Eldritch
@Eldritch@piefed.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
And even then. Mp3 first in this day and age?! As an individual or a company that’s just bananas. MP3 as a fallback or baseline sure. As a feature to advertise or sell your service on. Clown show. Sure it’s a 30ish year old codec who’s patents have expired. But it’s also a 30 year old codec using ancient expired patents.
There’s much newer patented and libre codes that can provide similar quality at half the data rate. Allowing you to serve twice the listeners with the same resources.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 day ago:
Alternate realities/timelines. It ain’t over until they destroy the whole universe, and even then it’s probably still not over.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 3 days ago:
Init scripts are just scripts. Technically, they don’t introduce any unique vulnerabilities of their own. Just the flaws in the shell itself or server binaries. A poorly written script absolutely can and will still fuck your day up.
SystemD is a program. Which could introduce its own unique buffer overflows or use after free opportunities. I’ve not heard of any. But its possible. However, its standard set of interfaces and systems make the risks of writing your own bad scripts or just using other people’s random bad scripts like we used to much less an issue.
- Comment on Archive Today (archive.is) is Down 3 days ago:
A ddos by it’s nature seeks to suppress speech and freedom.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 3 days ago:
Technically, sysv everything was just a file full of instructions for the shell to parse and initialize. Human readable “technically”. It was simple and light weight. SystemD is a bit heavier and more complex as a system service binary. But that load and complexity is generally offset by added features that are extremely nice to have. Providing much more standardized targets and configuration iirc.
I had to search and dig trying to figure out how to set up services properly for my distro, back in the 90s. And when/how to start/restart them. There wasn’t one way to do it all. SysD made it all much more standard, simple, and clear. It’s biggest sin, is that it’s one more binary attack surface that might be exploited.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 6 days ago:
And how is not voting for them going to do that? They’re fine with you not voting for them, and even losing in the case of DNC leadership. Always have been.
You want to put pressure on them? Be the candidate to primary the party line candidate in Democratic primaries. Yes they will use every structural advantage they have against you. But if enough people do it constantly. The cracks will widen and show. Otherwise they’re happy to receive donations and funding from the wealthy, even if they don’t win.
To be clear, I think all national parties should be outlawed. Generally state wide ones as well. But unless you can change the political reality we are in. The only possibility is not just holding off the worst possible candidates such as trump. Though more should have shown solidarity against him. But being the candidates we want to vote for. And not letting some uninterested complacent national organization make those decision for us.
- Comment on Anyone other young people into Retro Computing? 6 days ago:
Nope, sadly most of these retro things are younger than me. 😆Guess that makes me retro too. Anyhow, always good to see younger generations enjoying the classics.
- Comment on Vin Gasoline 6 days ago:
It’s about acquaintances.
- Comment on I went back to Linux and it was a mistake 2 weeks ago:
Tech reporter……. Going back. As in not their first dip. As a tech reporter, they should have known better the first time. That the took a second stab still not knowing. Really makes one question their credentials.
If you’re that base of a user, that you don’t understand that going in. It isn’t a software problem. It’s PEBKAC. And no one should ever recommend a person of that low skill ever try to install on their own. If you want everything to work, buy a system made to run the software. System 76, tuxedo, etc.
Would it be nice if opensouce devs could make some of the most proprietary, custom hardware designed to only work with windows run under Linux? Sure, is it a flaw of Linux that it doesn’t? No. Not unless it’s a flaw of Windows that Microsoft doesn’t support modern apple hardware.
- Comment on Orion Browser 2 weeks ago:
Really, that’s actually interesting.
- Comment on Orion Browser 3 weeks ago:
Aaaah so even less reason to use it sadly.
- Comment on Orion Browser 3 weeks ago:
On Linux there is Falkon. Windows too. (QT WebKit) And the reason I won’t use this will likely be the same as Falkon. Missing plugins etc. Other than that they are fine. Bitwarden has a desktop app. (Electron? Dunno but it would be ironic) But no auto fill ability. Darkreader? Nope. There may be some limited adblocking, but no greasemonkey type functionality.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Piefed has two user rating systems. Your attitude, which is public, and allows people to see what your ratio of up votes to down votes is. The other being reputation, which is generally reserved for administration and moderation iirc. Which is an accumulation of how other people upvote and downvote you. Basically the sort of thing anyone could get just by looking at the public information just condensed all in one spot.
