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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 ,

Aren’t they powered by the sheer spite they generate at hearing the loudspeaker?

lambalicious ,

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

lambalicious ,

Many Rust shills seem to have some rust in their brain…

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++!

lambalicious ,

Storm in a teacup, as tends to be the norm on the internet.

Not only this is nothing new and nothing unexpected to happen in Sid of all places, but it’s also something that helps bring keepassxc more in line with packaging guidelines on Debian. They already have lots of packages, both of the mutually-exclusive kind and of the complementary kind, with “foo-full”, “foo-minimal”, “foo-data” etc naming. p7zip and nginx of all things are quite interesting examples.

Plus, the author of the post sensationalizes the title to brigade the issue.

All that said:

  • If the maintainer wishes to do this, “only” having two packages is a half-assed measure and that causes more issues in the long term. I’d expect three packages: keepassxc-minimal, keepassxc-full and the retained name keepassxc as a virtual package name.
  • Furthermore, a direct upgrade path should go from (previous) keepassxc to (proposed) keepassxc-full.
  • I don’t know enough of KeePassXC to know if something like keepassxc-data would be needed. Are there potential cases where one would want to switch between “-full” and “-minimal” or viceversa without the system seeing a software uninstallation in the meantime?
  • The “crap” rationale is definitively something we all can do without, but given how people tend to brigade developers who try to do things, I can completely understand and support raising shields and looking defensive because some damage is already going to be done.
  • Most responses are right in that the right place to discuss this is in the opened Debian bug report. The entire point is to see Debian (not KeepassXC) handle this before things get to Next Stable.
lambalicious ,

And no, it wasn’t just the favicons feature that was removed (which like … is that really such a big privacy issue that you need to remove it from the binary?)

Fetching a favicon means raising a network connection with a predictable endpoint. That’s already three concerns (four on the modern internet) to handle security-wise, and it’s absolutely an unneeded feature. Favicons could just be shipped on something like keepassxc-data or keepassxc-contrib to handle locally, no need to raise a network call.

lambalicious ,

People who are looking to start a SE alternative but start with the idea of importing the original SE data dumps are already Doing It Wrong. Much of the issue that has led to the desire to fork SE comes due to the license of the posts and content, which lacks the NC (NonCommercial) component of Creative Commons. Without that component, any attempt to make a Fediverse alternative just ends up in Yet Another Endpoint that can be freely siphoned for data by corporations, for AIs, etc.

lambalicious ,

See here’s the thing: Creative Commons is not an exclusionary license. If I want to make commercial use of something that has a CC-NC license, I explicitly can ask the author for a secondary license limited to the usage and scope that I need. The important thing here is that the author still retains control, as well as a data point of who is profiting from their stuff and how.

lambalicious ,

Like, who wants that?

Have you literally missed out on the fact that the protest is happening? The protest is certainly not because SO answers are bad.

lambalicious ,

They already have it.

I said alternative to SO. As in, likely, a place to post new content (answers, comments). Nothing can really be done with the content OAI already got their hands on other than firing off a few well-placed EMP bombs.

lambalicious ,

Because to import old content, you have to respect the old license (or get every contributor of back-then to relicense). That would mean having a site with contents under differing licenses depending on date, which is something the corpos can use as an excuse to continue siphoning everything without consequence.

I’m fine with a mirror / archive of SO. But it shoudl very definitively be a different thing than an active SO alternative, and their users and data storages should be also different.

lambalicious ,

10th time

only now threatens jail time

Correct me but any pregraduate law student who hasn’t been skipping on their classes could get rich by filing for the obvious bias the judges have to allow 10 contempts of court, wouldn’t they?

lambalicious ,

So, if I am understanding correctly, as a citizen I can threaten a judge 9 times, or threaten 9 different judges, and demand that I can only be held accountable for only one of them, or for all of them as a package only once?

lambalicious ,

Feel free to explain then, because from here it looks like El Trumpo should have been thrown to jail 8 contempts ago, like any normal citizen. Right now if I was a US citizen I would be justified in citing precedent that I can’t be sent to jail or even threatened with jail time with only 6 contempts.

Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) (snikket.org)

For self-hosting though, the project I work on - Snikket - uses XMPP but has all the nice modern things you’d expect ready to go right out of the box, more like a Matrix (Synapse/Element) setup. Probably the biggest thing missing for Snikket right now is an official web app (we currently have Android and iOS apps)....

lambalicious ,

While I like it conceptually, the two times I tried to install it I felt it was far too opinionated for me to get it to work correctly, like other software “bundles” of its kind that want to take control of the entire process of setting up ports, networking, storage, certificates etc…, instead of just hanging down from stuff that I have already prepared for it (like my own domain with my own cert).

Like, as a piece of software it’s something I’d absolutely use… if someone else sets everything up for me.

lambalicious ,

You can, but honestly no idea how to handle stuff like the certs from that point on. Most other software on docker lets me eg.: just bind-mount the host’s directory with the certs I want to use - or just not even know about SSL in the first place and just let me reverse-proxy the access in (like, say, a simple static page web server).

But, like I said, the last times I tried to get into it, it tried its darnest to get in my way. If that’s changed since then, that’d be great.

lambalicious ,

Hmmm maybe that’s the one that tries to do everything on its own instead of using the stuff I’ve already set up. Had similar issues with eg.: Nextcloud.

I’ve been looking for an alternative “the actual XMPP service only, nothing else that can be sourced by the host” container setup but there doesn’t seem to be any.

lambalicious ,

Because I left Windows precisely to avoid the kind of shittery that systemd is doing.

It’s absolutely no coincidence that the people who have developed the stuff that’s brought the most degradation to Linux - systemd, PulseAudio, Gnome’s “user has no right to themes” attitude - all come from a Microsoft background or explicitly work for Microsoft.

I’d have far less of a problem if systemd was split into more practical, actually independent things that actually worked and distros didn’t buy their snake oil so easily. But for the time being, to me, the systemd experience is pretty much like the PulseAudio experience, what with the whole “waiting 120 seconds for a network interface to activate that it’s not going to because it’s the damn ethernet port and I’m on the road so the cable is not connected, stupid letter-potter dipshit”.

lambalicious ,

Protip: Theres no need to defederate from Threads if you never started federating with them in the first place. We know exactly who they are.

lambalicious ,

When you receive a takedown / DMCA / whatever legal mumbo-jumbo applies to your jurisdiction, you have two choices:


<span style="color:#323232;">Comply immediately
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Fight it in court
</span>

You actually have a third option: file a DMCA Counternotice. If my reading is correct, the very act of filing the counternotice allows you to keep the content up unless the original filer “insists” (it’s the mechanism against “DMCA trolling”). DMCAis not a jail-free card to erase content from the internet.

lambalicious ,

Could be, but still it reeks of overreaction. Without the need of seeing anything else, it’s almost impossible that Germany’s law is that strict that “linking to (discussion of) pirated material” would be off, since if that was the case Google would be making Germany rich with their fines, which doesn’t seem to be the case. It’s even worse when it comes down to saying “discussing or mentioning” internet piracy would be illegal - under the way copyright holders themselves understand it, this would mean mentioning the market of secondhand sales would be illegal in such jurisdictions.

lambalicious ,

So, you want people to miss out on cat pictures because your feelings were hurt?

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lambalicious ,

Any metric that ultimately depends on frequency and variety of posts is going to bury niche communities more or less by design.

Dunno what we need, honesdly, but I would venture that one thing that could help would be like, for exxample, StackOverflow’s “Unanswered” view, where you can check which topics have not garnered conversation attention. It would probably have to be tuned so that it specifically ignores 0-comment posts that are also links, because those tend to be reposts, news or stuff like that that’s easy to spam.

lambalicious ,

The laws aren’t toothless, otherwise everyone would be abusing them,

Have you heard of such small indie developers such as Google, Amazon or Facebook?

lambalicious ,

You said it yourself: Millions. Not Billions.

For these companies, paying such a mundane fine is just the business cost of being able to do whatever they want. The execs figuratively (and perhaps literally too) piss out a fine payment every morning before reading the newspaper company whatsapp account.

lambalicious ,

To be fair, this is a bug that could be the end of lemmy.

Then the reporter should have acted like it was, indeed, that important. Like, putting money or a PR into it.

Just “someone, sometime, somewhere, might sue” does not suffice to fix things. Just like with physical products in the real world, if someone, somewhere, sometime, might sue, then you designate money, time and staff into your project to pre-corect the things to minimize the chance of that happening, or to buy whatever auditing / maintenance needed to check for issues.

And, correctly enough, the devs are not saying “we won’t fix this”. They are saying, “fix this requires people to pour $X time and $y money into it. Care to chime in?”

Unfortunately, the world of free software users is full of “couch coaches”.

lambalicious ,

Pixelfed has started attaching licenses to content, but I think we might need more sophisticated, machine-readable licenses.

What, exactly, is unsophisticated / un-machine-readable about

This post licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

?

lambalicious ,

And went too overboard with it, which is what tends to cause the usual responses to such changes in TOS. A better, more specific wording would have costed only $0.4/hour to pay to for their lawyer. Heck, I can do it almost for free:

When you upload your content you give us a limited, revocable, non-transferable license to distribute the content with its current license on your behalf.

lambalicious ,

xscreensaver is the gold standard for screensavers on Linux, even if the dev is a bit salty that people actually use his software on computers they want to control, and technically speaking the program is nagware, you just won’t (mostly) get to see the nags if you are getting it from your distro’s active repos.

lambalicious ,

From the perspective of looking at the internet of today, the future is 1996.

Change my mind.

lambalicious ,

Doesn’t seem to be working on latest Firefox ESR (or, according to the error message, on the web server backend they use)?:


<span style="color:#323232;">Error
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The following features required to run Godot projects on the Web are missing:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Cross Origin Isolation - Check web server configuration (send correct headers)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SharedArrayBuffer - Check web server configuration (send correct headers)
</span>
lambalicious ,

So basically you are looking for a Linux distro without an open source license? And probably without a license at all…?

lambalicious ,

The Bible is very clear

Yeah I’m always reminded of this piece www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CPjWd4MUXs .

lambalicious ,

Escusé moi your angloparlance, we call it Luna.

lambalicious ,

renaming the Earth, or the Moon

I’d be totally up with renaming out Tierra and Luna to something that is not eurocentric. Would be a nice change of pace against how much of immediate astronomy is caught up in remixes of Greek and Latin.

lambalicious ,

implying with Google Maps you’d know

lambalicious ,

Literally obligatory reference

lambalicious ,

If we’re allowed to - and happily do - copy over content from for-profit websites with bots, it feels a bit weird to then get angry about that happening in reverse, no?

Not at all. It’s a matter of asynchronous power play.

We can do the former as a fight against power, but we have to fight for it. When they do it to us, it’s “just business” and we have no defense.

lambalicious ,

The problem is that no browser can allow you to escape the horror that is web standards & practices that have been developed over decades […] practically the entire web is reliant on JavaScript, […]

I’ve been saying it for a while: continuing to play catch is a losing move for Mozilla or for any independent browser maker.

The real move, is to switch to or at least integrate an alternate internet, something that uses a protocol that is simpler and more limited by design - just get rid of Javascript (or of “remote execution”, really) and you instantly get a much leaner, much securer internet design.

I’ve heard pretty good things about the Gemini protocol, but IMHO they went too far too extremist into the “text internet” philosophy, and as a result is a raw downgrade from Gopher. Gopher could actually be a good option.

lambalicious ,

Perhaps we should take the clue and - if we also see clues of Mozilla enshittifying - switch globally to an easier internet that’s also easier to program for. Something like Gemini (the post-Gopher thingy, not Google’s latest fad) for example, where I take it maintaining a browser is nowhere near the same order of magnitude as complex.

lambalicious ,

FIRST

Fam, the Teslas have been manslaughtering around for a while.

lambalicious ,

No, it turns off to disregard legal blame. Everything that the autopilot is turning itself off for right before a crash, is something that not only can be done with the autopilot on, but the autopilot can do faster, safer and better than a human. For as much as counts at that point.

lambalicious ,

Since you(r team) already have the Ubuntu experience, the obvious and senseful migration path is Debian. Stable plus docker/podman covers for most of what’s needed plus cover for the “bUt thIS paCKaGe iS 2 weEkS olD!!!1” crew.

lambalicious ,

For a catchy name you could also point that by seceding they can be come the “United States of Systemic Racism”. That very nicely initializes to USSR.

lambalicious ,

“¡Los Mexicanos construiremos el muro, y Estados Unidos va a pagarlo!”

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