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pedz

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  • Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?

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  • I still use IRC. There are now modern web clients like The Lounge or Convos that can display/share images in the channels, keep history and push notifications. Apparently Convos can do video chat but I never tried it. Unfortunately I'm not aware of screen sharing features for any of these.

    So on a very simple setup, you need an IRC server, then install and connect one of those clients to your server, and use them through a web browser, either on a computer or on a phone.

    It's obviously not entirely Discord-like, but it is a simple way to chat and share images.

  • I will be this old man for the rest of my life

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  • CES was a red flag for tech in 2026 [Hipyo Tech]

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  • At first I was like "isn't that the keyboard dude?"

    And yes, it's the keyboard dude ranting about AI at the CES, and I enjoyed it.

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  • Yes, but it's also the nature of how those platforms work. It would be hard to get new subscribers without popular and active posts. If mods of small communities are removing posts and comments from people that diverge from the main opinion there, growth will be difficult.

    It is something I try to keep in mind before commenting on a random thing I see when browsing all communities instead of just what I'm subscribed to. Check the community before making a comment, to make sure I'm not insulting fans of something I don't like.

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  • I was too anti car for /r/fuckcars. When on that sub I was told multiple times that some people had no choice but to use a car and all their excuses were valid, always. So there were lots of comments in an anti car sub just saying "I would lOoOOvVe to ditch my car but its just impossible because..."

    As a car free person, it felt like I didn't belong in that sub. Plus, there was the API scandal at that time and that meant RedditIsFun would stop working eventually. So I abandoned reddit for smaller communities here.

    Unfortunately lemmy has kind of the same issue reddit had. When the post of a small sub/community gains traction, it gets popular beyond its small community and gets "invaded" by people browsing "all", resulting in a majority of comments from users not subscribed to that community.

  • I will be this old man for the rest of my life

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  • You must be aware that they made OneDrive the default location to save files. The 'Save as' dialog box now proposes OneDrive as the default location. So it's more steps than before to achieve the same thing, just because we have to 'go around' OneDrive.

    It's not a question of not knowing how to do it, it's a question of now being forced to go around their crap, shoved in our faces.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • No no no. There will always be solutions to the problems they cause.

    They kill billions of animals every year but we can build nature overpasses. They kill millions of humans every year but we can blame pedestrians for wearing headphones or not looking properly. The tires shed about a quarter of all microplastics in the environment in Canada but surely we will find a technological solution for that eventually. The parking spaces still cause heat islands but we can just cover them with solar panels. Parking also causes flooding because of impervious surfaces but we can just resurface all of them with new materials.

    And soon cars will all run on hydrogen and be totally environmentally friendly. And soon cars will all run on electricity and be totally environmentally friendly. Everyone on the planet just has to buy a new car eventually, keep buying cars, and spend (buy!) energy to move them everywhere they go. But they will be environmentally friendly! Except for all the other issues but surely we will find solutions for them. Save the planet by getting an electric car, the biggest and most expensive consumption object, and have a taste of freedom when paying to fill it with energy.

    /s just in case.

  • Seen on the door of a Fortune Teller

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  • "Reopening postponed due to unforeseen circumstances"

  • Australians banned teens from using social media. Now, Australians are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes

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  • The article doesn't mention any "miles per hour". Do people in Australia use mph?

    In December, the NSW premier, Chris Minns, announced a plan to halve ebikes’ power – and therefore reduce their top speeds – to 250 watts...

  • It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines

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  • It's another reason to avoid those things but TBF, I don't really care about remote intervention on "autonomous" cars because I think the whole idea is stupid. It's for car dependent people that shudder at the idea of taking a bus, but don't mind being at the mercy of a giant corporation for getting everywhere. If your city is big enough to have a fleet of "autonomous" cars, it's big enough to have public transit. And if you don't live in a city, those "autonomous" cars will not be available anyway.

    I am car free and I avoid using taxis unless it's absolutely necessary. My city has transit, with buses and trains. Otherwise I have a bike and can walk. Using a taxi means continuing to be dependent on cars.

