Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM co
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Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.
4. Gentoo supports sustainability.
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.
Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.
And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.
The trouble is, from my perspective, that being inattentive (the original ADD) is seen, by people who only know of ADHD with its hyperactivity, as simply being uninterested, forgetful, or bored.
Having a touch of the 'tism and being a lifelong fidget (stimming), doesn't help with people's perception of me.
I was diaged ADHD as a toddler (*shrug*), and autistic as an adult. I think what they saw was "hyperactive" was the stimming, as well as how intesnely animated I get when I'm excited about something. Otherwise, I have a very hard time stepping away from something I'm fixated on, and my executive dysfunction is just plain disabling. Also, my emotional expressions were a bit over the top when I was younger. They didn't come naturally to me, tried to fit in....
TV was where I learned emotional expressions, mostly cartoons and sit coms. Sooo.... my faked facial expressions were... exagerated. That was bound to happen when getting constant complaints I alledgedly didn't feel the feeling I said I was feeling, or didn't express interest or excitement over a gift well enough to be considered "greatful". Ugh.
Per my last post, (which can be found here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975), I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat... it only works when plugged into wall power. The battery I have does not supply enough power to fully enable the modem through USB power, due the raspberry pi being very power hungry. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple problem is actually a larger problem that seems to only be solved by an overly complicated solution: designing a custom battery controller PCB that responds to the pi5's (or ideally, a different processor entirely) needs more appropriately.
Per my last post, (which can be found here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975), I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat... it only works when plugged into wall power. The battery I have does not supply enough power to fully enable the modem through USB power, due the raspberry pi being very power hungry. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple problem is actually a larger problem that seems to only be solved by an overly complicated solution: designing a custom battery controller PCB that responds to the pi5's (or ideally, a different processor entirely) needs more appropriately.
Take a look at the state of the device here:
Last time I posted here, many interested folks responded with great ideas and feedback. Fortunately, one of the comments lead me to the project that would ultimately end this project in its current state. Link to that comment here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975/227795…
Its flaws are visible. While the device has personality, it lacks ease of use. These days I use it as a "cyberdeck"/field debugging computer, and I use it with a small controller-sized Riitek keyboard, because the screen's touch capability is on the fritz, likely because of the poor design choice to leave the screen's ribbon cable partially exposed.
This leads me to the conclusion: this project is falling into "hobby" or more accurately, unsupported status. I like the device for my personal use, and I may update the design in the future for my own purposes, and release it for free for public use, though I don't imagine there will be a huge amount of interest in building this device considering the skyrocketing cost of Pi devices nowadays. There is a more reasonable path forward, and I alluded to it earlier: custom PCBs. That's where the SPIRIT project comes in: github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
You can see in one of the pictures above, the SPIRIT project is designing a phone that can be completely replicated at home. Well, once they get there it will be. I've exchanged brief communications with the individual running the project, Jan, and while he hasn't stated that these projects are linked in any way, I'd like to think that the SPIRIT project carries forward the values and goals of the project I started. If you were at all interested in my project, give the SPIRIT project github a like or favorite.
Take a look at the v3lectronics youtube channel where Jan livestreams work on the SPIRIT project: youtube.com/@V_Electronics
Please contribute if you have any level of knowledge to contribute! These projects thrive on the careful contributions of other humans across the world!
SPIRIT-ual Successor to the "Building a Linux Phone" project
Sorry its been so long since there was an update regarding this project.
Per my last post, (which can be found here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975), I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat... it only works when plugged into wall power. The battery I have does not supply enough power to fully enable the modem through USB power, due the raspberry pi being very power hungry. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple problem is actually a larger problem that seems to only be solved by an overly complicated solution: designing a custom battery controller PCB that responds to the pi5's (or ideally, a different processor entirely) needs more appropriately.
Take a look at the state of the device here:
Last time I posted here, many interested folks responded with great ideas and feedback. Fortunately, one of the comments lead me to the project that would ultimately end this project in its current state. Link to that comment here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975/227795…
Its flaws are visible. While the device has personality, it lacks ease of use. These days I use it as a "cyberdeck"/field debugging computer, and I use it with a small controller-sized Riitek keyboard, because the screen's touch capability is on the fritz, likely because of the poor design choice to leave the screen's ribbon cable partially exposed.
