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@ mo_ztt @lemmy.world

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  • How do I setup my own FOSS shopping website for my business?

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  • Everything Wordpress is heavily infested with that. However you don't have to let it impact you -- it kind of looks to me like they pressure commercial vendors to put their stuff under the GPL if they're wanting to offer a free version, so there's a robust ecosystem of actually-FOSS tooling for it. My experience has been that it's always worked pretty well in practice; you just have to keep your nope-I'm-not-paying-for-your-paid-version goggles firmly affixed. (Also, side note, GPT does an excellent job of writing little functions.php snippets for you to enable particular custom functionality for your Wordpress install when you need it.)

  • How do I setup my own FOSS shopping website for my business?

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  • Wordpress 1,000% (probably coupled with WooCommerce but there are probably some other options)

    I honestly don't even know off the top of my head why you would use anything else (aside from some vague elitism connected to the large ecosystem of commercial crap which has tainted by association the open source core of it) -- it combines FOSS + easy + powerful + popular. You will have to tiptoe around some amount of crapware in order to keep it pure OSS though.

  • Feedback from all moderators

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  • What the HECK man?

    There's an underlying problem IMO with all Fediverse software and instances, in that because it's made available for free, people get entitled, moderators and admins are obligated to sort of do volunteer work on behalf of people who haven't earned it in order for any of the thing to work, which naturally leads to a inexhaustible wellspring of negative energy because the whole thing isn't right.

    I saw the posts of Ruud asking for people to basically interview for a part time admin position and do a job which for skills and time investment is worth from $50k/yr-$200k/yr (calibrating for the fact that it's "only" 5-10 hours per week), and all I could think was whoa no no no this isn't the way. Not saying there's anything wrong with people volunteering their time to make available this great thing, but I think undervaluing them when they decide to do that is almost inevitable, which has follow-on effects that manifest in all kinds of ways and lead to things not being the way they should be. Occasional prickly or unfair behavior by mods or admins represent one example of that; comments like this one represent another.

    What on earth is hostile about the OP post in any way?

  • Work Music @lemmy.world
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    Seven Beats Music - Dub Garden, Mountaindub, Kako Synapantima

  • Work Music @lemmy.world
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    Kygo - Piano Jam For Studying and Sleeping

  • Let Your Mind Drift (Lofi Hip Hop Mix)

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  • Yeah, this is true. I edited the title.

    Also it seems somewhat likely from his video description that he's just ripping off random people from Spotify... I may post some direct links to those people in the future to try to redress the balance.

  • Work Music @lemmy.world
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    Let Your Mind Drift (Lofi Hip Hop Mix)

  • Work Music @lemmy.world
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    DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....

  • Work Music @lemmy.world
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    Malte Marten - 1 Hour Handpan Music

  • Comment spam attacks in multiple /c's by Thuleanxxx

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  • Yep.

    There are two big end-user security decisions that are totally mystifying to me about Lemmy. One is automatically embedding images in comments without rehosting the images, and the other is failing to warn people that their upvotes and downvotes are not actually private.

    I'm not trying to sit in judgement of someone who's writing free software but to me those are both negligent software design from an end-user privacy perspective.

  • Ronna McDaniel disagrees with Trump’s plan to free some Jan. 6 prisoners

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  • If she disagrees with the plan, she better get the fuck off the Trump Train.

    If you're on a boat where there's a mutiny, you can't really be halfway in the mutiny but also hedging your bets saying you don't agree with everything the mutineers are doing. The outcome is going to be one or the other.

  • Comment spam attacks in multiple /c's by Thuleanxxx

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  • Of note about this is that image links in comments aren't rehosted by Lemmy. That means it would be possible to flood a community with images hosted by a friendly or compromised server, and gather a lot of information about who was reading that community (how many people, and all their IP address and browser fingerprint information, to start with) by what image requests were coming in kicked off by people seeing your spam.

    I didn't look at the image spam in detail, but if I'm remembering right the little bit of it I looked at, it had images hosted by lemmygrad.ml (which makes sense) and czchan.org (which makes less sense). It could be that after uploading the first two images to Lemmygrad they realized they could just type the Markdown for the original hosting source for the remaining three, of course.

