My family will never ditch proprietary apps. It’s either me having to have a complicated setup with multiple phones or profiles in grapheneos to talk to them, or being able to use a third-party app I can be ok with having on my main phone. Even if our communication is not private, I’d love to be able to just not have whatsapp installed in any way. That would be good for me.

In my work I’ve been around many things that can be considered gross. Cutting away dead flesh around a bed sore that’s a big rotting hole into the body, a woman eating her own feces like a mars bar, etc. One time I slipped and fell into a puddle that was a mix of edema fluids leaking through the skin, and urine. After a while you get desensitized, and it’s just… matter. Atoms. I saw this woman who fell and her head went into the ground hard and blood just pumped out of her head into her long hair, it was like one big lump of hair that soaked up the blood, she lived for a day after that and I held her hand when she died. It’s a strange thing to be around dying people all the time, I’m not sure if I’ve made peace with it or if I’m broken in some way.

A narrative? Like, “Not only am I naked, I’m on my way to… water the plants. They are thirsty, and so am I… In the background, dimly lit, you can see an ESP32 microcontroller… yup, that’s the kind of guy I am… oh my, I can do pulse width modulation with my bare hands…”

I haven’t tried typst, how does it compare to plain TeX?

As a TeX hobbyist, I would argue that they serve slightly different purposes. Plain TeX is for typography, the workflow is that of low level control where your human judgement is needed for interventions and decisions. LaTeX serves a different purpose, it aides the author of a text to focus on the content while abstracting away the underlying inherent problems in fitting letters on a page. TeX is small, difficult, but simple. LaTeX is huge, with 30 years of abstractions built on top of abstractions, until nowadays few people know how to actually deal with an overfull or underfull hbox the right way.

OP, did you get the answers to your questions? It seems like there was a bit of confusion if you meant a community or an instance.

An instance is the whole server, like for example feddit.uk or lemmy.world, or piefed social. Each instance contains many communities. For this you need to do some installing and configuring on a server that you buy or rent.

A community is like a “subreddit”, that runs on an instance. Devoted to some subject or general idea like news, knitting, or cats. This you need no programming or systems administration to do, it’s all clicking in a browser.

If I may ask, where are you from? The city I live in is a nightmare for cars, the roads were made for horses and walking, narrow and winding cobblestone streets and the city tries its best to keep cars out of the center.

ANDRUM or FJÄTTRA could work.

I was thinking more about legal actions. But then again torrents need trackers and search sites. It seems like it’s hard to shut down pirate bay though. I just have a feeling that usenet flies under the radar a bit, but if it became mainstream, it might be easier to shut down a server than a shifting swarm of peers?

Doesn’t this also mean that the server can be a single point of failure? Whereas in a torrent swarm it’s distributed and more resilient?

Beginning of the end should mean that it’s still part of the end, just, the beginning of it, like “början på slutet”. To me “startslutet” sounds like the end of the start.

Aha, I see, thanks for clarifying.

South Africa? System Administration? Sturmabteilung? Sleep Apnea?

It would be neat if different front-ends catered to different types of users who wanted different aspects, but that there was an underlying compatibility that also worked better. If I understand it correctly, mastodon has implemented activitypub in a way where each post doesnt hold a reference to the entire thread hierarchy (as lemmy has), so it’s difficult for mastodon software to construct hierarchies of replies in the same way, or at least it’s more expensive to traverse. There’s some differences in how groups are interpreted, as a hash tag or as a community. I’d rather be able to use one account and have the option to view activities in different ways, but now the implementations differ. That’s the interoperability I mean that doesn’t defeat decentralization.

How do you mean? To me a network is decentralized if there isn’t one controlling company or organization. In the fediverse, I can set up my own instance of mastodon/lemmy/honk/whatever. The fact that I can use honk to follow people on mastodon and interact with them in a smooth way is interoperability to me. I don’t need both a honk account and a mastodon account. This is a good thing imho. I can choose which software to run, or which home server to join, and still interact with people using different servers.

Could this be an XY problem? Maybe instead of having several accounts and a way to log in everywhere easily, the problem is lacking interoperability? It’s hard to follow lemmy from mastodon, for example, but what if that was easy? Then you wouldn’t need both a lemmy account and a mastodon account, one would be enough to use different aspects of the fediverse.

The Will To Change by bell hooks. It was the first time ever I felt seen as a human by a feminist writer.

I checked the news in the biggest newspaper in sweden, and there’s this story about a bus that scraped the roof while driving under a bridge. Must have been scary for the passengers. Luckily it wasn’t going that fast. And there’s a list of schools where you actually get paid to study so you don’t need student loans.

ed(1) but with a left pane and right pane, where the left had the content of the file and scrolled to where you are editing and the right is just regular ed output.

There’s no reception inside a person though, so you can’t call the phone to make it vibrate.