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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I saw the writing on the wall a few years back, it was so painfully obvious. I started switching to KiCAD early, and feel so bad for ever recommending Eagle to people who will now have to learn yet another new tool in order to find something usable.

Fusion360 is so bad, I had to explain why SolidWorks was different earlier today and they were shocked by things like "if I move the case the board I say is attached to the case moves to" and "I don't have to align it by eye, it's a computer".

And I'm definitely not starting VMWare to run Fusion360 with nonsense online components that slow it down to uselessness and integrate it into a tool that doesn't need to be on at all... it's just not possible. It was obvious once they stopped updating the version. It's pathetic nonetheless that they cannot think beyond the one-true-way of integrating a dozen mediocre tools into one extra-mediocre product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for looking, and indeed signal still works fine on my desktop computers with the VPN running.

Really feels like their tech support was lying. I do just enough of this that the recommendation makes my eyes glaze over while sounding transparently wrong. Suddenly I need open UDP and TCP ports, but only on my phone (computer is fine) and only as of a few weeks ago (prior to that it was fine)? What?

Allow *.whispersystems.org, *.signal.org, updates.signal.org, TCP port 443, and UDP traffic. If you have a transparent or reverse proxy it needs to support WebSockets. Signal uses a non-standard TCP port to catch filtering issues at the signaling step and also utilizes a random UDP port. All UDP ports will need to be opened. The underlying IPs are constantly changing, so it'd be hard to define accurate firewall rules.

If the wildcard FQDN config is not working properly and you notice issues with calling, allow turn2.voip.signal.org, turn3.voip.signal.org and sfu.voip.signal.org. These are subject to change at anytime.

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I've discovered that I can only successfully connect to signal's server with my VPN on my phone if I turn off the kill switch in the network manager.

To my knowledge this is new in the last few weeks. I've tried every protocol and exit servers in random countries but everything breaks with the kill switch.

This is very worrying. I sent a bug report but this feels like an intentional thing and I'm curious if others are finding that signal is trying to talk to the server via an unobscured IP address.

Extremely concerning about motives...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I mean, largely to me this is fine and great as long as the reverse is also true. It's fabulous to have two totally independent systems that are fully interoperable to such an extent.

I don't think there's a meaningful competition in growth or anything, that's just a number. The main downside is reduced development focus...

But -- If Lemmy is like a frontend for kbin and vice versa, isn't that fine? The Lemmy apps will load kbin posts and kbin apps will load lemmy posts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

TL;DR: I think it is basically impossible to have that much money and claim it was earned ethically. Therefore it is basically impossible to be "good" without giving it away.

I think that it is borderline impossible to ethically accrue that much wealth. Is it possible? Maybe? I'd love to hear more examples of where a company owner made sure all their employees shared in the success when the company is large enough that the owner is that rich. I remember hearing that Google did right by their early employees, but it's been the exception that makes the rule and was also a long time ago in a different world where their ethics were different anyway.

And if you inherit that much wealth, what are the odds that it came to you free and clear of having been generated from exploiting others? Colonizing/"settling" and redlining making property values super high? Using eminent domain to tear down minority major communities for the sake of putting an interstate down the middle instead of risking devaluing the richest people's property more? Because odds are that even if they didn't cause the system they certainly benefited from it.

And unfortunately, "charity" is a horror in the USA because it's used as a very bad and very biased by rich people version of an actual welfare system that worked. The idea that there are food banks operating off donations while billionaires exist is horrific. If billionaires did not exist I frankly think that a lot more things like food banks (and public transit maybe?) would find themselves with funding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
 

Been rolling this over in my head for a bit, and am curious what makes sense to other folks.

From a user side, they can choose to add magazines/communities from any instance to a group that they define and give a nickname. This gives an individual user the only say in deciding what magazines should show up in the same place.

