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DefederateLemmyMl @ SpaceCadet @feddit.nl
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  • Me use apt. Why use many letter when few letter do trick?

  • I ... have no problems with that. I wouldn't do what you do, but it's your server and kate's a good GUI editor. I use it too when I'm in a GUI workflow. The only issue I have with kate is that it hangs if a mountpoint (NFS or Samba share) is temporarily unavailable.

  • Personally I am of the nonanoist denomination. I will curse all the demons of hell when on a new system I type vipw or systemctl edit some.service and I am unexpectedly faced with the demon called nano. Words cannot describe how much I loathe this pityful excuse for an editor, this usurper of editing powers, this illegitimate occupier of the editor symlink. How dare you insult me, the omnipotent god called root, by presenting me with a training tool for novices?!

    Fortunately, there are ancient spells that can nullify its powers. 'I command you: be gone Satan', I will utter under my breath as I carefully type in the magic incantation to cast it back into the fiery chasm from whence it came:

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  • The thing is, simple can mean two things, and they are quite often at odds with each other.

    It can mean simple to understand, or simple to use.

    For example, a piece of software that's just a binary, a config file and a man page describing the config file and the software's behavior is generally quite easy to understand. Like, you can fit the idea of the program entirely into your mind and "comprehend" it, though it may not be easy to use for a novice.

    By contrast, a piece of software that contains additional layers for easy of use, like a GUI to edit options, may be simple to use, but not necessarily simple to understand. The additional layers add more complexity that does not contribute to core functionality of the program, it can become unclear what gets changed where when you click on buttons, the config file is likely not documented, human readable or editable, or it may even be a completely opaque configuration database (the registry), ... So making the software more simple to use, often makes it harder to comprehend.

    I, and I think many other nerds, like software that is simple in the "comprehensible" sense, we want to be able to wrap our head around it completely and we don't mind putting in a little bit of effort to achieve that comprehension, whereas other people prefer to hit the ground running.

  • LOL yes, I had a look at those too when I was looking for a more minimal terminal. Noped the fuck out when I read you had to recompile the tools to configure them.

    It's not that this is beyond my skill level, but that is just so ... why would I want to do that?

  • I installed Debian Buster and ran Firefox on my Pentium 3 750 a couple of years ago. It wasn't very fast or very usable, but I ran it.

    I mostly use that system for retro games in DOS 6.2 and Windows 98. The Debian installation is my utility OS for when I want to transfer new stuff to the DOS partitions, because it's way easier to connect it to the network.

  • Communication is key

    Sure, but honestly it sounds tiring if this kind of discussion is a recurring thing.

  • Larger version of the picture can be found here: https://apnews.com/article/execution-south-carolina-mikel-mahdi-8d0ca5a6dab1af35bea2f80ef6f6ca50

    Caption:

    This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left

  • Second that. I met my partner on OKC 8 years ago, and before I met them I also made lots of connections and had several dates with other people I met via OKC, some of whom I'm still friends with. The site certainly wasn't perfect, all dating sites are straight up self-esteem murderers if you're a heterosexual man, but as far as dating sites go, it was the best I've used because it actually tried to match you with people who shared values with you.

    At the same time I was also on tinder, and it was a barren wasteland of boring normies and felt more like a meat market than anything. I never had a meaningful match on there.

  • Except the comment is absolute horseshit. Vrt is the public broadcasting and news service and absolutely not a tabloid, furthermore this story is well documented and has been all over Belgian news for a week so it's absolutely uncalled for to call the veracity of this story into question.

    If you want a source, here is a direct link to the verdict: https://rechtbanken-tribunaux.be/sites/default/files/media/reatpi/leuven/files/correctioneel-vonnis-leuven-1-april-2025.pdf

    Feel free to cross reference with the article and point out inaccuracies. As far as I can tell, the article is factual but perhaps a bit short on details and context. Nevertheless, this story has been covered extensively and much more in depth in Dutch on the same website. In fact, I retrieved the link to the verdict from an article on vrt.be.

  • vrt.be is a very reputable site and not a tabloid. It belongs to the Flemish public broadcasting service, and they mostly write articles in Dutch. They do have an English section as well, though obviously it's not as thorough as their Dutch site. After all, we are a Dutch speaking region.

    I can assure you that this case is very real, and has been all over the Belgian media the past week. Just google "verkrachter leuven", and you'll literally find hundreds of news articles about this case.

    decided to literally figure out how to search Dutch google in Dutch just to find something more reputable

    Looks like you didn't do a very good job then.

  • That reminds me ... another annoying thing Google did was list my private jellyfin instance as a "deceptive site", after it had uninvitedly crawled it.

    A common issue it seems.

  • What I used to do was: I put jellyfin behind an nginx reverse proxy, on a separate vhost (so on a unique domain). Then I added basic authentication (a htpasswd file) with an unguessable password on the whole domain. Then I added geoip firewall rules so that port 443 was only reachable from the country I was in. I live in small country, so this significantly limits exposure.

    Downside of this approach: basic auth is annoying. The jellyfin client doesn't like it ... so I had to use a browser to stream.

    Nowadays, I put all my services behind a wireguard VPN and I expose nothing else. Only issue I've had is when I was on vacation in a bnb and they used the same IP range as my home network :-|

  • This is how I found out Google harvests the URLs I visit through Chrome.

    Got google bots trying to crawl deep links into a domain that I hadn't published anywhere.

  • all you need is to get a static IP for your home network

    Don't even need a static IP. Dyndns is enough.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    DefederateLemmyMl @feddit.nl

    Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

    I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as tankies. This wouldn't be much of an issue if they didn't regularly abuse their admin/mod status to censor and silence people who dissent with their political beliefs and for example, post things critical of China, Russia, the USSR, socialism, ...

    As an example, there was a thread today about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. When I was reading it, there were mostly posts critical of China in the thread and some whataboutist/denialist replies critical of the USA and the west. In terms of votes, the posts critical of China were definitely getting the most support.

    I posted a comment in this thread linking to "https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgu