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[–] planish 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

X11 was never great.

(Like seriously, it's nothing but config files you have to edit from the local console shell and and proprietary stuff from nvidia that misbehaves, all the way down. Always has been.)

[–] planish 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think to test it you'd need to do some kind of comprehensive analysis, something like a big spreadsheet of a convincingly unbiased sampling of states (or states-at-points-in-time), evaluated for libertarianism-vs-authoritarianism. But you'd need to have a way to distinguish whether differences between states were caused by inherent per-state effects (or by more mechanistic runs-with-the-state traits, like "having a written constitution" or "being a monarchy"), or by "circumstances". So you'd need a way to measure plausibly-causitive circumstances and then see how much of the variance they explained.

It'd be a big project and hard to do in a controlled way across a large enough sample, but if you sent enough history grad students out to rate things like "worker organization" in 1925 Germany and "protections for human rights in constitutional law" in 1975 New Zealand on 5-point scales, you might be able to get a data set that could answer this question.

[–] planish 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There aren’t really degrees of authoritarian or libertarian in a state, just what circumstances the system finds itself in.

This sounds like that rare thing in political science: a falsifiable assertion. Do you happen to know if anyone has tested it?

[–] planish -1 points 1 week ago

There were also "no girls on the Internet". Everything was gatekept, every space was some sysop's petty feifdom. Racism ran rampant, so pervasive as to be almost invisible.

It wasn't uniformly better.

We can't, and shouldn't go back. Ever forward.

[–] planish 6 points 2 weeks ago

Counterexample:

Andromeda herself, a woman wearing a red space jumpsuit

[–] planish 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nice try, phone thieves.

[–] planish 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just because someone does something instead of fighting a war doesn't make whatever they actually did do right. They could also do neither thing. Especially if the alternative to war turns out to not actually achieve the goal the war would have achieved, leaving them in the same position of deciding whether to do a bad thing or not, after having already done another different bad thing.

[–] planish 1 points 1 month ago

I didn't ask whether it was better or worse than declaring a war; it's clearly less bad than starting a war.

But that doesn't mean it's right. Maybe doing neither a war nor sanctions, but something else, or nothing, is the right thing to do.

[–] planish 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It works on some devices; they do sign the builds as far as I can tell. But the bootloader itself needs to be convinceable to trust the LOS signatures, and needs to understand the secure boot implementation used in the Android that the current LOS is built from (since Android has re-done it all a few times). Nobody knows anything about bootloaders to figure out which of them can do this or how they would be induced to do it.

[–] planish 1 points 4 months ago

qsnc is a gentleperson and a scholar

[–] planish 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You don't need an Invidious instance to back FreeTube. You can set it to local mode to just talk to YouTube from your IP, or to operate through a proxy.

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[POV] You are orb (assets.untappd.com)
 
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Machine Yearning (www.linusakesson.net)
submitted 2 years ago by planish to c/jukebox
 

Obviously it wouldn't be allowed in this community, but how feasible would it be to make a community on a friendly instance and start shipping data through it somehow? If it works for NNTP it ought to work for ActivityPub, right?

Potential problems:

  1. Community full of base64'd posts immediately gets blocked by everybody's home instance.
  2. Community host immediately gets sued for handing out data it might not have a license for.
  3. Other instances that carry the community immediately get sued (see #2).
  4. Community host is in the US and follows DMCA and deletes all the posts that are complained about.

Maybe it would work as a way to distribute NZBs or other things that are useful but not themselves copyrightable? But the problem with NZBs is you have to keep them away from the people who want to send DMCAs to the Usenet providers about them, or they stop working. So shipping them around in a basically public protocol like ActivityPub would not be good for them.

 

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Start a Node project that uses at least five direct dependencies.
  2. Leave it alone for three months.
  3. Come back and try to install it.

Something in the dependency tree will yell at you that it is deprecated or discontinued. That thing will not be one of your direct dependencies.

NPM will tell you that you have at least one security vulnerability. At least one of the vulnerabilities will be impossible to trigger in your particular application. At least one of the vulnerabilities will not be able to be fixed by updating the versions of your dependencies.

(I am sure I exaggerate, but not by much!)

Why is it like this? How many hours per week does this running-to-stay-in-place cost the average Node project? How many hours per week of developer time is the minimum viable Node project actually supposed to have available?

 

Through witchcraft and dark magic, Zig contains a C standard library and cross compiler for every architecture in 45 megabytes.

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Mess with DNS (messwithdns.net)
 

Julia Evans has done it again.

cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/88689

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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Destroy With Science (tube.arthack.nz)
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Destroy With Science (tube.arthack.nz)
submitted 2 years ago by planish to c/jukebox
 

Doesn't seem like that acronym is used for anything important at the moment, I'm sure we can grab it.

 

That's right folks, I want to see you post your... old dreams.

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Dungeons and Dafuq (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by planish to c/dndmemes
 
 

Many AI image generators, including the big UIs for Stable Diffusion, helpfully embed metadata in the images so that you can load them up again and get all the settings you need to regenerate the image.

But Lemmy's built-in pict-rs image hoster, and most image hosters that resize or re-encode images or that try and stop people from doxing themselves with photos' embedded GPS coordinates, will remove all the metadata. This is counter-productive for AI image generation, because part of the point of sharing the images is so other people can build on the prompts.

What are some good places to host images that don't strip metadata?

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