hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de Posts 7Comments 2,172Joined 9 mo. ago
Hmmh, always the same thing. On release, it's just an announcement with a promise to open "key components" sometime. I'll add this to the list of bookmarks to revisit at a later date. I wish they'd just get it ready and only then publish things.
I think it's still a very academic project. It'll take some time. But I really don't get why banks leave large parts of their market to third parties. I mean all the transactions which are handled by Stripe, PayPal... or Apple and Google Pay at the supermarket... I think most purchases I do either online or with my bank card, generate some transaction fees which go to some large payment provider. That's all money banks could earn themselves?! And I suppose they like money, so I really don't get why they leave that to someone else.
Right. They need education to make judgements. They need independent and neutral media to stay informed about the facts. They need a minimum amount of intelligence in order not to fall prey to populists and the next pied piper / con man who has some "simple truths" for them. And they need the time to occupy themselves with the details, i.e. not an 70h workweek to make ends meet.
It's difficult. A large amount of people don't even vote once every few years, so they won't be involved in the first place. More people don't have time to get into the details. And I mean how would you even know what do do in details about the economy, impact of laws and complicated consequences? Which decisions about the infrastructure like the electricity grid are neccessary now to yield the proper result in 5-10 years time? Do you even have the time and motivation to study all of this? And the masses can be influenced easily. We can see that even with the Swiss. So it's questionable whether it even yields better results than the indirect approach. It's certainly more democratic. But not necessarily better even if done properly.
Finde ich auch. Und es ist ja auch nicht so, dass die den Krieg gutheißen würden oder so. Und das letzte mal als ich nachgeschaut habe, hatte jede andere Partei auch dumme oder naive Ideen zu irgendwelchen Einzelthemen. Von daher sehe ich denen das irgendwie nach.
I hope we someday get some proper payment solution like GNU Taler
Seems the GLS Bank is at it
I'd say Live-CD/USB and use the recovery mode to fix GRUB. Grub has to appear so thet's the first issue. If you're lucky it's the only one and you can skip the more complicated steps.
Yeah, definitely weird. I like VeganCheesecake's comment. I've seen some Youtube videos about internet scams and seems one of them is luring people in by being nice to them and faking some personal interest and then sell some investment opportunities or crypto...
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This topic always gets strong opinions on Lemmy. The truth with security is: it always depends a lot on what you're doing and fighting against, i.e. the threat vectors. There probably are some edge cases where it's better to have physical control over the server. And there will be other cases where it's better to use an established solution.
Just keep in mind, the people over at the good companies do this as a job. They probably have years of experience. Had long meetings to discuss technicalities and what might happen and how to handle it. They've analyzed the threat vectors and put some thought into the exact setup. And they likely constantly improve it. You need to judge by yourself if you can do it as good as them. And you obviously don't want to make any major mistakes.
There are several all-in-one mail solutions available. I don't know which can do encrypt at rest. Stalwart can do it. There is autocrypt.org and some Dovecot plugins, so I guess everyone can do it.
I like selfhosting and having control. What I host probably isn't perfectly secure, though. Since I don't spend all my time doing it and I also haven't had anyone else look at the config and check for potential problems. E-Mail is one of the more complicated things. Due to abuse and spam, a bazillion things got added on top of the original protocol and the other providers are relatively strict with flagging mails as spam or straigt refusing to accept them. So there are lots of things to do, and get right. Even without encryption. And usually the needed ports are blocked on residential internet connections.
(And ultimately, your house also is under some jurisdiction, so if you're worried about your own government, they can come raid your house and take your server. Or bug your phone and laptop. So you need additional security like encryption. And means to ensure they can't circumvent it. And temper-proof devices.)
Before jumping to any conclusions, you kind of have to try it several times, though. Just once could be a fluke, as there is randomness involved in AI. And the topic of the conversation is completely unclear, so the AI makes something up.
Has it come down to changes like this to be noteworthy, or what kind of news article is this? I kind of want my minute back reading this.
Difficult to tell what this is about. I'd say ideally, we have people keeping an eye on Firefox, and some forks available, so we know what the program code actually does and not just rely on reading their legalese. I mean ultimately, that's what open source is about. But yeah, not a nice move. Any maybe too unspecific to apply in some jurisdictions. I don't have the slightest clue what "help me experience online content" means, so I'd say it may be void where I live, as I can't know what I'm agreeing to.
I'd say if it's as power hungry as people say, it'd maybe make a good on-demand backup solution. Install some NAS distribution and power it on once a month, make backups of your *arred collection and your laptop/workstation and shut it off again.
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Hmmh. And I've missed another point. If you want to do things like add communities later on, and this somehow propagates to existing subscribers, this can't work together with anything but one subscription per whole feed.
I haven't made complete sense of the feature and the consequences yet. I thought I'd just open the feed from the top bar and use it to categorize stuff for myself. And I'll open it every time i specifically want to see just Linux stuff or wholesome stuff. But yeah, that's not the main point of it. And I've never used multi-reddits or starter packs or similar features... I'm probably just very tired, I'll stop talking for today because what I say doesn't make a lot of sense anymore. Wish you all a nice day or night or whatever it is.
Feeds subscribe you to those communities
I mean if you click on subscribe, to subscribe to all the communities within, that's kind of intended behaviour?! If you just view it, it shouldn't really be an issue. I guess there is some way to figure this out in an acceptable way.
But yeah, we can scrap my idea if it's used this way. Maybe just don't offer one big subscribe button for all of the group, so users need to make a deliberate choice and click on all the communities seperately?
That's a valid concern. And I think to solve that in a clean way and altogether, they need some options to restrict commenting or voting to subscribers only. Meddling with other features and how communities can be found, so people can keep hiding in Lemmy's noise... is a very indirect approach and doesn't go all the way.
I've seen a bit of that issue in connection with the All-feed. Back when AI was still largely hated on, we regularly had some amount of downvotes creep into the few dedicated AI communities. And while I support people downvoting the flood of AI related stuff in general news and technology communities, I don't see any reason to drive-by downvote an AI post in an AI community. But that has stopped since. And I don't think I've seen anyone come in and pick fights or something. It was just some minor but noticeable and constant stream of downvotes. So I can definitely see how these things would be annoying to some people. On the other hand I think people wanting to subscribe to things and having curated feeds, might also be a valid request.
What kind of influence are you referring to? On how the internet gets shaped in the future? Or society and politics, or as part of the Five Eyes?