This leads me to the conclusion: this project is falling into "hobby" or more accurately, unsupported status. I like the device for my personal use, and I may update the design in the future for my own purposes, and release it for free for public use, though I don't imagine there will be a huge amount of interest in building this device considering the skyrocketing cost of Pi devices nowadays. There is a more reasonable path forward, and I alluded to it earlier: custom PCBs. That's where the SPIRIT project comes in: github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
You can see in one of the pictures above, the SPIRIT project is designing a phone that can be completely replicated at home. Well, once they get there it will be. I've exchanged brief communications with the individual running the project, Jan, and while he hasn't stated that these projects are linked in any way, I'd like to think that the SPIRIT project carries forward the values and goals of the project I started. If you were at all interested in my project, give the SPIRIT project github a like or favorite.
Take a look at the v3lectronics youtube channel where Jan livestreams work on the SPIRIT project: youtube.com/@V_Electronics
Please contribute if you have any level of knowledge to contribute! These projects thrive on the careful contributions of other humans across the world!
Building an open hardware & open software smartphone that can be used daily by the general public.
I'm a mostly self-taught individual who is extremely passionate about engineering. Studying mechatronics engineering. I main electronics and IT.
If you're looking for additional context, it would likely be found by reading the previous post which I linked in the post body. Here is the link again: lemmy.zip/post/53113975
Edit: But, that’s besides the point! Give the SPIRIT phone project a look on github! github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
This is intentional. In this case, you should tap the crosspost to view full text.
Alternatively if you don’t prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.
Seems like its a setting in the FE, with an, in my opinion, non-sensible default. Might be worth submitting an issue and asking for the default for that setting to be flipped, since it seems to be causing confusion.
Describe the bug I crossposted a post to a different community but the text I wrote doesnt show up on voyager on the crossposted post even though if I edit it it shows up. To Reproduce Make a link ...
Not sure how my comment was at all passive. From my perspective using the default lemmy.zip frontend, I can see the post body, which answered the question you were asking before you had asked it. I clearly stated what I thought you were asking for, mentioned how to find the info and that it was already provided, and then provided the link again. If anything, my comment was aggressive, there was no passivity about it.
Now that I'm aware that some frontends for federated social media do not show the body of crossposts, which I verified by checking the voyager frontend for myself, I went ahead and checked the github for the FE. I found this closed issue: github.com/aeharding/voyager/i…
Here is an excerpt from that link
This is intentional. In this case, you should tap the crosspost to view full text.
Alternatively if you don't prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.
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Not sure how my comment was at all passive. From my perspective using the default lemmy.zip frontend, I can see the post body, which answered the question you were asking before you had asked it. I clearly stated what I thought you were asking for, mentioned how to find the info and that it was already provided, and then provided the link again. If anything, my comment was aggressive, there was no passivity about it.
Now that I'm aware that some frontends for federated social media do not show the body of crossposts, which I verified by checking the voyager frontend for myself, I went ahead and checked the github for the FE. I found this closed issue: github.com/aeharding/voyager/i…
Here is an excerpt from that link
This is intentional. In this case, you should tap the crosspost to view full text.
Alternatively if you don't prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.
Hope that addresses your concerns, which are unrelated to the actual post.
Regardless as I mentioned in the post body, my project is ending, so the main image of the post is just an attention grabber to funnel people towards this project led by a different team. github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
Describe the bug I crossposted a post to a different community but the text I wrote doesnt show up on voyager on the crossposted post even though if I edit it it shows up. To Reproduce Make a link ...
In case you weren't aware, everything from the crosspost shows as intended in Friendica, same (formatting aside) as I see it if I go to the lemmy.zip post.
Really cool project too!! I've wanted for quite some time to build one that mounts on my arm like in the later episodes of Chuck. I was thinking of runing #postmarketOS on mine though.
Hope ye stick with it, this is what it's all about. \m/
I wanted to know more about your project, from your own words. Instead I got a lecture about how "dumb" I am, so I'm no longer interested, because you seem like a jerk. Whether that was intensional or is coming from an ill-adapted social outlook, I'm still not sure of.
You seem to care more about being correct than talking about your project, which is your choice, I suppose.
I'd close this with a glib sign-off like "have a nice day", but I'm not sure having a nice day is within your array of skills.
Weird to put quotes around a word I did not use. Additionally I have not made any presumptions about you or your intelligence. But my post about a project (again, the main point of my post being a project that is not mine) is not a support forum for you not being able to see the bodies of crossposts. Or would you have preferred I copy pasted the post body into a comment for you?
