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ptz

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Instance admin of dubvee.org and maintainer of the Tesseract for Lemmy UI.

Ask me anything.

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ptz ,
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Not sure what’s going on with lemm.ee. The admin there used to be active in the admin chats but hasn’t been around much at all lately. I know he mentioned he got laid off from the startup company he was working for, and that’s when he mostly disappeared (he’s responded to @'s a few times so he’s still around). Maybe he’s just busy with job hunting or his new job doesn’t afford him much time for Lemmy?

ptz , (edited )
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Each fediverse service needs its own domain and cannot share with others.

So we put them as subdomains, (service).domain.com, so we can run multiple under the same top level domain.

The majority of Fediverse instances are run by volunteers at their own cost or subsist strictly on donations. Domain registrations can get expensive and are a variable recurring cost*, so subdomains (which are free) are the natural choice. That also leaves the apex doamin available for other purposes.

*The cost to renew each year can change and often goes up.

ptz ,
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I’ve been thinking of making some proxy thing that can intelligently route ActivityPub from the root to Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed and whatnot so that they can behave like one big instance and browse the same content but differently, but it sounds like as big of a project as making Lemmy itself.

That’s basically what SRV records accomplish. When I looked a while back to see if ActivityPub had support/plans to support them, I landed on, I think, a Mastaton feature request where the response was “won’t implement SRV” because “webfinger already does that” (it does not).

Personally, I think SRV records and webfinger solve different problems and can complement each other. The ActivityPub software would lookup the SRV record matching its platform and use the result from that to query the correct webfinger endpoint to resolve the user’s URI for that platform.

I have no idea why SRV records seem to have fallen out of fashion, but they would easily solve the delegation problem since that’s exactly what they were designed for. lol

ptz ,
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Ha, one of my biggest pet peeves is developers poorly re-inventing a wheel that already exists as a standard.

ptz ,
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I loved my V3m back in the day and would do all the SEEM edits and replace the locked-down Verizon firmware with the fully-featured USCC version for my friends. Good times. Who besides Verizon would put Bluetooth behind a paywall? :sigh:

Anyway, I’m about 2 years overdue in replacing my current daily driver. Wonder what the odds are that the Razr Plus is both bootloader unlockable and will (eventually) be supported by LineageOS?

ptz ,
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Good to know, thanks!

Ive been intrigued by foldables but have been waiting for the durability kinks to be worked out before indulging. Gonna probably wait a bit longer until there’s some decent de-googled ROMs available before I dive in.

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Ooh. I’ve been using Snapcast for my multi-room audio, but this seems more versatile. Going to check it out for sure.

Have you used it? Curious about latency. Snapcast has about a 1 second buffer which makes it not ideal for anything beyond music casting.

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Latency is low enough to not be noticeable when playing video on my laptop and streaming audio to the desktop.

That’s basically my use case. Want to use my HTPC as the source and some RasPi’s or repurposed thin clients as the sinks - pretty much what I do now with MPD and Snapcast. I absolutely do not want to have to mess with audio offset settings in Emby to keep the dialog in sync. lol

I’ve only skimmed the docs (holidays are a huge time sink haha), but do you know if it can do one-to-many or just one-to-one? Like, can I have one source and multiple receivers? The docs seemed to imply it could do one-to-many, but I didn’t get to dive into them deep enough.

I’d like to help, do any fediverse apps use node on their backend?

I’m learning web development. I’m on databases at the moment, postgresql in particular. I thought it might be fun to try to help with a fediverse project or two, but I’m only knowledgeable about node.js, and npm, do any fediverse projects use that? I also may be diving too deep too early with this. Appreciate any feedback...

ptz ,
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I was looking for a NodeJS Activity Pub library, and the only promising one I found looks to be only partially complete. That said, I think most Fediverse platforms use implementations in other languages: Rust (Lemmy) , PHP (Kbin), Ruby (Mastadon), etc).

Several frontends use NodeJS, though. Perhaps you can contribute there or even contribute to Actvitypub-Express to bring that to feature completion?

ptz ,
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How did I forget this song exists? Man, this takes me back.

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Google’s sales pitch for Manifest V3 is that, by limiting extensions, the browser can be lighter on resources, and Google can protect your privacy from extension developers.

Emphases mine. Funny, I use extensions to protect my privacy from Google.

Chromium needs to be fully divested from Google. End of story. There’s too much conflict of interest in letting the world’s largest advertising company have this much control over one of the two major browsers. If you don’t see the problem with that, imagine if Taco Bell was also the world’s largest producer of anti-diarrhea medicine.

ptz ,
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Tell me about it. Every time I implement some new thing in my app:

Firefox/Chrome: You cast HTML5 video. Critical hit!

Safari: Your spell fizzles…

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Not looking to start a flame war here, but if that’s the case, then Apple’s had even longer to get it right. lol. I implemented my video containers using the MDN specs which worked for both FF and Chrom(e/ium) as-is. Had to read through Apple-specific specs to figure out why Safari wouldn’t render them (not autoplay but render at all).

While it’s not quite “IE all over again”, it’s in the ballpark where I have to make special concessions to support a specific browser that is only offered on one company’s platform. History may not be repeating, but it’s certainly rhyming.

ptz OP ,
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Not gonna lie. I played the hell out of the bassline in this song (in Guitar Hero lol)

ptz OP ,
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I have not heard that one, actually. I’ll have to check it out!

