By definition an email server is not under your control, so the question of whether or not it runs FOSS is a bit moot and in any case impossible to verify.
In terms of privacy-respecting email hosting, Proton, Posteo, and Mailbox all spring to mind.
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Here is the problem with crop quality:
- Most of the purchase decision is what is observable at the store.
- Does it look good.
- What is the price.
- How is the smell, texture, weight...
- Some happens at home, and you might remember for next time.
- How does it taste.
- How long does it last.
- Does it make you feel satisfied.
- It is basically impossible to know how good food was for you.
- You eat a lot of food and the response is delayed.
- Even if you have a response you probably don't properly understand your body.
- In the end most of the "health" of food is just your believes and marketing.
So there is basically no business pressure to have crops be nutritious.
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But it does boil down to business pressures. The business prefers more and bigger produce to more nutritional produce.
Is that a bad thing? Maybe not. Maybe you can just eat more to get your nutrition since higher yield should reduce cost.
But the point still stands that there is very little business pressure to make a nutritious product.
Even then how you you know? I don't think anyone can reliably look at a vegetable and tell you how nutritious it is. I don't think it is reasonable to have the general population being experts in evaluating vegetables.
I think what could work here is mandated labeling. This is required for most foods but generally not produce. I think there are some reasonable reasons for this, but for farms producing huge volumes it seems that occasional testing that gets reported at the store would make sense.
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And, playing the devil's advocate, if you die in your early 60s due to long-term sustained malnutrition that is better for the economy than if you live until you are 80.
They got to do everything they can to prevent them from having to pay back those social security loans they took out and never paid back.
Many vegetables today are either sweeter than their predecessors or less flavorful or both.
Corn, for instance, grows so fast under modern fertilizers that the internal cells split during the growth process.
Their stalks are weaker but their yield has more than doubled since the 80s.
If you want to learn more about that, I can highly recommend the book The omnivore's dilemma. It's fascinating how modern agriculture is so completely divorced from what most people think it is.
In response to the call for action for Palestine, we put up this banner in Queens, New York to connect the struggle here to the valiant resistance in Palestine. While this may be a small symbolic action in comparison to what the fighters are doing in Gaza and the West Bank, we hope they will see this as a salute to their efforts. The work they are doing on behalf of the Palestinian people is felt around the world in struggles that have not yet blossomed, but see the potential in fighting for those who have been systematically oppressed by the United States.
Long live the resistance!
Let the flood of Al Aqsa drown all settler regimes!
Death to the US!
Death to the Zionist entity!
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How Cells Control Gene Expression by Cleaning Up Their Mistakes
How cells control gene expression by cleaning up their mistakes
New research from the University of Chicago shows that alternative splicing plays a much bigger role than expected in controlling gene expression.biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu
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Foxtrotman gripen i Spanien. En 34-årig svensk har gripits i Spanien. Mannen anses ha haft koppling till Foxtrotnätverket. Sen i våras har han varit efterlyst för inblandning i en stor narkotikahärva i Upplands-Väsby där tre kvinnor i olika generationer dömdes för inblandning. En 80-årig mormor, hennes dotter i 60-årsåldern och ett barnbarn.
Developers Want to Support The Steam Deck - The SDHQ Podcast
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Yeah, I can't believe how hard targeting other consoles is for basically no reason. I love this Godot page that accurately showcases the difference:
docs.godotengine.org/en/stable…
Currently, the only console Godot officially supports is Steam Deck (through the official Linux export templates).The reason other consoles are not officially supported are:
- To develop for consoles, one must be licensed as a company. As an open source project, Godot has no legal structure to provide console ports.
- Console SDKs are secret and covered by non-disclosure agreements. Even if we could get access to them, we could not publish the platform-specific code under an open source license.
Who at these console companies think that making it hard to develop software for them is beneficial? It's not like the SDK APIs are actually technologically interesting in any way (maybe some early consoles were, the last "interesting" hardware is probably the PS2). Even if the APIs were open source (the signatures, not the implementation) every console has DRM to prevent running unsigned games, so it wouldn't allow people to distribute games outside of the console marker's control (other than modded systems).
So to develop for the Steam Deck:
1. Click export.
2. Test a bit.
To develop for Switch (or any other locked-down console):
1. Select a third-party who maintains a Godot port.
2. Negotiate a contract.
- If this falls through go back to step 1.
