true_blue

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[–] true_blue 1 points 1 year ago

LFG that was something I've been hoping got added! I'm not even a big gamer, but I like it when I do game.

[–] true_blue 1 points 1 year ago

I'm tired of the CCP basically forcing everyone to join them in playing pretend that Taiwan isn't a country, and depriving those people of a national identity. I'm also annoyed that most other countries are agreeing to play along when it's obviously untrue, just so the CCP doesn't start throwing a fit.

[–] true_blue 18 points 1 year ago

But with the way the Reddit admins are handling the website, you wouldn't have had that sub for much longer anyway. That's the whole point of the blackout in the first place. Don't blame the protesters. Blame the admins. They're the ones with the power to change things.

[–] true_blue 13 points 1 year ago

That'd be cool, but just a simple reminder in case not, that you can simply make an account on that instance. There's no limit to what instances you're allowed to have accounts on or anything like that, so you can always do that.

Still for cohesion I get wanting it all together.

 

So I made a small little command-line utility for myself just for practice, but I had a hard time figuring out how to actually turn it into something I can just use on the command line with no fuss. It uses a virtual environment as Python packages should, so it needs to be run in that environment and I was having trouble figuring out how to do it.

But then I remembered that pipx runs application in a virtual environment, and after checking the docs, I found out that it allows installing local packages by just pointing install at the package directory. So I did, and after setting up the command name as a project script that points to main it ended up working.

I haven't ever heard of anyone doing something like this for a personal program though. Is something like this a bad idea? Is it over engineering or error prone? Is there another way that most people do something like this?

[–] true_blue 2 points 1 year ago

I can definitely see name-collisions being an issue, where communities on different instances have the same community "ID", but aren't actually about the same thing. I'm still overall in favor of the basic idea though.

[–] true_blue 2 points 1 year ago

I'm very excited for the future of machine learning right now. I was cynical about it for a short while in mid 2022, since I got the impression that it was all going to be proprietary, privacy-invading online services, but things look like they're changing.

A future of democratized open-standard and open-source AI sounds like a good one to me!

[–] true_blue 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah something like that was what I was looking for. I don't see any mention of "Federation worker count" but... not everything is documented so whatever. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks!

[–] true_blue 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a wiki of Lemmy or fediverse terminology for stuff like this? I'm not sure what "Federation worker count" is, but I also don't know where to look to find the answer.

[–] true_blue 7 points 1 year ago

Honestly, owning up to it being a selfish decision deserves some respect. I'm a big proponent of free expression and avoiding censorship, but I took a gander at the kinda stuff they got over there and...

It's not even the views they hold that's my main problem. It's really that they're just so needlessly rude and aggressive, and as you pointed out, they seem to be a lot more censorship happy than here anyway. I would be more sympathetic to them if they were less censorship happy themselves, and if they were less mean.

I do want to stress that I hope you keep the number of blocked instances to a minimum, since I feel that it would be better if the Lemmy software had better tools for users to control what they block for themselves better, and also maybe just having "default" blocklists that users can disable, to keep the new-user experience nice, but yeah for that particular instance, I can't be too mad about it.

[–] true_blue 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I came here because of the reddit situation, but I didn't come from reddit. I just heard about of bunch of people thinking about going to lemmy and thought it might be fun to try it out.

[–] true_blue 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the big thing I hate about downvotes on Reddit. Instead of downvotes, people who disagree should make a comment about it, and then THAT comment can get upvoted to show that people disagree with the original comment. It encourages conversation and discourages echo-chambers where people are punished for having a different opinion.

[–] true_blue 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Do you know about Flatseal? It's an application that lets you manage flatpak permissions. Until the portals system is fully working, weakening the sandboxing using Flatseal is what a lot of people do to make the apps work correctly.

Also, if you use KDE, the settings app has flatseal-like functionality built in.

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