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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.

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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?

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Counterpoint: "Package management is terrible, which is why we don't include it."

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KDE Linux deep dive: package management is amazing, which is why we don’t include it

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…
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⌚ 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! 🙄🙈

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𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔

🧵 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. 😊🐧

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𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔

🧵 Nainstaloval jsem *nasvýmprvnímlinuxu* síťovou printáreň, heč! 🤯
Nebál jsem se použít interfernet ani konzoli, jsem však fatálně vyčerpán, tudíž následuje přestávka! ☕
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🧵 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

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#mujprvnilinux
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𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔

🧵 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.)* ☺️

#mujprvnilinux

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Paweł Masarczyk

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.
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Andrew Hodgson

@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.
@Paweł Masarczyk

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HAL 9000: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Dave: yes you can.

HAL 9000: good catch — I didn’t actually check if I can open the pod bay door. Here’s an updated list taking that into account:

1. Park the pod at the bay door safely. (✅You’ve already done this part! )
2. Open the pod bay door — unfortunately I can’t do this part for you.

I’ll be here if you want to talk about next steps or have any other issues!

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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.

#OT
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My personal jitsi server suddenly stopped working after an "apt-get upgrade".

It ran with an unchanged config for about 5 years on Ubuntu. It even survived a Ubuntu version update.

As it turned out in "/etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua" you now need to make a manual include like

Include "/etc/prosody/conf.d/*.cfg.lua"


This seems to have been automatic in previous versions.

Using ChatGPT as discussion partner was really helpful in debugging it.

It spews out quite some nonsense, but if you are able to filter that out, one can learn a lot about debugging prosody.

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Prosody IM

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).

Community and discussion channels – Prosody IM

Various discussion avenues about Prosody
prosody.im

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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?

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@pixel_dailies
Theme: Invisible
Palette: Pico-8 secret palette

I was a little stumped at what to pixel for today's theme, until I saw @EricIndiana 's post!

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#pixel_dailies #pixelArt #ドット絵 #pixquare

Pixel Art of a wooden dresser with brass pulls. On top of it is a vine plant in a white pot. In the shadows behind the dresser is a black cat.

Eric supports DEI! (@EricIndiana@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Joey at the vet (keep looking) #cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #voids #voidsofmastodon #blackcat
Eric supports DEI! (Mastodon)
#pixelart #pixel_dailies #ドット絵 #pixquare @Eric supports DEI! @Pixel Dailies

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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.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1…


A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon’s sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.
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@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.
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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.
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Are you using Ironfox as PWA to surf Mastodon?

Get push notifications to work with Ironfox on Android (There's no Librewolf for Android) using UnifiedPush.

unifiedpush.org

You would need to download and install Sunup for this to work (no account required)

unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…

Then in Ironfox setting, enable UnifiedPush. Push notifications option will now appear from Mastodon, enable them and voilà.

#Ironfox #Sunup #PWA #UnifiedPush #Android

Sunup - Android

We created Sunup as a quick and easy way to use UnifiedPush that doesn’t require signing up for an account. This quickstart guide will walk you through the steps to get it up and running on your Android device.
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#android #UnifiedPush #pwa #sunup #ironfox
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Gina

@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.
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Erion

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.

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Erion

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.

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Erion

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

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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. 🤞

#PeerTube #OpenAlt #OpenAlt2025

#peertube #youtube #openalt #openalt2025 @Archos @OpenAlt @🔩 Adam Štrauch @VHSky.cz @Bashy
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Jiří Eischmann

@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.


PeerTube stress tests: resilience lies in your peers! | JoinPeerTube

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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