3. Integrate your code to their port.
4. Click export.
5. Test a bit.
What it could be (after you register with Nintendo to get access to the SDK download):
- Download the SDK to whatever location Godot expects it.
- Click export.
- Test a bit.
All they need to do is grant an open source license on the API headers. All the rest is done for them and magically they have more games on their platform.
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Ranked by complexity:
- Demystify the universe
- Demystify the human brain
- Demystify our sed scripts
Think we should maybe walk before we run here.
#### Is this a joke?
I thought it was. But apparently it's actually useful for some people.
What language can’t GitHub syntax highlight?
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As per blog.gtk.org/2024/01/28/new-re… and phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.16-Rel… :
You can still use either a new OpenGL renderer or the old OpenGL renderer. This can be set with the GSK_RENDERER environment variable (e.g. GSK_RENDERER=gl)
I would assume it will also probably detect unsupported hardware and switch to OpenGL automatically but I don't have any source to back this up.
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Bilhandlare utpressade man. Åtal har väckts vid Malmö tingsrätt i ett utpressningsärende där sammanlagt 23 personer misstänks ha deltagit i ett grovt bedrägeri med inslag av utpressning. En man har under flera års tid tvingats och lurats till att betala cirka tre miljoner kronor till den huvudmisstänkte och dennes nu avlidna pappa.
The New York Times is still an obscenity
Following their re-fashioning Trump’s planned mass ethnic purge of 15 million people as an “affordable housing programme,” they decided to re-frame Hitler-quoting book-burning extremist hate group “Moms for Liberty” as a run-of-the-mill group of “conservative moms” who can “can get a bit carried away” but are mostly “fired-up suburban women.”
The New York Times couldn’t be working harder to normalise literal fascism if they tried, and oh wait, they absolutely are trying.
They’re absolutely part of the problem. If we hadn’t already ditched ’em, we’d be doing it now.
62 days remain.
Tre personer åtalade för skjutning i Örgryte. Kvällen den 28 mars 2024 besköts en lägenhet i Torp som är en del av Örgryte med flera skott. Nu har tre personer åtalats för inblandning i skjutningen.
Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19004972
Let’s be honest, the real reason Lemmy build most of its traffic is because of Reddit users. But the thing is, outside of the mass exodus in the west that too from the PC era.. people discover and join Reddit not because it’s another social media like Facebook or Twitter that people need to reserve their usernames on like a brand or celebrity but because Google Search is kinda… actually absolute trash by SEO and machine learning crawlers.
Most of the world (I am from India btw, hello~) join or even discover reddit because they’re trying to search for actual solutions, recommendations, advice or even reviews by actual experienced people without having to go through another YouTuber which can stem from troubleshooting a router, finding an actual FOSS option or seeking immediate solutions to the recent CrowdStrike fiasco for example. After having to visit reddit every time whenever using a search engine including for education to career advice, I ended up directly signing up with reddit a decade ago.
Recently, Reddit even restricted its search results to Google only in a business partnership meaning those using Bing, DuckDuckGo to Ecosia or even SearchGPT wouldn’t be able to access Reddit answers anymore. Say, if someone searches for how to block ads on chrome as example - Solutions like uBlock Origin come into existence and continue to exist because of the combined community in Reddit that Lemmy is trying to preserve.
Unlike others, am not saying Lemmy would be dead but it would be pretty much like Discord-Telegram or Tumblr instead of wiping Reddit or correcting Facebook. Reddit is not something you discover from word-of-mouth or join from peer pressure unlike other social media which is even truer for Lemmy but because it actually helps and is useful to people.
Lemmy can’t be taking the path of 𝕏 (Alone Mask’s Twitter) but any of the good platforms were before the Enshittification with Facebook’s way~
Like, not being able to search for specific issues, people, or any other topic already posted even within your own instance is my biggest issue with Lemmy not being a sufficient replacement.
The search page does allow all of this.
You can filter by type (post, user, community, etc), Local/All/Subscribed, searching within a community, choosing a sort option or restricting to past year/month/week.... I think it's much better than Reddit's search.
Indeed, and understandable. Modern AI does tend to do fairly well these days, but obviously no system is ever going to be perfect.
Not even our own ears are perfect. That's why humans have the sense to ask questions sometimes, like "Hold up, I didn't understand you, what did you just say?"
And if you check my other comments, you'll catch an interesting story of mine over the misunderstanding of a simple spoken vowel..
It's a bad idea to compare Lemmy to Reddit or expect Lemmy to replace Reddit.
Slow growth is not a problem, it's actually a benefit.
There is no hurry, and no need to push for high user counts.
Rather than trying to attract more people, focus on making your communities an attractive place to be.
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There's no objection here https://www.google.com/search?q=Lemmy+wouldn’t+really+takeoff+to+replace+Reddit+until+it’s+content+is+search+indexable
An example fix from over a year ago github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/i…
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Do any of the apps do better with search?
something on your end? my top result is from lemmy.world
maybe try opening the link in Private Mode or Incognito
It’s not really about the name, people are just too lazy to switch app and they don’t care about the greedy Reddit’s CEO trying to make money in every possible way. Last thing I read about him was his idea to put some subreddits behind a paywall.
I was still using the Reddit app but with some tweaks installed on iOS to block ads, otherwise every app that it’s full of ads it’s just unusable.
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Even taking only English speakers into account, it isn't a bad name. It's a simple word, it sounds like "let me" (good association - unlike... GIMP), at most it might evoke you Lemmings.
And once considering other languages it's actually better than plenty brands out there, including Reddit, Facebook or Twitter. By sticking to CV syllables there's less room to butcher it into unrecognisability.
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That's good, I didn't know about that. Although the problem does still seem to exist with
different software
and different frontends
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There are MANY reasons that Lemmy won't replace Reddit.....the list is almost endless, with each individual reason not being a hurdle on its own that can't be solved. However the combined number of problems is just mind blowing.
There is one chief problem that sums up all the little problems quite nicely. It's the Fediverse culture. It's somehow a platform that is designed to be open and free, but because of the userbase comes off as a walled garden. If you're not a programmer, or a linux user, or have techie interests, it's not the platform for you. And in order to even be comparible to reddit, it has to be a platform for everyone.
As it stands though, Lfmmy is a disjointed, unorganized mess that if you aren't part of their clique, you're not welcome. If you say anything bad about linux, or star trek, or github, you get downvoted to hell. Ask me how I know.
Oh, and for the record, linux is ALSO a confusing hot mess for the average person. But until linux developers accept this, and make a linux distro that is as easy to understand as windows, it's userbase will remain something akin to a rounding error for windows userbase numbers. And I'm saying that as someone who's remaining on Windows 7, because everything since has been hot garbage.
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No. My post got 40% down votes. One particular user insisted that I was using Samsung flaws as an excuse to like the iPhone. That I should admit that I just wanted an iPhone and my criticism towards Android were invalid.
I felt like talking to cultists. But I don't think mods needed to involve. Lemmy is what it is.
Sad to hear.
But I don’t think mods needed to involve.
I think they should to an extend, especially if the topic is Apple, being Apple to like Apple products seems like an evidence.
That's a cool idea. There have been somewhat related discussions, but I can't find any exactly like that. Maybe you should file an issue on GitHub for them?
I've seen your post. Ouch - you stumbled upon some nasty circlejerking there. On multiple levels.
Plenty people here expect you to treat their "vision" as above everything else. Including your agency ("free will"), issues that you might want to solve, etc. That makes them unable to tell the difference between "criticising Apple" (a fair thing to do) versus "treating someone who bought an iPhone as an emissary of Satan" (what they're doing against you).
To make things worse plenty muppets there are putting words in your mouth, regarding Samsung vs. Apple.
If it's any consolation, it isn't just Lemmy. The whole internet of the 20s feels like this nowadays.
TL;DR: I know that feel, bro.
If you say anything bad about linux, or star trek, or github, you get downvoted to hell
If not simply moderated out of the community because 'fostering dialogue is an important goal'.
If you’re not a programmer, or a linux user, or have techie interests, it’s not the platform for you.
There is a group of people who created a community here because their sub got banned. They cannot be more far from linux or tech, still they do well, their community is active and they are able to discuss.
Sometimes I feel like the complexity of Lemmy is exaggerated. People ask you about it, "go to Lemm.ee, use it the same way as Reddit. And as Reddit, don't hesitate to block political communities"
People said the exact same thing about reddit being only good for technology enthusiasts and porn in the early days.
In my experience that is just how it goes on the internet. Nerds, furries, and porn collectors, are the early adopters for most places. The normies follow along years later.
