Eldritch
@Eldritch@piefed.world
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 22 hours ago:
Hell my home server is a i7 4700. It’s a solid experience, though it is missing a few nice to haves these days. I have three Linux desktops in the house, i7 6700. One dell one lenovo and one HP. The Dell and Lenovo I have no need or desire to replace them for the little amount of gaming, etc. I do. They have decent graphics cards since I do 3D modeling. RX 580 and NV 1050.
The HP, I don’t know if there’s legitimate hardware failing somewhere on it, or if it’s just HP suckage. I have a little power HP Elite Book with an AMD processor and APU on it, and that thing is awesome. But this little business tower was struggling with Windows 10 before they killed it off. It’s better with Linux, but it’s still a shadow of the other two similarly-spect systems. Who knows.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 23 hours ago:
Definitely take a look at what you’re looking to host and what it supports. Support for raspberry Pi and their Debian based pi OS is surprisingly widespread and robust. Not always first-party top-level support robust, but surprisingly adequate for a $35, $50 SBC.
Worst case scenario is still a solid introduction to open source software. Downloading, compiling, installing, et cetera. Some of my earliest projects on the pi involved that. Using the camera module along with the video for Linux subsystem, which wasn’t included or packaged under Raspian at the time at least. Go git project. Make, make install, and party
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 1 day ago:
Yes, this is one of the few real valid arguments against something like a pi 3. Outside architecture issues they are fantastic to learn on.
- Comment on Consolidating communities into super communities 1 day ago:
Piefed at least already deals with this. If you post to a community. Then cross post that post to other communities. Conversations from all cross posted, federated articles show up together.
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 4 days ago:
No worries. And I remembered the youtubers name. Data Slayer. He's got a few halow videos. 1Km and several Mbps is just about the baseline to be interesting. Lorawan range is great. But the data rate really is far too low for anything outside iot or im.
Some of the heletech modules look very promising and not unaffordable.
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 4 days ago:
I've seen one. Not a great sample size. A YouTuber who also does a lot of mesh-tastic videos. Demonstrated live streaming from an ESP32 camera module in a large public park. High resolution low frame rate. As well as in a bridge configuration streaming YouTube from their apartment close to practical range limits. Roughly line of sight, minimal obstruction, of course.
Guaranteed success? No. But definitely something worth looking into investigating and replicating. Devices like these are much more accessible to your average person than ham certification and equipment.
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 5 days ago:
It will of course varry by environment, topology, and configuration. As everything does. But even a megabit, 125KB/s leveraging modern technologies. Would be very usable. Capable of pushing DVD level streams of AV1 and opus though at saturation. More than easily able to push basic websites. High traffic probably not. But I wouldn't expect neighborhood/village traffic to be too heavy.
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 5 days ago:
You mention meshtaatic. There is also halow on the consumer side now. One of my goals for the next year is to set up a few open halow nodes in a mesh. As a local anarchist community network of sorts. With little or no intention of bridging it to the internet. Outside of connecting to other similar remote network segments or maybe an email/xmpp bridge. Mostly a separate local network with separate local resources.
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 1 week ago:
I'll say this much. As anarchist, we are often not very good gatekeepers. For better and for worse. As such, I've noticed that quite a few posting from DB0 aren't anarchists recently. Not a great number. But there have been occasions where I've seen posters defending large power structures from the domain. Ones specifically that could give a tanky impression. Make of it what you will. I can see how users that had interacted with those type could think that. I've also seen similar absurd characterizations of other domains.
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 1 week ago:
like killing the women and kidnapping the children bombing residential areas instead of valid military targets. Oh wait, that's the Russians.
- Comment on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected 1 week ago:
That is fair.
- Comment on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected 1 week ago:
Arch checking in. It may happen less. But it still does.
- Comment on The problem with common names 1 week ago:
Oh that's not even that isolated in Australia. There's a fish caught off their shores that had a whole big marketing push in the 90s and 00s to rebranded it from its common name. Slimehead. Thankfully I think they abandoned commercial marketing of it. They would have fished it out in record time. Seeing as the fish can take north of a decade to mature and reach spawning age.
