Technically, changing usernames can be done on various Fediverse platforms following Mastodon’s protocol for moving to a different domain. There’s no reason why the source and destination domain would need to be the same.
Practically, usernames are used as unique identifiers in most ActivityPub and wider Fediverse implementations, making changing usernames quite difficult.
When you follow an account, you follow a username. This is looked up using a protocol called “WebFinger”, named after the old UNIX “finger” command. This could in theory return something akin to a user ID rather than a link to a document with a user name, but I haven’t seen many implementations of that.
FWIW it wouldn’t have been that hard to use unique identifiers rather than usernames for the technical implementation of following people. The ActivityPub designers decided on using usernames rather than unique IDs as the primary identification of a user, but they could’ve chosen something else.
It’s not possible to change your username without something like Mastodon’s move mechanism (that’s poorly supported outside of Mastodon), but the question itself isn’t that crazy. For instance, Bluesky is a federated protocol and they use unique IDs, allowing people to change their usernames in a federated system.
ActivityPub could do this as well (just let the WebFinger service link to a user ID based URL rather than a username based URL, so multiple account names could eventually redirect to the same user) but I don’t think it’s implemented that way in the popular ActivityPub servers.
There is no one single “Christian”. Europe has been Christian for centuries and has maintained some of the best educational facilities in the world, filled with Christian professors, lecturers, and students.
The smart Christians aren’t like this. They have a well-thought-out answer to every r/atheism “gotcha”. You can talk with them about religion and philosophy (though if you try to convert them into atheism or your religion, they have as much patience as you would in their position) and come to very interesting insights together, even if you disagree about the nature of life and the universe.
Some Christians don’t seem very smart, and just seem to apply the label “Christian” to their morals. They don’t have any arguments against criticism, or just can’t handle others disagreeing, so they try to keep any messages opposing their view out. These don’t seem to be good people, in my opinion, or the type that’s a good person as long as you’re not gay/atheist/etc.
The people spreading these shitty textbooks generally seem to fall in the second category. The authors may not even be Christians (there’s good money to be made by pandering to dumb people) but the churches or even schools that buy these, buy them because they can’t win an honest discussion with a teenager without going “because I told you so”.
In my personal experience (in a mostly non/semi atheist country, generally being around higher educated people) most Christians aren’t like this. There’s the dumb, loud, minority, but atheists can very much be the same; I cringe every time I see those “my kid’s school had a bible in the library so I’m upset” stories.
Violating the prime directive is part of the job if you get too far away from home, or if your ship is called “enterprise”.
Everybody ignores the Secondary Directive, which is something like “at least try very very hard to follow the prime directive. If you can’t, it’d be nice if you’d try to keep the amount of (temporal) genocides to a minimum.”
Sucks to be Tuvix, but she saved two people at the expense of one a half-baked clone with who-knows-what medical issues down the line.
I have a bigger problem with Kate Mulgrew’s bullying Jeri Ryan than I have a problem with the average Janeway murder; at least Janeway usually has good reasons for doing what she does.
After reading up on the recent(ish) developments, it seems like they seem to have put it all behind them. That’s so cool of Ryan, I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to get over that shit if I were in her shoes.
I’m still disappointed that Mulgrew did what she did (instead of taking it out on people who deserved it, like Berman), but it’s good to now they’re chill.
I’ve been using Brave Search supplemented by Startpage for the past 2+ years. When I search for something, I want to get results for credible webpages, not a summary of unknown quality. I liked the previous AI inclusion because it was instant, didn’t take up much space, and I could quickly navigate to the websites referenced...
Brave buys into hypes a lot. They built blockchsin stuff into their browser, even set up their own cryptocurrency, and now that nobody really cares about that anymore I’m far from surprised they’re trying to go all in on AI.
Like with the blockchain stuff, it’s a decent browser if you disable all of the weird stuff it comes with. I find Brave to be a good browser despite, not because of, the focus of the company behind it. One checkbox usually isn’t enough, there are multiple checkboxes in different places to really get rid of their investor attracting features.
I don’t know about any notifications, though. The moment the browser sends me a notification about Brave search, I remove that crap from my devices.
I mostly use it because there are still websites out there that don’t work on Firefox.
Out of all the Chrome forks I’ve tried, Brave is still the best in terms of privacy protection and regular security updates. I disable the weird crypto stuff and ads but the rest of the browser is still pretty good.
All of this is already possible with the current Steam Deck hardware. Valve even has its own DRM (though that’s not hard to bypass in practice).
With secure boot, combined with a signed kernel and initramfs, and basic TPM keys, every official Steam Deck can have full hardware attestation the same way mobile phones and some laptops do. This, combined with existing anti cheat solutions, can work to detect cheating.
One rather annoying problem for anti cheat developers would be the Linux kernel license, though. The moment they link their code to the Linux sources and make it run, they’d need to provide the source code and details on how to build it to anyone running their anticheat code. There are ways around this (i.e. the Nvidia GPL condom) but the people behind the Linux kernel don’t really like that and sabotage attempts to work around the GPL requirements sometimes. Of course Valve could maintain its own kernel with those anti-GPL-bypassing code in it, but that’s quite a high workload compared to just using the standard kernel and supplying small patches to it where necessary.
