edgerunneralexis

joined 1 year ago

The poor snoo look at its sad face :(

I mean, there's a whole huge contingent of "feminists" getting popular these days who have explicitly and extremely bioessentialist misandrist beliefs, TERFs, so sadly I'm not super sure you're right, but it's entirely possible. You do tend to have to look holistically at people's actions and speech to figure out what they really believe, oftentimes.

This was an absolutely wonderful read, thank you so much for sharing

Concerns about cultural changes from an influx of ten times the users the entire Fediverse currently has from a platform that is known for having a particularly toxic, algorithm-poisoned userbase aren't specious or something you can ignore — even if the fears are "vague" in some sense they're very valid.

Yeah I really don't want Meta to federate with us. They have enough users to completely drown the mostly positive, thoughtful, and inclusive community we've built so far with the toxic algorithm brain rotted right wing zombie army that makes up most of their user base. I have such a happy little community on my instance and my little sublemmy rn and I dont want it to be swamped 😭

Yeah I'm hosting a video streaming service, a Discord clone, a CMS, git web, and my blog on a $120 ThinkCentre (4 cores, 8GB RAM, 1TB SAMSUNG SSD) in my home, and it works wonderfully. Basically no upkeep costs, the extra electricity used is not even noticeable.

[–] edgerunneralexis@dataterm.digital 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People always wonder at my skill in picking up unfamiliar UIs, and its always just that I explore the interface thoroughly and press every likely-looking button

Yeah when I found out about the Fairphone originally I was extremely excited and really wanted one for my next phone, but I use GrapheneOS my pixel right now so I figure I just check why it doesn't support it and sure enough I found this stuff :(

No idea honestly! But I have to imagine it'll support old thinkpads lol

 

I've been following Haiku OS off and on since I was 10 (I'm 21 now) and it's been really nice to see it actually progress in a substantial and noticeable way since I first found out about it.

[–] edgerunneralexis@dataterm.digital 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

longer support for software and hardware

Not to rain on your parade (I love the idea of the Fairphone!), but that's actually a bit of misadvertising on Fairphone's part — the SoCs they use are very outdated and near the end of their vender firmware and driver support, meaning they get maybe 2 years of the full support you'd expect when you say a manufacturer "supports" something, and then however many more years of hobbled support. Additionally, they're just really bad about security.

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I wish this would and bring replaceable phone batteries back to the US as well, since it would theoretically be easier for brands to just have a single model for all countries, but unfortunately I highly doubt that we'll be the case, as demonstrated by Apple taking extra effort to put geolocation code in their phones that unlocks "sideloading" when you are in Europe but then locks it again when you're outside of your Europe. As it turns out the extra effort it takes to create an exception to your hardware and software for Europe is far outweighed by the extra profit of being able to keep giving a more locked down products to everyone else.

Using GraphineOS on a Pixel 6. It's very nice! I haven't had any problems with it.

 

I may not be particularly inclined toward religion or spirituality, but I did really find this essay interesting and attractive.

 

Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable.

 

Shawn P. Wilbur has two excellent articles that, when put together, form the seed for me of these fascinating ideas:

https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/contrun/the-anatomy-of-the-encounter/

https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/contrun/the-anarchic-encounter-economic-andor-erotic/

Here's my own take on the idea: https://vagabondblog.xyz/2022/07/10/anarchic-encounter.html

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Black Flags - Renzo Novatore (theanarchistlibrary.org)
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In the current moment of rising fascism I find this piece particularly powerful. Novatore is one of my favorite anarchist writers; even though I may not agree with everything he says I think he has a lot of unique insights and certainly writes beautifully.

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