m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@wizard If we speak of privacy, I think having companies like New Vector, Proton and Tutanota, Purism and System 76 helps a lot. They both spread awareness and make the privacy-oriented tech more accessible, so when someone thinks: "I'm fed up with Google",— they have choice: should I host my own e-mail server or should I pay for someone trustworthy to do it for me?
Even Google made a lot to make XMPP popular with their (now dead) Google.Talk 😂

@wizard You mean if someone is interested he should get pointed in the right direction? Yes, that is important.
TBH I was a bit surprised when Trump ban happened or when the more recent Elon Musk purchase of Twitter hit the news that *a lot* of Twitter users didn't even know Fedi existed. Even if they are looking for alternative, they are looking for some other site/app for everyone switch to, not for technology that makes interoperability possible 🤷

@wizard But do people in other spaces even want that? It's not like they aren't aware of the fact that people with more obscure opinions do exist, they are just not interested in them. Some people just like to post some lowest common denominator stuff and enjoy that a lot agree with them or strongly disagree and get triggered. Some prefer a non-linear RPG with multiple plot lines, some prefer… Subway Surfers. To each their own.

@evelyn Or act-on-a-whim pad.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Here is a good mini-guide that helped me familiarize myself with xbps-src: https://gist.github.com/Piraty/2e8c9fa86d4eb70f22efb9e0ecdda235
I advise you not to start building everything from source like Gentoo Stage1 and start with xbps-src binary-bootstrap, then build just the critical software. The default CFLAGS are rather sane in fact. Of course you can use xbps-src -N to ignore the binary repos, but some stuff takes crazy amounts of time to build, e.g. firefox, I only do it because it was broken on wayland for 3 releases(!)

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network You can add custom repos for binaries, there is an official repo for non-free stuff. The sources are like this: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages
It's just a git repo with all the scripts and templates in srcpkgs (smth like ebuilds in Gentoo). I use Void on PPC and PPC64 musl machines which are no longer officially supported so I use it mostly for fixing stuff that breaks, but of course you can add your custom stuff, commit, pull the changes from upstream and rebase your custom stuff — easy as that!

@kim At least you don't connect to ssh-server running at a non-standard port that often. Unlike -R/-r to copy recursively. I mean it is -R for e.g. chown and it works almost universally this way, you get used to it. Not with scp, you just have to use lower case -r 🤬

@trisschen You can download a cop unintentionally though. Like other malware.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Try #VoidLinux — it's fast, it's flexible and despite being rolling release distro, it's rock solid. You can use custom CFLAGS and cross-comile with xbps-src. The USE flags aren't as flexible as on Gentoo, but at least, unlike with Gentoo, you don't have to spend half the day in gdb to figure out why the fsck everything just segfaults after the last upgrade.

@evelyn I've only played some iPhone version of Sims. There was not a lot of brutal stuff you could do in it so I was trying to fsck everyone in town instead 😊

@nytpu Oh, I see. I only have Xbox One and I have physical copies of all the games I own. I think it still has to check something online, download updates, etc. So all these discs are nothing more than shiny nice artifacts 😅

@nytpu GOG allows you to save offline installers. And it is the only sane game store anyway.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Complete trade ban is always a disaster. It only achieves political goals which in turn might be justified, might be not.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network It is in fact catastrophic. Some restrictions (e.g. higher fees) might be justified to increase competition, not to reduce it and give someone an unfair advantage. And only as a temporary measure, no one benefits from it in the long run, look at the US vs China trade wars — it's not some recent Trump thing. Both sides lose.

@hatkidchan @evelyn B-b-but we can have cavemen in our computers… And live happily, right? 😅

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network My fault, it was preposterous of me to assume that from the fact that you think imports ban is a good idea. Well then, if something good happened as a result of war, it doesn't mean it could not happen as a result of healthy competition. Killing someone or something off is less competition, less choice and that is bad. Ok, then healthy competition > war > no competition 👍

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network No, even in this case, no. Wars break trade, trade = good. I know you disagree with the last one, but I'm to lazy to delve into it using 500-character messages 😋

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Warzone is a type of echo chamber. Look at a typical Twitter discussion, it's "us against them", same set of arguments that matter only to the ones who agree with you, but the other side is completely deaf to them. No truth will ever be born in this. A sane person with somewhere-in-between opinion who could bring something new or accept your arguments will either stay out of this or not be heard. That is the way mainstream social networks are designed. So yeah, bicameral echo chambers.

@evelyn Because you are interested in cat photos and want to socialize? 🤷

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network There are no liberals in the Russian government, only opportunists. Ban all imports and you'll wake up in a MadMax-like world sooner than you think. Even for China that is not feasible, modern world is too globalized: you can't live in isolation and still have nice things. The worst part — you can't invite scientists and engineers from all over the world to fix this and attract them with shiny stones and humble comforts of the nineteenth century. People want their modern stuff now.