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It's not gone, it has gone underground, i like this model to describe the current internet
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It's Firefox, with the Firefox branding and some questionable decisions like the AI chatbot sidebar and a few others removed
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I will defend the Free Software movement, but Stallman? Nah
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In case someone affiliated with the project is around, saw this feature request from last year to integrate Standard Ebooks as an additional source to Myne, an Android app to download and read Project Gutenberg ebooks on the device, but the dev failed to find a way to programatically get the books and closed the ticket, and i too failed to find an API or something similar when i checked. Is there such a thing? In theory you could do it with web scraping, but that's a tool of last resort in my opinion, and it's far better to have an API or a similar feature.
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Heh, subbed
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6d ago
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Ah damn, now i have that song stuck in my head!
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6d ago
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I hate that this happens, because he's a goddamned prophet when it comes to software freedom, the harms of proprietary dev models and related stuff, he's also in mastodon and regularly posts about international news i see no one else mention, but damn there's just no coming back from all this shit, how the hell would you share stuff he has said with all this gross stuff staining him? Goddammit, Stallman, you were supposed to be at least an OK person!
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MANY of the old places of the internet are still active, heavily overshadowed by the current centralized feudal web of 5 websites all with screenshots of each other but STILL alive. Hell, even IRC is still running, and i understand so does Usenet!
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Okay, I'm going to start using "the panda colored ball" to refer to football balls just to annoy my football fan friends
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So, appealing to actual fucking nazis isn't actually profitable? Oh noes!
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Watched it too, don't feel it's going specially slow as the characters focus has been strong. Saw the peeps on the opening and i too hope they have time to showcase them.
Also i must say, the Ars and Licia couple is so goddamned adorable! Love seeing those two together! 😄
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About Appraisal Isekai Season 2, been following the manga, and we're about to enter the actual succession war, so here's where both most characters will shine, and where it will go most Suikoden with the recruiting people thing, high hopes here
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Snikket is an attempt to solve the XMPP issues, or at least to reduce them, single all-in-one XMPP server distro and clients across platforms, and since it's self-hosted no one should get their hands on your data (in normal circumstances).
That said, the saying goes "Perfect is the enemy of Good". Just because a solution is not perfect doesn't make it unusable, any of those options you mention full of problems are a helluva better than FB Messenger or plain SMS for example. Depending on your threat model they might be more than enough.
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There should be a crowdfunding to project a giant looping video of this mod in front of their offices for a year
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Okay, i chuckled at this one
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I understood it was Google-only, great to be mistaken about it. Still, the app should also support that geojson importation format too, there shouldn't be a need for external tools, SPECIALLY since it's what Google Takeout gives you, this very much should be a feature of the app.
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Heh, hadn't seen KDE like this in ages, it's been a while
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Good and all, but as somebody mentioned on the Masto comments this shouldn't be needed, this is taking an open JSON file and turning it into a proprietary Google-only format so that Organic Maps can import it, that feature should be on the app itself already.
Also as you're uploading that data to a random website you're effectively doxxing yourself as your important addresses likely will be there, your home, your workplace, etc.
Edit: Was mistaken and corrected below, the format IS a standard, not proprietary, in addition the author answered in Masto clarifying that all the conversion happens in the browser without uploading anything. That said, i do insist that the app should support uploading in this geojson format, specially since it's what Google Takeout gives you
I am very out of the loop with related recent tech, but once in a while i wish i had subtitles for internet clips, and i understand there's good tech out there for this these days. Is there something i can download in a typical headless Debian machine that i can then point at some MP4 clip to get subtitles? Even if imperfect it's better than trying to type that from scratch
After episode 12, we're on chapter 34 of the manga *out of 97*, on a series with a promised 24 episodes, by Trigger which has never done multiple seasons of any show, and which has adapted the story EXTREMELY close to the source without rushing anything. Am i the only one worried about how the hell are they gonna adapt the remaining chapters in the remaining 12 episodes? Unless Trigger breaks their streak and they actually have a second season of one of their shows for the first time in their history (I'm ABSOLUTELY IN if they do), i just don't see how they're gonna do it, they have NOT rushed any part of the story yet, and i don't see much if anything of the manga that could be safely cut without structurally compromising the story. Do we know if they have promised an S2 or something? What do we know?
A couple weeks ago [Discord announced their plans to go down the IPO route](https://www.techspot.com/news/102186-discord-claims-more-than-200-million-monthly-active.html). This means that there is now a ticking clock until the platform goes full-on enshittified like so many others before them. Last time i checked last year there weren't many options to migrate to, mostly Matrix communities (which are not quite the same thing) and [Revolt Chat](https://revolt.chat/) (which is a non-federated but FOSS and self-hostable drop-in replacement for Discord). Revolt sounds like the logical route as it's clearly designed for just this exact role, but it seems it's still early in development and not yet ready for the average Discord user (looks like the voice functions in particular are still in development) Has this changed or improved since then? I feel like the use case of "IRC servers, but modern!" should have been solved years ago but feels like it hasn't, i have lots of non-technical people who heavily use Discord who I'd love to rescue from it before it starts actively burning, a replacement that isn't complicated and has all it's features would be welcome.
First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?
