Notices by Amikke (amikke@qoto.org), page 2

@freemo I'm not so sure about "overwhelming majority", these seem to be not that uncommon once you learn to recognise the symptoms. There is a problem with people assuming them, self-diagnosing and overall subconsciously Munchausening themselves for attention, yeah, but there's also a large pool of fairly high functioning adults who never got diagnosed when it was taboo and now are discovering it in a big wave as awareness spreads.

@freemo @VoxDei ć

@icedquinn I think I count as people and I expect PID 1 to not just start stuff but also monitor it and make it available under a consistent API and consistent logs, so that I can use it to control the system instead of babysitting every single daemon their own way.

From what I can tell trying to muh unix philosophy to split it into different services that still do those things instead of falling back into bad ol' anarchy would just require a few different services that have the same basically infinite permissions and accomplish the same thing but with more bloat, attack surface and weird shit.

I guess if you prefer the anarchy disliking it makes sense tho.

@icedquinn if this level of unfathomably based requires systemd I'll happily accept systemd. Besides, I still haven't heard sensible arguments against it, only variations of "but it enforces a sensible API", "but it uses 5M of memory, that's way too much" or "but there's a bunch of related tools you can optionally also install so systemd itself is bloated :blobcatgoogly:"

@icedquinn nixos itself is the better gentoo tbh

@icedquinn skype probably deserved to be called a finely crafted desktop program those 15 years ago when it wasn’t yet bought by the likes of MS and enshittified, and didn’t yet have sensible competition. From what I remember about using it like 8 years ago it was already buggy and very annoying back then.

@freemo good analogy, since in the household despite everyone sharing things the "ruling class" of parents has 100% of the ruling and resource distributing power and if they are bad at it the children can do nothing but suffer.

@freemo there's a chance for Betelguese

@icedquinn honestly rossman does the same, one of his semi-recent videos was hard to watch for me since he repeats every point like 5 times at various portions of the video and actual deduplicated content could fit in ~4mins

On the topic of amazing instance administration, what was the anarchist-aligned instance the unencrypted database of which got seized by police from an admin’s home or something like that?

@icedquinn yeah but that’s the thing, browsers are hell and nobody wants to develop them, so everyone uses the ones that are already developed and actively worked on by someone else. If that stops being the case they’ll have no other way.

@icedquinn it’s worse than the Chrome thing, if Google decides to abandon Chrome, all the Chromium people can pick up the torch and develop it. Using Google’s index just means you’re screwed if anything ever happens to it.

@icedquinn at this point I’m ~80% sure the first libc to surpass glibc in adaptation will be something written in Rust or the like. That’d be nicely cursed.

@freemo for WM I’ve been using Plasma’s Wayland session for way over a year too, I adapted PipeWire early though and had no problems with screenshots or the like, only rare WM crashes and restarts. But these gradually stopped over updates and now I haven’t had a problem for months now, maybe even half a year.

The fact that SDDM still used X and so my system still autostarted it just to display the login manager which would then launch a wayland session was a bit annoying though. Especially since X would often refuse to shut down gracefully alongside the rest of the system and slowed down any reboots by the 1m30s of systemd being patient before shooting it in the head.

It seems that the switch of SDDM to wayland worked and I’m now finally writing this from a system with no native X server running anywhere, only XWayland inside of my Plasma session.

Nice.

@freemo fingers crossed for the process to be as painless as possible lol

@icedquinn it’s hilarious when they step one foot into the base and 10+ fairly powerful pals just delete them from existence

Unpopular opinion: the disdain towards for-profit (or even non-profit but monetized) instances is misguided. There is a scale at which running the infrastructure purely on donations stops being feasible, not to mention the moderation problem – at enough scale over a long period of time you either pay good moderators to do their full-time job or have your mods degenerate to reddit and discord levels. No sane person will spend 100% of their free time moderating and not go insane, and "employing" unemployed people that have twice the free time and can use half of it on moderation is exactly how you get reddit mods.

Instances that would for example offer premium accounts / features or even run ads, and therefore be able to financially sustain not only a bigger and highly performant infrastructure and professional mod team but also a full-time dedicated development team working on things normies expect like discovery algorithms, would accumulate the normies, further popularising the fediverse and making it harder for another VC walled garden to swoop in, gather them with shiny features and create another Twitter/Facebook situation.

I'd rather have my IRL friends accessible under some for-profit instance I can interact with from here than on Facebook, thanks. Every time I have to use FB Messenger or FB groups I feel another part of my soul corrupting.

@icedquinn @moffintosh I wish. Human nature dictates that there will always be a percentage of people that will fall for the utopian promises and the contrarian joy of thinking they’re smarter than everyone else by having opposite opinions, and will even believe some of the dumbest propaganda known to man and/or just make shit up to justify that to themselves.

The China shills are at least doing it for money, and being Chinese most of them probably secretly know how bullshit it is what they’re propagating. The western commies that believe them are worse, doing it for free and truly believing it, spreading that mental parasite more successfully.

@moffintosh @icedquinn dude, in the past you linked me, an Eastern European, an 40+ minute long video of some random latvian simping for soviet communism because surely his opinion is worth more than that of the people I personally know that experienced that system, and overall the majority of Eastern European population and the historical facts. Twice. I’m not spending another minute watching whatever delusional takes you link me next.

For you this is tales from another side of the world that might be true either way. For me this is the history of my region, lived by its people. Nothing that convinced you can match that.