onlinepersona
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- Comment on PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare! 1 week ago:
“That’s stupid”. Great argument. “This content doesn’t exist on $platform ergo $platform is stupid”. “Be the change you want to see is stupid because it’s stupid!”.
Can’t wait for the content you’re going to contribute to peertube.
- Comment on PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare! 1 week ago:
Always ready to complain. All these things need to exist in order to gain traction. You need to have content and multiple ways to view it. Complaining that there’s an additional way to view it is just unnecessary negativity.
If you think there isn’t enough content, be the change you want to see: make it.
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 4 weeks ago:
I’d say the problem is education. Porn is only an issue because people do not get proper sex ed. The reaction to seeing a dick sucked in front of a child shouldn’t be shame, disgust, or terror but allowing the inquisitive mind to ask what is happening.
Sex is a completely normal occurrence that is the reason we are all here. There shouldn’t be any shame or stigma in explaining to a child (or any person for that matter) what it is, what it involves, why it is done, how to safely do it, what consent is, why it is stigmatised.
Want to protect children? Educate them.
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 4 weeks ago:
Hail TOR and I2P!
- Comment on Microsoft-Backed Builder.ai Set for Bankruptcy After Cash Seized 5 weeks ago:
Were these guys the OG vibe coders? It looks like they were allowing people to build mobile apps using AI since 2016!
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 weeks ago:
My problem isn’t the hardware, it’s that the place I’m moving to will have a bad internet connection. My current homeserver has stuff like a CI (currently being tested), a builder for software (compiling rust, C/C++, go, and whatever else), immich, nextcloud with an extension to download from youtube and other sources (basically to circumvent geoblocking of multiple friends and family), and it could be expanded to host other services e.g a seedbox. All that stuff needs good hardware and a good connection.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 weeks ago:
My problem is that I’m moving in the not so far future and I don’t know where to put my server. Physical security is important and if someone gets into my house, takes the computer and leaves, it’ll be worthless due to encryption. But if it’s in somebody’s datacenter (co-location or whatever), they could be forced to monitor my traffic, tamper with my system, and I’d have to entrust the key to somebody in order to boot the system and decrypt the drives should it restart for an update or for any other reason.
I’m considering asking a friend to host the homeserver and reimburse them for a better internet connection (fiber) + electricity costs. But I’m not sure they’d be up for it.
How would you solve the problem?
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 weeks ago:
Hey! Another nixos user 😁 What are you using for your VPS? nixos-infect? nixos-everywhere?
As for mini PCs, a friend bought one from Minis Forum and quite likes it. But if you want to support the opensource ecosystem, there are tuxedo computers and slimbook. There’s also starlabs byte.
Take your pick :)
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 1 month ago:
I bet this will be out into a military plane and it’ll brick while flying over China or close to it. The genius of these people cannot be understated. Imagine, if they’re saying this publicly, I bet you they have this in existing military equipment they are selling to partners. Anybody buying military equipment from the US is asking for trouble.
- Comment on Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video 1 month ago:
On one side, fuck google, on the other, the video is “whistleblowing” DEI practices. Not sure what there is to “whistlenlow” about. I thought quotas were mandated for a long time. How is that news?
- Comment on peertube recomendation algo alpha build 1 month ago:
What is this? It jumps in explaining features and details about other stuff, but doesn’t explain the basic goal. There are also no screenshots except of some table. It’s not clear how to use this thing.
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 2 months ago:
Is this how they plan to make money too? Demand 15 bucks to be verified, 2k/year to be a verification issuer? This is going to be fun to watch.
- Comment on BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API 2 months ago:
A blog entry on how it works and what it does at a high level could be nice. I’m not sure what I’m looking at, but there must be some API call to Lemmy and it’s probably happening on the server due to CORS; not sure how this would work just in the browser if the Lemmy instance has CORS setup…
- Comment on Your next phone could have a 10km Bluetooth connection 2 months ago:
Bluetooth barely works when my phone is in my pocket and my headset on my head. Make that work first before imagining users with a 10km long neck.
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 2 months ago:
And yet, Adobe keeps making money. Someone’s paying for it and it isn’t non artists…
- Comment on Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028 2 months ago:
First we make fun of China, then we vote for money hungry politicians with a penchant for power, give in to surveillance because “it’s free!”, and tada, we’re all becoming China (the EU is trying to introduce a backdoor into stuff again, buying surveillance tech, and thinks it’s falling behind due to a lack of AI investments, and having populism take over countries). Maybe China is just the crab of societies?
