How Lemmy could interop with Mastodon, as imagined in Frontpage + Bluesky
Hey 👋 if you don't know us already, we're building Frontpage; an AT Procol based federated link aggregator. We shipped an initial MVP in closed beta recently and have since been thinking about the road to general availability.This post is an RFC (Request for Comments) targeted at technically minded folks who are interested in seeing the progression of atproto for non-Bluesky/microblogging use cases. All that's to say the language that follows assumes some knowledge about how Bluesky and atproto work! I've tried to include links to explain what all of the jargon means though, so hopefully it's not entirely nonsense for folks a little less familiar!
When you post on Frontpage, we propose that a mirror post will also be created in your Bluesky account. When you comment on Frontpage, we propose that a mirror reply will be created in your Bluesky account.
Conversely, when you reply to one of these mirrored posts in Bluesky - we will show it as a reply in Frontpage.
Additionally, Bluesky likes will be translated to Frontpage votes and vice versa.
VirtualBox 7.1 Released with Qt 6 GUI, Wayland Support for Clipboard Sharing - 9to5Linux
VirtualBox 7.1 Released with Qt 6 GUI, Wayland Support for Clipboard Sharing - 9to5Linux
VirtualBox 7.1 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with Qt 6 GUI and Wayland support for clipboard sharing.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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But QEMU definitely lacks a GUI config tool that is both easy to use and allows for advanced features like snapshots.
Let me say it louder for the people in the back: virt-manager.org/
It literally does everything you mentioned, including allowing you to edit the XML files manually to reach advanced or obscure features that are not exposed. And it can do it remotely via SSH, and it managed LXC and Xen too.
im a networking idiot so apologies if this doesnt work for your needs
if you leave the NAT virtual NIC and add a 2nd one, type MACVTAP, make device name your real NIC (ento1 for me).
Now you can access guest on your host and on other LAN devices without needing a bridge
(Spent yesterday figuring this out)
I totally agree with you on the Linux side. However, I first got into Linux by using it in Virtualbox on Windows. In the Windows world, as far as I know, it’s the easiest-to-use free-as-in-beer^1^ hypervisor, so long as UEFI support has improved since I last used it.
1: I say this because of the non-libre extension pack.
Vbox will create a bridge with my wifi card (I'm a laptop user with no option for a wired nic in the host).
I've never been able to get kvm to do that and haven't found any working instructions online that a simpleton like me can follow
if you leave the NAT virtual NIC and add a 2nd one, type MACVTAP, make device name your real NIC (ent01 for me).
Now you can access guest on your host and on other LAN devices without needing a bridge
(Spent yesterday figuring this out)
Doesn't VirtualBox use KVM if it's available?
I likeVBoxManage. Any crazy thing I've ever imagined doing with a VM it's already supported.
So, to answer your question - I use VirtualBox because it does everything I want and I've never had a reason to look elsewhere.
No, VBox does not use KVM unless you use some off brand backend, which is an extra layer of complexity and software you must install and manage.
Absolutely everything you might want to do with VBoxManager is going to be available via virsh and the multiple libviet utilities.
I've never had a reason to look elsewhere.
Not using Type 2 hypervisor would be a good one. Not being beholden to Oracle's shitry licensing schemes is certainly another.
Virtual manager requires a lot less clicks. It also uses libvirt so you can run VMs in the background and on startup.
If you want a better UI look into other clients.
Virtualizing Windows 10 for various binbows-only work stuff
Virtualizing Windows XP to run Office from before it started sucking
PC should work. But Wine might be a better option if you just want to run some old version of office (or frankly just use LibreOffice)
Ok so I guess I am the stupid because I always assumed kernel-level virtualization meant that you were limited to guest OS’s that used the Linux kernel. I was drawing incorrect connections to Docker
TIL
Are you paying for a Virtual box commercial license? They change for every employee in the company not just active users.
Just use KVM and be done with it. You can get the Windows guest drivers and addons from the Fedora project
I teach a class where I use VirtualBox. Students commonly use Windows or Mac. I use Linux.
It is very handily to use VirtualBox where, if I demo something, the same steps will work on the student machine. It is also nice for documentation if you want to show a screenshot.
I have never used the “extension pack” for this so it would be fine. Educational use seems to be permitted regardless.
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What ever you happens, do not use this for commercial purposes. Virtual box is free and libre but the guest addons are not. They will find and bill you for every single person in your company. Not per active user but per employee. This has cost companies millions
Under Linux you can just use KVM. Gnome boxes or virtual manager should work fine.
And they DO NOT CARE if you don't actually use or install the extensions (unless something has changed, the guest add-ons are part of the free open source part, it's the extensions for things like USB 2 support that aren't free for commercial)
You can use it freely, by license, but they'll come after you anyway
I'm still pissed that they bought Sun, so many great products now controlled by those assholes... Virtual box, MySQL, Solaris, Java...
