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  • I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More

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  • and decentralised means there is no server

    no, it means there's no central server. You still need a Matrix server to handle communications, but there's no "central matrix server", the servers discover each other based on a baked-in "known good" server list + ad-hoc discovery (e.g. if a server has a group chat with a member of a server your server doesn't know yet, and you join that group chat, your server and the unknown one exchange metadata and so on).

  • I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More

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  • Vi sitter här i venten...

  • I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More

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  • Ah, those good old days...

  • Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat

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  • Dibs on being the middle one. Eating ass AND having my ass eaten? Don't threaten me with a good time!

  • Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps

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  • Maybe if I lick the boot hard enough, it won't be on my own neck? Just maybe, just this one time?

  • The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore

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  • This is categorically untrue with the latest generations of chipsets, CPUs and GPUs. Just look at AMD instead of Intel: AM4/5 cross-compatibility, DDR4/DDR5 combined support and so on.

    If anything, today is the day when you can upgrade beyond your current gen hardware component by component.

  • Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy

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  • Used to live in Denmark a good decade ago, "nice" to see that nothing really changed.

    Back then there was a quasi-proverb going around - you could sit in the middle of the most public part, butt naked, your girl riding your dick, a bottle of vodka in one hand and a joint in the other, and if police saw you, the worst thing you'd get is a high five. But dare you download a single episode of Game Of Thrones...

  • Meooooow!

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  • Oh, they ain't just screamin'

  • Why Is It Harder To Move People To Open Source - Decentralized Options?

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  • Overall, the UX, but also in big part due to marketing.

    Corporate/for-profit solutions tend to have enough money to pay not just for the development but the marketing of a product. Let me show you a non-social-media pair: Plex vs Jellyfin.

    If you go to the individual websites, the difference is visibly stark. As a basic user with little to no understanding, which website sells the product better?

    Open source most of the time can't afford the long user experience studies and full on designer teams that make a product more likely to be chosen by the average person. Hell, open source often can't even afford lawsuits (which is why a lot of projects go dark and disappear after accidentally stepping on the toes of someone revengeful or looking for a quick payout)... in fact most open source software is solely driven by unpaid contributors. And while there's tradition in software engineering to contribute to open source, the same doesn't really apply for designers.

    And that brings us to UX, the most coveted topic of software engineering. Why? Because it's not always intuitive what the users will find intuitive. After all we're engineers, we care about the raw information, not its presentation. Sure a tidied up Excel spreadsheet looks nice, but it isn't more functional in an overwhelming majority of the cases, than a no frills, just data spreadsheet.

    That's why most open source software feels so barebones. They're full of features but those aren't fancy, they're not a nice experience for the users but simply fulfill a singular purpose.

    And that to date differentiates Plex and Jellyfin, as well as any other pairing of paid-for vs open-and-free software.

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    Why do we keep using the Russian captured internet?

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  • The "anti-woke brigade" is actually doing the same right now with Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, review bombing the shit out of it even though it's a decent series...

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    "Tiffany Doe" alleges that she witnessed the plaintiff, a 13-year-old girl, being sexually assaulted by Jeffrey E. Epstein and Donald J. Trump.

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  • Isn't Tiffany Doe one of the witnesses that Trump scared away a few years back, to the point where their whole lawsuit had to be withdrawn? The one lawsuit that also had two other anonymous witnesses, the two underage girls that have been raped by Trump and Epstein?

  • My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.

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  • To be perfectly fair, a proper wheel of Parmigianino Reggiano IS quite hard...

  • Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

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  • It's even more dumbass to show her as an alt, punk-goth girl when pretty much every representative of those subcultures is staunchly against alt-right BS. Especially the immigration paranoia.

  • Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE

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  • Do tell, which part of that sounds awful?

  • Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE

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  • Many.

    If you get deliveries and they're mishandled, you have a recording of it.

    If someone comes to your door when you're not home, you can talk to them.

    You can also set up local AI alerts (AI here is mostly used for facial recognition) e.g. to alert you if your MIL comes around uninvited, or if your kids sneak out at 2am, and so on.

    Once you begin appreciating a home CCTV camera setup (fully local mind you), you'll see the benefit of having your doorbell video-ed up as well.

  • Back Then We Had More Regulations

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  • "Good lad, pray tell, what is this 'felching' and 'cruising' mentioned by this handsome fella in my private telegrams?"

  • Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE

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  • Or just use one of the hundreds of other brands that provide smart doorbells.

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  • Just because the authority isn't used it doesn't mean it isn't present. You can have a hierarchy with authority assigned to higher-ups, and still work in a flat structure a la anarchy on average days. Authority ideally is only utilised when it has to be. In a work environment, for e.g. an IT team, that authority would be used when shit hits the fan and something mission-critical needs fixing and there can be absolutely zero miscommunication, so everyone does their tasks to their best abilities, but the team lead still takes charge.

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  • Yep. Anarchy sounds great on a small scale, but cannot work on a larger scale (country level and above). Any complex enough task requires delegation, and at least a semblance of hierarchy, providing a level of authority to certain people within a group.

    Just think about it. Building a simple carriage? That's something you can do with 2-3 other people, no hierarchy needed. A modern car? Even to just assemble one you need 6-10 people doing the physical work and 2-3 "leaders" who coordinate these people, to do so effectively. And to build a rocket that can actually reach space? You need hundreds of people working in lockstep from design to manufacturing and to final assembly. With redundancies and checks and whatnot all planned for. Try to built a rocket without any hierarchy and you'll just never reach the goal.

    Anarchy is something people should strive for, but it's not something we can achieve truly. It's more a guiding principle rather than a concrete goal.