JackGreenEarth

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62407893

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Vote in comments, or comment if your colour is not represented (poor person's poll until Lemmy adds polls officially)

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61934141

You are presented with an opportunity to choose between two distinct options for a post-scarcity life. The parameters of each option are as follows:

Option 1: Earth

Live anywhere you want on Earth, with the condition that space is limited and must be shared equally with others. You can have whatever you want, as long as it can be produced by a replicator. If your friends and family live on Earth, you can visit them in person. However, you will be subject to the same limitations and constraints as everyone else on Earth, in regards to space and legal codes that bind you (that are decided democratically).

Option 2: Customised Continent

You will be allocated a portion of a habitable planet, up to the size of a continent (but it can be as small as you want) with the ability to customise the environment to your liking, including:

• Biome (e.g. temperate, tropical, desert, etc.)
• Approximate gravity (within reasonable limits)
• Sun color and type
• Geography (e.g. mountains, valleys, coastlines, etc.)
• Other environmental factors that make sense

You will have access to the same replicator technology as Option 1, allowing you to produce anything you need. You will be part of a planet with 1-7 other continents, each inhabited by other individuals or groups who have also chosen this option. You can interact with them if you wish, but it is not required. However, unless you invite others to join you, you will only be able to communicate with loved ones on Earth (or anyone else not on your planet) via video call.

Which option do you prefer?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61933925

You are presented with an opportunity to choose between two distinct options for a post-scarcity life. The parameters of each option are as follows:

Option 1: Earth

Live anywhere you want on Earth, with the condition that space is limited and must be shared equally with others. You can have whatever you want, as long as it can be produced by a replicator. If your friends and family live on Earth, you can visit them in person. However, you will be subject to the same limitations and constraints as everyone else on Earth, in regards to space and legal codes that bind you (that are decided democratically).

Option 2: Customised Continent

You will be allocated a portion of a habitable planet, up to the size of a continent (but it can be as small as you want) with the ability to customise the environment to your liking, including:

• Biome (e.g. temperate, tropical, desert, etc.)
• Approximate gravity (within reasonable limits)
• Sun color and type
• Geography (e.g. mountains, valleys, coastlines, etc.)
• Other environmental factors that make sense

You will have access to the same replicator technology as Option 1, allowing you to produce anything you need. You will be part of a planet with 1-7 other continents, each inhabited by other individuals or groups who have also chosen this option. You can interact with them if you wish, but it is not required. However, unless you invite others to join you, you will only be able to communicate with loved ones on Earth (or anyone else not on your planet) via video call. You can invite others to join you, but then you share agency over what happens in your continent with them.

Which option do you prefer?

This is just a fun game, don't answer anything personal or identifying you don't want to!

It's a metaphor for the idea that things that are hard to accomplish are often not as rewarding as we might expect.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58872408

Hey,

So I've been connecting to an ftp server which I worked on with apps like GNOME Builder, and backed up the contents of with Pika Backup, connecting to it via the GNOME Files application, Nautilus, from the Network tab.

Recently, apps stopped being able to read files I opened with the file picker hosted on the ftp server, and after a lot of debugging I realised that was because Nautilus had for some reason switched from mounting the files under /run/user/1000/gvfs/ftp_address to the more abstract path ftp://ftp_address, under the virtual directory computer:///. Now apps can't read those files as they are not mounted under an actual path.

I couldn't find a way in Nautilus, FileZilla, or Dolphin to mount the ftp server files under a specified path /mnt/ftp_username, or even to put it back to the unwieldy but still working path it was under before, using a GUI.

I was recommended by an LLM assistant to use the curlftpfs command, but even with several variations of a command such as the following

sudo curlftpfs -v -o "uid=$UID,gid=$GID" ftp://username:correct%20password@ftp_address /mnt/ftp_username

it always gave the same error

Error setting curl: 

I'm not sure what else to try, could I have some advice please?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58872408

Hey,

So I've been connecting to an ftp server which I worked on with apps like GNOME Builder, and backed up the contents of with Pika Backup, connecting to it via the GNOME Files application, Nautilus, from the Network tab.

Recently, apps stopped being able to read files I opened with the file picker hosted on the ftp server, and after a lot of debugging I realised that was because Nautilus had for some reason switched from mounting the files under /run/user/1000/gvfs/ftp_address to the more abstract path ftp://ftp_address, under the virtual directory computer:///. Now apps can't read those files as they are not mounted under an actual path.

I couldn't find a way in Nautilus, FileZilla, or Dolphin to mount the ftp server files under a specified path /mnt/ftp_username, or even to put it back to the unwieldy but still working path it was under before, using a GUI.

I was recommended by an LLM assistant to use the curlftpfs command, but even with several variations of a command such as the following

sudo curlftpfs -v -o "uid=$UID,gid=$GID" ftp://username:correct%20password@ftp_address /mnt/ftp_username

it always gave the same error

Error setting curl: 

I'm not sure what else to try, could I have some advice please?

Hey,

So I've been connecting to an ftp server which I worked on with apps like GNOME Builder, and backed up the contents of with Pika Backup, connecting to it via the GNOME Files application, Nautilus, from the Network tab.

Recently, apps stopped being able to read files I opened with the file picker hosted on the ftp server, and after a lot of debugging I realised that was because Nautilus had for some reason switched from mounting the files under /run/user/1000/gvfs/ftp_address to the more abstract path ftp://ftp_address, under the virtual directory computer:///. Now apps can't read those files as they are not mounted under an actual path.

I couldn't find a way in Nautilus, FileZilla, or Dolphin to mount the ftp server files under a specified path /mnt/ftp_username, or even to put it back to the unwieldy but still working path it was under before, using a GUI.

I was recommended by an LLM assistant to use the curlftpfs command, but even with several variations of a command such as the following

sudo curlftpfs -v -o "uid=$UID,gid=$GID" ftp://username:correct%20password@ftp_address /mnt/ftp_username

it always gave the same error

Error setting curl: 

The curl command worked by itself, just not with curlftpfs, but with just curl I can't mount it.

I'm not sure what else to try, could I have some advice please?

Edit: it seems the error message was a bug with a combination of using curlftpfs and curl v8.9.1

A commenter also suggested using rclone or gio, as apparently curlftpfs is unmaintained and that's why it's not working.