I’m waiting for the game to be released on gog.com. I really enjoyed the first game.

And for those that don’t want to follow a random youtube link:
A Message Regarding ICE in Minnesota

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Before we wrap up this broadcast here, I want to deliver a quick message as the program director of privacy guides about the current state of the United States of America.
As a motan and a resident of the city of Minneapolis myself, this is a very important issue to me.
We’re only one month into 2026 right now.

And already this year, ICE agents of the federal government of the United States are responsible for the extrajudicial killings of two American citizens right here in my city for exercising their constitutional rights.
This happened as part of a larger ICE campaign to terrorize my neighbors and this country, which is a campaign that I know many motans protested in forest last week and I know many American patriots are protesting today.
Our mission at Privacy Guides has always been to support the right of privacy for all people regardless of political views or the country that people live in.
It’s also our mission to speak out against government overreach, particularly when it comes to surveillance and especially when government agencies are being pitted against the very taxpayers and citizens that they are meant to protect and serve.

Here in the United States, that’s meant recently speaking out against the Democrats who aim to increase surveillance and censorship through bills like KOSA or the planned repeals of section 230.
But now against Republicans certainly in our government who are weaponizing the state surveillance systems and law enforcement bodies like ICE to target their perceived political enemies and immigrant members of our communities without respect to their legal residency status or any due process.

This weaponization of ICE by the Trump administration is not happening in a vacuum.
It’s fueled by the very surveillance data and the lack of digital boundaries that we have been fighting against for years.
Laws which were enacted within my lifetime, like the Patriot Act, and loopholes like the continued lack of regulations against commercial data brokers, which allow the government to bypass the Fourth Amendment entirely by purchasing our own GPS and social media data from tech companies to map out our neighborhoods for raids.
Minneapolis has also become the testing ground for invasive and inaccurate facial recognition apps like Mobile Fortify, where AI glitches, just like we talked about in this episode, can lead to unlawful detentions of innocent people and the sort of state sponsored surveillance that took the lives of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Petti.

In times of overreach, our greatest defense is our community and our refusal to be intimidated into silence.
And I’ve seen how powerful that this can be firsthand. The reality is that how ICE is operating within the borders of the US is unjustifiable.
So we here recognize the significance of this unprecedented situation and we stand alongside everyone who’s protesting in support of the protection of our neighbors and for American rights, which is something that I think all Americans should support.

Thank you all for tuning in. I hope you all have an excellent weekend.

I usually wait for a month or two before upgrading to the latest version, but haven’t had any troubles.

First thing I do is enable rpm nonfree per this documentation
https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

And the second is to switch to ffmpeg and add some HAC as per this documentation
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

If you run an newer Nvidia card you might wanna grab some drivers too, see
https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-43-Post-Install-Guide?tab=readme-ov-file#nvidia-drivers

They seem to have good builtin support. Let immich make a db backup and then add the db backup directory to your normal backup.
(And the filesystem directory with photos of course) https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/

What I meant with lifestyle was the fact that vegan used to mean not using any products that cause animal suffering, be it a hamburger, leather shoes or makeup tested on animals. None of it is vegan.

While I don’t believe IaaS to be selfhosting I do believe self-managed services on IaaS should be allowed here. It’s the same software stack and requires the same skills so both parties gain from having the discussion in the same place.
Not because I think selfhosting is a badge but because I think it makes sense to call things for what they are.

But I’m an old grumpy who thinks ovo-lakto vegetarians shouldn’t have been allowed to steal the meaning of vegetarian or vegetarians steal it from vegans (and now we no longer got a word to describe old school vegans that makes it a lifestyle not a diet.)

Ah, I take it this is the tactic you use?

Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ rather than https://addons.mozilla.org/android/ when you find the extension you want to try use the menu button (hamburger/three stripe icon) and toggle “Desktop site” then you can use the “Add to Firefox” button.

Otherwise, if you followed an extension link, you may have to switch to “Desktop site”, then remove /android from the URL in address bar.

It should then install the add-on, but if it tries to download the file instead, then change privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager back to the default false in about:config.

Yeah, the main tip was that you can use whatever you use to grab streams from youtube on firefox on your computer and add that addon to a collection to get it on your phone.

Creating an addon collection as per this guide allows me to install computer addons to my Android phone:
https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/

The addon I use to grab streams didn’t want to work on youtube though, but it worked to grab video streams from other sites.

I take it your build is dependant on the community-maintained Universe repo?
https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1452497/what-are-esm-apps-and-how-do-they-relate-to-ubuntu-pro

If they already to the work for esm-apps repo then they could at least send those fixes over to the universe repo until the release version is EoL one would think. On the other hand I have no idea what lives in universe and what lives in main.

That was a rabbit hole.

Huh, that was hidden deeper than I like. https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1452497/what-are-esm-apps-and-how-do-they-relate-to-ubuntu-pro

edit: adding some relevant links

Its a possibility on Lemmy

The lemmy UI hides it, just like the Boost UI. What people do is they go to lemvotes.org and paste the url to the comment or post to see the up- and downvotes.

What lemmy has, that I’m uncertain if Boost has too, is a convenient way to copy the “true link” from the poster or commenters instance.
On Lemmy you copy the multi coloured star link and paste into lemvotes.org

I blame it on rarely upvoting posts at all! Or maybe it was someone elses fault, must be someone else to blame. I think. Is it your fault? You made me not do it? You must’ve made me not do it. You’re to blame. I’m certain.

Yeah, if you wanna lurk and not comment because you want to stay private then I recommend not voting at all.
If a person is already engaging in communities with comments like you and I are right now then I think the added details from our upvotes only strengthen what they already know from our comments.

I think most of my upvotes are in comment chains like this, when I think that they add value and are on topic.

I feel like this is what upvotes and down votes are for though. Expressing that you agree, like, or don’t like what someone is doing, or saying is not a mental disorder. I have been on the internet long enough, to know that starting a discussion about something, is almost never really worth it. I do feel that I should be able to join in on a general sentiment of approve or disapprove on a platform like this.

This is something where everyone has their own personal idea of what the votes are for. I was taught to think of the votes as relevant (on topic)/irrelevant (off topic) when I first encountered the system.

And that assumption is why I think the choice of the devs to hide it was wrong. They essentially tricked you.

Having votes transparent makes manipulation much harder and people much nicer.

You do, but not when your distro is EoL and not with livepatching to avoid reboots.

• https://ubuntu.com/security/esm

• https://ubuntu.com/pro

Glad to hear it’s extended maintenance for old software and not making their private users less secure.

4/999 negative votes (0.4%) or 99.6% positive
You’re one happy dude!
https://lemvotes.org/user/dumbass@piefed.social

I mostly solve this by upvoting what I like and ignoring the downvote option, reserving it for advertisement bots and spam.
I think that having the voting record hidden in the client UI makes more harm than good to be honest and would’ve preferred if the devs changed their mind on tricking end users that voting is anonymous.

The federated design of fediverse means that upvotes and downvotes must sync between instances and as such they’re not hidden or anonymous in any real sense. Anyone with a fediverse instance can see the votes.

lemvotes.org democratise this by allowing everyone, not just techies with their own instance, to see the votes.

One should know that lemvotes.org isn’t a perfect source of truth though, when I lefthand scroll I sometimes fat finger a downvote that I remove again. The latest downvote in my record is one of those.

https://lemvotes.org/ state I downvoted a post:

https://feddit.uk/ sees 75 upvotes:

https://sopuli.xyz/ sees 75 upvotes and I clearly have not voted: