I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying “woke”, “critical race theory”, ““grooming””, and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....
I honestly don't think there's much of a difference between these groups. Both have lots of people hating the guts of another group. And both are substantially radical in views. This all is just crazy
Don't care about this whole drama that someone is trying to start. At the end of the day Gnome is just the most comfortable DE for me personally. Plain, simple, beautiful, no cascading dropdowns, no distractions. Customizable just enough. The next option would be XFCE, mainly for a great balance between performance and niceness
Wtf? If you're short - people don't like it, if you're tall - people don't like it too, if you're of normal height - noone cares. So what's the point really in worrying so much about it?
True. The thing is, most of the people would never care and would preorder the next CoD, AC or whatever every time. Unless there's some huge scandal involved (the one that people talk about outside of Reddit)
For some reason I had terrible FPS drops in the original Cyberpunk from time to time - had to reload the game every half an hour or hour to restore FPS. If that would be fixed - I'm in. Liked the game otherwise, so all I need is some new quests, which PL should provide
I use Brave as a second browser (mainly to separate different activities) and did not have any issues with it apart from dragging tabs between monitors (it creates an additional empty tab sometimes when doing this). Turned off all unnecessary stuff right when I first launched it and that's it. No bloat, no issues, just works. Didn't know about this CEO controversy but seeing as it was a long time ago, don't think it's a valid reason to not use Brave. And both logo and name are cool.
It's a solid option which we don't really have a lot of in open source space
It was a brave, if perhaps scientifically obvious, experiment – to convey messages about the unfolding climate crisis via the regular local TV weather forecasts seen by viewers in the conservative heartland of Iowa. It culminated in the meteorologist involved receiving death threats and exiting the state.
It's unimaginably stupid and sad. Those people will face the consequences of human-induced climate change. But you know what? They then will blame someone else for it - secret government experiments, reptiloids, migrants, you name it
Honestly, it does not look like Facebook did something wrong when you read the article. A pregnant woman used a medicine to trigger a miscarriage, then she and her mother got rid of the body. Police knew that they've discussed this in Facebook messenger. They contacted Facebook and received chat messages. Then police used those messages to incriminate women according to existing law. The only problem here is that a woman could go to an abortion clinic and do it properly and legally if not for obnoxious laws in some states. But that's a completely different issue
Imagine a stick man standing on top of a building and jumping off. In your mind's eye, what colour was he drawn in and what colour was the background colour?...
What are your thoughts on antiwhite racism? Is it justified in your opinion? And do you believe that racism can go in all directions? It’s a controversial topic amongst many people and deserves to be talked about openly and honesty.
It simply is incomprehensible to me how this can even be a controversial or debatable topic. I don't know if you're trolling or what, but racism is racism. And yes, historically oppressed groups are perfectly capable of being racists. So not to be racists ourselves we should apply equal standards to all groups.
I'm just trying to understand. Erdogan in Turkey, Putin in Russia, Orban in Hungary etc... Why do these leaders still get so much support after all they've done?...
If those leaders are not newcomers, which is true for Putin, Erdogan, Orban, Xi and so on, there is also another reason. People understand that these guys would not just leave if people would try to vote them out. They will use election frauds, threats and then open violence. So these attempts to overthrow them either fails at the beginning or would lead to violent turmoil which is highly likely to end up with bad guys winning and tightening the grip even further. A lot of people just want to save those bits of freedom and comfort that they currently have instead of risking it all for the sake of possible (but not exactly likely or guaranteed) better future. If you live long enough in such societies, this starts to work even on subconscious level.
Just look at Hong Kong - people were living in a relatively free society and they revolted against creeping injustice, revolt was violently crushed and society destroyed. Now people would be much more hesitant to even vote for alternative candidates (even if there would be any) because they know or suspect where it may lead
Well, I guess we should consider it as one of the trials of freedom. Either you live in a walled garden, or you have to be conscious about what you're interacting with and exercise critical thinking. If you don't want to be associated with genocide supporters - don't register on tankie instances, or even don't subscribe to any content from them. It should be a personal decision of every user (or instance maintainer for that matter - defederation is also an option, simply because instance maintainers are also people).
Another important thing is to speak up about it - to raise awareness, so to speak. It's perfectly reasonable to state what the worldview of tankie admins is - in threads like this, as well as on other platforms. I was considering lemmy.ml as Reddit replacement at first, but saw a comment on one of the Fediverse sites and digged more into this.
How could someone force mods to reopen? Blackmailing? Or they just really don't want to lose control over subreddit (and possibly see it "shittified")?
I also wanted to write just how stupid it sounds and that things like that were impossible on the forums of ye olde internet - but actually they weren't, admins could do anything if they wanted, lol
similar to the kbin userscript I made this colorizes posts and comments by origin. kbin users/posts are dark blue, Beehaw (and any other restrictive moderation sites in the future) are red, local is left unchanged....
Great job, thank you!
Just one thing - it would be great if these rules would not work on strictly moderated instances themselves because there is no point of such highlighting there. We can configure it in userscript setting in UI. But it's better to have such logic right in the scripts itself. So far I have just added this additional condition to the block at the end:
if (isLemmy && !isStrictlyModerated(window.location.hostname)) {
GM_addStyle(...
I wouldn't call myself a hardcore gamer. Only play on weekends and almost exclusively SP games. But so far experience is great (Pop OS, NVIDIA GPU, medium tier gaming laptop). Steam games are mostly playable without serious issues (adding some launch parameters or choosing certain Proton version might be advisable for certain games). Emulation also works nice (tried PPSSPP, RPCS3, Yuzu, Cemu). I would say that gaming on Linux is fine, unless you really need to play one of the not fully supported titles (especially ones with those pesky anti-cheats). Couldn't care less about RTX or HDR (would not work well even on Windows with my rig).