The AnimeBytes outage from yesterday was because of this, DNS registrar seems to have gone down with all it's .tv domains, and this has taken down lots of sites
Initial reaction from one of the main admins was that if in 12 hours there had been no news they'd nuke the servers, seems like they're not gonna do it anymore. Many domains registered by one admin were seized at the same time, so might not even be aimed at the tracker. Waiting for more news. Update: Looks like the DNS registrar itself was the one that went down and took lots of sites with it, TorrentFreak article: [100s of Pirate Sites Go Dark as .TV Domains Placed on ServerHold - TorrentFreak](https://torrentfreak.com/100s-of-pirate-sites-go-dark-as-tv-domains-placed-on-serverhold-240221/)
arstechnica.com
Well shit...
futurism.com
Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI. For the interested, [here's the place where you can request your personal data and delete your account](https://drive-thru.duolingo.com/)
[Twillio just announced they're discontinuing the Desktop version of their popular Two Factor Authentication client](https://support.authy.com/hc/en-us/articles/17592416719003-Authy-for-Desktop-End-of-Life-EOL-). Their proposed solution is for users to move to the mobile app, which of course doesn't fulfill the use case of people who explicitly chose Authy because it had a desktop client. If you use Authy and depend on the Desktop client you will have to consider migrating to something else.
Today somebody in a group I'm in which has some accessibility issues was yet again complaining that their Dragon Speaking software was not playing nice with Firefox, which led me to see if there was an alternative, and surprisingly i found none workable at the plain user level beyond Dragon, and upgrading for that person might actually be costly (From what they say it starts at nearly $200 but apparently can go as high as $700? Not clear yet). So, obviously now I'm checking about the FOSS side of things, a search has been inconclusive as i see stuff for developers, multiple different projects (which is a marked improvement from a decade ago when i last tried and failed to do this), but so far haven't found anything at the user level. Have i overlooked something? Or is it that we're many years later still at the "building libraries" stage without actual user-level stuff people can just apt-get or download? Quick edit: I must insist, is there something for ***USERS***, not ***DEVELOPERS***, that i have overlooked? APIs or commandline programs or learning models are not a software i can hand to my non-programmer friend to install on their computer to replace Dragon to help them write on Firefox
So, a relative that all she plays in her tablet is solitaire, saw ads of some mobile crap full of microtransactions and now wants some of those. I said i'd check if there was games kinda like those (all puzzles of some sort), and would highly prefer if they're all FOSS to avoid or at least highly reduce the chance they're gonna turn into microtransaction-laden crap or start syphoning all the data in the phone or something. But given that i don't really play in mobile i have no idea what's available. Checking on F-Droid it just lists every game in the "games" category, "Show all 467 packages", not separated by genre or with ratings or anything Is there a place to look up this kind of thing?
Somebody I’m helping has an ancient, and i mean ancient (like 3 major versions before latest or so) install of Rundeck doing stuff for them. Might help them upgrade it to the latest (more like reinstall and configure from scratch, it was built years ago with assumptions no longer true), but before i commit I’d like to know if there’s decent replacements/alternatives for it these days. In case you don’t know Rundeck, it allows you to set it up so that a number of users, with various privilege levels, are allowed to execute scripts on remote machines, with whatever privileges the given script needs, giving them parameters from an allowed set you configure. That’s all, no more, no less. Sounds like something that should be common, but when you look for alternatives it gives you everything that’s ever been touched by the word DevOps, from Ansible and every “configuration engine” software ever made, to automation libraries and the like. I just want something that does this and no more, let people run scripts while preventing them to break stuff. If it’s something commandline friendly (Rundeck wasn’t as far as i can see) much better, and doubly so if it’s user friendly (have tried AWX and feels like it wants to be able to run the whole of Google from a browser window, dislike it in general, far too convoluted, and not user friendly at all for the not very techie office workers that use Rundeck today).
[Original comment](https://bungle.online/notes/9krv9o0gnc ), copy-pasted for convenience: >why do so many projects start with a discord and not with a wiki, or github, or web presence? > simply, discord is the fastest, most frictionless way to do the following: > - garner a community of support ensuring that there is an audience for the project > - provide access to idea validation for the creators of that project. rapid feedback for their project = rapid progress > - provide the easy creation of (not necessarily accessible nor good, but) quick resources for the project > forums, websites, hell even github can only hope to match the value proposition of discord, and it's something people fail to take into account when they criticise the move to discord as a file host/forum/wiki/project website > if you want people to make a file host/forum/wiki/project website, they're directly competing with the frictionless, fast, yet unsustainable and frankly web-shit discord. the fast, frictionless nature is enough for people to use and accept, hell, even to make infrastructural to their project > a platform that could create a non-webshit, easy way to provide the value that discord provides, all while being just as fast and frictionless if not faster/more lubricated, would absolutely blow discord out the water I am a sysadmin and my level of tech friction tolerance is different from the people referenced here leading projects, but I'd like to gather opinions on this, the fact that this regularly happens as described suggests there's a whole lot of truth to it, but i feel like it's overstating the friction, am i wrong here?
We have a machine running some stuff on Docker, and little by little it has started to become important to keep an eye on it. However, looking for information on monitoring a Docker server it always seem to assume you're running it in Swarm mode, which is not and WILL NOT be the case of this machine, Swarm adds a layer of complexity unneeded in this case. What do you recommend for this case? I for one would love if the thing didn't just give you a view of the things running on it but also gave you notifications if something went wrong (like if a container had to be restarted, or if one suddenly started eating all the CPU or something unusual).
The much maligned "Trusted Computing" idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is *DEFINITELY NOT* worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google's ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google's hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.
Seen a few ways but all seem to be with deprecated/abandoned methods or tools
Linked but also posted as a screenshot for the lazy :P 
ploum.net
This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance