I think when you pay RHEL you mostly pay for support, custom dev and stuff like that so I would say it's really not worth the trouble getting the software.

Fuck spotify. Unlike video which poses some infrastructure challenges, musical files are tiny and bandwidth costs are ridiculous. Internet should allow us to give money to the artists directly, not to some greedy evil corp that makes billions without giving artist their fair share. Bandcamp is the closest we have to that. Related: https://neurodifferent.me/@clowncollege/109994297731928004

Anarchy is not the absence of rules but the absence of authority.

Anarchists tend to think that fear of the state is not the main reason why we don't murder each other. In other words, following rules that are understood does not require the stick. Anarchists also tend to think that authority mostly enforce rules to maintain itself, and that the common good actually relies on something else.

Ass-to-ass.

Yes, it's totally fantastic, and I'm not biased at all when I talk about it. xD

Spotify shareholders say thanks. The artists, not so much. Keep your spotify money to go to concerts or buy albums on bandcamp. Spotify is the worst.

Matrix tries to kill XMPP but the reality is that if you want to self-host, XMPP is much less of a hassle. Also, Matrix is an open standard as in "pay big money to participate in the openness". https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/01/funding-matrix-via-the-matrix-org-foundation/

Membership comes at various levels, each with different rewards:

Individual memberships (i.e. today’s Patreon supporters):
    Ability to vote in the appointment of up to 2 ‘community representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
    Name on the Matrix.org website
Silver member: between £2,000 and £80,000 per year, depending on organisation size
    Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 2 ‘Silver representative’ to the Foundation's governing board
    Supporter logo on the front page of the new Matrix.org website
Gold member: £200,000 / year, adds:
    Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 3 ‘Gold representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
    Press release announcing the sponsorship
    1 original post on the Matrix.org blog per year
    Participation in the internal Spec Core Team room
    Larger logo on the front page of Matrix.org
Platinum member: £500,000 / year, adds:
    Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 5 ‘platinum representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
    1 sponsored Matrix Live episode per year
    Largest logo on the front page of Matrix.org

I would suggest airvpn over mullvad as they allow port forwarding, which will make torrenting work better.

It's excellent. Too bad there is no lidarr integration yet. I manually run beet import once a download is done, but I'd like to automate that at some point.

Oh that "teletext" thing I guess, I get it. I remember using subtitles from this source in France in the 90s, and it was never that off sync. I guess the way they're ripped may make the offsyncedness worse.

Nah, because it's like no text for 30 secs, then "3 lines per second" (faster than you can read), then more or less synced, then again too slow/too fast. That teletext explanation someone else gave is more plausible. I cannot believe that the original are that bad, so my guess is that the way they're ripped has issues.

It does support a crazy amount of networks (it uses libpurple which is the lib of pidgin), unfortunately it lacks modern features and even groups don't work that well. I actually started to work on slidge because I was fed up with spectrum2's limitations and realised that spectrum2's maintainer think, like many others, that XMPP is dead...

Let's say you risk nothing if you murder. Would you start right away going on a killing spree ? Chances you think "I won't but others will" and others actually think the same. An anarchist would probably analyse this by saying that destroying trust between indivuals living together is a basic tool power use to justify its domination. A pedantic anarchist would get his Latin out at this point. Divide et impera.

By your logic, murders don't happen anymore in liberal democracies?

It isn't some deep philosophy indeed. It's very practical and not a church in any way. Anarchists usually don't care about people calling themselves anarchists, but consider that some stuff like counter measures to absolute power that our institutions have, gender equality and some other stuff are things they've been pushing for a while.

At its very core, anarchism is the refusal of any fundamental dogma, and in some ways very related to the scientific method and rationalism. This is probably a more personal take than what I've written so far ;-)

Chill out man, we aren't coming to behead you or anything. <3

But what is dead may never die!

If transmission is running in a container, my latest blog post is actually about that: https://www.nicoco.fr/blog/2023/09/10/wireguard/

Oh indeed, I dont't think it was better before. But technology should be about making things better, shouldn't it?

The very definition of fascism yes, nazism being "commenting on articles without reading them", and communism obviously being "being triggered by feminism".

Anarchists usually think that a lot of murderers actually get away with it in our actual world, be it through war crimes, neglecting sanitary or safety rules to maximise profit; you can extend this list with a lot of legal murders.

Anarchism definitely does not define a specific rule for what to do with murderers. Different communities might want to handle that differently. They usually think that prison does not solve anything though, and that only the poor get sent there anyway.

I think a mistake is to think that anarchism is a "feature-complete" view of the world, when it really is the realisation that power corrupts, and that we should keep this in mind when organising ourselves. Arguably, over the long run, anarchist views are winning: institutions that prevent - in theory - crazy psychopath from taking absolute power, churches losing power over our lives, women considered as human beings; these are things anarchists have pushed for, for 2 centuries. This short essay might give you more insight: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you

Oh it's mot just me then? It does feel to me that it's actually slower to open a pwa-installed app than just opening the website in Firefox (lineageos is my ROM).

I use beets and soulseek but my ambitions are lower than yours.

Here

(I'm the maintainer) I do use the messenger bridge and it works for me, without disconnection issues.