    It would also be possible to use this type of flood posting as a smokescreen for a more targeted plan of sending malware-infected images, or more specifically targeted let's-track-who-requests-this-image-file images, to a more limited set of recipients.

    Just my paranoid thoughts on the situation.

  • Work Music @lemmy.world
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    Dub Garden - Doctor Wind

  • Worldhaspostrock - A Post-Rock Playlist to Help You Focus and Study

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  • If it makes you feel any better, I'm watching them with an ad blocker and not currently paying for premium, so it's costing Google money every time I put this on.

    In general I sorta agree with you; do you know of a genuinely libre source that has a wide variety of music available?

  • Worldhaspostrock - A Post-Rock Playlist to Help You Focus and Study

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  • Ads? Or just principle?

  • The IRS will pursue business private jet usage in a new round of audits on high-wealth taxpayers

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  • Kremlin rejects call for independent postmortem on opposition leader Alexei Navalny

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  • I have no real idea with Navalnvy, and only dim memories of news reports about Magnitsky which went into a little more detail, but I'll tell you how I assume it operates: It's basically mistreatment to the point that it'll kill you, just slowly. Your cell's cold all the time, in the arctic winter with no blankets. You get bad food and bad sleep and beatings and no medical care of any kind. Once your body starts to malfunction (Magnitsky started having kidney failure), they go on beating you severely enough to cause additional organ damage, but then just continue to put you in your cell day after day with no medicine. Basically, you're going to die, but they're drawing the process out enough that it's indirectly, because of "medical issues" related to what they're doing to you, instead of just from blunt force trauma or something. So it's incredibly painful and long and drawn-out, a slow death of constant suffering from which you can't escape or get any relief.

  • Normandy Beach Party - Harvest Melodies (Upbeat Lo-fi Hip Hop Mix)

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  • Just like them, it slaps.

  • Eydís Evensen - Full Performance

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  • Yeah, Hania Rani is good on a level that doesn't even really make sense. I don't understand how she's so good. It's honestly unreal.

    Glad to have introduced her.

  • I just had one of the wildest experiences with an AI support bot: It quickly and efficiently solved my problem.

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  • Yeah, that's universally my expectation when dealing with these systems. I was already queuing up my complaining-fingers when I pasted the error message to it, expecting it to refer me to some unrelated and useless documentation and make it a little more difficult for me to talk with a human (who might, 50/50, know how to solve the problem). I was not in any capacity expecting it to ask relevant questions and use them to identify the problem, tailor the link it was sending me according to what I needed to download, and then give me the link and tell me how to use it. Astounding.

  • Biden Confuses Presidents of Egypt and Mexico During Presser About His ‘Memory’

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  • Also he tried to kill his own vice president when he didn't do what Trump wanted, committed multiple rapes, and said he is above the law.

    I feel like that kind of thing should get mentioned more often whenever someone starts comparing candidates. It's like that Batman comic where they elected The Joker mayor.

  • Why U.S. renters are taking corporate landlords to court

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  • What's the craziest thing you've seen on a map?

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  • Not a map, but things I've seen on the roads in Boston:

    • Left turn only from left lane, straight or left from 2nd lane, straight or left from 3rd lane
    • Green light and perpendicular traffic coming to me on the cross street, also going, because they also have a green light
    • Two lanes, surprise! Lane markers go away it's one lane, not defined who yields, you guys can work it out
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  • He's just trying to help you, dude. lemmy.world is by far the biggest instance; 3x the users of the next biggest instance and much more than most. But, lemmy.world is also defederated from some notable instances like beehaw and hexbear. Another instance which also has in the tens of thousands of users (enough to be subscribed to "most stuff") might well give you better search results.

    You may decide that the defederated-from-here instances aren't worth bothering with, with some justification, but you came in asking for help, he's trying to help you, and you're lecturing him about what's what. 🙄

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  • Lemmy.world has by far the most number of users. OTOH, it's defederated from some notable instances, so you might be better off using one of the dedicated search sites if you want to cast the widest net.