Russ @ russjr08 @bitforged.space

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Unfortunately like you said, family members can do so of their own accord which is exactly what one of mine did, despite my warnings of such.

It's completely impossible for me to "un-ring" that bell now, so to speak.

I don't do a lot of native development (I'm primarily a Java guy) so I can't vouch for it however upon a quick search Seer looks like an interesting GDB GUI.

With those however, they never ran on Linux. This situation is different because it did run. I've only used Zoom once, so no clue if it worked excellently or if it was "meh", but it sounds like it did the job before.

Regardless, it doesn't matter if Zoom hasn't updated their Electron to account for the Wayland changes - all people will see is that it doesn't (or did, but no longer) works on Linux and will blame Linux instead.

Which, that is fine if we want Linux to always be a hobbyist operating system. However if we want Linux to be more accessible to people then unfortunately the ball is in our court to try to not break something as simple (or rather, what most regular users would define as simple) as this.

This is how I felt about my Stadia controller! Under Windows I had to buy some third party software to get it to work, and the rumble still doesn't work there. However in Linux wired or wireless works perfectly, and the rumble works too!

I'm by no means a medical expert, so just a stab in the dark here - our brains constantly process all sorts of information. Whether that's memories, input from your various senses, or a million other things. During that process, your brain is also trying to make sense of it all ("Why?", "What does it mean", "How?", etc).

Our ability to communicate and express language is intertwined in this process, which of course is what gives you the perception of dialog. So in essence, I think its just our brains trying to make sense of... its process of making sense, if that makes sense?

On a side note, I'm practically dosing myself with semantic satiation with how many times I've used "sense" here (that last one being more tongue-in-cheek)...

My experience with Nvidia+ Wayland was... Less than desirable. Enough to make me pickup an AMD card.

However, once I did that my experience instantly better. Hell, even X11 worked better - I was never able to get the desktop to stay at a consistent 60FPS (I'm still on a 60Hz panel which I'm just now getting around to upgrading shortly) in X until I moved to my AMD card.

The 545 driver update just made things so much worse. So I'd say Wayland+Nvidia is not great (for others it works fine so maybe it's down to what card you have?) however on my AMD card (and my old MacBook with Intel integrated graphics) it's fantastic.

ActivityPub does use cryptographic keys for Actors ("users" in this case) - so even in theory if you were to destroy your instance and then set it up on the same domain and recreate the user, things would be quite broken still... But unfortunately it still does rely on the domain name itself, so I agree.

I think the problem is, without the domain name, there is no way for you to lookup who @russjr08 would be, or where to send data to them. The domain effectively acts as a mailing address (a well suited analogy considering that ActivityPub also uses inboxes/outboxes) so that Instance A always knows that User B can be found on Instance B.

I doubt its an impossible challenge to solve, but probably quite a difficult one I'm sure.

They have access to your password hash, effectively the "infrastructure" admin(s) as I'll call it (not admins of the site - they need to have access to the actual system that is running the instance) have access to the same things that infrastructure admins of another site would have.

Lemmy should implement proper post deletion, possibly with a delay to allow moderators and admins to inspect deleted posts, but expect anything you share via ActivityPub to follow the once on the internet, always on the internet rule even more than in the past.

How would this be done? Like you mentioned, anyone can run a modified instance of Lemmy that does not honor delete requests. I suppose you could put something that retrieves content from other servers as a pull operation instead of a push, but that's going to break Lemmy's ability to work with other ActivityPub applications (at the very least).

Yeah, AFAIK ActivityPub itself heavily relies on the domain being part of your identity - so its not really possible to change the domain on any of them, along with other federation implementations such as Matrix.

This is why while Mastodon allows for profile transfers, it doesn't transfer your post content - it simply just sends a signal to your followers to unfollow your old account and follow your new one. The actual content itself is intrinsically tied to your identity on the old domain.

They did test me for antibodies and I was positive for them sadly. That's quite a horrifying story for prednisone though, ironically I've always had a difficult time with the withdrawal symptoms from it during a taper-down of it, whereas with something like most opioids I pretty much have zero problem stopping them even abruptly, aside from a headache for a few days. For me I was never told about the long-term side effects from prolonged usage of prednisone, which I'm now being forced to deal with - an example of such is that it decayed most of the calcium/enamel in my teeth so this whole year I've had numerous root canals, fillings, and tooth extractions done and its not even over with. Honestly, I'm afraid of needing dentures before I even hit 40 (and I'm in my mid twenties)... Then there's the high chance of bone density issues, which I'm sure I'll end up with (if I don't already have such issues)... and I still have yet to shed all of the extra weight that I gained from it.

Works wonders for some people on a short term basis, but I'll never choose to be on prednisone ever again, short of some very exigent circumstances... and even then, I don't want to fall into the problem of starting it and not being able to be pulled off of it without declining again really rapidly (which is what led to me staying on it for so long).

Ah thank you! This gives me something to dig into tonight, I appreciate it.

That was actually the first immunomodulator I tried and it went very well for me (I was about 14 years old when I first started it)! It led me to the closest form of remission that I have ever been in. Unfortunately, due to some bad circumstances I wasn't able to take it for over a year (might've been two now that I think about it) and I'm sure you're aware but for those who don't know, generally after being off any immunomodulator for a certain amount of time, you're not allowed to take it anymore due to the chances of building up antibodies that make it ineffective (and can lead to severe allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis).

Since then I've been on pretty much most of the other ones, I'm on Stelara now and while I've been told it's preventing more damage from occurring, it can't reverse the damage that has already been done (from things like scar tissue) - even after numerous resections it's still pretty bad for me.