The only license that VirtualBox and the Guest Additions are even released under is GPL3. I do not even see a dual license.
What remedy are they proposing when they come after you? I am not sure I would even take their call or respond to their letter. If I did, I would just send them the GPL text, announce that we are complying, and tell them to pound sand.
I suppose it might be fun to tell them that I got it via IBM or Red Hat or something and to take it up with them. But I probably would not actually be dishonest about. As above, if I got a letter asking me to pay for their GPL software, I would just mutter “idiots” and throw it away. If they want to persist, it would only cost them money and I would continue to respond the same way.
The extension pack does cost and is licensed differently from the core product
I did try that tact, more or less, but the fact is they kept harassing our licensing people and it just wasn't worth it so we removed every copy of it and used something else
And the truth is, Oracle can throw an ungodly amount of legal hassle at people if they want, right or wrong... Just because you're in the right and should win doesn't mean there'll be anything left of you on the other side, and they won't have felt a thing while destroying you out of capriciousness
They're pure evil and even their fully open source products should be avoided like the plague that they are. Hopefully someone will fork them at some point so we don't have to be tied to that shitty company, but until then, better to just leave them alone, because it's just not worth the hassle.
I do not believe I have had to accept anything. I am installing it from the AUR and it builds from source. Pretty sure it just went straight into the UI the first time I launched it ( without a EULA ).
I will have to look into it. Thank you for the answer through.
I just looked all this over and, just to clarify, both VirtualBox itself and the Guest Additions are free and released under GPL3.
virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_…
What is not free is the separately downloadable “VirtualBox Extension Pack”.
As long as you stay away from the “Extension Pack”, you are ok.
Kali Linux 2024.3 Release (Multiple transitions) | Kali Linux Blog
Kali Linux 2024.3 Release (Multiple transitions) | Kali Linux Blog
With summer coming to an end, so are package migrations, and Kali 2024.3 can now be released. You can now start downloading or upgrading if you have an existing Kali installation. The summary of the changelog since the 2024.Kali Linux
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Random raspberry pi freeze
cp, but I got an input-output error. Could this be the filesystem's fault? And how can I fix this? If you need any additional info about this crash, please do not hesitate to ask.like this
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ddrescue is probably your best bet
dd is the simplest: dd if=/path/to/disk/device of=/path/to/backup/file but it may fail with a broken device. ddrescue is similar but handles io errors appropriately and can retry bad reads.
If the disk is failing anything you do that reads or writes it could cause data loss. Even having it plugged in and powered potentially could. It depends on what component of it is failing.
That being said, fsck is pretty safe. It's the equivalent of chkdsk in windows, it looks specifically at the filesystem for things that may have gotten screwy.
ddrescue/gddrescue is your best bet for recovery. It can detect bad blocks and skip them, and it has some p robust resuming capabilities if your disk locks up while.its running. I usually use it to clone entire physical disks to another disk or an image file that can be mounted. I don't know if it can be used to grab specific files, I've never tried.
If it was me, I'd take the disk out and let it cool to room temperature. Then I'd ddrescue the whole thing, with resume turned on, to an image file. Then I'd run fsck. If fsck finds and recovers filesystem issues, I'd put it back in the pi, continue using it, and start doing regular backups of important files via a cron task.
If it’s running off an SD card then it’s very likely the SD card is broken. It’s better to run a pi off a USB SSD drive. Hope you have backups. Good luck either way.
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raspberrypi.com/products/m2-ha…
"He's dead Jim"
MicroSD cards aren't designed for a lot of writes. Your card it probably dead. If you must use a RPI with a SD card you should get an enterprise grade MicroSD
Ubuntu 24.10 to Introduce User-Controlled Permissions Prompts
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1104312
The upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 operating system promises a new feature called “permissions prompting” for an extra layer of privacy and security.The new permissions prompting feature in Ubuntu will let users control, manage, and understand the behavior of apps running on their machines. It leverages Ubuntu’s AppArmor implementation and enables fine-grained access control over unmodified binaries without having to change the app’s source code.
From Ubuntu Discourse: Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 5: Introducing Permissions Prompting
This solution consists of two new seeded components in Ubuntu 24.10, prompting-client and desktop-security-center alongside deeper changes to snapd and AppArmor available in the upcoming snapd 2.65. The first is a new prompting client (built in Flutter) that surfaces the prompt requests from the application via snapd. The second is our new Security Center:In this release the Security Center is the home for managing your prompt rules, over time we will expand its functionality to cover additional security-related settings for your desktop such as encryption management and firewall control.
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With prompting enabled, an application that has access to the home interface in its AppArmor profile will trigger a request to snapd to ask the user for more granular permissions at the moment of access:
As a result, users now have direct control over the specific directories and file paths an application has access to, as well its duration. The results of prompts are then stored in snapd so they can be queried and managed by the user via the Security Center.
