Hey, I really like using Organic Maps and liked using OSM+ before that, but trying to find things by the standard US address format “ , , , ” just fails spectacularly for me. Anybody else had that issue, or know of solutions to that?
As excited as I am about the Fediverse and its diversity, an all-in-one application is the real dream. I'm afraid efforts are splintering into too many redundant apps (15 at this point across both platforms) when they could be focused on the one app to rule them all with clean, working interfaces for as many federated applications as possible. With Fedilab already supporting Friendica, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, Peertube, and even GNU Social (with plans to support CalcKey), adding Lemmy / Kbin would be a game changer for me and many others. Add Funkwhale and maybe WordPress and it's game over you never need to download any other apps. @fedilab
I would love the move towards federated, p2p, all in one apps! Supporting the back ends on ActivityPub, peertube, IPFS, RSS, email, matrix, and sms, and then you can have tons of different UIs depending on what you are the user’s preferred user experience.
Imagine sending someone a direct message via Matrix, email, or sms. Scheduling a break-out session from a peertube comment block to talk over matrix. Pinning a comment on Matrix and turning it into a fediverse post and sharing it via hashtags and to communities. Sharing files over IPFS and peertube reducing hosting costs so more people can host! With things like thirdroom you could really give more options for UIs, but the greatest thing is that if the backend standards are kept normalized a VR chat, could be seen as a text on my phone, as an email or on a desktop chat application.
So for me, it’s more acknowledging these different mediums and making sure the backends of major fediverse platforms support them, and then the UIs can splinnter as much as needed to cover all the different ways people want to use these apps. Maybe even support a UI addon system and UI layout/theme sharing, so that you can further reduce the amount of duplicate work out there.
Basically KDE Plasma Desktop style configurability but for the Fediverse
As a dev, another really cool development to me is the introduction of ActivityPub to things like Gitea, and forgejo, again this is really where the concept of federation just kicks ass to me. Like imagine commenting on code issue, on lemmy/mastdon/discourse? No need to setup webhooks, bots, webscrapers. Just native support for cross-platform discussions.
Want to follow latest releases of your favorite FLOSS projects? Just follow their repo! You can crosspost it or boost too if you want to.
Yeah, no one LIKEs mixing bikes and cars on roads, but little is given towards making them separate. There are 4 things on a street being balanced though, pedestrians, bikes, greenery, buses, and cars. The first 3 IMHO should be the priority for a street (the area people travel short distances between close destinations). Roads on the other hand should be limited to buses, cars, and greenery OR a bike highway limited to bikes and greenery.
Like you said, though, using police as the primary method to enforce these separations is a failure of design. It would be like if Lemmy required you edit the webpages code to comment instead of having comment boxes, and having some dedicated to just going around and checking the code to make sure you were only putting in good formatted text and hoping they could punish people enough to do encourage it.
You would either shut down the site from excessive enforcement or shut it down from unusable design.
They “need” numbers to justify work, to justify budgets. Poorer people are easier targets so they get more numbers against poorer people and therefor target poorer people. Trying to ticket a rich guy in a Lambo is just asking for months of trial work and a lawyer.
That needs to be fixed. Either by address the way police get their budgets/selected, and/or making the courts more fair (progressive fine schemes also help make the bigger whale cases “worth it” for example).
There is actually something to this. Even if you don’t decrease the size of the road, adding things to the sides of roads makes them feel less spacious, encouraging people to slow down.
I really hope matrix/element takes more space in enterprise space. Sure Teams has some more features, but they suck tbh, so even i wanted to use their white board or “wiki” features, I don’t because I don’t want to wait a few minutes for a “wiki” to load, and no else does either!
The video conferencing on Matrix has been really good for me so far. FOSSDEM 2022 was hosted on it and that really sold me on Matrix as a solution tbh. The recorded talks played smooth, and the chats worked no issues, while the break rooms gave me that genuine “I’m actually at a conference” feel, because it was so easy to just join a room and talk with our cameras on and everything.
Teams has been mostly up and working for me, but we have “sorry teams wasn’t working” issues all the time, so that bar is low to me. Even more, matrix better fits larger organizations that frankly should be using the federated approach for a lot of things, and stop trying to have IT policies that fits hundreds of thousands of employees over large geospatial distances.
This article is on Medium, which has a paywall. I'm a member, but not logged in. I was able to read it so it may depend on how many times you've read Medium articles....
I don’t get the medium critic either. If medium paid someone for their content, sure, they should have the right to host it even the writer now disagrees with them, but if they a platform and sharing some profits or no profits with the creator, pound sand, they absolutly get to hold their content hostage. They have every right to move their free work or stop sharing their free work where ever they feel like.
I for one really hope more Russians can peacefully surrender, and that Putin’s regime ceases it bloody campaign against people’s liberties foreign and domestic.
He would be the perfect person to AMA as he’s already associated with Reddit revolts, and it would result in tremendous media coverage and mark fediverse as a viable alternative to Reddit. What do you think?
To be honest I don’t think we are ready for that level of scrutiny. I would imagine if he were to agree, he would do research first, and the Fediverse has a lot of unanswered questions for the mainstream person.
Can the Fediverse sustain users, both in usability and costs (see also “Can we keep up with user growth”)? How will NFSW moderation work, since so far I see most instances saying it won’t and just shutting down that vector of work and questions? How does regulation or working with authorities look like on the Fediverse (this is antithetical to most Fediverse goals, but for main stream people a normal question)? How will user verification work for celebrities or important figures? What are the ethical consideration to support devs, like the lemmy devs, with controversial opinions?
