Welcome again to everybody! It's your favorite ~~matrix server overlord~~ friendly matrix server admin :3
Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our sect, here is the weekly discussion thread.

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Arch Linux recently merged an RFC, creating an official process for porting it to other architectures. Since the beginning of the Arch project, it's only supported x86 machines, so it's nice to see some changes in that regard.

I'm very excited for a potential RISC-V port that I might help with if it happens :3

One of the members of the GenZedong Matrix space recently created a communist Akkoma instance at spectreofcommunism.boo!

What is Akkoma?

Akkoma is like Mastodon but lighter and faster. It's an open source microblogging platform where you can post "microposts". It's kind of similar to Twitter, but actually good :3

Like Lemmy, Akkoma is federated, meaning you can interact with people on other servers regardless of which server you've signed up on (similar to how you can see Hexbear users on Lemmygrad). Akkoma federates with all fediverse platforms, including Lemmy, so you can actually also interact with Akkoma users from Lemmygrad, and vice-versa!

How do I join?

1. Go to https://spectreofcommunism.boo
2. Click on Register
3. Fill in your account info and then answer the vetting questions in the "Reason to register" field
4. Wait for your account to be approved

Hexbear has several trans communities. Make sure to check those out:

• /c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
• /c/transenby_liberation
• /c/anti_cishet_aktion

We love our Hexbear comrades <3

Hello everyone :)

I recently created a Trans room in the GenZedong Matrix space. You can join the GenZedong space by following the instructions in /c/genzedong, and then you should be able to see the Trans room in the room list.

Matrix is a secure chat platform that's somewhat similar to Discord, but encrypted and open source. It's also federated like Lemmy. GenZedong has its own matrix server at genzedong.xyz (run by me on my own infrastructure :3), which has a GenZedong space (spaces are similar to what Discord calls servers). We have lots of rooms (similar to Discord's channels), including the Trans room I've mentioned here.

Join the space today so that we can take over and become the rightful leaders of GenZedong!... uh, I mean so that we can talk about stuff and definitely not take over anything at all... >:3

Generally, I'm opposed to any telemetry in any project, open source or not. However, there was recently a discussion about adding telemetry to the Go programming language's tools, and Go is my primary language. My initial reaction was outrage, I don't want Google spyware on my system, but reading the proposal for how it was actually going to work changed my opinion.

Here's a link to the proposal: https://research.swtch.com/telemetry. It was designed for Go, but the author believes it can be applied to other open source projects as well.

It was originally going to be opt-out, which I disagree with, but the Go team has listened to feedback and it will be opt-in instead. This is the first telemetry proposal I'm not completely opposed to, and I might even enable it on some of my devices.

While Google has had a very bad track record with spyware, this proposal actually seems reasonable and carefully designed to take privacy into consideration. The system will only collect numbers and stack traces. The numbers are statistics like the amount of times a Go tool has crashed or the amount of times a feature was used. Every week, with a 10% probability, a report will be sent. This amounts to an average of just 5 reports per year. The reports will contain no identifying information, not even a randomly-generated ID, they will be publicly viewable, and the decisions about what to collect will be made in an open, public process. All the code for this will be completely open source. It only applies to the Go tools themselves, not programs compiled with the Go compiler, and all the collection logic is local, with the metrics being stored in files that you can inspect to see what will be sent.

It seems like this proposal would preserve privacy while still providing only the necessary data to allow the Go team to improve their tools. What are your thoughts on this?

No charges were filed against the officers. The police are investigating themselves. I predict they'll find that they did nothing wrong.

Edit: There's bodycam footage. Don't watch it unless you're prepared to deal with extreme anger towards those disgusting pigs. I don't think I've ever felt this angry and enraged in my life.

Hello everyone,

You all know me as Arsen6331

A while ago, I had a realization. I realized I was trans.

As with all the other major realizations in my life, my brain has been subconsciously collecting evidence for years, and I had this realization in a single moment. My egg didn't crack, it exploded and shattered violently. Memories containing evidence started popping up in quick succession, from when I was as young as 3 years old, and I had to process all of them. It has been a major emotional rollercoaster.

I've been repressing this for as long as I've been alive, so this makes me very anxious, but now that most of it has been processed, and the most important people have been told, I can tell all of you:

Hello, I am Elara, an Autistic, Trans ML.

Thanks to everyone here. You all were a huge part of my realization. Without you, it might've happened a lot later or not at all.