Ubuntu 24.10 to Introduce User-Controlled Permissions Prompts - 9to5Linux
Ubuntu 24.10 will ship with a new security feature called permissions prompting to put users in full control of their Ubuntu machines.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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Presumably its only opt-in to the application you want to use it with. If this new system was applied to all applications by default, yeah it could become a problem. The reason why the permission control in Android and Flatpak works is, because those applications and packages are designed and built with these limitations by default and the user should not need to modify the permissions. There are a few cases (in Flatpak) where you need to change the permission, which is annoying, especially if you don't know. How worse will it be with applications that are not designed with these limitations in mind and force them with permissions taken away with this new tool?
Overall I don't think it's such a bad idea to have a technology on your hand to limit permissions and access, but it needs to be opt-in. In example this could be useful for AppImages, that are downloaded from the web and not managed by your operating system or a community like Flathub.
Looking at the video they posted, surely the act of navigating and selecting a location via the file save portal should implicitly give permission?
Iirc, that's something Flatpak allows.
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From the Discourse Blog:
The Linux desktop provides XDG Desktop Portals as a standardised way for applications to access resources that are outside of the sandbox. Applications that have been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals will continue to use them. Prompting is not intended to replace XDG Desktop Portals but to complement them by providing the desktop an alternative way to ask the user for permission. Either when an application has not been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals, or when it makes access requests not covered by XDG Desktop Portals.Since prompting works at the syscall level, it does not require an application’s awareness or cooperation to work and extends the set of applications that can be run inside of a sandbox, allowing for a safer desktop. It is designed to enable desktop applications to take full advantage of snap packaging that might otherwise require classic confinement.
So this looks like it complements and not replaces the XDG Desktop Portals, especially for applications that have not implemented the Portals. It allows you to still run those applications in confinement while providing some more granular access controls.
XDG Desktop Portals as a standardised way for applications to access resources that are outside of the sandboxIt is designed to enable desktop applications to take full advantage of snap packaging
So all this only affects Snap apps, is that correct?
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it seems like AppArmor isn't from Ubuntu, so that is great news. So that feature alone it doesn't require snap. But I'm now talking only about AppArmor.
But this whole 'fine-grained access control blabalba' does require Snap indeed..!
sudo aa-status. I still think it's just a standalone module, and Ubuntu or Debian literately doesn't need to implement anything extra afaik. Maybe only some configuration files at: /etc/apparmor.d (and most of these files are most likely also not coming from Ubuntu xD)Linux reshared this.
I see. Interesting. In my case AppArmor seems to be enabled by default under Linux Mint. As well as under my Ubuntu Server. I might need to look into this better, it looks like an important topic that many people overlooked.
It says for example "107 processes are in enforce mode". But also.. 4 profiles are in complain mode..
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Researchers Gave LSD and Humans To Dogs — And Something Magical Happened
Researchers Gave LSD and Humans To Dogs — And Something Magical Happened
In what may be the most interesting study of the year, researchers searching for answers about autism spectrum disorder looked at the brains of dogs and humans on LSD.Elana Spivack (Inverse)
For my fellow clickbait haters
In a new paper published today in the journal Advanced Science, researchers from China and the U.K. become the first to demonstrate inter-brain activity coupling between two species. The study goes on to illustrate not only how a mutation associated with ASD is linked to much lower coupling, but how a dose of LSD could help two brains intertwine.
I’ve only read the headline but I bet it fucking did
In fact I’d love to trip with a dog
Using 10 beagles, the team performed 5 days of social experiments on pairs of unfamiliar dogs and humans. Participants wore electroencephalogram (EEG) caps to measure brain activity during 3 social interactions: when the human and dog were in different rooms, in the same room but not interacting, and in the same room while interacting, each for 5 minutes at a time. Inter-brain synchronization, the authors found, increased in the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain, both of which deal with attention, during the most intense social interactions like petting and looking at each other. This correlation continued to strengthen over the 5 days.
This is the baseline for comparison in the paper.
Next, the authors repeated the experiment using 13 dogs bred with Shank3 mutations, which are the most common genetic risk factors for ASD (autism spectrum disorder). The Shank3 mutants showed a loss of inter-brain activity coupling during interactions with humans, indicating this connection’s absence. However, 24 hours after administering a dose of LSD (7.5 μg per kg^-1 bodyweight), the authors observed much higher inter-brain correlation in the dogs’ frontal and parietal brain regions, outperforming dogs who had received a saline solution.
kg ^ -1 = 100 grams. So you can read it as 7.5 μg of LSD per 100 grams of dog. As to why that dose, from the paper:
we conducted a pilot study to determine an appropriate LSD dose at 7.5 µg kg−1 bodyweight, as 10 µg kg−1 bodyweight (inferred from previous reports on mice[13]) showed an apparent head-shaking effect, while 5 µg LSD kg−1 bodyweight showed no recognizable effect on the behaviors.
