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  • How decentralized is Bluesky/ATProto?

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  • Personal data storage can be decentralized, although that's missing the social part of the social network.

    Identities are set up through a centralized system that in theory they could change, but I wouldn't bet on it.

    Relays supposedly can be decentralized, but need to handle all data on the network. So they require massive hosting costs that keep going up as more people use bluesky. Only large corporations can likely afford to run them, and that hasn't happened yet.

  • Post What You Love

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  • I think it's because instagram, youtube, and facebook are way bigger than reddit, so people coming from them are less likely to go to lemmy.

    But the way the fediverse works means they are useful even if they aren't that popular yet. People can follow peertube accounts from mastodon or lemmy. I follow tons of mastodon accounts from my pixelfed acccount. And friendica can handle almost any type of content.

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  • That's definitely a factor to consider, but running binary blobs that you don't have the source for is also a risk. It comes down to what threat vectors you think are important and what risks you're willing to take.

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  • It's probably because they use busybox instead of gnu utilities so it's not technically GNU/Linux, but yeah.

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  • Short answer is Trisquel if you like Ubuntu/Debian, Parabola if you like Arch, and Guix if you like frustration.

    The libre kernel is a bit of a pain regarding wifi and bluetooth, and depending on your graphics card the drivers aren't going to run quite as well. You might need to get new a wireless card/usb, since there's only a few modern chips that work with it.

    There's a list of distros on gnu.org that use the libre kernel by default, if you want to look at more options. PureOS is based on Debian focused on privacy and security. Hyperbola is based on Arch with 32 bit and BSD options.

    Personally I use Guix, which is an amazing abomination with awesome features that most people don't care about. I wouldn't recommend it for most people unless you are coming from NixOS, know a lisp dialect, and/or are willing to put in a lot of effort.

  • Is there any known browser extension that can force websites into dark mode?

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  • There's also Midnight Lizard. It's more powerful, but more resource intensive so I wouldn't recommend on phones or older systems.

  • Just made a Firefox add-on that autoselects your last used language of your Lemmy posts to automatically select it again next time.

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  • Looks good. I've always found it annoying that lemmy doesn't do this by default.

    I'm not sure about the license though. Creative Commons recommends against using their licenses for software, since it doesn't include terms regarding source code, doesn't handle patents, and it's usually incompatible with free software licenses.

  • Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky

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  • Identities are somewhat decentrallized, but it's pretty different from ActivityPub. People can host user data separately, but it isn't really an instance. It is technically possible to have other relays (basically instances), but requires handling all the data on bluesky to connect to it. It would cost probably 50-100k USD/year, and that number will go up as more people join or if there's more relays.

  • Recommend me a LaTeX/TeX live equivalent app for Android

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  • Is there a community where I can ask for FOSS Android apps?

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  • Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web

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  • Google is still appealing it, so at best that will happen next year. But yeah, they're probably adjusting their budget in anticipation.

  • Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web

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  • Mozilla is set up as a non-profit with a for profit company as a subsidiary. The corporate Mozilla handles working on Firefox, mostly using money from Google for setting it as the default search engine. Because of that separation I don't think they can easily mix those two piles of money together.

    There's this section from their FAQ:

    Don’t Mozilla products, like Firefox, earn income?

    Firefox is maintained by the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. While Firefox does produce revenue — chiefly through search partnerships — this earned income is largely reinvested back into the Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation’s education and advocacy efforts, which span several continents and reach millions of people, are supported by philanthropic donations.

  • Pixelfed.social Account Review Time

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  • They seem to be mostly ignoring pixelfed while launching loops. You could always just join a different server. There's a list on pixelfed.org.

  • Is pixelfed.social dead?

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  • They were launching loops.video this week, so I'd guess they're busy with that.

  • FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications

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  • I feel like it's really far from being open. Besides the training data not being open, the more popular ones like llama and stable diffusion have these weird source available licenses with anti-competitive clauses, user count limits, or arbitrary morality clauses.

  • YouTube is now hiding the skip button on mobile too

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  • No. It's got a "source available" license allowing only non-commercial use, and revokes the license for anyone who tries to sue them.

  • Google now requires JavaScript

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  • I think they switched to usually using bing results last year. Their support site mentions they use both backends. I'd guess which one you get depends on which API is cheaper for each country.

  • 17 subtitle languages, none of them the one I'm looking for

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  • I think that's still closed, just poorly done in a way that isn't very accessible.

  • 17 subtitle languages, none of them the one I'm looking for

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  • That's what burned in means.

    I added an extra line break, but it already looked fine in the default webview and in Jerboa. Normally lists don't need line breaks around them.