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cnx

@cnx@larkspur.one

Vietnamese grad student & free software enthusiast

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cnx, to random
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Is anyone aware of a commercial host other than sr.ht? Or, XY problem in mind, any server that I can register on and help with the hosting expenses.

pganssle, to random
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$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/to_be_wiped status=progress
59001459200 bytes (59 GB, 55 GiB) copied, 904 s, 65.3 MB/s

65 MB/s, nice, nice. At this rate it’s only going to take…. 3 days to wipe this 16TB drive.

cnx,
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Wait @pganssle, isn’t /dev/zero the opposite of random? Cc: @acdha

cnx, to random
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:blobfoxdrakedislike: eating tofu because animals are frens, not food
:blobfoxdrakelike: eating tofu because chewing hurts due to gingivitis

captainepoch, to random

Vietnam to require social media users to verify identity
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/vietnam-require-social-media-users-verify-identity-2023-05-08/

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Did Vietnam government hear about fedi? :blobcatlaugh2:

cnx,
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@captainepoch, local source is citing official’s statement about human trafficking :ablobheadshake:

cnx,
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IIUC @captainepoch and @xarvos, the statements were from a press conference about preventing human trafficking and ID’ing social network users to prevent scams. I couldn’t find the recording or transcript of the press conference online, and all news source copy each other and here are the relevant paragraphs

Tuy nhiên khi ngăn chặn, xóa bỏ thì vô hình trung làm mất đi dấu vết, chứng cứ, gây khó khăn cho quá trình củng cố chứng cứ, đấu tranh của các lực lượng khác. Đây là việc sẽ phải bàn bạc trong việc phối hợp.

Ông Lâm cũng nêu việc Bộ Thông tin và Truyền thông có cơ chế rà soát, đo đạc thông tin trên không gian mạng nhưng với thông tin có dấu hiệu mua bán người thì rất tinh vi.

which roughly translate to

However, the prevention and deletion [of unidentified accounts] shall virtually causes the lost of evidences and traces, making it difficult for the evidence building process of forces working on other issues [than scams]. This will need to be discussed during cooperation.

Mr Lâm also mentioned that the Ministry of Information and Communication has procedures for checking and measuring information in cyberspace but for info having hints of human trafficking [the transmission] is very clever.

It seems to me human trafficking is used as an argument against a (rush) impl of ID’ing.

muxelplexer, to random
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i just found out about lrzip and i’m in love. I compressed a 2.1GB access.log into a 80MB file in 5 minutes :bolb:

cnx,
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@muxelplexer, how does zstd compare?

downey, to fediverse
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🇬🇧 👑 Day fill-the-blank!

royalist : UK :: ??? : Fediverse

"Royalist" is to the United Kingdom, as (what?) is to the

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:boost_love: Boosts will lead to more (better!) answers!

cnx,
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also royalist, @downey?

steffo, (edited ) to random

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    cnx,
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    quick, @steffo, make one with multiple choices before many people vote

    tyil, to random

    No matter how much I play around, I seemingly always come back to .

    cnx,
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    same here, @tyil, awesome is the emacs of wm

    cnx,
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    @tyil, I was comparing awesome’s Lua API to Elisp. Vim comes close, but it doesn’t do graphics. I’ve also tried to make the switch to Emacs a few years ago, and for similar reasons it didn’t happen (also Vim doesn’t need a daemon to open in a reasonable time).

    BTW how do XMonad’s tags differ from that of awesome?

    cnx,
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    Thanks for the info, @tyil, but I’ll pass. I have quite a few monitors and some hierarchy helps.

    cnx,
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    @tyil, on desktop I have a full HD monitor and a 3440x1440 which I split into a 1920x1440 and the rest. Each screen tends to have 4-5 tags so there’s not enough intuitive bindings for switching were the tags are flat.

    atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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    Here's the problem.

    Recent growth on mastodon.social is greater than the growth rate of November 2022.

    But growth on other servers, like mstdn.social, has flatlined.

