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gaael

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  • Self-Host & Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own

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  • I found this guide by Futo's Louis Rossman pretty beginner friendly and rather complete.It's really recorded with the idea that you can follow it step by step and at the end have something fonctionnal and useful.Not overly fond of the guy, but on foss and self hosting at least we share values.Also, there's sometimes a cat on screen :)

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    • it has some software choices that I do not share, but I don't think it matters much - once you've built something that works and gained experience, you can do it again with other choices if you want
    • IIRC you need 3 computers to follow the guide
      • 1 to act as router and (among other things like network-wide ad blocking) allow access to your self hosted stuff from the outside world
      • 1 to actually host stuff onto
      • 1 to configure everything from
      • you can use pretty much any small cheap-ish computer as long as its processor is of the x86 type (which most are except raspberry pi and anything labeled Atom)
      • you'll probably have to dance around a bit with screen and keyboard if (like me) you only have one of each, so having the 3rd computer as a laptop (with an RJ45 port) or watchig the video from a tablet is recommanded
    • the video is really meant as a complete do-along (even telling you where to find the ISOs to download) which is IMO quite rare and really nice

    If you find steps in the video or stuff in my comment that don't make sense to you, please ask and I'll do my best to provide useful and understandable explanations.

  • [Solved] Upvoting comments results in "Invalid bot action"

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  • Thanks a lot, that solved it!

  • [Solved] Upvoting comments results in "Invalid bot action"

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  • Thanks a lot, that solved it!

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  • How do we find people, and what do we do?

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  • I have no complete answer, but I'd like to share what happened in my neighborhood. TLDR we neet to meet them where they are

    A group of climate-biodiversity activists tried to get people to come to educational workshops.They got a few of us, the ones that were already interested in the topic and who are priviledged enough to spend time and energy on other stuff that work, commuting, family care and basic survival/comfort. But after that, the workshops were empty.

    So they tried a different approach. For over a year, they organized activities perceived as fun and/or useful by the neighborhood.Think collective soup cooking and soup parties for which didnt have to pay, kids activites for parents who have trouble paying for child extrascholar stuff, furniture/cosmetics DIY cheap and well made, bike repair afternoons, drinks at one's or the other's place...Beginnings were not easy, but little by little word got out, they got better at understanding what other people actually need, trust began to emerge, disagreements found a space to be discussed and overcome....Not everything went well, some people take and never give back, some other are outright jerks (mostly out of racism and misogyny), some (like me) don't like group settings and almost never come, half the original organizers burnt out...

    But the result is impressive. Last time a workshop about climate change was organized, they had to schedule 6 sessions over a month to fit everyone. That's still a very tiny part of the inhabitants but it's so much more than at the beginning!The last vegetarian "cook and eat" gathered a lot of people, we see a lot more bikes in use in the streets, more plants at the windows and people talk to each other much more often...

    And I believe the neighborhood is nearing the point where popular education can happen, be it about environment, politics, societal evolution etc.

    Were this to happen in multiple neighborhoods across a city, in multiple cities across a country and in rural areas structures (which I don't know a lot about), well maybe you could start getting people interested about socialism, maybe I could get them interested in anarchy ;)

    So while I don't think this is going to be enough in and of itself but it looks like a first step that's necessary to go further.

    I also believe this is gonna take a long time, face strong backlash and many setbacks, and I don't believe it's gonna happen before I die. But being a part of enabling socialism or anarchy to happen at a later date is a legacy I'd be more than happy with.

  • Linux Kernel Chaos Caused By A Broken Script

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  • Great news, ty for sharing :)

  • Linux Kernel Chaos Caused By A Broken Script

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  • Thanks for sharing this, it's an intersting look at the inner workings of kernel development security-trust model.

    I've seen a lot of stuff being about Linus in the kernel-related stuff, so I have one question: are they really as central as they seem - and we're all gonna weep blood when they're not here any more for any reason - or are they a figurehead (due to being the creator and still being very involved) in a sea of equally involved developpers/maintainers/contributors - and should something happen to them, the kernel would continue going in the same direction?