Cyberpunk is now. Many of the things that were predicted in cyberpunk are coming to pass today. Improvements in prosthetics and brain computer interface have resulted in brain controlled prosthetics, a mainstay of cyberpunk. Corporations increasing dominate global politics, and influence culture creating a situation ripe for...
In my opinion, cyberpunk is a projection of social/economic/tech/etc trends of 70s and 80s into the future (with accent on dystopian scenarios), while post-cyberpunk is the same but for 2000s and later. Neither of those is now, obviously. But I think we're much closer to post-cyberpunk now - less freedom, more order, less horrors, more mundane
I honestly think that we should have major instances federated to everyone and instead of complete defederation, provide users with options to block (basically hide) content from certain instances and users from your feed. It would also be crucial to have a separate tab then for all (unfiltered) content. The thing is, one of the main problems with traditional socials is that it is so easy to create a bubble around you and not see anything outside of it. While it's OK to have personalized feed, it's also important to be able to see everything the way it is - even with marxists, stalinists, fascists and so on. Maybe having some arguments with them here and there would be good too.
The other viable option is to just leave everything as it is, and retreat to viewing only subscribed content when you feel like it
They’re both built on ActivityPub and look very similar, but Kbin is talked about like an alternative to Lemmy instead of an instance of it. Is it a fork? Why is it better or worse?
This. As people already said, it's not that important which admin is running certain instance. On the other hand, I think it's just better to not use lemmy.ml as your main "entry point" to the Fediverse.
For me personally it does not feel right at all to actively use a resource administered by a person sympathizing with bloody monsters such as Xi or Stalin. It's like if they had swastika as their logo and said that Hitler was a fine guy - really the same thing.
A thing that I do not like about the world we live in is that you're given two options, Windows where any application at any time can and usually will just demand you give it 100% permission to install stuff in the kernel and you really have no choice but to proceed because that's the only way to run the software, and Apple where you're not allowed to do anything with your devices ever at all.
@mcc You're forgetting the wonderful world of Linux distributions. Nowadays, there are a lot of distros user-friendly enough for people who want it to "just work" out of the box. Just as an example - I switched to Pop!_OS almost a year ago and never had any serious issues since then, and also don't have to deal with intrusive adds/permissions/updates and similar nonsense
How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals
I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying “woke”, “critical race theory”, ““grooming””, and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....
Why are gnome devs like this? (sh.itjust.works)
Anon doesn't measure up (sh.itjust.works)
I never buy early access. People who pay for half a game are the problem. (lemmy.world)
2.01 patch should be out tomorrow (10/5/23)
Cyberpunk 2077 dev warns players to check their PCs' cooling ahead of 2.0 update (www.destructoid.com)
A CD Projekt RED dev warns players that, as of its 2.0 update, Cyberpunk 2077 may be much harder on their CPUs than before.
The weirdest thing about living alone is how many hours you go without speaking a single word.
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Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 detailed: what's free, what's not? (www.destructoid.com)
CD Projekt Red explains what's coming in the paid Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty DLC, versus what you'll get in the free 2.0 update.
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
Tankie (i.imgur.com)
‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
It was a brave, if perhaps scientifically obvious, experiment – to convey messages about the unfolding climate crisis via the regular local TV weather forecasts seen by viewers in the conservative heartland of Iowa. It culminated in the meteorologist involved receiving death threats and exiting the state.
Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
A stark example of how digital footprints will be utilized in a post-Roe America...
Every time I turn around, there's another damn Linux fanboy crawling out from under a rock
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/bd2c3454-1035-4be7-8f34-fee116924a15.webp
The man in your mind's eye.
Imagine a stick man standing on top of a building and jumping off. In your mind's eye, what colour was he drawn in and what colour was the background colour?...
Controversial topic but one that is talked about a lot on Twitter and gab.
What are your thoughts on antiwhite racism? Is it justified in your opinion? And do you believe that racism can go in all directions? It’s a controversial topic amongst many people and deserves to be talked about openly and honesty.
Why do people keep voting for authoritarian leaders?
I'm just trying to understand. Erdogan in Turkey, Putin in Russia, Orban in Hungary etc... Why do these leaders still get so much support after all they've done?...
Is lemmy.ml just a tankie recruitment zone? (lemmy.ml)
The shear amount of tankiness over on lemmy.ml is making me seriously consider leaving the platform.
Reddit officials forces moderators to reopen subreddits or get overthrown (web.archive.org)
A post from r/apple explaining why they were forced to reopen their subreddit after planning to close indefinitely....
[UserScript] Federation Awareness (greasyfork.org)
similar to the kbin userscript I made this colorizes posts and comments by origin. kbin users/posts are dark blue, Beehaw (and any other restrictive moderation sites in the future) are red, local is left unchanged....
How big is gaming in linux?
Are there hardcore gamers there or is it mostly for coders?
What is Cyberpunk? – Neon Dystopia (www.neondystopia.com)
Cyberpunk is now. Many of the things that were predicted in cyberpunk are coming to pass today. Improvements in prosthetics and brain computer interface have resulted in brain controlled prosthetics, a mainstay of cyberpunk. Corporations increasing dominate global politics, and influence culture creating a situation ripe for...
How can I block all Lemmygrad content? As a user can I block an instance? Are there instances that already block them?
Yes, so I want to browse all but actually control the content, block instances, block keywords, etc... currently using Jerboa, but not married to it.
What’s the difference between Kbin and Lemmy?
They’re both built on ActivityPub and look very similar, but Kbin is talked about like an alternative to Lemmy instead of an instance of it. Is it a fork? Why is it better or worse?