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silmathoron

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I post mostly in English, about #sustainability, the #EnvironmentalCrisis and the #environment, #SurveillanceCapitalism, and #FLOSS.

I've an alt https://floss.social/@silmathoron where I do the same, only in French.

I tend to boost a lot, so don't hesitate to mute my boosts if you feel overwhelmed (three dots on my profile > "Hide boosts from https://floss.social/@silmathoron")

Most of my posts are automatically deleted after a year.

#fedi22

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silmathoron, to Dragonlance
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Anyone knows a music player on Linux than supports the format?
Preferably a @kde styled one but I'll take others.

As far as I can tell, and do not seem to support it (please let me know if that's wrong since I'd rather use one of these two).

I've seen that VLC reads it but I don't find it very satisfying as a music player.

sergi, to ubuntu
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My experience with #elementaryOS so far has not been great. After installing I had to do a bit of tinkering to install the right Nvidia drivers and be able to boot to GUI, many times the system hangs after coming back from suspend, the default terminal has some issue that makes it laggy, etc.

Considering deleting it and switching to #Ubuntu.

Any thoughts/recommendations?

I love #ArchLinux but I'm not feeling like spending hours tweaking my system, I prefer a "just works" solution right now.

silmathoron,
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@sergi might be worth trying it with the edge iso from linux mint, then, should be good enough: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/edge.html

silmathoron,
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@sergi
Is it recent or old hardware? If recent, you could check Fedora (only tinkering is installing coppr repo for ffmpeg), if not, Linux mint could be worth a try.

alcinnz, to random
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There's a widespread impression that "Linux" isn't user friendly. I say if you choose the right distro & desktop... I endorse elementary OS!

Despite what some will tell you, don't need to use the commandline!

(getting this out of my system without jumping down anyone's throats)

Incidentally, I encourage recommending something more specific than "Linux" to avoid giving others choice paralysis.

silmathoron,
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@alcinnz
I had limited success with elementary installs for previous Mac users... Nowadays Linux mint is my goto for people who just want something that'll let them use their computer.

EUCommission, to random
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Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger .

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

silmathoron,
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@Kdude I think they already migrated and this is the new account

EDIT: yep! old account was https://social.network.europa.eu/

@EUCommission

stefan, to accessibility
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Interesting to compare the use of alt text based on which apps people use.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/impact-of-fediverse-clients-on-the-use-of-alt-text/

silmathoron,
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@stefan Cool, this will be much easier than I thought, then!

One other question: how did you choose the list of apps in the highlight? Are these the top apps by numbers or is it something else?

silmathoron,
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@stefan sure, I just expected to see Fedilab or Subway tooter in the list 😉

silmathoron,
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@stefan nice!
How difficult would it be to include the date when the person who posted joined and compute the average "Mastodon age" associated to the groups using each app?
I wonder if there couldn't be a strong confounding factor, namely that early adopters may have used other apps (as the official app was not yet available) and have different practices.
Thus, using something other that the web app or the official app could be strongly correlated with how "old" your presence on Mastodon is.

silmathoron,
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@stefan ok, I was just surprised to see only Tusky in the Android apps (are there mostly US-citizens on m.s?)

ilumium, to bluesky
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I'm still trying to figure out whether 's departure is a good thing or a bad thing for .

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board

silmathoron,
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@ilumium why would it be bad?

silmathoron,
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@Beaver
I don't think we need to entice them. The only reason bank apps are necessary is because they don't use standard 2FA.
What we need is to get legislators like the @EU_Commission to force them to follow standards (so we can use our own 2FA apps or keys, that have been working just fine for decades and are way more secure than some of their "2FA" implementations) and make their websites usable on a mobile browser.

alcinnz, to random
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Occasional remainder: individual action vs collective action is a false dichotomy!

What we need to be doing is helping our neighbours live lighter upon this earth of ours, relying less on the capitalist infrastructure. That's how we get change! Not by relying on politicians!

For instance: Have you checked if there's a Repair Cafe local to you? Which you can volunteer for?

