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haui_lemmy

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Gifted Autistic Sysadmin, Anti-Corporate activist

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haui_lemmy ,

To be fair I did have a decent run in with some mods on .ml as well and I am not a fan of their practices.

I do however think the public shaming and calling for boycott is so wrong its not even funny. We‘re still talking about the people who made this here possible. Especially the derogatory use of the word „tankie“ is unacceptable imo.

I‘d prefer if people started debates and tried to find common ground instead. For the reason of decentralization I would like less popular „versions“ of the communities to thrive.

haui_lemmy ,

Please dont use lemmy.world alternatives. World is a much bigger problem in terms of centralization.

haui_lemmy ,

I‘m glad that the fediverse resists excessive moderation and silencing of unwanted political opinions. I‘m not a fan of some of the things said or done on .ml but we wont do anything which is awesome. You can make your own instance and defederate, ban, block whoever you like.

To make my point clear, I made a large donation to the lemmy devs as I think they are doing awesome work. @dessalines especially is a tremendous help for the open source community.

But of course you‘re entitled to your opinion. Have a good day.

haui_lemmy ,
  1. how will you prove they’re not „real people“?
  2. you‘re using a platform made by them
  3. the post itself is also propaganda since it pushes for a „solution“ against „tankies“.
haui_lemmy ,

*by the standards set by our corporate overlords

The „laws“ that predatory, autocratic, overpowered nation states veiled as „companies“ push down our legal system are not the will of the people, nor are they based on „justice, fairness and equality“ as stated here so they are not laws.

haui_lemmy ,

I‘d refrain from posting it openly as it may be monitored by valve if credentials of accounts surface somewhere. A bit far fetched but I‘d just make the first person who answers a specific post or whatever.

haui_lemmy ,

Very funny

haui_lemmy ,

Whatever you problem is mate, its not anything I‘m interested in hearing. Good bye.

haui_lemmy ,

Because they’re the bad guys. Companies the size of nation states are an abomination that should never have existed in the first place.

haui_lemmy ,

Lemmy, although in a very well working state, isnt really deploy ready. The update procedure is a mess, the documentation is less than stellar and accessibility/onboarding for wannabe admins is rough to say the least.

You can find a compose file on github and you will need to make a config file for the instance with your domain and all on it.

A one click install sure is doable but most people who are able to do this quickly are very busy or wont do it for free.

haui_lemmy ,

Great! Glad it worked out for you. The second time I deployed lemmy on a production machine it was markedly easier because I have a known working compose and lemmy.hjson file so thats one part. I think the first install/config took me days of tinkering.

At the moment, I cant see if I‘ll havre the time to ever make a cone click install script but I‘ll think about it.

Good luck with your instance.

haui_lemmy OP ,

I know but thanks. the data on this is rather old so I thought if I can get the prices from the game directly I could write something that changes with the game if an update messes up the prices.

haui_lemmy ,

Everything is more complex as youtube because youtube has spent billions to make you get sucked in and make it easy to stay on the page.

Peertube is foss software and needs to be improved by a small number of paid devs and normal people like you and me.

You dont make a peertube account just like a youtube or google account. You can use mastodon for that and also subscribe to channels that way. It needs better documentation though. Feel free to ask if you need further assistance.

haui_lemmy ,

I unsubscribed from kbin for that exact reason a bit earlier. I‘m sad the platform is suffering and the person taking care of it is overwhelmed.

It does show the fundamental flaw of foss software. People should really donate even small amounts to these platforms so they can afford more dev time.

I feel like this needs to be addressed soon in general, not only in this case.

haui_lemmy ,

I agree 100%. Still, I dont think most people will donate until they have to and this will lock those out who cant and drive those away who rather sell their privacy. Maybe lemmy (and other foss) should go full wikipedia mode and have banners all over the place until you donate even a dollar. I donate 1$ a week (not the only project I donate to either).

Then, on the other hand countries should have programmes to fund this kind of stuff and it should just happen by user count.

What do you think would be a viable option?

haui_lemmy ,

Thats exactly what I do. A couple of friends use my vps and it has many fediverse services running with 99% uptime.

They throw some dollars my way and I kick a share to the devs and other software that runs this place. I‘m also putting in hours to improve the software and coming up with ideas how to distribute the money better.

What we need is better organization. People need to know about this, talk about it and make plans together imo.

How easy is it to switch back to windows?

