When you’re a child a lot of the content you consume has morals, lessons embedded in them, either blatant or subtle. You realise that when you got older, the lessons never stopped, only became more subtle, and who decides what to tell the mass public but the state government and others who have been fooled into being loyal to a fault. (There are also completely innocent broadcasters out there, it’s not all bad). A very subtle example is NCIS, made in the USA by a corporate entity independent of state funding, based on a real-life government organisation. They never show an Israeli as a bad person. Dislikeable, sure, but never the antagonist, never held accountable for murders on American land. This teaches that the Israeli government, and their Mossad, are faultlessly good in the fictional parallel world of NCIS, and the viewer attributes this to our reality’s version of the same organisation. Subtle conditioning. Oh and in one scene, showing a distaste for Israeli delicacies is ‘antisemitic’ and not a subjective opinion.

This meme, as the creator pointed out, reinforces the idea that police are benevolent forces working for the good of the public. When abused, like they are now in (dare I say it) most countries of the world, the forces are only for the good of the bureaucrats and corporate aristocrats. The corruption level can often be determined by which demographics and state crimes get hunted disproportionately.

Population seems to have increased and become more diverse. There’s always communities being created. It’s not recognised as a desirable platform for businesses or influencers yet so upvotes aren’t treated anywhere near as divine, but you still see some users with remnants of Reddit; massive psychological damage if they’re downvoted. I mean, makes sense, people generally use social media to feel validated about their opinions. When it comes to comparing with Reddit, Lemmy has no monetised awards or such, bots are mostly rudimentary and live on a couple communities, and there’s little toxicity, harassment etc. because the user has complete control over blocking anything and instance admins have complete control over banning and defederating. I think being able to close some doors is preferable to being wide open to all, and I don’t think it causes any “echo chambers”.

Overall, definite improvement over the years.

I use NextCloud for informal shares as its GUI is very similar Microsoft or Google’s -Drive and is easily adoptable. I also host a private pastebin instance for code or guides I think may be helpful, and Matrix for personal stuff. But I do like how Bitwarden/Vaultwarden’s share works – it feels more secure, like WeTransfer. It still has its applications. And Vaultwarden file share is free, size limit is adjustable in server config, and is not limited to what the Bitwarden clients say!

It was a huge pain and I ended up troubleshooting with Gemini for hours aha! I know, I’ll plant a tree to offset my sins. It was at least useful to rapid search solutions and tell me what component was the most likely issue.

I had coturn set up for legacy Element Classic and, before that, XMPP, but as I wasn’t using those I decided to shut it down and try using Matrix Livekit’s internal TURN server. I’m not sure what actually helped in the end, but Livekit’s latest build caused a bug, so I instead pulled v1.9.12. I also shuffled around my reverse proxy config (from my old attempts) because some endpoints seemed to have changed. I’ll update later with anonymised config :3

Hey, just coming back to see how your setup’s going, and to say I’ve finally managed to get Element Call working for Matrix – I can help you get it running if you like!

I set up a simple sync service with FolderSync (similar to Syncthing) on Android for my family, that preserves their mobile files on a server hosted SMB share. Haven’t even looked at storage encryption though. You can’t underestimate a simple yet effective solution, sometimes so simple it flies under the radar.

They put a couple things behind the paywall of US$19.80/y: the ability to securely share files instead of just text, and to host TOTP authentication. As it is I prefer using other services for sharing, and while TOTP auth is nice I’m happy with Aegis.

Edited to fix Bitwarden’s price obscurity

This touches on one of the reasons I am inclined to pirate – the majority of the time it’s not the author or developer that you pay, it’s the distributor or streaming provider (who often takes a 30% cut), then the payment processor takes about 5%, then the publisher takes a significant and usually undisclosed portion, until finally (and this differs between media) the actual creator sees perhaps £10 of a £60 purchase. Until the vultures clear the field and stop taking hefty cuts, or if I trust the publisher, I am inclined to find a way to actually pay the developer, or not at all, because even though it takes effort to research the sources and distributors, I would much rather vote with my wallet and not accept astronomical distributor fees and anti-consumer practices.

When I was younger I found an album I really liked on Bandcamp. The monetisation model the artist used meant you could actually pay 0 for the music. As I was tight financially I took it but was extremely grateful. This can be seen as consensual piracy, because in my eyes that produce is worth a certain value that can be exchanged with money, even if the seller doesn’t say it. Anyway, Bandcamp takes a 15% cut which is low for the industry, and this particular artist was also independent, meaning they were their own publisher/record label, so when I could I honoured that ‘pay what you feel it’s worth’ approach and bought it a couple years or so later for more than a commercial album. Trust is also extremely infrequent in capitalism, and I appreciated the design.

The victim of this overreach was a piece of shit and a chronic bad troll by the sounds of it, misusing email aliases to harass people. Even though this was likely special treatment because they sent abusive messages to the Director of the FBI’s girlfriend, it’s hard to be anti corpo-state surveillance when assholes like that get picked off so easily. But we here all know that it starts with the scum and power always gets misused.

You know how English is a default language, a base for many multinational conversations? Everyone refers to it? Well, Euro is the easiest to refer to because it is so widely used and stable. It’s not English. It’s like the ‘English language’ of currency.

If DLSS can reach its fifth generation AI can destroy component supply for a second year

Black folk and trans folk have different backgrounds, culture and desires from the predominantly white-controlled society, which is why this isn’t quite the same. Also most demographics are in dire need of income to match the cost of living in a monetised world, where you have to work on average 4-5 times longer than someone in 1960 to purchase the same necessities, so all could do with a random windfall. That being said I appreciate the sentiment.

Oh yeah, situational awareness comes first, something that doesn’t seem to come naturally to everyone. There’s a mild need for c/LostLemmings

Which is one reason why I’ve taken to referring to currency with nation included, e.g. US$, AU$, JP¥, GB£… The Euro is the only easy standard, arguably the ‘English language’ of currency

The UK government mostly only use the term ‘terrorist’ if a threat to the government is perceived. They don’t care about the people in general in this sense.

In the end nobody was harmed, and though no doubt the Jewish locals were a little terrorised, croudfunding and/or legal reclamation from the suspects will ensure the organisation has much more money than they had before the attack to put toward much-needed improvements to their infrastructure.

I hope more information is released regarding this.

Savage

Or quit the fucking company come on

You need to be 18+ to buy broadband or mobile contracts in the first place 😫

I like that. The machine I use to host ytdl-sub is called ourtube

Mad props to the dev for a GUI

but the advancement