That's interesting. I'd be a little concerned that widespread use of that might create more legal issues for Archive.org that wouldn't be problems if it never caught on much. On that basis, I'd probably not use it.
But I'd imagine ideological opposition to such a thing wouldn't be enough to keep it from catching on either.
This might be the dumbest shit I’ve ever said, but seems like a valid way to solve the bot problem? Definitely no existing coin or anything like that, but I feel like place is one of those things where if you could solve the logistical problems, it could easily become a staple of the internet with a long rich lore.
(Full disclosure, it took a little more than right-clicking to download that image. OpenSea apparently purposefully makes it hard to download images. Not terribly hard, though. Only took me a couple of minutes to figure out.)
My girlfriend has threatened to break up with me several times now unless I cut down to a pack a week. I’m not addicted but it does help me get through my day. I keep trying to tell her that but she doesn’t believe me and keeps saying that it’s actually bad. I want to prove to my girlfriend that smoking cigarettes is...
We might be able to answer the question better if you named the "other platforms" you're referring to. It doesn't seem like an unusual amount compared to, for instance, how much communist/transgender content Reddit had back when Reddit wasn't as evil as it is now. (Who knows what Reddit's like now. I haven't been back since the two-day boycott over the API pricing.)
All that said, some of the communist content here is tankies. (That is, authoritarian communists who spout CCP or other authoritarian communist regimes' propaganda.) Some of the Lemmy instances (like latte.isnot.coffe and lemmy.ml) are run by tankies.
That said, a lot of the communist content here is grass-roots anarcho-communist advocacy by people like me who ideologically lean that way.
I don't think the lemmy.ml admins have been coy about it.
If you go to the lemmy.ml home page, at the bottom of the right column is a list of admins.
The first admin's profile banner is a picture of Mao. And the second's profile pic is a photo of Fidel Castro. The other two don't have profile pics that are explicitly authoritarian communist and I haven't had the patience to look through a whole lot of their posts or anything.
Just a couple of Reddit threads (via libreddit.hu) on the topic: one and two. Unfortunately what they link do doesn't appear to be in the wayback machine as far as I've been able to tell.
One of my first blog posts in a while, I go over Google’s recent web proposal, and point out exactly why it won’t turn out well. Hope y’all have fun with it.
@o_o asked “why are folks so anti-capitalist?” not long ago. It got quite a few comments. But I noticed a trend: a lot of people there didn’t agree on the definition of “capitalism”....
So, first off, let me say that if it'll help us move toward something better than we have now, even if in my head I call it anarcho-communism, I'll happily call it "capitalism."
For reference, there's an author named Charles Eisenstein who in his book "Sacred Economics" advocates for taking steps that he intends to move us (the world, I guess) eventually to a gift-based economy without money or barter. And he calls it capitalism. With a straight face. Now, I don't know if deep down in his heart he believes it actually qualifies as capitalism or if he's calling it capitalism because he feels like his aims are more likely to be well received by pro-capitalists if he calls it "capitalism."
One can IMO go too far with that. Case in point: ecofascism. But I digress.
On to the definition of capitalism. At least in my head, capitalism is characterized by:
The profit motive. The incentive to amass. (Typically money, but a barter-based system could well be the same in every way that matters.)
Quid pro quo. The whole system is based on it.
Private property. A particular set of rules for who has ownership rights over what.
The institution of employment.
My answer didn't include the word "capital", so I'll skip that second question.
As to your third question, let me take exception with the question itself. I don't believe "control over what you produce" is necesssarily a good thing per se. I believe in having something roughly like ownership rights over what one uses. But if one produce a surplus, I don't believe they should be able to deprive others in need of said surplus.
I think capitalism coerces people into producing surplus for others to sell for a profit that the producer (employee) doesn't get a fair share in if that goes more to the spirit of your question.
Bonus questions:
I... don't know or care? "Capitalist" can mean someone who supports the institution of capitalism. Or it can mean something like an owner of a company that employs people. I think plenty of people participate in capitalism (by selling things they make, by accepting an employment position, etc) out of necessity while disapproving of the system as a whole. Hell, I'm one of them. I'm not sure I understand why you ask.
If I'm the person who sells things I make? Again, anticapitalists participate in capitalism because capitalism doesn't give them a choice. Does that answer your question?
The word "sell" here has some baggage I don't like. I'm not for a system in which anybody "sells" anything. But to answer how one might expand an operation that produces things, worker cooperatives are probably the most obvious answer.
Anyway, worker cooperatives are owned and run by the workers. Corporations are owned by shareholders and run by boards of directors. Worker cooperatives don't have incentives and power to fuck their workers over. They do have incentive and power to take care of their workers.
Maybe I should have read the first thread you referenced before answering these. Maybe it would have given more context. But hopefully this response gives you what you were looking for.
28-year-old Patriot Front member Jared Boyce plead guilty to possession of child pornography, and eight other related offenses, in a Utah court in April., according to local news media sources who publicized the guilty plea on Saturday....
One of the biggest overlooks when it comes to cooking dinners or any involved meal with multiple ingredients is accounting for the calories each ingredient will take. Let’s say you’re cooking pasta and you want to include the sauce, some seasonings, some things to mix with the pasta .etc...
Wait, do people who are counting calories cook, for instance, spaghetti with meat sauce, cheese, and meatballs and only count the calories in the spaghetti? That's got to be kindof a denial and/or self-deception kind of phenomenon rather than legitimately thinking that the calories in, say, sauce are negligible or "cook off" somehow, right?
I didn't know that was something a website could do. But on the main page (that is, '/'), I can't seem to refresh. The refresh button in Firefox doesn't work. Ctrl+r, ctrl+shift+r, and f5 all do not work. Selecting the url and hitting enter doesn't work. I haven't tried in any other browsers. Is this supposed to be a feature?...
Mindustry is a factory-building game with tower defense and RTS elements. Create elaborate supply chains to feed ammo into your turrets, produce materials to use for building, and construct units. Command units to capture enemy bases, and expand your production. Defend your core from waves of enemies....
Mindustry is amazing. The kind of game you can waste a ridiculous number of hours on. Every time I pick it up, I know I'm not going to be doing anything constructive for a few days until I've finished that planet.
I've only ever played it on an Android smartphone. (And I've only ever played the version that's available on F-Droid.) I'm a little scared to install it on my desktop machine for fear I may never be heard from again.
So with open source software more on my mind lately I was wondering - while I get the benefits of transparency and such, how safe is it? If the source code is available to all, isn’t it easier to breach for people (like the recent cookies hack)? If I’d have an open source password manager, would it be easier for people to...
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." - Linus Torvalds
Open Source software is (caveat, qualifier) safer than proprietary software. (And I'll get to the caveats and qualifiers later.)
Software exploits are possible only because of mistakes, oversights, negligence, or mistaken assumptions on the part of the developer of user of the code. More eyes on the code help suss out those mistakes, oversights, negligence, and mistaken assumptions, creating a more secure (and bug-free) piece of software.
Besides that, companies that make proprietary software have incentives to put evil things into said proprietary software that endanger you to enrich them. (For instance, phone apps collecting personal data about you only to sell to advertising companies.) Companies that contribute to open source software also have incentives to put evil things into open source software, but when everyone has access to view the source code, it's a lot harder to get away with that. (Not to say it's never happened that purposeful vulnerabilities have gotten into open source software, but it's a lot easier to catch such vulnerabilities in open source software than proprietary software.)
As others have said, the way algorithms related to security are designed, the security doesn't depend on keeping the algorithm secret. (But rather, keeping a "key" -- a bit of data generated by the algorithm -- secret.)
Now, caveats.
I do believe there is some extent to which open source software is trusted to be safe even when the "chain of custody" is questionable. There are ways to ensure integrity, but there are repositories such as NPM that carry large amounts of open source software that is used by huge numbers of people on a regular basis that don't utilize sufficient integrity checking techniques. As a result, there have been a few cases where malicious code has sneaked into NPM and then into codebases.
There are also cases where governments have gotten malicious code into open source projects. (Though, I'd expect that's more of a problem with proprietary software, not less.)
D&D books are still available by themselves from your friendly local game store. You can find them at Target, Amazon, and beyond as well. But the community seems concerned about WotC’s move towards a more digital D&D.
The user in this screenshot is just an example. I'd love to be able to receive updates when my favourite users post. Also, this has been a great app to use, and I'm looking forward to future development!
That's probably more of a Lemmy feature request than a Jerboa feature request.
Edit: TIL if I've left a Lemmy page open in my browser, I should refresh a page before replying to make sure I'm not restating posts that beat me to it that I haven't seen.
How do you scrape stuff, I tried wget but it didn't work. A login + a button press is required to see anything. I can do this manually if required. There are many different slides and videos though.
If you login in a browser, it'll most likely give you a "session cookie" that you should be able to see in the developer tools. (If you're using Firefox's developer tools, it'd be under the "storage" section.) The name of the cookie will generally have the word "session" in the name. After logging in, that cookie identifies you to the server, letting the server know that "this particular request is from CucumberSalad" (or whatever your user is named on that service.) Wget probably hasn't been working because the requests from wget don't include that cookie like the requests from your browser do.
(Just looking at my developer tools while using Lemmy, it seems like the Lemmy web ui doesn't use session cookies but rather a JSON web token in a cookie named "jwt", but I think that cookie would suffice if I was trying to scrape the Lemmy web ui.)
