lemmyreader

I don’t like the vibe on reddit. it has people like you. but now that I catch this kind of hateful shit here… I can see the internet is the same no matter where you look.

Well, let me share with you, that I've been reading on Mastodon for years without any complaints about commenters really, but yesterday I was for the first time really shocked seeing a persistent troll in two different toot threads related to Gaza. Their toxic comments were about to make me throw up. What to make of that ? Now that I think about it, spammers have been making an effort to create multiple accounts on both Lemmy and Mastodon instances for some time, so I guess more trolls and people with unpleasant vibes may pop up more often as well.

😁 Nice meme, great job!

😀 Yeah right, maybe it should indeed by pronounced like something like antique /j

DALnet appears to be alive and kicking. Since you're maybe out of the loop, big drama happened with Freenode. Right now Libera Chat and OFTC appear to be the big names for IRC for open source software users.

DALnet is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network made up of 39 servers, with a stable population of approximately 10,000 users in about 4,000 channels. DALnet is accessible by connecting with an IRC client to an active DALnet server on ports 6660 through 6669, and 7000. SSL users can connect on port 6697 as well. The generic round-robin address is irc.dal.net.

Searched but can't find it in their FAQs :) They work together with MX Linux, so personally I'd go for Anti Ex and Em Ex Linnuks.

Forked : https://hachyderm.io/@jakehamilton/112355361353931366

Nice. I guess there will be more news on their Mastodon account or their website at some point : https://hachyderm.io/@jakehamilton/112349915028065428

but last time I typed « PlayStation » and there was almost no result…maybe it’s just the lack of content though…

Thanks for the heads up ;-)

Right. That reminds of the time I was visiting a friend who had broken his Linux computer (No, not "apt-get remove --purge systemd" but they did something slightly similar). When I booted from a live Linux, used chroot and wanted to use configure networking : FAIL because systemd was ... not running. As he had no Internet because of his broken machine this caused some delays in fixing this but we got the job done eventually.

But it only makes sense to have those notifications.

Maybe in your mind it makes sense. Going for ease of use rather than security is not something that OpenBSD would quickly do. If you read some more about what "jwz" has to say about all the screensaver bugs in Linux, like here : https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition and realize what a mess that Linux maintainers are making again and again, and then have a look at Debian and their packaging of xscreensaver. Guess what ? Debian added some systemd thingie to xscreensaver. 🤯

I like Debian since a long time and I use it. But the tinkering of Debian package maintainers and always wanting to do things the Debian way is not something I am always very pleased with. Remember the OpenSSL Debian fiasco ? That shows a problem with Debian which may still exist. Too many packages, not enough maintainers with enough spare time, and no coherent team work of a security team.

You didn't follow the XZ-utils story ? The malicious actor worked for years on that XZ backdoor that targeted the fact that some Linux distributions were modifying their openssh package to enable systemd notifications.

Gentoo, Slackware and Devuan can be used without svchost for linux.

https://nosystemd.org has a list for more choice for readers.