However, I have noticed that when my depression isn't so active, then my symptoms aren't as bad - it's not a miracle cure by any means and still doesn't bring me to that previous point of remission, it's still enough for me to find it worth pursuing.

Of course, multiple doctors have concluded that my on-and-off depression is due to having a chronic illness, and my current psychiatrist is attempting to treat it as if I had BPD (something about the way it works chemically in my brain is probably similar to that of someone with BPD). Hopefully that gets me out of the vicious cycle of my Crohn's triggering my depression, which triggers my Crohn's in a catch-22 style loop.

I do find that I certainly have some bad foods (I really miss popcorn) but there are things that affect others supposedly that don't affect me, such as soda and other carbonated drinks (oddly enough I've heard for some Crohn's patients carbonated drinks can actually help them, so maybe I'm one of those?) - until I reach remission I just continue to try to push on trying as much as I can, since numerous GIs over the years just have zero clue on how to further help me sadly.

(They did make things significantly worse for me by having me on Prednisone for multiple years at a time, but that's another long story)

Sure, I'll bite.

Do not attempt to tell me "what I'm thinking"

I'm not going to pretend that my way of thinking is "unique" because I can't speak for how others think, but I expect that same courtesy to apply to me as well. For example, whenever someone says "You seem to think..." it upsets me quite a bit. What I say out loud (or "write" I suppose) doesn't include the context of how I got to that point.

I very much am happy for people to tell me when I'm wrong on something, because if I'm wrong I would like to know (more-so if they can actually prove it... just saying "You're wrong" and not saying how leads to nothing, but that is a whole other rant). However, one thing that that no one can assert to know more than I do is how I think, what I'm thinking, or the methods that I used to arrive to something I've said/done. You can possibly predict it depending on how long you've known me for, but to try to claim you know exactly what, is very egregious in my eyes.

I have a pretty high tolerance before my temper is set off (or as I like to say "A very long fuse, but an even higher yield when that fuse runs out"), but there is a small list of exceptions to that - one being hypocrisy, and the other being this.

Your take on this is interesting, I have Crohn's disease so I'm always trying to learn as much about it and other autoimmune diseases as I can (I have zero background in medical science, everything I know is based off my pursuit of learning more). If I understand what you're saying correctly, rather than say Lupus from your example just being "Lupus", it should be more like diabetes where there is "Type 1" diabetes, "Type 2", etc?

For myself, I know that my condition has a very strong physical component to it, but part of that is also influenced by psychological factors as well - when I'm more stressed, then my condition flares up even worse than it normally would for example (and is one reason I've been pushing heavily on trying to get things treated on the psychiatry side of things).

I don't suppose there's anywhere to read more up on what you're referring to?

Censorship isn't the right word here, I would say. Censorship would make sense if this were a government that was being spoken about but it's not.

I'll take it from the perspective of myself, I run a Lemmy instance that is open for people to register for (after a brief application question and confirming your email address). If someone registered, and wanted to post Nazi-adjacent content I would remove it and ban them right away.

I would not be "censoring" your ability to see it. I would be saying "I do not want to host this content on the hardware that I am paying for and maintain". Sure, you could argue that the side effect is that you're not able to see it, but my intent isn't "censorship". If you want to see red and pink diamonds (just a completely abstract example), but I did not want to host it, then as the person who's paying for the hardware then my want will always come first. That isn't to say that others aren't free (including yourself) to host said red and pink diamonds.

Censorship as a term makes sense for the government, because they have the power to enforce that everyone under their ruling must not host red and pink diamonds. I alone do not. Now, maybe almost every single Lemmy instance also doesn't want to host red and pink diamonds - that would still not be censorship, that would just be most instance admins happen to align the same and are executing the same rules for their own sites.

Of course, replace myself with a private business owner, and Lemmy instances with something like a News subscription website, the meaning should still be the same. Hopefully my stance makes sense, I'm not writing this with the intent of "You're wrong and I'm right" in the direct sense, but as a "I disagree, and here's why".

I did see your conversation with the other person here, and I agree that government censorship is bad (such as the weird concept of having to upload your ID to view porn), but I just don't view this in the same way I suppose.

Obviously, Substack is within their rights to allow red and pink diamonds if they want, but if they didn't then that would not be censorship (in my eyes, at least).

You have consumed water and are alive.

Bold assumption! Jokes aside, perhaps that was the phrasing that he used. Unfortunately it's been quite a while since I was in grade school.

That's not exclusive to Zorin however, that's just a Gnome 42 feature (unless the base gnome implementation is the one you're referring to that needs configuring in the terminal).

Authorized Fetch has been a thing for a bit on Mastodon at least - but as far as I can see it's a global toggle rather than saying "If you present as a domain on the blocklist then you must be authorized to fetch this resource" (the selective authorized fetch I assume they're talking about).

Never used Akkoma though, so I can't speak for it.

I would say the issue is more of, if you don't trust what someone on Reddit, a message board, blog, etc/whatever - then what difference is it going to make if someone on Lemmy says "Yes, I have firsthand experience"? Obviously it's one thing if a friend, or someone I personally know, asks for "actual" experience vs someone on the Internet... But this isn't the case (I'm going to assume you don't know the person you replied to). I'd even potentially get it if there was only one random comment on some random website - however that's not the case either.

I couldn't even make the argument of there being more implicit trust in the Lemmy space... Because a lot of us came from Reddit anyways.

So what difference is it actually going to make?

And yes, for the record, I do have "actual experience" with this - just in case somehow I'm more trustworthy than tons of people who have posted on Reddit (or some other site).