Maybe you didn't see what the actual problem causing the misunderstanding was but let me clarify it for you:
Alternatively if you don’t prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.
Once you do that, you'll have the info you were asking for in your initial comment, or, more importantly, you won't have this misunderstanding with others in the future.
Also, I don't know how many times I have to type it, my project is ending. I didn't post this to talk about my project, the goal of this post to raise awareness for a project I have nothing to do with. Your imagined issues with me causing you to not loo
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Weird to put quotes around a word I did not use. Additionally I have not made any presumptions about you or your intelligence. But my post about a project (again, the main point of my post being a project that is not mine) is not a support forum for you not being able to see the bodies of crossposts. Or would you have preferred I copy pasted the post body into a comment for you?
Maybe you didn't see what the actual problem causing the misunderstanding was but let me clarify it for you:
Alternatively if you don’t prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.
Once you do that, you'll have the info you were asking for in your initial comment, or, more importantly, you won't have this misunderstanding with others in the future.
Also, I don't know how many times I have to type it, my project is ending. I didn't post this to talk about my project, the goal of this post to raise awareness for a project I have nothing to do with. Your imagined issues with me causing you to not look at the project is only detrimental for you.
Sorry you don't like how I type I guess?
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this is the sorta shit that gives these #ai #chatbots get a bad rap 😆
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The latest commit on the '25.11' channel of NixOS is hash abcdefg, committed on December 1st, 2025.
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really?! so what’s this then?
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/0c88e1f2bdb93d5999019e99cb0e61e1fe2af4c5
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The latest commit on the '25.11' channel of NixOS is hash 072d539, committed on April 18th, 2023.
« If you’re a hair salon, or a tattoo artist, or a restaurant, or whatever, please just have a fucking website where I can go and see your rates and hours. Not all of your potential clients are on these platforms, and I suspect that even many of the ones who are appreciate a simple, unadorned site that tells them what they need to know at a glance. »
The thing that made me not get a Facebook account 20 years ago was reading their T&Cs and seeing that I would grant them an irrevocable, sublicensable, commercial copyright license to anything that I uploaded, for them to use for any purpose. Oh, and there was also a thing that I agreed to be liable if I didn't have the rights to grant Facebook those rights.
It's amazing to me how many companies will click through this and literally give Facebook the right to use their brand for any purpose.
@david_chisnall I got an e-mail asking me to join Facebook and it had a "people you might know" list and one of the people on it was my high school girlfriend's father. And I was like "okay, that's creepy" and so I never signed up.
Like, it's not hard to see how they connected me to him. But I don't need companies making algorithmic deductions about my social circles without my consent. @lproven
@david_chisnall I did something just as effective, I watched the movie. It's beyond me how anyone who watched that movie could then sign-up to Facebook or any of Meta's other services. It tells you exactly the sort of people who run those businesses and why you should avoid them like the plague.
SteamOS is Valve’s Linux-based operating system. It features a seamless user experience optimized for gaming, while retaining access to the power and flexibility of a PC, and plays tens of thousands of games on Steam.
If someone is asking for help with using this place, could you let them know about my account, and also let them know about my website? I'm totally unofficial so people only find out about me by worth of mouth 🙂
I have a website full of easy-to-understand guides for using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse at:
Can you offer any wisdom on how to create widgets for Misskey? @xaetacore and I want to embed our IRC client as an intractable element somewhere but can't quite figure out AiScript.
Unfortunately I'm not a developer so can't help with programming stuff. Sorry! 😞 Have you tried asking in the "Discussions" section of the Misskey Github? github.com/misskey-dev/misskey…
I'm mainly trying to provide tech support for people unfamiliar with the Fediverse.
Bookmarked and boosted. Here's an account that provides excellent Fediverse tips and guidance. Pleez let all your friends know about Fedi.tips. Especially good for people new to Mastodon! #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #FediTips
I always wondered what etiquette is on fedi. Like I would shyly do "Hey you can look at @ feditips @ social ----" instead of doing direct mention. Or direct mention is fine? It's rare but if I find someone I can help out then I do lead them to your website. Thanks for making place where people can look up for quick help. Also eased my migration process as it's looked lot harder and one way ish~ then it is really.
It is absolutely 100% fine to mention me! Thank you for spreading the word 🙏
Usually mentions are fine in general, I don't think most people are bothered by them unless it's spam? As long as there's a good non-abusive reason why someone is being mentioned it's usually okay.
