example where I live, I can't give someone instructions on how to commit a crime. Or help doing illegal things. So that's another thing I avoid.
And I'm kind of talking about: talking about piracy. Not doing it. If you share links in an underground forum, or upload some movies, you'd need way more security measures in place.
Depends a lot on where you reside.
In where I live; no one cares for personal piracy. There have been local tracker owners busted; but the law enforcement did not go after each member individually; even though they could've according to law.
Legal ramifications? Highly unlikely; unless you're explaining how to break copy prevention methods. That's considered illegal in a lot of countries afaik.
As for lines you should not cross; I see ethics as more of a concern than anything. If you're trying to learn how to use some software feel free to pirate it; but if you go into the level where you make a significant income out of it; you really should pay for it.
the first thing you need to understand about the law is the concept of jurisdiction.
there is no meaningful way of asking a question about the law without specifying jurisdictions you are or may be subject to. which means you need to figure that out in the first place. or ask for help figuring it out.
there is no law of any kind which applies to everyone in all situations.
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You can speak freely in anonymous and encrypted channels e.g a matrix server on I2P/TOR, a signal group (just don't use your name), simplex, retroshare over I2P, etc. Telegram is not encrypted!
Just search for "piracy $channel" e.g "piracy I2P chat", "piracy simplex chat", "piracy signal chat", or something similar and you'll find something. There might even be a forum hosted on TOR or I2P if the piracy community is that motivated.
But always remember not to give too many details about yourself. Being anonymous isn't just a technical requirement, it also required personal effort. Tech can't do everything for you.
OpenWrt 24.10 released with Linux 6.6, TLS 1.3 by default
OpenWrt 24.10 released with Linux 6.6, TLS 1.3 by default, and 1970 supported devices - CNX Software
OpenWrt 24.10 open-source lightweight Linux operating system for routers has just been released. It's been upgraded to Linux 6.6 from Linux 5.15 inJean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) (CNX Software Limited)
Audiblez v4.0 is out: Generate Audiobooks from Ebooks
GitHub - santinic/audiblez: Generate audiobooks from e-books
Generate audiobooks from e-books. Contribute to santinic/audiblez development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Social Web FOSDEM Wrap-up and Next Steps
It’s been more than a week since the last event at #SocialWebFOSDEM, and I’m just now getting to writing up some summary thoughts and follow-on notes. We had three big planned events at FOSDEM, so there is an overwhelming amount to think about, and take-aways to discuss. The biggest take-away for me was: we needed this. The Social Web developer community came together in person for the first time in a while, and it was remarkably fruitful.
For those who weren’t able to attend in person, or who want to go back and review or share great talks, there are a few options. First, the Social Web Devroom talks were all recorded with audio and video, some of which have begun appearing on the FOSDEM web site; check the specific talks for details. Most of the schedule entries have attached slides in PDF format, also.
The Social Web BOF was not recorded in video, but most of the talks have published slides. Benjamin Bellamy of Castopod also thoughtfully recorded audio for the talks, so I will try to slice them up into listenable chunks, one for each talk. The BOF talks were some of my favourites, so I’m looking forward to getting these released.
Finally, the Social Web After Hours event was not recorded at all, but some of the presenters have released their slides. Julian Lam’s talk, “The Fediverse is Quiet“, was re-recorded for you to view. This event was a great way to end the weekend, with a much more casual and intimate vibe than the lecture rooms at ULB. A fun time.
Lastly, I’ve organized a FOSDEM debrief for speakers at all of the events for this week. If you were at FOSDEM and you’d like to attend, comment here or DM me at @evan .
Social Web After Hours at FOSDEM 2025
The Social Web Foundation and Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL) are co-hosting an off-site event at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium on Sunday, February 2, 2025 from 19:00 to 21:00 local time. Social Web After Hours will feature four Fediverse-focused presentations from leaders of the ActivityPub community:
- Darius Kazemi will discuss the Fediverse Observatory
- Julian Lam will discuss NodeBB and using ActivityPub for threaded discussions
- Matthias Pfefferle will present the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress
The event is open to the public, but space is limited. HSBXL is at Rue Osseghem 53, 1080 Molenbeek, Brussels, Belgium. Light food and drink available for purchase at the event; proceeds benefit HSBXL.
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EU says it will retaliate immediately if Trump imposes new tariffs
Summary
The EU and its leaders warned of swift retaliation if Donald Trump enacts new 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, as he announced over the weekend.
The European Commission criticized the move as “unjustified” and vowed to protect EU businesses.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged countermeasures, with Macron warning tariffs would also hurt the U.S.
The UK government said it was monitoring developments, while UK Steel called the potential tariffs “devastating.” The EU previously responded to Trump-era tariffs with retaliatory measures.
EU says it will retaliate immediately if Trump imposes new tariffs
Bloc’s leaders also promise to protect EU interests after US president announces escalation in aggressive trade policyJon Henley (The Guardian)
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Nah, it's all about the money. It's literally just trolling with people lives to make money off of their inevitable fear
The only way to win, is if people who have invested money aren't afraid of losing it. Which of course almost nobody, because when gambling the house almost always wins. Which is to say an increasingly small minority get to win the lottery of a financially free life.
Americans voted for a Daddy and got a fraudulent, incontinent trash slut of a switch
Please be the domineering, consistent, assertive Daddy these children want and need. They're hungry, thirsty, eager to please 🥺
Save us EU you're our only hope
For some, the only way they'll ever learn is going nose first into a brick wall.
