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[ Cisheterosexual | He/Him | 24 yo | ES/EN | Venezuelan | ADHD, autism and bipolar disorder ]


I'm just a random weeb. I love anime, dubstep, science, philosophy, logic and tech all along.

PS: English isn't my native language, so sorry if I mispell some things, please kindly point it to me.

  • I don't have a good internet connection, my old laptop has a bad battery and runs slow as a snail, not to mention that it overheats and shuts down for whatever reason. To that we add that my main PC is a desktop, and in my country the electricity service is rubbish (we can go up to 8 hours without electricity), AI has left me without a good income from work (I am a freelance musician and I have been able to see how demand has decreased dramatically), so the money with luck and effort is enough for me to survive month after month, with a currency that is constantly devalued and arbitrary price increases (even in foreign currencies, like dollars), and I do not have the time or energy to keep everything in order. order. Also, the router in my house isn't mine, it's a guy's, so I can't open ports, and buying or renting a VPS isn't an option either because, first, there aren't any that support registrations from my country and, second, we're back to square one: my income is meager and uncertain.

    Please, think a bit before speaking, not everyone has a decent socioeconomic situation.

  • As an explanatory note, it's nothing against you, it's just a defense of how I expressed myself; I'm trying my best to be civil, cordial and respectful—as much as I can—, and I ask you to be reciprocal on that.

  • As I said before, I just said it as a saying, no malice intended, and as I said too, they're de facto similar to mastodon.today, so that's why I called them so. I could be more clear and specific? Of course, but I don't have infinite mental—and mental too—energy, and I didn't had sufficient of it at that moment. You shouldn't thus make hasty conclusions about the intentions or thoughts of another person. You can of course ask for more details if you want, but you're not about to know the circumstances under something was wrote or said—in my case, I was hugely tired so I hadn't time nore energy to lose 30 minutes of my life searching on internet for something that at the very end isn't really important to the point of my post.

    About the IQ, where I said something about that? I don't really understand where do you take that from; I never boasted about any of that, you can read my post again so you can see that I never made any comments about my IQ or anyone else's. It's taken totally out of nowhere.

    And about your disinformation claims, that's defamation and I feel (although of course I can't say for sure, so I won't affirm or deny anything about it) that there is some kind of malice behind it, because again, as I mentioned before, you are completely going around the bush, taking a lot of things out of context and inventing others, and on top of that exaggerating something that is not even the point of the post and at most is a stupid mistake due to oversight, without even trying to take the context into account.

  • Not everybody has the resources—mental and material—to self host—and that's my case too. And the entire point of my post is to remark the fact that's really hard to find truly free speech-oriented Fediverse instances; it was truly a miracle to find these three in Pleroma, and though many other exists for other software (let's say, Mastodon or Lemmy), they're way more hidden and most of them use a language I don't speak.

    You should think twice about that sort of things before telling "just self-host bro", take this as an advice.

  • In fact; is committing a fallacy of intransitivity, that's a type of non sequitur fallacy.

    And that's how it is in Cuba and in my country too, and that's why I'm able to believe that about Cuba in the first place.

    The Cuban and Venezuelan governments are the same: the vast majority of the population is below the global thresholds of extreme poverty, in a very precarious situation, where basic services do not work most of the time (in my country we are privileged compared to Cuba; here at least water can reach us from time to time, even if it takes a long time [normally more than a month; although the duty is that it is always present], and the electricity is cut off 8 hours a day [at least that is how it is in the state] where alive], but there is almost no drinking water service and the normal thing is that there is no electricity; they can be without electricity service for more than 18 hours); but obviously they are not going to demonstrate that just as in Brazil they are not going to show you the Favelas, they directly create tourist areas that are a bubble isolated from the reality of the country. It is simply a political ploy to pretend that everything is fine, a facade.

  • Oof, that's a bit too much... 🫨

  • Exactly.

  • Aight. I don't think that they really understand Marx or Engels or socialism and communism at all.

  • Along with how to destroy an entire's country economy, quality of life and democracy. I don't think either that Cuba represent any kind of threat to the US, but for a really different reason than you. You can't defend Baphomet just to fight Lucifer, because both are two pieces of shit. And how do I lnow this? Because I personally know Cubans, and my country is going in the same direction (and is more or less the same: Venezuela).

  • 🙌

  • Anyone in Silicon Valley, but especially Sam Altman, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and anyone who has anything to do with Apple.

  • Yeah, although Podman it's totally compatible with both Docker syntax and Dockerfiles, but I get you, I'll be more cautious on the future.

    Thanks for the advice! And again, sorry if I caused any trouble.

  • Thanks for the invitation and advice! I would love to do it but I don't know if I have the makings of a moderator. Although perhaps someone would be interested in moderating it, luckily that is Fediverse.

    Anyway, I'm not sure where or how to create a community on my clients (Blorp on Android and Photon PWA on desktop [along with Interstellar when I don't want to—or can't—have my browser open]).

    PS: It's kind of funny the specificity of the percentage, I love it! 😄

  • Mainly because its rootles nature, but also because it follows better the minimun privilege philosophy in a broader way than just simply being rootless.

    I also didn't intend to speak arrogantly or patronizingly, I'm truly sorry if it turned out that way.

  • What I'm trying to do is just question the OP about that

  • Uh-Oh

    Jump
  • When your pharmacist suddenly starts liking Trump

  • The first thing is why Docker, when Podman exists and it's way better?

  • You can just then manually edit its configuration files.

    Or use Bwrap along with that.

  • Then create your own Flatpak or use Bubblewrap (that's what Flatpak uses under the hood). Along with OpenSnitch and some good DNS (I particularily recommend HaGeZi's server, and hBlock for hosts-level blocking) it should be (sufficiently) good.

  • It's possible in theory, hard in practice. You can, for example, look if they have any repo with their fork (if they forked) or mirror (if just mirrored for one reason or another). Well, that's the easy part. But even if so, you could think that you can't know if the code in the repo is the same as the running one. But that's not always true, as for example if the code has reproducibility guarantees; just like in F-Droid, or in Nix, or in Guix. There are projects that make it more localized, at the application level, publishing everything from the compilation recipes along with their scripts and DBOM, to their default configurations. If they claim that the program they are running follows just those structures but you cannot reproduce it when compiling or self-hosting, you may become suspicious. Of course, divergence adds another problem here, and the method is not perfect either since it depends on there being a certain initial assertion to test against your evidence, but it is much better than nothing. And I don't know in any case why you would join an instance that claims to be reproducible but does not give access to its code or one that gives access to non-reproducible code.