I was wondering what is the PixelFed, I've seen mentioned around a couple of times. And then I've seen somebody boosting this post, found your site. And there - all the answers to exactly the questions I had! This is immensely helpful to people just arriving here and dealing with the complex new world of Fediverse.
Aww, thank you Lucija! 🙏 I'm really blushing 😊 That's really kind of you, I hope people are finding these guides useful!
I also just saw you made a donation on ko-fi, thank you so much for that! It's going to make a big difference in keeping these sites and accounts going, I'm very very grateful! 👏
this post prompted me to chase down a long held niggle: can you view the local timeline of other servers? Turn out the limitation is with my client Tusky. Subway Tooter works just fine fedi.tips/how-do-i-browse-the-…
This is one of the easiest and most user friendly apps on the web. Its clean and dosent flood you with unwanted feeds and engagement bait aimed to outrage. If you can use Facebook or X, Mastodon is a breeze.
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They want to disable one of the most useful, ubiquitous shortcut patterns from the Linux desktop, because... people who don't use Linux, don't use the shortcut? Absurd.
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Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind [Bertrand Selva]’s clever LoRaTube project. LoRa is a fantastic solution f…
The (new) Steam Machine is a semi-custom desktop PC. Marketed to a massive mainstream audience. And it ships with Linux. And it's now part of an entire Linux gaming ecosystem. This is a big, big deal. (Laptop in 2027?)
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@Sh4d0w_H34rt Haha, I *knew* someone was going to ask this! It absolutely was a coincidence. I knew nothing about the hardware (aside from the long-standing rumors) or the announcement.
But it's worth mentioning that when I decided to start covering Linux at Forbes back in 2018, a week later Valve announced Proton 😂
yeh, the rest is ok or not interesting, but that steam box is a ripper. Basically an upgraded Steam Deck with no screen, which, I'm hoping, means cheaper.
I'll be looking at getting one to replace my son and daughter's computers when need be, even if I have to put Windows on it for Fortnite
@VaporVenger Yep, SteamOS! And they've been doing a lot of work on the driver that handles the Vulkan API. Valve expects to have "full ray tracing performance" enabled by the time Steam Machine launches.
I really only have a steam deck to make Linux gaming on my TV convenient. I barely ever use it as a handheld. I will definitely be swapping out my steam deck for one of these dudes.
oh man, that seems cheap, although the components are pretty much custom, so I'm not sure how much they cost. I would be fully excited about that price point, though.
@alisynthesis I think, at least initially, that Valve lost money on every Steam Deck sold. And think about how much of THAT device is custom (plus it has a screen...)
But presenting it as a loss leader is a perfectly valid strategy, because that's more customers buying games from Steam. They might not price Steam Machine AS aggressively, but I'm betting the 512GB model comes in under $500.
What drained me of power over the past years is this constant fight of debullshitting the Internet experience for me and others.
You always have to use an AdBlocker, VPNs to circumvent all sort of censorship - and for that matter change the location often else you still get blocked; find proper news sources then find their RSS, add to an RSS reader, try to read locally if these websites allow you to....else go visit their bullshit websites.
Youtube is still by far the biggest, or the only in most cases, video platform. Now even with an adblocker the youtube experience sucks - they autoplay videos, insert shorts into your face, make you click things you don't want, and now insert AI generated video description for videos.. So you have to use an app for youtube that removes these piles of poop. But these apps are constantly blocked and won't work all of the time...
I don't even want to think about search which has become a pile of nonsense. Full of fake AI websites and now when pretty much all search engines introduced AI summaries...makes searching a painful exper
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What drained me of power over the past years is this constant fight of debullshitting the Internet experience for me and others.
You always have to use an AdBlocker, VPNs to circumvent all sort of censorship - and for that matter change the location often else you still get blocked; find proper news sources then find their RSS, add to an RSS reader, try to read locally if these websites allow you to....else go visit their bullshit websites.
Youtube is still by far the biggest, or the only in most cases, video platform. Now even with an adblocker the youtube experience sucks - they autoplay videos, insert shorts into your face, make you click things you don't want, and now insert AI generated video description for videos.. So you have to use an app for youtube that removes these piles of poop. But these apps are constantly blocked and won't work all of the time...
I don't even want to think about search which has become a pile of nonsense. Full of fake AI websites and now when pretty much all search engines introduced AI summaries...makes searching a painful experience.
