What I like about the Gadsden flag, as opposed to this one -- according to how I interpret it, anyways -- is that it advocates for the use of one's voice before violence. The main symbol on the Gadsden flag is a timber rattlesnake. If you think about such a rattlesnake in nature, when you get too close to them, or provide them with a reason to feel wary, or uncomfortable they won't immediately attack you, but will instead provide you with an auditory, nonviolent warning. It's only when one ignores their warnings, and continues to harass the snake, or give them a reason to think that they are under immediate threat of harm that they will fight back, and will not hesitate to do so. In all other circumstances, the rattlesnake will mind it's own business, and let you do the very same. I find this behaviour admirable of a creature, and it is, in my opinion, the true ethos of libertarianism. The Canada goose, on the other hand, won't hesitate to harass you. they will routinely attack people just relaxing in a park. They provide little warning to someone that they find threatening, and will often choose to immediately strike out. This is not behaviour that should be emulated, or admired, in my opinion.
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I've found that the only way to dual boot reliably is to have windows installed on a separate, dedicated drive, and to keep all drives used by Linux air-gapped from the windows drive. Fast start and hibernate must also be disabled within windows to prevent it from putting hardware in an undefined state.
That being said, I haven't actually found any regular use for the windows install in years. mostly just keep it around as a sort of backup failsafe, or just in case there is a game that refuses to work in Linux. 99 times out of 100 it simply just collects dust.
They're viewable on Lemmy too!
I think you need to read up on what the Gadsden flag actually represents -- your information is rather flawed. The Gadsden flag is a historic symbol representing independence, and liberty and it has historical roots that go all the way back to the American revolution. I have no idea why the proud boys, among others -- who are all quite non-libertarian imo -- decided to adopt it. It is indeed rather curious, and also unfortunate for this very reason; the misrepresentation of the symbol is staining it's public image -- as is evident by the existence of this thread, and the degree of harassment, and defacement that it received on the canvas -- and it is quite a shame.
I can forgive simple lacking in education on the topic, but what really baffles me are those who know the true meaning of the Gadsden flag, but still choose to hate it. Why someone would willingly chooose opression over liberty is beyond me.
Regarding what you said about alt-accounts, the rules don't prohibit them. The rules state
Alts are generally ok, as long as you keep a good nature behind it
Considering the fact that I was constantly trying to fend off those that were attempting to deface my picture, I feel that my use of the alt accounts is justified -- if I didn't have them, my single account wouldn't be able to handle it all on its own.
I have an idea: there's currently this paint roller with a rainbow that's in the top left. What if we use that to add a diagonal rainbow across the flag in line with the paint roller? So in line with the angle of the paint roller, replace the yellow with the rainbow, but leave the black of the snake on top.
Yeah, I'm starting to agree. I've found that it gets to a point where you essentially just cant keep up with the griefers if you are drawing over virgin pixels. I second the idea of making it the same cooldown for placing pixels for everybody. I don't think theres a way to structure it to always favor defenders. There will always be an edge case where the attackers will have the upperhand.
I'm also starting to think that being able to have multiple pixels queued can also put a defender at a disadvantage. When your actively placing pixels, you are always at 1 pixel with a cooldown, but someone could come along with 6 stored pixels, and just dump them consequtively in a spot giving them a permanent space advantage that you will never be able to recoup if the attackers keep at it.
Unfortunately, it will be pushed quite a bit back, in terms of priority -- people keep trying to deface the flag. It's difficult for me to defend, and build the flag at the same time.
A couple more ideas popped into my head:
- When placing a pixel on your own pixel, the time delay should be the same as placing over a virgin background. I don't see the point in punishing a user for drawing over their own art.
- Defenders should have a more favorable time delay than attackers. For example, when placing a pixel over someone else's pixel that replaced your previous pixel (defending), the time delay should be short (e.g. the same as when placing over a virgin background), whereas when you place a pixel over someone else's pixel that wasn't preivously the location of one of your own (attacking), you should get the longer time delay (e.g. 1 minute).
It is indeed unfortunate that it has been adopted by quite obviously non-libertarian groups. I hope that these stains can be washed away by trying to spread the flags original meaning/symbolism -- fundamentally, the Gadsden flag is the original symbol of true libertarianism.
P.S. Thank you for some of your help on the art! I saw you placing some yellow pixels on the top under the KDE mascot. Related to this, maybe we can incorporate the KDE mascotts foot into the flag somehow by using a darker yellow for a little bit of shadow?
Thanks! I'm honestly not sure exactly how much of a legal foothold it has. I tried looking for some answers in this post, but it didn't receive too much engagement. If anything, I'm hoping that it helps to set somewhat of an example for how user content should be treated.
Thank you for clearing it up!
No worries! I appreciate the support in spirit 🙂
I would appreciate it if someone who is downvoting could tell me their reasoning. If it is for rule violation, then I will abide.
Let's represent libertarianism on the Canvas by drawing the Gadsden flag!
Update
I have been trying to fight off 4 people attacking the picture, and I cannot keep up on my own. I will certainly be willing to keep trying if anyone in this thread tells me that they want to help, but, if not, I cannot continue if these griefers keep at it.
I don't understand how so many people can be so vehemently against the mere idea of freedom, and liberty. Why would one willingly prefer to be oppressed?
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I've plotted out an area at ~(226,206) on the Canvas (it's community can be found at [email protected]) for the Gadsden Flag. I'm using this image as a reference (I drew it by using a scaled down version of this svg that I found as a reference, and drawing over it like a stencil in gimp. It's not amazing, but I think it does the trick.). The reference is placed with a horizontal position of 129, a vertical position of 163, and a width of 117.
I have some suggestions
- Show the timer for all the succeeding stacked pixels. Currently, you can only see the timer for the first pixel. I propose that the timer should be shown for all of the pixels in the stack, and not only the first.
- A neat feature that r/place had was that you could click on a pixel and see the username of the account that placed it. I propose the same feature.
- Consider creating a permanent canvas. It could be neat to see how a large, permanent canvas evolves over a long period of time.
If any of these suggestions require the modification of underlying code, and are not simple config changes, then I will suggest them upstream -- please let me know.
- Lemmy: Thunder
- Maps: Organic Maps
- Weather: Breezy
- Tuner: Noteworthy Tuner
- Matrix: Element Android (it's got a lot of issues, but, as far as I can tell, it's the best that there currently is)
Of course. My inquiry was out of theoretical curiosity, and not so much anything practicaly useful for security, or privacy.
This works great for 3d-printing but wont work as well if you intend to export to CAM systems that can use a drill to make the holes.
Why's that?
Would it be possible to at least show the total subscribers from all federated instances?
What's the difference between Owncast, and Peertube's livestreaming function?
Is it possible to show the name of Firefox tabs in the KDE volume mixer?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2615118
> As shown below, it appears that all Firefox tabs are just named "Firefox" within the volume mixer. This doesn't exactly make differentiating them very easy. Is it possible to make the volume mixer show the names of the tabs instead? If not, is there any feature in the works for this that anyone may be aware of? > > !
What exactly is Codeberg's relation to Forgejo?
As far as I understand it, Forgejo is a soft-fork of Gitea, and, as far as I am aware, Gitea includes both the backend and frontend. But then I came across Codeberg, which appears to state: > Self-Hosting Forgejo, the software that powers Codeberg.
This makes it sound like Forgejo is the backend, and Codeberg is the frontend, but I'm not 100% sure. If so, did Forgejo separate Gitea's UI, and just soft-fork the backend?
Is there any project that is actively archiving the content posted to all Fediverse projects?
I'm not sure how practical/sustainable of a project this would be, but I feel that it could possibly be a useful project in the future if instances begin to purge old content due to storage constaints. The archiving service could store all the data using Object storage to archive it in read only. That way, at least people can still view old content in the possible scenario of rampant data loss across the Fediverse.
Is it possible to show the name of Firefox tabs in the KDE volume mixer?
As shown below, it appears that all Firefox tabs are just named "Firefox" within the volume mixer. This doesn't exactly make differentiating them very easy. Is it possible to make the volume mixer show the names of the tabs instead? If not, is there any feature in the works for this that anyone may be aware of?
What is the little Fediverse icon/logo for that is beside a user's name in a comment?
If you look next to the user's name in a comment when viewing through the Lemmy Web UI you'll see the following: ! What is this?
Will Lemmy instances ever archive old posts?
On Reddit, one frequently runs into posts that are archived, and thus the user cannot interract with them anymore -- motive is stated here. I'm curious if Lemmy would ever do the same.
Is it possible to see if moderators have removed comments from a thread?
Can you see if a moderator has removed comments from a thread? Can you see the content of the removed comments? Are moderators able to specify motive for the specific removal?
What exactly does the "Chat" button in the comment section do?
I just recently noticed the following button in the comment section:
Clicking it appears to make the comments look somewhat like what you see on Mastodon, but I'm a little unsure about it's exact format. Is it only showing parent comments? Is it showing parent and child comments all mixed together? If so, in what order? Is it in order of when the comment was added? If it does show child comments, is it possible to see that child's context?
Does self hosting an instance of a federated service, like lemmy, effectively act as a VPN for your account?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2452085
> This is, of course, assuming that the instance is not hosted on the same network that the device your account is using is accessing it from.
Does self hosting an instance of a federated service, like lemmy, effectively act as a VPN for your account?
This is, of course, assuming that the instance is not hosted on the same network that the device your account is using is accessing it from.
Are there any good PeerTube mobile apps?
It seems that the main one that I can find is "Thorium", but it's rather rough for actual use. I'm curious if there are any other mobile apps that exist, or are in the works.
Are Signal Messenger's servers able to see who I'm talking to?
I'm aware of Signal's "no log policy", but I'm wondering if such information is visible to the servers at all. I'm assuming "Sealed sender" is what is supposed to protect this information? If so, how effective is it?
Do ActivityPub services work over "The Dark Web"/i2p/Tor? More specifically, could one make a sort of "Hidden Fediverse"?
EDIT (2023-07-31T22:18:52Z): I have realized that I was not clear in my original intent for this post -- it could be interepereted to mean that I am asking whether or not you could access, for example, Lemmy through the Tor browser. This is not what I meant. What I was more alluding to was if it were possible to create a sort of "hidden fediverse" that was separate from the fediverse over the clearnet. There exitsts, already, Dark Web forums, like Dread, and I wonder if those would benefit more from being federated -- Lemmy seems like a good candidate for this.
Title changes: Added "More specifically, could one make a sort of "Hidden Fediverse"?"