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Oh, and for the record, linux is ALSO a confusing hot mess for the average person. But until linux developers accept this,
I've heard the same kind of stuff about lots... lots of things that "will never catch on". Every one of those doomsayers were wrong. Some of them unfortunately, but still, they were all wrong.
I’m from Connecticut and once had a serious problem with a person my company insured from North Carolina. He was talking to me about what caused his accident and I kept hearing “tar” instead of “tire.” We were equally qualified as native speakers.
If you’re concerned, you can listen to more Indian English, because familiarity should ease any understanding difficulties in the future.
I had already spent years doing occasional side work with around a dozen if not more folks originally from India. Most, except the oldest of the elders spoke good if not excellent English. But there's pretty much always gonna be at least a subtle accent, if not a heavy accent with secondary languages.
I thought I understood the fella clearly, but it was both a combination of his accent plus the strange sentence structure context that threw me totally off.
He said he was 'updating his tiles', but I misunderstood his vowels, so I heard 'updating his towels'
And why the hell would he use the word updating, he was literally having all the carpet removed in 44+ rooms and having tiles installed, not 'updated'.
So even the context clues didn't add up, I never guessed he was talking about the tile work he had been planning for months.
Twitter has been turned into a dumpster fire and people are still using it because of convenience, the same applies to Reddit.
I left Reddit not just because of the CEO but also because of the awful app they forced their users to use full of ads.
Spez (or one of their admin monkeys) perma-banned me from Reddit after like 7 years, for of all stupid things, posting actual facts about Elon Musk and his Boring Company's "Not A Flamethrower" contraption.
Wasn't any hate speech. Wasn't misinformation, I even posted reference links. Wasn't anything inappropriate or gory. Just straight up facts.
That was not all that long before Elon bought Xhitter.
Gotta love the irony huh? Fuck Spez and Musk.
Lemmy won't catch on until there are groups of communities you can ban at once. Sports, Linux, German, pervy anime... It's a very rare user who will put up with the absolute dreck of the initial feed and manually block communities until they have a feed that's marginally personalized.
Then there's the fact that any communities that are specific to peoples interests are completely empty.
Then there’s the fact that any communities that are specific to peoples interests are completely empty.
Those should be locked, and redirect to more generic active communities for the time being.
Any example in mind?
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Very true. But that's what we can create whole instances for: to be the site you think will attract the users you want. With curated feeds, less pervy content, whatever.
There's nothing stopping anyone from starting a whole new world they want to see in the fediverse. Lemmy and other fedi apps are built like this for that very purpose.
That level of feed curation will appeal more to the masses, yeah. Just no one has started an instance like that yet. Although you seem like the perfect person, based on your analysis and responses. 😉
Bluesky is closer to what you're describing. The platform is more centralized and the feeds are more curated for the masses.
I mean it predates a lot of the pervy anime, but Usenet looked the same at the start with lots of Unix/computer boards and an alt.
Computer enthusiasts gonna enthusiastically talk about computers. People who pick up and move to a new platform are likely to be united around being technically competent enough to get there first, and everything else second.
Why rely on google which is going down on reliability so quickly.
What we need is a GOOD lemmy based search engine. Which I think is entirely possible with current lemmy implementation.
I agree it gets complex for users. But pushing back a bit, wouldn’t we instead say:
We could tell new users "Sign up on Lemmy.com and if you decide you ~~don't like the UI~~ aren’t a pedophile just ~~choose an alternative and use the same credentials to sign in~~ make sure you start blocking."
I have in mind that the top blocked instances are pedo oriented. Also seems like it would create a liability issue for servers mirroring that content.
Although it’s not a perfect solution to choose a default instance for new users, I do think it’s a powerful question to eliminate.
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And how exactly do you plan to reach this high quality elite content without search engines?
"[search term] reddit" has been a top search since OpenAI decided to open the SEO bot floodgates.
I mostly agree with the OP, it would be great if Lemmy had more sources of newbies than just "pissed off redditors". (I have further reasons for that, but they don't matter here.) As such I'll focus on specific tidbits here and there.
The content is indexable (by Google), but your point stands as it sucks. It's hard to reliably find Lemmy content by it.
Do you - or anyone here - have a good idea on how to solve that? Someone suggested a Lemmy-based engine; it's tempting but it wouldn't help if the person doesn't know about Lemmy already.
