Europe PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 100%

Fiona Scott Morton ends up turning down top EU post

The appointment of the American economist, who consults for companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Pfizer, had been the subject of much criticism.

Linux PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 100%

SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment

SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.

It's tough to restart a community from scratch and I was wondering what was your thought process.

The upvote system is way too rudimentary to work efficiently. The upvote incite people to post to become more popular, not to post more interesting content. One metric is not enough, the upvote system combines both "funny" and "interesting" in the same metric. Soon it's the funny content that is pushed to the top, because it's a more common characteristic. But this is how you get memes, emotional and basic screenshot of tweets to the top of the frontpage. And this is probably what you don't want. So either we add more type of votes,for example two arrows, like an arrow "interesting" and another arrow "funny" or we get rid of them, leaving only the "report" button. Get rid of reputation too. Some people are already chain downvoting in rage. What good do you think will happen out of a reputation score? People will just spit on you. People are emotional, don't put a gun in their hands. "The downvote is useful to get rid of antivaxx"? You have a report button for that. And while the downvote button gets rid of antivaxx, it pushes memes to the top, destroying the platform itself. The benefit of the downvote button doesn't compensate for the flaws of the voting system. The best way for an antivaxx to get his content visible? It is to get blocked! If he is blocked he cannot be downvoted anymore afaik. So it's all good for him. Even the block system doesn't really work as intended and has nasty side effects. Because yes, you won't see it, but other will, and they will adhere, and they will upvote and post more antivaxx stuff, and inspire more antivaxx people. And I'm not even starting with the bots and scripting systems, which will detect who downvoted you and will "revenge downvote" for you. Do you want all your post to appear with a starting minus 5 attached to it because you posted about veganism 3 months ago? That's what you will get. All it takes is 5 people who don't like the way you talk, and a script. And all your posts will go down the drain as soon as you post them. \--\> The system need either higher granularity or we need to get rid of the voting system, and keep only one button: "report", with a mandatory 60 characters comment with it. \<--

Pinning what is relevant takes too much space. Do we have an alternative?

Atheism PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 88%

Iran hangs pair in rare blasphemy case as executions surge

> > > The Mizan news agency of Iran's judiciary confirmed the executions, describing the two men as having insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad and promoted atheism. > > > > > “The international community must show with its reaction that executions for expressing an opinion is intolerable,” he said in a statement. “The refusal of the international community to react decisively is a green light for the Iranian government and all their like-minded people around the world.” > > > > > It wasn't immediately clear when Iran carried out its last execution for blasphemy. Other countries in the Middle East, like Saudi Arabia, also allow for death sentences to be imposed for blasphemy. > >

Fediverse PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 94%

Those of you hosting a peertube instance, how much money does it cost you?

And did you monetize your infrastructure? If so, how?

Reddit Migration PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 66%

Jim is invading the "finer things club", aka kbin.social is only our launchpad for the fediverse. We should think about finding another instance soon.

For the last few weeks we enjoyed a much better content on kbin than we had on reddit for a long time. But it is coming to an end as more and more people will be leaving reddit for kbin. With them the trolls, the spammers and the ultrapoliticized americans. They want to push their ideology and there are legions of them. Even though kbin is not american anymore, the sheer numbers and obsession of american people with their politics will quickly outnumber any other content here. The voting system will make your post about pertinent news sink to the bottom of the frontpage. Lost under the "Trump he said/she said" routine. The same thing that happened on reddit will happen on kbin: people will come for the politics and then spread in others magazines for a quick, uninteresting meme reply. The articles on the web are still designed to infuriate the readers, so they react and create free ragecontent, and they will do it here. They will get infuriated here, just the same as they did on reddit. This mechanics hasn't changed by changing platform. The NSFW content is coming, the political memecontent is coming, making the idea of federating this instance with any respectable other pole of interest impossible. If we are to name the federations, this one will become the *greentext* type of federation. Not a dangerous anarchist federation but certainly a pariah one. That's why if you really are interested into discussing with people, you would be very well inspired to do it on another instance than kbin.social. Do it on a local instance, where the news are directed by people of your geographical region. Your default instance can only be a regional one, I can't see a global instance like "kbin.social" being not raided by americans with a political agenda. But they won't step a foot in madrid.social or berlin.social. In a sense it's even better if kbin.social can polarize and hold the kind of population which is hypnotized by number and popularity. The right usage of the fediverse should be to pick a local instance near you and only subscribe to niche magazines in different instances based on your specific needs. The fediverse project will be tested with very high numbers of users now, and I don't think that the implicit federation model which is to accept everything by default and block some will survive the waves of political trolls. The federations will split and specialize, and will defederate en masse. The most sought after federations will become the technology ones, which will probably become picky on the creation of random magazines, like news and politics, since it attracts the worst in content creators. The kbin.social experiment will lead to a more strict moderation model in other instances and probably different way to count votes. I don't think that kbin.social will ever come back from being a perpetual testbench of a social platform. So don't fall in love with your account on kbin, instead you should get ready to jump to another instance which will inevitably open on a server near you.

Reddit Migration PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 98%

What was the subreddit that represented to you the best example of downspiral of quality? To me it was /r/dataisbeautiful

At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.

Linux PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 98%

Reminder that RedHat makes A LOT of money already. The results of the 2019 fiscal year show that RedHat spends twice as much money on ads and sales people than on developers.

Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money. > > > Operating expense, in thousands (2019,2018): > > > > > Sales and marketing 1,378,278 1,195,286 > > > > > Research and development 668,542 578,330 > > > > > General and administrative 304,766 239,316 > > > > > Total operating expense 2,351,586 2,012,932 > > Let's stop talking about Fedora/redhat, we are literally doing their job for them, for free. Oh, btw, their gross profit is mentioned here. > > > Gross profit (thousands) 2,863,818 2,488,664 > > > > > Net income (thousands) 433,988 261,851 > > That's why I had such bad support experience, because they chose to hire sales people instead of engineers. You have a better chance of being hired by redhat if you are a salesman. [It's as Steve Jobs said, when the sales people take the power in the company](http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2016/11/steve-jobs-on-what-happens-to-companies_2.html). > > > "If you were a ‘product person’ at IBM or Xerox: so you make a better copier or better computer. So what? When you have a monopoly market-share, the company’s not any more successful. So the people who make the company more successful are the sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the ‘product people’ get run out of the decision-making forums."
 > > The core of their business is made by the open source community. If they need our help for something, it's from saving them from drowning into money. We need to jump ship from redhat just like we did from reddit. This is also the perfect opportunity to think about technical solutions on how to use the fediverse to finance the developers of the open source community.

Debian — The Universal Operating System PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 87%

Is there a guide that you would recommend to a Fedora refugee?

You may see an influx of invaders caused by the decision from redhat...

News PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 92%

Paris 2024 Olympic headquarters searched in corruption investigations

The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee and those of its infrastructure partner were searched by police on Tuesday as part of investigations into alleged embezzlement of public funds and favoritism, prosecutors said. The national financial prosecutor's office (PNF) said the Paris 2024 headquarters were raided amid a…

Fediverse PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 90%

About the legality of hosting video/music content on the fediverse and the case of Youtube

The content hosted on Youtube cannot be 100% hosted legally. It is impossible to believe that you can find a full album of Pink Floyd hosted on Youtube and that's a legal thing. This is an extract from the support page of Google: > > > Videos removed or blocked due to YouTube's contractual obligations > > > > > YouTube enters into agreements with certain music copyright owners to allow use of their sound recordings and musical compositions. > > What is the bottom line here? Is Youtube big enough to be allowed to publish full albums of Pink Floyd? Or does Youtube pay a dime to Universal so they are allowed to publish the audio content? My question is: If Youtube can go away Scot's free with this, why can't the fediverse? If we start to host massive video/audio content, what will happen to the fediverse?

Reddit Migration PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 50%

[PRAW] Is there any way to search a specific sub for all your comments?

I have a loop that will search for my content everywhere, I also have another loop to search a specific sub, but I cannot find a way to do both filters in the same loop. '''for submission in reddit.subreddit("sub").hot(limit=10000)''' '''for comment in redditor.comments.hot(limit=10000):''' The problem is the 1000 limit, if I try to refine the content with python while in the loop, then these 1000 results will miss the target, and 99% of those results will be comments of other people. The result is that a lot of my comments won't be touched. I can see a lot of it in search engines. How did you do to remove as many comments as possible? I know you can also sort by controversial but I was wondering is there is a PRAW finesse that I could use here.

Atheism PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 100%

Atheist experience in Africa | The Guardian Nigeria News

This article shows that atheists experience hate and intolerance, physical and psychological mistreatments. This piece argues that the apparent invisibility of atheism in Africa is linked to these experiences. In other words atheists are treated in ways that compel them to hide their atheism.

No need for them to chase the next big platform like reddit/facebook/google+, and no need to create "official accounts" on each. I see that DJI has a sub on reddit for example, but you need to register an account on reddit to post there. With the fediverse, you as a customer need only one account and you could access the instance of multiple companies. DJI could run its own instance, make their rules, federate whoever they want, (will probably allow respectable instances only, like what kbin aspires to be) and that's it, they don't have to adapt to the changing rules of reddit, of twitter, of facebook. They have one point for publishing, with full control over it, with video, firmware downloads, tech support, etc. It's so much easier for them. A perfect neutral territory, no weird jurisdiction, no worries of being muted by a Trump for example who would impose a boycott like he did on Huawei.

Fediverse PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 80%

Is there any notion of unique identification in the fediverse?

I mean between tools, no instances. I want to share pictures (pixelfed) and videos (peertube), do have to create an account on one instance of each tool that I want to use? Is there a single point of entry somewhere?

Atheism PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 50%

There are over 3,100 primary schools in Ireland. Almost 90% of these taxpayer-funded schools are controlled by Catholic patrons, while a further 5% are run by Protestant denominations.

> > > Half an hour of class time is spent every day in these schools on faith formation/evangelisation – this does not include daily prayers, regular trips to church, unannounced visits by clergy, and so on. > >

Atheism PabloDiscobar • 1y ago • 0%

Evangelical Protestants are 29% to say that God is in control of the climate.

Nine-in-ten atheists say the Earth is getting warmer mostly due to human activity, as do 78% of agnostics. Evangelical Protestants are the least likely to express this view (32%).

Someone here already has 12 subs on his own. We would be inspired to avoid the era of the power mods. Moding should involve an interest, not just collecting rings of infinity like it's a gold rush. How can it be a good practice in the long term? mentalhealth shitposting showerthoughts linux\_gaming Stoicism Philippines philosophy ArtificialIntelligence Futurology copypasta singularity aitools