Goth, Dj, anarchist, artist
Yep, only in my 50s but this is correct. All the shit under Reagan, Nixon etc, decades of meddling in the middle east before that. A century of oppressing South America. All the labor struggles. It’s like the increase in the diagnosed cases of autism. The number of cases didn’t increase. Only our awareness.
Krita is awesome. Tablet options not so much. Many Intel based tablets are rather heavy and clunky comparatively, or have poor digitization. Touch screens aren’t the same as digitizer pen support. Some like the surface tablets are proprietary enough that you have to jump through many tech hoops just to set it up. And then there’s the cost. You can do it but its expensive in money and time. It has to be something you want to do for yourself. Because it will not make monetary or otherwise.
Android tablets are again loaded down with tech hurdles. Can they be unlocked? How hard is it? And what special hardware might you need to do it? Then you have to consider how hard is it to flash a different operating system onto it. And finally, how much of the proprietary hardware is just not going to work, and is that a deal breaker.
There is a version of Krita for Android. But the few devices I have that can launch it. The UI is unusable. Everything else works. You just have to fight the UI hard.
I got an older ARM based chrome tab for about 40 dollars. Went through the hoops to put postmarket is on it. Only the camera doesn’t work. But the 4GB of ram is the biggest bottleneck. CPU cores are fine. But just sitting idle at the desktop a little under 1/8 of the ram is already used up. Open Firefox or chrome and you are already swapping hard likely. Krita works well with the USF pen support. But the ram again is a heavy limit on document size. It’s definitely not for most people.
I desperately would love a good affordable Linux tablet platform. KDE plasma’s touch experience has been really good. Not perfect, but most of the hitches are edge enough cases in daily use. If someone would make a shell with just a full HD screen and pen support capable of using a compute module SOC. Raspberry pi or other compatible SOC. That would almost be ideal as long as they could meet a decent price point. Which is always the thing that tends to kill these concepts.
Aaaah one of those handy not so fun facts. I 100% believe that had the immigrant settlers in the 19the century had helicopters and not covered wagons. They would have done similar to my ancestors.
Or the polish. When it comes to giant unwieldy nations, preserving power becomes more important than preserving large segments of population. Regardless of which economic system they larping as.
Hypocrisy largely. Heavy micro management and over moderation by admins broadly. Thankfully most are self aware enough outside hexbear to not leave their echo chamber. There are a few sub’s documenting it.
Should discussion touch on certain trigger topics, and should your view deviate from dogma. You will often find yourself banned, either temporarily or permanently, without much discussion. Do you think imperialism and invasion of another country is wrong? Such as the United States current invasion of Iran or past invasions of Afghanistan? Well, if you happen to feel the same way about the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan or modern day Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. You would be classified as a mush-brained, imperialist turbo-lib.
Do you think genocide and cultural erasure such as what the United States and Canada did to First Nations people is wrong? Don’t make a mistake of applying that unbiased to the plight of cultural minorities in China. Tibet, Hong Kong, and the Uhygers, all of course are glad to sacrifice their cultural and ethnic heritage. Under the penalty of imprisonment or death for glorious left unity with the party and President Xi. Any discussion of these groups dissatisfaction with it is CIA propaganda. And not well tolerated.
If you skirt around in only the most niche of communities with hyper-focused specific topics. Who have almost no capability ever touching or involving current events. You might avoid it. Otherwise you will run afoul of it at some point as many have.
And even that was only the most visible yet surface level one of their problems.
The people making the slop absolutely are.
Imagine someone that spends so much time on they make @PugJesus@piefed.social seem like one of the least active users you see. Who seemed to create multiple new communities daily. But had none of the knowledge, self awareness, or insight of PJ.
Talking to them often seemed like engaging with a poorly trained LLM. When they were on .world it wasn’t uncommon for my front page or the all page to be choked with their inane posts. With a volume that would make cm002 or return2ozma seem like they were slacking. Which combined with them creating alternate accounts, ultimately leading to an instance ban for ban evasion iirc.
Last I knew db0 was harboring them. Though honestly I’m sure they have multiple accounts on nearly every server there is.
Init scripts are just scripts. Technically, they don’t introduce any unique vulnerabilities of their own. Just the flaws in the shell itself or server binaries. A poorly written script absolutely can and will still fuck your day up.
SystemD is a program. Which could introduce its own unique buffer overflows or use after free opportunities. I’ve not heard of any. But its possible. However, its standard set of interfaces and systems make the risks of writing your own bad scripts or just using other people’s random bad scripts like we used to much less an issue.
Technically, sysv everything was just a file full of instructions for the shell to parse and initialize. Human readable “technically”. It was simple and light weight. SystemD is a bit heavier and more complex as a system service binary. But that load and complexity is generally offset by added features that are extremely nice to have. Providing much more standardized targets and configuration iirc.
I had to search and dig trying to figure out how to set up services properly for my distro, back in the 90s. And when/how to start/restart them. There wasn’t one way to do it all. SysD made it all much more standard, simple, and clear. It’s biggest sin, is that it’s one more binary attack surface that might be exploited.
It’s an interesting project. I’d seen the video pop up in my YouTube feed as well. Though the association with futo is a bit of an ick factor. Their association with fascists (not hyperbole) and their misrepresentations of their “donations” etc along with other things make me wary of anything they touch.
Really, that’s actually interesting.
Aaaah so even less reason to use it sadly.
On Linux there is Falkon. Windows too. (QT WebKit) And the reason I won’t use this will likely be the same as Falkon. Missing plugins etc. Other than that they are fine. Bitwarden has a desktop app. (Electron? Dunno but it would be ironic) But no auto fill ability. Darkreader? Nope. There may be some limited adblocking, but no greasemonkey type functionality.
Piefed has two user rating systems. Your attitude, which is public, and allows people to see what your ratio of up votes to down votes is. The other being reputation, which is generally reserved for administration and moderation iirc. Which is an accumulation of how other people upvote and downvote you. Basically the sort of thing anyone could get just by looking at the public information just condensed all in one spot.
Anyone calling it social credit score is being disingenuous. The most controversial feature it has is its content filtering system, which is disabled by default.
Oh no. Actually AFAIK its basically public for everyone to see unless disabled. At least attitude is. Yours is currently scored at 86. Meaning you’ve been 5x as likely to upvote as downvote. I think the rep one is different. Nothing more happening with it ATM than that I think.
Aaaah, cool yeah. I never looked too deep at it. Just knew that much.
The software kind of scores you on a few metrics. Like the ratio of the things you vote up vs down. I’m sure there are others.
Well, those donating time and resources often get extra consideration. But Ton has been fiercely independent for decades. And even though he’s stepped down from his leadership role. I think the board he helped put in place has things in good hands. They, KDE etc have forged their own path and shown the viability of their models. They’d be fools to abandon that or relinquish control after 30 years.
Tons have come and gone with little fan fair. Blender OTOH has quietly made inroads into industry and the hearts of many many people. I have used blender since the mid 90s. Where it is today compared to back then is unimaginable. I can’t wait to have my mind blown by where they go in the future. Nodes and simulation are really shaping up. Who knows, between them and the love the NLE editor has been getting. Adobe, Houdini, and even Nuke might get some competition.
Suck overflow confirmed?