Even Reddit, which can still feel like a "community" of people posting stuff from time to time, is a garbage. Full of fake posts and bots, and no way you can use RSS to follow subreddits. Login to see some content....endless scroll....all a bazaar.
I have to fight with "free" Wordpress plugins that insert ads into your dashboard, I have to block AI Summaries in searches, I have to keep Freetube up to date and often when videos do not work there, open in Youtube. I have to read my news in a semi-broken RSS reader since some cannot fetch all of the news, I have to install a custom OS on my phone then block ads there too, but now some banking apps do not work....a constant loop of poop, to protect yourself and your sanity, because everyone is there to fucking slice you open for a view, a click, a like...
Always always a fight against this destruction of the internet even tho all I fucking want is to read some reliable science news, watch some educational videos from time to time, and post some content or search for content. What the actual fuck....
I know why this is: TRADE. Same reason why the offline world is a shithole full of destruction, garbage, less nature, all about consuming and shops. This is what happens when humans have a primary goal of trading. Same online, these platforms are about trading, your attention, data, currency in return for a service. So it is a normal "enshitification" of the online too.
At least I have Friendica, Peertube, Nextcloud, Linux (TROMjaro) and the like, that allow me to still use the Internet in a sane way.
But man...such a shithole the Internet has become. I can't even imagine how "normal" people use it without adblockers, with relying on youtube, facebook, tiktok and such platforms....must be hell in the brain for these people.
I used to LOVE the Internet back in the days. It was like a park where you met interesting things and people. Now is like a metrostation full of ads and merchants, where everyone is in a rush to go somewhere else.
Exactly my feeling these days with the modern internet. I was updating my adblocker recently and had to disable it for a moment and then I forgot to re-enable it back and oh my fucking god.. I had to witness what the modern internet looks like without constanly blocking the shit flow of pop-ups, ads, banners and ai chat windows, fucking hell. I totally agree, I dunno how people use it these days without blocking anything, total disaster. I would be pissed off after a minute of using that shit.
There's this "joke" website to mock on the "modern internet experience" that for long time I giggled about: how-i-experience-web-today.com… but we went even waaay beyond that already I think 😵💫
I noticed people who watch youtube and have ads playing. I was shocked by the fact that they simply have accepted that. I would throw my phone into the bin if that was the case. Ads after ads after ads.
What a fucking shitshow the internet has become....but I am not surprised at all, I was sure it will become like this. If the incentive is to trade, then profit, data collection, restricted content and more ads are a normal practice...
as a regular user, my experience is better. I don't "fight" that much, but use alternatives. And install alternatives for others.
Some examples how I do it differently: - Adblocker (never used) -> Brave browser - RSS reader -> Inoreader (paid service) - Censorship -> I have not experienced it somehow - Wordpress -> Drupal (a truly open source, clean without ads, non commercial experience, but has no templates YET, so it was very time and knowledge intensive to build websites with, but things are changing, and they are creating a 'template marketplace', it means commercializing 💰 a little bit, more info inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WNEyg3U… (starts from 14:25), but it is reducing time needed to build a website. You may find some interesting things in this talk. What they are showing in this talk, is all new for me as well, despite me using Drupal since forever. They are completely reimagining how Drupal worked, or copying wordpress (and
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as a regular user, my experience is better. I don't "fight" that much, but use alternatives. And install alternatives for others.
Some examples how I do it differently: - Adblocker (never used) -> Brave browser - RSS reader -> Inoreader (paid service) - Censorship -> I have not experienced it somehow - Wordpress -> Drupal (a truly open source, clean without ads, non commercial experience, but has no templates YET, so it was very time and knowledge intensive to build websites with, but things are changing, and they are creating a 'template marketplace', it means commercializing 💰 a little bit, more info inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WNEyg3U… (starts from 14:25), but it is reducing time needed to build a website. You may find some interesting things in this talk. What they are showing in this talk, is all new for me as well, despite me using Drupal since forever. They are completely reimagining how Drupal worked, or copying wordpress (and everyone's else) success a little bit. Yea, in the end Drupal is (or was, or still is) very clean, no adware, paywalls or premiums. - Youtube -> I ~haven't opened Youtube in many years, but yes, it increasingly and ever more aggressively blocks alternatives. Alternatives as of now still work.