Once you have the proper cookie name and value, you can have wget send the cookie to the server with each request by adding the flag --header 'Cookie: <cookie name>=<cookie value>' (but replace the values in angle brackets. Example: --header 'Cookie: JSESSIONID=ksdjflasjdfaskdjfaosidhwe'.)
Also, if you can provide more info as to what you're trying to scrape, folks can probably help more. Hopefully what I've given you is enough to get you going, but it's possible there might be more hurtles to jump to get it working.
Archive.org Scanned Book Downloader Bookmarklet (gist.github.com)
found this great bookmarklet for downloading DRM'd books from the internet archive in high quality. did not work in edge, but worked great in chrome!
ESRB plans “facial age estimation” checker for age verification (www.dexerto.com)
The ESRB has added:...
Top comment decides next move, legal or not | day 40: The black pawns start playing factorio (lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz)
The factory must grow
Has anybody ever thought of putting /r/place on the blockchain?
This might be the dumbest shit I’ve ever said, but seems like a valid way to solve the bot problem? Definitely no existing coin or anything like that, but I feel like place is one of those things where if you could solve the logistical problems, it could easily become a staple of the internet with a long rich lore.
NFTs are scams (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Benefits of smoking cigarettes?
My girlfriend has threatened to break up with me several times now unless I cut down to a pack a week. I’m not addicted but it does help me get through my day. I keep trying to tell her that but she doesn’t believe me and keeps saying that it’s actually bad. I want to prove to my girlfriend that smoking cigarettes is...
Why is there such a large amount of communist and transgender related posts on the Fediverse compared to other platforms?
I am not criticizing them, I’m just out of the loop.
"Mommy, look, it's a skibidi toilet" (lemmy.world)
A rant, with useful information, about the ‘Web Environment Integrity’ proposal by Google" (orowith2os.gitlab.io)
One of my first blog posts in a while, I go over Google’s recent web proposal, and point out exactly why it won’t turn out well. Hope y’all have fun with it.
What is the definition of capitalism? Is it compatible with people owning the things they produce?
@o_o asked “why are folks so anti-capitalist?” not long ago. It got quite a few comments. But I noticed a trend: a lot of people there didn’t agree on the definition of “capitalism”....
Patriot Front member pleads guilty to possessing child pornography (www.jpost.com)
28-year-old Patriot Front member Jared Boyce plead guilty to possession of child pornography, and eight other related offenses, in a Utah court in April., according to local news media sources who publicized the guilty plea on Saturday....
YSK: To account for all calories when cooking
One of the biggest overlooks when it comes to cooking dinners or any involved meal with multiple ingredients is accounting for the calories each ingredient will take. Let’s say you’re cooking pasta and you want to include the sauce, some seasonings, some things to mix with the pasta .etc...
a brain is a network of if() (lemmy.world) French
Why (and how) does Lemmy-UI disable refresh?
I didn't know that was something a website could do. But on the main page (that is, '/'), I can't seem to refresh. The refresh button in Firefox doesn't work. Ctrl+r, ctrl+shift+r, and f5 all do not work. Selecting the url and hitting enter doesn't work. I haven't tried in any other browsers. Is this supposed to be a feature?...
I prefer bean pc (lemmy.world)
How do I make it go?
Help me, help me make it go.
Mindustry - A sandbox tower-defense game (mindustrygame.github.io)
Mindustry is a factory-building game with tower defense and RTS elements. Create elaborate supply chains to feed ammo into your turrets, produce materials to use for building, and construct units. Command units to capture enemy bases, and expand your production. Defend your core from waves of enemies....
How safe is open source software? What are the general benefits?
So with open source software more on my mind lately I was wondering - while I get the benefits of transparency and such, how safe is it? If the source code is available to all, isn’t it easier to breach for people (like the recent cookies hack)? If I’d have an open source password manager, would it be easier for people to...
I think my opponent is getting fed moves. Is this even legal? What would Magnum Carlsin do? (vlemmy.net)
You Can't Buy Physical-Only D&D Books From WotC Anymore (www.belloflostsouls.net)
D&D books are still available by themselves from your friendly local game store. You can find them at Target, Amazon, and beyond as well. But the community seems concerned about WotC’s move towards a more digital D&D.
My First Encounter With A Cryptobro On The Fediverse (latte.isnot.coffee)
First, let me say please don't be harassing this person or anything....
What are you playing this week?
Tell us!
Can we get a "Follow Person" option? (lemmy.world)
The user in this screenshot is just an example. I'd love to be able to receive updates when my favourite users post. Also, this has been a great app to use, and I'm looking forward to future development!
How to scrape stuff (google.com)
How do you scrape stuff, I tried wget but it didn't work. A login + a button press is required to see anything. I can do this manually if required. There are many different slides and videos though.