Was listening to Somewhere in the Middle and Nashville Skyline earlier but posted this one because it was a little more upbeat (and the other two aren’t from the 90s lol)

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)

In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....

ptz ,
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Yeah. My iphone fanatic of a friend was complaining about something on hers the other day, and was like “Why doesn’t Apple just do {whatever}?”

My reply was basically that Apple didn’t become a trillion dollar company by giving customers what they want. They became a trillion dollar company by telling customers what they want and marketing the crap out of it.

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Apple: (Finally supports a standard the rest of the world has been using for years) Look at us. So brave, so innovative. Also, we removed another port. Here’s a link to a $29 dongle in the Apple store.

ptz ,
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That is way too much camera.

ptz ,
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Unforgivable.

Related: All bootloaders should be unlockable if the device owner opts to do that. Manufacturers/carriers should not be involved in that process at all.

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That XKCD is getting pretty old. He may be balding and going by “Bob Tables” now.

Reference: The Life Stages of Roberts

ptz ,
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I was fine with Ubuntu until they started Snappifying every package and replacing the .deb packages in apt with stubs for their Snaps. All of the other annoyances were manageable, but that was a bridge too far.

If I type apt-get install foo, I expect apt to resolve the dependencies for the foo package and install those. Instead, Ubuntu replaces the foo package with a stub that downloads the snap for it instead (as well as snapd if you have chosen to remove it).

Before that, Ubuntu was fine albeit a little bloated. I’ve since gone back to vanilla Debian and couldn’t be happier.

Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices (arstechnica.com)

Internet service providers and their lobby groups are fighting a US plan to prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services. In particular, ISPs want the Federal Communications Commission to drop the plan’s proposal to require that prices charged to consumers be non-discriminatory.

ptz OP , (edited )
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If the ISPs are against it, the FCC should do it. Period. The ISP’s industry track record backs that up.

As for impeding further broadband investment, well, what investment? Most (all?) of the broadband expansion in my area was paid for with various government grants of which they pocketed most of, raised prices, and then asked for more. So all we’re asking for as far as that goes is what we, the taxpayers, have already paid for…multiple times over, in fact.

ptz OP ,
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Glad to hear that! 🎉

ptz , (edited )
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Well, I’ll at least do you better than the .ml mods. Here’s your notice:

Instance ban modal with the reason set to 'Throws public temper tantrums across multiple communities. Grow up

And for anyone feeling “censored” by any social media platform, I’ll leave you with the wise words of one Randall Munroe:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png

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Google could be working on integrating a chatbot within Google Maps, though its use cases are not currently fleshed out

Pretty much sums up most use cases for LLMs in products. Throw in “AI” because it’s the gimmick right now, scream “me too!”, and find a use for it later.

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Company insiders are putting the blame for what went wrong on a tech industry culture — led by 38-year-old [Chief Executive Kyle] Vogt — that put a priority on the speed of the program over safety. … “Kyle is a guy who is willing to take risks, and he is willing to move quickly. He is very Silicon Valley,”

The whole “move fast and break things” tech industry mindset should never be within 100 meters of the auto industry.

ptz ,
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When the perceived problem is lack of content, why is the solution always to throw more bot posts at it? I’ve blocked or site-banned pretty much every bot account because they’re just adding dead end posts and noise.

For Mastadon content, Lemmy just needs the ability to follow individual users. Not sure if that’s on the roadmap, but it should be straightforward to implement. Same goes for other ActivityPub platforms. When user-follow is possible, that opens up many avenues for users to subscribe to just what they want.

What you’re proposing is not really adding content, just clutter and the appearance of content.

Give Lemmy time, and it will grow organically. Let’s not try to force feed it with reposts from bots. As people discover Lemmy, if half or more of what they see is dead end crap reposted via bots, then I personally feel that will be a turn off for many (which defeats what you’re trying to accomplish).

ptz ,
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Sounds like you have a plan, and nothing I say is going to talk you out of it. So go for it, I guess. I’ll just block those bots, too.

Personally, I think what you’re trying to do is the wrong way to increase engagement and feel it will add yet more noise, regardless of your intent.

ptz ,
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Really? Lol, no.

I like my money in a bank. Somewhere that has those “pesky” regulations that keep me from getting (too) screwed over.

ptz ,
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I’m not a mod here, but I’ll allow memes from The Orville. It’s fully a spiritual successor to TNG in my opinion. :shrug:

Israel kills Al-Jazeera correspondent’s family days after Blinken demands the channel’s coverage be ‘toned down’ (mondoweiss.net)

Today, Al-Jazeera Bureau Chief Wael El-Dahdouh was reporting live in Gaza when an Israeli airstrike killed his wife and two children. Now, other journalists also fear their families could be targeted solely for them doing their job....

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mediabiasfactcheck.com/mondoweiss/


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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Bias Rating: LEFT
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Factual Reporting: MIXED
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Country: USA (45/180 Press Freedom)
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Not sure if there’s a specific grease to use, but I’d imagine any relatively high viscosity grease should suffice. Maybe someone else can recommend something more specific/appropriate than “axle grease”.

Might as well replace the belt while you’ve got it apart. The way my luck goes, I’d get it all back in business and the belt would snap.

ptz OP ,
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Almost 25 years and yeah, seems like it was playing everywhere just yesterday.

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