I wouldn’t want to be without one. I’ve used them multiple times for things where it would get too complex or awkward in a spreadsheet tool. Recently, for instance, I’ve created a database for a non-profit I manage to oversee potential donors, donation requests and donations, and keep things much more organized than I could with a simple spreadsheet. Yes, there’s more upfront work, but it makes the data that much easier to work with.
ReactOS also works pretty closely with projects like Wine. Any lessons learned from the development of ReactOS can be used to improve Wine.
somebody else singing a song is usually fine considering the amount of covers on YouTube
Just because it’s on YouTube doesn’t mean it’s safe to do. YouTube has a whole range of agreements with different record companies so that in many cases copyrighted music will be used, but YouTube’s contentID (I think that’s what it’s called?) system IDs it and reroutes the ad revenue to the “appropriate” record company.
IANAL, but I do know that compositions can be and do get copyrighted - see the avril Lavigne vs Rubinos case, where the allegation was that Avril Lavigne’s song “Girlfriend” sounded too similar to one of the Rubino’s songs. The case was, unfortunately for us, settled behind closed doors, but it goes to show how far copyright law can go. Which, TBH, is disappointing, because on the whole, I like the idea, but well, copyright ruins a number of things.
As to the state of Peertube, I’ve not run into any problems. I’ve mostly watched videos that The Linux experiment uploads himself to Peertube, but that has been pretty flawless recently. And especially in a case like this, which could potentially generate a significant amount of traffic, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work from a technical standpoint - more peers generally means those kind of P2P systems work better.
What I do worry about with Peertube is the whole copyright situation (again, copyright ruins everything). Since you’re reuploading what you’re watching to others, if copyrighted content were to be uploaded (which can happen very quickly in a music contest), it could potentially be open season for copyright trolls.
I don’t want to be a downer, I honestly hate the way copyright ruins this stuff. But I think it’s important to keep in the back of your mind in order to avoid it turning into more headaches than fun.
Ach ja, schon wieder diesen Ansatz, “wenn ihr noch ein bisschen stärker anpackt, dann kann man die Pünktlichkeit aus der Luft zaubern”. Hat ja die letzten Male auch so gut geklappt.
Then I’d have to start using a VPN every time I use PeerTube - that would be a major PITA.
Nick from The Linux Experiment posts his videos on TILvids, a peertube instance, and as such they pop up on my fediverse feed, actually making me more likely to watch them than on YouTube. But otherwise, unfortunately, I don’t run into that much content worth watching on PeerTube, so I end up having to revert to YouTube (with Adblock and SponsorBlock).
Also, I sometimes worry about the whole Peer to peer aspect. The reason people who torrent usually get busted is because they serve the content they downloaded to others, which is legally often a bigger issue than simply downloading stuff. Since PeerTube works the same way, I worry that I unknowingly watch something that is somehow covered by some copyright I wasn’t aware of and some legal office tries to make my life hell.
I would much rather more people enjoy it than us just keeping it to ourselves. I believe, if done properly, it has a decent amount to offer for the average user. The fediverse has the major advantage of being decentralized and open source, and I believe that should be accessible to everyone, not just the fanatics (like me, admittedly) who are ready to wade knee deep through technical details and differences in community, some of them quite toxic.
But OK “we’ll just keep it as is”, we keep the fediverse for us. Yay?
Here’s the problem with that: it then remains a niche. What happens to niches in technology? Well, there are a number of examples that I specifically would like the Fediverse not to follow.
Carrying around a replacement battery was never something most people did. They didn’t generally replace their batteries, either. That was a niche thing. At some point, manufacturers starting sealing their phones shut. After all, it was only a niche that needed replaceable batteries, so it didn’t affect many people. So we lost a part of our right to repair.
Rooting your phone was never something a majority of people did. Look what is happening to people who root their phones (read: want admin rights on devices they bought and fucking paid for): they lose their warranties, they lose their ability to use banking apps without complex workarounds that don’t always work, in some cases their hardware doesn’t work properly. Because rooting is seen as a niche thing, “it doesn’t affect as that many people, so no need to worry”. So we lost those rights. And we’re about to lose the right to install whatever apps we fucking chose.
What’s on the horizon? Age restrictions. Something major platforms may whine about a bit, but can implement just fine - they already don’t really care about your privacy anyway, and if there are fines, generally they’re small enough to just be a line item. The smaller platforms? The operators of lemmy.world? The operator of kbin.earth, my home instance? I highly doubt that they have anywhere near what’s needed for that. But the fediverse is only a niche thing, so it doesn’t affect that many people. Oh, shit, that’s us now.
It wasn’t only that - this person had come up with pronouns to match, almost like the attack helicopter meme that many found offensive, but unironically. People got banned for not using the dragon-whatever pronouns (and not just on this person’s instances). And people started scanning other people’s fediverse posts in order to pre-emptively ban people before they even posted in certain communities. It was wild.
People need to change their ideas about what the fedi/threadiverse is in relation to social media. It is an international forum of everything.
I would disagree with the everything part, but otherwise, that’s precisely the problem - you can’t expect the majority to drastically change their expectations of social media.
I believe Lemmy has the potential for a wider range of discussion and debate than Reddit, or any other social media platform I’ve been on, simply because of the defederated & community-based system.
In theory, I agree with you - and that was my very hope when I first got into the fediverse. Unfortunately, the reality has proven to be different…
The issue, as you describe, seems to be saying the wrong thing in the wrong place, which, to be honest, is similar to the real world.
Except it’s much, much worse than in the real world. I’ve been in circles with right wingers, and I am notoriously stubborn about not hiding my viewpoint (which very often clashes with that of right wingers), and even there the reaction is less crazy than on Lemmy.
For example, you can’t walk up to a group of homosexuals and try to convince them they shouldn’t be gay.
That’s not the kind of thing I’m talking about. Of course something like that would go over like a lead balloon - in that case also because that’s borderline in factual in its assumptions. A better comparison would be a conversation naturally wondering to the risks of anal sex if not done carefully and being chastised and banned for that.
Even if he was, he was in no place to take it into his own hands to address (especially in a secretive way).
I neither said nor implied that, in fact I said quite the opposite…
If you see a lot of toxicity where you browse, maybe your chosen community just isn’t a healthy one.
And that’s exactly the problem. More work. More digging. More research. People come to these sites to have fun and often don’t have the patience nor the interest to filter through all the communities.
This may be unpopular to say here, but the fediverse needs to be less toxic for the average user. I’m probably going to be downvoted to hell for this, but here goes: the whole tesseract situation was a clusterfuck and the dev is a jackass, but in one regard he is right - there is a toxicity problem. I mean, let’s look at it:
Lemmy’s main dev is what many would refer to as a tankie. He regularly spreads misinformation, supporting fascist governments, so long as they claim to be socialist or communist - and don’t belong to the west. Anything the West does is, by definition, evil.
Lemmy’s flagship instance is lemmy.ml. An instance where many communities have a “be nice” rule, but say anything against the (similarly aligned) group think and you’ll be ridiculed, insulted, and banned. Meanwhile, some pretty insane calls for violence stay up. And lemmy.ml isn’t even the worst in that corner of the fediverse.
There are many other instances that aren’t great, either. Wander into an instance and accidentally say something absolutely factual that someone doesn’t like - ban, because some thin skinned mod sees it as derogatory. Remember the whole dragonfucker saga? Yeah, that’s very off-putting to your average user.
Look, I’m no stranger to Reddit group think, I’ve had it turn on me, and trust me, it’s no fun. Hell, I’ve had it on Facebook back when that was still a thing (yeah, I’m dating myself here). But it was nothing on what I’ve seen on here. I’ve been able to avoid it here (or, sometimes I’ve purposefully wandered into it in an attempt to disrupt an echo chamber, but then I knew exactly what I was getting into and expected as much), but what I saw happening to others - holy shit. I mean, to be fair, the instance I’m on is an instance that very rarely defederates, which I like because I like seeing different viewpoints including ones with which I vehemently disagree with (although the viewpoints are very unbalanced, that does have to be said). But it’s a hell of a lot more fun to not have to keep your guard up all the time.
So, you might argue, be careful which instance you chose. OK, so I chose an instance like Lemmy.world, which as far as Lemmy goes, is definitely more on the normal side of things. But then, who are they federated with? The next rabbit hole. And how do you know which ones have less crazies? Experience. And as a saying goes, experience is what you needed just before you got it. Then many people suggest putting together blocklist and what not. Another rabbit hole. Put briefly: it involves work, a lot of it. People aren’t on Reddit to work (for the most part), they’re there to have fun. If you need to put in so much work, at some point it’s not fun anymore. And that’s what’s off-putting for the typical user.
What can be done to make it more palatable for normal users? I honestly don’t know. I see it as a chicken and egg problem. We need more “normal” people to drown out the crazies, but then the “normal” people won’t come because of the crazies. Maybe Piefed is better in that regard - although I’ve heard there were/are?tesseract-style problems there, as well - I just haven’t had the nerve to go down yet another rabbit hole to figure out what’s actually going on. Which brings us back to square one - that’s already gone way, way too far for the average user. And I can’t exactly blame them. I’m “only” here because I care about open source and decentralisation. And I insist on staying here on matter of principle. But I can’t in good faith recommend it to anyone I know IRL.
