daniskarma

@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Reaching means addressing their issues. Addressing one person issues will probably conflict with other person issues. Wich mean that a choose have to be made on to who represent.

  Some people are easier to address than other. Some people are more exigent to their representatives than others. Making it not wort it trying to address them.

  It’s important to mention that just by “mentioning” people in your campaign those people are not going to vote you. You need to do specific politics that solve the problems they may have. Which is not easy and most of the times it opposes what other people want you to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, United Kingdom (for instance) it’s not an absolute monarchy anymore, isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are popes always really old?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t really makes much sense.

  The amount of power is the same. They don’t get more power by voting a pope every 5 years rather than every 30 years. They still vote for the pope, the person in that position is always there because it was voted by the Cardinals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people like to travel in Minecraft. There’s something in just picking a direction and moving there for days, exploring. In Minecraft you would never reach the end. In Luanti you’ll hit the end of the world in a few hours.

  Also for massive multiplayer purposes. Servers with hundreds of people are impossible in luanti’s size.

  And it’s not just me. You go to Luanti’s forum and one of the biggest threads is one asking for infinite worlds, players want it.

  They used to say the the world size was embedded deep into the code and that a massive rewrite would be needed for that and that it was not worth it. But someone already made a fork that has this feature and didn’t change that much so… And no, the fork is not a solution due to Luanti “modular” approach that fork is incompatible with any Luanti game so there’s no game really just the base “engine”.

  I don’t have high hopes of devs ever addressing that, so I stopped following the project. I hope be proven wrong, but something tells me that it’s a change that will never me made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about Luanti. The world size limitation is an issue that’s hard to address, and there’s some ‘denial’ going up within their devs about it. Stating that the current world size is more than enough, ignoring the great amount of people asking for bigger worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best approach to selfhosting Synapse (Matrix)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at all. I have my instance sitting on 100MG of RAM and 0% cpu usage. There’s only 3 users that barely use it, but there it is.

  It scales by number of users.

  It’s true that it’s a resource hog, due to being written in python (who the hell though that), but it all depends on usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not native English. It’s imperfect English or writing in other language that not many would fully understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I selfhost a matrix instance just for myself and my bots. And send myself notifications to the phone client element. I can even trigger a fake VoIP phone call for really important stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt is satire as the project was truly linked with trans groups.

  Probably they just count as experience things that are probably not truly experience or maybe there’s a lot that’s being untold there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just last week I was setting up a matrix server.

  I considered conduwuit but I had a feeling this might happen. Happy to stick with Synapse. It’s just a shane that it’s written in freaking python.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely true!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Disconnecting for your stressful daily routine is therapy.

  You don’t need to make a 16h plane flight to achieve that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been thinking for years. Maybe there’s a way to do a collaborative crawler and indexer.

  Get a bunch of people together to create the perfect search engine in these dire times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To: Automate version update for your selfhosted Docker containers with Gitea, Renovate, and Komodo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know fully what’s they are doing. But here’s my workflow with watchtower.

  I have a cron task that runs watchtower every day on monitor-mode and only-once one time a day. That creates a list on what containers can be uograded. They using shourrr (it’s already integrated with watchtower it’s just an environment variable to do this) I send myself a message to my phone informing me of what updates are available. If I see fit to upgrade everything I just run watchtower once without monitor mode to upgrade all. I have pendant to automate this last part in a way that I just answer to the bot that’s informing me of the updates and should apply the command without having me ssh into the server. But as for now I have to ssh and run a script I have at hand to launch the upgrade with watchtower.

  There are some problematic containers that I don’t want to upgrade this way. For those I have their compose files version locked and I upgrade them manually when I want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To: Automate version update for your selfhosted Docker containers with Gitea, Renovate, and Komodo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Except for a few projects that have given me headaches for an automatic update before (I’m looking at you Jellyfin). Those I have them locked to a version and only upgrade when I think it’s truly stable (spoiler: stable release was not stable) and when I know I will have time to fix things that may broke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨am i stupid or are solar panel's efficiency independent on latitude⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s several factors here.

  The most important probably being the energy per square meter. Higher latitudes gets less energy per square meter than equatorial latitudes.

  There’s also the mentioned cloud cover and atmosphere density.

  The climate it’s also important. As higher latitudes tends to be more cloudy.

  And sun hours, here is not about the total energy but how it’s distributed. As sun hours are more estable near the equator (12 hours light 12 hours dark) while in higher latitudes you can get 4 hours light some times of the year that can’t amount to nothing, and 20 hours of day other times of the year which are nice, but there’s no way to store that energy for the winter lack of sunlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this picture idea immature?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I take immature as a compliment here.

