PenguinCoder @ Penguincoder @beehaw.org

Bit-breaker working in cybersecurity/IT. Only languages I know are English

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This whole post is that. Just because someone disagrees with you (other post) doesn't require a doubling down and an additional post of why you are right.

Re read the screenshot you posted of the technology community.

Then ask yourself if your personal grievances and opinion about other people fits the premis. You're okay to talk about technology and give your opinion on it. But posting like this, just to air your problems, isn't fit.

ActivityPub does not have that feature or ability. Other federation type software does. But being as Lemmy is built with ActivityPub for federation, it can't offer instance independent identities.

Usenet is not the WWW. It operates on a different protocol and methods. It's not over HTTP(s) like this or standard web sites. Thus, your typical web user won't even ever see or notice anything on or about usenet. This is why you would need a usenet provider or access. You cannot access usenet with a web browser. One notable difference between the web and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another in so-called news feeds. Individual users may read messages from and post messages to a local servers.

Usenet is literally just a collection of text files on various servers or locations. There really isn't an index builtin or a way to just 'click to the next page'. This is why you need an indexer. An indexer crawls and scrapes usenet headers to allow searching and finding of specific content or posts. It automatically builds releases and indexes them like google indexes the internet.

When someone uploads files to usenet, it's just text. Very large files such as videos, aren't easily represented as text and don't "fit" in one post. It is spread over many different posts, sometimes hundreds. In text format. You could find all those posts, combine the text, and end up with an actual video or music file. But that file doesn't "exist" on usenet as a specific, single, item. Indexers find all posts associated with something you may be searching for, and other news reader software (like NZBGet or SABNZB) combine all those text files into one, giving you the file you actually expect after downloading all the different posts/parts.

Using a VPN account with usenet is beneficial, but not required. It is ideal to have access to multiple different indexers to find the posts you want.

I wish the best for the admin and mods of lemm.ee. I can attest to the frustration that is running any online community though, especially one built on/dependent on Lemmy. I am sorry to see you stepping out @sunaurus@lemm.ee but hope you're doing alright otherwise. Was real nice bouncing ideas and changes off you in the past.

Ahh I did miss that due to not reading the article. Thanks.

Dating isn't easy for anyone, except the super model hot shallow ones. Being straight, and trying to date, as a introvert, in a backwater rural area... Trust me I feel your pain.

Happy cake day! Awesome book too. Hope you get some relief and happiness soon.

I disagree. If yo have a cookie cutter CRUD site and want every site to be the same and have the same bad performance or bad quality, sure, trust an LLM/AI. It's you who will be left in the dust for true innovation.

Debian proper. You'll have issues with any stylus on Linux. Not to say it won't work but may need more effort to get working.

I am doing alright! Got some side projects work taken care of last week, Beehaw upgraded, and went on a nice long motorcycle ride recently. Kiddos are happy and having fun. Things are improving. Slowly.

Be mad at the way the collected taxes are spent of course. Paying tax is the cost of living in a community or societies. Unfortunately we as peons don't get as much control over where it is spent, but definitely should have a say.

Noted thanks. Not sure what the lemmy inferno ui does with that apt text I'll have to look into the code.

Site works just fine in a browser. You should already have chrome or Firefox or safari or mull or... Take a pick. Otherwise for a specific app On android Id recommend Voyager.

Hubzilla was my first foray into fediverse. I like a lot of what it does and how it does things especially the nomadic users. Zot is also really interesting and a good contender to ap.

Good call-out. 2FA in lemmy was entirely reworked and uses a different hash on the backend, so the migration removed all existing TOTP tokens. You'll need to read initiate the 2FA if you still want it after this upgrade.

Believe the pictrs thumbnail issue is fixed. Regarding the alt text, that's dependent on the front end to display. For the standard lemmy ui, on web browser at Beehaw.org, I see the alt text as your post body:

The alt text is showing up as your post body, for me on https://beehaw.org/ through a web browser. I am not certain how other apps or front ends show it.

Reported; fixed now. Looking into the alt text issue now.

Acknowledging your report. I will look into what is going on with this.