ProdigalFrog
A frog who wants the objective truth about anything and everything.
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ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is BornEnglish4·7 days agoGlad to be of help and that you’re up and running! :D
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is BornEnglish23·7 days agoI had to go to the F-droid setting, click on Include Anti-Features, then enable ‘Tethered Network Services’ for it to show up in the F-droid search.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto Opensource@programming.dev•CoMaps now available on F-DroidEnglish14·7 days agoOrganic Maps leadership became sus, so the community forked.
More details here: https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
tl;dr they began to introduce proprietary code and were caught using project funds on personal expenses and vacations.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto Fediverse@lemmy.world•lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this monthEnglish10·16 days agoAfter checking just now, it appears that it does! :D
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto Fediverse@lemmy.world•lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this monthEnglish7·16 days agoLemmy.world is already the largest instance, recommending it to more people seems like it’d just speedrun burnout like what happened to lemm.ee, not to mention centralization around .world goes against the philosophy of the fediverse.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto Fediverse@lemmy.world•lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this monthEnglish6·16 days agoThat’s a good point. On a similar note, Programming.dev had pretty severe database breakage that took quite some time to fix, but thankfully both instances seem to be healthy and working well nowadays. :)
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto Fediverse@lemmy.world•lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this monthEnglish76·16 days agoFor lemm.ee users who will be migrating to new instances: You can export your subscriptions and blocks to import them to your new instance! You can export that info in your profile settings panel, and import it from the same page on your new instance.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto Fediverse@lemmy.world•lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this monthEnglish711·16 days agoGeneral instances:
Sopuli.xyz is a great medium sized general purpose instance. Good admins that update to the latest Lemmy release consistently.
Lemmy.cafe could be another option if you’d prefer a smaller general purpose instance (to help spread the load and prevent the burnout that lemm.ee experienced) that’s also run by a solid admin.
Themed instances:
Retrolemmy.com - a cool place for retro tech/game enthusiasts
Literature.cafe - For book lovers and readers!
lemmy.dbzer0.com - fantastic instance for Anarchists and those who like to go Yarr! 🏴☠️
Programming.dev - For techies interested in programming and linux
Mander.xyz - Focused on Science and Nature
Lemmy.zip - PC Gaming and Tech focused
You can find more over at Lemmyverse.net
Piefed:
If you’re willing to try an entirely new way to interact with Lemmy and the threadiverse, consider giving Piefed.social a try, a completely independent project from Lemmy. It’s still a little behind in some ways, but also has a bunch of features that lemmy doesn’t. If you’re a community mod looking to migrate, Piefed apparently makes it particularly easy!
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto News@lemmy.world•Supreme Court denies challenges to bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazinesEnglish11·17 days agoI misunderstood what you were after, since I consider neo-nazi’s to be neo-fascists. If you wanted examples of people resisting fascist or tyrannical governments only, there’s not many examples of that happening in the US specifically since those movements would be almost immediately and harshly quashed. I don’t know if you’d consider the Battle of Athens to count since it was only against a corrupt local town government. And the Battle of Blair Mountain, I assume, doesn’t really count either.
For larger scale conflicts, we’d have to go abroad and often farther back in history, which may disqualify it from what you’re looking for.
Examples:
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Rojava using weapons to protect against tyrannical and oppressive neighbor states
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The Spanish Civil War, which was leftists (even George Orwell joined in!) vs. the fascist army of Francisco Franco (plus Documentary with more detail)
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Nestor Makhno’s Black Army during the Russian Revolution (plus short historical video)
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ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netto News@lemmy.world•Supreme Court denies challenges to bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazinesEnglish2·17 days agoConceal carry restrictions have a long history of being created and selectively enforced against the black population.
During Reconstruction, several states, especially Southern states, passed laws banning concealed carry. These laws were often aimed at disarming African-Americans, and though they did not explicitly say so because of the 14th Amendment, were not to be >enforced against whites.
