Not the first time Nazis have been defeated by the cold.

How?

This is why its important for us to retain the right to what Cory Doctorow calls “self-help”.

Our right to access and modify things are being stripped away and that gives the platforms even more power!

Today, if you released a tool to bring your Facebook friend list to another platform you’d get sued into oblivion.

Cool! Give it a go! Do you know about the Emacs Wiki? It was a pretty good resource many years ago when I had my own config. Not sure how it is these days though, but you might find some useful stuff there.

As for Spacemacs, I never got into it. At the time I found it more complicated than my own setup and a bit more confusing. I know a lot of people liked it though, and it was the first starter kit I’m aware of that really took off, so it might be worth a look!

I used to maintain my own Emacs config, but I switched to Doom years ago and never looked back. I appreciate the community aspect that lets it be better integrated and tested than I had time to manage on my own.

I use it as my primary environment for everything you mentioned and its excellent. The initial setup is fairly easy too.

And because it’s Emacs, if there’s something you don’t like, you can change it! 😄

I think that analogy falls apart because of Lemmy’s architecture, which makes it a little bit more complicated. In real life, the reach of people is limited. Extending reach IRL requires setting up external tools, like broadcasting, so there is some (albeit small) cost there.

But in Lemmy’s case, reach is immediately unlimited (barring an instance being blocked by your instance of course). Instances will automatically pull and display your content with no additional effort on your part. Lemmy is even stranger than other federated software because an instance can host a diverse variety of communities, so defederation may not always be the right choice.

I agree with you if it was like going to a private forum, but Lemmy’s open architecture is causing me to think about this a little more. Mass downvoting could be a signal that a community may be behaving in an inappropriate way. Or, if a community is organizing mass downvotes, that could also be a signal that they are behaving inappropriately. But the beauty of federation is that then is up to the community on the instance (ultimately the admins) to decide how to react.

Not to mention that in real life people do go to private events to protest. There were all sorts of protests when Tucker Carlson went on tour. I suppose they may not have been in the venue itself, so a bit different as well, but that sort of thing does happen.

The charlatans spinning bullshit for over 70 years is the reason we have never had anyone from “the left” in a position of power to make any meaningful change.

I haven’t played with it much yet, but apparently Pandora is the new Nemesis. I can’t remember exactly, but you’ll probably need to install dotnet8 with winetricks.

Also, if you plan to use DynDOLOD, I found it wouldn’t run with Proton, but it did seem to work if you switch to standard Wine to run the tool.

I’ll have to give it a try!

I don’t really get the floating bar myself. Doesn’t it take up more space and make it so you can’t slam the mouse to the bottom of the screen to click things on it?

Peterson has said way more bullshit and its all on YouTube.

Rogan supposedly being neutral with everyone is problematic since it puts crazy people on equal footing with experts, and it causes confusion for people who may not know better. As an extreme example, being neutral means you should spend the time and effort to hear out a flat earther as much as an astronomer. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but not everyone is entitled to a platform to spew bullshit.

I make it a point to drive exactly at the speed limit in front of these assholes.

And lighter when they jump up on something without making a sound. Cats are made of Element Zero

Same.

I use Bortmatic to manage my repos and I pay a little bit to BorgBase for offsite backup of my important stuff.

That video!! Yeah, I don’t believe it either. Sort of reminds me of doing Kung Fu as a kid. We’d do public demonstrations and would sometimes ham it up a bit for the audience. I wonder if that’s what’s going on.

Have you practiced push hands? There’s a neat effect I can only describe as sort of being able to bounce off the other person. You can get some decent air with it! I also wonder if there’s a bit of that going on with a lot of exaggeration.

I agree with you about the “weird stuff”. I teach Tai Chi and I’m very careful about the words I use, especially when it comes to describing mechanical forces. I’ll often mention that I don’t mean some notion of “life force” but rather the physical Newtonian force that your body is subject to while performing the movements.

I find Tai Chi to be deceptively complicated with deep physical and psychological components. I have a hard time articulating what it is to others since it’s not really a martial art, and it’s not really meditation, and it’s not just a bunch of movements or calisthenics. But it does have very real effects and I love it!

It sounds like your experience is quite similar to mine and I’m happy you found a good teacher and are enjoying the practice! 😀

The software will likely work, but keep in mind that you’ll have to add VM startup time when you want to use the software. I have occasionally seen software behave strangely in a VM as well, so best to just try it.

Can you share the software you went to use? Maybe there’s a good Linux alternative or someone knows how to get it working in wine.

There is a lot of old stuff, especially on the wiki. It’s one of the reasons I abandoned over a decade of config and started using Doom Emacs. I appreciate the curated set of packages with a more consistent interface than I had time to maintain.

As for sln based projects, I’ve never had success with them in Emacs. Heck, even VS Code has been hit and miss for me. Maybe someone knows a good sln package? The one you mentioned might be worth a try.

Is this the one using the open source kernel module?

He’s just not fully materialized yet.