After researching this stuff I will be watching Kaidan with interest and may eventually test it with Cheogram / JMP

ahh okay, I’m already using a newer version, so my acceptance of the Gnomification is “priced in” so to speak.

I did however put in a calendar event repeating every 6 months to check in on Kaidan and see how they’re doing, and once it’s far enough along, I’ll switch and start contributing bug reports and such.

Dino was Gnomed from the very start. Probably not the greatest choice for anyone who dislikes Gnome UX, the problem is there aren’t a lot of fully baked alternatives.

I ruffled feathers of Gnome cultists when I ranted about Pinta getting Gnomed. Severe UX enshittification of a formerly decent app.

Oh god dammit. Which version did this happen in?

Unfortunately for Linux it seems the non-GTK alternatives are either not as far along, or run in the browser.

Gajim is a daily driver for me, Kaidan isn’t far enough along, and Dino is even more Gnomed from the get-go.

Also there are some good 5825U boxes out there, but it’s still more oomph than you need for seeding.

I don’t know how to do this on AMD boxes but there are tools out there to adjust CPU power limits without undervolting, it uses the chip’s built-in ability to throttle itself. I’ve had to do the reverse on a Dell which limits itself to 0.8GHz on any non-genuine™ power adapter, but in that case I limited the (Intel) CPU’s PL2 (long-term power limit) to 25W rather than its spec 35W to save power. It thus keeps itself throttled below 25W consumption by the CPU.

I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful with names of tools to try, but I just packed up all my gear to head across town, I’ll try to come back and drop some URLs later. I have a little 5750GE box so I’m interested in whatever the solution turns out to be.

Not exactly tiny but look at https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer/UniversalMediaServer/

How about open source pluggable algos which can be optionally marked shareable between users and selected from a list sortable by number of “installs”

So like a user could define an algorithm to select posts, and then mark it shared, and other users could see it in a directory and try it out themselves, and optionally clone and hack on it, release a new version, etc.

As far as how the post selection algos could be defined, I’m thinking of something similar to the boolean query syntax in the Quod Libet music player, but one could also implement a more code-like syntax.

(I’m aware this is a huge ask, but I’ve had this idea for 8 years since my first Mastodon account, and have been too busy being oppressed by life to do anything about it.)

A few weeks ago I went on a wiki dive about some pedo shit that happened in broad daylight in the USA in the 1970s and was only solved after it got so fucking egregious the cops could no longer ignore it / write off all the dead kids as “runaways” and not investigate, and holy mother of jebus I can see why some people would believe in shit like Pizzagate after reading about shit that literally did happen in this country in living memory.

Start point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll … and this is only the start point, it branches out from there into major conspiracy involving dozens of motherfuckers who mostly got slaps on the wrist if any punishment at all

TW: extreme depravity + proof positive that life was cheap as fuck in America only 50 years ago

Nicotine+ has such a weird UI

I’m very interested in this approach because I’m heavily constrained by money. So I am gonna be looking (in non appliance contexts) to develop workflows where genAI can be useful when limited to small models running on constrained hardware. I suspect some creativity can yield useful tools with these limits, but I am just starting out.

PhotoGIMP is a godsend.

Oh, right, that too! Wow I completely forgot about that, and I found my favorite band of all time that way 20 years ago!

I have barely done any music discovery in ages due to a combo of a showstopper bug making my music app unusable for a couple years, and being in moderate to severe burnout for nearly a decade. I’m starting to get back into it though, thanks for reminding me!

I’m not aware of such a thing but back in the day I found some great bands by looking at similar artists on last.fm

They could do it on the back end and leave it as “notes” on the front end, though.

Switching out notes for a Twitter-like UI ruins something which made Tumblr Tumblr.

Comments on their post about it are about 99:1 against, but they’re not gonna switch back.

No, Wafrn is completely separate from Tumblr. And as far as I know the horrible redesign to make “notes” more like Twitter has nothing to do with the Tumblr-on-Wordpress/ActivityPub migration, which last I knew was indeed shelved.

Did you see Automattic is in the process of rolling out a split from “notes” into likes, reblogs, and comments? 🤢

Nostr is a lot smaller than fedi so these questions are still being answered there, and they do have their own problems with spam. Since users are identified by keys and can theoretically pop up and start posting on any node, it makes some questions of handling spam and abuse potentially function a lot differently than they are on fedi. If you were gonna do a shared blocklist it would need to be a shared blocklist of keys, etc. As for the emergent properties of that and how it affects the character of the network… probably just gotta keep watching how it plays out.

Nostr offers this (completely portable identity) without centralizing anything, that’s the selling point. Similar to cryptocurrency, your Nostr account is tied to a key. If you possess that key, you can connect to any Nostr node (assuming you meet their criteria - some require payment, some might have banned you, etc) and post to your account. This makes individual Nostr servers wayyyyy less important than servers are on fedi, and cuts fedi style inter-instance drama off at the knees, because servers are really just conduits for posts to flow. Yes they can differentiate themselves on e.g. uptime or performance or spam filtering, but at the end of the day they are just a conduit, not a community like fedi servers can be and often are.

Right now on fedi it’s a pain in the ass to move accounts to a different server, if the one you are on supports it at all. Identity is only poorly portable at best. Mastodon only kinda sorta supports it in a janky way and there are plenty of bugs. Whereas on Nostr, which servers carry your posts doesn’t even matter nearly as much as it does on fedi, where it matters a lot. It doesn’t matter 0% on Nostr, but the importance is vastly de-emphasized.

It’s just different approaches, with different advantages and disadvantages. Censorship resistance from the perspective of the user is a much more emphasized goal in Nostr’s design.