P.S. "Censorship -> I have not experienced it somehow" Remembered few exceptions. Once I opened facebook (usually I never use it) and wrote a post about dangers of AI and it immediately disappeared, so I thought facebook was censoring it (and there are endless news stories about big tech censoring alternatives: facebook deleting info about linux or pixelfed, or x censoring info about signal or mastodon etc.). So yea, I had some little experience with big tech and immediately they censored.
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I used Drupal in the past. Yes could be a good alternative to WP. As for Brave as far as I know they insert trackers and are also adding other AI-like features and bloat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(w…
Watch party fans: avoid disruption from ads in streaming films by using
FIREFOX + UBLOCK ORIGIN
for practically everything (YouTube, Tubi, Prime, Plex, Fawesome, Mometu etc)
FREETUBE
for YouTube on Linux, Mac or Windows
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I read a lot about 21st century science but a lot happened in the 20th century in science (oh wow how much happened) and Jacques Fresco left a list of books about things I can't find in popular books and in scientific articles so I decided to use AI to my advantage I downloaded for example the book (i find in this list: frescofoundation.org/library) Engineers Dreams of Ley Willy or Flatow, Ira - They All Laughed (Excellent book on the story and the important details about the greatest inventions in history) form annas-archive.org I converted it to a TXT file (about 800kb) I uploaded it to the artificial intelligence service I use (Lumo) and asked it to summarize each chapter for me and then instead of reading a 150-page book (which scares away 99% of people), you read an web like article that summarizes the book for you and if one chapter is very interesting to you, you can request an extension on that chapter from Lump or go to a PDF file and read the 8-page chapter for example. I want t... Show more...
I read a lot about 21st century science but a lot happened in the 20th century in science (oh wow how much happened) and Jacques Fresco left a list of books about things I can't find in popular books and in scientific articles so I decided to use AI to my advantage I downloaded for example the book (i find in this list: frescofoundation.org/library) Engineers Dreams of Ley Willy or Flatow, Ira - They All Laughed (Excellent book on the story and the important details about the greatest inventions in history) form annas-archive.org I converted it to a TXT file (about 800kb) I uploaded it to the artificial intelligence service I use (Lumo) and asked it to summarize each chapter for me and then instead of reading a 150-page book (which scares away 99% of people), you read an web like article that summarizes the book for you and if one chapter is very interesting to you, you can request an extension on that chapter from Lump or go to a PDF file and read the 8-page chapter for example. I want to say something about Venus Project... im not tvp fraek Venus Project is nothing and nothing to me, the only thing that interests me is Jacques Fresco's mind. This man is like a vacuum cleaner of interesting knowledge he influenced by so many great scientists that this scientists life work is good science information that is worth going through. On my tablet you will find books like the best american science and nature writing 2024, Radicalized - Cory Doctorow, EUV Lithography BY Vivek Bakshi ect... The point is that finding relevant information is very difficult, you have to delve into the depths of the internet and databases to find relevant information. Artificial intelligence maybe good at finding relevant information if Feed him with a lot of text.
I wont tryst an LLM to make a summary of a book honestly... Yes these LLMs can find you some good materials, but is up to you to read/watch them, dont let these LLMs summarize for you content...I would hate if my books were red like that by people to be honest, since they are made the way they are to construct a point...a summary by an AI is, in my view, a bad idea.
Yeah this whole situation is very relatable, I always try to find new ways to block ads and get rid of these BS as much as possible. But now I feel like soon I'll also have to fight my own devices and OS just to install the apps I want to, now that Google is planning to drop support for 3rd party app stores like f-droid - this shit is honestly insane and I'm sure will kill many adblockers and 3rd party YouTube apps which block ads, along with a bunch of good FOSS projects.....
I use Brave (sue me), but also Youtube Enhancer, which gives back a lot of control, uBlock Origin, and a nifty Youtube extension called 'Remove Youtube Suggestions'. Apart from the odd lockup, I never see anything except the videos I choose any more. It's making me think I should pay for an account, but $11 is too much. $3 maybe.
#HomeAssistant, instead all defined in 
#nix / #NixOS, this is neat! 😲
Erwin
in reply to Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he) • • •when something breaks (and that rarely happens), it is an invitation to learn how the system works.
In a lot of distro's, things are so abstracted that 'an error has occurred' doesn't have an organic first step to start debugging.
And when debugging is difficult, its because I didn't read the news, like last week when my unsigned binary builds stopped working :')
John Poole
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