I’m considering switching to linux but I’m not a computer savvy person, so I wanted to have the option to switch back to windows if unforeseen complications (I only have 1 pc). Is it just a download on usb and install? And what ways can I get the product key or “cleaner” debloated versions.

haui_lemmy ,

You dont even install. You download, write to usb and try linux.

Give it a good hour or more, trying to do a couple basic things like browsing the web, using some apps.

If you find yourself liking the experience, hit install and go dual boot. You can then decide on every boot if you need windows or linux today.

In case you feel like getting rid of windows, you can just disable the item in the boot menu (tutorials online) i guess.

So as you see, there are many failsafes which you can use to not get stuck without a computer that you understand.

Have a good one.

haui_lemmy ,

Uhm… you do realize that dual booting is step two in what I said right?

haui_lemmy ,

Someone takes out tchncs.de and your account and my alt are gone. My main account will still be there. „Decentralized“ by nature but if people flock together in good old manner they will break the system.

haui_lemmy ,

I enjoyed reading this. I came over from reddit when they started banning people for protesting. That showed me that reddit was not what I thought it is.

I‘m a techy person. I run servers for friends and customers, partly with fediverse services on them. Lemmy being one of them. I donate both time and money to lemmy and other services I enjoy and use.

The fediverse is a great thing imo. I hope it succeeds.

haui_lemmy ,

I really enjoy how his videos get recycled already. He‘s pretty unique both in the fediverse, on youtube and in the linux sphere as he makes high quality content, is knowledeable in linux and cares about r2r and open source.

Thats like 3 jackpots in a row. This guy is as underrated as one can imagine.

haui_lemmy ,

Thanks for the elaborate answer. I can see all of your points as far as I‘m knowledgeable in them. The red had details are a bit out of my sphere but the rest I can grasp.

I have not seen his views concerning the stock market but in general I agree that the system is broken and rigged and ideally, we should get rid of it since it perverts all the efforts of hard working people to serve those with the most money and least empathy.

But besides this, I do think we need high quality (production) content in the fediverse as to both boost its popularity and make it easy to stay off youtube for those very hooked on regular talking heads in their lives.

Linus was dead to me when he „took“ the production sample and auctioned it off. Everything after that is not my concern.

But channels like gamersnexus, jayz2cents, networkchuck, jeffgeerling and co provide fun pastime with some tech input. If they decided to mirror on peertube I‘d probably support them.

Have a good one.

haui_lemmy ,

I really feel like I‘m visiting two dimensions on lemmy. I really like firefox and I use it daily with no complaints whatsoever. But the amount of people saying „it has only gotten worse recently“ seems to be the same crowd for the last 3 years. Its always on its way down, it gets all his revenue from google bla bla bla. I know thats an issue, using chrome is not the answer.

haui_lemmy ,

if you want to use it to judge someones knowledge and ability to use documentation, I‘d ask if they have installed arch, by hand, at least once. Calling using automation cheating is assuming they mean „by hand“ which probably isnt fair.

haui_lemmy ,

I might just visit your post and comment history instead of curating my own feed by now. :) best takes

haui_lemmy ,

Opinion: Not if that community advertises itself to know/care about open source. Using a proprietary, privacy unfriendly service which uses predatory marketing to get people to spend money on bs stuff and arbitrarily paywall functionalities is both anti open source and anti people. Its enabling those companies. One could maybe argue for a strict bridge which only server to connect those who resist foss platforms.

haui_lemmy ,

Exactly :)

haui_lemmy ,

So far you‘re doing pretty well in my book. Most comments I read with spot on takes happen to have your name on it.

Nobody’s perfect though. I get it. :)

i struggle to understand the downvotes though. Maybe I worded it strange?

haui_lemmy ,

Thanks. Good to hear one person gets it. Maybe its because I have answered so many of your comments that you were able to see the joke and others thought I was trying to nag at you for some perceived behavioral code violation or whatever. In any case. Please go on being awesome. Love reading your comments.

haui_lemmy ,

You too! :))

haui_lemmy ,

My wife recently asked me if I‘d ever move to the UK. Fuck no!

haui_lemmy ,

I‘d really like to be able to sue them at the ICC for abusing the human right to not be surveiled at all times.

haui_lemmy ,

I think they meant for five minutes because if you won, you won right?

haui_lemmy ,

I would not suggest the „average person“ who statistically can only install with „click through“ and extensive description and may require a hotline if things go south to selfhost anything.

Ideally, they should pay a friend or a local small business for hosting for them.