Full paper - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…
I had the pleasure of reminiscing about OggCamps from “Days of Yore” with the excellent Les Pounder yesterday, in an episode of the Tom’s Harware Pi Cast. If you’ve never been to an OggCamp, hopefully this will provide a flavour of the event (Les did a deep dive back into the photo archive from previous events).
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OggCamp 2024 (“The Return of OggCamp!”) is happening at the Manchester Conference Centre at the Pendulum Hotel on October 12 & 13. Tickets are available now. We would love to have you join us, and bring along an open source / free software topic or two to discuss and share.
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Kovarex Is Thinking About Open-Sourcing Factorio | Factorio Interview: Michal Kovařík [Czech; Eng Subs]
cross-posted from: biglemmowski.win/post/2418820
For me, the most interesting point was the short mention of open sourcing Factorio (around 2:40). Kovarex seems to be very much open to the idea, he mentions that (as an approximation) maybe two years after the DLC after things calm down ...
(Hope this is not much of a titlegore)
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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Months? You clearly haven't tried Pyanodons.
Jokes aside, yeah, it would be a killer.
If this were true, we wouldn't need the term "FOSS."
You're talking about the OSD presumably. Stallman's definition differs, and I think his terminology seems to be widely used.
I disagree with a few points of that article.
Another misunderstanding of “open source” is the idea that it means “not using the GNU GPL.” This tends to accompany another misunderstanding that “free software” means “GPL-covered software.” These are both mistaken, since the GNU GPL qualifies as an open source license and most of the open source licenses qualify as free software licenses. There are many free software licenses aside from the GNU GPL.
You do too by using the term FOSS instead of FLOSS,
The terms “FLOSS” and “FOSS” are used to be neutral between free software and open source. If neutrality is your goal, “FLOSS” is the better of the two, since it really is neutral. But if you want to stand up for freedom, using a neutral term isn't the way. Standing up for freedom entails showing people your support for freedom.
The FSF and OSI agree on many of the licenses they approve as being free/open. If you can tell me of any notable differences that aren't a matter of one of them not commenting on a particular license yet then I'd be open to change my opinion on it.
Regardless, even if you believe the OSD and FSF's definition of libre software differ, merely having the source available is not enough to meet what the OSD defines as open source. Which is what this conversation was originally about.
The conversation was not originally about OSD; I had just mentioned it.
You do too by using the term FOSS instead of FLOSS
Touchée. But FLOSS the term only emphasises even more: there's open source software, and then there's free/libre open source software -- note the distinction.
There's a model that id used for open sourcing their engines. The source code is open, but the assets (textures, models, sounds, etc.) are still copyrighted and you still have to buy the game to get them legally. This means the company still sells copies on Steam or wherever, and games that replace all the assets can still sell them without any licensing costs, too.
I'm a little surprised this model never caught on. Even id only ever published the engine to the previous game--Quake 3 was open sourced a little after Doom 3 was released--and the practice seems to have stopped when John Carmack left.
Possibly because nobody has tested it in court, or some other subtle legal issue?
Vänsterns misstag har gynnat högersajterna. År 1994 startade tidningen Yelah som papperstidning och på nätet. Kring 1998 blir det i första hand en nättidning (yelah.net). 1997 startade motkraft.net som e-mejltjänst men snart också som en hemsida (1998) och en portal för delar av vänstern. 1999 startade Independent Media Center (IMC, Indymedia). 2001 startade diskussionforat socialism.nu.
P/f Næraberg och JFK P/f är två sammankopplade bolag. P/f Næraberg är ett samarbete mellan det stora nederländska fiskeriföretaget Parlevliet & van der Plas och en lokal fiskeriföretagare på Färöarna. Enligt lagstiftningen på Färöarna måste fiskeriföretagen kontrolleras av lokala ägare.
What are your games to get into the season for its vibe?
I mean games you played / you are going to play.
My list looks like this for example:
- Summer: DAVE THE DIVER
- Autumn: Against the Storm
- Winter: Frostpunk 2
- Spring: Terra Nil
What are yours?
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Loving Crosscode right now, will hop onto Disco Elysium after that (finally).
For fall in general, I love S.T.A.L.K.E.R though and return to it regularly.
Never heard of the Crosscode.
I tried Disco Elysium for 3h and then stopped playing. But this game seems unique.
Nice!
Crosscode is great, the puzzles are brutal though, haha.
Disco Elysium isn't for everyone, it's mostly a love-hate-letter by Communists for Communists.
- Autumn aka spooky season: stuff like Alien: Isolation
- Winter: The Long Dark frostpunk is great.
- spring/summer everything else..
Elden Ring for every season, it's rough out there....
Real talk: I waited 2 years to play Elden Ring with the DLC so I'm all set for Autum and Winter.
Then Space Marine 2, but I will finish Space Marine 1 first.
[Star Trucker] (store.steampowered.com/app/238…) - omg. Bought it about a week ago, it's devoured my spare time.
Never tried a trucker sim before, usually more into base building, but daym--throw some scifi in there and I'm hooked! All the levers and switches work and are satisfying to pull. Blast through the short tutorial, put on some music, decompress, and just driiiive(/float).
Solution to my Thinkpad E16 Wi-Fi Woes
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I managed to fix the one biggest gripe about my Thinkpad E16: the RTL8852BE Wi-Fi controller randomly dropping out. I actually found this a few days ago, but I had forgotten where I put the file I had edited. You put a file in modprobe.d called 70-rtw89.conf. Both /etc/modprobe.d/ and /usr/lib/modprobe.d work - I used the latter, but for the sake of conventions, you should probably use the former.
You then put in these options for the rtw89 module: options rtw89_pci disable_clkreq=y disable_aspm_l1=y disable_aspm_l1ss=y
Now, my Thinkpad is a fully functional Linux laptop. I will be docking it to an 8 from my initial score of 8.5, but I'm back to liking it for now. If you apply the fix, be sure to update the firmware as well - some older distros have an old version that works but returns a lot of journalctl error on this card.
Update: What do you know! The updated firmware-realtek just went into backports!
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Bug #2017277 “Regression: 6.1.0.9-1009 causes RTL8852BE WiFi to ...” : Bugs : linux-oem-6.1 package : Ubuntu
The 6.1 OEM kernel contains backported (from 6.2) support for the RTL8852BE wireless adapter. This has worked fine on my laptop since the support was backported. The latest release, 6.1.0.Launchpad
Ethernet 4 life.
According to the repair manual, my Wi-Fi card is actually replaceable, at least physically. I don’t know if Lenovo still does BIOS whitelists of cards like they used to (I think they did remove it a few years back.), but their OEM parts website has a diverse selection if this fix were ever to break.
I’d say other than the bottom being a bother to remove (and the keyboard not being designed to be replaced, though after some research, it seems possible), this is a surprisingly repairable laptop for how recent it it. It has dual SSD bays and a DIMM slot.
Was macht man, wenn man genug hat von Blasmusik und Schunkeln? Runter in den Nachtexpress zu Rockmusik und Headbangen!
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The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive
The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive
Sony’s PS5 Pro won’t come with a disc drive to play physical games — you’ll have to buy and install the disc drive separately.Jay Peters (The Verge)
En ledande medlem i Backagänget återvände frivilligt till Sverige och greps på Arlanda den 9 september. En person som varit efterlyst i tre år som misstänkt för grovt narkotikabrott. Polisen kom de misstänkta narkotikabrotten på spåren genom material från den knäckta chattprogramvaran EncroChat.
Fängelse för tidigare Swedbank-VD. Svea hovrätt har dömt den tidigare verkställande direktören Birgit Bonnesen till fängelse i ett år och tre månader.
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I would think it's hard to stay in business promoting Linux-first products as it is, and the higher price is because they know they will sell fewer units, and so they need to recoup a higher per-unit cost to functionally stay in business.
I agree that the price seems a bit absurdly high, but finding a quality Linux tablet of any type seems pretty dicey as it is.
EDIT: pine64.com/product/pinetab2-10…
For example, this Linux tablet from Pine64 is more affordable, but with a Rockchip RK3566 it's just way underpowered compared to the N100, and that's over $200. Further, the Pine64 seems restricted to 64gb eMMC while the Juno Tab 3 can be upgraded to 2tb storage with its M.2 slot. I see no mention of an M.2 slot for the Pine64 Tablet. This genuinely seems like a more fully featured tablet compared to other available Linux-first tablets.
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The PineTab doesn't even have a wifi/bt radio that's supported by its own OS. When you're an OEM and you're choosing what chips you're putting in a design, I think you should stick to chips that are usable. Chips where the manufacturer has written specs and maybe even a driver that transforms "a piece of glass with a lead frame" into something with a purpose.
Anyway, that's just how I feel.
So I'm like a week in... but I bought an 'p8 mini laptop' off ebay as it found a sale cheaper than aliexpress.... but i'm loving it. n100, 12gb ram and 512gb hd. amaa
Necro edit - forgot to mention I got it for 330 pulse shipping
The only things that aren't working out of box are autorotating the screen and when the device boots up it seems to want to display the login screen on a screen other than the default. A simple closing the lid, waiting for it to sleep and reopening the screen fixes this. Or if you have an external monitor it'll output there by default. I feel like the latter could easily be fixed as it feels like I need to default it do the correct screen and I suspect it's picking up the touch screen device as the display... It shows up on the battery settings as a display with a discharging battery for some reason. The auto rotating doesn't bother me... I prefer having explicit control of the rotation for my needs.