I only hope that trump crashes the US very quickly, but with the help of enough billionaires so that when the people rise up, they all get taken down and it becomes a better place.
There's no other way now that the institutions have fallen.
The only possible liberation is self liberation.
We need to cast off our chains, ourselves.
He's doing the equivalent of robbing a bank while wearing a suicide bomb vest. The only difference is that he's threatening the world economy instead.
The fact that he hasn't thought through the consequence chain afterwards is just him being stupid. Akin to a robber trying to pay the stolen money into his bank account, at the branch he robbed a few days before.
There are 2 things they are trying to do here IMO:
- They are using tariffs to bully weaker countries into worse deals and to interfere in our politics. Here in Colombia the media (all right wing lapdogs) keep talking how president Petro needs to bend the knee and just acept whatever Trump wants to do because it would be so bad for Colombia if we get extra tariffs. And they keep spewing propaganda making it sound like Petro is the one being crazy to kill any remaining support he has (not that he needs any help jajajaja, he has been a really mediocre president on his own and the extreme right is going to get an easy win next election anyway). They are not wrong of course, a trade war between Colombia and USA would hurt Colombia so much more than the USA just because of the relative size of our economies. And Trump and the rest of the republican assholes are using this to bully us and the rest of latin american countries.
- They want to reshape the tax collection in USA to remove taxes from rich people and collect more from poor people. At the end of the day, blanket tariffs on all products is just another regressive sales tax that will fall mostly on poor people. They want to reduce wealth taxes and income taxes which are collected mostly on rich people and instead replace them with regressive taxes like tariffs instead. I mean, his recemt tax changes shifted a huge amount of the tax burden away from the rich and to the poor and middle classes. If you want to put a conspiracy hat, they also think this will create a population boom in the USA. Research shows that people under worse economic conditions have more children, so they want to make life harder to poor people to get more and cheaper workers. At the very least the Musk rat has spoken openly about this, so it's not crazy to think this is part of their stupid plan.
Long term, the USA is royally fucked because of this. They are killing any good will the USA has with the rest of the world and they are screwing the poor people that actully generate the wealth of their country. But short term rich people will make bank with all this and the rest of us will pay for it.
I propose that they focus on the person. I personally don't want to ruin our relationship with our partners overseas. Literally they have been awesome working with for 20 years.
But give it 4 years. The guy literally was president and lost but still doesn't realize he's not a king. He has to live in the America he builds. One without healthcare for the elderly or social security for the bankrupt.
You are destroying something that will not be repaired and all of you cowards are letting it happens.
You are like russians, only you could stop this shit but you're just chilling online or whatever
Last Trump admin the US tariffed China, China retaliated by tariffs on US ag goods. Eventually Trump caved (or genius negotiation depending on your political colour) and China lifted the tariffs. Ask American farmers if they got those contracts back once China developed relationships with Brazilian farmers instead. Look at how many small farms folded since then and have been bought by commercial interests. Think that's a coincidence? Only megacorporations can afford to wait out the consequences of these actions.
The consequences of this idiocy will last a long time.
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 GPUs are experiencing issues with the 12VHPWR power connector melting. It’s similar to reports of RTX 40-series connectors melting.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Ngl I kinda think anyone who buys a current gen, top of the line GPU is a bit of a chump and has been for over a decade.
They just don't make that big of a difference.
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I mean… I jumped on a 3080FE several years ago near release time because
- Rona time
- it was an absurd amount of generational uplift - as in, I’m not sure we’ll ever see that sort of gen-over-gen performance gain again
They just don’t make that big of a difference.
The 40 series was basically the exact opposite of this. The lower down the stack the worse the per generation gains got. With the lower end cards sometimes seeing regressions because of the lack of memory bandwidth/capacity.
My 4060ti scores lower than my 3060 on large language model benchmarks. I have a Zen 3 APU, so it's limited to PCIe 3.0. Lower performance in some games too.
I imagine if I had a regular Zen 3 and tested each card by itself in slot 0, the 4060ti would be faster, but it is what it is.
Not even first batch as far as this connector goes. This has been an issue ever since this connector was released on the 40 series cards in 2022.
The sensible thing would've been to just rollback to the standard 8-pin PCIe power connector that has been reliable for many years. I guess requiring 4 of these for 600 watts would highlight how ridiculous the power draw of the 5090 is.
Instead they made small iterations to this 12VHPWR connector (changing sense pin lengths and other small adjustments) and they're letting their paying customers test the new iteration with the 50 series.
Admit that 12VHPWR is bullshit and revert to 8-pin. Come up with a working solution or just stick with 8-pin long-term.
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I guess requiring 4 of these for 600 watts would highlight how ridiculous the power draw of the 5090 is.
I like the way you think.
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Copying over my comment from elsewhere:
The person on reddit used a third party cable instead of the one supplied with the device.extremetech.com/gaming/psa-don…
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It melted on both sides (PSU and GPU), which indicates it was probably the cable being the issue.
12VHPWR is a fucking mess, so please don't tempt fate with your expensive purchase.
PSA: Don't Use Third-Party Power Cables on Your $2,000 GPU
It just might set on fire.Jon Martindale (ExtremeTech)
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It's only one wire in the cable, and it's not the wire, but it looks like the pin, or possibly the crimp point on the female pin.
