Thanks for the context!

Some context from the article I found helpful as a layman :)

When seeing this mailing list post, my immediate assumption was it being some new HDR testing code that slipped under my radar from DRM-Next coverage, given all the ongoing High Dynamic Range / color management work happening recently for the Linux desktop. But when digging into the merge, it’s actually even more mundane. The “hdr” in this sense is around the C header files. The new “hdrtest” code is for the Intel Xe kernel driver and is around trying to help ensure the DRM header files are self-contained and pass kernel-doc tests. Basic maintenance checks on the included DRM header files to ensure they are all in good shape.

Apparently this is about neither DRM, nor HDR in the sense an average user might think of those terms 😅

That’s very fair! I was concerned by that video too, though I would point out that if I remember right, the games in that video don’t work on non-steamdeck devices including if you install steamos on a laptop or desktop

There kind of is though. I’m not here to argue it’s enough to unseat windows but it is markedly different

From a technical standpoint it’s just another linux distro with some nice tweaks for gaming but from a human perspective it has brand recognition, familiarity, a known company behind it. Those things do really matter for adoption. No idea if that’d be anywhere near enough, I’m not inclined to make predictions, but it does have explicit advantages over consumers hearing they can get a laptop with Ubuntu or fedora on it

Hey, happy lemmy anniversary, I’m glad you’re here!

Yeah as much as politics are really important, especially for folks living in the US right now, it’s easy for it to become like 75% of all traffic you see and it’s a bit suffocating.

Political views and frustration are something lots of lemmites have in common, but it’s not healthy to stew in it 24/7 while it drowns out all other more niche communities. There’s gotta be some way of finding ballance between being informed and political solidarity, and having healthy social engagements that aren’t about how broken and cruel the world is

I think clear identity (I like the idea of a mission statement that someone mentioned), and a statement of the governance model of the instance would be really cool to see normalized

Erin Kissane has done a lot of fediverse research and found governance was really vital to people’s experiences, good or bad, but it’s difficult to asses from the outside until you have a problem and it’s either handled well or poorly.

Lmao, that’s such a goofy idea, I kinda love it

I found this article on the transformation of the DHS into a secret-police-like-organization from 2020 in the sources/references and thought it was worth sharing

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dhs-was-destined-to-become-a-secret-police-force

That website’s cookie requirements are gross, here’s the whole article

The Open Technology Fund (OTF) has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Washington D.C. against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and the Office of Management and Budget. In its lawsuit, the OTF is seeking a preliminary injunction to have the USAGM release the withheld funding. US President Donald Trump had previously issued a decree largely restricting the USAGM under the current legal situation. The OTF uses its funds to support the certification authority Let’s Encrypt and the anonymization network Tor, among others.

OTF lacks 650,000 US dollars for operating costs

In its application, the OTF argues that the termination of the grant by the USAGM is unlawful, as the provision of the funding has already been decided by Congress. As part of this decision, a total amount of 43.5 million US dollars has been earmarked for 2025, which accounts for 98 percent of the OTF’s funding. The USAGM oversees the financial and programmatic activities of the OTF and makes payments to the non-profit organization. The OTF had requested and not received a payment of around 650,000 US dollars for operating costs in March.

Kari Lake, executive CEO of USAGM and special advisor to the Trump administration, described the US agency in a statement as a “huge rot and burden on the American taxpayer” that also poses a national security risk. OTF Chairman Zack Cooper, on the other hand, argued that his organization is the most efficient and effective tool against censorship and influence peddling. An end to OTF projects “would weaken America’s national security and keep millions of people around the world trapped behind authoritarian information firewalls”, Cooper said.

Overall, the US government invests a lot of money in open source software. Last year, Let’s Encrypt received around 800,000 US dollars in funding from the OTF, the Tor network received almost 500,000 US dollars and the open-source Android app store F-Droid received 396,000 US dollars. In total, the organization currently supports around 50 projects, including the development of the free VPN client OpenVPN. According to its information, the OTF has published around 2,500 patches for open-source software and the organization promotes VPNs for around 45 million people in countries with censorship. OTF President Cunningham sees the lawsuit as the only way to ensure the continued existence of these projects.

