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I used Soulseek almost exclusively for around 5 years, and I found that some obscure tracks/albums (mostly metal) aren’t available as FLACs.

Now I use streamrip with a basic Tidal subscription. It costs a bit of money but it’s very fast and has everything I searched for as a FLAC.

I sort messages from mailing lists into different mail folders, and my client (Gnus) supports a threaded view of messages (and I can press ‘k’ on a message to mark the entire thread as read), so this isn’t a big issue for me.

From a contributor point of view, mailing lists are definitely easier than pull/merge requests - you just send a patch which you can create in any way you want to an email address.

Following a discussion is easy - it’s just a list of messages. In fact, it is easier for me since I use Gnus as my email client, which gives me a threaded view of discussions on the list.

Most web-based mailing list UIs are honestly incredibly bad, but you don’t need to use them, you can choose any email client you want.

I never really used IRC, but in my experience contributing to projects which use mailing lists is very easy - you just send a mail with some code.

Of course you could use git-send-email, and you could create diffs and patches, but I actually think for a new contributor the mailing list workflow is the simplest since it doesn’t actually require knowledge of the various tools experienced developers use.

I write this from personal experience BTW - the first projects I contributed to used mailing lists, which allowed me to contribute even as a self taught programmer who had no experience with any VCS yet.

I didn’t have any direct interactions with “hexbearians” but I do see a lot of posts and comments by them.

Honestly, people from Hexbear do comment a lot more, and seem more ready to defend their position (which can sometimes lead to petty arguments), but I don’t really care - I can always just skip a few comments.

Your politics also don’t align with mine at all, but I still find a lot of posts on Hexbear communities interesting or funny, so I don’t see what the big deal is there either. I think people with differing political opinions only benefit by discussing and sharing knowledge.

I don’t see why people who want to block hexbear.net don’t just block some communities they don’t like and users they see commenting a lot.

The BSDs are *nix-like systems without glibc with a history and larger communities.

You can run programs requiring glibc on musl-based distros using a simple chroot though (not to mention using Flatpak/Snap or similar solutions).

Also, as someone who uses a distro without systemd (Void) - my boot and shutdown are both very fast and service management is simple (I didn’t need to read any documentation to define new daemons, I just looked at existing definitions); this is in contrast to my experience the last few times I used systemd distros.

I even had a Debian setup I used regularly with SysV init a few years ago, which also had way better boot/shutdown times than with systemd (on the same exact setup otherwise). Service management was a pain with SysV though.

I’m assuming that if they sent you these instructions, at least on their service specifically your data will actually be deleted along with your account.

However, I don’t know enough about the GDPR to know whether an account deletion request is equivalent to a request for data deletion in general.

Plombir is unironically really good.

I initially chose vlemmy.net because it seemed big enough but not too big, and didn’t de/federate for non legal reasons (I can choose what I want to see myself).

Unfortunately it went down, so I moved to lemm.ee which seemed pretty similar but bigger so hopefully it will stick around longer.

Very sound and interesting argument, thanks for your input

Earlier in the same day, Israeli forces killed 20-year-old Mohammad Suleiman Mazara near the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli forces claimed that Mazara had shot at Israeli settlers present in the area at the time, injuring at least six people.

“Claimed” my ass, why must reporting from the Palestinian side always be so biased?

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyiamtijh#autoplay

This is the attack

For fellow paranoids:

Mullvad browser is a fairly new Firefox fork which aims to reduce fingerprinting potential while also having sane (paranoid) defaults. Developed with the Tor project. Basically the Tor browser but without connecting to the Tor network. Passes coveryourtracks.eff.org.

SimpleX Chat is a fairly new privacy oriented IM platform which seems to address many issues current ones have. Development is very active. E2E, video and voice calls, decentralized, doesn’t have user ID of any kind.

Are Mongols really portrayed as evil in the west?

I honestly can’t even recall portrayals of Mongols in mainstream western media.

Just go to lemmy.world and see for yourself. (Or don’t actually, might give you a virus or something idk)