So a few possibilities:
- Bad pins. Female pins (sockets) have internal wipers that grip the male pin and there is also the crimp connection. Bad QA on those leads to hotspots in the pin under high current draw. I'd probably go for this explanation, looking at the photos.
- Bad electrical layout on the card that means that the bulk of the current goes through this pin. Milliohms on the track traces are enough to cause imbalances. This might be balanced out by having a small-but-still-larger resistance in the (standard) cable, which leads to:
- It looks like thicker cabling is soldered and heatshrinked to smaller cabling that actually goes into the pins in the connector. There's a reason why industrial cable connections aren't soldered. Possibly a solder connection on another cable has broken and hidden in the hearshrink leaving more current to pass through this one.
- Following from this it's also quite possible that the thicker cable with less resistance , now has less voltage drop across it, and simply allows more current then designed through a connection already at its limit.
- It's quite possible that there are different pins/connector sets for different current draws. This cable might be using the wrong connector with the same physical size but lower current rating. The fact that the cable has been soldered to skinnier wires in the actual connector suggests this, but it's quite possible that the connector is the right one.
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That's designed to work at 120V. The PSU-GPU connector is 12V. I don't know if it'd actually work well -- like, the contacts would have a tenth the conductive capacity, I guess.
Honestly, the main standardized 12V DC connector that I can think of that we use is the car cigarette lighter, which I don't think normally moves anything like that much power and is terrible, doesn't lock into place, was never intended as a power source. I would like a 12V locking connector that can move a lot of juice.
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Input Voltage: 12 VoltsAmperage: 2 Amps
That particular cable and plug will handle 24 watts. I know that you can get higher power ones -- I had to go out of my way to find one that could do 100W.
My guess is that the 12V problem will never really be addressed and we'll just go to USB-C PD at up to 50.9V for our DC power connector standard. Which I guess works too as long as the amperage doesn't get too high, but that won't be enough to feed a current high-end Nvidia GPU.
Maybe have, like, multiple USB-C PD connectors in parallel. Three should do it.
Abiotic Factor's massive Dark Energy update, which adds teleporters, pocket dimensions and black hole grenades to the Half-Life inspired survival sim, is out now
Abiotic Factor's massive Dark Energy update, which adds teleporters, pocket dimensions and black hole grenades to the Half-Life inspired survival sim, is out now
They're waiting for you, legally distinct Gordon, in the test-chamber.Rick Lane (PC Gamer)
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Content curation in the Fediverse is better!
I just had my first experience blocking an instance, and it made my realize now nice the lemmy content curation experience is vs the centralized model.
Recently I started noticing a lot of posts from that I just found annoying. There was nothing inherently wrong with them, they just came from a culture I don't understand and so I found them cringey. Since they all came from one community, realized most of them come from the same instance. I just added that instance to my blocklist and the problem is solved!
Now think about in the centralized model. I would be forced to either just accept that these posts are in my timeline, or block each community and user individually. The instance gave me an easy way to manage my content.
I also appreciate that instances can manage the blocking for their users. So the most horrible stuff I don't even see. But it also preserves free speech, as those users who want to say horrible things can do so in their own instance, and most people will just block it.
Anyway, just impressed again by the fediverse!
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I agree. It also works the other way in terms of censorship.
My original account was on an instance that once censored one of my comments. I don't remember if they deleted my comment or banned me from the community.
On reddit, I had come to just accept that as a fact of life and every few years I would delete my old account and register a new one.
On Lemmy, I just switched to a different instance which is much more tolerant of free speech and I haven't had issues since.
The irony is, my comments on the old instance can still be deleted, but only for users from that instance.
I don't know the full details, but Lemmy definitely has the more 2000-2010 type of culture that allows people to speak their mind freely.
So block the communities instead of the ENTIRE INSTANCE.
Smug libs keep shutting out their own neighbors without realizing the disastrous effects of siloing large swaths pf vulnerable people from reaching ANYONE. Tribalism has had such a terrible effect on the world yet I see smug otherwise very intelligent people climbing over one another to engage in it.
IMO, the only way to stop ignorance and hate is to actually know people from MANY walks of life and face those differences head on. If you dismiss every last one of them wholesale at the slightest sign of differences, you are intellectually weak and deserve the dystopian future we are all being herded and astroturfed into.
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That’s the same talking points the alt-right uses and we don’t tolerate it.
And I’ve been on the Internet long enough to watch so-called “progressive” spaces get hijacked by the right wing under the guise of “free speech”.
When a culture grows toxic, it’s simply toxic no matter their talking points.
So the fact people have the power to block entire instances at their discretion, this is a good thing.
You are not entitled to my attention, nor am I entitled to yours.
Freedom of speech is an “alt-right” talking point?!?!?!
Are you listening to yourself?
To illustrate my point: I heard Elon is against the obvious CIA front organization USAID so I 100% guarantee you’re now pro CIA.
Rachel Maddow: if you castrate yourself the alt-right will crumble overnight.
You: Where’s the knife?
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Freedom of speech is an “alt-right” talking point?!?!?!
They've literally been banging the freeze-peach button constantly. Every single time there's consequences for their actions for a decade or two now. Where have you been?
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Insult me all you want. You didn’t change my mind.
Ps. Look at the rest of the discussions I am having with people. It seems the tone of this particular thread in the conversation is destined for toxicity because you’re not ready to admit the ugly truth about your perspective.
