edit ok I was wrong here, I understand what people disagreeing with me are saying

The top comment on this thread should be an unqualified “Hell yeah!” not speculation over whether she is going to be murdered.

I am not attacking you, I understand the knee jerk reaction, I am just pointing this out because I think it is true. I also don’t question that you are genuine in your concern, that isn’t what I mean.

To everyone else on this thread, especially if you are white/European or from the US and are white please don’t joke about the President of Mexico getting assassinated given the history with Mexico and the US (and by extension Europe). It isn’t funny, even when you are being sarcastic.

Just be happy for Mexico.

Do it, fucking go crazy, let all your weird fucked up dark fantasies out, as both a very chaotic person but also a very thoughtful and caring person, fucking now is the time to do it.

Linux has gotten really good, drivers are good. You can do it and your headaches will be so much less in the end.

Come over to the bright side.

Let your dark fantasies about doing lots of dirty things through the command line or whatever come true. Install a bunch of open source software and don’t even tell your husband.

It is 2024 do whatever the fuck you want, corporations have completely folded their hands and completely quit even playing the game of providing you (not rich person) with functional visions of products or even functional products. Why? I don’t even know honestly, I mean I am definitely a nerd about open source software and a raging socialist but it is truly astonishing how quick enshittification is in this late stage of 2024, it is the continual experience of standing im front of a massive glacier and watching square kilometer chunks calving and collapsing for no apparent logical reason.

“Bro there is nothing Biden can do more to stop the genocide of Palestinians. You want to risk the Orange man winning again in order to put pressure on Biden to save a paltry handful of Palestinians (what 60,000 people at most we can save?) if we lose it is your fault for Biden refusing to stop a genocide in a country that is entirely under the leverage of US military and political power because you wouldn’t do anything to stop the genocide. Thanks for letting Biden and the rest of us down you selfish prick. You are the reason Trump will win” —-centrist democrats trying to convince me to join into a coalition with them and vote for their candidate.

It really feels like this group of people learned precisely the wrong lesson from Hillary getting demolished in her presidential campaign, i.e. shame voters into voting for you.

Also it’s hilarious these people think Biden gives a fuck about the lives of innocent Palestinians and just can’t do anything to save them because of cold hard geopolitics. Like, those are US fighter jets dropping US bombs by pilots who have likely trained very closely with US fighter pilots, and the sorties being flown to slaughter Palestinians are likely according to training and direction of US military personnel. Not to mention the immense amount of money and political cover Israel gets as a blank check from the US.

It’s like, I’m sorry I hate to break it to you Biden voters but Biden isn’t against Israel’s genocide in any meaningful sense beyond empty rhetoric (remember how he said he couldn’t fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 because of the… parliamentarian…???) and he would rather risk losing the election than listen to the majority of US citizens who disapprove of supporting Israel in it’s heinous actions.

That is the sticking point for me, fuck the big orange guy, but if Biden thinks he can ignore progressives and other voices in the US clamoring to stop this awful genocide and still will this presidential election, I cannot support that kind of cynicism and structural betrayal of the progressive coalition with centrist democrats.

It is shocking how this tragedy exposes how the ideology of centrist democrats is founded on nothing other than an averaging function of people around them, there is no actual substance or beliefs, purely a cynical middle of the road calculation. Most of the time these people slip by fitting into the general conversation around ethics and politics almost invisibly, but the Palestinian genocide truly shows how little these people will ever listen to reason rather than just obsessively tracking what they perceive as the middle ground viewpoint no matter how insane or hurtful it is, even when it is leading to a horrendous mass killing that almost the entire rest of the world utterly condemns (who aren’t Allie’s of the US and afraid to piss us off).

Wtf

I would like to add that Bookstack seems popular though I know not very much about it.

https://www.bookstackapp.com/

This article is a great comparison of self-hosted wiki software including Dokuwiki, Bookstack and Wiki.js

https://xtom.com/blog/self-hosted-wiki/

Others like Joplin seem to have been mentioned plenty enough! It has been a blast reading other people’s responses, thanks everyone. Feels good to contribute to a general pool of information that isn’t owned by some enshittifying company. Threads with so much good information like this make me want a really easy way to turn lemmy comment threads into wiki-like articles associated with the relevant sub-lemmy that link back and forth to the source comments (and their external sources of course). The mods of the sub-lemmy could have control over approving new wiki pages.

