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Any Arabs (or others) here who want to cooperate creating an Arabic Lemmy, given the recent Palestine events?
  • It's not. I think you misread what I said, and I already explained to you that it isn't. It's to have an Internet space for Arabs. My mention of the Palestinian cause is using it to motivate people to move over to Lemmy, in light of the censorship against Arabs.

    This is not meant to be an anti Israel lemmy. It is an Arab lemmy.

  • Any Arabs (or others) here who want to cooperate creating an Arabic Lemmy, given the recent Palestine events?
  • I don't think it is harmful to give people the option to spaces primarily speaking about local matters and concerns, and primarily occupied by local people. It does not take away the other spaces.

    We are already in an age where it is almost impossible to undo globalization, and nothing I do will prevent those who frequent mixed and international spaces (or more accurately Western dominated spaces) from doing this. It is only giving them a place that didn't exist before for content they couldn't post or read elsewhere.

    Most of the world already has this. I don't think Arabs having it will be harmful.

  • Any Arabs (or others) here who want to cooperate creating an Arabic Lemmy, given the recent Palestine events?
  • I think you misunderstand my intentions. An Arabic lemmy instance is not aimed at isolation. People will be able to ineract with us without issue, and we will interact with them (federation will be open). The only purpose is to have a space where we are free of corporate censorship, and a space where you (whether an Arab or not) will find many other arabs, rather than most of the internet that is English-speaking, and most of the remainder speaking a west european language.

    If anything, this would de-isolate Arabs. The primary Arabic speaking spaces on the internet are networks of friends on Facebook, isolated from the rest of the world. At least this way you can find us, and see that we are normal human beings (as unfortunately some racists in the western world are surprised to find that out) and you can talk with us.

    The small existing Arab spaces that are accessible to the outside world is cringy, unserious, terminally online memers that ruin our image and do not represent us. Probably many of them are 4chan-ers

  • Any Arabs (or others) here who want to cooperate creating an Arabic Lemmy, given the recent Palestine events?

    Every major social media is censoring anti-israel or pro-Palestine content. This may be a good opportunity to convince Arabs to move over to lemmy, where only we control the content moderation.

    For the record, the lemmy won't be Palestine only. I just think it'll be the reason people will move over.

    The reason I ask for others to help me is:

    • help advertise to other Arabs to bring them over
    • someone to register the stuff in their name. Unfortunately, I am an immigrant in a country and have been interrogated by them before (on bogus grounds). While what I'm doing is not illegal, they have their eyes on me and I am paranoid they'll give me trouble again regardless. I can take care of the technology side of the hosting and the initial costs (hopefully donations cover the rest). Since it will be on your name, moderation and the like will be your decision, but I will just want to make sure initially that we are on a similar page.
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    Trust me bro it's 100% true
  • If someone came to me and said "someone just murdered your parents who live in another country", and I asked for proof. Your inclination is "this guy loves to see photos of dead parents"? Or is it that "this guy wants evidence that this random stranger's claim is true"?

  • If you had to redo your self hosting setup, what would you do differently this time around?
  • I don't think there's any significant downsides. I suppose you are dependent on their infrastructure and uptime. If they ever go down, or for any reason stop offering their services, then you're out of luck. But yeah that's not significant.

    The reason I want to do this is it gives me more control over the setup in case I ever wanted to customize it or the wireguard config, and also teaches me more in general, which will enable me to better debug.

  • How much swap?
  • I use gentoo, so my swap is pretty large because it often compiles from source. I have it at 16 GB for my raspberry pi and 32 GB for my pc. I think I'll be bumping up the raspberry pi to 32

  • Facebook's Threads is so depressing
  • This reads like the author liked the old Twitter, which I think was also very cringe. Bluesky is not promising or much better.

    Unfortunately Twitter celebrities seem so starved for an alternative, that I think they're willing to sweep their anti-zuckerberg-ism under the rug in favor of getting back that social media engagement hit. I've already seen it in my circles and I doubt it's unique.

    Unfortunately, I really do think threads will succeed. It is filling a void much desired by many, even if done poorly. And chances are, they'll make it better (or at least more attractive or addicting).

  • I made a post on lemmy.ml from reddthat, but it doesn't seem to show up on .ml or .world?

    I made a post on! fediverse@lemmy.ml but it doesn't seem to appear when I go to lemmy.ml/c/fediverse or even lemmy.world/c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

    I don't think this is the first time this happened to me. What is the cause and is it fixable?

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    Successfully installed gentoo on a Oracle always-free 4xARM 24GB RAM instance!

    Was able to install gentoo on a Oracle always-free instance. It has 4x ARM CPUs and 24 GB RAM. Those specs are really nice for a free instance.

    for now I'll use it to self host some public facing services. Who knows, maybe I'll host a personal lemmy instance on it :)

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    Setting DNS Server When Using iwd with standalone USE flag

    cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/221970

    > Hello friends! I kept searching how to do this but had trouble finding the information, but now that I have found out how to do it, I thought I would post it here in case others are looking for it. > > ## Problem we are solving > > You want to set the DNS server's address for your network connection. Typically, this is handled by DHCP server, but if you have enabled EnableNetworkConfiguration in the iwd config, then iwd is the one deciding which is your DNS server, and relays that information to your resolver, which in most cases is systemd-resolved but sometimes openresolv.

    This is also the same as setting the standalone USE flag

    > > ## How to Set DNS > > Go to /var/lib/iwd folder, and look for the file that holds NETWORK_NAME.psk (where NETWORK_NAME is the SSID of the network you are connected to). > > In this file, you will find some text pre-written. If it does not exist already, create a [IPv4] section. Under this section, add the line DNS=192.168.1.1 or whatever you wanted the DNS server to be. Your file should end up having a section that looks like this: > > > [IPv4] > DNS=192.168.1.1 > > > restart iwd server and now you should be connecting to the right DNS server!

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    Self hosting on desktop: how to secure self hosted apps from proprietary desktop apps?

    Hello friends, I am considering self hosting on my desktop computer, which already has gentoo Linux installed. But my concern is that my regular desktop use could compromise the security of self hosted applications, which tend to handle private user data.

    What can I do to secure myself against this threat?

    For example, browsers on their own are a security nightmare. You are running arbitrary remote scripts, and there's no telling the extent of damage they do (most websites out there doing extensive tracking).

    What can I do to secure my self hosted applications while running them on the same machine? Is there something I can do to somehow isolate browsers and other sketchy applications from the damage they could possibly do?

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    What's your favorite desktop environment (or window manager) to use?

    Personally for me, I've always been a fan of bspwm

    I've been using hyprland as of recent to try it out. But I think I'll be trying something else soon. But I do want to stick with wayland.

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    PSA: Wayland + Hyprland with nvidia drivers and RTX 3060 Ti card work OOTB without issues

    I tried wayland with Hyprland on gentoo with proprietary nvidia drivers. I have the RTX 3060 Ti card. It works out of the box without having to mess with anything.

    I tried sway as well. I have to specify the --unsupported-gpu flag for it to launch. The one issue I noticed with sway is that the background does not seem to load. I did not spend time debugging so it maybe a super simple fix. I'll report back if I ever do.

    But I'm happy to see its all working flawlessly!

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    Shoutout to Portage's detailed warnings and errors

    When emerging nvidia proprietary drivers, portage warned me that I have certain kernel configurations either set wrong, or unset, which could cause trouble for nvidia to work.

    I was impressed that emerging nvidia drivers involves scanning current kernel config to see what it is missing.

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