Any negative speech: especially harsh, slanderous or divisive, that provokes equally charged emotional responses.

One other thing I’d like to add: It’s not just that rage-inducing content is out there, that’s always been there. It’s that it gets rewarded by big tech, by making sure that highly responded content, gets pushed to the top.

Capitalist tech companies have an incentive to platform this content because it increases the on-site time, and their own popularity, to the detriment of their users mental health. It also helps them push pro-capitalist narratives that atomize and isolate people who should be united by a shared humanity and class status.

tbh we’re somewhat guilty of this in lemmy also, with the Active sort allowing new comments to bump posts to the top of feeds.

The only real way to fight it, is to keep an eye out for these toxic / combative threads and posters, and remove them if necessary. Since we don’t capitalist incentives to keep people on site or serve ads, it serves no benefit to keep rage-bait posters around.

It’s quite possible that in the future, ai bros will rediscover “thinking”:

I know this is mostly a joke, but its also incredibly dangerous. Just use an explicit tool like bfg

We use renovate for dep updates (for lemmy-ui), and a self-hosted woodpecker CI for lemmy.

CI is imo the more dangerous way people are linking their projects to github.

You can use rust and still use the GPL.

Just from experience as an admin reviewing applications, bots are nowhere near replicants. 98% of bots can’t make an application without using obvious phrases like “I’d like to engage in meaningful discussions”.

Registration applications (which are pretty much required on all lemmy servers now) have stopped about 95% of them. Some still get through of course, but the admins of every server are doing hard work to prevent it.

The other 5% are quickly discovered and reported, and they can be banned (and their content removed), at the click of a button.

The LLMs are getting creative with how they answer, and people also are applying with half of the responses LLM based, and half real. But its still not hard to spot them when they give all the same predictable answers.

Its interesting because applications are how the old forum-internet used to keep out bots and trolls, and its still the best method to this day. There’s still work to be done, and it’s a never-ending battle, but I think overall we’re winning and doing better than western surveillance platforms like reddit, youtube, or facebook.

Minimo launcher is my new fave. Its simple, decreases addiction, and surpasses Olauncher in features.

Minimo launcher is great.

ScreenZen, with specific times ranges allowed to use given apps.

I wrote up a preliminary thing cause I got bored today, lmk if you have any suggestions:

https://github.com/dessalines/torrent-tube

Like you said, it’s hash based, so the first time someone posts a video, you just download that from YouTube official and check the hash, no?

Yep, that’d be the case. But also for that service at least, it only stores currently active / well-seeded torrents. And the main issue is that people aren’t creating and seeding youtube videos as torrents. That would require some effort and a push from the datahoarder-type communities to start doing that.

When a user submits a new association between a Magnet Link and a YouTube tag, what verifies that that’s actually the appropriate file?

In one sense, its not really a problem, since torrents are static data. Incorrect files would not only look wrong (and not be seeded as a result), but have different hashes than the youtube ones. But the service which hosts / shares these magnet links would need to source the uploaders, so that their torrents could be removed if it turns out they’re spam.

I run a csv-based torrent service, but after many years, I’ve been the only one to really contribute to the data. There the process of adding data is tracked via pull requests. Any other service though which allows ppl to upload magnet links / torrent files would need to have a login system / tracking to prevent spammers.

I like this idea, but I wish someone would create a torrent-based project based on yt-dlp, and in particular a browser plugin that checks a torrent search site or index to see if that youtube video torrent exists.

Internet archive isn’t as fault-tolerant as torrents, and also wouldn’t be able to handle so many massive files.

This to me is the most exciting thing. And not just solar, but also modular nuclear power, fusion power, battery tech. The PRC is at the forefront of this green revolution.

Yep. Dsub is pretty much in feature-complete, maintenance-mode, that is years out of date and hasn’t even updated to material 3 UI’s which the others have.

I check the others every few months or so, but they’re all still either buggy or missing so many features compared to dsub, that I have to switch back.

No. If you only listen with one device tho, no problem. Then just mark it finished it audiobookshelf when you’re done.

Podcast/audiobook support? Am currently using audiobookshelf, is this compatible at all? Not sure if any benefit even if theoretically possible.

For this I’d just recommend getting the Voice audiobook app from f-droid, and in audiobookshelf, download any books you’re currently reading locally. There’s nothing better than audiobookshelf for audiobooks anyway.

dsub2000 is the best android app for navidrome/subsonic. I’ve tried many others (ultrasonic, tempus), but none are as full-featured and clean.

Dang, never heard this one before but its believable. MJ did put his all into baseball tho, his managers and teammates were convinced he would have made the majors after a year.