Kalcifer

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Kalcifer, (edited )

What I like about the Gadsden flag, as opposed to this one – according to how I interpret it, anyways – is that it advocates for the use of one’s voice before violence. The main symbol on the Gadsden flag is a timber rattlesnake. If you think about such a rattlesnake in nature, when you get too close to them, or provide them with a reason to feel wary, or uncomfortable they won’t immediately attack you, but will instead provide you with an auditory, nonviolent warning. It’s only when one ignores their warnings, and continues to harass the snake, or give them a reason to think that they are under immediate threat of harm that they will fight back, and will not hesitate to do so. In all other circumstances, the rattlesnake will mind it’s own business, and let you do the very same. I find this behaviour admirable of a creature, and it is, in my opinion, the true ethos of libertarianism. The Canada goose, on the other hand, won’t hesitate to harass you. they will routinely attack people just relaxing in a park. They provide little warning to someone that they find threatening, and will often choose to immediately strike out. This is not behaviour that should be emulated, or admired, in my opinion.

Best practices for transferring an existing Linux installation from one drive to another?

Currently, my desktop computer has two storage devices attached: one 1TB NVME SSD, which has both Windows 10 and Linux Mint 21.2 installed on it (Each OS getting ~ 500 GB), and a 1TB SATA hard drive mostly used for Timeshift backups of the Linux Mint partition (Including my Home folder, for the record)....

Kalcifer,

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dd?

Kalcifer,

I subconsciously tried wiping my screen.

Kalcifer, (edited )

I’ve found that the only way to dual boot reliably is to have windows installed on a separate, dedicated drive, and to keep all drives used by Linux air-gapped from the windows drive. Fast start and hibernate must also be disabled within windows to prevent it from putting hardware in an undefined state.

That being said, I haven’t actually found any regular use for the windows install in years. mostly just keep it around as a sort of backup failsafe, or just in case there is a game that refuses to work in Linux. 99 times out of 100 it simply just collects dust.

Kalcifer,

They’re viewable on Lemmy too!

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    Kalcifer,

    Is there any project that is actively archiving the content posted to all Fediverse projects?

    I’m not sure how practical/sustainable of a project this would be, but I feel that it could possibly be a useful project in the future if instances begin to purge old content due to storage constaints. The archiving service could store all the data using Object storage to archive it in read only. That way, at least people can...

    Kalcifer,

    Forums are an invaluable source of information for countless purposes. Even extremely old forum posts can be a life-saver.

    Kalcifer,

    What’s the difference between Owncast, and Peertube’s livestreaming function?

    Kalcifer,

    This post possibly violates Rule 3 of !asklemmy.

    Kalcifer, (edited )

    TL;DR: There is no singular answer to your question, imo. Essentially just run the instance transparently, reliably, and actively, and it will be attractive to people.

    I’m not sure that there is one “best way” to grow an instance. An instance is essentially the fundamental governing framework for how the users interract with each other. You structure the rules around how you believe the users on your instance should interact, and those who agree with those rules will be drawn to them. Ideally, for sustainable growth in an instance, you also need reliable server infrastructure – the instance should be responsive, and have a reliable uptime. An instance’s admins must also actively moderate content. An instance with inactive moderators is not sustainable, and will quickly delve into hosting unwanted content on the instance which is undesirable for users.

    Kalcifer,

    I was referring to Rule 3 of the community:

    1. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy
    Kalcifer,

    I’m not sure that there is much for actual server side support for cross posting just yet, but there is a way, at least on the web UI: if you click the two overlapping squares under you post title, it’ll open a new post with a link to the previous post and its content quoted underneath. It feels more like a work around for cross posting, but it does work.

    Kalcifer, (edited )

    ??? Why don’t you tap it and see.

    I did try that. Nothing appeared to happen, or change on my end; however, I now realize what the issue was. The first thought that I had, when I first noticed that Icon, was actually the exact same as that which you said; it just never occured to me that I could be on the same instance as the comments in question. So, when I tried clicking that icon, I was clicking it on a post that was from Lemmy.world – the same instance that I am on. As such, I noticed no change in the displayed content – the page would appear to load, but nothing would actually change. This is, of course, to be expected – I just didn’t put 2 and 2 together. I apologize if my inquiry seemed lazy, or thoughtless.

    As an aside, In my defence, the UI also doesn’t necessarily tell you what the icon does. If you hover your mouse over it, you will see the following:

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8860ba0d-2549-469d-b5f8-47029ddc79f1.png

    Imo “link” isn’t exactly descriptive, as to the button’s purpose.

    Kalcifer,

    Thank you for the apology 😊 I can understand how my post could’ve been construed as being lazy.

    Kalcifer,

    I think it’s time to close some of your open tabs.

