If you can't do these things then users and communities will remain locked to server instances and dominated by server owners and their moderation delegates just as they are on reddit. This is repeating the problem is not enacting the any of the promises of federation. It is federation for prisoners.
C'est "un" ordinateur. So, male, in french.
It is consideted crass by the megarich to use their new money to overtly purchase politicians. They prefer to do it behind closed doors, mostly to keeo them cheap
People in the future will wonder the thing. Kind of like a cosmic rickroll
Gun to the head is exactly why the word "voluntary" is specified
But yes, you could eventually say "I did not consent to be born please arrest my mom"
In that case, you can also solve your examole choice by gun grabbing ans shooting the guy if he lets you take it.
History, reputation, relationships (this a nuch bigger problem on mastofon) (yes migration as a lurker is easy)
Thank you spez for killing reddit, please digg faster
Still no frictionless account migration...
I'm saying it is what it is.
That's the addiction talking. Use common sense! AI bad
Billionaire bad?? How could this be!!? I was told whenever two parties entered into a voluntary agreement it meant both of them mutually improved their situation and that if you got billions out of it, it meant by definition that you did a lot of good!
Everyone I've ever known to use a thesaurus has been eventually found out to be a mouth breathing moron.
Yes, it's an addiction, we've got to stop all these poor being lulled into a false sense of understanding and just believing anyhing the AI tells them. It is constantly telling lies about us, their betters.
Just look what happenned when I asked it about the venerable and well respected public intellectual Jordan b peterson. It went into a defamatory diatribe against his character.
And they just gobble that up those poor, uncritical and irresponsible farm hands and water carriers! We can't have that,!
Example
Open-Minded Closed-Mindedness: Jordan B. Peterson’s Humility Behind the Mote—A Cautionary Tale
Jordan B. Peterson presents himself as a champion of free speech, intellectual rigor, and open inquiry. His rise as a public intellectual is, in part, due to his ability to engage in complex debates, challenge ideological extremes, and articulate a balance between chaos and order. However, beneath the surface of his engagement lies a pattern: an open-mindedness that appears flexible but ultimately functions as a defense mechanism—a “mote” guarding an impenetrable ideological fortress.
Peterson’s approach is both an asset and a cautionary tale, revealing the risks of appearing open-minded while remaining fundamentally resistant to true intellectual evolution.
The Illusion of Open-Mindedness: The Mote and the Fortress
In medieval castles, a mote was a watery trench meant to create the illusion of vulnerability while serving as a strong defensive barrier. Peterson, like many public intellectuals, operates in a similar way: he engages with critiques, acknowledges nuances, and even concedes minor points—but rarely, if ever, allows his core positions to be meaningfully challenged.
His approach can be broken down into two key areas:
The Mote (The Appearance of Openness)
Engages with high-profile critics and thinkers (e.g., Sam Harris, Slavoj Žižek).
Acknowledges complexity and the difficulty of absolute truth.
Concedes minor details, appearing intellectually humble.
Uses Socratic questioning to entertain alternative viewpoints.
The Fortress (The Core That Remains Unmoved)
Selectively engages with opponents, often choosing weaker arguments rather than the strongest critiques.
Frames ideological adversaries (e.g., postmodernists, Marxists) in ways that make them easier to dismiss.
Uses complexity as a way to avoid definitive refutation (“It’s more complicated than that”).
Rarely revises fundamental positions, even when new evidence is presented.
While this structure makes Peterson highly effective in debate, it also highlights a deeper issue: is he truly open to changing his views, or is he simply performing open-mindedness while ensuring his core remains untouched?
Examples of Strategic Open-Mindedness
- Debating Sam Harris on Truth and Religion
In his discussions with Sam Harris, Peterson appeared to engage with the idea of multiple forms of truth—scientific truth versus pragmatic or narrative truth. He entertained Harris’s challenges, adjusted some definitions, and admitted certain complexities.
However, despite the lengthy back-and-forth, Peterson never fundamentally reconsidered his position on the necessity of religious structures for meaning. Instead, the debate functioned more as a prolonged intellectual sparring match, where the core disagreements remained intact despite the appearance of deep engagement.
- The Slavoj Žižek Debate on Marxism
Peterson’s debate with Žižek was highly anticipated, particularly because Peterson had spent years criticizing Marxism and postmodernism. However, during the debate, it became clear that Peterson’s understanding of Marxist theory was relatively superficial—his arguments largely focused on The Communist Manifesto rather than engaging with the broader Marxist intellectual tradition.
