Nobody ever does. All AI demos are just: look at this mountain of generated text.

• No checks if the mountain is correct
• No checks if the mountain is a maintainable design
• No checks if the mountain was even needed AT ALL

Whoa. There are actually consequences? ArsTechnica is actually sorry??

Cool!

but if simple is what you want then a Synology DS225+ should get you up n running quickly

Ah, I forgot to mention I’m already running my own Debian server. Ideally, I wouldn’t have to buy another device just for online file management.

Which part of the seafile install was it that made you back off?

There’s proxies behind proxies behind proxies that proxy to proxies so you can proxy while you proxy.

I managed to install half of it, but then some of the many servers you need to install didn’t end up talking with each other. I tried studying the architecture for a bit, but still couldn’t figure out which server’s request I needed to rewrite in order for the other server to see it.

Yeah, people like to think that bleeding edge means “untested”. As if your OS was directly receiving the dev’s git push…

you can’t truly use Signal’s new “username” feature. If any of the recipients have your number stored in their phonebook, irrespective of whether you know them or not, the username goes for a toss.

Hm. I haven’t interacted with a new Signal user in a while… but I do see in settings two knobs: “who can see my phone number” and “who can find me with my phone number”. Both of these settings can be set to “nobody”.

I’m guessing if I set “who can find me with my phone number” to “nobody”, then even if someone has my phone number in their contacts, they wouldn’t know I’m a Signal user?

SeaFile shat the bed and I just could be bothered to fix it. It’s deployment is a mess

OMG. YES! I tried to install Seafile in my environment, but I gave up after a few days. I got it partially running, but some requests weren’t making it past the 100th proxy for some reason. idk.

How would you pick a successor?

Would it really be worse to let a flawed bastard take over, versus deleting everyone and all their content?

A flawed bastard might be a government. Given that the US is in full fascist mode, I personally would consider deleting everyone’s content the fast, easy, and secure option. Although, not necessarily the best option for the community.

Transferring it to someone else isn’t that simple. I mean, I guess it can be if you’re willing to hand it over to some random stranger with zero vetting… and then hope they don’t do anything malicious.

Ideally, you’d want to hand it over to someone trustworthy. That takes work.

I’ll never understand why someone would go through the trouble of starting an instance and then tolerate nonsense on the instance that they (again) literally own.

Totally guessing here, but I think this comes from wanting to be fair and open about content.

Everyone always complains about censorship, eco chambers, and freedom of speech. So I could see someone being very tolerant and allowing lots of content on their server.

Users also harass moderators and post about them on yepowertrippinmods, so allowing shit probably saves them some harassment.

It seems to take a specific type of person to be able to run a server. They can’t be too nice. They have to have a clear line in the sand.

I sometimes (maybe more than sometimes) 2nd guess myself. “Am I being too sensitive?” “Did they really mean it like that?” “Was I too harsh?”

Honestly, I’m kinda looking at Fedora a little more now. I’ve been using Arch for the longest, but I tried Fedora once for the first time recently and was surprised. It’s got a lot of polish and is very close to my Arch setup anyway.

Ideally, I wanted to do Fedora Silverblue + guix package manager, but apparently that’s not totally supported. So maybe regular Fedora + guix or I’ll just stick with Arch + guix.

Oh my boy…you are in for a treat!

keeps reading to discover the name of the show

I see others have already linked this exact video, but this is part of a series. There’s like 4 seasons of this. I cannot think of a single bad episode.

Come on! Get to the name of the show!

Also, that’s Tiny Tina with the dildo. And the guy dressed like Ghandi is the writer of Borderlands 2. Also, they’re real life brother and sister.

Where’s the name of the show? I was promised a treat! 😭

Yeah, you can make payments with MobileCoin. 🤮

Luckily, Signal does give you the option to completely ignore it. I only see it mentioned in the settings and I have not enabled it.

Same with stories, you can enable/disable them. Although, if I want to convince my normies friends to look at Signal using stories probably helps that. 🤷

Amazon is a hard one to find an alternative to. Mostly what I try to do now is buy directly from the brand. But they don’t always have their own website.

Other times I can find the item locally. I’ll buy it even if it costs a little more.

Also, sometimes the item is only available at Amazon or Home Depot online, for example. In that case, I’ll pick Home Depot cuz they’re a slightly smaller megacorp.

As a very last resort, I’ll will begrudgingly buy from Amazon. Like if the item is only on Amazon or if the item is significantly cheaper there…

But, fuck Amazon Prime! That’s a total scam. I canceled that years ago and never looked back.

Oooh! They made Peertube?!

Unfortunately, Google and Apple have crippled PWAs. Surprise, surprise. They don’t get the attention, features, or bug fixes native apps get.

But also, a lot of apps are just views into websites anyway. So I bet a lot of apps could just be PWAs.

The main hurdle is getting people to install the PWAs instead of apps. It’s a different install flow.

Sweet, thanks!

😬 Personally, I don’t like dark themes. I have poor eye sight and dark themes always make the text look blurry to me.

Is it possible to change the theme at the individual level?

However, color inversion makes it harder to read for others. If this happens to you, eye dilation may be the culprit.

When you look at dark text on a light background, your pupils constrict to provide sharper visual acuity. Your pupils dilate when the background changes from white to black or darker colors.

Eye dilation is a normal response to low light conditions, but it makes it harder to focus on text. People with astigmatism might have a tough time reading in night mode.

https://www.visioncenter.org/blog/dark-mode-eye-health/

TIL: jamón en portugués es «presunto»

I would have read it as: jamón, presunto? supuesto? tal vez? quién sabe.

Hmmm… looks like this isn’t 100% supported… I also found this: https://1729.org.uk/posts/guix-container-toolbox/

Where the user runs guix in a container.