Schools should probably just give kids basic computers/tablets, or some kind of non-profit entity should (whether it be government or not, different conversation it doesn’t matter in this context). Those devices, if they are designed to help kids learn not only the information in their classes but more importantly how to learn, i.e. the meta-skill of learning new things and tackling new problems… and just learning how to take notes on a computer in general… then those devices should undoubtedly have Logseq and Syncthing preinstalled on them.

quoted from here https://docs.syncthing.net/users/security.html

Security Principles

Security is one of the primary project goals. This means that it should not be possible for an attacker to join a cluster uninvited, and it should not be possible to extract private information from intercepted traffic. Currently this is implemented as follows.

All device to device traffic is protected by TLS. To prevent uninvited devices from joining a cluster, the certificate fingerprint of each device is compared to a preset list of acceptable devices at connection establishment. The fingerprint is computed as the SHA-256 hash of the certificate and displayed in a human-friendly encoding, called Device ID…

Relay Connections

When relaying is enabled, Syncthing will look up the pool of public relays and establish a connection to one of them (the best, based on an internal heuristic). The selected relay server will learn the connecting device’s device ID. Relay servers can be run by anyone in the general public. Relaying defaults to on. Syncthing can be configured to disable relaying, or only use specific relays.

If a relay connections is required between two devices, the relay will learn the other device’s device ID as well.

Any data exchanged between the two devices is encrypted as usual and not subject to inspection by the relay.

Web GUI

If the web GUI is accessible, it exposes the device as running Syncthing. The web GUI defaults to being reachable from the local host only.

In Short

Parties doing surveillance on your network (whether that be corporate IT, the NSA or someone else) will be able to see that you use Syncthing, and your device IDs are OK to share anyway, but the actual transmitted data is protected as well as we can. Knowing your device ID can expose your IP address, using global discovery.

Protecting your Syncthing keys and identity

Anyone who can access the Syncthing TLS keys and config file on your device can impersonate your device, connect to your peers, and then have access to your synced files. Here are some general principles to protect your files:

If a device of yours is lost, make sure to revoke its access from your other devices.

If you’re syncing confidential data on an encrypted disk to guard against device theft, put the Syncthing config folder on the same encrypted disk to avoid leaking keys and metadata. Or, use whole disk encryption.

^ quoted from here https://docs.syncthing.net/users/security.html

I don’t know of any particular security audits off the top of my head, but I know of a lot of very intelligent computer people who think Syncthing is reasonably trustable (as far as you can trust computers…).

Yes I know they can hack your home server but hey you can make it LAN only right?

Yes, Syncthing does not require internet just a local network, you can build a cabin in the middle of Alaska with no reception of any kind, hook up a solar panel, plug in a router, connect computers and phones with Syncthing software on them and BOOM you are in business. The devices will likely just show up as nearby device_ids that you can just click on in the web gui interface. It is enragingly simple given how obtuse, incompatible or insecure most other alternatives are.

I will never use a non self-hosted notes service. I think it’s ridiculous. You can never fully trust such a system and it’s unnecessary power usage (DNS, all the middlemen, the server, its office etc).

quoted from https://syncthing.net/

Private & Secure

Private. None of your data is ever stored anywhere else other than on your computers. There is no central server that might be compromised, legally or illegally.

Encrypted. All communication is secured using TLS. The encryption used includes perfect forward secrecy to prevent any eavesdropper from ever gaining access to your data.

Authenticated. Every device is identified by a strong cryptographic certificate. Only devices you have explicitly allowed can connect to your other devices.

If you have a security concern, please see the security page for details and contact information.

Open

Open Protocol. The protocol is a documented specification — no hidden magic.

Open Source. All source code is available on GitHub — what you see is what you get, there is no hidden funny business.

Open Development. Any bugs found are immediately visible for anyone to browse — no hidden flaws.

Open Discourse. Development and usage is always open for discussion.

Easy to Use

Powerful. Synchronize as many folders as you need with different people or just between your own devices.

Portable. Configure and monitor Syncthing via a responsive and powerful interface accessible via your browser. Works on macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OpenBSD, and many others. Run it on your desktop computers and synchronize them with your server for backup.

Simple. Syncthing doesn’t need IP addresses or advanced configuration: it just works, over LAN and over the Internet. Every machine is identified by an ID. Give your ID to your friends, share a folder and watch: UPnP will do if you don’t want to port forward or you don’t know how.

