Notices by חנוכה שאָקירײן :she_her::neocat_floof_cute: (ch0ccyra1n@emeraldsocial.org)

Hey fellow techies, I'm thinking of switching off of Hyprland to a different tiling window manager. I have a couple requirements:

1. It must use Wayland
2. It must support window swallowing or some similar functionality

Worst case scenario, I'll just switch back to GNOME but I'd rather not resort to that

#AskFedi #Linux #ArchLinux #TilingWM

@anathema yaay I'm a cute kitty cat!!! :neocat_floof_cute:

@dalias @mcc I consider any form of governance to be just dictatorship lite. But I can understand why one would disagree with such an assessment. I simply do not think it is right to have any sort of hierarchy and I think it is one of the biggest flaws with both centralized and federated models of social networking.

@dalias @mcc there's no option to not have an admin that doesn't also require taking on that role yourself. I would prefer to have all interactions be handled directly between users in a peer-to-peer manner. At least then there truly is no hierarchy involved.

@dalias @mcc in that respect, I suppose instance admins are more like nonprofit executives, who are also still little dictators. At least users can choose who's boot they're under /s

@mcc mastodon and the fediverse more broadly is extremely authoritarian imo. Instance admins are little dictators who get to control what information that "their" users see.

@dansup wait does this mean Loops will federate soon?

@antidotezine PSL basically dominate the pro-Palestine movement in my city and are partially responsible for laundering explicitly pro-Hamas and antisemitic rhetoric into the so-called "Anti-Imperialist Coalition". I had to distance myself from any pro-Palestine actions in Eugene because of the lack of real alternatives to this coalition which made me feel unsafe and unwelcome. It doesn't help that the coalition is supported by every single local activist group regardless of their own ideology and even regardless of how many participants in those groups have voiced their own concerns regarding PSL that mirror the infographic.

@cwebber how do you know with such certainty that it was generated? I could totally see it being drawn by a person

@evan I used to be part of a secret society in high school, so qualified no. I do very much miss that even though we didn't do much aside from a little bit of mutual aid. It collapsed because everyone who was involved graduated

@abolisyonista one of the most bizzare content warnings I've read. I love it!

Anyways, yeah this certainly is worth thinking more about. My perspective is that the most ecologically sound approach would be to let more and more greenery grow wild. I'm partly inspired by many of the gardens in my city, which tend to be very wild and are composed of local wildflowers and wild grass. They're the core of my vision for anarchist ecology: total freedom for the plants to grow as they please as long as it's not harming other plants.

@evan I would say so. It's rather silly how the term "journalist" is gatekept as though it's an especially prestigious thing

@evan @Mushi @galactus I do think that it's worth incorporating DIDs into ActivityPub implementations (as I understand it, the current webfinger-based usernames fall outside the spec, please correct me if I'm wrong). Otherwise I couldn't care less about AT Protocol. I just want to be able to talk to my friends regardless of where they are.

@evan it's kinda a moot point given that the Republicans will control all three branches of government when sworn in. Even if these other branches could reign him in, they won't or at most will only do so a tiny bit.

@evan I wonder if it would be possible to build a federation-layer ad-blocker tool, designed to block any incoming posts which are detected to be ads.

@bikeshed if a revolution involves having discipline then I don't want it! :neocat_scream:

@abolisyonista I suppose my approach would be to think in terms of individuals and their particular capacities rather than either a public or state capacity (how unexpected for an individualist anarchist /s). How much can an individual contribute to [insert thing here] or alternatively accomplish on their own? Given the complete lack of involvement of the state in this way of thinking, I'd consider it to be quite liberated.

@abolisyonista I can't have hope when I'm unable to even find legit anarchists in my city. The only "anarchist" group here is one that's functionally a nonprofit corporation with a vaguely solarpunk aesthetic

@dansup there unfortunately are some physics limitations for interplanetary internet. Light travelling from Earth to the Moon takes about a second, which as far as we know is the speed limit of the universe. That means at minimum there is about a second of delay for all internet traffic between Earth and the Moon. For Mars, it's about 3 minutes with the same limitation. While most of the time this probably wouldn't be an issue, it could pose problems for applications that require real-time communication with minimal latency, such as online games and video calls.

@abolisyonista I'm still highly skeptical especially since where I live most of the local activist scene are authoritarians, including even the so-called "anarchists". I really don't feel hopeful at all and expect the end result to be either more of the same or a more brutal dictatorship or something like that. Nothing seems to actually lead to anarchy.