IT workers desperately need to unionize. There is so much bullshit that happens, folks are expected to do three different roles at once, have multiple technical stacks they are experts in, and work extra hours + be on call after hours or on weekends.

First off, good on you for being careful. Ultimately, use the same methods that you would use when vetting other sources, like academic or personnel for hiring.

Check reputation via stars, active contributors, see what accounts are contributing and what other projects they also contribute to. Check their LinkedIn profile and personal websites.

See if you can confirm the project is being used safely by reputable groups. See if people, especially public people you trust are using/recommending it without being sponsored.

Check in private forums with other devs and users, see what people are saying. Check the code yourself, etc.

Ultimately, there’s no way to know 100%, even large companies and organizations have been duped in the past by backdoors or security bugs in OSS they use. You can be very confident however, it’s all about how much investigation you are interested in doing.

And of course, don’t ever put all your eggs in one basket.

And if after lots of investigation, you still have a bad feeling in your gut, listen to that. Better to be a little too careful than to compromise yourself by ignoring that gut feeling that something just doesn’t pass the smell test.

Sorry for the slow reply. Yes, I mixed the chipset up with the socket lol.

The A380 is the same I’ve been looking at for my own home Media setup, should be plenty of encoding power for your use case.

Good luck!

If you’re on a budget, check out X99 socket Xeons. You can pick up Mobos and chips for super cheap. 10+ core hyper-threaded Xeons with solid clocks and a motherboard for 120-180 bucks total. Support 64 GB of RAM, more if you have a proper server board.

For transcoding, depending on the codec, dedicated GPU is best.

I’m not sure about Plex, but I know on Jellyfin, the new Intel Arc GPUs are really great for encoding, not too expensive for the lower end cards either, and low profile options for smaller rack cases.

All Brother all the time.

Please report your bugs! If they are repeatable, use the documentation process to let the devs know so they can fix them.

Doing that helps make the experience better for everybody.

It’s not a perfect model, but it’s decently close. If Lemmy had a way to distribute server ownership to a group of individuals, that would be even closer.

If I was a whiz at developing, I would love to build that kind of feature.

I understand your concern of external threats to an anarchistic society, but I would just remind you that plenty of centralized governments/societies have also been conquered by other centralized powers. Being centralized by no means protects you from that threat. I think the more relevant factor is just overall size of the opposing force.

It doesn’t matter how weak hamsters are compared to you. If enough of them attack you endlessly, eventually you will succumb, if for no other reason than pure exhaustion lol.

However, there are clear examples IRL of far smaller and weaker decentralized forces successfully resisting a much more powerful centralized force. The VietCong vs the USA in Vietnam, the Mujahideen vs the USSR in Afghanistan, the American Revolutionary forces vs England, the French Resistance vs the Nazis, etc.

I would highly recommend the YouTuber, Anark. He has fantastic content discussing all aspects of anarchism, including defense. He also has links to many other great resources to learn about Anarchism.

Thank you for reading it :)

So tragic to hear about his future fall out of an 8th floor window after slipping on a bannana peel while accidently shooting himself in the head twice.

Anarchism understood as a proper model and not just “chaos” is about horizontal and distributed power structures.

The whole idea is that no single person or group has a monopoly on power. Now if you are asking how do anarchist societies prevent people or groups like that from rising up and forming monopolies of power, there are a bunch of different answers. Ultimately it’s about collective action and proper structure.

If your organization’s rules allow for a single person to rise up and take over, it isn’t formed correctly. It’s like the Fediverse, no one server or person gets to make the rules for all the other servers or developers.

Everything is federated by the choice of the instances and ultimately the users. If they don’t agree with how any instance is being run, they can start their own and run it how they want, federating with who they want assuming it is mutual.

Anybody can fork the project at any time, build it different, start a new instance, run it how they want, etc.

You build into your society, mechanisms that resist monopolies of power. It’s like how your body’s immune system has layers of protection against all kinds of germs.

Another example, in typical small company the structure is top-down with the owner usually being a single person with universal power over all their employees. They can hire and fire whoever they want whenever they want. They can shut down the company or change how any part of it operates whenever they want. Nothing in that company structure protects the employees from abuse by the owner.

There is no magic bullet to protect against everything, just like how your body despite being healthy and strong can still succumb to cancer, infection, poison, etc. That isn’t a reason to just give up on being fit and healthy, because it is about improving your odds and trying to make your life on the average better.

