There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

kbin.life

razorwiregoatlick , to asklemmy in How do I pronounce "Kamala"?
@razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.world avatar

Comma-la

EngineerGaming , to selfhosted in Trying to figure out the best way to set up a self hosted matrix server.
@EngineerGaming@feddit.nl avatar

I prefer Conduit instead of Synapse - it is lighter on resources.

ludicolo OP ,

How would I go about using conduit instead of synapse for matrix?

908musdf ,

Here is the Conduit Docker deployment guide.

famedly.gitlab.io/conduit/deploying/docker.html

I started with the Docker Compose file they provide, and “translated” it into Podman rootless containers for my server. Even with adding the extra work, it was pretty painless.

EngineerGaming ,
@EngineerGaming@feddit.nl avatar

Weird, conduit.rs links an entirely different Gitlab page - gitlab.com/famedly/conduit, with the docs being at docs.conduit.rs/deploying/docker.html

908musdf ,

Hmm, docs.conduit.rs appears to be an alias for famedly.gitlab.io. I copied the link from the intro in the README.md file in the GiLab repository.

farcaller ,

I’ll second conduit. You can tune up its caching, reducing the ram usage significantly. It does become a bit painful to sync the mobile clients, but at least it’s not gigabytes of ram wasted.

iamak , to cybersecurity in Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning!

How do I upskill myself to be able to do bug bounties? I have participated in many CTF competitions but I don’t know how well that skillset will transfer to bug bounties and if yes how to transfer it

shellsharks OP ,
@shellsharks@infosec.pub avatar

Not a bug bounty hunter myself, but it seems like one of those things that you just have to jump into and start trying to do. So many bounties seem to be pretty low-hanging fruit type of stuff. The payouts might be either LOW or non-paid, just recognition type stuff, but seeing an accepted bounty submission come back does a lot for your confidence. It’s like CTFs in a way. Getting into CTFs seems intimidating at first, but then when you go actually do one and you have some level of success, it starts to feel a bit more approachable, you get more XP and you do better the next time.

You could also check this out www.bugbountyhunter.com/zseano/ and anything/everything from portswigger.net as that team is the best I know in terms of cutting-edge web app research.

iamak ,

Thanks a lot. I’ll check both the sources as well!

JimmyBigSausage , to asklemmy in What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?

The anti-Americanism. We are not all the same.

krolden ,
@krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

You’re just not paying attention

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s more anti-America than anti-American.

Cryophilia ,

Still, dogmatism in any form is a plague. Pro Americanism, anti Americanism, whatever. Ignoring facts to suit your chosen narrative is gross.

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

Who says people are ignoring facts in order to have a strong stance?

Cryophilia ,

Me? Just now?

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

Why do you believe people who have a strong stance must be ignoring facts to have a strong stance?

Cryophilia ,

Straw man. Or misunderstanding.

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

You admitted it, that’s why I am asking.

Cryophilia ,

You declared a causality that I did not intend to imply.

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

Still, dogmatism in any form is a plague. Pro Americanism, anti Americanism, whatever. Ignoring facts to suit your chosen narrative is gross.

You are directly implying that pro-americanism and anti-americanism are dogmatism, and that these stances necessarily ignore facts to suit their chosen narrative.

You can elaborate what you meant here.

Even if you did not intend on implying this, you did introduce the concept of dogmatism to a conversation surrounding how Lemmy generally leans anti-America, inserting on your hand an implication that this is due to dogmatism. You’re accusing the average Lemmy user of dogmatism by association, simply for holding an anti-America stance.

Cryophilia ,

That’s what I meant by causality. Pro-americanism and anti-americanism are not inherently dogmatic. It’s just that the anti-american sentiments I see on lemmy are usually dogmatic. It’s an observational theorem, not a derived one.

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

So it’s a vibe you personally feel, and wished to interject unrelated, got it.

Bongles ,

How is it not related?

