Posts by self@social.linuxlusers.com
(DIR) Post #9jUz3OGUIIHrm2Yvx2 by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-06-03T23:41:18Z
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What a crazy idea! Discussing things rationally and using data to drive policy decisions... #income #basicincome #incomeinequality #socialism #capitalism #freemoney #economy #unemployment youtu.be/A2aBKnr3Ep4
(DIR) Post #9k9L0SOKSuKH19dLg8 by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-06-23T20:36:15Z
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@art @dpreacher so it's basically like a left mouse-click where wherever you touch? Can you two-finger touch for right-click, or anything similar? This is good to hear that it's at least functional, as I was getting a lot of mixed messages when looking in to this recently.
(DIR) Post #9k9lpsd7GhNryJjP2O by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-06-24T01:37:20Z
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@art @dpreacher thanks for checking!
(DIR) Post #9kG666vvyU7FQHx5NY by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-06-27T02:52:35Z
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@art That's pretty sweet!
(DIR) Post #9kG6laGNpd7IGEIDhI by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-06-27T02:58:28Z
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@art really, 16 minutes for an FHD render of a 6min doesn't sound that bad, you probably already have the throttling optimized.
(DIR) Post #9kG6tArs8QMzobRnNo by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-06-27T02:56:51Z
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@art maybe you could switch to a performance cpu profile (I use TLP, but there's other ways) to prevent throttling. It seems counter intuititive, but it actually get's the render done faster and might end up using less battery - results vary though. There's actually a school of thought that all throttling (aside from thermal throttling which can't be helped) is detrimental on a laptop. You may already be aware of all this... but it might help, if not.
(DIR) Post #9kHV46lwILhwM8NXpQ by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-06-27T16:39:39Z
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@grainloom Even suckless 'surf' is only marginally better... and apparently a small margin. To be fair, it isn't the fault of suckless, but rather the fact that it used webkitgtk, which I believe is the culprit. I also tried 'netsurf' (unrelated project) and it was just too unstable. I have just 8 tabs (processes in surf) running atm, and it's eating half a gb of ram! and they're all very basic pages. Like surf, most every other browser I have tried uses some bloated backend, usually webkit. Is the only solution really terminal browsing with links or w3m? :(
(DIR) Post #9pzv0PQQmdtmwXhXQu by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-12-15T18:45:00Z
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@freon thank you so much for enlightening me about this!
(DIR) Post #9pzyGhdBAAKhu27oZM by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-12-15T19:21:53Z
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@strypey @zatnosk Hi. So... I can see both sides of this debate you two are having, however, I think trusting any platform to control your privacy, especially one that is typically not self-hosted or at least controlled by the end-user, is a bit naive.The best method I know of for truly private communication (or our best current approximation of that ideal), in a one-to-many format, is plain old fashioned mailing groups. Just give me a moment before you boo this :P While it is utterly non-private out of the box, it does allow you to communicate to many people in a way that you can completely manage. The privacy part comes in to the equation in the form of GPG! Which, while not as user friendly as a facebook- or twitter-style social networking platforms, does give you full control over A) who can view your words, and B) when you can take that privilege away from them.Of course, you can use gpg with most any platform, even mastodon, but many mail clients already have seamless support for gpg and can make it a breeze to view & reply to message while applying encryption/decryption with little to no intervention after initial setup. Likewise, these clients can manage the keys and do other advanced functions of gpg.While Friendica (and, I imagine, Mastodon & others) offers a few gpg features, it's still not as user-friendly as it could be - but that begs the question, why not just use the technology that has been used for ages and has passed many decades of trial and error to perfect? The underlying limitations of imap/smtp and other mail related things are moot when you have full control of the encryption, and more importantly, the very social-oriented key management already afforded by gpg!Keybase attempts to make all things gpg easy and user=friendly, so that's one option, but I'd much rather learn how gpg works a bit and know how to set up my own keys, learn how to revoke keys, regenerate public keys, etc. - rather than being at the mercy of yet another technology which I have less than total control over. A lot of these problems have already been solved, and we seem to be suffering from 'second order ignorance', that is, an inability to understand just how much we don't understand, and thereby ignore that ignorance and believe in our baseless assumptions [I'm not directly that towards anyone, just attempting to define second order ignorance, ha]. Honestly, we all do this... I was totally ignorant as to just how far gpg already goes with regard to social networking-like features; it's really ideal for this sort of thing just as much as it is for package signing, basic email encryption and all the other mundane stuff I used to think it was only useful for :\Just food for thought... maybe folks smarter than I have seen deficiencies in these methods I'm not aware of! So maybe you've already grok'd gpg and similar technologies - and if that's the case I'd simply be curious as to why you still think a platform like mastodon is a better ideal for privacy than something like gpg and the plethora of tools already available to manage large groups that integrate it?