Anyone calling it social credit score is being disingenuous. The most controversial feature it has is its content filtering system, which is disabled by default.
- Comment on [Episode] TRIGUN STARGAZE - Episode 4 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Definitely what I was wondering the original is a classic to me.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 3 weeks ago:
Oh no. Actually AFAIK its basically public for everyone to see unless disabled. At least attitude is. Yours is currently scored at 86. Meaning you’ve been 5x as likely to upvote as downvote. I think the rep one is different. Nothing more happening with it ATM than that I think.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 3 weeks ago:
Aaaah, cool yeah. I never looked too deep at it. Just knew that much.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 3 weeks ago:
The software kind of scores you on a few metrics. Like the ratio of the things you vote up vs down. I’m sure there are others.
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 3 weeks ago:
Well, those donating time and resources often get extra consideration. But Ton has been fiercely independent for decades. And even though he’s stepped down from his leadership role. I think the board he helped put in place has things in good hands. They, KDE etc have forged their own path and shown the viability of their models. They’d be fools to abandon that or relinquish control after 30 years.
Tons have come and gone with little fan fair. Blender OTOH has quietly made inroads into industry and the hearts of many many people. I have used blender since the mid 90s. Where it is today compared to back then is unimaginable. I can’t wait to have my mind blown by where they go in the future. Nodes and simulation are really shaping up. Who knows, between them and the love the NLE editor has been getting. Adobe, Houdini, and even Nuke might get some competition.
- Comment on Guitar technology 3 weeks ago:
You haven’t seen his arc piano then.
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 3 weeks ago:
If all the other top level donators haven’t done that by now I don’t think there’s much to worry about. And if they had plans to, I think they would have to face off against the other top level donators. So it wouldn’t be that easy either.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 3 weeks ago:
Aaaah cool. So plain speak wise, perception often becomes a persons reality. Even if not permanently. And the wealthiest use manipulation through propaganda to control perception and what individuals perceive as reality. Pitting them against eachother. I don’t see anything too controversial about that. But I can see why ML would. They’re very dependent on said propaganda and manipulation.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 3 weeks ago:
I see the cineplex is projecting again.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 3 weeks ago:
So, communist as in the more socially liberal anarco type of communism? Less vanguard, more community building, consent and mutual aid?
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Anarchist based instances are definitely one of the better options. You’ll still find ML there. Even running some communities. But easier to avoid over all. Less likely to have immature micromanaging admins as well as auth propaganda.
Though really, just find about any other instance that federates with the servers the communities important to you are on. And you should be good.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 4 weeks ago:
Nope. Sadly among all the other things checkering Louis Rosman’s past now, kiwifarms is supposedly part of it.
- Comment on Amiga vs. Atari ST: A rivalry that defined 16-bit home computing 5 weeks ago:
Ugh yeah.
- Comment on we need more users 1 month ago:
It’s not just Europe. Plenty of us in the United States looking to circumvent the vanguard party. And fascism is rising globally. We need decentralization and federation to survive going forward.
- Comment on Head of Amnesty International Agrees Trump-Led US Is ‘Destroying World Order’ 1 month ago:
It’s why Putin and Xi helped get him elected. They plan to be the new imperial world order once trump self destructs taking the US with him. We did it to ourselves letting Republicans gut education etc. But millions of uneducated Americans were harnessed or disenfranchised right and left to achieve this.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 1 month ago:
I know, and that’s why I didn’t down vote you. It’s just not really useful here. The United States calls out China all the time for its imperialism, oppression and abuses. And inevitably ML fall back to United States/West Bad. To defang any criticism. It’s not valid or appropriate when they do it. And it’s not when we do it either. Even when done with appropriate nuance as you did.
This is something that the United States is absolutely going to have to own. The criticism is 100% deserved and doesn’t need any defense or deflection like that. Unless of course, they are openly saying that they are better than the United States or the West. Then it would be absolutely appropriate. If it weren’t for hypocritical criticism, there wouldn’t be hardly be any criticism.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 1 month ago:
Hey now. No reason to start behaving like tankies/ML. If it’s valid for the West to criticize them for their faults. (It is) Then, turn about is just as valid. Even if the criticism comes from a place of hypocrisy like this.
If anything, this should just be a reminder that no state is your ally or a responsible actor. And that the more power and concentration they have, like the United States, Russia, or China. The more brazenly they will abuse the people they’re supposed to represent and everyone around them.