Rather than adapting his critique in the face of Žižek’s counterpoints, Peterson largely held his ground, shifting the conversation toward general concerns about ideology rather than directly addressing Žižek’s challenges. This was a classic example of engaging in the mote—appearing open to debate while avoiding direct confrontation with deeper, more challenging ideas.
- Gender, Biology, and Selective Science
Peterson frequently cites evolutionary psychology and biological determinism to argue for traditional gender roles and hierarchical structures. While many of his claims are rooted in scientific literature, critics have pointed out that he tends to selectively interpret data in ways that reinforce his worldview.
For example, he often discusses personality differences between men and women in highly gender-equal societies, citing studies that suggest biological factors play a role. However, he is far more skeptical of sociological explanations for gender disparities, often dismissing them outright. This asymmetry suggests a closed-mindedness when confronted with explanations that challenge his core beliefs.
The Cautionary Tale: When Intellectual Rigidity Masquerades as Openness
Peterson’s method—his strategic balance of open- and closed-mindedness—is not unique to him. Many public intellectuals use similar techniques, whether consciously or unconsciously. However, his case is particularly instructive because it highlights the risks of appearing too open-minded while remaining fundamentally immovable. The Risks of "Humility Behind the Mote"
Creates the Illusion of Growth Without Real Change
By acknowledging complexity but refusing to revise core positions, one can maintain the illusion of intellectual evolution while actually reinforcing prior beliefs.
Reinforces Ideological Silos
Peterson’s audience largely consists of those who already align with his worldview. His debates often serve to reaffirm his base rather than genuinely engage with alternative perspectives.
Undermines Genuine Inquiry
If public intellectuals prioritize rhetorical victories over truth-seeking, the broader discourse suffers. Intellectual engagement becomes performative rather than transformative.
Encourages Polarization
By appearing open while remaining rigid, thinkers like Peterson contribute to an intellectual landscape where ideological battle lines are drawn more firmly, rather than softened by genuine engagement.
Conclusion: The Responsibility of Public Intellectuals
Jordan B. Peterson is an undeniably influential thinker, and his emphasis on responsibility, order, and meaning resonates with many. However, his method of open-minded closed-mindedness serves as a cautionary tale. It demonstrates the power of intellectual posturing—how one can appear receptive while maintaining deep ideological resistance.
For true intellectual growth, one must be willing not only to entertain opposing views but to risk being changed by them. Without that willingness, even the most articulate and thoughtful engagement remains, at its core, a well-defended fortress.
So like I said, pure, evil AI slop, is evil, addictive and must be banned and lock up illegal gpu abusers and keep a gpu owners registry and keep track on those who would use them to abuse the shining light of our society, and who try to snuff them out like a bad level of luigi's mansion
The correct framework for evaluation is "if we kowtow and associate with nazis we might get our people luigi'd randomly"
I see this post and think "progress toward the abolition of intellectual property". I'm sure Aaron would agree.
Officers can still access the debug mode and see everything. For when they need a quick wank
The problem is yt premium is not able to sustain google's platform. Only google's synergic monopolies make youtube possible and alternative financially unviable. Youtube, very literally, must die. As long as youtube exists it will maintain critical mass and kill everything else judt by existing. To fund youtube is to reinfotce this entrenchment. Both paying or watching ads and arguably just watching it, empowers google momooly position and its capture of the zeitgeist.
I think he means native sponsored segment when you're the first person to watch with sponsor blocks. But that's mostly only videos realeased under 5 minutes ago.
I'm using newpipe but the anybility to find content with youtubr's content discovery algorithm or a locally running one makes for a lot yif very annoying tab switching and scrolling to the bottom of newpipe thousand item playlist. I'm going to try this rvx!
How to search text on bookmarked pages ?
Hi,
I find bookmarks tedious to use and largely a huge waste of time. I have 10s of thousands of bookmarks and I never ever open any of them except the 10 or so on my bookmarks toolbar
Will bookmark ever improve, they seem to be solidly stuck in their functionality from 1996 and stagnant. Probably because nobody uses them there is no point in improving something no one uses.
So anyway, I thought bookmarks could be potentially useful if you could search text inside them. Except of course being 1996's finest technology, they never considered possible to save the text of a website as metadata of the bookmarks and they are built on this really naive idea that the bookmark will still work in the future, how pure in innocent of them.