(DIR) Post #9qWrlxayuJ2AAWSVwO by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2019-12-31T16:08:05Z
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@strypey @icedquinn sorry about the late reply. Sadly, this is not a problem I've solved yet. It just doesn't seem that there's much of a market for such a thing. The best idea someone gave me was to use sponsored ads, when I can pick and choose whos money I accept and who I allow my site to promote, however this is severely limiting and not viable until a site commands some fairly substantial traffic stats - at which point this method would probably present itself somewhat naturally anyways. Did you figure out anything more viable?
(DIR) Post #9r1zK673jHmj83PaFc by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-01-15T16:33:53Z
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@strypey @icedquinn Any ideas on avoiding the popularity contest? I've often pondered this over the years, and almost brought myself to initiate some idea from time to time... but have never fully cracked that code. I imagine there would be a mechanism to prevent popularity occurring merely from a sort of snowball effect, as it often does now, where someone manages to make something that goes moderately viral, and then from there can merely ride a wave. It isn't to say they don't deserve it, but there are others with far better content that never get this chance and never make it at all. Take youtube for example, only because I saw an example there just the other day while my son was watching it... A gamer was talking about one video they made that become very popular and ever since then they just kept milking that. No doubt they put in lots of time and hard work making videos, but would that effort pay off had they not had that one viral video? You see this same thing on most sites. I suppose reddit has done one of the best jobs in preventing this from totally ruining the experience, but it still exists, even on finer grained levels, such as early posts snowballing in replies and likes... burying other potentially relevant ones. Anyways, just food for thought.
(DIR) Post #9rKC8M4pmBO9oskHNw by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-01-15T16:53:32Z
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@icedquinn @strypey btw, I'm not necessarily just talking about websites, those are just the examples I had in mind and it's the only angle I feel that I, personally, have any chance of making a change (not really, but 'online' does seem the most plausible place for a new paradigm to arise). I certainly don't see myself being able to change public opinion or compete with those already established financially-build institutional markets.
(DIR) Post #9sk3saH45m51J4551s by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-03-06T20:45:27Z
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@strypey Totally agree, but I've probably gone even more pessimist on this matter... I feel like they have already fucked this up royally. I don't think it was an accident that many dropped out just before super tuesday, remaining on the ballots to needlessly absorb votes, similarly I think that Warren stayed in for no other good reason than to take votes from Bernie. The Democrats have failed the Left... I don't think we can expect to fix things in the US thru the usual channels anymore *cough*cough*USA yellow vest time?!?*cough*
(DIR) Post #9tkdJAlcGVgu6jtwmW by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-04-06T01:14:51Z
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@art very nice!
(DIR) Post #9vAbcBv1BNc1jS4d0a by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-05-18T02:39:21Z
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I'd love to see meetup.com live on as a #coop!I really believe the #cooperative business model is how we win this war on #capitalism.#socialism #leftists #CapitalismFailsStrypey2020-05-18 02:12:01Remember when WeWork bought MeetUp.com before their real estate scam of a business model imploded? Zebras Unite are agitating for WeWork to sell MeetUp to its members, making it a platform cooperative:https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/meetup-to-the-people-how-a-zebra-could-rise-from-a-unicorns-fall-cfa93d83bcdc#WeWork #Meetup #ZebrasUnite #PlatformCooperative
(DIR) Post #9vBg7Ptzptbr3LhV8y by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-05-19T00:14:45Z
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@strypey @raucao I basically just cloned this comment before realizing it existed :\ haha
(DIR) Post #9vBgJ2Ukgmp1vqR1Oa by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-05-19T00:16:29Z
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@strypey Is this all still going down? I got really excited before noticing the article was six months old.
(DIR) Post #9vBgUSUYNFLPkFmrNg by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-05-19T00:17:46Z
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@strypey I'm just posting things and then seeing you've already covered them today... I just asked about this on your OP haha. Thanks for the heads up!
(DIR) Post #9vBgf0LdLunxdydyHA by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-05-19T00:18:20Z
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@strypey I really need to pay more attention to timestamps :\
(DIR) Post #9vBvveAeYfmT68tweW by self@social.linuxlusers.com
2020-05-19T00:13:28Z
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@raucao @strypey I used to believe in the idea of 'build a better XYZ' but it's not that simple... I'm sure people have made far superior analogs to meetup.com, but it's about the community that's already there and how ubiquitous it's become with IRL meetups. I hate the idea of single entities centralization of the internet, but as far as these things go meeup was managed better than most compared to something like FB or Google.