Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago

"EEE" doesn't really make sense in this context, and even if there was some way for Meta to affect non Meta-owned instances- ActivityPub is an open protocol and Meta is allowed to use it however they want.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

Got it, very interesting! I look forward to it being worked out soon, Wordpress federation is awesome.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

Still not fully integrated, but it's nice to see broader ActiviyPub adoption beyond "follow a handful of users who opted-in". I never expected Meta to be the company inching towards federation and not bluesky. Makes me wonder if Tumblr will ever follow through with their promises to federate.

edit: To the (sadly predictable) response that "Meta will screw you over in a heartbeat" YES, of COURSE they will, that's why it's GOOD to be able to access Threads content safely and privately from a non-Meta controlled platform.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 157 points 1 week ago (48 children)

Jellyfin is great, but in defense of Plex, they announced that remote streaming would require one of the two parties to have a Plex pass was coming back in March so I don't know if it's fair to say they are holding anything hostage.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago

This is great, I just cross-posted it to !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com hopefully someone can post it to Reddit. It's really nice to see a intro to the concept of the fediverse that doesn't get bogged down with technical details.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 23 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Just to be safe you may want to copy important files to a cloud storage AND usb drive before formatting the drive.

Also don't overthink this and there is nothing wrong with Kubuntu, but Kinoite is going to be very similar and a little more resistant to n00b tinkering mistakes.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

True, I edited my comment. I personally recommend the USB method (or if you have easy access to the internals- just swapping out an SSD).

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

It got cloudy

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

It takes some doing, but you can live boot windows from a USB drive for those rare instances you need it. You can also just install it to a VM inside Linux (also not easy). But honestly these days the times where you'll NEED Windows are few and far between (and getting fewer and farther).

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -4 points 2 weeks ago

Not liking someone is not a good reason to root against decentralized platforms, IMO. The entire point of decentralization is that nobody gets to control the experience and who is/isn't allowed to participate.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Unless he joins fedia.io you don't really get a say in what he does... kind of the entire point behind decentralization....

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's also an avenue for attacks.

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