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Auster

@ Auster @thebrainbin.org

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♪ Longe vá, temor servil ♪

I may post/reply/boost in:🇧🇷 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇯🇵 🇳🇴(or close languages)

I also may boost posts I make with alts, but I'm mainly here so that should be rare.

  • Aircat supremacy

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  • The Death of Software Development

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  • Personally, while I see what the author means, I don't agree 100%. What I think is bound to happen is that manual development will lose market share, but not fade away completely. Like stone aqueducts still being needed in some cases despite pipes being a thing, some companies may require proof of work, which could be better achieved with humans. Also, not from a commercial angle per se, but for code reviewers, knowing how to write their own codes would help the oddities in machine-generated code, and fix/improve where needed, meaning at least for study they'd need to do it.

  • Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder

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  • "Starting in Brazil"

    Not as much of a proactive people, from what I can see in person, but the "jeitinho brasileiro" hopefully will show ways to make Android programs without Google's tools.

  • Huh?

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  • no thoughs, bleeping joyfully

  • AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

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  • Going by title alone, sounds like a false flag. If people that are against read it, they could feel like they're in a comfortable spot and lower pressure. And with so many companies implementing LLMs to their services, the push growing weaker would allow these companies to gain even more space, for there is no vacuum in power.

    Still need to read the article itself, but manipulation by headlines is a common strategy.

  • Linux replacement for MusicBee / music player?

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  • Can't remember any native programs, and the ones I use have very few of the functions you need. And not quite a solution, but while you don't find a replacement, maybe you could try to run MusicBee through Wine?

  • [meta] pls stop banning people

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  • Dunno what happened, but if it's a case of abuse of power, the fediverse easily allows for making alternatives and finding them. Else, maybe try to find the modlog for them?

  • YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos

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  • Because God forbid using anything other than their own generated subs. Or to have options.

    If that's a push to their AI systems, while AI has its uses, when coincidences or fuck ups are too consistent, it may not be either anymore. And thus it feels like Google is trying to tarnish AI to the point even supporters move away from it.

  • Is it just me, or does anyone else wish there was a federated, decentralized alternative to YouTube Music?

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  • Personally, if I must listen to music through streaming, I don't have much of a need for the Youtube Music variant, so my opinion below stems from that.

    Now, I think Peertube could retrofit that and benefit from it. I've seen discussions that it doesn't improve as much as other ActivityPub platforms because videos are so big few end up making instances of them. But as musics are so much smaller, uploading them could give Peertube a boost in interest.

    And instance-wise, there could be instances focused solely on musics, or akin to Bluesky and Piefed, that offer lists that group channels/profiles/etc. based on common subjects.

    Also I know other instances can display Peertube contents, so maybe playlists that propagate through ActivityPub could be made too to work as some sort of radio?

  • Oltre il blackout: nasce l’Apartheid Digitale

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  • To the OP: since diggita uses Lemmy, I'd suggest setting the post language to Italian when posting in that language. That'd let users leverage their instances' language filter settings.

    And a translation by Google of the article:

     
        
Beyond the blackout: Digital Apartheid is born

According to Filterwatch reports also reported by The Guardian, the Iranian regime is developing a plan to turn access to the global web into a "government privilege".

Instead of blocking specific sites, the regime is reportedly implementing a “white list”: that way, only domestic services hosted on the National Information Network (NIN) would be allowed to function.

Access to the web could only be granted to previously "screened" and authorized individuals and institutions, creating a system of digital apartheid.

According to some testimonies, it seems that the network seems active (the signal icon is there), but the data does not flow or the connection "pulses" (disconnects every few seconds), a technique used to discourage the use of VPNs.

The report would confirm the total collapse of e-commerce and domestic logistics as “collateral damage” necessary to maintain political control and prevent protest coordination by completing the infrastructure necessary for a permanent detachment from the World Wide Web, replacing it with a fully surveilled national network.

It could be the end of the “open” internet in Iran, replaced by a closed network that serves as both a tool of surveillance and a weapon of political isolation.
  • Removed

    Have you tried to turn it off and on again?

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  • proceeds to unplug the pc

    Also energy consumption in such cases is bound to skyrocket.

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  • To the OP:Personally, if I want to post something, I search for communities that sound like good fits, then go by elimination if I find multiple.But with as broad of a suggestion that it is, I second Skavau's question. Could you give an example of what you'd like to post so we can give some ideas?

  • Do we need more users ?

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  • Makes me wonder if it's specific softwares that are pulling the statistics downward, or in general. Also the last 6 months seem rather stable on the graph.

  • Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot

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  • Reading the article, it's so many conditions to be uninstallable I fear even Bill Gates himself couldn't.

  • Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025

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  • In the repost on the Chile community, also saw one or other comment about Lemmy being toxic. I do notice a certain "toxicity", though from certain corners and which seems to stems more often from what I call "misery posting", which would be posts whose main focus seems to be to make the given topic appear like a lost cause to the reader (even some "meme" communities seem to fall on this).

    Since some communities seem specially prone for such posts, I second blocking those as you notice the patterns to try to make your feed healthier, and to hopefully make such places shrink into a healthier size. Or at least, if you got the patience and resistance to mass downvoting and mobbing, to post in those communities and within their rules what to you is positive. Alternatively/Parallel to that, one could make sure to react accordingly to posts, instead of uninterestedly hide everything in feed as the user scrolls.

    Otherwise, a given environment shrinking or tanking in growth could also mean people that use it are growing apathetic or anomic to popularizing it, to which I repeat my suggestion in the Chile community, change starts by small steps. So for example, if someone is on a platform compatible by extension but without an ActivityPub bridge or function active (e.g. Threads and Bluesky), to explain to them they could activate it, and e.g. Fedi Brdigy is working on Lemmy compatibility, so more potential users going around. Also, if you see a funny meme or the sort, you could share the link, provided it has a decent blurb preview on the platform to be sent.

    Also spikes happen anywhere when competing platforms have issues, so current retention might just be its natural one.

    And even on a Lemmy account I have (thus little noise from microblogging) and while highly curating my feeds there, the amount of posts is almost too much for me to be able to go through. So by observation, the "threadiverse" as a whole seems rather healthy in numbers.

  • Featured

    List of RSS feeds distributed by each software on Fediverse

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  • Fantastic post!

    Some small things to note though:

    • On Mbin, RSS for users is only for thread posts, not microblog posts.
    • Misskey has RSS feeds for external users; source, I use it.
    • Apparently the Lemmy engine allows RSS for external sources but from my experience, it depends on the instance to enable it (might be good to investigate this one).
    • From what I was reading in Friendica's docs, if an instance allows, you can turn an user of yours into an RSS-tracking both, similar to RSS Parrot and Saba (the Japanese one).

  • Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

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  • Why handle files? Let big bro Microsoft handle them for you.

  • Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill

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  • RSS's a big for me and had been considering originally using Mastodon + RSS Parrot. But though I don't like the UI of Friendica, its native tracker bot function sounds rather interesting. 👀

    Thinking here, the site engine I'd pick for daily use would probably be Mbin. But as I hear it is a bit of a processing hog, running it and a Friendica instance on the same device would maybe be too much for the device, so maybe I should buy another Raspberry Pi or some other SBC for it.

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