lambalicious
@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s 2026. We’ve more than accepted that the people who simp for capitalism are the problem.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The trick is starting a community, but delegating moderation to someone else. Admin ≠ Mod.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
We’ve always been ready. Ready for the drama. 🍿
- Comment on Gryt-Chat: Like Discord but Self Hosted 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t trust it, why use it? It’s still slop in the end, just somewhat less slopified.
Consider: either you are smarter than the tool you use, in which case it doesn’t really offer anything much, or you are dumber than the tool you use, in which case you wouldn’t be qualified to judge its results anyway.
- Comment on am i taking crazy pills? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on am i taking crazy pills? 2 weeks ago:
Any means to check on progress? I’m interested in seeing if it’ll catch up on a weekly thread I usually participate on before the week of the thread ends.
- Comment on am i taking crazy pills? 2 weeks ago:
More.
- Comment on am i taking crazy pills? 2 weeks ago:
The second one or the third one?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Fortunately, here we are in charge of our blocks (for the most part).
- Comment on Atproto is getting an ietf working group 3 weeks ago:
Unsure about the IETF and WHATWG, but if at all, they’ll be better than the W3C. The W3C was, and still is, a group co-opted by GAFAM to essentially make the web as hard as possible to implement so that only big corpo can “do it correctly”, and they brought us wondrful features such as literally DRM in the HTML Standard.
To this day the W3C is one of the big reason the internet doesn’t progress.
- Comment on Pluralistic: The online community trilemma 4 weeks ago:
This, worded in far more technical terms than I had understood back at the time, is one of the reasons why I’ve always opposed the idea of “merging” communities in the Fediverse. Merging views is fine, but merging the communities themselves and all that this means (focus, themes, memberships, rules, censorships, timezones…) is just Not.
- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 4 weeks ago:
Congrats guys! We did it!
Thanks for joining in!
Seriously, enough was going on with the project that the AI was just the final nail (or the deepest nail) in the coffin. What’s important is that we denounce AI where we see it, as this (and not “usage”) is the only non-violent way we have to try and lead a change in how AI is developed and deployed in the first place. The problem is not simply “someone can use AI in their spare time”, it’s what even has to happen as a prerequisite for that to even be a thing in the first place (code theft, mass license violation, environmental destruction, RAM shortages, erosion of civil and digital rights, exemptions for big corpo, you name it).
We should all feel ashamed that an open source project was shuttered because of how our community acted.
Open Source means the source is open, not that you can do whatever ass-unethical thing you want. That weird impression of the world is something that techbros, cryptobros and liberals are trying to push. Don’t be fooled. We defended ourselves, and we managed a tie.
- Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) 4 weeks ago:
That’s precisely why they have to be resisted and/or we have to look for alternatives that Do One Thing Well. Among many other issues, the networking effect issue with EverythingApps is quite double-faceted in that, because they do everything, their “weight” not only acts as gilded cages to prevent people from leaving, but also to prevent developers, working on their spare time, from developing something that can be reasonably understood as an “alternative” (because the alternative has to also Do Everything).
It’s basically playing a loser game to lose, see eg.: Mozilla always at best playing catch-up to Google, or why we can’t seem to move from BloatedWebWithReact to something like Gopher (or even make a proper Gopher 2.0).
All that said, I feel like XMPP and Matterbridge are approaching this from the right perspective. Just implement a global communication protocol and leave to platform makers (or platform users) the task of bridging from and to whatever directions they want.
- Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) 4 weeks ago:
Hmmmm voice chat eh?
Well then it’s time to recommend Mumble!
- Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) 4 weeks ago:
I hear Snikket makes it really easy to host XMPP (aka Jabber).
- Comment on Gryt-Chat: Like Discord but Self Hosted 4 weeks ago:
Bringing back a meme from the very early '00s (if not earlier), I’d say something like “Cloning Discord is my passion”.
- Comment on Gryt-Chat: Like Discord but Self Hosted 4 weeks ago:
It really looks like every programmer wannabe is trying to bumrush a Discord codeslop for free internet fame points these days!
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 4 weeks ago:
Even if the “has an optional AI assistant” was not a thing, the repo includes an AGENTS.md file, which is also listed in the criteria, and more than qualifies it as slopware.
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 4 weeks ago:
It might be, but for some people that might, understandably, be already bad enough, a line in the sand if you will.
I’m reminded of this statement about LLMs and the kind of people who use them in the first place. It’s an early indicator that quality (and sovereignty) of the software is going to go the incline down.
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 4 weeks ago:
Damn it!!! 😵
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 4 weeks ago:
Quick! Someone add it to Open Slopware!
- Comment on Lutris v0.5.21 and v0.5.22 arrive with Valve's Sniper runtime support and new game runners 5 weeks ago:
Reminder that Lutris is AI/slopware now, and the dev is proud of it.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 5 weeks ago:
You could, in the meantime, simply not upgrade to the version that uses AI.
Since, from what I’m seeing around, people are having issues looking for an alternative.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 5 weeks ago:
, but installing lemmy means supporting an authoritarian
Have you ever transported yourself in a Ford, or derived, vehicle?
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 5 weeks ago:
Piefed is known to incorporate CCP-style shadow profile and similar measures, such as “Social Credit”, so it’d be hilarious to complain about l.ml’s alignment to then migrate to piefed of all places.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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." 1 month 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 1 month 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.