I'm using endeavoros with plasma 6
Man that's a hard sell when the starlite is going for $627
us.starlabs.systems/pages/star…
$70 cheaper with better specs is a no brainer
Episode 251 of The Linux Lugcast is out now – The Baby Boi Cast
This episode we talk about the boring tech movie Kimi, creating an RPG with Stable Diffusion and RPG Maker, the CLI RPG “Dungeon Dash”, how it’s good to be bored, the downfall of Telegram, going to prison for creating CSAM with AI, and the bleak future of the Internet Archive.
Clips of the show:
tech.minnix.dev/episode-251-of…
#ai #boredom #CSAM #gaming #internetarchive #kimi #linux #linuxgaming #moviereview #opensource #raspberrypi #RPG #stablediffusion #telegram
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in reply to erlend_sh • • •Reminder that as of now, there is no independent Bluesky server open for registration: feddit.org/post/2656676
The interoperability issues between Mastodon and Lemmy come from Mastodon, which doesn't really seem interested in correcting that: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
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in reply to erlend_sh • •Cool to see things being built with AT. For what my thoughts are worth, I think that having Frontpage posts showing up on Bluesky would be benificial. It'd probably make it feel like it has a lower barrier to entry and increase interactions/discussions across the different communities.
P.S. replying here with Friendica which is taking advantage of similar cross compatibility.
Also, just a curiosity, how good is AT's cross compatibility without workarounds? Obviously if you guys are considering I assume it works, but I've been curious how well things play together. Nostr has NIPs to solve the issue, and ActivityPub is a little tempermental, but with AT's repo style accounts I've wondered how well everything interacts across different implementations.
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in reply to Nate • • •If I understand correctly, there's a central pump running behind the scenes in any AT implementation. You feed content into the central hub, and it pumps it out to everyone connected to it. Bluesky itself provides the one major pump that feeds its network right now.
So in that sense, Bluesky is a centralised network with decentralized users.
Frontpage is building a different pump, spreading different kind of content to a different type of platform. So there's no obvious connection between the Bluesky pump and the Frontpage pump - that's why they're talking about bridging in the post.
It almost seems a bit silly - in order for two AT hubs to talk, you need to build a bridge for them. At that point, you could might as well have built an AP protocol and made it work with Bridgy.fed.
Furthermore, all "instances" running Frontpage would process data through the same central hub. If that goes down or they run out of funding, it's all over.
I'm applauding the Frontpage crowd for trying something new. But I'm not entirely convinced I see the benefit compared to what we're doing over here.
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Die4Ever
in reply to erlend_sh • • •Unpopular opinion: IDK why people want perfect interop so much, I have a Mastodon account and a Lemmy account, big deal. We've got bigger fish to fry than this. The formats are different enough that you're better off having separate accounts for microblogging and threadiverse.
Interop for similar platforms is a great feature, but for dissimilar platforms I don't think it's actually necessary just a novelty. Also I think people try to push this on new users as some big, useful, important feature, but I think it only confuses the new users.
Also I noticed most of the time when people complain about ActivityPub interop issues, it almost always ends up being Mastodon's fault lol. Probably because they were early to the party and didn't have to worry about interop and standards much back then. At least I hope it isn't malicious lol.
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mark
in reply to Die4Ever • • •Don't think this opinion is unpopular at all. It makes sense for platforms that are similar to interop.
Hypothetically like Youtube interop with Peertube (video platforms) or Instagram interop with Pixelfed (photos). Or Threads, Reddit and Lemmy (forums). And Mastodon and Twitter (sorry, but just making a point here 😁)
But yeah, see no reason for interop between platforms with completely different purposes.
Die4Ever
in reply to mark • • •Mathieu
in reply to mark • • •example: im a mastodon user and I follow this topic bc i find it interesting
and i would never create a lemmy account to see your comments, i like having every post (from mastodon, lemmy, peertube, threads, pixelfed) in one single place
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in reply to Mathieu • • •That sort of aggregating would make more sense in an RSS reader. RSS feeds are exactly for that purpose.
But a platform trying to interop from an infinite number of unrelated platforms just seems odd.
Mathieu
in reply to mark • • •you can't reply, share or even like a post with a rss reader, I believe one of actititypub goals is to replace rss
personally, I follow an important amount of users and then class them into mastodon lists (tech, politics, movies, news...)
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in reply to Mathieu • • •You can reply and interact on platforms from an RSS reader. All an RSS feed is is a list of links. When you click them, you go directly to the platform. When using on a mobile device, RSS readers will even open the app for you to reply or interact with posts.
The fediverse will never replace RSS feeds. They serve a totally different purpose.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to Mathieu • • •Have you tried fedia.io/ ? It has both Mastodon and Lemmy included in one place
aasatru
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •I think in some ways Mastodon is better suited - if you use the list feature actively there, it gets quite powerful. And personally I quite like the way content gets community curated on Mastodon once you follow enough people.