Anyway, sorry for the long rant. Maybe someone has some better ideas.
yt-dlp has an option to list everything it downloads in an archive file (so that when a video is downloaded once it isn’t downloaded again), and also has an option to download playlists. That way, it should be possible to set up the command to do what you want.
Wenn du das als falsche Dichotomie siehst, dann hast du mein Text nicht richtig gelesen. Ich habe nie gesagt, das eine oder das andere. Aber die Argumente von anderen falsch darstellen, das ist auch ein beliebtes Mittel für Desinformation, wenn wir schon gleich so einen Ton nutzen…
Ganz davon abgesehen, dass Tempolimit auf der Autobahn mit dem Tod von Radfahren rein gar nichts zu tun hat, die sind dort eh verboten. Oder arbeitest du etwa mit falschen Dichotomien und wirfst es einfach anderen vor, damit es nicht so auffällt?
Danke für die sachlichen Diskussionspunkte… /s
Ich kann das genauso umdrehen. Du bist gegen die Abschaffung des Straßenverkehrs? Du bist also dafür,
In Kauf zu nehmen für genau was? [Abwertende, sarkastische Vermutung hier einfügen]
Hier ist das Ding: die Straße ist immer noch ein Verkehrsträger, der selbst nach einer erfolgreichen Verkehrswende (wovon wir übrigens noch sehr weit entfernt sind) existieren wird und existieren soll, nur längst nicht in dem Maße. Und die Straße ist halt nun Mal gefährlich. Verkehr ist gefährlich. Selbst bei der Bahn, in Deutschland das sicherste Verkehrsmittel schlechthin muss man Abwägungen machen.
Sprich, man muss es ins Verhältnis setzen. Das schnelle Fahren hier in Deutschland hat durchaus seine Vorteile - und das sage ich als Autogegner, der selber auch kein eigenes Auto besitzt. Zum einen kommt man je nach Strecke schneller an - und nein, das ist nicht nur ein Placebo, ich habe selber schonmal verglichen.
Dann ist die Frage der Legitimation unter der Bevölkerung. Eins, was in Deutschland unheimlich gut funktioniert, ist die Einhaltung der Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen. Wenn hier 50 sind, wird auch wirklich 50 gefahren (abgesehen von ein paar Idioten, aber die hat man leider überall, sowie besondere Konstellationen - aber auch da sind wir beim Thema Legitimation). Im Ausland habe ich das durchaus sehr anders erlebt - da wird standardmäßig bis zu 20 km/h über die Geschwindigkeit gefahren. Fährst du Maximalgeschwindigkeit, bist du eine Verkehrsbehinderung. Das ist für mich anstrengend. Ich bin danach jedes Mal froh, wenn ich wieder in Deutschland bin und - oh, man kann sich auch an die Maximalgeschwindigkeit halten. Wie meckern halt in Deutschland auf sehr hohem Niveau, was das angeht. Und das hängt aus meiner Sicht sehr stark damit zusammen, dass wenn es in Deutschland eine Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung ist, gibt es wirklich einen Grund dafür, was nicht “wir haben da überall Mal 'ne Pauschale angesetzt” heißt. Das gibt dem Ganzen nochmal eine ganz andere Legitimation, und, dass es nur in bestimmten, begründeten Konstellationen auf der Autobahn Geschwindigkeitseinschränkungen gibt, trägt dazu bei, dass diese auch von der Allgemeinheit als legitim(er) wahrgenommen werden.
Das seien zwar nur 3 Prozent aller Unfalltoten [im Straßenverkehr]
Ehrlich gesagt ist das noch weniger, als ich erwartet hatte. Die gefährlichsten Straßen sind halt bei weitem nicht Autobahnen, sondern Landstraßen.
Und, dass mit Studien aus Amerika verglichen wurden ist, finde ich ironisch. Immerhin ist der Straßenverkehr dort wesentlich, wesentlich gefährlicher als hier. Und die haben überall Tempolimit.
Durch Tempolimit werden wir keine Klimarettung schaffen, das schaffen wir nur, wenn wir möglichst von der Straße runterkommen und auf effizientere Transportmittel umsteigen. Aber das würde ja wieder was kosten…
Inwiefern die Rechten erstmal noch mehr gewinnen würden weiß ich nicht direkt - es kann anfangst sein, mit einem großen Aber: es wäre eine Möglichkeit, den rechten Wind aus den Propaganda-Segeln zu nehmen. Sie reden sehr oft darüber, wie sie “das Volk” wären oder die Stille Mehrheit darstellen würden. Würden sie das bei solchen direktdemokratischen Verfahren auch behaupten? Bestimmt. Aber es würde längst nicht so glaubwürdig rüberkommen, wenn dann beim Volksentscheid regelmäßig was anderes rauskommen würde. Und vor allem habe ich die Vermutung, dass die Rechten sich gegen einen solchen Verfahren wehren würden, das würde auch deren Glaubwürdigkeit bei solchen Aussagen verringern.
