lambalicious

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I write English / Escribo en Español.

Vidya / videojuegos. Internet. Cats / Gatos. Pizza. Nap / Siesta.

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Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative

I first joined Lemmy back during the big Reddit exodus of last year. I like many others wanted an alternative to Reddit, and I thought that this might've been the one. I made two accounts, one on lemmy.world and another on sh.itjust.works, in the June of last year that I used on and off for about 4 months....

lambalicious ,

Not to mention everything community about cats!

lambalicious ,

It's likely that system only has the base Latin-1 font set for some weird reason? Or a misconfigured fontserver (or equivalent in Windows). My understanding is that the text "sail the high seas" uses glyphs in both the Latin D group and the phonetic extensions groups (feel free to correct me!), so pretty much any Unicode-aware font since 2010, FOSS or otherwise, would render this correctly.

I personally recommend the Liberation font set, although it's free software so you can't really pirate it.

lambalicious ,

Leading with the hard questions, I see!

(I honestly wouldn't know how to answer the question. I guess in order to pirate it, you'd have to fetch a copy from someone who broke the license terms and is thus not authorized to distribute it, but that kinda turns into a Catch-22)

lambalicious ,

Yeah I just checked Atkinson Hyperlegible and, at least the version I can access (the one on Github) lacks entire Latin and compatible character ranges, as well as having a substantially limited math symbols set (only two greek letters show, for example).

The weird thing is, if I understand how fonts correctly, that shouldn't have been an issue. The font doesn't register those missing characters, so your browser should have known to fallback to a default typeface for the missing characters. It'd be weird if you have none of the many compatible fonts (not even, say, Times New Roman).

lambalicious ,

if you want voice well, then idk what to say

Mumble!

lambalicious OP ,

SQL uses it but yeah, not programming language :p.

I was on mobile so I didn't have a .XCompose available to type ≠.

lambalicious OP ,

1.1.1.1? :p

lambalicious OP ,

That's what they thought for IPv4... and for 2-year digits... and for...

lambalicious OP ,

Boy do we like it!

lambalicious OP ,

IPv6 is unfortunately not six bytes, no. For some weird, ass-backwards reason.

lambalicious OP ,

I felt dirty!

"Senpai, route me like one of your French ISPs"

lambalicious OP ,

Not a big deal. We're projected to run out of years by 2000 and then the world will end.

lambalicious OP ,

64-bit IPv5

64-bit IP would be IPv8, not IPv5.

lambalicious OP ,

I've taken to using .here (or .aqui, "here" in Español, much harder to match outside) as alternatives until something better comes up.

Ideally I'd use .aquí, correctly with the diacritic, but DNS doesn't seem to support even the basics of Unicode in 2024.

lambalicious OP ,

And don’t get me started on TLS certificates in local networks…

I hate this and the fact that modern platforms seem to require TLS even if you're serving localhost, so much.

lambalicious OP ,

Yeah I've heard about punycode. Personally, I'm well against it because it puts down non-MURRICAN English domain names as second-class citizens on the internet. If I have a website about Copiapó, a perfectly legal town, there's no good reason why the domain name should not be copiapó.cl rather than copiap-xcwhngoingohi4oleleiyho42yt4ptg4ht4.cl, making it look "suspect" and "malware-y".

There were quite some complains back in the time about Firefox choosing not to "flag" internationalized names as potentially dangerous, and pretty much all those complaints that I know of likely came from English speakers who simply can't understand other countries in the world even can have different alphabets.

"Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy [...] The software is downright frustrating to work with" - Can any other instance admins relate to this?

After a year online the free speech-focused instance 'Burggit' is shutting down. Among other motivations, the admins point to grievances with the Lemmy software as one of the main reasons for shutting down the instance. In a first post asking about migrating to Sharkey, one of the admins states:...

lambalicious ,

I'm not sure it's that difficult to follow. If you offer a service in the EU, you are responsible for your server deleting personal data (or, even better, not even hosting it in the fist place!); you are not responsible for other people not deleting their copy of personal data.

But I'm not that well-informed in the actual legalese so my best understanding is the big issue is the EU's definition of "provide service to the EU" more than anything else. They seem to think that just because your users might upload a local copy of a picture of someone from the EU, even if you yourself are not allowing connections from the EU, then you are serving to the EU. And with how nazi the EU has been going lately with stuff like ChatControl, the last thing I'd want as an instance owner is to be upheld to arbitrary boomers' (lack of) understanding of technology.

lambalicious ,

Just to make sure: you tried with CUPS / gutenprint both with the Generic PCL and the Generic Postscript drivers? A fair portion of "unsupported" printers I've seen usually accept at least one of them, in particular if the printer also supports "discoverable printing" (eg.: sending to the printer from a phone).

lambalicious ,

Not sure exactly what files do you have but at least on my system:

  • ppd files can be found in /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters if you want them grabbe dby Cups.
  • icc profile files can be found in an adequate directory within /usr/share/color/icc. Which directory I guess depends on what and who is managing those files.
  • paper definition files (size, margins, etc) go into /usr/share/gutenprint in a directory within usually with the name papers (note the plural).

