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A simple whois (querying a public database) points to Prague (CZ) - and reveals the name & address of one person. Of course that most likely isn’t his personal address, the guy could still live in the USA. And his last name indeed does not sound very czech, could be Russian, but I cannot be sure. Somebody in the fediverse claimed that he’s a Russian asset but I haven’t seen anything that would support that claim, apart from the obvious.

whois

• archive.is: Denis Petrov, Prague
• archive.today: tucows.com and lots of REDACTED
• archive.md: almost no info at all
• archive.ph: This TLD has no whois server

so it’s not exactly a mirror, right?

Correct!

Your workflow is actually something I thought of but the duplication of all lossy files would be a bit too much and replacing them with symlinks would not work with git afaik.

It sure does.

Just came to say Thank You!

I’ve been using FramaGit ever since Github went Microsoft.

Yes, that’s a given. I just wanted to hear other people’s squishy feelings about it. It seems most (some who’ve been here for years) don’t see it so dramatically.

How did you copy it?

Are you sure you have all the data?

In any case, you can tell mpv to target chapters individually (it doesn’t do dvd menus);

mpv dvd://[number] --dvd-device=/path/to/my/rip

Where [number] is the number of the title/chapter.

It does sometimes feel like every American goes on an angry and unconciliatory political rant at the slightest hint of a diverging opinion. Not that elsewhere is perfect. “May you live in interesting times” is said to be a curse, not a blessing.

for a time

Somebody commented they will adapt, given time.

you have to scroll so much further down a thread before the good info is found.

I feel Lemmy’s algorithm does a nice job of pushing newer comments to the top, but of course one needs to search longer for the good stuff the more comments there are.

in other words: welcome redditors, pls leave the reddit bs at the door on your way in.

Somebody else here commented that they will adapt. I like that, I hope it’s true, and possibly my biggest takeaway from this post because it is something we can all actively contribute to.

I would say I’m seeing perhaps a small wave of new users from Reddit though not nearly as big as the wave from the API changes.

Thanks for putting some perspectve on it!

time on Lemmy tends to shift people’s perspective to “fit in” more.

That sounds good; maybe my post sounded a bit pessimistic.

Tagging is an app-only feature. Would like to see that in the browser too, though.

Yep. Tagging is an app-only feature. Would like to see that in the browser too, though.

As overly pessimistic as it sounds, this is really it.

Unlearn the notion that you can live part of your private life on large platforms (in the widest sense).

All this is already happening and has been for a while before the whole AI hype even started.

I will take your question as a more general “What can happen”, not focusing too much on LLMs. Although arguably it was their precursors who started the more nefarious ways of aquiring & perusing ever more esp. behavioral data.

So the question is: what are the real-life harms of private online data collection everybody warns about? The answer is as long winded as explaining the mechanism of the aquisition itself.

It’s pervasive. “They” can tweak almost every manner of interaction with their customers/subjects. It affects younger people (and I mean younger than me, and I still remember the time when there was no internet for the people) constantly and in ways they aren’t even aware of. It allows the creation of data sets that are being sold on - now including DNA thanks to millions of useful idiots who went to 23andme -

out of breath. maybe somebody else can continue this

TIL! Or should I say TILL! (Today I learned (more about) Linux)

Before any commenter rushes to condemn the Chaos That Is Linux, please check out OP’s posting history to get a clearer picture of their credibility.

(and like they themselves stated, this is a rant and not a PSA)

That’s kindof the opposite of what the previous commenter said. Have you tried explicitely setting the env var to a value different than what’s in gsettings?

What env var are we talking about btw?

And what freedesktop spec? AFAIK they do not deal much in env vars apart from XDG_*

I think it’s a coincidence and not etymologically related - scandinavian languages use the verb “talar” or variations thereof for “pay” or “tell” and I think it’s more related to the German word “zahlen”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahl#Etymologie