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   Abhinav 🌏 (abnv@fantastic.earth)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 21:11:32 JST Abhinav 🌏

   in reply to

   @samebchase I disagree again. I don't want to fight the defaults, I don't want to yak shave my editor, and I definitely don't want to debug my editor config. I just want to edit some files, with basic facilities available in most editors these days.

   I don't want to make Emacs my operating system. Just a good basic modern editor would do.

   It took me 20 minutes to set up Zed and I have never since changed its config, I don't even think about it. It comes built-in with many useful plugins and they'll never break because they are maintained by the editor developers. Granted that I cannot read emails in Zed or listen to music, but is it too much to ask for a beginner-friendly out-of-the-box experience?

   Emacs has so much potential to be the best editor ever, maybe it already is, but the steep starting curve will keep driving newbies away.

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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 18:10:29 JST Steve's Place

   Rolling your own video chat is an interesting exercise. I can run it with peerjs or a turn server now. I installed a local turn server for testing.

   The video chat has a bug where, when you first connect, it doesn't add your video stream to others' pages, and won't add theirs to yours, until somebody refreshes a screen. And a related bug where, when someone leaves, a still image remains behind. Bad code. No biscuit.

   The basic controls, mic mute/unmute, video on/off, and exit, are all working.

   Once debugged, I'm adding a text chat to it, which is really simple to do.

   It needs a phone app. There is one I saw that might work for it. To be tested.

   This is all because jitsi-meet, while just lovely, is prone to problems when the libraries it relies on get updated. It uses one app which wiped out its configuration on an update. That broke jitsi-meet, but I had no idea where, at first.

   There have been glitches.

   This roll-you-own uses only locally-sourced and audited code that *mostly* shouldn't need attention for a long time. Of course, there are little gotchas, like if turn servers change "url" to "urls" in necessary configuration, as they did.

   I wonder if I can get away with only using the local one. 🤔 That one won't be changing, lol.

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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 23:15:36 JST Evan Prodromou

   In the current aggressive imperialism of the US, some Americans online insist that they don't approve of war and shouldn't be lumped in with the Americans who are banging the drums for war.

   It's not the job of Canadians, Kalaallit (Greenlanders), Panamanians or Gazans to make you feel better and absolve you personally of complicity in potential invasions. We have other things to do.

   It's *your* job to make sure the wars don't happen. Stopping wars is hard; you need to start now.

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   Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 20:49:18 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

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   I'm going to try to avoid ever telling Microsoft who I am, or letting it start running OneDrive. It seems impossible to get rid of that fucker after it gets a foot in the door, so I'm not letting it in.

   I don't yet know how to do local user accounts or anything like that, so I have some learning to do.

   It's possible I'll eventually crack and give in, but I won't do it if I don't have to.

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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 08:19:02 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   Two thoughts are in my head, both equally valid:

   OpenSSD port tunneling is the best thing ever. It's the reason I can do a lot of things that I do.

   It's stupid that Debian's installer doesn't let you continue after partitioning when putting /boot inside an encrypted volume; you have to manually change it after the fact. Which makes sense, they want to prevent you from making an unbootable setup, right?

   Except that encrypted /boot is fully bootable in Libreboot. See:

   https://libreboot.org/docs/linux/grub_hardening.html

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   Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 03:39:14 JST Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr

   Why I Don't Seriously Talk Shit About Myself Anymore:

   (I'm not talking about the occasional self deprecating joke here. I think people can understand the difference for the most part)

   NO ONE LIKES IT! (Except one group, I'll get to that)
   Really, no one likes this, it's annoying, and shuts down conversation. It's not interesting to spend time with someone who is constantly telling you they're garbage and useless.

   The group that does like it are ABUSERS. They will seek it out, they will love bomb you, and then use every negative thing you've said about yourself against you later.

   If you say something long enough people will believe it, and so will you, even more than you already do.

   It's manipulative behavior. Yep, people probably won't like this one, but it is true. Plenty of people, whether they realize it or not, use this to garner attention, and just don't get why it never turns out positive.

   It doesn't actually hold you or anyone else accountable for poor behavior. It's basically saying I can't help my behavior, because my nature is in and of itself bad, therefore you shouldn't expect anything else from me. You are saying you will not or cannot change yourself or your circumstances. This just isn't true.

   Framing was really important for me. It's totally okay to say, This is how I'm feeling right now, to another person, while still knowing that the way you feel in a moment doesn't reflect reality. I would never think the things I think about myself, about other people. (With a few obvious well earned exceptions. I think we all know who I'm talking about LOL)

   You deserve to be loved, you deserve grace, and it starts with you.