- Comment on I wonder what the Hapsburgs would have thought about pugs 3 weeks ago:
Fuck it
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 3 weeks ago:
Heh well in the scheme of things it is rather new. But yeah, I think I saw a Brodie video where he discussed this. Basically them joining the Linux Foundation and putting out their first ever tagged release. There'd been code for a decade. Just no tagged releases.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 weeks ago:
I don't think I've ever up voted a comment of yours. But you are 100% on point about Lysenko. His promotion and the treatment of Vavilov are emblematic of a few of the many many flaws of Leninism. Vavilov was at least posthumously exonerated.Though he still died in a Siberian gulag for the crime of disagreeing with comrade Stalin, and sticking to the evidence.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 weeks ago:
Also Stalin's promotion of Trofim Lysenko and his crackpot ideas on agriculture that mirrored the crackpot ideas of Leninism. Exacerbating famines and helping to kill millions.
- Comment on The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It 3 weeks ago:
That could definitely give you a different perspective. You might not really remember before twitter and Facebook. Heck before MySpace for that matter. Or when companies didn't advertise their website but rather their AOL keyword.
Activity Pub is a lot like Usenet on steroids. It really is a return to the distributed, democratized Internet. Before all those other things. The only big stumbling block the increasing tighter grip on access and CCP style censorship that many nations are gate-keeping with.
It's all good though, and with the view you've had of it so far I can absolutely understand and agree on how you think things are getting better. Because it is.
- Comment on The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It 3 weeks ago:
Honest question, I'm just trying to understand here. How long have you used the internet? That could definitely color a lot of different perceptions.
I suppose the best way to put it is that I've had the privilege of access to the Internet. In one form or another for a little over 32 years I think now. While access has improved, and nearly everyone carries a terminal in their pocket. My usage of the Internet is reverting back to more what it was 25 years ago. Just with much better access. Largely because it was better. The underlying internet hasn't changed that profoundly. Just control of or access to it.
There were media streaming services before the oligarchs. They just had access to bigger pipes. And people ceded control to them for access to those bigger pipes. But our connections have improved while media size has decreased in many ways. And so has our need of them. The only new/unique thing they brought us. Was a centralized personal privacy nightmare.
If you really want to stretch things, I suppose you could say that the popularity of their services has helped drive adoption and commoditization of access. But that is as far as someone like myself would be willing to give them.
- Comment on The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It 4 weeks ago:
All true, but also all the more reason to acknowledge what we've lost. With an eye to the future to make sure that the enshitified centralized internet is one of them.
- Comment on The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It 4 weeks ago:
Whatever you call it, the Internet is changing and enshitifying. For many it's the death of what it was. The new restrictions and push for chat control/censorship.
AI may just be a tool. And people may be over reacting. But it's inarguable it's being overwhelming leveraged by abject evil.
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 4 weeks ago:
Out of sight out of mind. It's why authoritarian governments police speech and media. If you control what they see and hear. Then the worst that could happen is they might just feel that something is off. But have no evidence to necessarily back that up. Basically an echo chamber of the size of the nation.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 4 weeks ago:
The GIMP shop interface has been the default and iterated on for the better part of a decade, If not longer. This is what I always wonder about people who claim that GIMP is somehow less usable. Have they used it much since 3.0? It's 4.X now BTW.
I know my experience personally isn't going to be universal. I first used Photoshop version 2. First version I bought was 3.5. I remember downloading and compiling pre-1.0 unstable binaries of GIMP on Debian back in the 90s. It was wildly awkward back then and for the next couple of versions as someone coming from Photoshop. That hasn't been the case for a long, long time. Honestly, it reminds me so much of the Photoshop I grew up using at this point.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 4 weeks ago:
Honest question. When you learned on GIMP. Was the palette, the tool options, and the drawing area all separate windows? Because the Photoshop UI and layout has been default for a long time now.