Lol! This piss-take xD

So happy it’s back!

Nope, even a buggy, glitchy Lemmy is a head and shoulders better experience than any shitty corpo social media.

“When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.”

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Putin will fail, as so many before him have, for the same reasons. Arrogance and pride have destroyed many warmongers, he will be no exception.

Had a manager once that was super strict on start times with me. Like, if you came in 5-10 minutes late once a month he would make a super big stink about it despite me staying late multiple times a week and working through lunch often.

Of course for him, he would come in whenever he wanted, an hour late, two hours late, etc. And he would leave early mutiple times a month for random reasons like hanging out with his buddies at a party.

He was also super anti-remote work for me, but of course he would work remote all the time.

Cherry on top; he was super sexist and racist, total douchebag.

Not sure I buy this argument. I’ve been using Discord for many years, and on many platforms. Linux, Windows, Android, web client, Steam Deck.

I’m troubleshooting Discord for myself and my family/friends all the time. I would say me and my friends encounter Discord problems every few weeks.

Calls dropping, cutting out, not going through, failed notifications, server freezing, sync errors, content loading errors, file transfer errors, crashing of the app, audio devices not being detected, and more.

I think the issue is comfort. Discord isn’t a super polished and stable application, I’ve had to talk lots of my friends and family through random things in the settings because the interface is so confusing and cluttered depending on the page.

These are largely young adults who are fairly tech savvy, not old boomers.

The difference I think, is that because Discord is the default chat/voice app for gamers and general chatroom needs, people just get used to the jank.

Same is true of people who claim that Windows is so much more clean and stable than Linux and that’s why people don’t want to use Linux.

As an IT admin who has spent years supporting thousands of Windows machines at many different companies, I can assure you that Windows constantly has problems. I’m fighting with it all the damn time. The users I support constantly have problems that I have to figure out, many of which have nothing to do with user error.

If you grew up using a half-broken controller on your console, you know what I am talking about. Your friends refuse to use it, but you use it just fine because it’s the controller you are used to. You had hundreds if not thousands of hours getting used to it’s quirks, so you don’t notice them anymore.

The moment you experience a new platform and encounter an issue, your brain flags it as a huge annoyance, because you’re not used to dealing with it and you don’t know the work around or fix for it yet.

Not saying Matrix doesn’t have big issues, it does, but the reason people aren’t flocking to it are not due to Discord being so stable and easy to use/navigate. It’s because it’s the standard that millions of people are used to, thus they just accept it and figure it out and eventually hardly notice the problems anymore.

Thank you so much for your work on this instance.

How best to donate to help support?

I’ve heard of bridges but never tried them, I’ll look into them more.

Peertube is pretty cool, just doesn’t have all the creators I watch currently. I do still watch some content on there though.

1. Lemmy 95%. I use Reddit for tech troubleshooting help sometimes but that’s basically it, and I removed my account.
2. Never used Twitter. I have a Mastodon account but rarely use it. It’s just not a content format that I’m very interested in.
3. Sadly I use Discord still. Matrix is fine, but nearly all my friends use Discord for gaming and related stuff, so I can’t get rid of it without losing basically all my gaming friends and servers.
4. Still use YT all the time, but only through apps like NewPipe, FreeTube, and GrayJay. I haven’t signed into YT for well over a year now.

Slowly but surely I’m getting rid of the corpo’s grip on my life.

Thanks for your reply, sorry if I came off aggressive in my initial response.

For me I’m as hardcore anti-intellectual property as it gets. I think the very concept of IP is nonsense. And I don’t mean nonsense like it is stupid or silly or I don’t agree with the laws, I mean literally logically contradictory.

I view laws against copyright/IP infringement the same way I would view a law against poaching unicorns.

Despite the propaganda, IP law almost always protects giant corporations, not the “little guy.” It’s used to create and maintain multi-billion dollar IP portfolio monopolies. It supresses creativity and literally kills people in the case of pharma companies and their ridiculous drug patents.

I would love at a minimum for copyright to have a hard limit no matter the conditions. Like for all creative works, 20 year hard limit. After that, no matter what, it enters public domain forever. There are a million issues to work out, but not being able to hold IP for literally a century in some cases would be something.