Unfortunately there are a lot of answers that aren’t really properly explaining why and just taking the opportunity to piss on AI…
LLMs (the currently hyped form of AI) is seen by many as the “next big thing”. And honestly, it’s not surprising. LLMs are impressive. They’re the closest we’ve ever gotten to mimicking human behavior. A lot of us have seen a lot of LLM-generated stuff and are sick of it, but think back to the first time you saw or heard an LLM string together sentences that are grammatically not gibberish, and in many cases quite coherent. That’s already enough to spark interest from companies and investors.
And the development isn’t stopping, at least not in the next while. Even in the last few years LLMs have noticeably improved. And the question is: where does it go from here? There’s definitely a scenario where this whole thing is a bubble that pops at some point, 90% of the things the current use cases for LLMs disappear as pointless, and we’re left with the remaining 10% that actually help people. But there’s also a scenario where LLMs improve to the point where they can vastly improve productivity. There’s definitely precedent - think computer and Internet or steam engines. And in those cases, those who got in at the right time made a lot of money. Think of the railroad barons and today’s tech companies. There were people then who said “why do we need all this, it’s terribly unreliable and not worth the expense”, as well. The flip side of this is: there are many people who thought other technologies would be really successful who turned out to be completely wrong, think blimps and Google Glass (stories which, by the way, are often quickly forgotten since they are, in hindsight, irrelevant). That’s one part of the answer.
The other part of the answer is that in the long term, there’s generally an increase of productivity, and companies try to outcompete each other. It’s nothing new - companies who were able to use the Internet to be more efficient, for instance, survived much better than those who didn’t. The companies who used steam engines to decrease the costs survived much better than those who didn’t. So, naturally, if companies see something they might be able to use to become more efficient, they do what they can to adopt it before everyone else. (Who should profit from those efficiencies is an entirely different question.)
And that’s really the problem: it’s hard to know exactly where this whole thing is going. After all the hype dies down I see some use cases, improving search results being one of the main ones, or improving the auto complete functions so we can use them much better than we currently do. I don’t see the current environment with AI chatbots being offered at every corner as sustainable or something that will last. But I could also be wrong. You generally never know it 100% for sure when you’re in a bubble, you only know for sure when the bubble pops.
This is an age old discussion. The FSF doesn’t “approve” of Debian because it contains proprietary drivers (which are already in the Linux kernel). Even when Debian didn’t have these drivers by default and you had to go out of your way to download an unofficial version that did have these drivers, that was too much for the FSF. Thing is, in most cases you need those drivers to get your hardware working properly. For instance (and IIRC), the latest WiFi version that has a WiFi card available where the drivers are fully open source is WiFi 4 (back then WiFi N).
There will always be a compromise (setting aside the ID thing on Discord, which is a whole other can of worms and affects open source software as well). Even if you’re running only Linux (or FreeBSD or whatever other open source OS), there are in all likelihood still closed source drivers being used. Or, you decide to limit yourself to WiFi 4 or ethernet connections, for instance. OK, now you don’t have any closed source drivers anymore, yay! Except… The processor and processor architecture your computer is running on isn’t open source. Shit. And in fact, there currently is only one open source processor architecture: RISC-V, but that still has a bit of a ways to go until it’s ready for mass adoption. And even then, I’m sure you’d find something closed source in whatever computer you’d be using. It’s always (at least in the current day and age) a question of how much you can realistically have open source.
The situation with that game definitely seems a little more extreme in the other direction, unfortunately. The question that I’m wondering is: the game is open source, what’s preventing you from compiling it yourself? That way you don’t have to run it through steam. And if there aren’t proper instructions, check the license of the original project, it may just be a violation of that license (since a clear compilation path is practically a part of the source code, since without you can’t compile it and thus use it properly otherwise).
I just wish they had decompiled the original Full tilt version. It includes, most notably, Multiball, which the Windows version does not.
Look, I get it, Linux isn’t at fault for all the issues he’s experiencing, but it is what it is. It not being Linux’s fault won’t magically make OP’s DAC work, and who knows why OP is using HDMi - there may be a good reason for that, too (maybe the TV doesn’t have Displayport?). You will never be in a 100% FOSS environment if you need certain functionality, at least not in this day and age. OP tried, I’m assuming gave it his best, and is frustrated that it didn’t work, since he would have liked to switch. That’s 100% legitimate.