Oh thanks, I know well about it. podman unshare is the reason why those permission issues are not major (eg.: you don’t need to ever sudo to solve the permission issues rootless causes, I think?). But my going to was more focused o borking the output or workflow of using some of the “usual” tools of a Linux console, such as needing to account for the potential existence of a podman environment on the user account (or any given user account, if doing house cleaning under root) if you ever need to rely on the recursive results of things like chmod or find.

So, can’t even speak about a given community (just because they live in a certain instance) without getting blocked? Well now that’s censorship if I’ve ever seen any.

What i argue now is that such an identity providing server is not technically necessary. You could use something like an ~/.ssh/id_rsa file that you generate on your own computer and use that public key to identify yourself on the fediverse.

Wouldn’t this require a keyserver anyway, GPG-style, since you need to have a means to guarantee that services all around can see your public key?

Nothing (well maaaaaaybe IRC) beats XMPP / Jabber when it comes to installing for small institutional needs. There are pretty good servers around, such as Prosody.

I can understand the point that Word is needed for producing some borked, glitched, eldritch formatting that 99% of people expect as correct because Office is that much widespread and has trained people to be Wrong on the Internet; and in that case yeah I would still recommend running a(n older version of!) Office just so that you can process (and test) that you are producing what is expected in the exchange.

It’s curious actually. While LO compatibility has improved, I don’t think anything close to an umbrella “Imitate Word [$VERSION] Glitches” option has ever been added or even considered for LO? How about the other Word imitators? Can eg.: WPS or Calligra replicate Microslop idosyncracies? Because if so, running those would be better than running Office on a remote.

It’s pretty great, and I like that the workflow for creating containers is sliiiightly easier than on Docker. I switched from Docker to Podman for most stuff about a year ago and so far there are only two hiccups that I lament:

• the higher disk consumption due to not being able to share image storage. (I’ve tried with additionalstorages but that seems to only be respected for podman run; podman build and podman compose seem to ignore it and always pull images from the registries)

• Some annoying isses with fule permissions due to rootless design - running rootless containers will create files under your user storage that you as a user have no permission to transfer or remove for cleanup or security, and severely breaks the output of tools like du or find due to error spammage.

There’s a lot of things to hate in the world – it’s the mark of wanting to make it better. If you are defined by thinking that hating Reddit is significant, you need a hobby.

If the only thing you need is not even the whole Office suite but just a Word processor (and not even any particular version) and since you’ll be remoting to it for the graphical access, you don’t need to spin up a whole Windows VM for that. You can just spin up something with Wine and install the Word component from Office 2013 on that (I’d say Office 2013 at most; you might be able to get away with Office 2007 but I wouldn’t recommend it).

Defaults matter. We always complain about that when it comes to eg.: Firefox, no sense in being a hypocrite here and letting Piefed do just about.

uses regex to parse HTML

I see we are having fun these places!

It’s only illegal if “here” files a lawsuit against Microsoft.

Will it?

The extra b was half in jest, but yeah. I was actually surprised at first to find out “mobb” with two bs is an actual word.

I guess it’s from “mobb”?

That and the problem people are the ones who wouldn’t use this function in the first place.

Booo. Here I was hoping for something serious to spice up the news and it just turns out it’s “it runs on a browser”.

Yeah. You know, Shadow Profiles? Datasets on users collected for the purpose of control and manipulation, basically the equivalent to back when McCarthynism and the FBI had a “dossier” on you. It’s not even that old, Facebook was caught doing it in a big scandal and pretty much every corporate since then (Reddit uses it for shadowbanning Fediverse mentions, etc).

The 99% of the code does not deal with keeping Shadow Profiles on netizens and punishing them (as well as misinforming them about what’s going on). This 50something lines, does, and thus is a weighed key on which to judge the subject.

, we need […] community evangelists

What will they be commenting to the public on the CCP-like thing?

I recently tried posting about decentralized alternatives on r/tiktok, but it seems the post was suppressed.

Reddit has been known for a good while to shadowban even mere mentions of the fediverse or anything involving it, as well as shadowbanning accounts. If you want to truly promote an alternative to a walled garden, it has to be out there in the open, not in another walled garden.

Yeah it reeks of “you can complain about CCP-like behaviour but not in a way that actually effects any change”.

Wait what? I read in other threads the code was bad, not I didn’t think it’d be this bad.