About a year ago, my parents made the switch to Linux on their home machines because they really hated Win 10... Today I got a call from my mother to help her out with something, but I did not expect that "something" will be figuring out a sed pattern for a shell script she wrote to bulk rename files.
When I asked her why she didn't use some GUI program she said "I was an accountant in the DOS era, this makes more sense to me than a ribbon menu in Excel".
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Welp, FreeTube, Invidious, and Piped are down again; and probably others as well; so I hope that it gets fixed, but it's likely it may take a bit from what I can understand anyway.
I prefer content variety, PeerTube is kinda meh, and Odysee? Well let's just say: "Absolutely proprietary!" because it's using some OSS, and it's not entirely OSS. This is fine though, I'll just listen to music for the time being, and not fuck around with video content for the time being (which sucks because I was watching a series on it)—but, it happens.
I mean, I've been using FreeTube for the better part of...well, around 6 months already without major issues. But last couple of months have seriously been taking a nose dive, and I suspect this is normal.
Meh, everything will be good, xD
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radio is the future: "Radio is the ultimate internet circumvention tool because it is not the internet." #othernetworks #radio
radioworld.com/columns-and-vie…
Debate about the future of shortwave broadcasting focuses on the correct observation that shortwave listening is no longer a mainstream activity in most of the world.Kim Andrew Elliott (Radio World)
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I am loving that things are finally moving to make European countries less dependent on US software (especially cloud providers), but I am disappointed that there isn't more of a focus on open source software.
There are several government programs within EU counties to fund the development of open source software. We need WAY more of that, coordinated at the EU level.
The best way to avoid being beholden to big tech is to fund viable open source alternatives.
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Hey every0ne ! Yeah, this is one video dad and I didn't particularly enjoy making... Without going into detail, dad has to work full time to cover unplanned ...YouTube
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European alternatives for popular services from the USA. This page is far from perfect or complete but just an illustration that there are alternatives.
european-alternatives.eu/alter…
This is also an interesting page with alternatives,
privacyguides.org/en/tools/
#EU #digitalservices #ICT #IT
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.European Alternatives
#Mastodon is being more blatant—it will add quote posts.
This will piss some people off but frankly, this has been in the works for years.
To those who believe quote posts are abusive, there is no data whatsoever that shows any correlation between quote posts and abuse.
And actually, platforms like #Misskey, #Akkoma, and #Friendica have had that feature for years, and hardly anyone using those platforms has ever complained.
In fact, I use quote posts every day. No one’s complained to me about my use of quote posts.
Nevertheless, Mastodon is doing the right thing—and it takes serious courage to tell the Fedi Gatekeepers that this will happen. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But it’s a change that needed to happen.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…
Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.Mastodon Blog
@UlrikeHahn @tchambers What you’re quoting implies that culture has a bigger effect on incivility. Which seems pretty common sense to me.
Practically speaking, though, what’s your actual stance on quote posts?
@UlrikeHahn @tchambers
There's been a lot of study on this, and QTs just do not contribute significantly to harassment and abuse. But even if they did, the affordances here are different. Followers-only replies are a *much* larger concern than quote posts.
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/…
The first myth to dispense with: That there’s almost no research on quote tweets! I added to this misconception with my December…Hilda Bastian (Absolutely Maybe)
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@jenniferplusplus @UlrikeHahn @tchambers Can you tell me a little bit more about the phenomenon of followers-only posts being used for abuse?
Is it similar to how Discord is used for pile-ons? Or is it something else entirely?
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@jenniferplusplus Yep, three years ago, I put in a feature request on Mastodon for comment controls. It’s pretty common sense to have since, yeah, it would cut down on abuse drastically. Haven’t heard anything back from Mastodon, but I certainly got a lot of angry people who demand that this never be implemented.
At the very least, you should be able to opt out of receiving comments. Still not here, but at least Mastodon allows you to opt out of quote posts. Now if only they would allow this for comments.
@jenniferplusplus @UlrikeHahn @tchambers I call it abuse multi-threading.