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

“Anti-Americanism is bad” -> “It’s not really Anti-American, it’s Anti-America” -> “Dogmatism and belief in something while ignoring countering facts is bad”

It’s an assertion of dogmatism on the Anti-America crowd with no real frame of reference.

Cryophilia ,

More of an accusation than an assertion.

0stre4m ,

You guys just had a war criminals cheered by the congress ofc I’m anti-american.

I wish we could filter their ridiculous lemmy.world-level takes. They are fucking annoying.

Ferk , to gaming in Grand Strategy games?
@Ferk@lemmy.ml avatar

If you are into open source, give Remnants of the precursors a try, it’s a modern spiritual successor of the oldie Master of Orion.

TheBat , to linux_gaming in Latest Verge article about their review of Asus ROG Ally X (and this is why gamers are preferring Steam Deck)
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Ordered mine. Unfortunately Steam doesn’t sell those officially here. Had to order through third party seller and pay more than what muricans pay while earning less. 😭

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

at least you don’t live in the states. i’d trade you if i could (and throw in a free steam deck)

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think you’d want to swap

India isn’t something you’d be able to handle

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

I dunno if you’d want to swap either, friend. Honestly though, even if you’re right, i would enjoy finding out i didn’t like it anyway. I already know i hate it here, that will not change.

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Have you considered escaping to Canada? 🤔

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

well i don’t much like the way their political wind’s blowing to be frank. it’s like our political pollution got carried up to the 'nucks just like the rest of the pollution we unfortunately pump north.

THAT said i have briefly looked into it. The only reason Canada might take me is because of my tradeskill as an electrician, but there are significant roadblocks even so.

onlinepersona , to piracy in I used to love Android but I want to move, and I don't know if it's the right thing.

iOS is probably the most locked down option you can pick. The EU even told Malus to open it up and Malus tried to fuck around. Now they might be in for some monetary justice, but that might take a year or two. Emulation was even only recently allowed, but only of old shit like Windows XP.

Android is still the most open, mainstream, phone OS out there. Get yourself a phone that can run a ROM like LineageOS, eOS, FairPhone or (if you want to give Google more money for surveillance) a Pixel to put GrapheneOS on it (easy process, you just need a browser and USB-C cable). That’ll get you more freedom to keep the phone alive longer and optionally become more private (if you can learn to live without Google).

To save money, you don’t even need to buy a new one. Get a refurbished phone. They are often 100-200€ cheaper than new phones and are sometimes as good as new.

iOS will lock you in, give you less options, and cost you loads to boot.

Anti Commercial-AI license

jeffreyosborne , to piracy in I used to love Android but I want to move, and I don't know if it's the right thing.

read the megathread. rentry.co/megathread

Mobilism is a source for pirated ios apps, but it’s quite limited. I agree with the people mentioning pihole, but if you have to block ads on-device change the dns settings and/or use brave browser, which has the most adblock capabilities on iOS. Altstore is an alternative appstore (AltStore PAL in europe costs 1,50 a year in europe iirc) which has alot of cool apps and allows sideloading of ipa files on-device. I generally do recommend a pixel with grapheneOS, though I haven’t tried it myself yet.

Edit: Forgot to mention some of the downsides of AltStore, which includes needing to refresh the app once a week wirelessly or wired via a computer running Altserver

MagicShel , to asklemmy in What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?

Hot and Active feeds pull in a lot of things that are up to 2 days old, but by 12-24 hours at the most, nearly all conversation is done. It’s not nearly as rewarding to interact with posts on those feeds when so few people are even looking at them.

If everyone saw the same feeds, that might be something because maybe the conversation would continue, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case due to federation.

dessalines ,

Its been a focus of mine to try to make lemmy’s comment sorting the opposite of the reddit experience, where the highest rated comment is nearly always just the first one, making all engagement after those first few minutes pointless.

The active sort does a good job of bumping new activity on older posts (limited to 2 days) back to the top. There’s also a New Comments sort that doesn’t have that 2-day limit (making it basically a forum sort), but I don’t know how many people use it.