Not really a programmer so sometimes I feel bad I don’t have a better way to give back to the projects that have improved my quality of life immensely (and made me much more hopeful of a person).

If I can help even a little bit with raising awareness and connect people with dope open source projects than fuck yeah. Best use of my time possible in my opinion. These tools are seriously powerful, they are made by designers who are far wiser than I will ever be and it is deeply moving to me that they are given out so freely to the world!

Yeah seriously I can’t believe you have the nerve to waltz into this thread and just plop a stinky plain txt turd into our nice punchbowl of needlessly overcomplicated organizational systems and tooling.

/s

Also I talked about SyncThing elsewhere on the thread in my annoyingly long comment so I won’t repeat it all, but you will never sync or transfer files between computers & phones any other way than Syncthing once you see the light I promise (I mean unless you are regularly moving 100s of gigs lol). Syncthing is slick as fuck and it just does what it does no bullshit. The web browser UI has a damn QR code reader utility so if your computer/phone has an attached camera you don’t even have to text/email a long key or manually type it out.

https://syncthing.net/

Org Mode & Emacs, Logseq, Dokuwiki and Syncthing

C-h f context-of-joke-image RET

#+name: emacs-lisp-example
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(M-x (eval-expression "THE-emacs-superhero"))
   
#+end_src

I don’t know if Microsoft’s choices to drive windows into the ground are going to have an immediate impact on Linux adoption (though you certainly see some governments trialing Linux right now because of it) but in the medium term they basically demand that Linux increase in users by a massive amount.

I know business not gaming is where Microsoft sees the value of Windows (and there is wayyyyyy more money in selling software for business) but I think a strategic defeat is happening right now with the steam deck taking off and more broadly the association in computer nerd’s minds that windows is the operating system to stick with is essentially all but evaporated from the series of bogglingly condescending decisions Microsoft has made about the future development of windows.

They lost, this period will gone down as a historic unforced error of a tech company undermining the foundation of their profits to make a bit more profits in the near term. They could have kept linux gaming mostly a pipe dream indefinitely if they just made sure windows wasn’t ever tooooo shitty of an experience for gaming, but now the dam is broken and though it might not be a flood all it once, the people leaving windows are never coming back and the movement of users away from windows will erode the levee behind the dam, compromising Microsoft’s basic ability to hold on to users, for gaming or business.

It starts with a trickle, but before we know it in a blink of an eye that trickle is going to cut a channel and slips its fingers back under the dam and destabilize the entire thing, and then it will be a massive rush of users leaving that Microsoft can’t control at all because they ignored the issue until the process was way past a point of no return.

Honestly Wine and Bottles are both pretty great at running windows programs these days, I wouldn’t worry to much about that so long as you check and make sure the critical software you need works.

I of course have a deep love for coffee, I am always trying to get myself more into tea but usually it just doesn’t do it for me.

I do like green tea quite a bit though.

Any recommendations for non-dairy milk that goes well with black or green tea?

I do I just wish they believed in me.

sigh

I would be absolutely amazing at this job, I do this naturally, I am inescapably an agent of chaos.

A challenge most people fail in video games for unfair reasons will generally be considered a badly designed element of that game by fans and critics.

Meanwhile the challenge of making it ahead in modern life, which most people fail at out of no fault of their own even if they play the cards they were dealt as smartly as possible… is considered a perfectly good design element of adult life.

🫤

On a lighter note I really wish the pinging system in games like Alex legends could be combined with a simple face recognition overlay (that only pulls from your semiprivate private network of photos with friends under certain sharing conditions) that just reminded you of people’s names and maybe very succinctly their connection with you.

Spotify being as cheap as it is, has always been a temporary tactic to destroy competition, not an indicator of how cheap Spotify will be once competition was utterly destroyed.

Prices will keep going up and up, but the normalization of artist’s labor being worthless will remain unchanged and the only artists that get a share of Spotify’s increasing profits will be artists that make specific deals with Spotify.

The music industry has been utterly destroyed, this is the fail state, the worst case scenario, especially given the fact that Bandcamp is functionally dead as a force for musicians after it was bought by Epic.

With Covid and the wake of Covid with a return to various aspects of austerity in the US… well most connections I would have had on something like facebook are now trivial or obliterated. There has been a progressive narrowing among most (not all) of the social circles I perceive including family connections.

I really can’t stand Instagram though so I was already fairly isolated before and I am sure plenty of other people have had opposite experiences.