You should cross-post to [email protected]! Its not a perfect fit but this is such a beautiful object, I’m sure folks there would love to see it!

While I agree, I also think in the case of peertube part of it might also be that there aren’t enough people watching for viewership to clearly highlight quality videos

I’ve found better stuff by asking around for good channels, or learning that folks I follow have made a peertube channel, than I have by trying to use the interface. The discovery isn’t especially good.

There are only a couple decent channels I’ve watched but I get the honest impression there are more, they’re just burried in stuff. Also depends what you’re looking for. There are far more Foss youtubers who mirror over there and make decently high quality stuff than is available for a a lot of other genres of video

There definitely isn’t much, but I think there’s potentially more than is immediately obvious

❤️

I feel very strongly that the best thing any person can do for the fediverse is make it a place worth being :)

At some point I wanna write about it and share my thoughts to try and encourage folks to be intentionally kind in how they shape the culture of this space. I think the fediverse will succeed when the fediverse when folks get here and decide it’s a nice place to be. Plus it just makes me happy :)

Thank you very much for the kind words, it means a lot to me, it’s always nice seeing your face around ☺️ hope you have a good one blaze!

Oh nice! I use firefox on mobile so I can still use extensions (just have to enable developer settings), but that’s super handy for folks who don’t have that option!

I didn’t know that, thank you :)

I mean it also does just appeal to a very different demographic than the fediverse has been built by.

Reddit/lemmy is a favored format for technical folks and twitter/Mastodon is very general purpose (facebook is more so, but it’s not really a many-to-many network)

Pinterest and DeviantArt are worthwhile pretty much exclusively to arts folks (which is also just a narrow demographic for something as niche as the fediverse), and the fediverse is pretty oriented towards technical folks, as that’s who built it. You also see that pattern in linux, the development of which has significantly more technical resources than design, with the notable exception of GNOME (not to say it’s objectively good or right for everyone, just that they balance their resources differently)

Like a solid half of the fediverse is just technical open source nerds. Who I love, mind you, but it isn’t exactly the category of people likely to value pinterest, or DeviantArt.

I use it to save images as reference that still links back to the original content. That way I can make boards of reference or inspiration that contains links to the source for more detail or ideas, without having to save an image and then save a link and then keep them together somehow.

And if you just bookmark stuff you can’t pull it all up and look at it together as like a reference board.

The federated aspect would probably just be to enable decentralization while still allowing as many people as possible to contribute to the total image pool and organize them, which would teach the platform what images how to organize them so other people can find them.

I’m not actually sure honestly. I’d like a Pinterest alternative too.

Pixelfed or Friendica for art pages might be the closest thing to deviantart (as best I’m aware at least). Pixelfed is modeled after instagram, friendica is modeled after facebook.

The network of microblogging sites like Mastodon or miskey (twitter-like) is the biggest fediverse platform, after that is probably reddit like platforms (lemmy, kbin, piefed) and pixelfed.

Most other platforms like peertube (YouTube alternative), loops, friendica, and probably a much of others, are still on the smaller side and still feel much different from their corporate counterparts due to the size difference. They haven’t really hit a “critical mass” yet in my opinion. They’re still cool and worth trying out if you’re interested though :)

The fediverse is still growing, but I’m not sure there are direct couterparts for those specific user experiences yet.

Regardless, welcome! I’m glad you’re here :)

You might like the indie wiki buddy extension, it can automatically redirect you to a independent wiki when you go to fandom (if there is one), remove fandom search results, and redirect you to a ‘breeze wiki’ page if there’s no fandom alternative

(Breeze wiki is an alternative frontend for fandom, much like invidious for YouTube. It guts all the ads and banners and garbage, and gives you a much simpler wiki page)