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This! I hate that LW defederates from Hex, and Beehaw and any others. LW needs to update the Lemmy version and federate with all.
Open debate is critical for ethics and intelligence. I wish we were much more capable of open minded debate here. I would totally play the role of high-Mach devils-advocate to get people talking about controversial and high tension subjects while being abstracted and attempting not to offend as best I can while playing the role of the bad guy. I'm afraid users here are totally incapable of this level of engagement depth. The concept of a safe place to take such a controversial position of true free speech seems beyond the capability of most here. Like a transgender person should have the opportunity to debate their politization issues from both sides. Or like, I hate what has happened in Gaza, but I also hate a culture that coexists with honor killing without absolutely reforming purging the practice with distain. I should be able to argue as a devils advocate from many angles even when I find them repugnant. I am very good at this kind of debating. I have my own issues with my life situation where I would need people to understand the scope of such a community and participating users. It is a difficult balance to argue hated positions and others understand that those positions and ideas are not your own. When such debates are had, it leads to a much deeper understanding of issues within a community as a whole.
The high school I went to was in a very poor all black community and was designed to uplift the best and brightest of that community while drawing in similar students from the surrounding region to make up around 20% of students. There were some very racist views and tensions at times mostly from black students towards white. The Wednesday seminar/debate classes from start of the day until lunch were the ultimate solution. We debated politics, religion, racism, rape, authoritarianism, communism, anarchism, and a bunch of other stuff. It got super heated at times. When no one wanted to take the negative interlocutor perspective, the teacher would try but I quickly learned I saw the situation more clearly than them and was good at being the bad guy (or the good guy). By arguing the opposing perspective it reveals much about what one believes and how to argue it effectively.
I have an entire framework for such a community saved in rough drafted notes on my phone that I made weeks ago but I don't think Lemmy is capable of this in practice.
Folks like you and the hundred other people also "just asking questions" or playing devils advocate" and expecting trans people to engage in a debate as to whether or not we actually deserve equal rights is exactly why this shit never works.
It's interesting to you because it's purely intellectual. To the person having to endlessly argue that they do in fact deserve equal rights, it's a shit fucking experience that we actively seek to disengage from when possible, because it's all around us, all the time.
::: spoiler I thought about you, moss and sunshine as who I would reach out to before starting a community, if I were to do so. I have no intentions of hurting anyone ever. I understand better than you might think. I grew up a Jehovah's Witness which is quite the outcast way to live. I only ever had a few friends and my closest literally traumatized me by deciding we weren't friends any more one day without a reason or care. Now I'm atheist and stuck living with JW parents and have a sister that is determined to see me homeless and dead. I had a shit social network turned to none. I've never celebrated a holiday or a birthday. I'm always in this world within a world. I can never be myself. I can't have a conversation IRL about any of my interests or who I am without getting preached at despite the fact I know the bullshit far better than the people preaching it. I only get what I need to survive most of the time. Despite spending all of my time in bed, I'm constantly berated like I am just fine when any of my needs are inconvenient. I'm mentally soup after doing anything and I tend to get so little done each day that it is hard to tackle much in the way of projects any more. I'm worn down to the bone. If you knew the slightest about my love life and history OMG is has been my hurricane against a cult like religious hailstorm. I adored my highschool gf, the forbidden outside of faith "worldly" love. Like I moved 2k miles back across the country for her. She was my key to escape the mental cult like prison. There were many more, and stories... I have always had to be closeted about love and interests despite being cis just because I was the wrong kind of cis and even when I was right I was fucking them which was wrong.
Anyways, what I would have looked for in reaching out is where to create safe boundaries because there are so many diverse people here. Maybe it is post tags, maybe it is a ban on certain topics and subjects.
I need people to speak up for me IRL when it comes to some things like disability or to be understanding here because I may not have slept much at all in several days at times and it can be difficult to know how I am doing under that circumstance. I will gladly speak up for you or anyone else and have tried to when I see the chance. I won't be melodramatic, but I will make a dominant argument.
In my personal style, if I play devil's advocate, I enjoy taking the plausible argument that fits the flawed narrative as I see it. Then I take that narrative to the extreme of a systems thinking approach and show where it really leads. I want to make the people who think I am supporting their disposition repulsed enough to second guess themselves not by arguing against them, but by taking their hand and then refusing to let go of their dogma until they are releasing the gas valves in the concentration camp and hate themselves for it within that metal exercise.
If we're going to talk about abortion, then the subject is your own mother with a terminal fetus and you are given the choice of killing your mom or the unborn child and I will make that story vivid and personal.
There are many little details about transgender stuff I would like to explore more in depth without polarity in a safe space. Like where should we completely eliminate gender dichotomy. I think cycling as a sport should be integrated completely because there are niches for every body type. Most sports probably should be integrated. The whole restrooms thing would have bothered me before cycling and atheism because I was insecure. Now I wear my tightest undies in public daily so IDGAF in the slightest.
Also BTW, I say a lot about being very liberal as a mod and trying to get others to do the same. I am a quiet mod with a big stick. I have not and will not be passive about standing against bigotry. I'm for free speech but only in the context of debate with some very clearly defined limits to what that means.
If anything I want better arguments and understanding when I have the opportunity to speak up. I don't want to be the person that argues. I want to be the person that asks the one question that destroys a bigot's confidence. I need a deep intuitive understanding of the issues for that kind of insight. I don't want that at a cost to you or anyone else. I will find other ways to learn over time if need be.
