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lambalicious

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I write English / Escribo en Español.

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lambalicious ,

lol, Wayland can’t even start a desktop session on my machine, whereas X11 has worked without issues since 2009 (the last time I ever had to edit xorg.conf).

Sure sounds like X11 is the one who’s “dead” around here!

Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative

I first joined Lemmy back during the big Reddit exodus of last year. I like many others wanted an alternative to Reddit, and I thought that this might’ve been the one. I made two accounts, one on lemmy.world and another on sh.itjust.works, in the June of last year that I used on and off for about 4 months....

lambalicious ,

Not to mention everything community about cats!

lambalicious ,

alias run0=sudo

(not really; I’d rather not introduce an alias or any sort of symbolic behaviour that would teach me to expect that systemd crap is available on a system. The less you rely on it, the better)

lambalicious ,

It’s likely that system only has the base Latin-1 font set for some weird reason? Or a misconfigured fontserver (or equivalent in Windows). My understanding is that the text “sail the high seas” uses glyphs in both the Latin D group and the phonetic extensions groups (feel free to correct me!), so pretty much any Unicode-aware font since 2010, FOSS or otherwise, would render this correctly.

I personally recommend the Liberation font set, although it’s free software so you can’t really pirate it.

lambalicious ,

Leading with the hard questions, I see!

(I honestly wouldn’t know how to answer the question. I guess in order to pirate it, you’d have to fetch a copy from someone who broke the license terms and is thus not authorized to distribute it, but that kinda turns into a Catch-22)

lambalicious ,

Yeah I just checked Atkinson Hyperlegible and, at least the version I can access (the one on Github) lacks entire Latin and compatible character ranges, as well as having a substantially limited math symbols set (only two greek letters show, for example).

The weird thing is, if I understand how fonts correctly, that shouldn’t have been an issue. The font doesn’t register those missing characters, so your browser should have known to fallback to a default typeface for the missing characters. It’d be weird if you have none of the many compatible fonts (not even, say, Times New Roman).

I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that. (programming.dev)

Imagine your friend that does not know anything about linux, don’t you think this would make them not install the firefox flatpak and potentially think that linux is unsafe?...

lambalicious ,

To be fair, the fact that browsers are allowed to do so much that this warning has to be shown is more an indictment on the current state of browsers (which at this point are almost like installing VMWare and a virtual machine on your computer!) than on something something Firefox or something something Flatpak.

lambalicious ,

I ask for some method that prevents the file to even be copied through a disk clone

Oh that’s quite simple! Just don’t have the files on the first disk in the first place. Make them a remote mount from a server, for example via sshfs, webdav, etc. Heck, even ftp if it comes down to it. That way, even though you can clone the disks, you can not get to the files if you don’t also have the full authentication requirements for the remote server (such as a password).

At a conceptual level, you can’t do anything via root to prevent someone who clones the disk from… well, cloning the disk. Having physical access to a disk is a much higher level of access than even root, so if what you are looking for is for your content to not be cloned, you need to fortify physical access to the device.

lambalicious ,

if you want voice well, then idk what to say

Mumble!

lambalicious OP ,

SQL uses it but yeah, not programming language :p.

I was on mobile so I didn’t have a .XCompose available to type ≠.

lambalicious OP ,

1.1.1.1? :p

lambalicious OP ,

That’s what they thought for IPv4… and for 2-year digits… and for…

lambalicious OP ,

Boy do we like it!

lambalicious OP ,

IPv6 is unfortunately not six bytes, no. For some weird, ass-backwards reason.

lambalicious OP ,

128 bits basically gives one ip4 address space to each square meter of earth.

That sounds like terminal stage capitalism to me. Why would we want every tree in the Amazons to be cybergorized with its own IP? I don’t know Rick, 64 kbits bits ought to be enough for everybody, and I’m already risking it.

lambalicious OP ,

I felt dirty!

“Senpai, route me like one of your French ISPs”

lambalicious OP ,

Not a big deal. We’re projected to run out of years by 2000 and then the world will end.

lambalicious OP ,

64-bit IPv5

64-bit IP would be IPv8, not IPv5.

lambalicious OP ,

I’ve taken to using .here (or .aqui, “here” in Español, much harder to match outside) as alternatives until something better comes up.

Ideally I’d use .aquí, correctly with the diacritic, but DNS doesn’t seem to support even the basics of Unicode in 2024.

lambalicious OP ,

And don’t get me started on TLS certificates in local networks…

I hate this and the fact that modern platforms seem to require TLS even if you’re serving localhost, so much.

lambalicious OP ,

Yeah I’ve heard about punycode. Personally, I’m well against it because it puts down non-MURRICAN English domain names as second-class citizens on the internet. If I have a website about Copiapó, a perfectly legal town, there’s no good reason why the domain name should not be copiapó.cl rather than copiap-xcwhngoingohi4oleleiyho42yt4ptg4ht4.cl, making it look “suspect” and “malware-y”.

There were quite some complains back in the time about Firefox choosing not to “flag” internationalized names as potentially dangerous, and pretty much all those complaints that I know of likely came from English speakers who simply can’t understand other countries in the world even can have different alphabets.

"Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy [...] The software is downright frustrating to work with" - Can any other instance admins relate to this?

After a year online the free speech-focused instance ‘Burggit’ is shutting down. Among other motivations, the admins point to grievances with the Lemmy software as one of the main reasons for shutting down the instance. In a first post asking about migrating to Sharkey, one of the admins states:...

lambalicious ,

I’m not sure it’s that difficult to follow. If you offer a service in the EU, you are responsible for your server deleting personal data (or, even better, not even hosting it in the fist place!); you are not responsible for other people not deleting their copy of personal data.