Any automated way of doing this is going to be hard and have edge cases, I think this is a small amount to ask and people could share collections from different instances to bootstrap. But if someone really hates the vibe of a particular instance's version of a topic (or doesn't think it's moderated to their liking) they can disconnect from it with one button.

On the posting side, it makes sense that the user would need to select one particular instance to make their "primary" for the purposes of posting.

The mods from the primary instance would be responsible for their posts; the mixing of posts from different instances would be entirely defined by the user so there's no need to think about cross-instance moderation.

The result is that you're able to follow things in a way that is convenient for you, but there's no guarantee that someone else will necessarily see your post unless they follow your primary instance.

That seems like the right balance to me, to make virtual communities large enough to be useful without forcing everyone to join the biggest instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I appreciated that on Mastodon I had the ability to hide stats from my UI view, no harm making it optional I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not from reddit, what is a reputation and what practical effect does it have? Is it just upvotes minus downvotes?

I found a reputation in my profile of "1" but I don't have a clue where that came from. I'm not sure why we need to have scores associated with our accounts, that in itself seems toxic to me to care about (clout chasing).

Upvoting comments in threads makes sense, I'm just not seeing any actual practical connection with the thing called "reputation" on my profile. What does it do in a best case?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I think that bots that repost automatically are lame, personally, but as long as they are clearly tagged and I have the ability to ignore anything from any bot that's fine. We had the same issue on Mastodon, I still can't figure out how to straight up block bots on there which is frustrating so instead I just filter out any posts that say "twitter" or "RT".

I don't have any issue with bots as long as they're easy to block across the board instead of individually.

I do think it's lame and that y'all are better than that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I wonder if China has a favorite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can't control when you do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've been kind of suggesting the same thing a few times inside of posts. I'm coming at it from the perspective of having had to do a lot of in-person recruiting for voluntary activities, mentoring, and teaching -- you cannot tell people things like "you should just join lemmy/kbin" -- you have to wait for them to ask "how do I join lemmy/kbin?"

That's okay! It just means that the focus when introducing people to it has to be "here's what you're missing", positive about where they could go rather than negative about where they are.

It's an uphill battle trying to argue with people who do have a point about it being harder to use (we shouldn't gaslight people), but they're also saying what the audience is wanting to hear because it gives them permission to do nothing.

How many are just admin accounts or sock puppets for some agenda or another anyway?

Consider focusing on the positive -- link to specific posts on these systems that are objectively worth going to participate in. They don't need an account to read and enjoy.

Then, if they discover that they wish that they could participate in the thread -- that is the time to explain that they should just join whatever instance the post they really enjoyed was on for starters. They'll realize that they can see magazines from other instances, probably after a week when they realize other instance domain names are showing up on things. Then some nice person explains what's going on.

And now they've convinced themselves it's worth joining...

 

Discovering features in kbin -- can't find "approve follow request".

I can't follow my account here from my Mastodon account, but I found that I can search for famous accounts like @Gargron but not my own on scholar.social doesn't show up in search. Is this the quirk with instances not supporting something? I remember seeing it but am not finding where the explanation on what to do is.

#AskKbin

 

I think it's worth suggesting that because it gives more diversity in moderation styles it'd be good to have a list of all the kbin servers (public or with approval) so that we can see where else might be good.

Is this an existing thread? I can only easily find the three main ones in the primary website, perhaps this can be a git repository or even a google doc... I personally would prefer smaller niche instances when people make one that fits my interests.

#fediverse

 

What is a "reputation point"? It seems to work differently than other forums I've seen in that it only counts downvotes, is that how it worked on Reddit? I never had an account there, apologies.

#kbinMeta

 

huh, I followed this account from my mastodon account and sent it a DM but don't see anything.

is this expected?

#fediverse

 

It's weird that it's so hard to figure out how to donate towards server upkeep costs, I had the same issue with my Mastodon instance.

Is there an about page with a link or is someone hosting this out of their cushion change XD

#fediverse

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