I love Mbin, but scratches a very different itch. :)
Chris
in reply to erlend_sh • • •Mastodon can already boost Lemmy posts.
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aasatru
in reply to Chris • • •I think support for boosts is a game changer for interoperability. As a Mastodon user I wouldn't really want to follow a community even if it was well implemented, but I'm happy to follow users who boost content I'm interested in.
Boosting content is the way posts spread on Mastodon. If anyone follows me from Mastodon they will see all the content I boost; if they enjoy it, they might re-boost to their followers and the ball starts rolling. And that's how you suddenly get comment sections where Mastodon users are actively participating.
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Karu 🐲
in reply to erlend_sh • • •Conceptually, I think the way Lemmy and Mastodon would be able to interop is pretty straightforward: Each thread in either is basically just a tree of replies. They are just shown differently depending on the platform. Furthermore, Lemmy communities show up as Mastodon groups, and Lemmy threads show up as retoots from those groups, which I think is the most elegant solution.
The only issue that makes this interoperation unusable really is that Mastodon groups representing Lemmy communities just "retoot" every single comment, obliterating the TL of anyone who dares to follow those groups. Which as far as I know only happens because Mastodon refuses to be cooperative and properly follow the standards.
As for the other comments asking "why even care about this": I think it's worth as a long-term goal for the Fediverse to entirely separate the "view" aspect from the "content" aspect of platforms where reasonably possible, so that each user can browse all the content in their preferred platform. Not all fedi platforms need to conform to some absolute feature parity, but as
... show moreConceptually, I think the way Lemmy and Mastodon would be able to interop is pretty straightforward: Each thread in either is basically just a tree of replies. They are just shown differently depending on the platform. Furthermore, Lemmy communities show up as Mastodon groups, and Lemmy threads show up as retoots from those groups, which I think is the most elegant solution.
The only issue that makes this interoperation unusable really is that Mastodon groups representing Lemmy communities just "retoot" every single comment, obliterating the TL of anyone who dares to follow those groups. Which as far as I know only happens because Mastodon refuses to be cooperative and properly follow the standards.
As for the other comments asking "why even care about this": I think it's worth as a long-term goal for the Fediverse to entirely separate the "view" aspect from the "content" aspect of platforms where reasonably possible, so that each user can browse all the content in their preferred platform. Not all fedi platforms need to conform to some absolute feature parity, but as I just said, there's basically a one-to-one relationship between Lemmy and Mastodon content, so it is reasonable in this case. I've seen enough people here claim that they very much prefer the Lemmy format to read conversations.
Personally, my Mastodon account has different vibes from Lemmy, and for that reason alone there is a bunch of Lemmy communities I wouldn't subscribe to, but would follow from Mastodon. The only reason why I don't do that is because Mastodon's side of the interop fucking sucks.
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in reply to Karu 🐲 • • •Pleroma/Akkoma deal better with this, The groups there only retoot the main topic, and the answers you only see If you open the main topic, then you see all the threads.
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Blaze (he/him)
in reply to FundMECFS • • •Even on Mbin, the microblogging and link aggregator are two different parts of the software.
If someone from Mastodon posts to an Mbin magazine, it would still look "out of the place" the same way it would in a Lemmy community
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FundMECFS
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Blaze (he/him)
in reply to FundMECFS • • •The homepage contains the communities (e.g. Lemmy): fedia.io/
The microblog page contains the... microblogs (e.g. Mastodon): fedia.io/microblog
That's why I said it's two different views, you can't have everything at the same time, it's one or the other
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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •@Blaze@feddit.org I just want to note that it's a feature request on GitHub right now, it was already implemented on KBin (even tho in a bit weird way), so it's definitely possible
github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/issues…
@erlend_sh@lemmy.world @FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Blaze (he/him)
in reply to Fitik • • •erlend_sh
in reply to erlend_sh • • •One thing that seems to go unappreciated in the comments is the simplicity of this interop proposal: It is essentially about enabling quote-posting of link-aggregator(Groups) posts.
Bluesky + Frontpage will work this way, and I believe it’ll work exceedingly well. If the ap-net corner of the fediverse isn’t interested in this kind of interop, fair enough. To me however the promise of seamless interop between my social apps was what brought me to the fediverse, so that’s the version of the fediverse I will pursue.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to erlend_sh • • •That's fair.
For some other people the appeal of the Fediverse is to be able to manage the instances themselves, and Bluesky still isn't there yet on that side (and probably won't, as it would prevent them from generating revenue if someone can just open a server and connect to their network)
timconspicuous
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •I don't think that's necessarily true. As fas as I know there are no plans to inject ads, they are planning to create a marketplace for custom feeds (think "premium" feeds) and labelers and such where they would take a cut. You would obviously still be able to purchase access to them from other servers. But this goal seems kinda lofty, not sure if it can be viable.
