IFTAS is In a Funding Crisis
I have literally never heard of this group before now, and my immediate question is "What do they bring to the table? How important can they be if I've never heard of them? In what universe can any organization related to the fediverse justify looking for 1.3 million dollars in funding‽”
The two systems they offer (as listed in the article) Fedicheck and CCS, as far as I am aware, already have open source alternatives in db0's Fediseer and whatever his anti-CSAM tool is called.
They also offer... guidelines for fediverse moderators? Not frameworks for bots or automoderation tools. But their opinions on how others should moderate spaces that this group doesn't actually run.
Did anyone out there ask for an advisory group for something that thrives on it's individuality?
Maybe I'm too used to the old reprehensible internet. Maybe I'm too used to spaces that keep an intentional level of friction against new joining outsiders.
Maybe I'm missing something critical here and I've only been exposed to db0's work being on his Lemmy instance.
I would love to be provided with more information on this group, and direct examples of value they've provided to the Fediverse.
But at a simple gut check, this comes across like a group of self righteous people who rather than run their own instances, want to be paid to tell others how to run instances.
Anything this group is doing should be open source, should be well advertised, and should be well discussed Fediverse-wide. The fact that I'm only first hearing about this group during what is effectively an e-begging session sets off alarms.
Lemmy has just had it's first round of spambots in DMs. Does the fediverse now have a group of self righteous non-admin non-mods trying to make something they can make money from and put on a resume?
This would not be the first instance of resume stuffing "guidance organizations" to try and enforce themselves in an online space/open source project.
At absolute best, assuming this is a group known in Mastodon and the various non-lemmy fedi-spaces: This would not be the first time some group that is deeply invested and well known in Mastodon crosses the border to Lemmy to find that despite sharing protocol, there are differences in culture.
Just because your Scout Troop and the AA meetings use the same building, that doesn't mean that AA members have any interest in supporting the scouts, or in having the scouts tell them how they should run AA meetings.
Let me be clear: I want to be proven wrong and for this group to be a pleasant surprise of a worthwhile force for good and the continued growth of the Fediverse.
But I'm also being honest about my reaction to some group I've never heard of before claiming to be so vital to the Fediverse that them maybe not getting $1.3M is something that I should care enough about to donate.
I've used Sardu on Windows for making multi-iso bootable USB sticks a long time ago in the past, but I'd admittedly never looked at their ToS or Privacy Policy. My use case was slapping some live boot antivirus scanners, data recovery tools, and one or two lightweight liveboot-Linux ISOs on one USB as a portable toolkit.
When I'm making anything else from Windows, I've always stuck with Rufus. Had never heard of BalenaEtcher before now.
I see you've met my toddler. She's a master of the scientific process.
By which I mean she will try something that caused her finger to get stuck three more times to check if her finger gets stuck every time.
- Some fucking line breaks would considerably help your point be easier to read. Right now it comes across as a crazy screed.
- You're complaining to a void that doesn't want to hear you or care, and this is definitively not the right community to post this in. There are various rant, off my chest, and unpopular opinion communities. This is a stretch for a community meant for meta discussion about your specific instance.
- Lemmy was never meant to be free speech specifically, or accepting of all opinions. Just more open than Reddit, and with the ability for people to host their own spaces if their opinions were being suppressed by other instances. There was no goal for every instance to be open to every point of view. Lemmy's lead dev, Dessalines, is a transphobic "hard tankie" marxist leninist, who runs the Marxist Leninist instance lemmy.ml.
- You will find this kind of "suppression"/"bullying"/"negative responses to out-group ideas and thinking" everywhere online. Especially in spaces set up like Lemmy/Reddit/HackerNews etc with voting effecting content visibility. It is inherent to the design. Even on sites without this format, like 4chan, you still see this sort of behavior. Best get used to it.
- Also, from personal experience, just block communities and users that are assholes. The Fediverse has a low enough count of daily active users that blocking actually makes a difference in the content and viewpoints you encounter.
- Lastly, there are right wing lemmy instances. They tend to be filled with actual nazis and pedophiles, which is why no instances will federate with them.
Spoiler: I agree that calling Jan 6 an attempted coup is a stretch. The most heavily armed group in the US tried to overthrow the government and there was minimal firearm based violence?
That said, none of the chucklefucks that broke into buildings deserve any sort of pardon. They broke the law fair and simple. Feelings of righteousness don't change that. Only coordinated legal and political effort would, and I don't think anyone is going to back the idea that those building should be open access to an uncontrolled public.
I would check with your instance before questioning if it has anything to do with the app you use to access it.
For what it's worth, I've seen no issues with speed using Jerboa against the dbzer0 instance.
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It's not unreasonable to ask for a NSFW tag so I don't casually scroll into an image with the business end of a pocket pussy on my feed.
My morality and logic is just different.
Holy shit you cannot be real. I just choked on my water.
Man you are like the postershild of that meme about playing chess with a pigeon. Knock over the board, shit on everything, and strut away with every fiber of your being reinforcing the idea that you "won".
