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Xfce 4.20 Pre2 Released in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Other than memory size, why do people prefer xfce these days? I use it in https://nowsci.com/webbian/ to keep image size down, but use Gnome on my machines.

New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 18 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

The interesting part to me is that you can watch football even when/if you can't play football, but you could be gaming instead of watching.

New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 45 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (6 children)

This is not at all surprising. Almost all hobbies and sports are like this.

The only difference that makes this interesting is the fact that you could be gaming while watching about gaming, which is untrue for many other hobbies.

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LED holiday lights that actually look incandescent (youtu.be)
 

It has fInally happened. And Technology Connections approves.

Ubuntu spotted in the latest Mark Rober video in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 4 days ago

Yea, was a huge fan back in the glitter bomb days, but now his videos are.. boring. He needs to go back to his maker/engineer roots, IMO. On-the-bench projects.

Thinking about making my own lemmy client, but I could use some feedback in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

React Native is big because ot was first. Stats I've seen show new apps leaning towards Flutter since Dart compiles native, unlike RN. RNs native parts are written in Java, and personally I've found Flutter to solve all the issues I had with RN.

For instance, large image galleries were simple in Flutter, and required all kinds of memory management in RN.

That being said, I still like RN a lot, so don't take this as me bashing on it.

Tor needs 200 more webtunnel bridges to fight censorship in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 30 points 4 days ago

I'm curious on this, why? There are many people in Russia who disagree with what is happening, but have no way to access information without monitoring or censorship. This is what Tor was made for.

Thinking about making my own lemmy client, but I could use some feedback in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Good luck then, with that stack you'll likely be working alone as contributors typically drive forwards Flutter these days. But it sounds like you're doing this to learn anyway, which is great.

Personally I use Thunder and added the two column view for tablet, had considered PRing a web and/or desktop compilation to see how it looks, but realized I never used it. I don't even have a standard web UI up ony server all the time.

Thinking about making my own lemmy client, but I could use some feedback in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

What stack do you want to be working in?

Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 5 days ago

One person saw it? And a photograph? Surprised there is not more questions about it being staged.

What are your thoughts on Zen Browser becoming a lot more popular than Floorp? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 5 days ago

GIMP. Need I say more?

Nintendo targets Reddit pirates in piracy crackdown in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 points 5 days ago

Yup, I've been using Codeberg more over the past months.

[rant] everytime i give it a chance, btrfs lets me down in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, I mirror my root drives. So:

  • 2 drives with 3 partitions each (/boot, /root, swap)
    • Root and boot are mirrored software RAID
    • Root and swap are encrypted with LUKS
    • Swap is big enough to hibernate to
    • SSH server installed in init.d boot, so I can SSH in to enter thr LUKS password
  • Storage drives in a RAIDZ with the encryption key stored on the root partition
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2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed (www.tomsguide.com)
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SearNGX should be a federated search engine (github.com)
 

All the posts about Reddit blocking everyone except Google and Brave got me thinking: What if SearNGX was federated? I.E. when data is retrieved via a providers API, that data is then federated to all other instances.

It would spread the API load out amongst instances, removing the API bottlenecks that come from search providers.

It would allow for more anonymous search, since users could cycle between instances and get the same results.

Geographic bias would be a thing of the past.

Other than ActivityPub overhead and storage, which could be reduced by federating text-only content, I fail to see any downside.

Thoughts?

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New dishwasher video drop (youtu.be)
 

Almost 30 more minutes of dishwasher.

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Rescued baby hedgehog turns out to be hat bobble (www.bbc.com)
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Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS) to keep your block list up to date (github.com)
 

Hi all, I'm a Lemmy FOSS app contributor that's made a couple of tools for people starting small instances including Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) for building content on new server's All Feeds and Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) for clearing old posts on smaller instances.

Today I'm releasing Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS). When launching a new Lemmy instance, administrators may not understand the necessity of defederation with problem instances. Using LDS, you can sync your instance's "blocked instance" list with that of another server(s) whose admins you trust.

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Why doesn't Ubuntu support encrypted hibernate out of the box? (lemmy.nowsci.com)
 

I've never had an issue once its set up. Just a 16GB LUKS partition alongside my normal LUKS partition, a small edit to /etc/crontab so I only have to enter the password once, set the RESUME variable, add to fstab, and rebuild init. This method even works with suspend-then-hibernate on every laptop I've used it with.

This would take 5 seconds at install time, but instead you have to install, reboot to the live USB, shrink LV, shrink PV, shrink LUKS, shrink partition, repartition, grow LUKS, grow PV, grow LV, and finally set up the swap partition as above.

Am I the only one? Does anyone else use encrypted drives and hibernate?

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Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) - For pre-populating the "All" feed (github.com)
 

When launching a new Lemmy instance, your All feed will have very little populated. Also as a small instance, new communities that crop up may never make their way to you. LCS is a tool to seed communities, so your users have something in their All feed, right from the start. It tells your instance to pull the top communities and the communities with the top posts from your favorite instances.

How to run manually and in docker is included in the repo.

Let me know if there's anything anyone needs it to do and I'll see if I can fit it in. I'm going to work on a "purge old posts that are unsaved and not commented on by local users" first, since small instances are sure to run out of disk space.

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