- Comment on China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree 4 weeks ago:
People often make content for the love of it. But it still takes a lot of work, effort, and resources. It has a cost associated with it. I would love it if tomorrow everyone left YouTube for peertube. The problem is rewarding and supporting those that do. Patreon works for some, but not all of them. That's what YouTube is currently providing and why they stay. There's also things like nebula, but again, that's not available to everyone.
Perhaps a not for profit needs to be formed that will collect funds to maintain several instances of peertube or something similar. And all funds gathered above and beyond that would then be put in a pool to be doled out to the creators whose content was viewed the most. Up to a limit of a liveable wage for their area?
Yes, finding valuable content is a hard thing to do and no amount of AI or algorithms will really help with it. We honestly need to get together and crowdsource a directory of informed presenters as judged by others informed on the subjects.
- Comment on China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree 5 weeks ago:
I may be biased as an anarchist, but what about anarchism? Why would a flat, answerable government based largely on consent and mutual aid be a bad thing? Isn't the current problem unanswerable people with too much power already. Why would we want to give them more power. That's definitionally madness to me. If my ideals are any good, I think I should be able to convince them of that without force.
- Comment on China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree 5 weeks ago:
What you are arguing for is authoritarianism. What you want is accountability. The aren't the same thing, and none of what you've posted justifies authoritarianism.
I want accountability as well. The kind of accountability we need will never be achieved by thought policing. Does the irony of what you're calling for really need to be pointed out? The vaccines were only mandatory to be in public school. They always could have opted out and homeschooled. But even that minor inconvenience was enough for them to be harnessed along with similar groups. To install a fascist. A fascist that would be exponentially worse with the kind of power you're dying to give them. They need to understand why and want to be vaccinated. Imposing that on them without that knowledge will only make things worse. Previous generations understood that from personal experience. As well future ones unfortunately. My mother personally suffered from polio, and you better damn well be sure she made sure we were always vaccinated.
The interim solution is education. I get the juvenile need for instant gratification. Again that's part of the problem. Have you ever told a juvenile what they can and can't do? How did it go for you? Now understand the average person is even more juvenile and far more self gratifying. The more you thought police, the more they will push back. Deeper and deeper into the hole you will go. Till you've failed so much you're left with a "final solution". And at that point, no matter how right you started out as. You're wrong.
Literally, read up on lysenkoism. That's what this will be. And it killed MILLIONS. I realize not everyone on ML is ML. And if there's one universal truth it's that we anarchist are shit at gatekeeping. But one would hope your proximity to them might have rubbed off.
- Comment on China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree 5 weeks ago:
So what's your thoughts on lysenkoism then? He had education in relevant fields. He was wrong and ultimately unscientific as fuck. But that didn't matter. Because Stalin liked what he said over his teacher Vavilov. Vavilov was later vindicated. After he was run out of his university.
I'd like to tell you that was the worst of it. That was not the worst of it. He was sent to a Bolshevik gulag where he spent the rest of his life. Like millions of other victims of the Soviets. I'd like to tell you he still lived to a ripe old age. He did not he suffered and died early from the abuse and neglect the gulags were designed for. As millions of other victims of the Bolsheviks did.
His only crime was being correct and disagreeing with authority. Does that sound like something anyone should be rushing to emulate again, or still.
- Comment on China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree 5 weeks ago:
This is the correct response.
- Comment on China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree 5 weeks ago:
Just because something is technically a democracy doesn't mean it has value. Any democracy that is not direct, accountable, or consenting. Isn't much of a democracy. And democracy exterminates nothing. Any democracy that does, isn't much of a democracy. Advocating for authoritarianism absolutely makes things less democratic though.
We didn't get here overnight, and there is nothing we can do that would get us out of this position anytime soon. Especially not reducing democracy. It's going to take a lot of hard work and cultural change. Teaching people to value understanding and knowledge. Only education can eradicate ignorance, but never completely.