FUTO is both a company (LLC, to be specific) and a rich guy.

Is that what they were doing? I haven’t seen videos of them ‘platforming’ Curtis so I don’t know whether they were helping him proliferate any specific message

Based on FUTO’s own response, they don’t put logos on the front page to “simplify things”. I think that’s a little weird. Is source-available distinct from open source? Still not sure how that makes them “evil” though, starting to think user Novi Sad might have been making a joke by calling them evil, perhaps being playful.

Wow, he does sound pretty nasty, that’s messed up. I don’t see though how FUTO interviewing a bad person makes the organization evil though.

Oh, thanks, this is the first I’ve ever heard of Curtis Yarvin. Did he say anything bad during those opportunities to speak? I’m not sure it’s “evil” to interview someone.

Does anyone have a TLDR of Drew’s article here? I’ve seen enough of his keyboard-warrior frothing opinions and vitriolic rhetoric from his blog to avoid trusting it without some third party sources to back up his claims about things.

everything in moderation, if you’re using anything too much you’re an addict and should seek professional help and/or start weaning off your vices

You should add screenshots to the repo and the README so people can see how it looks. Also, it’s not clear if this supports using locally hosted LLMs.

I was looking at https://open-smartwatch.github.io/gallery/gallery-main/ recently with some intrigue, if I had a 3d printer I’d consider building it

Generally if you want to combine full encryption with version control, your best bet would be instead to not use something like Forgejo, and instead do something like init a local git repo, commit like usual, then set up scripting that will tar.gz archive the entire repo, PGP encrypt the archive, and then upload that to a cloud provider’s file storage. That way, it’s got privacy (the archive is encrypted), it’s got version control (once decrypted and decompressed it goes back to being a folder with a git repo in it), and it’s backed up (via cloud file storage provider).

I’ve used Devuan before with decent success, I run it as a server on an ancient netbook with 1Ghz and 2GB RAM. Works pretty well, but bear in mind so much has become entangled with the expectations of systemd that as more packages get installed you may find things that break. As an example, apt gets an error every time it does anything because Mullvad VPN software has a configuration step that expects systemd functionality, and obviously that won’t work on Devuan. The program itself works fine, just have to start it a little differently, but it means that apt functionality always returns an error, which itself breaks any other scripts you may run that have steps that use apt. I had to do a lot of manual patching for PiHole scripting to get that installed because every time it would run anything with apt it thought there was a showstopping error simply because Mullvad complained during apt configurations.

That’s really cool, and very smart. Definitely a cut above the neocities one. I think I’ll swap over to use searloc as my default instead. Thanks for the clarification! :)

So this is basically doing what https://searx.neocities.org/ is doing? Or is it going some step beyond? Neat project

Thanks for the “incoherent rant”, I’m setting some stuff up with Anubis and Caddy so hearing your story was very welcome :)

It’s just image files, you can remove them or replace the images with something more corporate. The author does state they’d prefer you didn’t change the pictures, but the license doesn’t require adhering to their personal request. I know at least 2 sites I’ve visited previously had Anubis running with a generic checkmark or X that replaced the mascot

You should probably read what’s on the Initiative

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

You can find representatives and members there, nothing is an “invisible army” as you depict. There has historically not been a specific need for donations because the thing you donate is your time and your vote on the initiative (if you live in the EU), it doesn’t require payment.

See the website (https://www.stopkillinggames.com/) or join the Discord for a “private forum or group” as you describe. To see the past actions, or as you say “who is doing what with whom and when”, see the previous actions taken: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/pastactions

For information to “refute existing and possible claims made by lobbying groups and naysayers”, you should re-read the FAQ, which does specifically and exactly that: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq Make sure to scroll the whole page and read every response.

Button batteries suck and are absolutely e-waste, I have a small recycled sealable container just to collect dead CR2032’s. Every time I go through another one, I add another mental tally to eventually just mod any device I have that takes CR2032’s to instead take rechargeable AA’s. I’ve always suspected that the batteries are just too small to store enough energy to make the size worth it, and that devices that take them drain them on idle when the batteries are left in. I’ve had many CR2032 powered devices where they worked fine, I put them in a drawer, pull them out some weeks or months later, and it’s already dead. Battery drains without using whatever it’s in. Bad design from all directions

IRC could work as a backend for text chat, Twitch based their chat system on that and heavily modified things. Jitsi, or Jami support video out of the box. Could probably also roll your own with XMPP and WebRTC