There are word filters for Lemmy?

lmgtfy always was needlessly unfriendly, but in the age of search result enshittification, it’s even lost the excuse of technically providing a good solution (at least in cases like this).

Creating a live USB with persistence is lengthy and even the decent tutorials out there vary greatly in their suggested approach, making it perfectly legitimate (even for non-beginners) to ask for guides that others have found helpful.

What a needlessly unfriendly response.

I absolutely love how the top post is one from three days ago when the doctrine still was that Elon is a national hero.

I say let’s try to keep it that way, so please everyone register there and upvote. (You don’t even need to enter an email address, just a username and a password and you’re free to go.)

Some local libraries (e.g. in Heidelberg) or ecological initiatives lend devices to measure electricity consumption at the power plug. In particular, this is useful to measure other appliances as well.

Specifically for computers, they probably have some means to tell you their own consumption, but they may not be accurate or complete and will most certainly omit any peripherals, e.g. external hard drives.

There’s also SomaFM, a listener-supported, commercial-free radio project that has numerous stations with very great music selection that are suitable for coding. It’s quite nice not to have to decide about individual songs, and it’s free from large capitalist corporations like Spotify.

For Linux, I have described in a comment how one can get an easy command line control over SomaFM stations: https://feddit.org/post/9775341/6942148

TIL about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. From Wikipedia:

The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies.

Oddly enough, this guy Wolfram Weimer is a die-hard right-winger. So I was quite flabbergasted when I first read the headline, and still am doubting whether he really intends to follow through with this or rather is only floating this idea in order to introduce another bargaining chip in the trade negotiations with Trump.

Thanks. Makes sense that things roughly along those lines already exist, of course. CrowdSec’s pricing, which apparently start at 900$/months, seem forbiddingly expensive for most small-to-medium projects, though. Do you or does anyone else know a similar solution for small or even nonexistent budgets? (Personally I’m not running any servers or projects right now, but may do so in the future.)

There should be a federated system for blocking IP ranges that other server operators within a chain of trust have already identified as belonging to crawlers. A bit like fediseer.com, but possibly more decentralized.

(Here’s another advantage of Markov chain maze generators like Nepenthes: Even when crawlers recognize that they have been served garbage and they delete it, one still has obtained highly reliable evidence that the requesting IPs are crawlers.)

Also, whenever one is only partially confident in a classification of an IP range as a crawler, instead of blocking it outright one can serve proof-of-works tasks (à la Anubis) with a complexity proportional to that confidence. This could also be useful in order to keep crawlers somewhat in the dark about whether they’ve been put on a blacklist.

Notesnook! Extremely secure, and has free sync across devices.

I bought a T5xx-Thinkpad from nbwn.de (=notebookswieneu.eu) many years ago. It was an extremely good purchase. They ship to the entire EU for free if your order is above 200€. They specialize in selling demonstration laptops, i.e. devices that companies tried out and then returned, so they are essentially new.

However, I highly recommend to wait for the Windows 10 EOL to really hit around winter time, because then thousands if not millions of used and unused laptops that are sorted out for not supporting Windows 11 will flood the market. (Even if you’re aiming to buy a laptop so new that it will probably also support Windows 11, the flood of older devices could well bring down the prices for such newer devices also.)

Searching for “Calle 18 revolucionarios” yields: https://cispes.org/article/special-report-el-salvador-enacts-emergency-security-measures-against-gang-violence?language=es

So apparently there are in fact two groups: “Calle 18-Sureños” and “Calle 18-Revolucionarios”

To me it seems that “18th Street Revolucionarios” is just the name that this one gang has given to itself. Note that when the article calls the two individuals “Revolucionarios”, the word is capitalized, which confirms that it’s a proper name rather than a description.

Ich glaub die Downvotes kommen einfach, weil in dieser Community hier (auf lemmy.ml) die allermeisten Leute Englisch erwarten.

Seriously, I was thinking about getting evaluated, and this gives me the chills. I will not be seeing an evaluation at this time.

A lot of people are probably going to make the same rational decision — which, of course, will make the number of issued diagnoses go down. These fuckers will most likely try to take that as evidence that their policies worked.

People with your attitude are a significant reason why people decide against Linux. It’s doing Microsoft a service.

Good, but mainly because the opposition can now focus on the more heinous crimes of this administration.

Besides what other people already answered here: Solidarity will also go a long way. Workers in the old days faced the same dilemma: When they go on strike, will they lose their job? A lot of them did. Solidarity saved them and made the movement work.

In the context of housing, solidarity can take the form of organized people in a town agreeing upfront: “If folks from one house get evicted, they can move in with us.” Of course this requires a lot of trust—just like the person in the article says. And whenever it should come to this, it will be costly and inconvenient, even burdensome, for everyone involved. Just like filling a strike fund from already low wages was. In the end it worked.

Without solidarity, we are defenseless.