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America is in danger of Fascism
  • I'm making the yanks uncomfortable.

  • America is in danger of Fascism
  • I don't think your argument is making the point you want to make 😆

  • Self-Regulation
  • Meanwhile England created a man-made famine in Ireland and oversaw 15 of them in India, while the US straight up did the worst genocide the world has ever seen and is driving the climate catastrophy which might end up killing most of the humans on earth. Not defending socialist states, but there's not even a comparison here.

  • So, we doing anything for the upcoming canvas event, or what?

    Just checking if any in our instance want to organize something for our presence, feel free to do it in this comm !pirate captain giving the thumbs up.

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    America is in danger of Fascism
  • Original Nazi party literally used USA tactics as an example to follow

  • Self-diagnosis is valid if it helps you
  • Don't put mods on a pedestal.

  • Self-diagnosis is valid if it helps you
  • Nobody said to circumvent official diagnosis. Stop putting words in my mouth.

  • Self-diagnosis is valid if it helps you
  • Sorry I replied to the wrong post

  • Self-diagnosis is valid if it helps you
  • Oh fuck off

  • Self-diagnosis is valid if it helps you
  • Self diagnosis is fine. There's coping mechanisms one can use without an medical diagnosis. If they see not enough one can try for an official diagnosis.

  • Self-diagnosis is valid if it helps you
  • Nobody is suggesting otherwise or defending the medical system here.

  • Also applies to projects and hobbies
  • It's how meme communities work mate, no need to link to repost. Not everyone saw it the first time. It's all good

  • Self-diagnosis is valid if it helps you
  • The author is not saying don't get self-diagnosed. They're criticizing the healthcare system.

  • Cognizant descent
  • A lot of symptoms of ADHD happen to the general population as well, but in people with ADHD they may happen at such frequency and/or intensity that they become debilitating in the current system.

  • Also applies to projects and hobbies
  • Warning for rule 1

  • Where is everyone
  • Ye, it's sad that they seem to have lost their drive to use any public forum like lemmy after they lost their instance. We were very glad to host them but we can't make people post. I guess !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com by itself fulfills a similar purpose though?

  • I had no prior knowledge of what these #mastodon app numbers were but found myself pretty surprised at
  • Ye I used it just today. Really nice! Thanks for bringing this client to my attention!

  • I had no prior knowledge of what these #mastodon app numbers were but found myself pretty surprised at
  • Never heard of either of elk of phanpy until now. Phanpy looks cool so I'm giving it a drive.

  • Microsoft employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code
    borncity.com Microsoft employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code

    [German]A Microsoft software developer has accidentally shared internal PlayReady source code with the public (a developer forum). The data leak of 4 GByte is sufficient to compile the required DLL from the source code. This could be a real boon for people who want to reverse engineering or crack Pl...

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    Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me
  • I gotta be honest with you, at this point I don't even know what you're arguing for 😅

  • Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me
  • I didn't say he explained why this is the case in this video. I believe he may have talked about it elsewhere, but long-story short, European nation-states didn't want unified railroad systems because they were afraid their opponents will use them to invade them during war.

  • Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me
  • That's not true, he also takes down libertarian seasteaders, and dictator vanity projects just as much. Also, it's not his fault that trains are the superior form of transportation we know of.

  • Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me

    Adam is an international treasure

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    Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don’t

    > Our path to better working conditions lies through organizing and striking, not through helping our bosses sue other giant mulitnational corporations for the right to bleed us out.

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    The Next Step for ComfyUI
    blog.comfy.org The Next Step for ComfyUI

    As some of you already know, I have resigned from Stability AI and am starting a new chapter. I am partnering with mcmonkey4eva, Dr.Lt.Data, pythongossssss, robinken, and yoland68 to start Comfy Org. We will continue to develop and improve ComfyUI with a lot more resources. As you might

    The Next Step for ComfyUI
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    One year divided by zero!

    Ahoy all you pirates, anarchists, neurodivergents, prompters and other assorted weirdos.

    It is now officially 1 whole year since I got pissed off enough by Reddit's enshittification to set sail in my own ship, and what a journey it's been!

    I never figured that I would ever run my own social media instance and when I started it, I assumed it would be something small for me and some people from reddit who knew me, ergo why I didn't invest in a new domain at the time (which I low-key regret now).

    But the amount of people who joined immediately was extraordinary, catapulting and keeping this instance to the top 10 lemmies around, which is honestly wild to see for an inherently political and opinionated instance whose leading principles might as well be YOLO and FAFO. 😅

    In fact I got so deep into lemmy and fediverse in general that since the past year, I started and am running 8 different fediverse FOSS projects. I keep thinking of new things to add or improve. I love the freedom I have in social media I can hack and that nobody will ever take away from us!

    If you haven't yet, take a look at these:

    I believe our instance's success and how many people are subscribed to /c/piracy making that effectively that 2nd most subscribed community after /c/technology@lemmy.world goes to show that if reddit admins were more principled on moving their communities 1 year ago, a lot more niche communities would have flourished as well. But alas, I couldn't even get the /r/anarchism peeps to make an effort :S

    On top of that, I am really happy to see our meme culture is strong with !adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com leading the pack. Not taking things seriously is a good principle to have, so keep it up!

    Finally I like that we're still the only GenAI-focused instance while not being completely uncritical of the capitalist techbro hype-machine around this technology.

    I also want to post a huge shout out to our instance admins who joined early and have been invaluable in keeping things under control while I'm focused on infrastructure stuff and other projects.

    @RandomLegend, @unruffled, and @d1tt0 take a bow please!

    But I would be remiss if I didn't let our admins who want to, say a few words for themselves

    A few words from your admins

    @RandomLegend

    > I'm very happy with how our community is standing together and remains a friendly and open place for many people. > > Our mod & admin team made me really enjoy this whole lemmy journey. Being able to discuss things in a constructive manner, coming to agreements and being able to have compromises without feeling like anyone "lost" is really awesome! > > I hope our community stays exactly the way it is. We are truly a community, we stand for each other and always help others to sail the high seas 😉 > > I plan on getting more involved with the different communities. Currently i mostly just lurk and moderate from off-stage but i hope i can show myself a little bit more and bring some engaging topics to our flag-waving crew!

    @unruffled

    > This year, for me, involved quite a bit of learning about Lemmy and the Fediverse, after making the move from Reddit. We’ve had a few large waves of new incoming users to deal with over the past 12 months, often due to what was happening with Reddit at the time. It has been satisfying to be one of the few larger instances that has continued to manually review every application, to ensure we aren’t allowing bots, while still responding to new applications quickly. And it’s been great getting to know the rest of the admin team better and working collaboratively on any issues that arise. > > I was involved in setting up the Community Edition (CE) of the Megathread on the db0 wiki, based on the Rentry version. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to make edits/updates. > > In the past few months, we’ve successfully pushed back against many trolls who seemed intent on turning every post into a political shouting match. Given that most of our users are here for the piracy community, not politics, I think that our ongoing efforts to mitigate this issue have delivered a net positive for the majority of our users’ experiences with Lemmy. If you haven’t noticed any of this stuff occurring, that’s great, because it means we have stayed on top of the issue. While not every moderation decision will please everyone (to put it mildy, lol), we are more interested in doing what’s best for the majority of our users, without resorting to defederation. > > Looking forward into the next 12 months, I hope that our community continues to grow and prosper. With the ever-increasing “enshittification” of online services, piracy is one of the few effective ways we can resist and fight back against corporate greed. I'd also love to see more piracy-related communities still on Reddit or alternative platforms to make the leap over to Lemmy, or at least to start mirroring their communities here. > > Finally, it would be amazing if a few more people could make a small monthly donation https://ko-fi.com/dbzer0 https://liberapay.com/db0/ to support our server costs, if you can afford it. I personally donate a few dollars each month, because I can’t ever see myself going back to Reddit now, and it really does feel good to support this endeavour. We don't make any profit from this project, and everyone in the admin team volunteers many hours of their time each week to keep things up and running smoothly.

    A few prominent events

    So much has happened in the last year so I thought it would be interesting to reminisce in a few of them relevant to our instance as our second year begins. Feel free to post your own in the comments

    • /c/piracy gets banned by lemmy.world. We shrug. It get unbanned a few days later, only to be once more banned half a year down the line. We shrug again.
    • I piss off hexbears by publicly rejecting "left unity", this causes a spiral or subsequent bad faith events that culminates with them banning the /0 admins from their instance. We laugh.

    Upgrade to 0.19.4

    Also, as it happens, I also just finished upgrading to 0.19.4 today and it really did not go as smoothly as I would have liked. Due to a leftover configuration from the very first lemmy deployment I did, I had big troubles getting pict-rs to migrate to 0.5 and that burned almost all my day yesterday troubleshooting. The problem is that the issue didn't appear immediately, but I had to wait 30 minutes every time to get the failure again.

    Eventually I decided to go through with the update of 0.19.4 before pict-rs finished, but that by itself run into a bunch of other bugs, but fortunately nothing too disruptive. Eventually I was able to leave the pict-rs upgrade to run overnight and it's been stable since I woke up.

    But nevertheless, the new version brings a ton of improvements and stability fixes. So huge props to the lemmy devs for doing the good work!

    Funding

    Thanks to everyone who donated in the past 5 months, we're now 80% to closing our half-year funding goal for paying for the server infrastructure. I would still fund this instance even out of pocket, but I really appreciate you all for assisting in this way.

    | [!Ko-Fi](https://ko-fi.com/dbzer0) | [!Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/db0/) | |:--:|:--:| | Ko-fi | Liberapay |

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    Upgrade to 0.19.4 is cookin'

    Listen lads, lasses and lassless, I got a long day ahead of me, having to upgrade pict-rs, postgres and lemmy, so there might be some intermittent downtimes. You know how it is around here...not professionally at all.

    Just a heads up.

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    AI Horde got a fancy new frontpage!

    A long-overdue upgrade. All kudos to rikudou@lemmings.world! Take a gander at it here: https://aihorde.net/

    Source is here: https://github.com/RikudouSage/AiHordeFrontpage

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    db0 db0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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