    Kalcifer, (edited )

    Cool! However, while it does show the full log of removals, it appears that I can’t see the original content of the post – I can only see that a post with a title was removed. Also, can you see mod removals within a comment thread? Or is it only in the modlog that you can see removals?

    Kalcifer,

    Go to filter by action and choose “removing comments”

    That’s only within the modlog, though. I’m talking about withint the comment thread for a post. As I stated:

    Also, can you see mod removals within a comment thread? Or is it only in the modlog that you can see removals?

    Kalcifer,

    Can you see if a moderator has removed comments from a thread?

    Yes, but it involves sorting through the community modlog.

    I wonder if this feature could be implemented – it would just be another sorting option in comment sections – assuming that the server actually stores this data.

    Can you see the content of the removed comments?

    No. Not even mods/admins can.

    From what I can see in the modlog, it appears that you can see the content of comments, but just not the content of posts. It seems to treat comments as post titles in the log. What’s also weird is that they have links associated with them which appear to point at nothing. Perhaps they are supposed to point to the original comment/post?

    Are moderators able to specify motive for the specific removal?

    Yes, but to be honest, I have no idea where that reason goes or who it is visible to

    It looks like you can see it underneath the removed item in a little bit of text that states “Reason”, and then the reasoning.

    Kalcifer,

    You wont be able to see any reply context?

    EDIT: Upon testing here, it appears not. That makes it rather unuseable, does it not?

    Kalcifer,

    It appears that I do have the “Show context” button (granted it’s a little hard to notice at first), but it appears to not be functioning properly. I just tested it in this thread by clicking “Show context” for this comment, and instead of showing me this comment, as I would expect, it instead showed me this comment.

    Kalcifer,

    It appears that it is not opensource, unfortunately.

    Kalcifer,

    I didn’t think that it would – I was hopeful that it might.

    Stuck between distros right now. (kbin.social)

    So, this sucks. On Mint, Firefox was running super sluggish to the point of being unusable. I reinstalled Ubuntucinnamon because I enjoyed using it when I had it installed, but between me last having it installed and now there seems to have been an update that has broken cinnamon's system tray. Which, for me, is a major...

    Kalcifer,

    What packaging format was Firefox installed through?

    Kalcifer,

    Of course. My inquiry was out of theoretical curiosity, and not so much anything practicaly useful for security, or privacy.

    Do ActivityPub services work over "The Dark Web"/i2p/Tor? More specifically, could one make a sort of "Hidden Fediverse"?

    **EDIT (2023-07-31T22:18:52Z):**I have realized that I was not clear in my original intent for this post – it could be interepereted to mean that I am asking whether or not you could access, for example, Lemmy through the Tor browser. This is not what I meant. What I was more alluding to was if it were possible to create a...

    Kalcifer,

    You can connect to most instances over Tor

    I was not enough in my original post. I was generally referring to your second point about hosting a sort of “Hidden Fediverse”.

    Kalcifer,

    I wasn’t clear enough in my original post. I was mostly referring to the idea of creating a sort of “Hidden Fediverse” which would be separate from the regular clearnet fediverse.

    Kalcifer,

    I wasn’t clear enough in my original post. I was referring to the idea of creating a sort of “hidden fediverse” which would be separate from the one over the clearnet.

    Kalcifer,

    Flatpak – It’s not without it’s own issues, of course, but it does the job. I’m not fan of how snaps are designed, and I don’t think canonical is trustworthy enough to run a packaging format. Appimages are really just not good for widespread adoption. They do what they are designed to do well, but I don’t think it’s wide to use them as a main package format.

    Kalcifer,

    Idk anything about that community, but I feel like it’s safe to assume that Discord isn’t going to take kindly to the existence of a server that, from the name, appears to be centered around piracy. I haven’t checked (someone please correct me if I’m wrong), but I feel like it’s safe to assume that piracy is something that would violate Discord’s ToS. Just use Matrix – I implore you.

    Kalcifer,

    That’s actually not a terrible idea. Lemmy really needs content. It doesn’t necessarily matter what that content is, it Is just really starving for activity in general. So anything that you post is a huge help.

    Kalcifer,

    I’ve heard that ReFS is supposedly replacing NTFS, on Windows.

    Kalcifer,

    Y’all don’t update your services?

    What is the point of sketching a circle when adding a "Hole" feature in Part Design?

    When I want to add a hole feature, I need to first sketch and constrain a circle where the hole is supposed to be. This would make a bit more sense if the hole actually followed the constraints of the circle, but it doesn’t – I could constrain the sketch of the circle to be one radius, and then, at the same time, specify...

    Kalcifer,

    This works great for 3d-printing but wont work as well if you intend to export to CAM systems that can use a drill to make the holes.

    Why’s that?

    Kalcifer,

    I feel like it’s rather pointless to try and contort discord to be something that it’s not. If you are truly concerned about your privacy then your best move is to use something else. An example of an alternative would be Matrix.

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