You can be abused in broad daylight without a soul seeing it, from multiple sources.
Doesn’t get reported properly as nobody sees it but you. Doesn’t trigger any thresholds.
Massively open to widespread abuse and really skews people’s optics of the situation.
A lot like racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia etc. online generally (“I don’t see it, so it doesn’t happen), but it’s built right into the Mastodon functionally to further enable it.
I see its intended functionality, but I don’t think you should be able to reply with followers only.
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I prefer #SocialWeb to #Fediverse because these imply two entirely different things.
Fediverse implies an enclosed space for which you’re either “in” or “out”. Which is why the Fediverse attracts to many HOA-type people.
In contrast, Social Web presents an effort to supplement a space that already exists, and for which everyone is already included.
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To be fair, it *is* a great name for a unicorn.
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Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers in Auschwitz.
It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.
It started with intolerance and hate speech.
It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.
Remember.
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Cowardly killer?
Folk Hero?
Or can someone be two things at once?
The most balanced think piece I've come across...from the article:
"Obviously, an explanation is not a justification. Nothing justifies murder. I see it as a primal scream from a society that has had enough. I view it as a warning."☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
ekathimerini.com/opinion/12562…
First in his class, valedictorian, Ivy League top university graduate, instructor at Stanford, private high school attendee, handsome, friendly, hailing from a very wealthy and successful family. And a murderer, with no previous criminal record.Tenia Christopoulos (ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΜΟΝΟΠΡΟΣΩΠΗ Α.Ε. Εθν.Μακαρίου & Φαληρέως 2)
@clintruin @Lilith111
I find it strange that certain people want us to believe that they have a problem with murder, but not mass murder.
I have not seen any of those who call Luigi a murderer express the tiniest but of sympathy for the tens of thousands of preventable deaths caused every year by our health insurance industry. What about the children of the people killed by health insurers? Or do those lives not matter?
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Big Tech is using the nationalism card. When the EU wants to regulate American companies and fines them when they break the rules, then they want to see that as attacking American companies.
What does it then mean when the DOJ in the US wants to regulate Big Tech and fines them for breaking the rules?
The reality is that we need regulation. Big Tech has gotten away with too much. They have grown too powerful. They are doing too much damage.
Choose smaller companies, when you can. Take a stand.
#Windows #Macos #Linux #fediverse #Mastodon #Regulation #Politics #Vivaldi
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Did you know about Sepia Search, our search engine for #PeerTube?
With #SepiaSearch, you can find out most of videos, channels and playlists available on PeerTube!
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by FramasoftSepia Search
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A Twitter post by John Sipher ([@]johnsipher.bsky.social) states: "On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923." A profile picture of John Sipher is shown to the left, and a "Following" button is to the right.
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I'm actually not sure I'll be able to premiere my new "Goodbye" YouTube " video that I spent all week furiously editing because I'm still fresh off another YouTube ban of a fully-clothed video of me simply talking to the camera as" sexually explicit nudity," which is just *chef's kiss* irony. I can at least show the YouTube-safe version on Twitch since I scraped out all nipples, even male nipples, because I'm banned to a degree that nobody else faces.
man I'm so close to just not even caring anymore about if my post get banned on mainstream social media. I'll just post them to decentralized platforms like Mastodon and Peertube, and if no one watches them, so be it, but at least I won't have to be holding my breath waiting for a fresh ban 🙃
"American solutions to American problems"
#freeLuigi #luigi #neverAgain #neverAgainIsNow #revolution #resist #USPol
Some photos from my various walks around the local nature reserve last year
It doesn't natter what the alt right or media claims, Elon Musk did a sieg heil salute.
And it matters that he did that. He is the richest person on this planet and now has major stakes in the US government
So yes, having neo-nazi's run one of the worlds leading countries does matter a lot
Call the beast for what it is
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in reply to zen3ger • • •vidir from moreutils is very useful for stuff like this. allows you to open files/directory paths as if they're a text file in your editor then rename them there.
Also you have a cool mom.
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