I think it’d be a waste of time, to be honest. Whatever Valve produces will get bypassed eventually, as they’re no anti cheat company, and they’ll need not to convince us, but game publishers that their special Linux DRM is safe.
I started a free trial and cancelled it immediately to have no ads while on holiday. Didn’t realize they are offering some illusion of achievements as a “reward” for your attention, doubling as a FOMO weapon for when you want to quit.
That’s not how YouTube ads work at all. Sounds like your device was just messed up, or maybe some YouTube related addon was interfering with playback. I know from experience that Revanced is unusable with YouTube premium, it seems like they’ve only tested the app on subscriptionless users.
You say you stick to open source, do you happen to block your messenger apps from using Play Services? I know from experience the fallback notification delivery mechanisms of a lot of apps will keep the radio on for much longer than it would be with Google Play Services, so I wonder if that could make up for some of the difference.
The book is for sale for ten pounds on the Oxfam website. Looks like the ebay seller found this book in a sale or something.
I don’t see why they can’t ask a reasonable price. They put a little time and effort into listing and posting the thing, they could’ve just recycled the thing if they were done with it, and OP could’ve looked around and gotten the book for cheaper.
I think this mildly infuriating because OP clearly missed a good sale, but this isn’t bullshit.
Linux support will depend on how tightly integrated the application is with the Windows API. It may very well be easier to just keep running in Wine, maybe after patching out some Wine related bugs.
It also depends on the llicense. If they don’t license Winamp and just show off the code, nobody is actually allowed to do anything with it. The title of their announcement uses"source available" so I assume the license is quite restrictive.
If two twin sisters who are both 18 years old and they both want to marry eachother I think legally they should be allowed to do it because what they’re doing isn’t hurting anybody....
On the one hand, the first reaction is “ew, that’s gross”. On the other hand, that’s also the reason people try to ban gay marriages.
Logically speaking, as long as there’s no power imbalance and no chance of kids, I can’t think of a reason to ban incest. Especially for same sex couples.
In practice, incest is often done as a form of abuse of some kind. Too often for broad legal acceptance, in my opinion.
The project has build instructions for building your own copy. These are terminal commands.
You may need to install additional software if you get “command not found” errors. If you Google the exact error messages + the name of your distro, you should find out how to install that. The instructions seem comprehensive, though.
Mint is based on Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu steps should work. I’m not sure what version of Ubuntu the latest version of Mint is based on, though. You can probably find that info somewhere on the Mint website.
It’s only tangentally related to black holes, but this reminded me of a demo/small game I once played. For people interested in messing with relativistic speeds and the weird stuff that happens with light, I suggest giving gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ a go. It’s a game developed by MIT that simulates a downscaled speed of light, so you can play around with relativistic effects, like red/blue shifting and perspective warping.
It sure doesn’t. That’s what uBlock, Privacy Badger, and resistFingerprinting are for. Consent-o-Matic is just a good way to dismiss these popups automatically in case sites don’t break the law.
This isn’t a content blocker, it automatically clicks the buttons in the consent popups rather than just hide them. I use it instead of the annoyances filter, but how well it works really depends on what websites you visit (and how often you clear your cookies).
On desktop, I use temporary containers to delete cookies the moment I close a tab, and I couldn’t browse the internet without this addon lol.
A lot of valid email addresses are obvious typos. steve@gmail is perfectly valid but useless in most web forms, for instance. A lot of websites drop technical compliance for the convenience of people who don’t know how email works.
Technical compliance can also become rather annoying when you start doing things like escaping characters in quoted strings or include spaces. Practically nobody is using any of that stuff in the real life, so you rarely ever need full compliance.
I don’t know why single character email addresses would fail that test, though.
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Usernames in the Fedivers 😫
Why can you never change your username in Mastodon, Lemmy or Peertube? Is it a condition introduced by ActivityPub or a forgotten feature?
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I'm really annoyed by how much Brave Search is pushing AI
I’ve been using Brave Search supplemented by Startpage for the past 2+ years. When I search for something, I want to get results for credible webpages, not a summary of unknown quality. I liked the previous AI inclusion because it was instant, didn’t take up much space, and I could quickly navigate to the websites referenced...
An Alternate Reality Of The Steam Deck (Anti-cheat Support!)
I was thinking about the anti-cheat scenario and this popped on my mine. Consider the following scenario....
YouTube offers virtual trophies so you can feel bad about quitting premium (leminal.space)
I started a free trial and cancelled it immediately to have no ads while on holiday. Didn’t realize they are offering some illusion of achievements as a “reward” for your attention, doubling as a FOMO weapon for when you want to quit.
I tracked my SOT on my Pixel 8 for 2 months across stock and GrapheneOS (lemmy.world)
Charts...
This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£ (jlai.lu)
Winamp is going open source (feddit.uk)
I used this for years, from version 1.9 all the way to 5.x when I moved onto other software....
18+ Siblings should legally be allowed to marry eachother in my opinion
If two twin sisters who are both 18 years old and they both want to marry eachother I think legally they should be allowed to do it because what they’re doing isn’t hurting anybody....
Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
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How do I build my own software from source?
I’m trying to get tic80 working on RIScv but i ll need to build a custom version cos there are no prebuilts, how do I go about this?
Photos show what it's like to fall into a black hole (www.businessinsider.com)
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