But I’m not that well-informed in the actual legalese so my best understanding is the big issue is the EU’s definition of “provide service to the EU” more than anything else. They seem to think that just because your users might upload a local copy of a picture of someone from the EU, even if you yourself are not allowing connections from the EU, then you are serving to the EU. And with how nazi the EU has been going lately with stuff like ChatControl, the last thing I’d want as an instance owner is to be upheld to arbitrary boomers’ (lack of) understanding of technology.

lambalicious ,

Just to make sure: you tried with CUPS / gutenprint both with the Generic PCL and the Generic Postscript drivers? A fair portion of “unsupported” printers I’ve seen usually accept at least one of them, in particular if the printer also supports “discoverable printing” (eg.: sending to the printer from a phone).

lambalicious ,

Not sure exactly what files do you have but at least on my system:

  • ppd files can be found in /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters if you want them grabbe dby Cups.
  • icc profile files can be found in an adequate directory within /usr/share/color/icc. Which directory I guess depends on what and who is managing those files.
  • paper definition files (size, margins, etc) go into /usr/share/gutenprint in a directory within usually with the name papers (note the plural).

Now, all this gets me is where to place the files. I wouldn’t know exactly how to register to eg.: Cups that those files are there other than using Cups’s own web interface to add drivers.

lambalicious ,

Hahaha now if only Firefox was federated instead of CEO-managed… 🤔

lambalicious ,

Matrix? For sure you mean XMPP/Jabber. Matrix is a slut metadata-wise.

lambalicious ,

Grandmas can easily install Cookie Clicker and Angry Bird and DownloadMoreRam and anything else they find on the internet with quite an ease. Are you telling me the average internet person is noticeably less capable than a grandma?

lambalicious ,

People can complain, but the Fediverse is built to make consuming user’s data easy

Correction: it is built to make consuming users’s data not easy, but more human.

WHat you are thinking of is AP, not “Fediverse”, and even then that’s a stretch.

lambalicious ,

That’s right; they’ve always been documented to be DMs, not PMs.

But because of the discordbabies people confuse both.

lambalicious ,

Genocide “Not a Felon” Joe finds out being pro genocide, not-a-felon, are not enough to get votes. Oh if there was something he could do about that.

lambalicious ,

The fun thing is that, C++ being C++, this is actually an std::overflow_error…

lambalicious ,

Has too much lemmy.world. Downvoted.

(Half kidding. I hope it’s obvious which half.)

lambalicious ,

Yeah this is post 65534 on how lemmy.ml is bad, centralizing on lemmy.world is best. Two more and we’ll get a nice round number!

lambalicious ,

This is potterdung’s ultimate plan.

lambalicious ,

crypto based

well, there goes my interest.

lambalicious ,

Correct me if I’m wrong:

I live in a timeline where time travel has not yet been invented. Even if someone invents it in the future and travels to the past to the party, that’d create an alternate timeline where the party is attended and civilization leaps bounds ahead in glorious post-scarcity, magical socialism fashion.

But nooooo since the timeline was forked at that point, no matter how many people do, in fact, attend the party, I’m stuck in the “strand” of the timeline when no one ever did because time travel has not been invented.

lambalicious ,

First I ever hear of the Paycheck method honestly, at least under that name. Reminds me of a short story about the government keeping a secret “chronoscope” machine and the efforts of the MC to democratize that knowledge.

lambalicious ,

I mean, that for the most part makes sense. Although in that case, wouldn’t it have been reported that “no one attended the party but the food and the snacks were somehow missing”?

That said. Unsure how exactly it went but I read somewhere that if you had the power of True Invisibility, that is being undetectable at any wavelength of light, then you’d basically be able to simulate negative mass, and from there to “time travel” it’s kind of a straight line.

lambalicious ,

Damn rules of thermodynamics!

you can’t win

you can’t tie

you can’t quit the game

lambalicious ,

It’s worth something to this me! Who so far is the Prime Me!

Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites - Digiday (digiday.com)

The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.

lambalicious ,

The money comes from the companies that are hiring them to do the journalist work. Of course.

Let’s be intellectually honest here. If a company has enough money that the boss can brand themself as “CEO” then it can pay at least living wages.

The countries with the most Fediverse servers are rich and former/current colonial powers. One of the best true barometers of the success of the Fediverse is how quickly we can turn that on its head. (sopuli.xyz)

In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...

lambalicious ,

small, less mature countries have shit for internet resources.

Isn’t US internet memetically bad (in particular the rural one) compared to a “shit country” like Chile, one of the ones the US got paid to sabotage with military dictatorships?

lambalicious ,

It would make sense to require a company to release the code for players to host their own servers, which has been done by many games in the past. Not to continue to run it themselves.

That counts as “working state”, assuming the published code is reasonable to operate (it must be FOSS, or at least permit open modification and distribution; and it must run in a server with specs that’s reasonable to have at the time of game publication)

lambalicious ,

Oh great now we’ll have DRM in Mesa. Linux is turning into Windows! /s

lambalicious ,

Word! The whole snafu with co_routines has been quite the laughable show. It would have been trivially sortable if C++ did something like what PHP did, using a symbol to absolutely disambiguate what is a variable and what is not. That way eg.: await is a keyword, $await is a variable (perhaps a functor).

To make it even better, $ is already unused in C++!

maegul , (edited ) to fediverse
@maegul@hachyderm.io avatar

The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a substitute and that’s a problem?

Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the .

That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.

Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?

@fediverse

lambalicious ,

Forget federated stackoverflow, give me federated Gardening.StackExchange!

lambalicious ,

To be fair it’s 2024 and I’m still doing this, because adding an alternate location to install flatpaks in results in Flatseal not being able to detect those apps or edit those permissions. Just setting the default location as a symlink to where I want to magically fixes everything.

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