    When those first started to come out and be introduced, I was kind of enthusiast and thought it would be great to have a service that could bring me in places where public transit wouldn't. Like, it would be wonderful to have an autonomous car drop me in a provincial park, or in the countryside somewhere. But they are not made for this. They are made to replace public transit in cities, which is absolutely stupid.

    So if I am to pay to be driven somewhere by a taxi, I would feel safer and prefer to have someone behind the wheel locally rather than someone remote controlling the car from the other end of the world. Even if my experience with taxi drivers is less than stellar, it can't be worse than being stuck in a car because it doesn't know how to process a trafic cone placed on its hood.

  • "Bankruptcy Lane" (Art by Barry Deutsch and Becky Hawkins)

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  • And the media gives the business owners all the attention. Every fucking time. Fuck you Quebecor with your Journal de Montréal and TVA always interviewing business owners in front of future bike lane projects.

    Those fuckers complain so much that they sometimes successfully kill bike lane projects and put thousands of cyclists in danger because they would obviously go bankrupt without parking dorectly in front of their business.

  • Nearly half of homeowners want to relocate because of climate-related concerns

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  • But they're gonna continue to consoom and drive their individual giant SUVs everywhere. Don't worry they will be electric so buy buy buy.

    Anyway, AI running in datacenters powered by fossil fuel will surely find a technological solution to our consumption problems.

    Surely we can't just stop consooming.

    And don't forget to recycle!

  • London knife crime vs viral content about London crime

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  • This reminds me of a Republican politician interviewed on TV being told that crime rates were down, and him replying "but I don't FEEL safe".

    Reality doesn't matter.

  • You were saying?

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  • Sometimes people forget what's possible by laying in their comforting bubble.

    I am car free and was looking for a place in the Carribean to go cycling a bit during my vacation. I looked online for a place that had public transit and ended up with Guadeloupe and the island of Marie-Galante for cycling.

    Just to be sure I double checked online and every forum and comment I found was saying that visiting Guadeloupe without a car was impossible; that a car was a necessity. Yet, I knew there was public transit, I had the map and schedules in front of me. So I mentally prepared to have to use a taxi to go everywhere (like in St-Martin, ugh).

    But I arrived at the airport, went outside, saw the panels and arrows to public transit, waited for a bus, and got to the hotel. The next day I took another bus to the ferry terminal then went to Marie-Galante. I rented a bike, cycled around the island, spent a few days there, then came back in reverse using public transit too.

    Apparently what was impossible to visit without a car, can be visited without a car, when we just try a bit.

    I get the same thing when cycling or walking more than a few km. People are like "you walked here?" Why yes, you put one foot in front of another and next thing you know, you're in a different place.

  • Danish shoppers 'vote with their wallets' as they boycott US products

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  • It's a tad ironic that this app runs on Android or Apple phones. People find it easy to avoid physical products but we will have to find technological alternatives too.

    Microsoft, Google, Apple, they will also have to go, I hope.

  • Canada’s Unifor union urges conversion of auto plant to war production

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  • My nation has been under occupation by the English since 1760 and I have no special love for the actual country that was forced on us. The patriots tried to fight against the English; they were captured, and hung. One capitalist master over another, I'm not fighting for that.

    We survived for 260 years in a country that was stolen and in a union that was forced on us. We will endure the Unitedstaters if they take over, as we endured the English.

    Plus, an escalation and more spending on the military is exactly what the orange turd wanted in the first place. You are being played over FUD.

    The world will be such a better place when the poor will fight one another for a line on a map while the rich pockets the money from military equipment sale. But at least everyone is employed and has a job!

  • Canada’s Unifor union urges conversion of auto plant to war production

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  • What a wonderful way to keep people employed, by pivoting from engines destroying the environment and killing people to, well, exactly the same. It's certainly a win for them, and us to continue being paid to make death machines. Their union is smart to want to get a piece of the military budget pie.

    Just like the US, let's have common folks earn a living from making military equipment, and depend on those jobs. Great idea. It's not at all contributing to spending public money on the military instead of useless social programs.

  • Distraction

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  • Yes , that's how Trump and his administration operates. Whether it's on purpose or just the product of a chaotic idiot, that's how it works. Every day is a shit show to make people forget the previous shit show. It's how they can do anything without consequences.

  • TIL how wild animals are vaccinated for rabies en masse

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