- Comment on Hundreds of Video Game Workers Join New Union as Trump Attacks Labor Rights 2 months ago:
Take everybody in the union, make a new studio that is union run, ???, profit and happiness.
If a large group of game devs, artists, and so on decided to leave their jobs outright instead of threatening to, the next time they come to the bargaining table, the company will know not to duck with them. Leave, join a union, ask if they want to hire you back under a union contract. They say no? Move on.
And if they created a studio, they would probably have a bunch of talent and it would be worker owned.
- Comment on Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs 2 months ago:
Isn’t Framework a US company? I wonder how many companies in the US will go bust due to tariffs.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 2 months ago:
“I have nothing to hide”, until you’re unjustly hauled into a police station and beaten senseless because of a misinterpreted joke you made on WhatsApp with your friends.
People will not value their privacy until it’s too late. Some people only learn by making mistakes…
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 2 months ago:
Anything to replace workers or make them cheaper. He great thing is that the decision makers don’t understand what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Lemmy vote aggregation idea 2 months ago:
the idea boils down to either outside instances aggregating votes made on their side and sending final voting result on a scale -1/0/1 or alternatively this aggregation could be done by the hosting community
Could you provide an example calculation? I’m not getting it. Do you want to map values from one range to another e.g [-1000,1000] to [-1,1]? Will each instance have its own mapping?
Also, computationally, I’m not sure how this is going to work iteratively. From what I understand, activitypub sends events either singular or batched to other servers e.g User X votes up, that’s an event sent, User Y votes down, that’s another event sent. If I’m not mistaken, lemmy doesn’t store the events it receives so reconstituting a vote tally isn’t possible.
I kinda get where you’re coming from, but I’m not sure it’s the right solution.
- Comment on Linkwarden (v2.10.0) - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents (tons of new features!) 🚀 2 months ago:
How does this compare to Notion? Can it be used as a knowledge management system? I ask because I see highlights and notes.
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 months ago:
Post it on the fediverse. TikTok isn’t the only platform out there. And if you think TikTok is a necessary evil, you’re part of the problem.
- Comment on Open-Source is Just That. 2 months ago:
100% agree with this dude. On the web, there are so many people who think them being a user of opensource is somehow a gift to the maintainer/developer. It is a damn privilege to be able to use something someone is providing for free and open sourced. Be respectful to the devs and maintainers, unless they aren’t nice to you, or stay silent. Please.
There was another post a while back, I think it was titled “maintainers don’t owe you a goddamn thing” and that statement is also true.
I wish github did more for devs and allowed to bad and report people from projects entirely. I also find it disgusting how people dogpile on github e.g when a dev uses the “wrong” license, disagrees to merge a PR, commits the crime of not writing secure code, when users disagree with something a dev said on another channel and so much more. And they think it’s justified.
Harassing devs became so normalised that it got a state actor (probably) into an a critical open source project, which nearly led to the infection of millions of computers. Look up Jia Tan, SSH and I think xz (or whatever the name was).
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 2 months ago:
Now suddenly privacy is important. Fuck everybody else though.
- Comment on SuperTuxKart switches to open source Godot engine 2 months ago:
That’s good news! They may get more devs that way. Godot is pretty popular at the moment.
- Comment on Enshitification of CrowdSec 3 months ago:
As an example: a company starts a free tier offering with no promises. It can sustain that because there are enough free users that convert into paying users - enough to sustain the free tier. But times change and the cost of free tier users surpasses that of paying users. Should the company continue providing the same level of service for free tier users?
Also, what other term than entitlement would you use for somebody gets something for free, is not promised that it will stay free forever, the free offering is cancelled or limited, and the user starts complaining?
- Comment on Enshitification of CrowdSec 3 months ago:
Is this dude complaining that an offering he pays absolutely nothing for is reducing how much free stuff they give out? Seems quite entitled… like the people demanding opensource devs implement something and never contributing back.
- Comment on Socially self-hosting source code with Tangled on Bluesky. 3 months ago:
Forgejo was too slow…
- Comment on As Bangladesh’s factories turn to surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure. 3 months ago:
Don’t we have enough clothes on the planet to clothe every person here? What the fuck do we need to produce anymore? Buy second hand and we should be set.
Also, how is surveillance going to help? Seems like a useless expense.