Rivers H. Buford, associate justice of the Florida Supreme Court, said that the Florida law banning concealed carry, “[t]he original Act of 1893 … was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers … and to give the white citizens in sparsely settled areas a better feeling of security. The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied. … [I]t is a safe guess to assume that more than 80% of the white men living in the rural sections of Florida have violated this statute. It is also a safe guess to say that not more than 5% of the men in Florida who own pistols and repeating rifles have ever applied to the Board of County Commissioners for a permit to have the same in their possession and there has never been, within my knowledge, any effort to enforce the provisions of this statute as to white people, because it >has been generally conceded to be in contravention to the Constitution and non-enforceable if contested.”[11]
In fact, Florida was not the only such state to ban the carriage of arms by blacks, nor was it the most explicit. The 1834 Tennessee Constitution, 1836 Arkansas Constitution, as well as the 1838 Florida constitution, stated “That the free white men of this State shall have a right to keep and to bear arms for their common defence.”
This continued into the modern day, with Ronald Reagan and the NRA supporting and implementing the Mulford Act specifically to illegalize and target the Black Panthers and other black communities, who were exercising their rights to arm themselves to protect against police brutality and racists. Unfortunately the arming and legal targeting of the Black Panthers for that arming was very likely an FBI operation.
There were some concealed gun control laws in old west towns that were implemented against whites as well, but even then, only selectively against those the local Law Enforcement didn’t like.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPto Linux@programming.dev•I make all my videos using Linux. Here's how. | Veronica ExplainsEnglish1·24 days agoYes, unfortunately Kdenlive still has a ways to go when it comes to hardware acceleration. I think it’s mostly the MLT Media Engine that’s holding it back.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPto Linux@programming.dev•I make all my videos using Linux. Here's how. | Veronica ExplainsEnglish1·24 days agoAre you selecting the ‘Hardware Accelerated (experimental)’ codecs in the Render menu?
Apparently Kdenlive doesn’t fully utilize the GPU when rendering even when those are selected, but it should use about 30% of the GPU or so.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPto Linux@programming.dev•I make all my videos using Linux. Here's how. | Veronica ExplainsEnglish1·24 days agoYou’re likely using the standard open source AMD driver, which should be fine.
At least for me, when I open Kdenlive (using the Flathub version), click on Settings at the top, then ‘Run config wizard’, it brings up a menu to let me select what hardware acceleration I want to use (since I have both AMD and Nvidia), and it seemed to default to using the VAAPI AMD acceleration.
What does it say for you in the Run Config Wizard menu?
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPto Linux@programming.dev•I make all my videos using Linux. Here's how. | Veronica ExplainsEnglish1·24 days agoWhat issue are you having, and what GPU & Driver are you using?
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s VideogameEnglish0·1 month agoThe video is about a retro game, it’s just that the retro game has content you don’t like and don’t want other people talking about.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s VideogameEnglish0·1 month agoI think the analogy holds up beautifully.
The man proceeds to tell the booth talkers that he’s taken great pains to avoid seeing or hearing politics in his daily life, such as quickly muting political ads on TV, requesting his neighbors take down their Trump flags and local candidate election signs in their yard, and taking backroads to avoid seeing a political billboard on the way to work, all in the effort to spare their eyes the misfortune of sliding across disgusting politics. So it’s perfectly reasonable that he demand to the booth talkers they cease their discussion immediately, and switch to a topic he approves of, he explains, confident in the knowledge that they will understand the pains he’s gone through.
The two people in the booth glance at each other uncomfortably, wondering what terrible fate brought this demanding and oddly entitled man to their booth. Finally, one of them flashes a half-grin and spreads their hands disarmingly “Hey man, I get it that you don’t like what we’re discussing, but if we give in to your request, wouldn’t that mean we’d have to give into any other request you have about topics? What if we were talking about sex amongst ourselves and that too wasn’t acceptable since you go to efforts to avoid that topic as well? I don’t think we want to live our lives beholden to your feelings on things, that’s for us to decide. Have a good day.”
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s VideogameEnglish0·1 month agoInteresting, by your guidelines, there’s quite some limits on expressing oneself to appease people who can easily avoid and skip over a clearly labeled piece of content.
From my perspective, it’s as though someone came into a tavern and, fresh ale in hand, overheard a political discussion happening in a corner booth. Perhaps the subject was particularly distasteful to this theoretical tavern goer, and instead of ignoring it or moving to a seat where they can’t hear it, they instead march up to said booth and demand these booth talkers cease their discussion immediately, explaining that they come to the tavern to relax, not have these political ideas pop up everywhere they go.
I suspect the people in the booth would be quite bewildered as to why this theoretical person is going to such trouble to involve themselves in ceasing an activity they could so easily avoid.
Absolutely love this little guy.