Like I said, I don't think Lemmy is capable of this at all anyways. That is why I did not reach out, that and there is too much tension already on Lemmy right now. When I make debate like discussions or philosophical posts, I mostly get dumb responses and negativity in reply here.
Anyways, I'm trying to say, I understand, and genuinely care more than you may realize. - with love from an internet friend
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The first half of your post is you talking about trauma you’ve received from other people, telling you that you’re wrong/evil/broken/perverted etc.
The second half of your post is explaining how you think it’s ok for you to do the same thing to others, because you do it “for the right reasons”
When you confront a bigot with transphobia pushed to the extreme, what you do is add to the trauma that every trans person already has to deal with daily. You don’t magically convert someone from bigotry. Bigots aren’t bigots because they reasons their way in to bigotry, and so you can’t stop them from being bigots by reasoning them out of it.
I come from the background of bigotry. I was one of these people. I have changed and am still, and hopefully always a work in progress.
I am trying to tell you that the experience of debating like I described was the primary catalyst that converted my dogma by questioning my assumptions. The moment that changed my mindset the most was realizing that a ban on abortion is a death sentence for some and that outcome is no better because it is anything but pro life. I realized in that moment that such arbitrary assumptions are stereotypes and all stereotypes have outliers that are harmed. I realized that I want to harm the fewest number of people possible as my internal form of ethics. I believe in the Hippocratic aphorism of "first, do no harm." So my primary value is to live and let live.
If I had not had that opportunity to debate controversial topics, I would still likely be a dogmatic fool. It was hard for some students in the class when racism was a subject, but the teachers tread the subject with strong moderation. I learned a lot of the nuances about what black families were going through and how things were a lot harder for many of them. It made me feel much closer to them as friends and willing to stand up for them when I may not have otherwise. I saw how most students had a similar experience and it put a spotlight on the few students that lacked empathy in ways that ostracized them.
All I have said is from this perspective of wanting to help fight dogma effectively. I'm well aware that dogma cannot be argued directly. It can be manipulated easily from within by someone that is an accepted member of the tribal group. Such a person can refocus attention elsewhere and poke holes in the logic that supports some branch of reasoning. It is challenging to do without getting labeled a heretic, but it is not too difficult. Trump banged a porn star he said reminded him of his daughter, and Musk is a polygamist yet they are of divine origin. I can play this way. My entire life has been lived in this balance of understanding dogmatism.
Again, I'm not going to create the community. When I post about my explorations of AI that are outside of the norm people show they are not very open minded or curious here. I think this kind of community and post would make me even more deeply depressed based on the demographics response to any topics. I think these types of debates require a filtered room of the best and brightest. That is unfortunate, as I believe this is the only way to convert dogma into questioning and curiosity as it was for me. It didn't work for my sister though. She is a high Machiavellian as well, but she is emotionally intuitive and manipulative of people whereas I am more manipulative of abstract ideas while empathetic of people. I genuinely care. I will never intentionally hurt you or anyone else and will work to repair anything if it is brought to my attention. My only goal is to make anyone's life a little better, not worse, before my life avalanches into oblivion soon. I am sorry that I have upset you in that effort, and failure.
This was deeply hurtful to me and my mental health. My underlying motivation was trying to create a solution to my feelings of inadequate engagement with interesting complexity and depth on Lemmy in general. That has been an ongoing problem for me that feels long term untenable.
I'm stuck on an instance that shows all of the trolling negativity, and I seem to be misunderstood a lot here. I don't know what else to say really. Hopefully saying makes me feel a little better. Maybe it is just the time of year. It will be 11 years on 2/26/14. I don't even know why this interaction mattered to me so much, but it did somehow in the context of a lack of engagement and other negativity here and elsewhere in my life
I'm sorry it played out that way for you, but even so, what you're advocating for hurts people too. Even if that's not your intention, it still does, and I think that's something that should be part of your consideration when approaching this topic.
I'm sorry it hurt you, but I'm not going to ignore stuff that hurts my community
Actually……
If I were a true hexbear user, I’d be glad to be defederated from lemmy.world. But I’m not.
I think that defederation is a bad idea. That’s why I joined an instance with a relatively hands-off approach to moderation.
You see, I’m an anarchist. I trust in the power of people to self-organize, self-regulate, and self-police. I am philosophically opposed to whole instances making the call to defederate from another no matter how Nazi or capitalist that instance is.
I trust in the power of people to self-organize, self-regulate, and self-police.
Isn’t someone deciding they don’t like an instance’s content and blocking it themselves exactly what you’re describing?
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Good point! You’re right. My meme is more to poke fun at the victory lap the user decided to take here to try get a high five for putting on blinders.
A well-executed rebuttal.
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That's interesting, I assumed so because:
1. It's known, that some Hexbear users create alt accounts on other Lemmy instances, because they're mostly defederated to "spread their message"
2. Your account is pretty new
3. Because you're against the defederation, I assumed that it's because you have came from an instance that gets defederated often
But seems like your opinion actually something consistent and not trolling, in that case I respect your opinion, even if I personally don't agree with your philosophy I can understand it. It's good that in the Fediverse you can choose an instance that aligns with your philosophy (Like lemm.ee) and I can choose the one that aligns with mine.