Reddit is not something you discover from word-of-mouth or join from peer pressure
It used to be like this. "Stumbling" upon the site was only a thing later, as it had already enough content to become a source of info.
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type site:lemmy.world in front of your search if using google. You can combine multiple instances with the OR operator ie site:lemmy.world OR site:programming.dev this will force google to give you content only from your desired domains but lemmy.world posts will likely trample the other instances for a lot of stuff.
We're becoming a little centralized (which I personally don't find to be such a bad thing yet).
I'm aware of the site:example.com google feature. And, while useful for users who already know about Lemmy, it doesn't help to recruit new users, and that's a main point of the OP.
About centralisation: that "yet" is key. Putting all your eggs in the same basket is not a bad thing... until someone drops the basket, you know?
it probably brings you to an instance that isn't yours so you have to figure out a way to open the link from your own instance
This is a pretty much a solved problem, the solution just needs to be promoted more, perhaps even on the join-lemmy page.
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Yeah clerk.
What’s the point on commenting on something when you know you’re gonna be the only one doing it.
So I guess a few more people would be nice on Lemmy.
Are you here for political discussions?
- if yes, find communities that align with your views. !worldnews@lemmy.world is very different from !worldnews@lemmy.ml and !globalnews@lemmy.zip
- if not, block them
On Reddit there are plenty of examples of subs with "eat the rich" content: reddit.com/r/trolleyproblem/co…
For the vegan thing, the vegans went to another instance, what would you have preferred to happen?
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Oh, that's a throwback. The internet and "nerd culture" used to be somewhat more exclusionary now that I reminisce a bit.
RustDesk: I Found This Open-Source TeamViewer Alternative Impressive!
Please have a look at the warnings in the comments:
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RustDesk: I Found This Open-Source TeamViewer Alternative Impressive!
RustDesk is a fantastic secure remote desktop tool. Let's take it for a spin!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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Yeah it's pretty awesome. My only gripe with it is the fact that it is super annoying when you want to send a client with your self-hosted urls to a customer.
You can either awkardly add it to the filename or you need to fork the client and build it yourself. Kind of sucks that the easier custom client function is stuck behind their subscription.
It freaked him out how easily I could get on and control his PC. I was impressed by the whole experience.
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The server is used for hole punching, to open up a P2P connection thorugh NATs and Firewalls. If it doesn't work the server also relays the traffic between the clients.
Getting an end to end connection through todays internet is unfortunately not easy for an average user.
Rustdesk looks good on the outside, but if you look inside, it has a really bad codebase and has done some sketchy stuff in the past.
Last year, it installed custom root certificates as trusted on windows, which is a huge security risk: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/d…
On linux systems, it forced its own autostart with no option to disable this behavior: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/i…
In the past, when it didn’t have Wayland support yet, it edited your GDM config and just disabled wayland: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/b…
Furthermore, the code quality is really bad. 90% of the linux platform-dependant code is just executing shell commands and parsing their output, while the same could be achieved in a safe way with proper rust builtins: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/b…
While I agree that Rustdesk works pretty flawlessly, the codebase and the behavior of the developers made me distrust the software and I don’t recommend using it.
@petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de you might want to add that warning to the post.
They also tried to submit the app to Flathub, but had way too broad permissions with no explanation why. "Users expect filesystem access" etc. In the end it was rejected and they publish a .flatpak file themselves.
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The other points are far worse though.
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Rustdesk controversy
The whole discussion on that pull request is extremely sketchy, IMO.
Okayyyy… thats not great. I just read one of the threads and thats scary.
The person(s?) maintaining this seems to be VERY BAD at communicating. They did fix the auto start problem but did not at all discuss this from what I see. Thats not great.
To add on:
- There is no transparency about who is behind it. It just a Github account called "Rustdesk." It could be a real company in Singapore or it could be some guy in China as people have speculated.
- The Rustdesk software needs way more permissions than necessary. This became evident with the flatpak as they did sandbox escapes which prevented them from being on flathub
- The Rustdesk distribution is entirely centralize release server run by Rustdesk. They could easily push out malware to lots of devices.
- They have done some sketchy things in the past. One of the things they did was quietly switch Linux desktops back to X11.
- The Rustdesk system is not terribly resistant to brute forcing. The weak password means they someone could try every combination.
- Rustdesk docker deployment docker compose exposes all ports on the host. This is minor but it could lead to a sandbox excape.
