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Cake day: September 23rd, 2023

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  • Dilemma: Fedora has introduced and worked on a lot of things that make “Year of Linux on the Desktop” more likely. Even if UNIX purists disagree with the direction, Fedora is what Ubuntu used to be back in the day. Linux for humans.

    At the same time, it’s possible due to corporate backing. American corporate backing even. A part of me thinks that if we can’t get there as a community without corporate influence, then it’s all for nothing. I want the community model to not just be an ethical alternative, but that this model of cooperation also produces the best results.

    (PS. I’m open for having my view changed, maybe I’m thinking about this the wrong way.)


  • Good. To be honest I sometimes copy/paste too, but there is a possible trick to hide characters in the copied text with an automatic return at the end so when you paste you immediately run something you don’t intended. If I copy from some random shady blog I’d be more careful than from the official docker documentation I guess.



  • You probably did this, but for anyone reading, if you copy commands from the internet, look up what all the commands and flags do to be sure you understand it fully, and then type it in yourself in a terminal instead of copy/paste. If you get an instruction to curl <something> | sh, split it into two steps, curl to get the script to a local file you can read, read it, then run if you know what it does. Do these things for anything you don’t trust 100%.








  • subreddits are all part of reddit, there’s a top part that can decide over all subreddits and make rules and ban people etc. Lemmy does not have a central point of authority. lemmy.world can only make rules and control lemmy.world, lemm.ee can only decide over lemm.ee. If you want your own rules, you can make your own instance and be as valid and part of lemmy as any other instance. The main point is: there is no level above this that controls all instances. Each instance is the top level of authority for that instance, and anyone can create an instance if they have the knowledge and resources.
    Another aspect is that technically you could also interact with mastodon, peertube, etc, but that isn’t seamless and there’s no consensus if it’s even a good idea to pursue that, but it’s technically possible.