  What do you want, a boring picture driven by society expectations, adulthood stress and other people’s pressures. Or a fun picture idea that came from a mind still able to be creative.

  It’s immature and you should do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But you are not part of their movement, at most are a supporter. But get excluded from being part of it. You need labels to be included. No labels no representation. That’s why we see people collecting more and more labels each day, because without a label you are nothing in the movement.

  And you may support, but you are not part of the decision making, you are not considered when decisions are being made. Solidarity is expected from you, but you should not expect nothing in return.

  This may suffice for you. You may need nothing for your selfless support. But most people are not like that. More people when they feel that kind of exclusion just move out ot the movement and do their own thing. Because everyone wants their voice to be heard. This explain a lot on what has happened with politics in the later years. Thus why I advocate for the end of identity politics, and return to class politics, include everyone as equals, without some being “more equals than others” if you catch my drift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think progress slow down because identity politics indeed. And progress became more fragile, being easily erased by all the people who got pissed off by identity politics.

  The thing about identity politics is that it’s useful for majorities. I don’t see the point in using identity politics for minorities, by definition they are doom to lose. Wider interclass politics are needed for minorities to get rights in a sustainable way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see it that way. Speaking as non conforming gender bisexual.

  I think I can properly defend my rights without making groups that exclude others from it.

  Again, just my opinion, and something that I do not agree not in the final goal (everyone being happy and free) but in the how to achieve it.

  Also as an European I think identity politics (in this context) were mostly born in USA and imported here. But we had achieved way more liberties before identity politics than after (we were one of the first countries in the world that legalized gay marriage for instance, and we didn’t need the kind of identity politics that exist today to achieve it). And since identity politics took over I feel like we haven’t be able to achieve much more, because we take a conflicting approach that meets much more resistance from excluded identities than the previous approach.

  At least that’s my humble opinion and perception of reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the moderator would ban you because the mod agrees with the other person. I have seen it happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the aggravated issue of moderators being far less ““professional”” here than in Reddit. At least in some big reddit communities there was a big admin team that tried to keep things more or less professional (not that they would always achieved that but they tried). Here mod teams are very small and mods mostly just got their position by just being here first, so I have found out a lot of very biased moderation and mods just using mod tools and position of authority to defend their own particular opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also a lot of people do not consider they could be on the wrong or that other person can have a total different valid definition of what’s right. And just take this “I’m obviously on the right so I can be an as*****” approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My ps1 controler have not gotten stick drift in… how long now? 30 years?

  Is that a lost technology like in sci-fi books?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not American so I’m here asking questions to be educated.

  Because I also, from the limited amount of information that I got about it, didn’t think of school shooters as specially right wing. Or as any kind of right wing organization or movement to impose their politics through means of violence against civil population.

  As European when I think of right wing terrorism I think of this fascists shooters we had that literally had fascist manifestos and were part of fascista groups.

  But I’ve heard many times this idea of American school shooters being right wing terrorists, so I’m genuinely interested in truly understanding what gives them this consideration, as from my POV (again a very limited POV) I thought of them as a failure of mental health, social integration and a bad school system in general, all united with the incredibly accessible firearms. But not specially as part of a terrorist group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, we do not exist. Don’t let anyone know we exist. 😶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to consider myself leftist. But it’s true that I don’t agree in all that most current left wing political parties stand for.

  I think all human are born equal, and should have a good life. That politics should be used to improve everyone’s life.

  But in the what does this mean or how to do it I feel more and more differences lately.

  To give an example, I cannot really stand identity politics. I think that the best course of action is to dissolve identitarian (is that word real?) groups instead of exacerbating their differences. I feel like people should be getting rid of labels instead of having more and more labels every day.

  That’s just a personal opinion, based on the idea that if you define different groups the chance of conflict between groups is bigger than if you define only one group. And I do get the idea behind identity politics within the left wing spectrum. I just don’t agree that’s the best course of action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is anti-propaganda?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think that we could give information without propaganda if we really mean it.

  Or at least there are levels of propaganda.

  My personal take is that propaganda is not true, like actual lies.

  I know that “the best propaganda is true” and just excluding other information. But purposely giving just a small part of the information is a lie regardless, to me at least.

  But if we were to give all the possible information on any matter I don’t think it could count as propaganda.

  And, this is the funny part, this is my own propaganda, because one of my political beliefs is that we could make politics in a healthier way without using the “evil” tactics for a “good” outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux Kernel Blender And the other 5 are still undiscovered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ublock is truly one of the 8 technological Wonders of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These are public forums. Anyone can look what’s going on here.

  This is not a private space.