- Rustdesk servers keep getting hosted in countries that have freedom problems such as China and Russia.
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could be some guy in China
I don't see how that's a problem, it's not like it's by a Chinese run company or like the Chinese government is spying on you; in the case you described it'd just be a rando with a hobby/vision.
The fact that it keeps getting hosted in countries that have freedom problems, such as China and Russia, does concern me, though.
How do they make that illegal?
I can't find much on tech impeding laws online, whatever search terms I enter related to China and privacy just leads me to articles about their data protection law.
(edit: and their 2017 cybersecurity law)
Really sad about this, because Rust Desk has been the absolute best remote access tool I've ever used in the IT world, and that includes many different professional tools like Ninja& Teamviewer.
It's so clean, easy to install and run, fast and low latency, handles multi-monitors great, runs on mobile, Linux, Windows, etc.
Such a shame that it is mired in controversy.
Wth is that, that is the most anti-idiomatic code I have ever seen
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pub fn get_cursor() -> ResultType<Option<u64>> {
let mut res = None;
DISPLAY.with(|conn| {
if let Ok(d) = conn.try_borrow_mut() {
if !d.is_null() {
unsafe {
let img = XFixesGetCursorImage(*d);
if !img.is_null() {
res = Some((*img).cursor_serial as u64);
XFree(img as _);
}
}
}
}
});
Ok(res)
}I'm not an expert but this seems wrong.
And sadly MeshCentral is pretty much death development wise, isn't it? The main dev left Intel and now has not enough time for the project, wasn't that the story?
Edit: it seems to be developed again, much slower,though. But better than nothing.
I must actually revoke my statement,it seems like it is now being revived and is developed again, at a much slower pace,though.
But much better than nothing and at least security updates seem to be working.
Sorry for the misinformation, my bad, the different sources are quite misleading sometimes.
Have you tried changing the default view from Columns to List? IMO it makes the UI much better. Then you can add in a more details about each PC on the main view. Make is very useful if you have a lot of computers you are managing.
You can also switch from the left bar interface to top bar interface. That looks better to me. Also dark mode.
It's older than ChatGPT, but maybe this is true for their newer articles.
I also feel HowToGeek used to be great, now it's just affiliations and misinformation. Shame.
DO NOT USE THIS
This is a massive security risk and they have had so much controversy. They also routinely delete Github issues and discussions that question them. To top it off they are likely Chinese run.
China bans encryption
Most confidently wrong statement I have read all year.
As an american, the amount of people who refuse to accept that American Propaganda exists is staggering. I had an immediate reaction to seeing "China is good though" and I have no way of knowing if it's justified because I've been my told my entire life that China is an evil shithole by American propaganda.
To take it a step further and say "America doesn't have your best interest at heart" is deeply unsettling to the vast majority of Americans who blindly hand away their freedoms in the name of Freedom. Wait until people find out that our country is just like all the ones we're taught to hate
Of course China uses encryption. So an obtuse, direct reading of that statement allows you, correctly, to say the commenter is wrong.
But what the commenter probably meant was “China bans the use of encryption that prevents the Chinese state from reading what is being exchanged” and that is confidently right. I’ve operated teams in China where we had a secret category 1 incident when it was discovered a couple of our devs had set up a VPN between a Chinese and a western service that didn’t go through the official Chinese-state controlled VPN services.
They absolutely do not want data they cannot read.
lol. I AM the source. DM me with your LinkedIn handle, I’ll connect with you to validate my identity and you can tell anybody else watching that the story is legit. I don’t want to spill too many details in public as I don’t want to involve my old company in it.
And in terms of “state controlled VPN” services, it’s not that the Chinese state runs honeypot VPNs for companies (though they most definitely do for their own citizens), but that to have a license to operate a cloud service in China, you have to enforce CSL and that means they get private companies, western too, to do their bidding. If you encrypt data, you’ll get a stern call (as we did).
Maybe meshcentral?
It depends on what you are trying to do. You also could do something like Tailscale + TightVNC
Completely disagree. Meshcentral is amazing. I use it almost everyday. Sure it has some querks, and I am not a fan of the default layout but that is an easy change.
It is certainly not discontinued.