Tywèle [she|her]
in reply to erlend_sh • • •asudox
in reply to Tywèle [she|her] • • •Tywèle [she|her]
in reply to asudox • • •asudox
in reply to Tywèle [she|her] • • •Blaze (he/him)
in reply to asudox • • •Seems quite relevant indeed.
To the stance above: if people prefer to have a unified experience managed by a corporation, that's okay.
There are enough people on the Internet to keep a few places actives. The Fediverse and Blueskey can coexist.
Tywèle [she|her]
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Yes and that's why I don't understand their comment and even less why it gets downvoted. They seem to complain about something to me that I didn't even mention and the topic was not about combining ATProto with ActivityPub or whatever.
Maybe relate wasn't the right word. English isn't my native language.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to Tywèle [she|her] • • •Reading the thread again, I guess it comes from
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Some people might have understood it as "The Fediverse failed, Bluesky is better". As I said, to me it's okay to prefer one or the other, but some people are less tolerant.
Tywèle [she|her]
in reply to asudox • • •asudox
in reply to Tywèle [she|her] • • •Tywèle [she|her]
in reply to asudox • • •asudox
in reply to Tywèle [she|her] • • •That is directed at you, but is not a complaint.
The rest is my own rant at the devs, not directed at you.
Tywèle [she|her]
in reply to asudox • • •aaaaace
in reply to erlend_sh • • •Tried Masto and Pixelfed, left after The Great Sellout to Meta. Trying Lemmy for now but it's limited in breadth and scope.
I'd like to see a fedi digest app more than anything, gathers it all up and presents it. Then if I want to interact I can sign up for one of them. But first I want to see where things are.
In general, the technically-discerning aren't going to care as much about quantity, more about quality and features.
I'd like to block every wealthy narcissist and never read their name or see their troubled insane faces in posts, I'm fed up with the narrative on both sides and have other interests.
So if Frontpage gathered it all up and filtered out the paid narratives and shills I get to choose, while letting me follow interesting minds, I'd be very interested.
If it had a prominent link to which instance, it might become clear what instance and software is best for me.
Right now I like Piefed's ability to filter and not Lemmys militaristic intentional inability to do so.
Masto filtered, but doesn't migrate well and now federates
... show moreTried Masto and Pixelfed, left after The Great Sellout to Meta. Trying Lemmy for now but it's limited in breadth and scope.
I'd like to see a fedi digest app more than anything, gathers it all up and presents it. Then if I want to interact I can sign up for one of them. But first I want to see where things are.
In general, the technically-discerning aren't going to care as much about quantity, more about quality and features.
I'd like to block every wealthy narcissist and never read their name or see their troubled insane faces in posts, I'm fed up with the narrative on both sides and have other interests.
So if Frontpage gathered it all up and filtered out the paid narratives and shills I get to choose, while letting me follow interesting minds, I'd be very interested.
If it had a prominent link to which instance, it might become clear what instance and software is best for me.
Right now I like Piefed's ability to filter and not Lemmys militaristic intentional inability to do so.
Masto filtered, but doesn't migrate well and now federates with the shitasses on Meta, which I don't want to consort with or support. If I want to sign up for Meta it's not hard, but I haven't ever done so and don't need coercive help from fake empaths running .social instances. I'm not a farm animal, Stux.
I think the fedi got it backwards, new users need to browse first to find what they want. I get it as a techie kind, but right now it's forbidding to many with all the unknown choices.
If Frontpage, someday, can also interpolate comments and vote between the softwares that survive, that'd be a nice thing to add to a browser that's already familiar to new users.
But I think it's way early for that. Kbin is already in the past, Mbin may or may not be a true continuation, the Meta connection nay not be worthwhile for their investors, bluesky is still a pig-in-a-poke for me.
One thing that is missing, again, is a digest to browse.
Handles
in reply to aaaaace • • •Is this Great Sellout in the room with us right now? Because Meta did implement an open protocol into Threads, but it has been widely blocked by other ActivityPub instances. That is not a "sellout".
Sounds like your principles will only lead you off social media, perhaps the internet entirely?
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in reply to Handles • • •The 2 largest mastodon instances both misrepresented involvement or intent with Meta to their users, then turned around and federated.
Those were/are the best chance for the fedi to leap forward.
They are the most popular and also now the keast likely to be used by tech people, both because if the association and because they misled their users.
The admins of those, one of which is the masto dev, have arguably done more harm to the fedi than anyone else. People left for bluesky right after the bragconfession and openly posted about why.
So it's not in the room with me, because I dropped their scene and closed all my accounts.
It takes a moral village idiot to compromise the whole environment just to grab some cash for their subsequent honeymoon. Not unlike current Twitter management thinking, and not unlike social media thought-levels in general.
aasatru
Unknown parent • • •Though luck, they are interpretations already and have been doing it since the beginning.
The first comment I ever made to a Lemmy community was via Mastodon - that's how I found out about Lemmy in the first place.