Not sure what else we could do tho, the main problem is probably just the smaller number of users. Which needs to be tackled by convincing reddit communities and their mods to move them over to some lemmy instance.

More on lemmy’s ranking algorithm here..

MagicShel ,

This is a great comment, thank you. Very good links.

Do you know how federation affects the sorts? I assume, based on my longer experience with Mastodon, that the All feed is actually just all of the posts that have been federated to my instance i.e. someone on my instance is subscribed to that community. So any communities no one on my server is subscribed to are invisible regardless of sort.

That implies the All feed is unique to each server, and therefore all of the sorts are also unique. Which would mean for at least a certain percentage of posts, they might be in your hot or active feeds, even though no one is really interacting with them much any more.

What do you think? Maybe it doesn’t work as much like Mastodon as I think, but since it’s all the same fediverse it feels like a logical assumption.

dessalines ,

Put simply, the sorting / ranking is based on the score and the time published, so as long as things are getting federated within a few seconds, then federated posts / comments are no different from local ones. Mastodon only sorts things by newest AFAIK.

That implies the All feed is unique to each server, and therefore all of the sorts are also unique. Which would mean for at least a certain percentage of posts, they might be in your hot or active feeds, even though no one is really interacting with them much any more.

Should only be an issue if your server blocks other ones.

MagicShel ,

So is the All feed actually all communities and not just ones federated to your instance by virtue of someone on the instance subscribing? That was really the crux of my question.

dessalines ,

Ah, this is completely different and has nothing to do with sorting. All means the latter, IE communities connected to your instance, that your instance knows about. Lemmy doesn’t crawl anything, federated communities need to get subscribed to first, then posts can start coming in for them.

MagicShel ,

Yes but also no. Because if the contents of All are unique to each server, that has some implications for which posts appear in the various sorts, right? Maybe I’m overthinking and the effect is minute, but I feel like in at least some cases it would mean less active posts could squeeze out more active posts.

dessalines ,

Its best to just think of them as separate to keep it clear. Sorting affects all posts (federated or not) in the same way.

MagicShel ,

Alright. I appreciate the conversation. I feel like I’m not getting my point across, but that’s cool. I’m not going to keep bugging you. Thanks again!

fubarx ,

Could there be a one-click way to automatically ‘import’ a Reddit subreddit over to a Lemmy community? Meaning, create it, import the sidebars, welcomes, rules, graphics, etc. so it looks familiar to regular users. If not, at least a step-by-step tutorial on how mods could do it.

Another option would be to provide something like a crossposting Chrome or Firefox extension that lets people simultaneously post content to both Reddit and Lemmy. Give them a smooth transition path.

Lastly, the Bluesky concept of ‘pluggable algorithms’ is one way to make it so users can choose whatever sort works best for their interests.

dessalines ,

There are a few import tools written to import historical posts, which is the main difficulty. Copying and pasting a sidebar markdown, re-uploading images would take a max of like 10 minutes.

fubarx ,

I intentionally kept historical imports out, since Reddit is blocking APIs under the guise of limiting AI scraping.

My main point was setting up an easier way for low-tech mods to set up a parallel community, then nudge users to move over.

dessalines ,

Reddit’s mod interface isn’t an easy one to use, so they’d probably have an easier time over here. If they can click an upload image button, and copy paste, they should be okay.

Blaze ,

I agree with Dessalines that moving the sidebar takes 10 minutes.

Feel free to join !fedigrow if you want to discuss how to grow communities

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Its been a focus of mine to try to make lemmy’s comment sorting the opposite of the reddit experience, where the highest rated comment is nearly always just the first one, making all engagement after those first few minutes pointless.

I think your strategy for going the opposite than reddit works quite well when it comes to comments. However, I don’t think it fits so well with posts (not sure if the strategy/sorting for posts and comments use the same methods). Personally I don’t feel great seeing posts older than 24 hours, especially as I have probably already seen that post. It’ll just stick around for way too long.

dessalines ,

The Hot and Scaled sort shouldn’t be showing anything that old, try changing your default post sort to that for a bit.