You're more than welcome to find retroactive justification for your actions, or to shore up in your head the concept that the end result justifies your means. But that doesn't mean "I'm just built different I guess, teehee!" like some sort of badge of honor.
From life experience, and from knowing a number of people like you over my years: If you continue with this sort of attittude towards life, and general pattern of behavior, it will come back to bite you hard someday. When it does you will likely not find many people sympathethic to you or willing to help you, due to your own behavior.
I'm fairly certain that you aren't the type of person capable of reflecting on your behavior or the responses to it in the last thread or this one and learning to ba a better person from it, but in the rare chance:
Your own descriptions of your own actions meant to portray you as being in the right instead portray you as an impatient asshole with the emotional and psychological maturity level of a 12 year old, who also has an absurdly inflated idea of the value of themself and their actions.
There is not much worse in this world than self righteous fuckstains taking actions that were never asked for or wanted, with the motivation that they are only doing what is best for other people who never asked for their help.
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Would it be too much to ask for a NSFW tag on this? Thanks.
If you're talking about playing on tablet, it's best to play the games through emulators or open source sourceports rather than paid store releases. As another comment mentions, you never know when the company that made the port will stop updating it for new OS versions.
ScummVM works well for playing old point and click adventure games on Android phones. More screen real estate on a tablet couldn't hurt. Supports over 250 games. I've gotten tons of playtime out of it.
I regularly play turn based RPGs on my phone through Retroarch (and more recently Lemuroid which is the same core but minorly better UI).
I also use a handful of emulators and source ports with a controller mount to play more action-y games off my phone, but I don't think that's what you're looking for with playing on a tablet.
For tablets, stuff I'm aware of but haven't used myself: There's android ports of OpenXcom, OpenTTD (I think), and Theme Hospital.
There's also a pretty long list of source ports here, with the OS's they support listed.
Edit: if you aren't already playing old games through emulation, the world is your oyster.
I'm not saying Bluesky sucks, but this is childish.
Bluesky was started by the same guy who started Twitter, and is only federated in concept.
It was never meant to be "Twitter but better". It was always meant to be "How can we make the most money off fleeing twitter users?". There's a lot of overlap between the money making and being better, but it's incidental to the real goal. Any claims otherwise are pure marketing.
Did any of Chuck Tingle's books get physical releases?
Meanwhile I'm here laughing in Jerboa. No fancy auto refresh for me.
I'm probably overdue for checking out other lemmy apps.
Brother you aren't thinking far enough!
- How many years have we allowed women to vote for them to just not stop this from happening?
- Why did we bother freeing the slaves when we just all ended up slaves to the corporate system man?
- What did we bother keeping that cold war cold for?
Seriously, thank you for the laugh. This is one weird ass twist on "ends justify the means" here. "Current situation retroactively invalidates any previous progress or the tools used to reach it" maybe? Quite a mouthful.
My guy, life is filled with meaningless gestures we all have to regularly do.
I frequently know the only viable solution for companywide issues at my workplace. Do I just run off on my own and shove it through because I know I'm right? No.
Even when the change is so buried in the back end that they'd never know, I participate in the meaningless gesture of informing the business folks, taking questions that they don't have the knowledge base to understand my answers, etc. It's a regular process established in my workplace, and despite it not changing anything, it must be followed.
For the price of a few hours every four years, I get to bite back at people who argue that you don't have any say if you didn't vote. And if by some miracle voting ends up effecting some change (companies drawing conclusions from the popular vote maybe?), I'm already doing the bare minimum.
Even if one accepts the argument that voting is not productive, that doesn't inherently justify not participating. There's plenty of things people do daily that are not productive or useful uses of their time.
Please demonstrate the harm caused by voting in the presidential elections.
Even if it's not productive, it takes at absolute worst case living in a hellscape without properly staffed polling places, one day out of your time every four years. I was able to do it and get back to my shit in 30 minutes this time, from the time I left home to the time I got back.
So even if it's useless, for me it was the same as sitting on my ass and watching a TV show. Explain why that is such a horrendous waste of my time that I should have instead not done it at all.
On top of this, it sounds like he didn't offer seats on the private jet to any of you guys either? That's beyond simply evilly out of touch and into the realm of "are we actually friends if you're willfully taking separate transportation to avoid spending time with the rest of us?"
I could at least comprehend if he wanted to have 4 extra hours with you all at the destination, but if he's just going to spend the time savings alone that is a massive dick move on top of the already massive dick move.
This is specifically not a commuter flight. OP mentions "the jet" as in this guy has or charters a private jet.
I used to do plenty of pixel art in MS Paint on Windows XP when I was young. Zoom in as far as it'll go, and the pencil tool works pixel by pixel. Just need a steady hand. You could even use the eyedropper tool, some modifier key I've forgotten, and the eraser tool to replace one color in the image with another if you were editing existing sprites.
So many silly recolor "OC"s. So. Many.
To summarize my comment on your post of this article on lemmy.ml:
Literally who?
How in the absolute fuck does any group not involved in hosting the largest fediverse instances even begin to justify looking for $1.3 Million in funding?