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Leraje

@ leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone

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Atheistic Satanist - justice, compassion, science.

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  • It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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  • "Also, the content creator of the video was not vetted for sponsorship because they don’t usually do that. "

    Given the political direction most Westernised countries are heading, the kindest possible interpretation of that is breathtaking naivety on their part. Of course people are going to question why on earth far-right extremists are allowed to have unvetted ability to sponsor software.

    To me, the essence of privacy software is the ability to 'verify, not trust' which is why the ties between privacy and open source are so strong. Proton are currently doing the opposite of that in how they run their company. A lot of people have had enough of tech companies half-arsing their approach and now refuse to just let these seemingly small things slide - mainly because they sometimes snowball into much larger things.

    None of this is a smear campaign, its just a valid take on what people see unfolding in front of them.

  • Proton has respond on reddit

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  • Of course, but they are a software development company. Its the strategy (or lack of it) I'm criticising, not their ability to write code.

  • Proton has respond on reddit

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  • I believe them when they say this was an error of vetting because they'd have to be naive to think this wouldn't be discovered and that a lot of their customers would have an issue with it. But that in itself is troubling. Proton are not some small-fry company with staff numbers in the single digits. Something like this speaks to their lack of planning, organisation and error-checking which are very bad traits for a privacy-centered set of software developers to have.

    I've always been slightly suspicious of Proton without really knowing why but this and the previous Trump thing have made those suspicions more hardened. Everyone makes mistakes but to not even do basic checking and to lack the organisation and judgement to implement it is not something that inspires trust in the software they develop.

  • Monarchists: can you explain the appeal?

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  • Because they're parasites?

    I'm not sure the argument that they bring in money via tourism is accurate. No tourist comes to see them, they come to see the Palace etc. Tourists still visit the Palace of Versailles even though there's no monarchy in France.

  • Worcestershire

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  • Its really not hard.

    wuss-tur-shur.

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    Should George RR Martin use an LLM to help finish ASOIAF?

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  • you would read it

    I couldn't make it through book 3 of that series. Oh hey, a new character - I wonder if they'll rape/be raped by a close family member or die hideously? Maybe both?

    Martin endlessly confuses unrelenting misery for an interesting plot.

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    Should George RR Martin use an LLM to help finish ASOIAF?

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  • 1980's Stephen King has entered the chat.

  • Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork?

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  • I switched from Bitwarden to keepassxc (pc) and keepassdx (android) and installed syncthing (pc) and syncthing-fork (android) to sync the db file a couple of weeks ago - all works fine, no dramas.

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • One of the most disturbing things about Blue Velvet is that Dennis Hopper got the part by telling David Lynch he had to play Frank Booth because he was Frank Booth.

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • Threads - UK based movie from 1984 which is a speculative fictional account of what would happen in the event of a nuclear war.

  • subvert.fm has launched - coöperatively owned Bandcamp alternative

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  • Mirlo, which is similar to subvert, but a worker owned thing rather than a cooperative are dipping their toe into federation with more planned I think:

    "..If you want your artist profile to be follow-able from other websites, you can now "Enable The Social Web" and people can subscribe to your feed from other places. With support from our NLNet funding we've finally enabled the ActivityPub standard integration on our site, so that people across the internet will be able to follow your artist account..."

    Great to see so many open source ethical alternatives popping up.

  • Want to sync files from Linux PC to Android phone

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  • It's not auto-syncable but PlainApp works great for me. Only needs a phone app installed, works in the browser on a lappy/PC

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  • You can take it as confirmation of the depressing truth that most people will ignore and even try to justify horrific behaviours if the perpetrator is in a position to enact things that they agree with.

  • Recommend a translation of Baudelaire’s "Les Fleurs du mal"

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    Okay why is your distro the best?

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  • LMDE - no idea if its the 'best' but its the best for me right now in that it does what I want, looks how I want and stays out of my way.

  • How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?

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  • How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy?

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  • There's so many variables to each persons threadiverse experience that its difficult to quantify another's experience. I don;t think there is an objective default experience. It depends on what instance your on, which also might dictate which software as the two main players don;t have feature parity, it then depends on how you use the available tools each software type has, how you sort your feeds, which communities you're subbed to, how willing you are to simply block and move on, what your own beliefs are and what sort of experience you expect.

    You'll only think its a ghost town if you are someone who spends the majority of their time on social media. The flip side of that is that there's also a sizeable amount of people who might simply check in once or twice a day. To them, its not a ghost town at all.

    You'll only think its full of hate if you're not prepared to be on an instance that curates the hate away and you combine that with liberal use of blocking tools when some gets through.

    And there are lots of other wider societal issues going on too - Westernised countries (which includes the majority of users I see on here) are largely descending into right-wing, xtian-fuelled, uber-capitalism, bigoted hellscapes and lots of people are understandably scared and angry about that. Scared and angry people lash out. Doesn't excuse it a as behaviour but I don't think growing fear and anger is a threadiverse-specific issue at all.

    The answer is that there is no one-sized fits all answer beyond finding the best fit for yourself in terms of instance/software/tools/feeds and posting/commenting on more of what you personally enjoy and maybe lessen the time you spend on here and social media generally. It doesn't have to be always on, just something you do alongside other things like reading a book, going for a walk etc.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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    • Twin Peaks
    • The X-Files
    • Dark
    • Chernobyl
    • Happy Valley
    • Line of Duty
    • Luther
    • Spaced
    • Wolf Hall
    • True Detective S1, S4

  • It Can Now be Plainly Said: Trump is Planning a November Coup d’État

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  • I find posts/headlines like these genuinely bizarre. "Now be plainly said"? "hard to picture the specifics"? "Less hypothetical by the week"? I'm not American, I don't live there but even I can see - and have always been able to see - that its been on his agenda since day 1, that he doesn't care - and never did care - about how it looks or how it works, that its never, ever been hypothetical.

    I don't make any claim to a superior level of intelligence, I'm not intimately familiar with the inner workings of the US political system but surely this has been utterly obvious to literally everyone since 2016. How many times does this man need to subvert political processes - which has also been happening since 2016 - before US citizens realise that democracy there is gone as a political system? All the various points along the last 10 years I've heard US citizens say "well, OK, thats bad, but at least he can't do this thing" - and then he does it and they say "wow yeah, thats terrible but at least he's not done the other thing." repeat unto infinity.

    He doesn't care about head-shaking sombre articles from left-leaning media, he doesn't care about No Kings marches. He doesn't care that judges rule against him, he doesn't care about violating your constitution. What he cares about is beefing up the military, turning the area around the Whitehouse into a heavily armoured, protected zone and creating distraction after distraction after distraction for US left wing political podcasters to froth about in Instagram Reels. Whilst you're all laughing at his propensity to shit his pants and fall asleep and make rambling speeches, he's preparing his likely combat zones and mass detention centres/camps.

  • Do you read books on your phone?

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  • Phone, no. Second hand Kobo + calibre, yes.

    Much as I love physical books, I've now reached an age where having the ability to increase font size, adjust margins, kerning and leading is invaluable.