Active will do what you’re saying tho, keep bumping things.

eldavi ,

Hot and Active feeds pull in a lot of things that are up to 2 days old, but by 12-24 hours at the most, nearly all conversation is done.

that’s why i’ve switched to “new”

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I prefer using the “scaled” feed rather than “active”. It’s like active, but boosts posts from smaller communities, and seems to usually surface newer content.

daisyKutter , to piracy in I used to love Android but I want to move, and I don't know if it's the right thing.
@daisyKutter@lemmy.ml avatar
  • For nsfw I use Quix but its shareware
  • For youtube I use Yattee
  • I don’t use reddit since some of us moved to lemmy
  • For gaming I use RetroArch
  • I don’t know how are things with sideloading
Seigest , to memes in Jeff's magic money machine
@Seigest@lemmy.ca avatar

Give it all away anyway. Screw that genie, wealth hoarding jerk. At worst he kills you and you leave a saintly legacy.

leopold ,

seems better to just spend the 100M like he wants and then just give the remaining 900M away.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

yeh, I do rather value my life. Got a bit attached to it once I came out of the womb.

Poots , to asklemmy in What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?

I would love to stop seeing posts in other languages pop up in my feed constantly - just some type of feature to help organize the languages of each instance a bit better.

Don’t be afraid to block instances if you would like to see less politics and doom scrolling. I listen to NPR and read my local news, so I don’t need to see all that here as well. I just want gratuitous memes and good convos about nothing important with internet strangers.

dessalines ,

There’s some language features in lemmy now, but honestly country/language based servers are probably the best way, probably using a helper like we’ve added here.

There are a lot of country-specific servers now: feddit.it, feddit.dk, jlai.lu, lemmy.eco.br, feddit.nl, etc.

Blaze ,

I would love to stop seeing posts in other languages pop up in my feed constantly - just some type of feature to help organize the languages of each instance a bit better.

Which language is it? You can kindly ask the mods to configure their communities to only allow their language, that should fix it

masterofn001 , to linuxmemes in Linux "Anti"-Piracy Screen

You wouldn’t download a Linux kernal…

Would you?

zelifcam , (edited ) to selfhosted in What self-hosted services can help during a crisis or emergency? This is for those affected OR those who want to help
@zelifcam@lemmy.world avatar

kiwix.org

What Is Kiwix?

Kiwix is a non-profit organization and a free and open-source software project dedicated to providing offline access to free educational content. The name “Kiwix” is a play on the word “Wiki” as it represented our initial goal of making Wikipedia accessible offline.

I found this for standing it up:

github.com/jonboiser/dockerized-kiwix-server

Peace OP ,

Excellent answer!

Does someone have a good guide? The guides I find are a few years old. I will relay this to them in the meantime

anzo ,

Endless OS had everything bundled

xapr ,

It still does? They have a version for people with internet access, and a version for people without, with a heavy dose of offline applications and information. You can also download more offline resources after you install it.

www.endlessos.org/os-direct-download

vegetaaaaaaa ,
@vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world avatar

Just download a copy of a recent wikipedia dump. You can open it in the Kiwix desktop application (work fine even on an old laptop), the android app (though I’ve never tried opening a full 100GB dump with a phone, not sure if it would work well), or install the kiwix-tool package and serve the .zim file with kiwix-serve (wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-serve). You’d also probably want a reverse proxy/usual basic web server/security setup around that.

thegreekgeek ,
@thegreekgeek@midwest.social avatar

So it’s like a LibraryBox with an Archiver?

vegetaaaaaaa ,
@vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world avatar

Second this, always have a device preloaded with Kiwix and one of the wikipedia dumps. A new vesrion is uploaded every few (~6 months). The full English wikipedia dump with images (low-res versions only though) is only 103GB.

BearOfaTime , to nostupidquestions in Can anyone help me find an online calculator that can calculate total the price of items I buy. (euro)

Gonna need more info, as what you’re asking for is simply a calculator.

Or a spreadsheet

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines