Relaunching PeerTube.wtf
hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de Posts 8Comments 1,867Joined 4 yr. ago
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Even if it allows the user to modify the software and for example remove the unhealty aspects and then redistribute that to other people, as Free Software does?
Or do you mean more, some things will never be available as Free Software?
If you don't get helpful answers, try !AskUSA@discuss.online
It's 3.39€ for 10 (medium?) organic/free-range eggs in Germany... Or $4.26 converted to dollar a dozen (including taxes).
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/
I wouldn't call it anything with just "support" in the name, or I'd imagine you're going to get a lot of tech support questions regarding Fediverse software.
And keep in mind the attention span on the internet is reading half of the title of something. So the topic of conversation has to be very clear from the name alone.
Or maybe you want to join efforts? It's still not clear to me whether both are about the same thing, just on different instances. I think both fedigrow and growthefediverse are good names that make it clear what it's about. What about fedipromotion? or promotethefediverse? But I don't think my ideas are as good...
I hope that's going to succeed. And those are the platforms in demand. While Mastodon is losing users, and we've been stagnating for quite some time already... Pixelfed is currently going off the charts. We'll have to see where this leads to and if it's going to last.
Sure. I didn't want to say it's not a stereotype or not some real dynamics behind that. It's just unreliable. Thanks for the link btw, I didn't knew these studies with numbers existed. If I'm super bored, I'm gonna read some of that. But the first study is wild in the abstract already, mentioning homosexuality in one sentence with another word that we don't longer deem acceptable to mention in the same context... Guess the world has changed a bit since 1994. But there are newer studies linked as well...
Frenchcore. Especially Dr. Peacock. At least that's something I found very few people enjoy to listen to. It's certainly some distance away from the usual pop and rock on the radio.
By the way: I don't think you were wrong before... That's the stereotype. I think it's a valid thing to discuss, so no need to apologize. It's stupid, but it's definitely out there. And I guess it's different at different places of the world anyways. And in different age groups etc. I still don't know what OP is talking about... I mean I kind of think those details and the context matter to answer an exact question.
And I've also met all kinds of different people... Extroverted, flamboyent, introverted, people who like to talk about themselves or people who prefer to keep that private. I think I agree, with most people and in every day situations, there is just no way of telling who they are or what they like.
True. Though I think the speech thing is some stereotype, and educated people should avoid doing that. I know the average person immediately jumps to conclusions if you talk a certain way... But I've learned early on in my teens that this isn't a reliable way to tell apart gay people from straight people... But I agree with what's being said here. If you want to avoid being labeled, don't talk in a "gay" way and don't be overly nice to people as a man. Or be empathetic or whatever good traits you might have... But that's all more stereotypes for gay men. Out of all the possibilities of being LGBTQ+
(And people get labeled anyways. I also get asked, predominantly by children, why I have long hair. So the stereotypes start with very simple things. I still don't know how to react to that. Should I tell them I'm just a nerd and computer programmer, and that's the stereotype they should internalize? (Edit: I'm a bit sarcastic... I usually tell them everyone can have their hair however they like.))
Correct answer. In addition to lemmit.online there's also zerobytes.monster
You can request subreddits in the requests community. And I believe those bots are open source. So you could as well take the software and start a third instance that does this.
Look at straight people and act like them? I'm not really sure what to respond. But I know several people who don't really stand out. And I mean it's not like we talk about sex and partners all the time on the street or at work. So unless you wear an outrageous dress or have a crazy wig, or tell me... I won't really notice if you're queer, or if you have different sexual preferences than me. (I'm not really sure if we're talking about outer appearance here, or every day situations like going to the supermarket, or hiding your true self from close friends and relatives...) I mean generally it helps not to act too extroverted if you want to blend in, because being loud will get you attention.
I think I somewhat disagree on technical terms. I don't think those two are opposites. That Free Software has been tailored to the demands of the user. It's just that the user is the developer itself... While software that gets sold, is made to appease the customers. So I think it's not an opposite, but ultimately the same. The software is made to solve some problem for someone. It's just that the developer sits in front of their computer with a different target audience in mind.
Other than that, I agree. But another think to note, there are vast differences between projects. Some are really clunky. Some are shiny and polished MacOS clones. We have them all. And sometimes it's just users complaining when the UI in fact has a concept... It's just not the currently predominant design by the market leader, and people think it should be a clone of that and offer a similar experience...
You can't really compare that to Linux. Android has entirely additional layers and APIs to deal with connected standby, doing background stuff etc. All of that is missing in Linux. I own a PinePhone which is running Linux. And you either have that running and drawing like a Watt constantly. Or it goes to sleep. But that means no chat notifications, no email checking in the background and no nothing until the phone wakes again. Except for the baseband, which will wake the CPU and the operating system if a call or SMS comes in. But that's pretty much it. Keeping TCP connections open or applications listening, requires good parts of the phone to stay awake.
Android on the other hand does a lot of stuff that sends apps to sleep, wakes them up again, sends most of the hardware to sleep, offer specialized API to do all of that selectively...
And as far as I remember K-9 has a few methods implemented. It will fall back on periodic polling. So you'll get your emails no matter what. But it'll try to just keep a connection alive in the background and bypass GCM entirely. I also have it running 24/7 and even a VOIP phone app which is also okay with just a connection open in the background. I'm not sure about TCP timeouts etc. But as far as I remember that's exactly how you do it as a developer if you don't use a push provider like GCM. It uses additional battery, though.
But the baseband needs to wake and deal with an incoming packet. And something needs to decide what to do with it. So if you have like 10 connections open, waking the phone at different intervals, that'll drain some battery. If you stick to one push provider, that can bundle packets and can decide server-side if it's going to wait for a few seconds or do it right now and now the phone will do it in a coordinated fashion. GCM does this. I'm just not sure if UniversalPush has something like that implemented... Regardless, keeping connections listening can't do any of that.
You do you. Just keep up the fight for the good. I'd say it's also fine to plant a few sunflowers next to the local playground and clean up the litter, or make your community a better place for the people. In turn you'd ignore national level politics and world news. I don't think everyone needs to do that kind of politics. Just do something nice, something you're good at and it'll be alright and be of use to someone.
Reportedly, GCM uses lots of clever trickery to bundle messages, decide to delay them or do whatever with it. And I'm sure they put in lots of effort to squeeze every last bit out of it. And handle lots of different situations. But I havent kept up with the Android internals, I might be wrong. Last time I checked GCM was ahead of their competition. But the question is whether this is some theoretical benefit which manifests in a few seconds of more battery per day, or whether this has a substantial impact... I hope someone else with a bit more knowledge can chime in... I'm still not sure why my old phone and my new one from a few weeks ago report vastly different numbers on that...
(Edit: And I think there is more going on. Like server-side stuff to prioritize when to wake a device etc. I don't think it includes evil magic. Other than having 99.99% of apps be part of their ecosystem. So if you're using any proprietary app on that phone, you're going to need it. And at that point installing a second service alongside will just be an additional burden. So you either have a de-googled phone and need an alternative provider anyway... Or you have GCM anyway and the additional service will be on top...)
I'm using ntfy.sh that would be UniversalPush. But there are others as well... Gotify.net, NextPush...
I don't know what you mean by "worse". Obviously, if you're using UniversalPush in addition to Google Cloud messaging, you'll have two services draining the battery. But from my experience, ntfy.sh itself consumes something between 3% and 9% of my battery. I've still to investigate some more.
We'll have to see about that. Changing history records and telling your story instead of the truth is as old as humanity. But with recent technological advances, we have misinformation on the rise. And we'll have to see whether we can tell apart a generated video from a recording of a historical event in 10 years time... I certainly hope so. And that kind of technology is going to make progess as well. Maybe facts are just a thing of the past... That kind of sides with OP though... I mean it'll be impossible to tell apart a record of events from fakes... But if you took them themselves and verified things while they're still happening, that could prove to be helpful.
I think that works like all other regulations. Like for example food, chicken, cars and machinery. You take samples and check them. Or have a court decide to have a look at the paperwork... If anything looks fishy or people get harmed... Investigate. And we have investigators and experts in domains available. It's fairly easy to do. And decisions regularly rely on expert opinion...
And I don't view myself as the enemy in a cold war. I'm opposed to the current administration of the USA. But that's pretty much it. I'm not necessarily in active combat against the economy... Well... I am against privacy invading platforms. But because they invade privacy, and not because they are from a certain country.
I think regulation would be the proper course of action, here. I mean neither do we ban American cars in Europe. We just say they have to play by our rules or they can't do business here. So I wouldn't support a ban based on country of origin. But regulation what they can and can not do.
I found it's often not that difficult for me. I have different profiles for different material types. But I pretty much print all of the same type (PLA or PETG) at the same temperature that works well with my printer. In my experience (in the cases I tinkered around with the settings and compared the results) that works better than choosing the manufacturers specific recommended temperature. Idk. But I just use generic filament. Nothing special or with stuff added to it. So YMMV. But I just didn't find filament configurations very helpful for generic filament and for what I do.
Out of curiosity: What kind of decentralized storage has been used before?