Well, would it work if we get a few 1$ a month VPS and run mediacms on them ? each one could probably house a couple hundred videos and they have about the capacity to serve, maybe 100 users on gigabit internet with 4TB a month traffic allowance. That’s still a lot of serving video for not a lot of money.

congrats on leaving the cesspit, I know it’s hard, they have you jonesing for some orangereds, but trust me after 3 months you won’t remember what “orangered” even meant and lemmy isn’t as addictive because it’s not trying to suck your vril out from your screen since it doesn’t vampires to feed your blood to.

And the hope is that it will be leaning toward a more decentralized structure over time, even though at this time, power still is concentrated in the hands of the “big servers” and “big communities”

In this case you have to be posted AS A crosspost to take effect, and any one of the cross posted community can just delete the post, or presumably uncrosspost it.

The problem usually is that, nobody bother interacting with small communities and aggregate around the “one big community” for that topic.

Small community who would want to remain insular have lots of ways of disappearing further if they want to, but that’s never the actual problem of small communities. It is always easier to have less reach and become less relevant than the opposite which better crossposts enable.

The would have to be enough to obscure the lens’ aberration, that would be an obnoxious amount of noise. Instead I think a better solution is to add micro distortion strategically to make identification ambiguous/inconclusive

Have a coordinated volunteer project where people print and photograph special patterned image designed to map the blur and other aberration of their particular lens. With hundreds of thousands of sample, we train a micro-distortion ML model that subtly shifts and distorts the pixels just enough to make positive lens identification impossible. Then have something to auto-apply this filter (and discard originals) on every pictures before they even have a chance of being uploaded to the cloud.

What is “freedom flotilla” ? Seasteaders or torrent pirates ? something else ?

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I hope they’re saying “the AT protocol is obviously an attempt by Twitter Rasputin to subvert the fediverse and create his own black-mirror version” and “while it might seem innocuous to just allow interoperability with the AT protocol, everything that strenghten the legitimacy of the AT protocol and works with it, empowers it, it is just another blitzscale play where you’ll under discover the trap once it’s too late”

The authoritarian uniparty is the new owning class, functionally you still don’t have a say, just a different mouth telling you “they’re making decision in your interest”.

It’s the biggest false dichotomy on this planet statist capitalist and statis communism and the same as religious schisms, a disagreement over which elite should be deciding everything and which is going to face the wall.

Do that hardcore enough and you’ll get an elite which has decided to put all the other ones against the wall (pol pot).

Maybe it could run on something like wine ? But if there’s not something like… whatever it is that thing that makes WizTree faster than WinDirStat, then it would probably work in a very slow compatibility mode

I’ve taken to using chatgpt to make me the more advanced find queries, before on linux I would ONLY use find /path | grep -i somenames So that’s already an improvement, if still a bit tedious

The thing about everything is that it’s so ergonomic, fast and powerful.

Being able to search anything and sort everywhich way with the click of a button

Check out this sublime search syntax (this not even half of it ! )

And the re-ordering by columns, and there are just SO MANY columns you can add, like search by EXIF camera exposure, no problem !

I really wish there was something as good as “everything” on linux, it’s just awesome.

I search for files dozens of times per day, it’s largely how I navigate between folders.
And often advanced searches like only this root folder, in reverse order of accessed time, or only folder
On windows I use void tools everything but nothing like it compares in speed and ease of use on linux.
It’s one of my many roadblock to transition to linux.

Why don’t filesystems maintain such a database so you don’t have to spend cycles on a file indexer ?

No engagement with the article?
Are you sure you even read my comment? The entire point I made was an engagement with the core argument of the article: that authoritarianism; whether in Losurdo’s dressed-up Dengist nostalgia or in the cruder forms we see globally; is winning everywhere. Not just in capitalist or liberal regimes, but across so-called “socialist” states too. The writer of the piece, Wolfe, accuses Losurdo of resurrecting Stalinism in philosophical form. I expanded that: whether in Losurdo’s China-aligned realism or in Western liberal managerialism, the forces of emancipationl; real class struggle, worker-led politics, democratic socialism; are in full retreat. Authoritarians are scenting weakness and consolidating everywhere, left and right, East and West. That is engaging the article; maybe not in the approved academic tone, but with eyes open and blood pressure correctly elevated.

Soapboxing?
Says the person whose only contribution is performative outrage and defense of your favorite dead theorist. You want to reduce all dissent to “liberal nonsense”; because you need the illusion that everyone who criticizes the vanguardist-authoritarian line must be a bourgeois liberal. As if no one on the left ever rejected the gulag with the gun. Wolfe’s entire essay is one long demonstration that many Marxists, across generations, have warned against this exact trend; and you’re here pretending it’s all some Reddit-tier rant. Sorry, but calling out the erosion of liberty and the rising tide of elite managerial control isn’t “soapboxing.” It’s called waking up.

“Inappropriate SA references”?
No. You’re trying to hijack a metaphor to shut people up; and frankly, it’s authoritarian to the bone. The phrase “sodomized by the state” is not a reference to literal assault, and you know that. It’s a well-worn political metaphor, used to describe invasive, violating state power; the kind that enters every part of your life without consent. You don’t get to pretend not to understand that just to score fake moral points. That’s not solidarity with survivors; that’s weaponizing sensitivity to smother dissent, the oldest censorship trick in the book. Ironically, it proves the point I was making about how authoritarianism now works: by dictating what metaphors you’re allowed to use, what tone you’re allowed to take, and which elites you’re allowed to criticize.

So let me say it plainly:
You’re defending a line of thought that puts all power in the hands of distant, unaccountable Party elites, and tries to silence critics through moral performance and bad-faith categorization. You want to flatten all nuance into “either you’re with the vanguard or you’re a liberal.” But the article you’re ignoring; and the critique I’m extending; is about how that very mindset destroyed Marxism’s revolutionary potential from the inside.

And you’d ban me for it?
Thanks for illustrating the whole thesis of the piece.
You don’t want liberation; you want obedience.

For now on I treat everyone with a cellphone like a cop. This actually makes my life way easier.

Cool and normal

Watch it with the rocks in your own glass house

I very tangentially hinted at my displeasure toward authoritarianism,
So proving my point they immediately gave me the internet death penalty, how on-brand
That is hyper-normalization at work, we know that you know that we know and here is proof and you still can’t do anything about it because we can delete you and you cannot do anything about it, so what are you going to do about it ?
Give up or be even more deleted.
And they wonder why humans, who have realized they are in captivity, are refusing to breed
This is simply too rich, they all want to farm humans, well they can farm their own children
Come on mama, birth right into the maws of the meat grinder !

Spinach ? In this economy ?? No it’s yeast-based soy slop or bullets if you bad mouth the leaders, look the wrong color and produce underquota. But don’t worry, your breedlets will have a better life than your own I can PROMISE that !

I wonder if the downvotes are angry about me very lightly bad mouthing authoritarians or involuntary sodomy.