    This has been confirmed to me by numerous Mastodon server admins.

    Very concerning!

    @fediversenews

    Growth of mstdn.social

    cnx,
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    I know I’ll sound like a douche telling you this, @atomicpoet, but have you considered not being part of the problem by migrating to elsewhere?

    cnx,
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    Sorry, should have looked you up first, @atomicpoet, but then perhaps stop posting from the instance you’re reading this reply from? If anything, people registering because they want to follow someone would first try to do so on the web UI without being informed otherwise.

    cnx,
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    @ErikJonker, I don’t think it should be viewed as a binary problem, e.g. the growth of gmail and outlook also correlates with the growth of other email providers, but it’s hardly what we want for obvious reasons. I think we should come up with a size threshold for an instance to healthy and sustainable, socially.

    Unlike emails, most messages are public, so we’d want members, even though/if originally being total strangers, to develop a sense of community and self-regulation for common benefit. This can only be done if they know each other (in the sense of seeing others’ posts regularly) and I’d draw the line at around a few hundred (to be generous) active posters.

    Cc: @atomicpoet and @fediversenews

    cnx,
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    Yep @skua, or even better, all mastodon.social users aware of the issue. BTW I strongly recommend checking out other microblogging implementations as well.

    Genen, to random

    What do you call sadists who are parents and are castrating their children?

    cnx,
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    OP was baiting, right, @Genen? Please tell me it wasn’t real :blobfearful:

    adr, to random
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    Can I just say I fucking hate the tendency to call LLMs "AI"? They're not AI! They're extremely sophisticated textual procedural generation machines dammit. They're like a souped-up ELIZA. Stop saying "AI" chrissakes

    cnx,
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    ELIZA is the textbook example of AI though, @adr

    cnx,
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    @adr, I feel like such textbooks are heading towards the right direction :blobtonguewink:

    steffo, to internet

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    cnx,
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    lmfao @steffo, i suppose you, following me from Mastodon, rarely ever see my own posts at all

    cnx,
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    @steffo, I meant I almost never make standalone posts but replies, so from your PoV I’m mostly just boosting stuff.

    cnx,
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    Yes, @steffo, public posts are public. Same argument for fediverse search engine.

    cnx,
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    If you’re referring to the right to be forgotten, @steffo, I think (not an EU citizen) it can be complied manually within, say, a month.

    blacklight, to random

    I've got my own little Mastodon branch with posts support that I'm eventually planning to rollout.

    However, after some days using as my daily driver, I'm feeling less the urge of implementing Markdown support on the backend.

    Elk does a quite good job rendering Markdown elements in posts, regardless of what the backend does.

    Do you folks use Elk, or another alternative frontend that renders Markdown posts? Or maybe Pleroma or another service that natively supports Markdown content? I'm considering whether I should really invest more time implementing this on the Mastodon backend...

    cnx,
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    Were I you, @blacklight, I’d switch to/additionally use Pleroma (or Akkoma if you’re into custom emoji reaction), which I uneducated guess already have features you’re missing on Mastodon. Unless you’re passionate about maintaining the fork, anything more than a couple if a-few-line patches is not worth it in the long term.

    elaterite, to photography
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    One hundred percent agree! In my 65 years on this planet, I have never called for- or taken a thing I own in for repair, with the exception of front end alignments on my vehicles, because I don't have the equipment to do it. One small correction to this flier, however, it should read: "If you aren't allowed to fix it, you don't own it." Not everyone has the knowledge or interest in fixing things. And yo, , this flier applies to you, big time.)

    cnx,
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    @elaterite, I moved to a country with higher income and cost of living, and notice that goods become a lot more disposable psychologically as their price approach basic necessities. A flagship handheld computer has the same price almost everywhere, which is a year of living expenses where I’m from and that of less than a week in, say New York.

    The worst part of this, as @suchi mentioned, is that people (especially the young) in poorer nations start to take loans to buy electronics and vehicles they can’t afford and dump them every other year :buncry:

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