lambalicious

@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Terms of Use / Terms of Service are different from Licenses. That said, even if it was compatible that would be a good thing, as the impression I’ve got is that the “hard-liner” Free Software licenses are becoming a thing of the past now that what is needed is “Ethical Source” licenses, that eg.: restrict usage in AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Converser.eu is being flooded⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, from that perspective, sure. But if the main concern is lack of storage, SSDs currently are of no help with that compared to HDDs (let alone with production being shifted over to serve AIs and datacenters).

  Perhaps a dual SSD solution, but still would have to be planned with the potential outcome of either upgrading one of the SSDs or add a third one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any decent native client (Pidgin, Conversations, Gajim, etc) will cover most of the important stuff, so it might be worth checking who among those might be willing (+ people contributing) to track development after Movim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  20 GOTO 10

  (I used to have one of those until 2015, when it broke down. Never ever found a replacement. By that point it was yellow, not white-gray lol)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Converser.eu is being flooded⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing a dual disk setup (SSD for the OS, HDD with lots of room for service data) wasn’t an option then? If there’s any nook for such a deal I’d get my cat ready to snatch. It’s sad to hear that this situation hits their instance in the current internet contingency of all things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No digital service will allow you to pay only once

  Ahem.

  I’m a SDF user, so I am living proof that there exist digital services that will allow you to pay only once. Heck, they gave me a whole shell session and web space as well as other few goodies (that I’m far too lazy to use I’m afraid). And all I had to do was to fax them some money once and never ever have to think about it again.

  If digital services won’t give you an option to pay once and instead force you into the rent seeking grift, it’s a skill issue on their end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Core memory unlocked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Making big companies pony up is always good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you build an interface on top of it to look exactly like discord with all of it’s functions?

  In theory yes, and Movim is movim’ in that direction (yeah I invented that pun, blame me). That’s part of the trick with XMPP, it’s quite extensible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s already talking to that machine of his that censors his drunken ramblings with cute little asterisks. I wonder what does that do to someone’s psyque tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there’s a lot of stuff like that. If moving a page requires updating the history of every page that links to it, that’s a whole mess that’s much easier to handle when your wiki is a database.

  Heck, it’s even worse. What happens if you move a page that has translations (with the Translate plugin) pages associated to it? Translated pages are not necessarily linked to each other, and even if they were, the semantics of trying to move each one can cause issues.

  In the end, IMO, it’s not worth the effort to automatize. Just use something like implement “move” as “make a copy and leave a redirect behind”… which IIRC MediaWiki also does, and leave manual operators to decide what to do with the moved-from redirects after the fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello world!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  DokuWiki

  The table syntax at least is miles better [than MediaWiki]

  For simple tables or for calculation tables, yes. It’s relatively close to Markdown, even.

  Unfortunately it does not play nicely with any sort of advanced syntax on table cells themselves, such as lists inside tables. For that, I prefer the MediaWiki syntax even if it’s ugly (a DW plugin called exttab3 provides near 1:1 MW table syntax).

  Some stuff like tags and moving pages have to be achieved via plugins. Seriously you can’t even rename a page?

  IMO it’s one of its strengths, and you can do most stuff with plugins. You can even render your pages as web slides with one plugin, and in fact I used to use DW as my “PowerPoint” for quickie presentations for over a decade.

  All that said, there are DW “bundles” that incorporate some good and cool things together from the get-go. Anything that incorporates the Include, Indexmenu and Wrap plugins should be golden for getting started.

  As for moving, I’ve asked around for a couple of years (more like 8) and seen how things have changed (or not), and it turns out it’s half a consequence of documents being plain text files (there had to be some sort of disadvantage to that!). While it might (actually, is) possible to just move a file, there is no cheap, simple and fast way to also update all links that point to that page across the wiki, as those might be not normal links or even be dynamically generated by plugins. So most implementers are at the philosophical stage of “what even is a ‘move’?” ATM.

  I hear there are improvements with some plugins that advance some of the work, but I haven’t tested myself. Don’t need to, since I just use the Page Redirect plugin if I want to mark stuff as “moved”.

  Mutilates article titles. Makes everything lowercase and replaces non alphanumeric chars with underscores (or something else configurable)

  Mutilates file names and mutilates article titles, separately.

  The former is one of the PITAs in the design I feel. There are good, stable patches that allow uppercase filenames in the filesystem (as well as Unicode and even emojis) bu no core config option to enable them. I get the why (it’s very useful for making sure article and section IDs are unique) but, like, still. It’s 2026, I can name my second video card like the poop emoji and my system won’t complain.

  The latter is a configurable option actually. Just set the “use heading” preference to “always” and articles will always be titled the way the first heading available does it (so, technically, the same behaviour as MediaWiki).

  Disclaimer

  I’ve used MediaWiki for 6 years and DokuWiki for [*checks notes*] about 18.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fake journalists not even bothering to google that XMPP exists #10496839485.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let us all hope Servo does not go down the same path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, it still has some good things and in theory since this is FOSS someone could just, like, fork it and remove the whole shadow cabal moderation thingy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes piefed is known to exact CCP-style hidden moderation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Storyden: A forum for the modern age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

  It’s not so much about wholly removing webgl contrasted to at least having some sort of fallback that allows the site to be experienced, but thanks again for at least tackling the change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wafrn.net admins on age verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, forgot to account for that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wafrn.net admins on age verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to remember an instance somewhere had a quite great idea, they would have their admin team request a bottle of wine or similar plus a picture of the payment voucher as a form of adult identification. Their argument was that if someone can legally buy drinks then they are legally adult, and thus they could verify with that without ever requiring any sort of PII.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck if I know, but at least we know of the ones who are (eg.: feddit.org are “good German soldiers”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been on the public fediverse eye enough that I don’t need to do your homework for you, but just look for mentions to piefed in this same sub. One of the exemplary things that was found was that you can’t eg.: “upload a picture that contains the word ‘anonymous’” and that Piefed lies to you about why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that’s absolutely understandable. The more with how bloated interfaces tend to be these days.

  Just mind, you have to consider what does it mean for your instance to be open enough to serve you everything in one account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the situation in Gaza is actually different than the situation in Nazi Germany

  Last I checked, the genocidal state of Israel is actually using weapons to vaporize Palestinians, thus leaving not even a trace of a war crime. Would you like to amend your statement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “By their actions you shall recognize them” and all that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You know you can just have multiple accounts on multiple instances, right? That gets you just about as full a view on the Fediverse as you might want. Heck, the only reason I’m not doing it is because I’m lazy.

  Also, whining about db0 then moving to the instance that literally implements CCP politics and shadow profiling and comes from a dev known to have had a chip against heteronormativity and weirdness (if not against neurodivergence) is… not the win you think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooh the irony!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s literally the best and fairest way to deal with that kind of stuff here. No risky permissivity, no manhunts / withchunts, no putting the onus on other people. db0 as an instance is weird for a lot of thigs, but honestly, compared to the rest of the world, not on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mastodon age verification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, they are basically announcing that they are

  forming a committee

  to figure out

  how to talk about

  how to understand the stuff?

  …Honestly, it could have been a lot worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure why not, avoid them all you want.

  Just sayin’, we don’t need no stinkin’ tiktok style censorship around here.