If a person is able to constructively work through bugs and make bug reports and read a lot, yes, they could attempt selfhosting imo. But they should be aware that it is going to be work and its not going to go smooth 100% of the time.

haui_lemmy ,

I agree on principle but paying someone would do wonders for the state of self hosting - assuming that the people paid would foward parts to the software devs and help improve the software since they can afford to spend time with the software. Second point is that attempting self hosting only makes sense if someone is actually willing to learn and put time in.

haui_lemmy ,

I‘m attempting to do exactly that for my local community atm. Most people are still reluctant though.

haui_lemmy ,

I‘m self employed in IT and host a couple services for people. Small, local business.

My experience so far is that few outside of IT understand why big tech isnt a viable option and even fewer are willing to accept that imperfection when it comes to services that have a proprietary option.

Obviously its pretty early in the game so I guess this will get better and I‘m also not complaining, just stating that peeps need more time and education on this matter.

haui_lemmy ,

If a company makes millions (let alone billions) while all but the top 1-5% of their artists have to fight for scraps, piracy is the only good option. Dont buy from billion dollar companies at all. Support artists individually and let labels rot.

haui_lemmy ,

Most lemmy servers now have application processes and check for IPs being the same to prevent attacks afaik. When I helped delete spam posts the large majority was from fringe lemmy servers, none from the big ones.

You can still open up one accound on every server but it takes so much time that it makes no sense imo.

haui_lemmy ,

The interesting bit for me is that if you ask a rando some programming questions they will be 99% wrong on average I think.

Stack overflow still makes more sense though.

haui_lemmy ,

Of course, the voice of reason. :)

haui_lemmy ,

As I pointed out, I’m using it because MS is screwing the pooch with those issues.

Fair enough

These are known issues, and have been around for more than a decade. They’re not bugs, they’re missing basic features.

Then make a fork and or PR. i‘m only around two years and I make the stuff I need.

But sure, go ahead and assume stuff.

As a human does since your small text can never have full information needed to know everything. For the sake of discussing things I have to either ask and widen the scope of the discussion or I assume where it seems appropriate and you correct me if I‘m wrong. Sorry if that is new to you.

It’s probably closer to renting a apartment vs owning a shack (or it was, before said screwing of said pooch). You can upgrade it into a mansion if you want, but that’s not where you start.

If thats your opinion I‘d like to own a „shack“ because in germany, where I live, the houses even need maintenance and repairs if you buy them.

haui_lemmy ,

I‘m a tech myself and I know this discussion from 100 times this has occured.

  1. someone complaining about something openly instead of using the proper channels
  2. someone suggesting they use the proper channels
  3. they denying that its an issue they can help fix but a general failing of the software/vendor (typical proprietary software-user behavior)
  4. person trying to help pointing out that this is not helpful behavior
  5. person complaining getting defensive and falling for a logical fallacy instead of seeing their mistake.

But yeah, good luck mate.

haui_lemmy ,

I can see your point and appreciate you elaborating.

You do see that you went there, right?

“I have so-and-so issue” “Fork the OS and fix it yourself!”

haui_lemmy ,

Sad, we were almost aligning here. Now we will just have to disagree here.

I will make this exact recommendation to everyone in every situation because the end user mentality is making us speedrun our planet to shit. People need to take responsibility for their own stuff instead of letting corporations control them. This obviously means they need to relearn that an error is not a sign of bad code/software but something that can happen. The perfectionism this world is succumbing to is a cancer that will kill us all.

But good luck anyway.

haui_lemmy ,

I appreciate you elaborating on this. Let me try and explain this:

Imo you’re on point with the house metaphor. People dont have the skills to redesign and repair their house.

Thats why they pay people to do it. They get a carpenter to fix their floor, a painter to fresh up the outside walls, an electrician to fix that damn outlet thats acting up. Some house owners have to forgo vacations because they need repairs done this season. They also spread out repairs and live with a broken thing in between.

And the same works for software. I dont mind fixing something in your software, as long as you pay me. Part of the problem is that companies made people believe that everything can be perfect and free. Its like Odysseus going insane by the song of the mermaids. Its a trap. Real software isnt perfect.

Next point is people cant controbute:

People can always contribute. Not everyone can code but they can press the report button and try to be concise in describing the problem, they can help translating, they can help packaging if they know their way around files and much more. The issue is that its uncomfortable to do something while we are used to getting paid for most things and also are used to get perfect proprietary software.

Again, thanks for answering and have a good one.

haui_lemmy ,

Hahaha. Yeah, exactly. Right after I suggested everyone work at mcdonalds. Whatever it is you’re taking, its either too much or not enough.

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