Re: My last post about telepathy, I think the best book that's probably going to be very hard to top that deals with telepathy and being an empath is Joan D. Vinge's Cat series. It describes all the pain that such powers bring, as well as the joys when you find someone who understands you deeper than anyone else and welcomes you. It's really nothing special when it comes to the plot, but it's a masterpiece in my eyes.
Too bad it's not finished, apparently because of Vinge's accident, but it's absolutely worth reading either way.
A conversation brought up an interesting question to discuss, I would be interested in your opionion at least.
A few hours ago I wanted to post about how the imagination of science fiction authors shifted, because we have a longer life expectancy now and a host of things that we really did not have in the 1800s for example. Why that particular century? Because I've watched a video about artists in teh 1800s predicting the future in 2000.
Suppose everyone will be able to feel the emotions of all living things, you can communicate telepathically, even accross long distances. Would these abilities make you a better human? For example by knowing that other people might find out your deepest thoughts, feelings, etc. Would you care, for your own sake?
Im #HeuteJournal ein Beitrag über den Wiederaufbau der #Frauenkirche in #Dresden und die Bilder legen nahe, dass die DDR die Trümmer da einfach Jahrzehnte hat liegen lassen?!
Den Beitrag habe ich nicht gesehen. Aber den Trümmerhaufen habe ich noch in Erinnerung. Die wurden da nicht einfach liegen gelassen (schon gar nicht von der DDR), sondern waren ein Mahnmal gegen Faschismus und Krieg.
Natürlich ist der Umgang damit in der DDR kritisch und differenziert zu betrachten.
Where are the people who got mad about the statues being torn down? They don't give a shit about our history at the East Wing of the WH? That history doesn't matter?
It’s been a month and a half since the alpha release of KDE Linux was announced during Akademy 2025, and so far reception has been pretty good. A number of people have started daily driving i…
As of version 0.5.0.2 of SayTheSpire, the character selection screen gets properly read out again while Downfall is loaded. You can download your copy of the newly revived SayTheSpire here: files.toni-barth.online/d/cfae…
@matt SayTheSpire is a mod for Slay The Spire, which itself is written in Java 8, so is SayTheSpire and all the other mods that exist for this highly enjoyable roguelike. I don't think it uses a dedicated game engine, when modding the source, it looks like its basically doing everything on its own, from drawing graphics to... well, everything.
⌚ Změna času je pořád stejná pakárna. Jak já dostal ráno v kurníku vynadáno, že vstávám podle stejnýho budíku! 🤦♂️
💻 Já se rozhodl i pro změnu časů a zlikvidoval jsem jedny Woknousy i s recovery oddílem a teď se tam loudí můj první Linux... Jsem nervní jak prvnička... Tfuj tajbl vespolek! 🙄🙈
rád bych, ale arch podpora aarch64 je, když budu velmi hodný, tak mizerná. Když budu upřímný tak nulová. Installer nic, stáhni si komunitní tar.gz root file systému a pak se trap. Žádná snaha o alespoň nějaký uefi build. Takže v reálu LFS - Linux From Scratch je mnohem více friendly v tomto případě.
@tritol128 @janantos @zoufalec archinstall Spustí průvodce v TUI. Vybereš jazyk, disk, bootloader, uživatele, desktop, atd. Instalace za 5 minut hotová. Má ho každý ISO soubor
@archos @tritol128 @janantos Ja vim. Vsimni si tech uvozovek. Ja snad najdu ten obrazek k tomu, vy ste tady nejaky nedovzdelany v blbejch vtipech se mi zda.
🧵 Už nejsem panic Linux mi běží Wokna jsou na nic Na hnoji leží. 😎
Linuxáci prominou, ale všechno je jednou poprvé. 😉
Takto jsem dnes občerstvil ntb HP ProBook 4535 v hliníkovém šasi z r. 2011. AMD 4jádro, Radeon dual, 12 GB RAM, SSD 128 GB, místo CD-ROM další HDD na data. Běží to parádně, všechen HW funguje na první dobrou. Vono to pude. 😊🐧
🧵 Nainstaloval jsem *nasvýmprvnímlinuxu* síťovou printáreň, heč! 🤯 Nebál jsem se použít interfernet ani konzoli, jsem však fatálně vyčerpán, tudíž následuje přestávka! ☕
🧵 Potřeboval jsem přidat Dropbox... A co myslíte? Mám ho tam! 🤯
Teorie, že "to na Linuxu jde" byla krásná, ale přebrat v reálu distra, kde to opravdu jde... Naštěstí KachnaKachna hledala a našla hotový příkaz, který stáhl a instaloval balíček pro Ubuntu (aspoň myslím). Ale jede to. Ufff. 💪😎 #MujPrvniLinux
🧵 Po dvou hodinách jsem konečně nastavil a namountoval NAS. Mintík čte a zapisuje soubory a přehrává filmy! 🥳 #MujPrvniLinux
*Staří praktici jsou jistě shovívaví, bo nějak se začít musí, že. Ale když byl někdo zmlsanej z woken... (Jo, mohl jsem si třetinu času ušetřit, kdybych v tom příkazu nevynechával dvojtečku... Návody na těch internetech jsou někdy pěkně na pikaču.)* ☺️
🧵P. S. Když už je venku *na Komárka*, mám stažený ISO Fedory, přidal jsem do stolního kompu HDD že šuplíku a uklízím... 😏 Je potřeba koumat, zkoumat a nebát se nic. 😊 #MujPrvniLinux
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There is this tendency on the left especially, to emphasise that they want to build inclusive spaces, inclusive for BIPOC & LGBTQ+ communities in particular. Somehow, disability never gets a mention. Seems like inclusiveness has an upper limit, and we're not sufficiently disadvantaged in their minds to be a part of that inclusion.
As far as I've ever seen, the problem has been awareness, not willingness; that is, I haven't seen anyone explicitly decide that we're not sufficiently disadvantaged.
Has been said already, still: including communities of persons with disabilities requires concrete technical work which is where the cost and effort discussions come from. It's not just a matter of changing attitude and behavior patterns but introducing tangible infrastructure that works which in long term turns out to be a process. I'm assisting in making a space accessible to the blind and it's a lot of work of figuring out what works, what actually helps and yet is cost-effective for a small NGO, how to make it not conflict with other priorities, how to teach people not to disrupt what already has been introduced etc. Not even going into replacing software that everyone has been feeling comfortable using for a decade or more. This is not a justification, by the way, I see the aspect missing in a lot of inclusive policies, being radical on subjects like climate change but telling me that we can't force anybody to provide image descriptions etc. There's work for everyone to do.
@Piciok Companies want to do the least they can to make more people happy. That works with other minority groups but every person with a disability is likely to need different requirements that means a lot more effort which is why we as a group will continue to be overlooked. You can see companies starting for example to focus in on people who are nuro diverse because the perceived barrier to make a difference is lower.
A guide to implementing a mailing list off-topic tagging policy for moderators:
Step 1: ask your mailing list/group members to use the #OT hashtag on off-topic posts.
Step 2: watch as your mailing list/group members find increasingly inventive ways to type it: with dots, without dots, with and without spaces, in upper, lower and mixed case, with and without the hash symbol...
Step 3: realise that the only consistent guarantee is that it won't be used on off-topic posts, and give up.
@miki Step 5: have people use it inefficiently anyway, with a single on-topic question in the right place descending into a 700-post debate about whether we should really eat breakfast and what the best case for a Samsung Galaxy Flip Pro 7 is.
It's a lot easier to moderate if you can actualy move / edit / delete posts, and have those changes seen by the majority of users. With mailing lists, once a post is out there, there's nothing you can do about it.
Glad you got it solved! If you ever want to avoid spending "hours digging through documentation" and want to talk to real people who are knowledgeable about Prosody, we have a community chat prosody.im/discuss 🙂
As for the conf.d issue, this is likely a change on the Jitsi side, if you kept the existing Prosody config when upgrading (which is what we always recommend).
I run Linux Mint 21, kernel: Linux 5.15.0-160-generic.
My /home is located on a magnetic hdd (not ssd), whilst the system partition is on an ssd. I have the issue that the main thread is frequently getting blocked for approx. 20-40 seconds by some hdd access.
I can exclude ram issues (have 32 GB), swap (disabled) and common apps, as this also occurs seemingly random with almost everything closed.
The only thing I can observe is that this seems to happen more likely the longer the machine is powered on.
I suspect some stupid (indexing?) service running. Any guess how best to find and fix the cause?
I am not a beginner, but also not a system pro. Where best to look, and how?
I didn't dig into whether its a HDD, but "the longer the machine runs", the more likely Cinnamon needs a kick. As restarting it from the GUI itself too often locked my machine entirely, I meanwhile do that via SSH remotely, just executing `pkill -HUP -f "cinnamon --replace"`. Might be worth a try (especially when Cinnamon already hogs more RAM than it should).
@Bri These things have batteries in them, though. Why they didn't bother just removing them first is a mystery, especially since whoever did it will probably have to pay the complex as it's the latter's property.
A DNS issue (it’s always DNS) in AWS US-East-1 regional endpoint caused a 16 hour outage across a host of services from Snapchat to Roblox.
We’ve gone from an internet that could survive a nuclear strike to one that can’t handle a DNS issue from a single web host. Time to update those disaster recovery plans.
@Friendica Support I have customized my instance to my liking, and I have tried to make a backup of my theme, but when I do a git pull to update my theme gets ruined, I replace all the theme files with my backup files, but Friendica serves the updated without my custom theme, I am wits end trying to figure out what's happening, can some one explain very slowly and elementary how to update Friendica core while leaving my custom frio theme alone, and no I have not renamed it.
@pasjrwoctx👽https://social.2ndshot.photos/view/theme/frio_custom/style.css?v=2025.02-dev gives me a 403 error back, same with some pictues. You maybe need to fix the access rights to some files. For my instance, I use a shell script that does the whole deployment, including setting proper access rights (0666) is mostly a bad idea!).
@pasjrwoctx👽 Diese URL wird auch angefordert: https://2ndshot.photos/wp-content/uploads/protected-content/edd/2023/08/cropped-emptyman.jpg Hier faellt mir der WordPress-typische Pfad wp-content sehr in's Auge.
@Michael 🇺🇦 I had made a new folder, frio_custom even had in config to use frio_custom, but every time I do a git pull, it deletes frio_custom, so I upload a backup and try to set it as my theme, it only gives blank page, so I move them into the actual frio folder replacing all those files, and up looking at my instance, it only serves the new updates to frio, not my customization, other than the theme, where does Friendica call or store theme info? I have even tried to change from frio to frio_custom via config in db and still it fails, I was trying to keep my friendica instance current but I may have forget that if I cant get this theme issue worked out, should have been super easy, update place theme files back and done, but its not, at the moment I am working on downloading a full backup of site and db, to try and do it locally, and see what happens, going to be a day or so slow network
I know that some user reported the same after the last updates. For them it was enough to clear the browser cache. For you it could of course be that some files changed that you have touched as well.
Resurrecting the ghost of Reagan turns out to be unexpected political dynamite. Since Republicans no longer believe in facts, but they do worship deities, this puts them in the irreconcilable position of having two of their gods issuing unequivocal and diametrically opposite decrees. Feel like we may be hearing more from the Almighty Ronny in the days ahead.
Na kolo to dneska nebylo, tak aspoň v tom hnusu co byl venku 10 km klusík. Výhoda běhu - člověk toho moc nepotřebuje. Větrovku mám snad z roku 2016 a je pořád v pohodě. Vlastně měním jen boty.
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@EdenLinnea Kind of an alternative to Windows Explorer, blast from the past. I still don't understand why people love it so much, it was good for Dos, but now... don't get it. Although I know people who don't use Explorer at all and manage their files exclusively with Total Commander.
@menelion @EdenLinnea I was looking for something to cover all of my cloud drives, but with Total Commander it looks like you need to sign into things every time you run it. That's rather annoying. Still, I have a month to play. We shall see.
@menelion @EdenLinnea Total Commander has a great set of help files. I'm so glad I bought that program. The file Explorer with Windows 11 is just too slow now.
@NightDrake @menelion @EdenLinnea Do you get a trial of total commander? Because windows explorer is so bad at copying files that it takes forever just to copy a few gigs. WIndows 95's file explorer was faster than this thing, and windows 95 ran on a pc with 128 mb of ram.
@menelion @vol4life8657 @EdenLinnea I used to use Explorer++, but I had a bitch of a time getting off my system. Especially when I had it replace for all files. I had to go into the registry editor to get rid of it. And I don't feel comfortable messing with that. I suppose I could try it and not have it replace the Windows File explorer though. Maybe that'll give different results.
Total Commander was never released for Dos, its first release was under the name Windows Commander in 1993 for Windows 3.1.
The reason why people like it is because it is the best file manager on Earth, period. Speed, features, the 2-pane tabbed interface gives you unprecedented power and ease of use. This really sounds like some kind of a marketing hype, but there is simply nothing else that tops it on any operating system. People have tried.
@erion @EdenLinnea It's... a strong opinion, so to say. I tried it like ten times during all these years, and I can't get used to it. You're right about windows Commander, but it was definitely inspired by projects like Norton Commander and Volkov Commander.
It's definitely a strong fact, which can be proven via any benchmark, comparing any other file manager, including Windows Explorer (which is incredibly slow since Windows Vista mind you). It takes time to get used to it, but trust me, once you do and put in the effort, you will never look back. I have used Total Commander since 1998, I have tried almost every file manager accross Mac and Windows, even under Linux and when I had an android phone (up till around 2012) and nothing ever came close. It's the one program I wish I could still use, but not on Mac and not without a VM. You don't have to trust me of course, you are more than welcome to look at speed tests, compare features, how well other file managers are optimised to handle thousands of files and directories within one single directory, etc.
I wouldn't state something like this so lightly without a good reason.
You might not need all the features, and it's perfectly fine if you use what works for you, but once you're past the initial hurdle and realise that you can actually work with an infinite amount of source and destination directories, perform operations even inside archives like a 2-way sync where changes are synced accross tabs, panes, etc, when features like search works anywhere, no matter if it's an archive, an ftp or SSH or cloud server, or even an AVI file which you can also treat as an archive and extract the audio of btw, have your own start menu with custom menu commands (which Total Commander has around 4000 of and that's just without plugins), it's just pure maddness. Never mind verifying files, testing archives, creating self-extracting zips just by renaming them to .exe, the list goes on and on. I'm not even paid lol
In cooperation between @vhsky and @openalt we'd like to demonstrate that even a large-scale conference can be live streamed without #YouTube. An initial stress test showed that 7 concurrent streams in multiple resolutions exceeded the capabilities of the server Vhsky.cz runs on (32core i9-13900 and 96 GB RAM).
However, the Fediverse community helps each other. @bycx loaned us a real beast machine which we now use as an external runner for transcoding jobs. It passed today's stress test with flying colors.
Thank you @archos for the work on the runner and @Bashynx on the stress test. Fingers crossed for the next weekend. 🤞
wow, maybe we can add one more resolution. At the moment it's transcoded to 1440p and 480p (the original is in 1440p, but it still has to be transcoded to 1440p in order to use webtorrent for distribution).
@paulos I don't think the used servers have any GPU. But regardless the server, theoretically it's possible because it uses ffmpeg, practically it isn't used in PeerTube because it's problematic. You're dependent on hardware, you're much less in control of specific parameters of the video output which is especially important for live streaming. It's better to tackle it with sheer power of CPU.
cool effort! if you need more pointers on streaming without youtube, @c3voc has been doing it forever with massive conferences like Chaos Communication Congress, Fosdem and other really big events.
Jsem zvědavý, zda tomu pomůže WebTorrent z pohledu sdílení obsahu. Jinak kudos za to, jak ta česká opensource komunita dokáže jít novými cestičkami a nebojí se experimentovat!
@michal určitě pomůže. PeerTube dělal stress test s 1000 diváky sledujícími video z instance na průměrném hardwaru a Webtorrent ušetřil 75 % trafficu u live streamu a 98 % u VOD: joinpeertube.org/news/stress-t…
Ale distribuce videa je spíš ta jednodušší věc. OpenAlt má max vyšší desítky diváků naráz. Pokud se budou streamy v pořádku uploadovat a transkódovat, pojede to v pohodě.
We have many admins or uploaders wondering how many concurrent viewers a PeerTube instance can handle and how much its P2P feature can help the server...
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in reply to Maxi 11x 💉 • • •Den Beitrag habe ich nicht gesehen.
Aber den Trümmerhaufen habe ich noch in Erinnerung.
Die wurden da nicht einfach liegen gelassen (schon gar nicht von der DDR), sondern waren ein Mahnmal gegen Faschismus und Krieg.
Natürlich ist der Umgang damit in der DDR kritisch und differenziert zu betrachten.