WhyJiffie

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 minutes ago

Doesn't work. Try to do it without giving them a phone number or installing some other application. You can't. Or I couldn't.

how did you try? did you try registering a mozilla account?

You'll find out Mozilla has problems with sign in.

It's probably temporary, it doesn't have problems usually

And it presumes that I shouldn't be able to control my own browser.

they do it so that malware cant install unvetted addons to your browser. and if someone signs a malware addon this way, and some people report it, mozilla can disable it for everyone.

We need a new firefox - just like the original firefox showed that Mozilla was bloat and dumb, we need another that shows the current is bloat and dumb.

what you need is a footgun. you have it in about:config.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

jpeg xl! wow! that's cool!

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

separately, part by part. if they had a laptop they would have needed to buy at least 6 complete laptops by that time, or more realistically, give up on upgrades.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

don't enable unsigned extensions. It's there for good reason.

upload your addon to addons.mozilla.org. there's an option to not publish, but only upload for signing. then you'll get back a signed xpi you can install properly.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

that's why I believe that in a normal world, renting should only be needed for temporary hardware. a temporary home, a temporary vehicle, a temporary server, temporary storage..

but with homeservers you could have your own once you can afford it, and you could request help from contractors for the urgent type of maintenance. replacing failing disks in the array, minimal monitoring so that they can keep an eye on when that happens, maybe critical updates..

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

who cares about trump here. he's just the catalyst that started the process we long needed. american big tech has for much longer been parasitic and anticonsumer, and that's not on trump. every administration before that was fine with it too.

yes you violated, and that's out of question.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

they upload your medical information to advertisers and data brokers, and connect it to your name and email address, that's what needs an account.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

that's peertube too

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

an open source app for wearables, its on fdroid. works without contacting manufacturer servers, but for some devices you might still need the official app for first time setup

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

I guess it's just google sans, they use this placeholder elsewhere too

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

oh, LXC containers! I see. I never used them because I find LXC setup more complicated, once tried to use a turnkey samba container but couldn't even figure out where to add the container image to LXC, or how to start if not that way.

but also, I like that this way my random containerized services use a different kernel, not the main proxmox kernel, for isolation.

Additionally, having them as CTs mean that I can run straight on the container itself instead of having to edit a Docker file which by design is meant to be ephemeral.

I don't understand this point. on docker, it's rare that you need to touch the Dockerfile (which contains the container image build instructions). did you mean the docker compose file? or a script file that contains a docker run command?

also, you can run commands or open a shell in any container with docker, except if the container image does not contain any shell binary (but even then, copying a busybox or something to a volume of the container would help), but that's rare too.
you do it like this: docker exec -it containername command. bit lengthy, but bash aliases help

Also for the over committing thing, be aware that your issue you've stated there will happen with a Docker setup as well. Docker doesn't care about the amount of RAM the system is allotted. And when you over-allocate the system, RAM-wise, it will start killing containers potentially leaving them in the same state.

in docker I don't allocate memory, and it's not common to do so. it shares the system memory with all containers. docker has a rudimentary resource limit thingy, but what's better is you can assign containers to a cgroup, and define resource limits or reservations that way. I manage cgroups with systemd ".slice" units, and it's easier than it sounds

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

perhaps we should try some kind of conversion therapy on them

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
 

lemm.ee has shut down at 00:14 UTC.

unfortunately I realized too late that I have had hundreds of saved links to posts and comments from there, so I did not have enough time to save them, but anyways it is interesting that maybe a third of the post links I could try were dead. I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.

 

In today's episode of Kill The Messenger, Matrix co-founder Matthew Hodgson reveals how full of bullshit is the writer of the original article.

The messages were published in the Office of the Matrix.org Foundation room: https://matrix.to/#%2F%21sWpnrYUMmaBrlqfRdn%3Amatrix.org%2F%24XpQe-vmtB7j0Uy1TPCvMVCSCW63Xxw_jwy3fflw7EMQ%3Fvia=matrix.org&via=element.io

https://paper.wf/alexia/matrix-is-cooked is fascinatingly incorrect

Until the 6th of November 2023 when they—in their words—moved to a different repository and to the AGPL license. In reality, the Foundation did not know this was coming, and a huge support net was pulled away under their feet.

fwiw, the Foundation had a front-row seat in the fact that Element (as incorporated by the folks who created Matrix) had donated $$M to the Foundation over the years, but wasn't going to survive if it kept giving all its work away as apache-licensed code - which in turn would have been catastrophic for the Foundation.

Yes, the high expenses for the Matrix.org homeserver are largely because they are still managed by Element, just not as donated work but instead like with any other customer.

nope, Element passes the hardware costs (and a fraction of the people costs) of running the matrix.org server to the Foundation without any overheads or markup at all.

Either way it shows that Element is seemingly cashing in on selling ,Matrix to governments and B2B as a SaaS solution without it going back to the foundation

Element has literally put tens of millions into the foundation, and is continuing to do so - while some of the costs get passed to the Foundation, Element donates a bunch too (e.g. by funding a large chunk of the Matrix conference as the anchor sponsor, and by donating time all over the place to help support trust & safety etc)

At the same time I can't help but think that this could have been prevented. Even Matthew himself recognizes that putting the future on Matrix on the line with VC funding and alike was not the best idea for the health of Matrix.

No, even Matthew knows that Matrix would never have been funded without routing the VC funding from Element into... building Matrix. We tried to fund it originally purely as a non-profit, but failed (just as it's a nightmare to raise non-profit for the Foundation today even now that Matrix exists and is successful!). If you need to raise serious $ for an ambitious project, you either need to get lucky with a billionaire (as Signal did with Brian Acton) or you have to raise on the for-profit side. Perhaps it would have have been best for Matrix to grow organically, but I suspect that if it did, it would have failed miserably - instead, it succeeded because we already had a team of ~12 people who could crack on and jump-start it if they could work on it as their dayjob; the team who subsequently founded Element.

Ultimately, for-profit companies will do what makes them profit, not what's the best option. Unless the best option happens to coincide with making the most profit.

No, Element is not profitable. Nor is it trying to maximise profit. Right now it's trying to survive and get sustainable and profit-neutral (i.e. break-even) - while doing everything it can to help keep Matrix healthy and successful too (given if Matrix fails, Element fails too).

Unfortunately, supporting the foundation through anything more than “in spirit” and a platinum membership is out of their budget, apparently. I think that morally they owe a lot more than that.

wow.

the FUD level is absolutely astonishing, and I really wonder what the genesis of this is

so, absolutely, spectacularly, depressing

this, my friends, is why we can't have nice things.

In response to an other person suggesting that the publisher is also known as a reasonable person on the platform:

Interesting, the matrix handle that seems behind this blog seems always to have been quite a reasonable person

somewhat why i’m wondering what the backstory is, and whether this is an unfortunate example of spicy lies outpacing the boring truth

 

If your post would end up like that in a day, please just refrain from posting it, in any community, or use a throwaway. It is very destructive, especially since all and every comment also becomes unreachable with it.

Sincerely,
With all due respect,
Your Lemmy neighbor


I'm fed up with this shit, and I know it well that it's not just me.

Do not bomb your communities, please.

I promise, I'll end up setting up a public instance that does not obey any deletions because of these madlads. Seriously, where is pushshift for lemmy?

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