Some of these are whataboutism when comparing to Reddit. Some of these just stuff the average Redditor and Fediverse user couldn’t care less about, or frankly don’t want asked, but these are top questions I would expect a liberal journalist to be asking, even if they are generally anti-corperate and pro-grassroots.
I think it's great that so many people want to build and grow Lemmy, but why are we doing it by copying over Reddit content? It didn't seem as bad when it was funny pics or memes or whatever, but now I'm seeing discussion threads, which doesn't make sense to me....
Same reason I want more forums like Fedora Discussion, Ask Ubuntu, and Stack Overflow on the Fediverse. I like the Fediverse as a way to see information and have discussion on it. More good content, the better. Without good content, I would never have used Reddit in the first place.
Seem more accurate that their public repos will be closed, so now only centos-stream will be public. You will still have full access to source through their developer program or as a paying customer.
No, I mean it, they really have taken the models of the British Empire and the American Empires and expanded them in a way neither at their heights could ever justify nor imagine. Surveillance system sales to authoritarian governments? Selling surveillance in other countries?! Like the CIA look like idiots spending money to get surveillance in other countries on that one. Plus they get to support the dictators keeping the peasants sending raw resources to China!
Purposely loaning money to countries with bad credit histories for leverage to get them to build ports for the Chinese empire’s trade network?! Britten spent so much time and money fighting wars, and colonizing just to be our shined on that.
And let’s not even get to started on the levels of control business have over workers there. The US robber barons use the State here looks like child’s play to the anti-union, anti-solidarity work done by the CCP. A giant union ran by the largest capitalist in the country? With authorities able to crack down on grassroots organizing on the opposite side, and the ability to send slaves from regions in need of “reeducation” all around the country. Makes the US look practically socialist on some fronts (we aren’t and have a good way to go).
Would sound stupid as I don't indepth of PeerTube yet but I have heard that PeerTube is federated video sharing platform. I also heard it can't hold much a load which makes sense as HD videos takes lots of load. That begs me the question why don't we use it for small/short videos(not those vertical videos) to build communities...
I personally 100% support the use of peertube as the primary video platform. It really seems to go towards addressing the cost issue with being a video hosting platform. The only step I would take further is having IPFS being the cold storage backend for images as well, and integrate both into the app/website levels, so clients can participate in contributing sharing. If needed, a proxy service so that clients that are concerned about IP leakage, but can’t use TOR or a VPN have an option.
With the recent AI tools in Photoshop it makes it even harder to go for Foss options (gimp/krita), so which Foss AI image manipulation tools are there that i can use to avoid adobe? For things such as fill in background and replacing elements of image & general generation.
the Logitech F710 is a solid controller to get if you’re on a tight budget, but perhaps not exactly the type of equipment you want to stake your life on. [...] Reviewers on sites like Amazon frequently mention issues with the wireless device's connection....
Machine learning as a programming paradigm. There is a lot of potential still in my main mind of simplifying AI training and using it to solve simple tasks.
Distributed AI and its potential to help here is a big one too. Projects like petals.ml and hivemind come to mind, but so does projects like open assistant showing what volunteers can build
Does anyone have issues finding address with standard US addresses?
Hey, I really like using Organic Maps and liked using OSM+ before that, but trying to find things by the standard US address format “ , , , ” just fails spectacularly for me. Anybody else had that issue, or know of solutions to that?
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Microsoft Teams bug allows malware delivery from external accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
There's More to the Reddit Meltdown Than Meets the Eye (attilavago.medium.com)
This article is on Medium, which has a paywall. I'm a member, but not logged in. I was able to read it so it may depend on how many times you've read Medium articles....
Early stages of Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘not meeting expectations,’ Western officials tell CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Whaf do you think of hosting an AMA with John Oliver to make Lemmy/kbin officially a viable Reddit replacement?
He would be the perfect person to AMA as he’s already associated with Reddit revolts, and it would result in tremendous media coverage and mark fediverse as a viable alternative to Reddit. What do you think?
Why are we copying over so much Reddit content?
I think it's great that so many people want to build and grow Lemmy, but why are we doing it by copying over Reddit content? It didn't seem as bad when it was funny pics or memes or whatever, but now I'm seeing discussion threads, which doesn't make sense to me....
Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ?
I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).
The world’s largest democracy is collapsing before our eyes (www.vox.com)
Why don't we use PeerTube to host the videos for Lemmy/kbin?
Would sound stupid as I don't indepth of PeerTube yet but I have heard that PeerTube is federated video sharing platform. I also heard it can't hold much a load which makes sense as HD videos takes lots of load. That begs me the question why don't we use it for small/short videos(not those vertical videos) to build communities...
Non-adobe AI image manipulation tools
With the recent AI tools in Photoshop it makes it even harder to go for Foss options (gimp/krita), so which Foss AI image manipulation tools are there that i can use to avoid adobe? For things such as fill in background and replacing elements of image & general generation.
Simula's Reaction to Apple (Plus: Looking for Review Unit Testers & Venture Capital) (simulavr.com)
Missing Titan submersible is operated by a cheap game controller (videogames.si.com)
the Logitech F710 is a solid controller to get if you’re on a tight budget, but perhaps not exactly the type of equipment you want to stake your life on. [...] Reviewers on sites like Amazon frequently mention issues with the wireless device's connection....
Which current technology has the most potential?
Which will explode in the near future in your opinion and why?