Now, all this gets me is where to place the files. I wouldn't know exactly how to register to eg.: Cups that those files are there other than using Cups's own web interface to add drivers.

lambalicious ,

Has too much lemmy.world. Downvoted.

(Half kidding. I hope it's obvious which half.)

Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites - Digiday ( digiday.com )

The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.

lambalicious ,

The money comes from the companies that are hiring them to do the journalist work. Of course.

Let's be intellectually honest here. If a company has enough money that the boss can brand themself as "CEO" then it can pay at least living wages.

The countries with the most Fediverse servers are rich and former/current colonial powers. One of the best true barometers of the success of the Fediverse is how quickly we can turn that on its head. ( sopuli.xyz )

In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...

lambalicious ,

small, less mature countries have shit for internet resources.

Isn't US internet memetically bad (in particular the rural one) compared to a "shit country" like Chile, one of the ones the US got paid to sabotage with military dictatorships?

lambalicious ,

It would make sense to require a company to release the code for players to host their own servers, which has been done by many games in the past. Not to continue to run it themselves.

That counts as "working state", assuming the published code is reasonable to operate (it must be FOSS, or at least permit open modification and distribution; and it must run in a server with specs that's reasonable to have at the time of game publication)

lambalicious ,

Aren't they powered by the sheer spite they generate at hearing the loudspeaker?

lambalicious ,

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

lambalicious ,

Many Rust shills seem to have some rust in their brain...

lambalicious ,

Word! The whole snafu with co_routines has been quite the laughable show. It would have been trivially sortable if C++ did something like what PHP did, using a symbol to absolutely disambiguate what is a variable and what is not. That way eg.: await is a keyword, $await is a variable (perhaps a functor).

To make it even better, $ is already unused in C++!

lambalicious ,

Storm in a teacup, as tends to be the norm on the internet.

Not only this is nothing new and nothing unexpected to happen in Sid of all places, but it's also something that helps bring keepassxc more in line with packaging guidelines on Debian. They already have lots of packages, both of the mutually-exclusive kind and of the complementary kind, with "foo-full", "foo-minimal", "foo-data" etc naming. p7zip and nginx of all things are quite interesting examples.

Plus, the author of the post sensationalizes the title to brigade the issue.

All that said:

  • If the maintainer wishes to do this, "only" having two packages is a half-assed measure and that causes more issues in the long term. I'd expect three packages: keepassxc-minimal, keepassxc-full and the retained name keepassxc as a virtual package name.
  • Furthermore, a direct upgrade path should go from (previous) keepassxc to (proposed) keepassxc-full.
  • I don't know enough of KeePassXC to know if something like keepassxc-data would be needed. Are there potential cases where one would want to switch between "-full" and "-minimal" or viceversa without the system seeing a software uninstallation in the meantime?
  • The "crap" rationale is definitively something we all can do without, but given how people tend to brigade developers who try to do things, I can completely understand and support raising shields and looking defensive because some damage is already going to be done.
  • Most responses are right in that the right place to discuss this is in the opened Debian bug report. The entire point is to see Debian (not KeepassXC) handle this before things get to Next Stable.
lambalicious ,

And no, it wasn’t just the favicons feature that was removed (which like … is that really such a big privacy issue that you need to remove it from the binary?)

Fetching a favicon means raising a network connection with a predictable endpoint. That's already three concerns (four on the modern internet) to handle security-wise, and it's absolutely an unneeded feature. Favicons could just be shipped on something like keepassxc-data or keepassxc-contrib to handle locally, no need to raise a network call.

lambalicious ,

People who are looking to start a SE alternative but start with the idea of importing the original SE data dumps are already Doing It Wrong. Much of the issue that has led to the desire to fork SE comes due to the license of the posts and content, which lacks the NC (NonCommercial) component of Creative Commons. Without that component, any attempt to make a Fediverse alternative just ends up in Yet Another Endpoint that can be freely siphoned for data by corporations, for AIs, etc.

lambalicious ,

See here's the thing: Creative Commons is not an exclusionary license. If I want to make commercial use of something that has a CC-NC license, I explicitly can ask the author for a secondary license limited to the usage and scope that I need. The important thing here is that the author still retains control, as well as a data point of who is profiting from their stuff and how.

lambalicious ,

Like, who wants that?

Have you literally missed out on the fact that the protest is happening? The protest is certainly not because SO answers are bad.

lambalicious ,

They already have it.

I said alternative to SO. As in, likely, a place to post new content (answers, comments). Nothing can really be done with the content OAI already got their hands on other than firing off a few well-placed EMP bombs.

lambalicious ,

Because to import old content, you have to respect the old license (or get every contributor of back-then to relicense). That would mean having a site with contents under differing licenses depending on date, which is something the corpos can use as an excuse to continue siphoning everything without consequence.

I'm fine with a mirror / archive of SO. But it shoudl very definitively be a different thing than an active SO alternative, and their users and data storages should be also different.

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