valaramech

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[–] valaramech@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

If a state-actor doxxing you is in your threat model, using any social media should be verboten - even under a pseudonym.

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

In situations like this, the answer isn't to argue over the interpretation of the words: it's to fix the words.

If the writers intended "no excessive capitalization or excessive grammatical errors", then it should be changed to that.

If the writers intended "no excessive capitalization and no grammatical errors", then it should be changed to that.

Both situations remove the ambiguity and prevent pedantic internet arguments about language interpretation.

[–] valaramech@fedia.io -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If the adverts are completely optional, this is the best way to do it. "Here, if you watch this ad we'll give you free shit!" is way more likely to get me to watch whatever it is, but "You will watch this ad or you won't get to play anymore" is the fastest way to get me to uninstall.

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pfff, all these amateurs here using Vim. Y'all should use Emacs. You still have all of these problems, but you get to act all superior about it. /s (except for the superiority complex; that's real)

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

There are places to work that aren't complete dogshit, but you do have to avoid FinTech, FAANG, and probably anything with a lot of VC funding. You will make less money, but at least you won't be asked to do morally reprehensible shit on the regular.

Some of my best experiences have actually been at non-tech companies with small IT teams for internal shit. Biggest team I've ever worked on was 30 devs and that's probably about the largest team I'd want to work with.

EDIT: This does assume you're working in the States which is a dumb assumption for me to make. I'm not familiar with the culture outside of the states, but I imagine it's better than here.

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago

I think the biggest problem is that the idea of copyright is good, but the implementation - in most places, anyways - is complete dogshit.

Like, I'm fairly certain the original implementation of copyright in the US only lasted 10 years or thereabouts. Like, that's more than enough time to profit off whatever you made but short enough that it'll be usable by others within their lifetimes. This whole "life of the author + 100 years" shit needs to die.

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

thank mr skeltal

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 5 points 6 months ago

Every accusation is an admission.

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

Weird, I found the Arch-based one once but now I can't find it. Everything keeps pointing me back to that page...

EDIT: All I can find now is HoloISO - which seems to be in a reasonable place, I guess.

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 0 points 6 months ago

I've been wondering for a little while now if WinApps will work for gaming. It uses a VM in the background but, supposedly, has a "native" experience. Thoughts?

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

~~You can also install SteamOS which is literally what the Steam Deck runs.~~

EDIT: Disregard, I can't read.

[–] valaramech@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago

My understanding is that running most of BlueSky is possible on small to moderate hardware. However, running all of BlueSky requires basically cloning 100% of all the content on BlueSky (which, as of Nov 2024, was ~5 TB).

So, like, yes, one can run part of BlueSky or a clone of BlueSky which has none of the main instance's user's content without much trouble, but actually running an entire BlueSky stack is eventually going to become cost prohibitive.

I found this write-up to be enlightening on the subject.

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