What if I told you anyone can run their own server and consequently have the freedom to federate with who they wish?
The value of the Fediverse isn’t just freedom of speech. It’s freedom of association.
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Yeah because it shuts out everyone on that instance.
I’m happy this post isn’t from an instance admin, deciding that their users aren’t allowed to see ANYTHING that originated on an instance that they deem unsavory. I’m just disappointed in OP thinking that shutting all people out from a particular instance regardless of their actions is an act worthy of a victory lap, talking about how great the fediverse is for ignoring people.
Also: Just because I am an anarchist doesn’t mean I have to march in lockstep with what you expect an anarchist to do and say. This is the very crux of my point: that opinions vary wildly and shutting out your ability to even see those opinions is a negative thing for society as a whole.
On the Fediverse, no admin decides anything a user does. If you don’t like your server, you can just walk over to another one. Most software even makes account migration between servers super easy.
Or if you don’t trust admins at all—and I don’t—you can run your own server and federate with who you please.
This is not Reddit. Admins don’t hold ultimate power of what does or does not get seen. However, you do—and you can mute, block, or defederate as you see fit.
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I generally prefer to federate with as many communities as possible, but federating with fascists is a terrible idea. You're just making people in your community vulnerable to harassment.
People are self organizing onto these instances, and if they don't like their current one it's not hard to move. Most people won't move to one that allows nazis in.
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I see nothing wrong with it. But let’s not pretend that it is some badge of honor. We should be ashamed/disappointed that we were forced to censor our feeds rather than finding some better solution to the disgusting Nazi toxicity encroaching on our minds.
I’ve heard the Nazi bar analogy a lot and I can see why people say it. But I have made so much more progress with conservatives when I actually talk to them than when I blindly shut them out. I guess it’s just the tendency of perpetually online anonymous people to get ugly beyond what they would be brazen enough to do without anonymity.
Fascist ideas don't spread because they make good points. They spread because they get repeated so much. People who don't know any better believe it because they've heard it so many times, or from someone they trust. Federating with fascists gives them more people to spread their ideas to.
Talking to conservatives can definitely help, but it really depends on the context. Just having people who they disagree with in their lives can can be helpful. If you're someone they trust you might get them to work through some things. Or if you know a topic really well and know what talking points they're likely to bring up. But it's nearly impossible to get though to people who already hate you.
Everyone is at a different place with what they want to handle. Some people just want a small friendly community where they have a chance to relax. Others want a more open communities that only keep out the worst. And some are okay with putting up with harassment to reach more people. But generally we shouldn't force others to put up with that harassment along with us.
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You see, I’m an anarchist. I trust in the power of people to self-organize, self-regulate, and self-police. I am philosophically opposed to whole instances making the call to defederate from another no matter how Nazi or capitalist that instance is.
That's great, but it's not for everyone. What you're saying here is that when bigots appear, every member of the minorities they target needs to individually block the troll, which they can only do after they've been exposed to the bigotry, and which doesn't help them at all in the future when the troll moves to a new throw away account.
Counter intuitively, what you're asking for is exactly how you create spaces that actively discourage diversity.
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What? what does this even mean, is there an instance dedicated for victims of fascism or something?
That seems like a huge leap. Who knows they might just be blocking an instance that only speaks a language they don't understand.
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Filtered word: nsfw
Filtered word: nsfw
Filtered word: nsfw
From what I understand the default behavior of NSFW communities is that remote posts are effectively treated as hidden and don't show up unless you're subscribed or directly access the community. However, Lemmynsfw explicitly altered this behavior such that their posts go into main feeds and were treated as normal (though marked as nsfw).
I was never subscribed to any lemmynsfw community but would routinely see their posts scrolling through top day, so I blocked the instance and now I don't. Very useful feature.
Unfortunately it's still a very weak type of blocking, for you on Lemmy.ca unless you are using an app like Sync or Connect. It's basically a "community mute", equivalent to unsubscribing from all the communities there individually, but unlike user blocking, the users from that instance will still show up in other communities, they can still send you replies, which will trigger Notifications, and therefore they can harass you by continually sending you replies for WEEKS and WEEKS at a time (this actually happened to me twice, once with hexbear.net and another time with lemmygrad.ml).
Anyway, it's better than nothing!
You may be interested to read some of the ways that PieFed is advancing democratization of moderation.
Most software similar to PieFed delegates the job of maintaining the health of communities to the moderators of those communities. This frees up the instance administrators to focus on technical issues and leave a lot of the politics and social janitorial work to others.Some issues with this:
- Moderators are not always very good at it, sometimes lacking experience or maturity.
- Moderators can become inactive, leaving their communities unmaintained.
- Moderators only have influence over their communities – if someone is removed from one community they can just go to another to cause havoc there. This leads to a lot of duplication of effort.
- Moderators can have quite different priorities and values from the admins, leaving admins paying to run a service for people they don’t feel very aligned with.
PieFed gives admins a suite of tools to take a more hands-on approach to gardening all the communities on their instance. It does this by ignoring the community divisions and instead treating all posts and accounts as a big pool of things to be managed. Of course there are solid community moderation tools available but I will not be focusing on them in this blog post.
Find people who have low karma
When someone is consistently getting downvoted it’s likely they are a problem. PieFed provides a list of accounts with low karma, sorted by lowest first. Clicking on their user name takes you to their profile which shows all their posts and comments in one place. Every profile has “Ban” and “Ban + Purge” buttons that have instance-wide effects and are only visible to admins.