So anyway, I'd like to just ask my locally running offline copy of deepseek 621B to search inside my bookmarks for a specific text and look at all images, video and audio transcript for a certain topic. I know this is a lot to ask of the outdated and obsolete bookmark technology so I'm curious if maybe there's someone that thought of improving that functionality or if I'm the first one to ever realize that ?
How to create bookmarks using javascript ?
I tried creating a single bookmark with search word But I can't get this to work. How can I bypass security to make it work ? Do I really have to enable debug mode ? Is it possible to switch debug mode without having to restart the browser (and discard all tabs)
Here is the code I tried
```
javascript:(async()=>{let t="S",n="GPT Classic",u="https://chatgpt.com/g/g-YyyyMT9XH-chatgpt-classic/?q=%25s",k="cc",g=(await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.search({parentGuid:PlacesUtils.bookmarks.toolbarGuid,title:t}))[0]?.guid||(await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.insert({parentGuid:PlacesUtils.bookmarks.toolbarGuid,title:t,type:PlacesUtils.bookmarks.TYPE_FOLDER})).guid;await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.insert({parentGuid:g,title:n,url:u}),await PlacesUtils.keywords.insert({keyword:k,url:u}),alert(Bookmark "${n}" added to folder "${t}" with keyword "${k}"!)})();
```
This command is awkward 'docket exec -t vaultwarden sh' , let's just have docker sh vaultwarden already !
I thought this would be hard, but turns out the following oneliner does it, with maybe no sideeffects ?
echo 'docker() { [ "$1" = "sh" ] && docker exec -it "$2" sh || command docker "$@"; }' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
This creates a bash alias for "docker ps" , every other command should run as normal
Now I just need to remember to run this one liner on every single computer I use in the future...
How to change context menu in "linux"
I want code to right click context menu on a file and if it is a .mp4, then convert that to a .mp3 of the same name
also include an option to play faster by +25 +33 +50 or slower by -25 -33 -50 (in a sub menu)
I understand this is different depending on your system, so answer how to do it for the people who use the same system as you
zcat shouldn't error out if you try to zcat an uncompressed file, it should just output the damned file !
There I said it !
Unfederated lemmy instance, how to pre-subscribe new users to our main communities ?
Hi,
I am setting up a lemmy instance for a small private group. They are not very technically literate and I don't want to have to explain the concept of joining the right communities as part of the onboarding process.
So I want to pre-load all the right default communities to each user when they create an account. Is there a way to accomplish this ?
thanks !
"Set Up Site Administrator" problem "Toastify is awesome!" ?
Hi,
Just booted up lemmy-ui instance for the first time
It asks for "Set Up Site Administrator" !
But as you can see when I press signup, nothing really happens
If I try to login with that account it says "Toastify is awesome!" !
When I check the logs I get
``` root@storage:~# docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 888bfbdd1e18 dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.19.7 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes (healthy) 1234/tcp lemmy-lemmy-ui-1 f60bba3c14ae dessalines/lemmy:0.19.7 "lemmy_server" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes 8536/tcp lemmy-lemmy-1 2669e16088ca pgautoupgrade/pgautoupgrade:17-alpine "/usr/local/bin/dock…" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes (healthy) 5432/tcp lemmy-postgres-1 f8bf46b02c08 mwader/postfix-relay "/root/run" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes 25/tcp lemmy-postfix-1 de4ad69c761e asonix/pictrs:0.5.16 "/sbin/tini -- /usr/…" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes 6669/tcp, 8080/tcp lemmy-pictrs-1 root@storage:~# docker logs lemmy-lemmy-1 Lemmy v0.19.7 Federation enabled, host is lemmy.example.ca Starting HTTP server at 0.0.0.0:8536 root@storage:~# docker logs lemmy-lemmy-ui-1 Lemmy-ui v0.19.7 started listening on http://0.0.0.0:1234/ 31 translation imports verified. 93 date-fns imports verified. 4 highlight.js imports verified. (Only testing 4 samples.)
```
Not sure where to go from there ?!
How do you post music to lemmy ? You can post images and video files with music tracks, but what about simple.mp3?
Do I have to convert my mp3 file to mp4 by adding blackout video track using handbrake ?
robodatimg advice requested
Expressing your needs, especially when related to health, can be delicate. Here’s a way to frame it that focuses on your health concerns and care, while also being considerate of the relationship:
"Hey, I’ve been thinking a lot about my health, and I recently read that regular intimate activity, around 21 times a month, could help lower the risk of prostate cancer. I know this might sound like a specific number, but it's something I’d like to work towards for my well-being.
I’d love for us to share more closeness not just for this reason but also because I feel it deepens our connection. I want to be open and honest with you about my needs, but I also want to make sure you're comfortable and that we find a balance that works for both of us.
How do you feel about this?"
On .LAN domains, how to stop firefox switching to https (when it's not available) and stop complaining about self-signed certificates when it is available ?
I'm just so annoyed of fighting this all the time.
If I can't figure this out I'm going to disable all https redirecting and all certificate errors off so I can have some peace
EDIT: I do not wish to manage certificates I do not want to setup private key infrastructure I don't want to use real internet domain names I don't want to manually install certificates into browsers after fishing them out of my ephemeral virtual machines
I just want to, add exception for *.lan for https auto redirect and auto-accept self-signed certificates as valid. This is not much to ask.
Is there an addon that will load the entire page ?
You know those websites that load a little bit of the page as you scroll, I want to search the whole thing !
First it would be something that autoscrolls the page without needing me to keep the page down button pressed down for the entire duration, which can be a lot. I want to do other things while this happens
Second, some websites, like facebook, actually UNLOAD from memory the data as you scroll further, defeating the simple scroll down. So, once the first one is done, I would like something that aggregates the entire page and loads it in a static second tab and/or saves it to a single file ?
Is there anything like that, yet ?
Anyone else getting youtube tabs loading forever ?
BTW this is on gigabit internet
It is quite annoyting, it prevents some other addons like close duplicates from running at all, as it does not run as long as there is something loading
Fortunately, "Stop all" does work to shut them off
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/98152847-4f2b-4391-92c1-f146e755c54c.png
This is a new behaviour from today, possibly ?
I just gave it a try, openned 3 tabs and waited 60 seconds, they didn't finish loading.
I tried turning off ublock, no effect
NOTE :
Issue has resolved itself after a reboot. This is a system with a amd 5950x and 64gb ram.
How can I quickly "unclog" firefox when it runs out of memory (with 1000/2000 tabs)
Hi, Once in a while I try to clean up my tabs. First thing I do is use "merge all windows" to put all tabs into one window.
This often causes a memory clog and firefox get stuck in this state for 10-20 minutes
I have recorded one such instance.
I have tried using the "discard all tabs" addon, unfortunately, it is also getting frozen by the memory clog.
Sometimes I will just reboot my PC as that is faster.
Unfortunately, killing firefox this way, does not save the new tab order, so when I start firefox again, it will have 20+ windows open, which I again, merge all pages and then it clogs again !
So far the only solution I have found is just wait the 20 minutes.
Once the "memory clog" is passed, it runs just fine.
I would like better control over tab discard. and maybe some way of limitting bloat. For instance, I would rather keep a lower number of undiscarded youtube that as they seem to be insanely bloated.
In other cases, for most website I would like to never discard the contents.
In my ideal world, I would like the tabs to get frozen and saved to disk permanently, rather than assuming discard tabs can be reloaded. As if the websites were going to exist forever and discarding a tab is like cleaning a cache.
Libre and Free A Linux Legacy (song)
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The steam store "all item" list clears itself when you scroll back up. How to prevent that ?
It is extremely frustrating. I just wanted to evaluate the whole list one by one and not miss one.
But no, it makes you click "more" every 10 items and then it wipes itself when you scroll back up.
You win steam, I give up and won't buy anything, happy ?
When I visit websites like netflix and discord, all my side monitors go extra glitched, I think it's an HDR thing. How can I stop that ?
After some searching, it looks like I need to disable all hardware acceleration ? How can I disable only the minimum amount of stuff ?
Are there addons to freeze javascript (toolbar button) and "discard tab to disk" (instead of plain discard)
I don't like it when I go back to a tab and it reloads.
For whatever reason, I want tabs to stop changing. I don't want the to reload from their javascript and I don't want the tab content to be deleted by the automatic discard (to save memory)
If firefox decides to free memory, it should dump tab data and tab state to disk, not delete and reload from the website later.
Sometimes the website won't exist later.
Somewhat related but this one is hard : Some website dynamically delete content after you've scroll past it (firefox) this means even if you scroll to the "true" bottom, you can't ctrl+f search and you can't freeze the page and read it all at your leisure and preserve it for later.
Currently my solution is to video screen capture the whole tab while scrolling slowly, this is quite a ridiculous step to take but apparently the only option to keep our data !?