Yes Ylian (the developer) was laid off from Intel and later started working at Microsoft. But the project is still alive and well. (He owns the domain so he was able to keep the website alive. Another user (Si458) Has taken up alot of the development (30 commits this month ) and Ylian has also continued development although much less now he has a day job. (1 Commit this month)
The only thing that got discontinued was the publicly hosted server of MC. That was costing to much and it required to much maintenance now this became a side project. So you will need to self host it now.
You can download everything here.
meshcentral.com/downloads.html
~~But to your point meshcentral.com (That is linked in the Github page give me a certificate error. Guess they need to fix that lol) But meshcentral.com (without the www) works.~~
Github page has been fixed!
Yay everything is back
I wanted it to control the computers via Intel amt, but the official tools sucked. Went to download and they were removed: of course he had to be fired after multiple decades to make the shareholders happy
From that day i am boycotting Intel, you have customers that paid a premium for fucking Intel vpro and then you fire the guy who in his free time made an invaluable tool that increased your corporate sales???
What?
Rust doesn't solve all security issues in codebase?
People should take note of that; I surely did...
I was hesitant to open this post because I already know about rustdesk, but eventually I did to see the community's opinion on it. I'm so glad that I did because this is terrible!
I think more people should hear about all of this
I spent like 20 minutes self hosting and running over tailscale so traffic is always private... Never had an issue. I've got over 20 devices accessible on it.
Easy to remote register over ssh just by sending the installer plus running with server name plus key, then setting a static password.
I still think gaming wide moonlight is great though. You won't really regret that.
The Zionist occupation targeted and sniped a socialist activist and US-Turkish citizen in the head while she was peacefully protesting the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, an American-Turkish activist, arrived in the West Bank on Tuesday to volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) as part of a campaign to protect Palestinian farmers from settler and Zionist military violence.
It is worth noting that Eygi would be the third ISM volunteer the occupation murdered, after Rachel Corrie in 2004 and Tom Hurndall in 2005.
“An American solidarity activist arrived at the hospital with a gunshot in the head, and we announced her martyrdom around 14:30,” the director of Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, Fouad Nafaa said on Friday.
The Hamas Resistance movement issued a statement strongly condemning the Zionist crime that led to Eygi’s martyrdom, stressing that it is an extension of the murders deliberately targeting international volunteers in occupied Palestine.
In July, foreign volunteers helping Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank were attacked and assaulted by settlers, with some having to be transported to the hospital to receive medical treatment for reported injuries, activists stated on Sunday.
Eight volunteers, most of whom are American, were attacked by a group of 11 settlers from the Esh Kodesh illegal settlement while working in an olive grove near the Palestinian village of Qusra, David Hummel, an American-German volunteer, said.
“We were standing there peacefully, not a threat to anyone when they started coming towards us and pushing us down the path,” he told AFP, adding “They started attacking and beating us all with sticks and metal pipes and they were throwing rocks as well at us.”
Hummel described the attack as “very violent” and showed AFP his bruises sustained after the settlers beat his legs, arms, and jaw.
Palestinian left organizations also released statements which we publish in full below:
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
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The martyrdom of Turkish-American activist Aisha Ezgi is a continuation of a long series of occupation targeting all free voices.
– The martyrdom of the Turkish-American activist, Aisha Noor Ezgi, after being shot in the head by occupation forces near Mount Sbeih in the town of Beita, south of occupied Nablus, is yet another Zionist crime added to the occupation’s black record of targeting foreign activists in solidarity with our people.
– This crime brings to mind a long series of crimes committed by the occupation against international solidarity activists, from the assassination of American activist Rachel Corrie and British activist Tom Hurndall in Rafah, to the attack on the “Mavi Marmara” ship breaking the siege, which led to the martyrdom of ten activists, among other continuous attacks and practices against those in solidarity.
– The occupation continues to target anyone who stands for justice and defends our people, further proving that this entity poses a threat to all of humanity and every free voice striving for justice, not just to the Palestinian people.
– The Front calls on all the free people of the world to unite efforts to confront this zionist, U.S.- and Western-backed usurper entity, and to work on documenting these crimes as war crimes against humanity, contributing to enhancing international efforts to isolate this rogue and rejected entity, and to prosecute its leaders as war criminals before international courts.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
September 6, 2024
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Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
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The Democratic Front condemns the assassination of American activist Aysenur Ezgi by the “israeli” army using American-made weapons in Beita.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement today, strongly condemning the assassination of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi, who was in solidarity with the Palestinian people, particularly farmers, against the attacks by the “israeli” army and settlers on Palestinian farmers, their lands, and properties. The assassination occurred as Beita residents confronted settlers and occupation forces on Jabal Sbeih, which the occupation has been attempting to seize for several years.
