[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 12 points 1 hour ago

I would only stream if it's something you will enjoy doing regardless of success. I have some friends who have treated streaming like a job for years and their viewercounts are still pretty low (~20-50). Something like a youtube channel would be a helpful addition/alternative as well, so at least your content doesn't continuously disappear into the void.

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 67 points 2 weeks ago

Stuff like this is the main reason why I only buy from Steam if I can help it. GOG has a noble anti-DRM goal, but Valve is doing a lot more stuff that matters. Besides, I count Steam's apathy towards their own easily-bypassed DRM as effectively DRM-free at this point, and as far as I understand Steam's DRM is also voluntary for game devs to use.

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 60 points 3 weeks ago

Graphene (more specifically its founder) is always in a vicious cycle of claiming that everyone asking for proof of Graphene being "under attack" is in itself making an "attack". You can consider yourself Graphene's enemy for life for your transgression.

Watching these youtube links makes you an attacker also, so be careful: https://youtu.be/Dx7CZ-2Bajg https://youtu.be/4To-F6W1NT0

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 66 points 1 month ago

I don't entirely mean to throw rocks, but there's something funny about them dragging their feet so long on supporting a linux version (8+ years) that by the time their personal breaking point with windows came, they discovered themselves on the other side of the issue with no one to blame but themselves. Maybe a parable.

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 47 points 1 month ago

Absolutely not trusting this. Uninstalling until we know more, and ideally just getting a different solution entirely. A new account tried to impersonate Catfriend1 directly at first, and then they switched to researchxxl when someone called it out (both are new accounts). Meanwhile the original Catfriend1 has provided no information about this, and we only have the new person's word as to what's going on. There's way too many red flags here.

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 39 points 1 month ago

The price of the eco-friendly detergent they're advertising is way too high to justify (17x the cost of my store brand). It's cool to know that a more powerful powder is possible, though.

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 63 points 4 months ago

It looks likely that Overstreet has upset too many important, influential people, and hurt too many feelings — and as a result, Linux is not going to get a new next-gen copy-on-write filesystem. It's a significant technological loss, and it's all down to people not getting along, rather than the shared desire to create a better OS. ®

I don't like how this article is framed as if everyone else not tiptoeing around Kent is The Real Problem. He was given clear warnings and way more second chances than he deserved. He was (and still is) unable to follow the rules and control his temper, and everyone decided he's a lost cause - as is completely logical. Just because you have a cool toy doesn't mean everyone is forced to be your friend. Go play in your own sandbox until you learn to follow the rules like everyone else. Consider writing a giant apology letter and giving the Linux community the best gift of all: changed behavior.

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 87 points 5 months ago

Pretty good video. It's not like he explains how to do anything or even picks very good software to begin with, but his genuine excitement is really all that's required. Getting people interested is the important part, and they'll learn much better by using their own motivation. This video also gives off a strong "I'm an idiot, and if I can do it you can do it" vibe which can be really reassuring to those who are just too intimidated to even dip their toe in.

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 76 points 5 months ago

I know this is not a unique sentiment by any means, but it makes me legitimately angry to think of participating in a conversation where someone else is using this. If you don't want to read my messages why are we even connecting; imagine clicking "summarize" on someone genuinely trying to talk to you. "Sorry, the AI hallucinated that you were going to finish the rest of the assignment tonight." and a year later "Sorry, I forgot all the nuances of who you are as a person because an AI didn't think they were relevant."

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 46 points 5 months ago

As a commenter on that post says, this sort of talk is also common in the comments of Phoronix articles. The commenter says they've completely stopped supporting Phoronix since it's clear that Michael enables this behavior by not moderating it (the least he could do is disable commenting; the type of people that are in the Phoronix comments are the absolute worst). It's been festering for a very long time, unfortunately. Click any Phoronix article that's older than a day and check the negativity. Worse, click an article about a controversial topic like X11/Wayland/Systemd/bcachefs/KDE/GNOME/etc. and it's just a shitshow.

I've been seeing it to a lesser degree here as well. I don't know what it is about X11 that really riles up the conspiracy theorists.

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[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 56 points 6 months ago

This might be the funniest possible direction for this to go. Purported savior of X11 and anti-DEI dogwhistling developer writes X11 code so bad, asked to leave commit history.

[-] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 59 points 6 months ago

My corporate job is one of the better ones in terms of pointless BS and people pretending to be their corporatesonas, but every time I take time off I'm reminded that we're wasting our entire lives with work. I take a few 4-day work weeks and suddenly my house is clean again, I'm cooking more interesting meals, writing code for fun, hanging out with friends, catching up on shows, etc. Imagine how much progress, art, and innovation we could have if everyone's natural talents and interests were given space to exist. Long-term we would have so much more of everything, and everyone would be happier and healthier. Unfortunately, short-term we've gotta layoff 4% of our workforce again because Mr. AI said it might make the line go up.

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EDIT: Initial self-votes don't federate, so it seems this specific way doesn't work.

Am I missing something, or is Piefed's private voting kinda trivial to reverse engineer as long as every user by default upvotes every post and comment they make?

If you have a username and want to find the matching private voting ID, search through that user's posts and comments for an entry that only has one upvote. The vote cast on that entry will be the private voting ID.

If you have a private voting ID and want to find the matching username, search through all votes cast by the private voting ID to find a post/comment that only has one upvote. The user that posted that entry will be the original user.

If it really is this easy, it seems like it's sort of a false sense of security. On the other hand, if automatic upvoting of your own content could be disabled by default, that would prevent this from working.

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Hello, I just spent like 5 minutes trying to figure this out and figured this might be a common question, so just posting the answer here for posterity. If PieFed hasn't seen the community before you can add it by navigating to Topics -> All Communities -> Add Remote Community.

It seems like unseen communities don't automatically get added when you try to migrate your user JSON, so be careful to add any remote communities that are missing.

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