Eldritch
@Eldritch@piefed.world
- Comment on we need more users 3 days 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’ 4 days 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 week 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 week 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.
- Comment on How do I contact pixelfed.global admins? 2 weeks ago:
Their email is admin@bararoligt.nu probably the best place to start.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 3 weeks ago:
If industrialization raises up a population, financialization plunges them.
Exactly, that’s why China’s economy is slowing.
Corporations in the US are seeing the highest profits they’ve ever seen in history. Wage theft has never been worse. Income disparity is widening more and more every year without any prospect of redistribution in sight.
Definitely, similar is happening in China as well. It’s why larger chunks of their youth aren’t participating and feel they have no place.
Corporations in China, however, are folded into the state as soon as they get too large. Corporate profits are collected by the state and redistributed to the population. China has many more protections to prevent it from choosing greed and sacrificing the working people than the US.
Which is largely meaningless as they exploit workers as hard or harder.
I want what’s happening in China to happen to us in America.
It did and is. The good bits happened over 60 years ago in the US. But we’re rapidly approaching the lack of press freedom and social surveillance China pioneered. Even as they’re approaching our inequality.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 3 weeks ago:
In tank space sure. But not in any non-hypocrical space. Again everything you implied about China could be said about the US.
However, it was industrialization brought up living standards. Not any particular party or ideology. In every different government and economic system industrialization has been pushed, it has benefited the population. And industrialization doesn’t make up for the oppression and abuses that said parties or ideologies commit while industrializing.
The fact that industrialization raised the standard of living in the US doesn’t justify their theft of my ancestors land or culture. Or the enslavement of blacks. It certainly doesn’t excuse or justify China’s oppression or cultural erasure of the uhygers. Tibetans or Hong Kongers as well. If you think it does or deny their abuse you’re just a hypocrite. 🤷
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 3 weeks ago:
Nearly everything you mentioned there could be said about China as well though. So, how? In what way does it make China look better? Serious question. And not a defense of the west out the US.
- Comment on Are you happy now, so-called "bleeding heart" libs? 3 weeks ago:
Nah, their just high.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 3 weeks ago:
Well, assuming that you are on windows, it’s a whole extra step.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
There’s no real way Mozilla could compete. Google has nothing to fear on that front like the browser front. It’s far more likely Mozilla’s ultimate intention. Is to integrate Gemini or similar further into the browser than they already have. Mozilla is years late to the circle jerk, and everyone else has partnered up.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 weeks ago:
¿Why not both?
- Comment on Christmas, do I need to say more? 4 weeks ago:
Was gonna say. This and the H. P. Lovecraft historical societies Christmas carrols. What more do you need.
- Comment on Lemmy instance subscription issues 4 weeks ago:
Yes I’ve never gotten a post from mastodon to start a new Lemmy/piefed thread. Though I think it’s supposed to be able to. But you can absolutely reply to them from Mastodon.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 5 weeks ago:
Yes, that and the GTK window decorations are a slight annoyance as well.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 5 weeks ago:
Ah you are correct. Thanks for the correction. I may have read otherwise, somewhere, but who knows that may have been an AI-tinted site. It’s been a hot minute since I last messed with programming using QT. I could have sworn it was webkit but the facts are the facts.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 5 weeks ago:
Yes, they are both WebKit, though largely irrelevant. Personally, I’m a daily KDE user. I did install falkon out of Curiosity for a short while. But neither it or konqueror are generally in any distributions base install. Including KDE neon.
They are usable, so long as you don’t use any sort of add-ons.
Falkon is based on Qt web. So it is also WebKit.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 5 weeks ago:
They also haven’t written a browser. It’s an apples and oranges comparison. There are plenty of Firefox derivatives that don’t have all the bloat that Mozilla, et cetera, is putting into there. That’s not the point. The point is how controlled they are by one of their competitors, namely Google.
There are only three main browser makers. Chrome by Google Firefox by Mozilla and WebKit/Safari now maintained by Apple but derived from Linux’s K desktop environment web engine. There are a lot of wrappers written around these, but at the end of the day, there’s still just the three.
The one real interesting bright spot though that I’m looking forward to is servo. Originally started by Mozilla, but now completely free of them. It’s not yet in a daily driver’s state, but it’s looking to be quite interesting.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 [deleted] 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
That is fair.
- Comment on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected 1 month ago:
Arch checking in. It may happen less. But it still does.