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Well that'll teach me to not check the community name. An hour or two later, I read it all... Fascinating and horrifying.

What non-SMS non-Apple app can I use to "text" my younger kid on their iPad

Hi! My less-than-10-year-old has their own iPad (registered under my apple id) and wants to be able to “text” with the rest of the family. Most of us are not Apple people though: Android phones, using some combo of SMS, Discord, and Signal. The little one doesn’t have a phone, so I think that prevents us from signing them...

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Compared to more traditional messaging protocols it could seem that way depending on various factors like time zone differences and how often devices can be online.

It seems like in general, 1:1 conversations will require both participants to be online simultaneously to communicate. Group conversations can have any online participant act as a relay for new messages to offline participants, more or less.

Check out their documentation, particularly the article on how the distributed network works. Also the FAQ is massive! I wish I had the time to read about this in more detail right now

https://docs.jami.net/en_US/user/index.html

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I am Gnome Ann!

How to cope with existing right now?

It feels like no matter where I turn some septuagenarian, or older, is making life miserable for myself and others. Usually these are older white Christian conservatives, obsessed with a delusional sense of reality that no longer has a basis in fact, or perhaps never did....

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You are on a different instance than the community. Because it's a new community it probably just hasn't federated to your instance yet.

Edit: also if you're the FIRST person to access the community on your instance, that should be establishing federation in the first place

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Maybe the joke is the time between ordering and delivery? I don't really get it

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I thought I was old, but I've only even heard of the 3dfx 😳

can I be a Free Software advocate but still use non-free software??

I’m asking this because one time, while browsing the GNU website, I noticed that some of the members’ emails had “gmail” on them!! And I asked myself how would that be possible?? And I think other members of the FSF had Gmail too. Why? Richard Stallman is against Gmail, so why would those memberse use it?? Would that...

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this is so obviously a troll account that it's painful to see no one else questioning it

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As an outsider to that exchange, you DID reply quite nicely, at least until abruptly being quite rude in your very last sentence. :/

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    I have already seen this horrible headline posted (and deleted) from THIS community earlier today.

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    Context:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf.

    The abbreviation cf. (short for either Latin confer or conferatur, both meaning 'compare')[1] is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed. Style guides recommend that "cf." be used only to suggest a comparison, and the words "see" or "vide" be used generally to point to a source of information.[2][3]

    subignition,
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    No, I think min() returns the lower of two arguments. If you had 4 cores, min(4, 8) == 4, and if you had 20 cores, min(20, 8) == 8

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    As of now most of the top comments here are also in agreement with that take.

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    Sorry that I don't have an answer to your direct question, but

    It doesn't necessarily need to be at a large scale, because of federation. The technical knowledge needed to admin an instance is a barrier to entry now, but probably can be improved. We could eventually see an ecosystem where your WoW guild (or your college buds, or your found family, or your fantasy football league, or equivalent smaller community) hosts an instance for its members. You can still participate in federated discussions, and the subscriptions of the instance could stay comparatively filtered to what's most important to the users of the instance.

    You'll always have bigger generalist instances, but the flexibility you can have with really small and topical ones shouldn't be forgotten about imo, especially as the platforms/technologies mature.

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    Ah yes, toxic individualism

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    Ah yes, blaming other end users for "poor choices" instead of Evil Company obviously and openly doing evil things

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    So is it willful ignorance on your part then? Or have you some explanation for not paying attention to the myriad avenues of data collection and exploitation for the last fifteen years?

    To use a very old example which pales in comparison to things which are possible now, here's a story from 2012 wherein Target's marketing efforts outed a pregnant teenager to her family with targeted coupons. Luckily her family was supportive in this case, however it's not hard to imagine real harm being done if the circumstances were different.

    “[...] we found out that as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn’t been spied on, she’ll use the coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer for diapers and cribs. As long as we don’t spook her, it works.”

    So to bring this to a slightly more relevant topic for 2023: are you really okay with mass surveillance being used to uncover and prosecute women who have been forced to travel out of states with abortion bans to seek lifesaving medical care? Just because you don't have to worry about it personally?

    This is just one of many, many examples of the abuse of data collection in the modern day. Before you try and discard this post as an alleged strawman (or some shit) I encourage you to actually open your eyes and look, because these entities are not nameless, many of them are household names. Your "spooky bedtime stories" argument is an absolute farce and I honestly would prefer you to be trolling than genuinely this ignorant.

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    Thanks for removing all doubt that you are just here to troll. I wish you luck finding a more productive way to spend your time IRL.

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    Eh. Gotta let them dig the hole long enough to eliminate all doubt, plus pushing back on their nonsense is potentially valuable to third party readers later. Thanks for looking out, though.

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    Pardon me for sounding like an armchair psychologist here, but it seems to me like you have fallen down some weird rabbit hole where you are excusing your creepy behavior patterns with this concept of privacy. I suggest you take an honest look at how you behaved in this interaction, because "privacy loving" is neither a cause or justification for what you described doing in the OP.

    Instagram and Snapchat play a vital role in the dating, no one is willing to share their # anymore. If you say you don’t have Insta or Snap all you’ll get is a weird up to down stare and the words “I’m sorry”.

    If you really believe that, then tough shit: you can't have your cake and eat it too. You chose to stay off insta and snap, so you have to accept the consequences of that choice. Your decision to try to spin up a burner account and hastily attempt to make it look legitimate was stalker-tier behavior. Not to mention that painting a whole class of people with such a broad brush as "no one is willing to share their number anymore" is dangerously close to incel bullshit all on its own. It is far more likely that no one is willing to share their number with you because you are pushing to get too familiar too quickly and they are rightly picking up on the major red flags.

    The appropriate response would have been to be honest about not using it (and in general being honest is ALWAYS THE RIGHT MOVE when you're meeting people, so long as sharing wouldn't put your safety at undue risk), and to accept the odds of the weird stare you expect to get.

    Because everyone is a unique person, and you don't actually know when you're going to run into someone with similar views as you about privacy, if that is really your true concern. But it seems like your desperation overrode whatever principles you purport to have in that moment. Changing who you are to try and get in someone's good books is fundamentally manipulative and is a serious problem. You are never going to be capable of a healthy relationship until you nip that in the bud.

    It sounds like you are young, so the good news is that most people have been a fucking idiot in this regard at one point or another, and it's easily fixed! Accept that you fucked this up and take an honest look at how you approach interaction with others, and you will already be farther along the path to normal social relations than you think.

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    The interoperability of Fediverse platforms is so cool!!! Don't even have to leave the site you're on to contact someone in a completely different style of site. I love to see it.

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    I would ask whether you realize you're on a linux community, but you referred to a man page as a wiki article so you are clearly lost.

    The first paragraph past the link is a summary of the function of the program.

    fstrim is used on a mounted filesystem to discard (or "trim") blocks which are not in use by the filesystem. This is useful for solid-state drives (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage.

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    I used to be fine with Nitro because I didn't mind supporting a service I liked being free for everybody else. These last few months I have been seeing big red flags of enshittification with the introduction of a layer of cosmetic microtransactions you can only microtransact if you're a Nitro subscriber

    It's probably time to start planning my exit, but I haven't dug into the details of what next steps are gonna look like for me.

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    fuck yeah, pepsi and kraft singles

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    Photos taken seconds before ascension ( it was his QUEST BED 8^y )

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    Not yet on kbin.social which is where that user is participating from.

    Though there's always the good old bookmark.

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