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Boiglenoight , to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter

Excellent use case.

HelixDab , to nonononoyes in On my finger tips

What's that machine intended to be used for?

I have been a machine operator. We were not allowed to wear gloves because of the risk of degloving accidents.

meurglys , to unixporn in [River] My current Void Linux setup

That’s a lovely River setup! I used Void for quite a while as a daily driver, and only recently, switched back to vanilla Arch to run Hyprland. I was wondering if you were able to get Hyprland compiled and working in Void?

JustineSmithies OP ,
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Thank you and tbh I haven’t attempted to run hyprland on void as I used to run it on arch as my daily. Since switching to void I haven’t really looked back and don’t feel the need for all the bells and whistles.

meurglys ,

Fair enough. Void is an excellent distribution. I quite like it a lot. For the longest time I was running spectrwm and herbstluftwm on it. But lately, I wanted to make the switch to Wayland, and projects that are current and actively maintained. Now that Wayland seems to be ‘maturing’, and gaining more attention, I decided to give Hyprland a whirl.

But to be honest, I kinda miss Void, so your post and dots on River have piqued my interest :-)

Thanks for making all the code available, to learn and study from.

Regards, Robert

RocksForBrains , to assholedesign in What the fuck. Program is Hyperbeam

They copied the color choices and style of Discord.

over_clox , to softwaregore in INSERT HAZARD alert for INSERT GEOGRAPHIC AREA residents!!!

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GamerBoy705 OP ,

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over_clox ,

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InfiniWheel ,

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TubeTalkerX , to pics in Wes Andersons Bench - Foz, Porto (OC)

Where’s Bill Murray?

ZombiFrancis , to retrogaming in The battlestation

Hi 2003.

JustinAngel , (edited ) to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter

Probably a poor decision to be creating accounts on government operated instances. Since they own the server, they’re in a position to:

  1. Siphon credentials and attempt reuse to gain access to distinct services
  2. Ban individual accounts
  3. Censor based on post content

I’m all for government support and adoption of open-source software so long as they’re not in the position to disrupt how it’s used by the public at large.

Edit (my perspective is relevant, but doesn’t apply in this case): My nerd impulses outran my willingness to read the link’s content. Seems it’s not for public registration.

Edit 2: Like my cornbread eating American ass can read Dutch anyway 🤣

TheWorstNL ,

This is going to be a private instance. No normal citizens can create an account.

It’s a response to Twitter shielding access to unregistered users. A lot of public services used Twitter to spread information.

JustinAngel ,

My mistake.

moitoi ,

And this is how all Governmental instances have to be, private. Mastodon is a great way to communicate for Government as they control it. They don’t rely on a company and can manage the servers.

8uurg ,

From the post of the account linked here (in Dutch): it is going to be a place for official government communication, not for individual government employees (and I presume, by extension, public registration in general)

JustinAngel ,

My mistake.

fkn ,

This is literally all instances… Nothing you do here should be considered private or be linked to your real information.

JustinAngel ,

Agreed, but we have to trust the instances we keep accounts on. Trust is subjective, but I certainly wouldn’t trust a government ran instance for anything other than an outlet for information originating from the owning government.

If I run a private instance or know the maintainer of another, then I can have greater confidence in the security/privacy implementations.

fkn ,

I would trust most government instances more than most of the private instances. Would I trust them not to harvest all of that info? Absolutely not. Would I trust them to not masquerade as me? Way more. Governments have way more to lose by being caught.

JustinAngel ,

I’ve spent quite a bit of time as a penetration tester and one of the first things we do once we recover credentials is check for validity against online accounts known to be good for a given user. We do that because it simulates attackers and government operators alike. It’s a guarantee that free credentials will be abused in one manner or another when they’re available to government entities.

The obvious control for this is to maintain a unique password for each account but that’s not always feasible for users due to myriad conditions.

fkn ,

I didn’t say they wouldn’t be abused. I said they wouldn’t be impersonated.

JustinAngel ,

Would I trust them to not masquerade as me?..

Masquerading is literally the term used for this.

fkn ,

Exactly? I’m confused. Did you not understand my position?

mojo ,

This is likely exclusively for the government departments or employees, not personal use

Obi , to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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Can I follow that from Lemmy?

mojo ,

Don’t think so, also not sure how Mastodon feeds work with Lemmy as they aren’t really upvoted/downvoted on. Though the opposite works where you can follow communities/accounts from Mastodon.

Daftman ,

Does that mean having a Mastodon account is better than having a lemmy account. (Cause one can follow the other but not the other way around…)

mojo ,

Pretty different experience, but if you prefer it that way you can. You can actually follow specific communities from Mastodon, but it’s not nearly as good of an experience. I just install both apps and have separate accounts for both.

WheeGeetheCat ,
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For me mastadon didn’t ‘stick’ but I was never a big twitter user. So I failed to jump from from the big social networks to mastadon because the experience was weird. I guess you can follow lemmy communties but I had no idea how to find them and it mostly looked like following other people like on twitter.

Whereas the UI and everything on lemmy is much more like what Im used to it (reddit) - so it ‘stuck’ for me.

I still have the mastadon account collecting dust and might go back over there now that I understand more, but as I prefer to follow subjects over people I dont feel like Im missing out

notenoughbutter ,

I saw someone post on Lemmy using their mastodon account

michaelkovacs98 ,
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Posting to lemmy through mastodon is a thing (hello there!), but yeah, I don’t think you can follow a mastodon account through lemmy unfortunately.

EDIT: I lied! Found the server admin I think at this link: https://lemmy.ml/u/[email protected] but I think they need to specifically post to a lemmy server in order to have posts show.

Bazzatron , to ukcasual in Cloud looks like the UK

Looks like the UK after all the devolved nations (and Kernow/Cornwall) leave England for being so fucking awful.

Glad Wales stuck around to help pay for HS2.

pensivepangolin , to pics in Wes Andersons Bench - Foz, Porto (OC)

I think it’s time somebody made a Lemmy version of AccidentallyWesAnderson!

MakunaHatata ,

Came here to say exactly that!

Bazzatron , to ukcasual in Has mince got insanely watery the last few years?

If it’s just water - keep it going, it’ll boil off. Add some fat back into the pan (if you get low fat) for the final bit of adding colour.

PenguinJuice , to pics in Wes Andersons Bench - Foz, Porto (OC)

It is not perfectly centered if you use the railing spindles as reference.

BeardyGrumps OP ,

I noticed that after taking it. Will have to take a trip back. :)

fujiwara , to retrogaming in The battlestation
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Very cool! Not enough Sega stuff though!

nyahlathotep , to retrogaming in The battlestation
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+1 for Yoshi’s Island

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