Futurology Today

Side note: Does anybody have an effective way of blocking this stupid Admiral BS, I've gotten it to a point where it consistently gives me the bypass option but I'd prefer it to go away entirely

I’ve been wondering—does a Fediverse-based equivalent to Discord exist?

I know there are alternatives like Matrix, Revolt, etc., but what I’m looking for is something more akin to Discord that’s Decentralized, Open-Sourced, and makes use of ActivityPub.

If it doesn’t exist, has anyone ever thought about attempting something like this?

What I envision is something that would potentially serve as a decentralized clone of Discord, with features like voice and video chat, text channels, stickers and emojis, customizable communities, etc.

Perhaps make each of the communities an instance, self-hosted by the instance owner(s).

Names for such a project could reflect its functionality or ethos, perhaps something like:
ActivityChat
SocialHub
MeshTalk

Or maybe a name that’s the complete opposite of “Discord,” such as:
Harmony
Concord
Rapport

Unfortunately, I don’t have the time, energy, or technical knowledge to start such a project myself, but I thought that this might be an interesting idea for the community to discuss or brainstorm.

Would this kind of platform fill a gap in the current Fediverse landscape?

What challenges do you think it would face?

Would it gain traction in the Fediverse?

Hello all,

So I have this old Samsung RV520 laptop. You can see the specs there. I've installed and reinstalled a few different linux distros on it for the past 12 years or so, the last one being Arch (btw) which is what I use as my daily driver on my main desktop as well (by the btw). But I really don't need this laptop anymore, so I was thinking I'd give it as a birthday present to my friend's son, who turns 2 this month. It would be used as a "media station" to basically just play kids' videos from Youtube.

The problem is that I basically need to install an extremely windows-like (or otherwise simple) distro on it, because while my linux-fu is somewhat high level, my friend uses windows daily so system maintenance must be simple. Ubuntu is for me the obvious choice, but I'm not sure if the laptop can even run it anymore :D of course the HDD in it is also 16 years old and I'm pretty sure I'll upgrade it to an SSD before set up. So, taking all this preamble into account, what would you recommend? Some Ubuntu-derivative, pure Debian, maybe even Arch with linux-lts? Give me your thoughts!

(rambling) Give me all your uplemmingers or whatever essentially meaningless positive feedback is called on here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24744907

I rewrote some popular games for the terminal! You can play 2048, the snake game, tic-tac-toe, connect 4, and many more.

There's still a bunch of games to be made, so feel free to contribute :)

All contributions are welcome!

Women with little formal education trained to become solar technicians, transforming villages and tackling patriarchal norms

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Hrmbee on 2025-01-16 02:00:20+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/d9wHatena on 2025-01-16 05:52:26+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/therealJerminator on 2025-01-16 05:14:04+00:00.

Is there a way to enable logs outputs? I'm getting pretty regular timeout errors on my primary instance of choice. I'd really like to know more details about what's going on.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/learnjapanese by /u/luckycharmsbox on 2025-01-15 20:00:18+00:00.

So part of my Japanese Journey has been finding Cure Dolly and feeling like my mind was blown by her explanations. (I know some people don't like her). I'm trying to get to the bottom of what the source is for her style of Japanese grammar understanding. I've read the Jay Rubin book Making Sense of Japanese also and get a similar vibe. But I also know someone who is a Japanese Professor (specializing mainly in translation) and when I ask her questions looking for Cure Dolly style answers she gives me the same N1-N5 answers I can find online. Does anybody know where Cure Dolly and Jay Rubin got their deeper understandings from? Maybe they were reading Japanese Grammar texts for Japanese people? An example would be learning that -reru and -masu are actually separate verbs that attach to the main stem. Does anybody have any idea? Thanks ahead of time!

You helped me a lot with my move! I appreciate it.

The forecast for my area next week has temps as low as -20F (-28C), with a lower windchill (I think around -30F/-34C). We will have snow on the ground but I don't believe it is expected to snow on the coldest days. Side note - we are around 4500ft/1372m above sea level.

So far the winter has been pretty mild and hasn't gone below 0F/-17C at all. Snow has also been sparse with I think less than 2 inches (5cm) each time, quickly melting. So I haven't gotten a chance to really get used to such cold temps. We can get some pretty fast winds. I think it mostly sticks between 20-25 mph (32-40 kph). Also a very arid climate. I have a hard time getting my home above 30% humidity. Not sure on the outdoor numbers.

Is there anything different I should be doing for myself and for my dogs? I feel like these temps are dangerous for exposed skin? Not sure.

One of my dogs has medium length hair and the other one is short hair.

For me I have stuff like longjohns, thicker sweatpants, sweatshirts, windbreaker, I also have a wool coat. Then like thicker socks and some fur lined boots. - I'm thinking I need to add a scarf or something for my face and then also make myself wear gloves? I have some sheepskin gloves so I was thinking of putting on like regular winter gloves and then the sheepskin over it?

For the dogs they have a wind resistant fur lined coat and then some winter shoes. So I'm guessing they need something for their head - I have a soft head covering for them but it is slightly too big and keeps falling over their eyes when we practice wearing it. Do I need to get them something that covers their legs and belly better as well?

I was also wondering if I should even be taking them out at all when it's that cold. I mean I know it is that cold often elsewhere but they are used to the dry heat of the south of the US and I don't want them to end up not wanting to go outside ever again haha.

I still feel very unprepared for winter weather so I hope my fellow Lemmings can help!

Summary

House Speaker Mike Johnson stated that federal aid for California's devastating Los Angeles wildfires, which have killed at least 24 and displaced nearly 200,000 people, should come with conditions, citing alleged failures by state and local leaders.

Johnson also hinted at tying aid to debt ceiling negotiations.

Other Republican leaders, including Senators John Barrasso and Ron Johnson, expressed similar views, blaming liberal policies for exacerbating the fires.

Critics denounce these positions as cruel, given the scale of destruction, with over 12,000 buildings lost and massive evacuation orders in effect.

I came across this old IBM screen saver on a old machine and thought it was pretty cool. I set it up on my work laptop, but not Im curious if there are any cool linux or other screen savers you guys know?

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/itay16t on 2025-01-15 22:33:22+00:00.

An ancient 3-star system gave this 'blue lurker' star a turbo boost, scientists find

"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of systems evolve."

Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/hubble-space-telescope/an-ancient-3-star-system-gave-this-blue-lurker-star-a-turbo-boost-scientists-find

@science@lemmy.world @science@beehaw.org space@beehaw.org @space@lemmy.world @space@newsmast.community #space #science #nasa #astronomy

Shortcomings in Google’s advertising environment mean that DuckDuckGo is now the browser of choice for Scandinavian hotel chain Strawberry’s employees.

Frosch.