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[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

You read my message as an accusation to you, but I was describing everyone else and all the downvotes you got!

Of course you, and anyone else, is entitled to their preferences!! That's the beauty of FLOSS. That's precisely my point.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You said it's not the best and then mentioned Hyperland as a panacea of customization... It is almost implied. Meanwhile the arguments against you go a little bit in circle. This seems like the typical internet people polarizing themselves. We are all enjoying our distros, text editors, DEs, and WMs. No need to start making up factions at all... But it's way more fun to do so because we are humans and our society conditioned us to this. *shrugs*

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I’ll probably never trust anything they’ve touched until I’ve taken it apart and put it back together again.

Me too. But the vast majority of users need guardrails, and have a different threat model. Even those that also care about privacy, if they just want a solution that comes by default, this adtech 'fake' or 'superficial' solution does provide something. And anything is more than nothing.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, the Germans were systematic and that makes them worst. Thanks for answering, I was asking sincerely. Pretty much agreed on the comment that said that it was like asking if its worst to get stabbed in the right or left lung. Now I see the oversimplification, since in one case we have that "effectiveness" trait.

In any case, bwfore doing any ranking one should ask "why" do it... Like, what's the aim here.

But, since we are doing it, let me bring the case of Latin America. The royalty of both Spain and Portugal are to be scrutinized. If not for their systematic approaches, let's just try comparing the numbers. Entire civilizations were decimated. And the years it took were long enough to have settlers perpetuating actions locally... Oh, the cheery on top of it all is that until recently this wasn't acknowledged even at schools. Even today there are statues of f*ing Columbus in Spain. Or museums with weapons of 'Conquistadores' without really stopping to reflect upon the terror they brought to natives. And not so long ago, in Latin América, 12th Oct. was a holiday for commemorating the "discovery" of the continent... Just plain as that. Obscene and insidious genocide. For me, it's at the top.

Once, I read that Nazism is the internalization within Europe of Colonialist practices, only modernized (e.g. gas chambers vs. contagious blankets). Mindblowin' eh?

[–] anzo@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

TPB is still around, only magnet links are around. They were hosting torrent files which is basically a list of trackers. That's what they had to drop, in order to continue functioning. And their DNS is still banned like from almost every westernized country.

Regardless of technicalities, they were #1 biggest player. (Today they are like #3 or #5?) What I mean to say, is that they got busted mainly because of this. To make an example.

[–] anzo@programming.dev -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I wonder if the downvotes are people ignoring genocide or what, and on towards which side . . .

[–] anzo@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Only a person of the opposing group would say that... Get him, boys!!!

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

If your key is passwordless and sits on unencrypted storage... It may be a bad practice itself.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I mean.. death penalty is a thing, prison is another. Whatever the punishment, the law being applied on a f*ing tweet is quite extreme already. And all countries do this. So, before blaming perhaps some reflection is due.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

There are different takes... for example, take a look at all the different tracks on the latest ISCB conference. For me, there were a few books that I've enjoyed the most. For example... (1) Bioinformatics Data Skills by Vince Buffalo, showed me how to leverage the lignux shell to work with our files and formats. (2) Bioinformatics Algorithms by Pavel Pevzner, showed me how simple data strutures as strings can convey so much complexity when it comes to dealing with them in the context of this discipline. And (3) Human Molecular Genetics by Tom Strachan, showed me how my knowledge from bachellors degree in life sciences was rather limited :P

 

In case of paywall, read it here: https://archive.ph/4Du7B

 
 

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/be4foss/statuses/112638603664718053

MacBook Air owner?

MacBook Air owner?

2018/2019 models are losing #Apple support.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/the-case-for-and-against-macos-15-sequoia-being-the-final-release-for-intel-macs/

#OptGreen with #GNU/#Linux to keep your device in use! These machines will run beautifully for many years to come.

Not only wallet friendly, #upcycling keeps CO2 emissions out of the atmosphere. Ca. 75% of Apple's emissions comes from production alone (details in alt text).

Sustainable, independent #FreeSoftware: Better for users, best for the #environment.

@kde

#KDE #KDEEco #FOSS #OpenSource #MacBook

 

The other post made me remember this website that I found interesting, specially for those needing to cut costs ;)

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/8578075

Heh

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/33840999

YAMS: Download music from Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Youtube.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10182171

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pëtr Kropotkin

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21328454

PGSub - A Giant Archive of Subtitles For Everyone

I've been working on this subtitle archive project for some time. It is a Postgres database along with a CLI and API application allowing you to easily extract the subs you want. It is primarily intended for encoders or people with large libraries, but anyone can use it!

PGSub is composed from three dumps:

  • opensubtitles.org.Actually.Open.Edition.2022.07.25
  • Subscene V2 (prior to shutdown)
  • Gnome's Hut of Subs (as of 2024-04)

As such, it is a good resource for films and series up to around 2022.

Some stats (copied from README):

  • Out of 9,503,730 files originally obtained from dumps, 9,500,355 (99.96%) were inserted into the database.
  • Out of the 9,500,355 inserted, 8,389,369 (88.31%) are matched with a film or series.
  • There are 154,737 unique films or series represented, though note the lines get a bit hazy when considering TV movies, specials, and so forth. 133,780 are films, 20,957 are series.
  • 93 languages are represented, with a special '00' language indicating a .mks file with multiple languages present.
  • 55% of matched items have a FPS value present.

Once imported, the recommended way to access it is via the CLI application. The CLI and API can be compiled on Windows and Linux (and maybe Mac), and there also pre-built binaries available.

The database dump is distributed via torrent (if it doesn't work for you, let me know), which you can find in the repo. It is ~243 GiB compressed, and uses a little under 300 GiB of table space once imported.

For a limited time I will devote some resources to bug-fixing the applications, or perhaps adding some small QoL improvements. But, of course, you can always fork them or make or own if they don't suit you.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12660948

Deceleration: Notes on anarchism and degrowth

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15808940

Tribler *arr integration

Hey selfhosters!

I recently discovered Tribler - anonymity focus torrent client. It made some rounds on hackernews and I'd never heard of it before.

I installed gui and was not impressed - it ran terribly on macos. However, I was able to test download and its anonymity features - it uses TOR inspired onion routing. I saw they had API available - and thought it would be perfect for my selfhosted *arr stack usage. However, *arr apps did not integrate tribler API (understandably, it's a niche client)

I dug in a bit and thought it would not be so difficult to create a shim that pretends to be some better integrated torrent client.

I picked qbittorrent.

You can check the link. I run it in docker. Add it to sonarr / radarr as qbittorrent client (username and password is irrelevant, as tribler shim integrates with tribler through API key) It's not the most secure approach - but managing torrents wihout authentication in my home network is an acceptable risk.

I was not able to download anything with more than 1 hops in between - ie it does hide your real IP address, but only uses one relay in between. It's not perfect, but seems to work as designed. I run my services mostly in Kubernetes, so there's likely something in my networking that. I will poke around more to see what could be the issue.

For now, the torrent management works through arr apps using the shim, however, the category is not implemented. Therefore, you can only use one category for both sonarr and radarr for example, and you will see downloads of both of those.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15581511

Aarrr

4 panel comic by War and Peas. 1. Panel shows two pirates, the first pirate speaks "Captain, our rivals have been calling us names again." 2. Panel: The pirate continues, "They said we were a bunch of handicaps." 3. Panel: The captain himself says, "That's ableism! And we don't tolerate that kind of talk here". 4.Panel: The ship in full from afar waving a bunch of flags, such as the pride flag, the pirate skull-and-crossbones, the human rights flag, the trans flag and more.

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