The ‘Rep’ column is their reputation. As you can see, some people have been downvoted thousands of times. They’re not going to change their ways, are they?The ‘Reports’ column is how often they’ve been reported, IP shows their IP address and ‘Source’ shows which website linked to PieFed when they initially registered. If an unfriendly forum starts sending floods of toxic people to your instance, spotting them is easy. (In the image above all the accounts are from other instances so we don’t know their IP address or Source).
Find people who downvote too much
Once an account has made a few votes, an “attitude” is calculated each time they vote which is the percentage of up votes vs. down votes.People who downvote more than upvote tend to be the ones who get in fights a lot and say snarky, inflammatory and negative things. If you were at a dinner party, would you want them around? By reviewing the list of people with bad attitudes you can make decisions about who you want to be involved in our communities.
All these accounts have been downvoting a lot (Attitude column) and receiving some downvotes (Rep column). Their profiles are worth a look and then making a decision about whether they’re bringing down the vibe or not.Spot spam easily
A lot of spam does not get reported or it is only removed on the original instance, leaving copies of it on every instance that federates with them. To help deal with this PieFed has a list of all content posted by recently created accounts which has been heavily downvoted.Don’t award karma in low-quality communities
Some communities are inherently useless and anyone posting popular content in them will accumulate lots of karma which makes them seem like a valuable account – unless the admin has flagged that community as “Low quality” which has the effect of severing the link between upvotes of posts and the author’s karma. Down votes still decrease karma though, so an account that only ever posts in low quality communities will slowly reduce in karma.All communities with the word ‘meme’ in the name are automatically flagged as low quality but admins can override this on a case-by-case basis.
Warnings on unusual communities
There are a diverse range of communities, catering to different needs and ideologies. A community about “World News” will be completely different on lemmy.ml from one on beehaw.org and different again on lemmy.world. Even when the written rules of the communities look the same, the way they are interpreted and enforced can come as a big surprise to people new to the fediverse.To deal with this, admins can add a note that is displayed above the ‘post a comment’ form, saying whatever they want. On piefed.social I’ve used this to put a note on every beehaw.org community about the ‘good vibes only’ nature of that instance and one community on lemmy.ml has a note about the unusual mostly-unwritten moderation policies employed there.
Icons next to comments by low karma accounts
Accounts that get downvoted a lot end up with a negative karma. Once this happens they get a small red icon next to their user name so everyone knows that they might not be worth engaging with. Once their karma drops even further they have two red icons.
These icons also bring the account to the attention of moderators and admins in a more passive way – as they go about reading and interacting, not in a special admin area which might be forgotten or rarely visited.Icon for new accounts
New accounts have a special icon next to their user name for the first 7 days. An account with this icon AND some red warning icons is especially likely to be a spammer or troll account. While admins have dedicated parts of the admin area to find these accounts (described earlier) these icons bring this to the attention of everyone.Ban evasion detection
I don’t go into too much detail on this as it’ll reduce its effectiveness. Suffice to say, when people get IP banned from PieFed, they stay banned more often. It’s not perfect but it’ll mean they are much more likely to become some other instances’ problem.Automatically delete content based on phrases in user name
One of the perennial issues with federated systems is banned spammers & trolls can just move to another instance and resume their work there. When they do so they often use the same user name. PieFed lets admins maintain a list key words that are used to filter incoming posts by checking those words against the author’s user name.
You can be pretty sure anyone with 1488 or even just 88 in their user name is a nazi, for example.Speaking of which, PieFed has an optional approval queue for new registrations. New accounts with “88” in their name are always put in a different /dev/null queue that leads nowhere. The UI tells them they’re waiting for approval but that approval will never come.
Report accounts, not just posts
As well as reporting content, entire accounts can be reported to admins (not community mods). This smooths the workflow out a bit because usually when a post is reported the person handling the report needs to check out the entire profile of the offending account to see if it’s part of a pattern of behaviour. A report of an account takes the admin straight there.Instance-wide domain block
PieFed has a predefined list of blocked domains comprising 3000+ disinformation, conspiracy and fake news websites. No posts linking to those sites can be created. The UI makes it easy to manage the list and add new domains to it.Automatic reporting of 4chan content
Image recognition technology is used to detect and then automatically report screenshots of 4chan posts. The spreading of 4chan memes normalises 4chan, a nazi meme generation forum, and builds the alt-right pipeline. PieFed instances will not be an unwitting participant in that.I’m sure there are a few things I forgot but hopefully this tour conveys the way PieFed does things differently. There is always more to be done or things that can be improved so I welcome feedback, code contributions and ideas – please check out join.piefed.social for ways to get involved.
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they can harass you by continually sending you replies for WEEKS and WEEKS at a time (this actually happened to me twice, once with hexbear.net and another time with lemmygrad.ml).
Honestly you really shouldn't be on an instance that federate with those places to start with.
You may be interested to read some of the ways that PieFed is advancing democratization of moderation.
Personally I'm not a fan of the way PieFed uses upvotes and downvotes to basically do statistics on users in order to profile "bad actors". That feels like karma from Reddit all over again.
There can be many legitimate reasons why a user might downvote a lot, and a user being downvoted a lot is not necessarily problematic. They may just not be following the "hive mind", and honestly we could use more of those users.
