Is there any fediverse alternative to slack or discord?
Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg Posts 5Comments 2,032Joined 2 yr. ago
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Yup really does sound like that. I had a friend make this mistake when we upgraded some components in his computer last summer I asked him to plug everything back in...
In his case there wasn't a GPU on the CPU so the computer wasn't booting to any image.
We spent way too much time in the case second guessing my work only for me to go around to the back of the computer and facepalm.
I'm in my own house, notice the @social.packetlosss.gg; our "houses" are just talking and that continued conversation is subject to ruud's and I's discretion. The way federation works, really nobody "owns" the content, there's just an agreement on what the primary copy is. There's no support for this in the software currently, but you could conceptually change which server is the primary copy at any time. The protocol and to some extent the content on it exist in an intangible space.
IMO all Reddit did was strengthen their legal argument; they arguably already had the right to make a "book of reddit poems." They just wanted to stack the deck on their side. Arguably you have the right to make a book of poems on Reddit.
Yeah, I think the big selling point for me is not the privacy on Lemmy, but control of conversation.
The law is largely down to who argues better in court. There is precedent for reduced rights in public spaces. e.g. if you go into the town square and talk to someone and it's caught on the camera of the mother a park bench away that's recording her child ... that's not an illegal recording and she has the copyright on said recording. You have no legal right to ask the mother to delete the recording or delete your audio from the recording, even in a two party consent space because you have no right to privacy in a public setting like that.
Similarly, when you post on Lemmy ... it's kind of good faith that if you delete something it actually gets deleted from the platform across all instances and that it's not just visibility deleted but deleted from the databases under the hood.
You do "own your content" but it's pretty meaningless ownership.
Yeah but there is a FOSS nature about it. At least ANYONE can do whatever they want with the comments and posts I make public instead of just whichever company pays reddit for API access.
I mean... True; it's just I wouldn't characterize Lemmy as superior on privacy. Ideally we'd figure out a way to fix that, but I'm not sure we can really.
And reddit has some legal jargon about co-owning the copyright to whatever you post over there but lemmy doesn't so you technically have more protection here to your own intellectual property.
This I'm not so sure about. You aren't handing over ownership rights when you sign up for most (any?) instance, but your ownership right is effectively null and void.
IANAL but arguably in a US court (at least) since Lemmy is effectively a true public place, you effectively lose the right to tell other people what they can do with your interactions.
And privacy is a whole different can of worms as I don't think ruud is harvesting telemetry to sell to advertisers and whatnot.
That part is arguably true. It is harder to tie this data back to a particular user for the purposes of selling to advertisers.
No it wouldn't. People need to understand that open source provides 0 security against intentional abuses when there's a networking layer involved.
I could be running an analysis on the data your instance handed to my instance just like Reddit is ... and you would have absolutely no way of knowing.
It turns out consumers aren't totally mindless drones that just buy whatever you publish because you're Ubisoft, Ubisoft.
I swear they've been incredibly cocky in recent years while simultaneously producing bad games, and broadcasting their stagnation and unwillingness to take risks on anything that isn't a new revenue stream (as if being formulaic profit hounds is a strength).
I swear MBAs ruin everything. Infinite growth is a horrible horrible idea. I wish we could break out of this cycle of every big company trying to market themselves as the company that cracked the code on the infinite money glitch. The code is ... make a good product and be decent to your customers; it's an ancient code, and it's so annoying that so many C-suite folks can't see it.
People don't value their privacy...
Honestly Lemmy is not a great platform for privacy either. Lots of your data is federated to other servers that can do whatever they want with it.
Netflix is like the only one on Android I have that ISN'T opt-ed out.
Well it sounds like this is the thing for you! Haha
I installed it, but I'm probably just going to use it periodically. I really appreciate the website prioritization feature of Kagi ... so it's unfortunate that isn't compatible.
You had me in the first half lol
I've mostly just tweaked the configuration and built my own comment formatter/reflow command based on the comment style at work.
It's almost more about what it doesn't have for me, because what I've run into a lot with trying newer editors is they try and manage the code too much and the code base at work has its own style guide that doesn't match what the editor tries to do. So the editor might make me slightly more productive ... until I find myself fighting with it every 3 lines because of auto formatting or some language server quirk.
