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PeriodicallyPedantic

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  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • Just because a product has a plausibly deniable use case doesn't really mean that it's not functionally political.

    If someone creates a super invasive surveillance system and initially uses it for a seemingly benign purpose, that doesn't mean the intention all along wasn't more nefarious, especially if the system was practically irresistible for power structures and it's use directly lead to authoritarianism. Like giving someone their first hit for free.

    In a case like that, I would discount the benign use as a red herring, and say that the software is functionally political.

  • If you could have a superpower, what would it be? I'll start: to be invisible.

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  • I mean, superpowers are already supernatural, so I don't want to assume that all the rules of physics apply

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • The extension of the argument I'm making (and maybe them kinda?) is that it's functionally the same as if the software were political.

    You can make software that nearly exclusively benefits a particular political belief for family of beliefs.

    So even if it's not actually technically political, it can be functionally political, at which point the argument is splitting hairs.

  • If you could have a superpower, what would it be? I'll start: to be invisible.

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  • My boy just forgot blind people exist and can function their bodies

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • It does, but it doesn't handle encryption at rest. Everyone needs to be aware that the immich admin can see their photos on the disk.

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • You don't even need reasonably powerful hardware, I do it on my raspberry Pi 5. It just takes a little longer, which isn't usually a problem except for the first time you import your library.

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • The other person deleted their comment so I can't really know what the argument was, but I would like to make a distinction:

    While tools cannot be political themselves, tools can lend themselves to specific political purposes.

    A tank cannot itself be fascist, but it can make fascism more viable. Surveillance software cannot be political, but it is easily abused by fascists to destroy political opposition.

    What matters is the harm and benefits. Is the harm caused by the tool justified by it's benefits? Or are the primary use cases for the tool to prop up fascism?(I suspect that "authoritarianism" would be a better term to use here, but I'm continuing the theme of the thread)

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • Nextcloud is like Google drive, immich is like Google photos. You'd typically prefer to look at your photo albums in Google photos instead of Google drive.

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • I'm running it on in docker and I've connected it to my NAS mounted as a network drive. I set it up a few months ago, do it's better since then.

    Don't even worry about the hardware, I've got it set up on a raspberry Pi 5. It'll take a while to do all the classification on your existing library, but new photos get classified fast enough. You're unlikely to need to do a smart search immediately after you've taken the pic.

    For clarity, I'm not on Windows (obv, raspberry Pi), and I'm not using docker directly; I'm running HAOS on my pi, and I'm using the immich add-on. I know it uses docker, but I can't tell you the exact command to run.

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • True, but I also think that my exact answer likely generalizes to most situations where institutions are capitalizing on the suffering of people.

    IMO this post isn't about the willingness for people to help each other in times of need, it's about the willingness (and ability) for the community to organize a defense against institutions that are using the situation to exploit the community.

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • Did the banks go out roaming the streets helping people?

    I don't question if communities would band together, I question if a community banding together could still pose enough of a threat to a bank or auction to pressure such a sale. What are a bunch of broke farmers going to do to prevent a foreign REIT from buying the property in an online auction?

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • Why would that make banks less likely to take foreign money instead of more likely to take foreign money?

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • It absolutely could not happen again, regardless of how organized the community was, because banks simply wouldn't sell the foreclosed property in an auction of community peers if they weren't getting good money for it, they'd auction it to REITs and corporations without them needing to set foot in an auction house.

  • Internal domain and reverse proxy

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  • They're looking for local access network access only

  • Looking for opinions on Trilium Notes

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  • I was just testing it out lol. There is also a graph plugin for an obsidian-like view, but it's kinda janky.

    There is a beta AI plugin too, which (as much as I hate AI) is something I may try. The power of NotebookML is just too much, I wanna be able to ask it shit about my D&D campaign notes.

  • Looking for opinions on Trilium Notes

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  • I was going to switch to trillium next, but in the end I decided not because it relies on a database even more than Joplin does.

    I'm in the process of giving Silver Bullet a try. It seems to be pretty well designed. I don't really like that folders are just cosmetic and not useful for navigation, but I like that it is open source, that the documents are saved in the file system, and that it's self-hosted instead of synced.

  • TIL the World Wide Web Consortium changed their logo on 1 October

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  • Peppers

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  • Reeling with the feeling. Don't stop. Continue.

  • Autograding tool

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  • This is basically what CI/CD pipelines do.

    Compile the code, run tests, run static analysis. If results pass, submit the code. If results fail, reject it with an explanation.

    Idk the details of how you'd implement this for a class, without letting everyone see eachother's completed work, but I'm sure it could be done.