    My anarchist ass obviously hopes for the second option 🤞

  • Linux Kernel Chaos Caused By A Broken Script

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  • ☝️this

    Other options on mobile:

    • using a firefow-based browser (like Fennec on F-droid) on which you can install Ublock Origin
    • also on the F-droid store, newpipe handles youtube shit gracefully

    For anyone not in the know, F-droid is an alternative app store for android where all applications are opensource, verified and don't track you.You can download it from their website (be warned: android is likely to ask you a half a dozen times if you're sure you want to download, install and give it permissions), install it and explore a great new world :)

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 17th

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  • I started and finished Stray today. It's a bit short (5.5 hours) and imo not really replayable, but I had a really nice time with it. I found it akin to Outer Wilds in the sense that you get to discover the lore as you progress in the world. I recommend picking it up if you get it on sale (the full price is a bit much for the duration).

  • OpenTalk - Videoconferencing secure and GDPR compliant (Jitsi alternative, written in Rust)

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  • So do I. During lockdown a french hosting company set up bbb instances on their infrastructure, and the experience was really good (they even activated the "join with your phone" feature).Zoom and Gmeet are usable (usually calls are stable and quality is ok) but closed-source shit, and I had a lot of stability issues on public jitsi instances (though I never self-hosted).

    I've tried opentalk for the first time a few weeks ago (it's included in my email provider plan) and it worked fine.

  • Hertz 180: Rental giant to sell 20,000 EVs and replace them with gas-powered vehicles

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  • Amended title: Rental giant to take a huge step back in climate change fight and generate more GHG to protect their bottom line.

  • Airbnb Was Supposed to Save Capitalism. Instead, It Just Devolved Into Garbage.

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  • :D

  • Airbnb Was Supposed to Save Capitalism. Instead, It Just Devolved Into Garbage.

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  • What is supposed to be the difference between capitalism and garbage ? Asking for a commie friend.

  • Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

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  • In a capitalistic world where your right to stay alive is determined by the money you make, replacing himan jobs by machine ones is a real problem.

    If what was happening was "ok so the machines are gonna do that so you're gonna have a lot more free time but you still get your wages", I for one would be happy.

    But what's happening is more along the lines of "well I hope you didn't just get a mortgage because here's the door hahaha don't be sad think lf the extra money the shareholders are going to make" and it's a real problem.

    Just because it's logical that shitty bosses take shitty decisions which impact negatively other person's lives doesn't mean we can't be upset and vocal about it.

  • You probably don't need a VPN

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  • meatspace name I laughed reading this, it has a strong SMBC vibe :)

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 31st

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  • I've been playing a bit of CS2 for the past weeks. It takes me way back (I played with high-school friends 20 years ago till 1.6) and I definitely suck, but I'm having fun. It still lacks fun community servers imo, but I hope to see more of them soon.

    My favorite game of 2023 was Outer Wilds. I got completely immersed inside and spent a lot of quality time uncovering the storyline. I tried playing the DLC but I did not enjoy it very much, text made more sense than images for me.

    The game I spent most hours on in 2023 was probably DOS2, doing both solo and coop playthroughs. Will probably be replaced by BG3 in 2024 :)

  • Male players: Why do you play female characters?

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  • I'm a big fan of women kicking ass, and videogames are usually designed to make my character kick a lot af asses. So female-looking character is great for me !

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  • Yes I agree, I just wanted to point out that IMO Starcraft 2 was not the first pc game with a good matchmaking system.

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  • I remember good matchmaking in Warcraft 3 for srandard matches.

    And I also remember having lots of fun on custom servers for CS, Half-Life, D2 etc. and not at all feeling like matchmaking was a required feature.

  • Last Epoch could be new home for Diablo 4 players after content drought - Dexerto

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  • Indeed I have, why ?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    gaael @beehaw.org

    Good source for linux native games ?