I think it's human nature to "look for a reason" but ... these engineered virus narratives have never set well with me. It implies that the only way a pandemic could happen is if some person created it; that's incredibly self indulgent, "the only way man could die to nature is if man invented nature."
Viruses just happen; we've had a reprieve from major plagues and things and have been unusually healthy because vaccines and other advances in medicine allowed us to save many that would have otherwise died.
The only parts humans are playing in our current health crises are: A) Increasing the number of unvaccinated people giving viruses once nearly killed off room to play again B) Increasing the temperature of the planet which has been demonstrated to increase mutation rates and may release lost viruses trapped in ice and permafrost C) Cutting down large swaths of the Amazon rainforests which may also harbor lost viruses
In all cases, we're not creating the problem directly, we're just giving the advantage back to nature that research from recent centuries gave to us.
Market share and yes, Proton/WINE ultimately lessens the need for a native Linux port.
In a fair number of cases, even when there is a native Linux port, Proton/WINE has worked better than the native game.
If Linux gets to 5-10% of the market, we'll probably see them come back for platform specific optimization reasons. However, without a larger market share and with the translation being so good these days, there's not a lot of need.
There is more value in understanding how to extend and customize your editor than in searching for a new one. Use whatever your workplace provides the best support for, and then customize it from there.
I think there's something to be said for shaking up your environment periodically as well and trying new things. Sure, there's a week where you edit at a snails pace, followed by a month where you edit a bit slower than normal, but different tools really do have different pros and cons.
For the code bases I've worked in, this evolved from necessity as the code files were so large many editors were struggling, the rules for the style so custom that editors can't be properly configured to match, or the editor performance in general was questionable.
I went through a journey of sorts from IDEs to Electron based editors to Emacs and currently am working with Kakoune (and I've passed over a bunch of other editors like Sublime, Helix, and Zed that couldn't meet my requirements or didn't match my sensibilities -- even though a thing or two here or there really was excellent). Pretty much every change has been the result of the editor pain points that couldn't be addressed without actually working on the editor itself.
I've recently taken to kakoune which was one of the inspirations for Helix.
It's not as fancy (in terms of built-in features) out of the box, but it's very performant, integrates with tmux well, and for the C++ and Python I'm writing I haven't felt the need for much beyond token based word completion and grep.
The client server model it uses has really let me improve my tmux skills because I'm working inside of it more and using it for editor splits.
I don't know if Helix does this, but I've also come to love the pipe operator (where you just pipe a selection into some external program and the selection gets replaced with the output, so you can use the e.g. the sort command to sort text). You can also pretty easily add in custom extensions via command line programs.
Trademark isn't supposed to be enforceable on such generic words.
Like, Bethesda tried to sue Mojang away from launching "Scrolls" because of their Elder Scrolls games. That got settled and eventually Mojang renamed the game before scrapping it anyways, but yeah.
It's also pretty wild once you realize that laws in general are these things where "whatever side argues best, sets the interpretation." Anti-slap laws are also worth having and reading up on to stop bogus lawsuits, but now I'm just rambling.
Yes, Trump trying to take Palestine for the US, possibly with US troops was preventable.
Was all loss of human life preventable? No, because the US Govt does not control Isreal but considers its relationship with Israel critical.
People need to get off their high horses and vote on the spectrum, not on single issues.
I didn't like everything about Kamala but acting like not voting in protest was "the right thing to do" is not a good answer. I hate that our bombs were used on Palestinians, but people need to accept their protest vote moved things one step backwards.
You're doing a lot of talking about "not driving a wedge", but I didn't drive a wedge. I voted for the clearly more qualified candidate, some others decided "I don't like what that candidate has done for Israel, so even though I agree with her on so many other things, I'm not voting for her."
The wedge is these idiotic purity tests the left keeps applying where "if you don't agree on this particular issue, you're not one of us, and you don't get my vote."
It's obnoxious that these folks had the audacity to tell people "if you vote for Kamala you're a horrible person because Palestinians will die." You know who's going to die because of their vote? Lots of people. Climate change and pollution kills. The destruction of the US AID office kills. Disease kills. Between the three, we may see many many more deaths than we can even fathom.
The fediverse as most people on here would reference that term, isn't really designed for what you're looking for.
Matrix effective is what you're looking for. The only alternative to that would be something like TeamSpeak 6, which is a closed federated chat system (that's still not really fully baked).