(this is a subtoot)

silmathoron,
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@alcinnz
I mostly agree, I'd just nuance the "this is how we get change": pushing for better public policies on transportation, energy, and food is absolutely necessary (and not dichotomous either 😉)

rysiek, to random
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I'll need to get an Akkoma account somewhere, won't I.

sigh

silmathoron,
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@rysiek there are major limitations to this, though: many people like their community (the instance their account is on) and moving a whole community to a different server is generally not possible, which means that admins are mostly stuck on whatever software (usually Mastodon) they started with.
And most comunities are on Mastodon at the moment, meaning their is major inertia against moving to other platforms.

freebliss, to random
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Introducing ...

The Hyper 8 Video System.

https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/teaser/

Yaaaaaayyyyyyy ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

silmathoron,
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@freebliss this looks very interesting!
Since you explicitly propose this as an alternative to big infrastructures, is there a plan to use something like PeerTube to have people share their bandwidth?
Or some alternative to manage sending from 1 to many efficiently?
Otherwise it seems rather difficult to host anything popular as the bandwidth requirements (and associated costs) would quickly become prohibitive.

silmathoron, to linux
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Question for the and communities: if I want to send some money into the development of the linux accessibility stack, are there specific organizations or people that I can donate to?

Note that I want this money to specifically fund accessibility work, so a general donation to GNOME, for instance, is not what I am looking for ;)
(of course for individual people I do not expect them to dedicate 100% of their time to accessibility).

silmathoron, to python
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Hey fellow programmers,
I think I remember someone posting a link to a website listing some mistakes that even rather advanced programmers still make. Probably related to some ill-known quirks of the language (shared reference related, etc, not your "10 most common mistakes" basic list).
However I cannot find it anymore.

Does it ring a bell, or do you have a favorite of weird Python quirks to share?

silmathoron, (edited ) to Signal
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For #Signal users on #Linux (and #MobileLinux), there is a poll on the community discourse to see how many people are using Signal on Desktop and where they are getting it from, if you want to chime in: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-on-desktop-survey/53978

Hopefully if we can show @signalapp that there is interest, they will finally claim the #Flatpak (and hopefully the #Arm version from Elagost 1 at the same time)

silmathoron, to firefox
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I have an issue with ATM: the "media-viewer" element shows below the columns, meaning that I can't see/interact with media.
The same happens with the "meatball/falafel" menu on posts (to copy link, etc).

When I check the CSS, though, their z-index is supposed to be 9999999, so I'm not sure what's going on... anyone has had a similar problem? I'm using 116 but this has happened from time to time in older versions (though not that often)

cc @sengi_app

silmathoron, to firefox
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Reminder that if you don't want to use (whatever the reason), you can always check other -based or related browsers such as:

There are also privacy-respecting -based browsers like:

silmathoron, to android
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Dear , , and folks, do you have an app to find vegetarian and ?
I used to have OpenMultiMaps that gave me access to OpenVegeMap but the project was discontinued and now I have to use and and I really don't like them...
Thanks in advance!

EDIT: ideally I'd like to discriminate vegan-only/vegan-friendly tags

silmathoron, to random
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I'm all for defederating potential instances from Facebook/Meta preemptively, I'm convinced this is the right move.
I'm also convinced people should not harass or insult those who think otherwise!
Please don't do that.

Help people who could be impacted find safer instances (https://fedipact.online), discuss the risks, but please stay civil.
The "emerging group harassment" phenomenon that social media can lead to really takes its toll on people; I hope we can be better than that on Fedi...

silmathoron, to random
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@Mojeek can you remind me how one can support the project? I did not find any donation page or anything.

Cheers!

silmathoron, to random
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What's the status of in ?

I've found this 0 but it shows as experimental so I was wondering whether discussions were happening somewhere or if one can add a +1 about it somewhere.

I know it will sound stupid or just not a priority to some people but unfortunately, stickers are a requirement for many of my friends when it comes to .

silmathoron, to random French
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Just learned about @simplex and I must say it looks fairly promising as a future #InstantMessaging app to replace #Signal in the long run (I do like #Matrix but it's good to see an alternative and their tech looks solid).

I was not 100% sure about #SimpleX ToS, though, and couldn't find out who the company was, nor their business model (though donation is at least a part of it).

Any feedback on this?

#IM #messaging

dimitrisk, to opensource
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    silmathoron,
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    @dimitrisk note that if you're fine with a 5/10 min delay on your IM notifications, you can run scripts that wake the phone periodically and then put it back to sleep...
    I wrote one a long time ago 0 but there's probably much better stuff now.

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