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Crypto offers Africans a ‘lifeline’ from inflation and corruption, say execs (web.archive.org)

Chris Maurice, founder and CEO of Yellow Card, Africa’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, says crypto in Africa “is growing at the speed of light” because it allows many Africans to escape from the traditional financial system’s failures and transact more freely.

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This is complete BS. In reality crypto enables corruption on a scale unseen before.

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Ghostrunner is currently cheap in the Steam Summer sale.

Turn a gasoline powered generator into a hydrogen powered generator (youtu.be)

This channel is sharing some impressive DIYs. They got great content. However I’m still saving up just so I can build this hydrogen powered engine. Also, easy-green hydrogen is potentially right around the corner now with metal hydrides and CFEs giving a new significant competitive advantage.

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Well, this is clearly satire. Maybe the video was not clear enough about that?

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Isn’t there a free developer license for exactly that?

Also: it is an exceptionally bad idea to target exactly one Linux distribution and version. Any software should be sufficiently well tested on a wider range of distributions.

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A lot of Mafia bosses started with a Pizza restaurant 😅

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Only stuff I can reflash with OpenWRT. The glinet APs that come with their own flavour of OpenWRT preinstalled are also ok, but I tent to reflash them with vanilla OpenWRT anyways to get the latest upstream updates.

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No, RHEL “exploits” large companies and the public sector that require a lot of compliance certificates and long term service guarantees for the software they procure. If Red Hat doesn’t collect this money, it goes into the pockets of people with much lower upstream contributions than Red Hat.

The regular user doesn’t need RHEL. Fedora or any other non-enterprise Linux distribution is perfectily fine and they will directly benefit from the contribution that Red Hat finances through their enterprise sales.

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Yes, look up Waydroid. But a lot of the banking apps and so on are explicitly designed to detect unusual running environments and thus will still not work. Android games etc. typically work fine though.

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Its not really designed for sharing large files and storing them, but it is not hard to get working.

However XMPP works better with a domain name and such, for a purely local solution something p2p or a local NAS is much better. Syncthing is probably the easiest to get going.

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If you want something relatively idiot proof you could set up a local Nextcloud server that automatically syncs the photo from the devices and let’s you share them directly or via the built in Nextcloud Talk chat app.

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Yes, don’t bother with it for this specific use-case.

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Mattermost is easy to get running, but the community edition makes it easy to mess up groups accidentally as there is no ACL (this is an intentional crippling of the software to make people buy the enterprise version).

Rocketchat is ok AFAIK (not much experience with it), but not so easy to install and get working.

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Anyone tried the new VR version?

The flat version is ok, but there are better boomer shooters I think.

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I think this is a very important idea. Not only because of potential collapse and to conserve resources, but also because in your technological civilisation it is a near certainty that future generations will have to deal with legacy technology and software potentially hundreds of years old that are serving vital functions. Thus thinking now about how such systems could work in the long term and developing hardware and software with that in mind is IMHO quite vital.

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Modern IRC combined with a Mumble server works pretty well.

For smaller groups XMPP is also fine, but group calls are not widely implemented yet.

Jitsi-meet also works ok for voice chat.

It's a really fun time to self-host today

I've never had so much fun self-hosting. A decade or so ago I was hosting things on Linode and running all kinds of servers for myself but with the rise of cloud services, I favored just giving everything to Google. I noticed how popular this community was on Reddit/Lemmy and now it's my new addiction....

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Glasfiber home internet has also really improved the available upload speed, which is great for self-hosters.

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MySpace returns from the grave 🤣

Sounds like a nice idea though.

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Matrix is more like IRC or Slack/Discord with a focus on group-chats, while XMPP is more like Signal, WhatsApp or Telegram. XMPP can also do group-chats, but the current clients don’t have as much of a focus on it. Otherwise they are pretty similar, but XMPP is overall a much more mature protocol and the software has less bugs and is more performant.

Why are there no phones that support convergence/desktop mode?

I have been looking at Linux on phones(Ubuntu touch) with the intention to use it both as smartphone as well as desktop replacement. It really fascinates me. But it looks like there is no hardware anymore that supports display out and USB dongles. Why are there no up to date phones that have convergence mode?

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Phone manufacturers cheap out on USB ports offering alternative display out, because Android has bad support for it anyway and not very many people are interested (for now) in using their phones as desktop replacements.

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termux.dev

Is pretty cool to run some light server software on them.

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If I understood it correctly, they were waiting for the new Bookworm Debian release to be released before updating some of the packages. So if you can wait a bit (a few weeks maybe?) a newer version of Lemmy will be probably added to Yunohost.

Lemmy self-hosters. What is your image cleanup process?

I’m self-hosting the docker containers and I noticed the pictrs directory is steadily growing because of the cached images. Does anyone know if it gets cleaned up automatically or are hosters running scripts to clean it up after a certain amount of time? The install guides make no mention of it from what I can find.

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Remote images are not cached or proxied right now as far as I know. Edit: seems I was wrong and there is some image caching happening. For sure for the small image thumbnails, but also sometimes for other pictures, but it seems very inconsistent.

Your growning pictrs directory might be also due to the extremely verbose default logging that Pictrs (and the Lemmy backend too btw) uses.

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I am not aware, but the problem will likely be that the images are loaded from a lot of different instances and therefore very hard to detect. Maybe the specific pict-rs path could be detected via a reg-ex though.

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Xonotic is always a good one.

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Are there any RTSes with no scrolling. Just display the entire map really small all at once?

It seems like it could be an interesting format on large screens these days.

#gaming

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Basically all the Total Annihilation clones allow you to zoom out to see the entire map and are designed to be controllable like that (units turn into small icons and such).

You can try this gratis and open-source one: www.beyondallreason.info

Solarpunk and How We Escape Dystopia [Podcast] (youtu.be)

In this episode we explore a relatively new subgenre of science fiction called Solarpunk, which aims to imagine better, more ecologically harmonious, futures on earth. In many ways Solarpunk is a reaction to both the real-world climate crisis and to the many apocalyptic visions of collapse filling our screens. Andrew Sage from...

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In my experience these efforts are often hampered by a means to transport larger stuff. At least here in Europe where few people have humongous pickup trucks 😅

There are some often not really profit oriented thrift stores that try to fill that gap, but in the end these places to need to recover costs and it ends up not “free” any longer.

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Basically a repost (under CC-by-SA) as the original post I made with my old lemmy.ml account was removed when I deleted that account.

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Yeah, sorry. A storm took out the internet in the entire area where the servers are hosted.Totally unrelated to the higher than usual number of users.

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These sanctions are working as planned: wsj.com/…/russian-oil-is-still-flowing-and-that-i…

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