This crime brings to mind the killing of American activist Rachel Corrie in 2003 in Gaza, as she stood in solidarity with the Palestinian people under the tracks of an “israeli” bulldozer, also American-made. Similarly, today, the Turkish-American activist was killed by an American weapon, with the occupation attempting to instill fear among those in solidarity with our people by treating them no differently than Palestinian citizens, deterring them from participating in solidarity actions, especially as we approach the olive harvest season. This year’s harvest comes amid a vicious campaign by the occupation army and settlers in the West Bank, continuing the campaign of genocide that began in Gaza.
“Israel’s” impunity for its crimes and aggression, and the ongoing provision of weapons by Western countries, especially the United States, amount to complicity in the aggression. This encourages the fascist occupation government to commit more crimes against our people and land without restraint, extending even to free activists, regardless of their nationality, even Americans. If it weren’t for U.S. support, “israel” would have long been forced to recognize our national rights.
Central Media – Ramallah
September 6, 2024
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Wine 9.17 Released With Better ARM64 CPU Detection, HiDPI Window Surface Scaling
Wine 9.17 Released With Better ARM64 CPU Detection, HiDPI Window Surface Scaling
Wine 9.17 is out today as quite an exciting update for this open-source software that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux systems and other platforms.www.phoronix.com
Elon and Russian propaganda
Today’s been another absolute zoo of a day, so here’s a little comic I saw going around on Mastodon.
What you need to know is that 1) Tenet Media turns out to have been – “allegedly” – a Russian-funded propaganda outlet, paying far-right commentators like Tim Pool hundreds of thousands of dollars to spread their disinformation, and 2) Elon Musk has been one of the biggest, if not the single biggest, booster of Tenet Media stories on eX-twitter.
X, what was once twitter, is an op.
59 days remain.
[link] #politics #sociality #USPol #fascism #politics #t0000000000bs_ #uspolitics
I was just ripping on one of histories most idiotic individuals.
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And could this facism be just a consequence of allowing more kinds of people on the platform and censoring less? In other words, that more freedom automatically brings more facism to the table?
I'm not trying to corner you or anything but I am wondering how and why things suddenly changed to seemingly a lot of people.
all the dog whistles you could ever want to court the fascist bros
I don't really know what group you're talking about here... The "facists"?
But who is not welkom that does not act like a ketamine karen? Did anyone get banned?
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The rise of megaconstellations are threatening the ozone layer’s recovery | Space
Concentrations of ozone-damaging aluminum oxides in Earth's atmosphere could increase by 650% in the coming decades due to a rise in the number of defunct satellites burning up during reentry, a first-of-a-kind study has found. And, as satellite megaconstellations continue to pique the interests of private companies, this could be pretty bad news for our planet's protective shield known as the ozone layer.
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in reply to John • • •Just ran through that list of bugs and don't see my issue that happens all the time. I guess I'll have to add a ticket.
My bug is when minimizing and restoring windows (fedora plasma 6 latest version), the first time or two it is smooth, but a few more times and it gets really jerky. It acts like a memory leak somewhere.
Scio
in reply to John • • •~/Templatessupport!!TheGrandNagus
in reply to Scio • • •It's a great addition. It's a surprisingly powerful aspect of gnome that nobody, not even Gnome, ever seem to talk about.
They really should place a text file in that folder to explain how it works (and of course exempt it as being used as a template)
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in reply to John • • •Yeeeees!
Phoenixz
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in reply to John • • •gravitas_deficiency
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in reply to gravitas_deficiency • • •imecth
in reply to gravitas_deficiency • • •Yeah sorta. First you gotta know what the problem is, good luck getting the average user to figure out the UI looks off because of the padding. Then you gotta know where and how you need to change it to make it better.
Customizing is cool for power users that like to fiddle with their settings, however it can't replace good defaults; not that I have anything against the defaults in this case...
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in reply to TCB13 • • •Yes, I can't begin to express how much I love 5 cm of whitespace between every setting on Windows Settings pages.
Thanks, Microsoft.
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in reply to Melco • • •You say this in the comments of a blogpost where they are precisely doing that
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