After kbin.social went defunct the smaller instances I kept moving to (StarTrek.website and discuss.online) had not defederated from those two instances yet at that time. They do now, but a year ago it wasn't as prevalent a choice to protect people from such things happening to their users. The Lemmy community has matured a bit, the word has gotten out, a case built to do so, and admins became receptive to what they had once spurned - e.g. I petitioned discuss.online to defederate hexbear.net after it was revealed that the admins there were caught lying to admins of other instances. But it took a lot of effort and time to get to this point, and still today most instances remain federated with lemmy.ml, which is where a bunch of Hexbear alts (e.g. Cowbee) decided to continue their trolling efforts after so many other places defederated from Hexbear itself.
I hear what you are saying about PieFed, especially from just what is mentioned on that page regarding tools that community mods would have access to, but in practice what I'm seeing so far really is tons better. For one thing, mods on Lemmy right now have to choose between the binary options of removing content vs. allowing it to remain (similarly at the instance level it can either defederate from another instance vs. not do so), whereas PieFed offers additional options that will allow the content to remain and then place the choice of what to do into the hands of the end users. Some users may e.g. want to avoid controversial content, and so like a spam filter automatically collapse content with a certain ratio of downvotes to upvotes - which preserves the ability to see it, but putting it one step away exactly like a spoiler feature for the post. Or maybe the user will instead choose to have the content removed altogether, with the auto-hide feature? Some of my own content would have gotten removed this way, and I definitely see how things can get misunderstood by downvoters, but at the end of the day, it still gives choices to the user that otherwise would have rested solely in the hands of a moderator. Personally I have both the auto-collapse and especially auto-hide options turned off, but it's worth noting that they are there if people want them.
There are also other niceties such as keyword filtering - so e.g. if the user wants to remove all posts with the keyword "Musk", then they could. Perhaps they shouldn't, but they can, if they wanted.
I find that user labelling really is different though, than any of the filtering options above. Examples include new users with accounts newer than let's say a couple of weeks, a user who almost exclusively posts but never comments (likely an unregistered bot?), someone who downvotes 20x more often than upvotes, or receives 50x more downvotes than upvotes - again, their comments aren't removed (currently I am not aware of a method to even make that happen), just labelled with an icon next to their name. These icons can help someone decide whether or not to respond, or how much detail to put into it if so. Essentially these are just measures of a user's "reputation", so this is the numeric version of the type of info that people use anyway? But at each moment the choice lies with the user to either pay attention to or ignore those icons. And yeah the precise formulas to determine these icons are constantly tweaked to improve them, so that's a thing, surely.
Ultimately though, whether the end-user makes proper usage of the tools given to them or not, either way, I think it's awesome that these tools are given to the regular users, rather than constraining them to work solely when in the hands of a mod. That's "democracy"! I guess whether democracy itself is a good thing or not is a whole other discussion altogether...🤣
Edit: also the tools are definitely in their infancy - e.g. to avoid karma farming, communities should be able to use community-specific metrics so that actions taken outside of a community do not necessarily affect filtering options inside of one. Which iirc is coming or at least people are aware of this issue. PieFed itself is still mostly in the works:-).
Democracy means allowing the people to decide, as opposed to authoritianism where a central group (mods, admins, facilitators or whatever) makes all the decisions for people. PieFed still allows for authoritian control, mind you, e.g. on PieFed.social (the flagship instance) both hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml are defederated. But in addition to that, this opens up a new possibility where someone who is perhaps controversial yet not over a hard line can be allowed to remain, yet merely labelled.
And then people can decide for themselves, rather than solely an authority figure, what they wish to do about it. You are free ofc to debate whether this is "good" or "bad", but either way it does seem more "democratic" to me, bc it places the power and therefore responsibility into the hands of the user to decide.
Which is sorta how our brains work anyway all the time, so these icons act as a shortcut to help jog people's memories or realize something about the target that they would eventually figure out anyway.
The point is that the icon means... whatever you want it to mean. A "new account", a "potential unregistered bot", a "noted controversial person" - the authorities no longer control these meanings, only the recipient. Hence "democracy".
BioWare's Sonic The Hedgehog RPG "actually uses Dragon Age: Origins dialogue system heavily streamlined to fit on the Nintendo DS"
BioWare's Sonic The Hedgehog RPG "actually uses Dragon Age: Origins dialogue system heavily streamlined to fit on the Nintendo DS"
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Wool, clay, and elbow grease: bringing stop-motion games to life
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Games like Judero, Harold Halibut, and Feltopia are using stop-motion techniques for their virtual worlds.Diego Nicolás Argüello (The Verge)
“Gaming has been for a long time just an extremely digital thing that you do only by sitting at your computer and changing pixels or programming,” Kaya said. “Now we are in this age where anything can go into a video game, and when you put a lot of literally and metaphorically interesting textures, it just becomes a more interesting work. Stop-motion is a great way to do that.”
Hell yes, use technology to make videogames more human not less human!
The state of the Location permission on Fedora Linux in 2025 - Fedora Magazine
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This article will discuss the state of finding your current geographical location in the Fedora Linux environment.Mateus Rodrigues Costa (Fedora Project)
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Trump says Palestinians wouldn't be allowed back into Gaza under his plan
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President Donald Trump said Palestinians wouldn't be permitted to return to the Gaza Strip as part of his plan for the United States to take ownership of the war-torn territory.Rebecca Shabad (NBC News)
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