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  • While this won’t be the case with everyone, it was mentioned a few times in a post I made here a long while back

    https://lemmy.ca/post/9443464

    I’m a woman, and make no attempt to hide that fact in my posts. That said, I also don’t personally have much interest in talking about being a woman, so don’t sub to any of those places you linked.

    Over on Reddit I just sort of let people assume I was male a lot of the time, since it wasn’t really relevant to what we were talking about. But from the start on Lemmy I’ve made sure to call out incorrect assumptions, downvote and give a talking to people stereotyping or being misogynistic, etc etc. And the more of us (of all genders) that make that same decision, the better things get






  • I think it’s a federation bug. That post is on https://community.nodebb.org/, which isn’t a Lemmy instance but actually a different software.

    Which in itself is cool! There are a few projects being worked on right now to make traditional forums compatible with activity pub. The idea being that someday you’ll be able to follow and post in official support forums for things right from your Lemmy account.

    But right now, it might be causing some weird federation bug. Maybe the date of the post shows up to Lemmy as sometime in the future and so it’s always the “newest” post (or something similar)?






  • Which Synology NAS is it, and can you install Container Manager on it? That might be the simplest option since your files are already on that device. There should be lots of guides out there for it.

    Container Manager is basically a worse DockGE / Portainer by Synology. It should be sufficient for pasting in the Jellyfin docker compose, but if you wanted you could also spin up DockGE/Portainer first and do it through that interface (or SSH into the NAS and do it all with the command line)

    So the setup would be

    • run Jellyfin as a Docker container on the Synology NAS (using either Container Manager or DockGE/Portainer/straight up command line)
    • try it out with the web browser/desktop app/mobile apps to see if you like it
    • find a setup that you find convenient for the TV (ex. Android TV apps with some device, the desktop app on the PC, etc)

    EDIT: Looks like there are official guides for it, as well as lots of videos on YouTube: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/synology/

    I gather Plex is at least semi-commercial while Jellyfin is the open source but worse option.

    I haven’t used Plex enough to judge, but from the comments I’ve seen it seems that Jellyfin is now on par with or better than Plex. There was also some news recently about Plex moving more core features (remote playback?) to the paid plans, so I imagine there will be more people moving over soon.

    There are a lot of options for client side apps, official and unofficial, so you might be able to find something specific to your setup


  • Otter@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    Facebook/Meta made itself to be the de facto method for accessing the internet in the region, and then refused to regulate its engagement-based algorithm as it fueled violence and unrest in the region

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

    Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people in 2017, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

    The Social Atrocity: Meta and the right to remedy for the Rohingya, details how Meta knew or should have known that Facebook’s algorithmic systems were supercharging the spread of harmful anti-Rohingya content in Myanmar, but the company still failed to act.

    “In 2017, the Rohingya were killed, tortured, raped, and displaced in the thousands as part of the Myanmar security forces’ campaign of ethnic cleansing. In the months and years leading up to the atrocities, Facebook’s algorithms were intensifying a storm of hatred against the Rohingya which contributed to real-world violence,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

    Also beautiful places

    https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/07/bagan-myanmar-photos/594985/

    If you have a moment, do you have any foods from Burma that you would recommend we try someday?




  • There’s the good-karma-kit, which is a Docker compose bundle of some popular projects: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit

    It could act as a list to go off of, if you don’t want to host all of them. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

    Overview

    Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

    ♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
    🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
    ✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
    📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

    This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

    • networks: Tor, i2p
    • computing: boinc, foldingathome
    • archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
    • storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

    This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it’s open to contributions.


  • Otter@lemmy.catoReddit@lemmy.worldWell i tried.
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    No worries! Thank you for including all that, and for taking the time to talk to people.

    I find it silly how, in the same thread,

    • some users say that picking a server will be too complicated
    • while others recommend custom patching a third party app APK with the latest workarounds in order to keep using Reddit, and repeating that process every time an update breaks them

    You’ve likely helped a lot of people, don’t worry about the silly ones :)





  • Otter@lemmy.catoReddit@lemmy.worldHow to "kill" a subreddit?
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    Instead of killing it, what about creating an official sister community here, and encouraging people to use it. Being under the same moderation and having the same rules can go a long way towards establishing that trust. While reddit still won’t like it, it would look terrible on them if they tried to stop it.