Nice to see that Mandriva is still alive and kicking. Used it when it was still “Mandrake”. Started as a recompile of RedHat optimized for 586, iirc.

What’s the USP for Mandriva these days?

Freedom of Movement (FoM) has worked out pretty well for the EU, especially well before the enlargement. The tensions came with the inclusion of the old “eastern bloc” countries where there was a rather large disparity between them and the richer west. I’m generally in favour of FoM, but I also recognise that with a big difference in standards there will be some issues.

So yes, FoM works, but there has to be rules attached. The UK didn’t apply most of the rules they could have, which eventually led to a perception that FoM is bad, and then Brexit.

Where are these open borders you speak of?

In the EU. You’re free to move to any member country to live and work there.

Then we had brexit, and as huge part of that was the “freedom of movement” in the EU. The British didn’t like “Polish plumbers” coming to the UK.

I think that’s just the nature of the fediverse. But yeah, I’d prefer a built in search that would search through most/all instances. Not sure how that’d work though.

Sepia is the best I’ve found so far.

I usually use https://sepiasearch.org/ to find things. It’s not prefect but it’s the best I’ve found. I agree that it’s hard to find good content.

I’ve met the artist. She’s lovely.

Banger of a theme song too.

Daily I think. It’s an automated thing.

You can see some stats here.

Sounds a bit like zeronet that I think is dead now, but was pretty cool when I tried it.

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

Use Magic Earth or Organic Maps instead of Google Maps too. Neither will track you.

I do. I donate as often as I’m allowed, which is about 4 times a year. The only effect I’ve felt is that exercise, especially cardio, is a bit harder. My time on a 5k run dropped noticeably.

Donated 60 times in total so far, which means there’s more of my blood in other people, than in me. By quite a lot.

Still can’t see it, but maybe that’s just me?

Sadly /c/piracy is blocked from .world I think.

I2P

Ask around in http://lemmy.world/c/i2p if you’re interested in I2P. Some resources also linked in the sidebar.

I use the term “freedom units” whether someone tells me that they’re 6 shoes and 2 toenails tall instead of using metric.

By not testing it properly before running it over the whole file system resulting in a few hours of extra work cleaning up the mess I made.

Very true. I used to do magic with xargs when working as a sysadm. Also a good way to mess up on a grand scale. Ask me how I know.