Lack of growth does not mean death. That’s a capitalistic mindset. It’s entirely possible for a community to be sustainable based on the people it has and have no need to grow. Lemmy’s not trying to sell a product; there’s no need for it to grow. People can join if they want to, and people can leave if they want to.

In terms of actual future prospects, Lemmy seems fairly large to me, and regardless of whether its userbase is growing or shrinking, it would have to shrink by quite a lot to become “dead”. Especially as Reddit continues to enshittify, I imagine its userbase will only grow. Hard to find social medias of this nature otherwise; almost all other social media is based around following people, not communities, and also obviously most social media is much more commercialised, less anonymous, much less text-friendly, etc, so link aggregator/Reddit style social medias fill in a niche people want and people who want a social media in this niche will gravitate towards the one they see as the best social media for whatever reason. Maybe Reddit because it’s the biggest, maybe Lemmy because Reddit is shit and Lemmy is federated and open-source, maybe their niche alternative because they’re part of a specific niche community that uses different software, who knows.

I don’t celebrate my birthday and I don’t tell people my birthday unless it’s required for something.

…No, it’s a social media app.

If you’re referring to the title of the book, it’s called “Quotations from Mao Tse-tung”. “Little red book” is an English nickname and Chinese people don’t call it that, so the app name would not be a reference.

OP asked what’s the most incorrect way to eat a pizza. That’s the canonical method, authentic from Italy

I don’t do deniable encryption on my root drives, just on external drives, and store the headers on my (non-deniably encrypted) computers. But if you want to deniably encrypt your root drive, Arch Wiki has some info:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Encrypted_system_using_a_detached_LUKS_header

You would still ultimately need an unencrypted header somewhere in order to boot your computer, so if it’s your main daily computer you’d likely carry around the USB stick all day and therefore it wouldn’t work against a state adversary who would obtain the USB stick with your header when they arrest you, if it’s on your person.

Also, it’s much more plausible that an external drive is genuinely just random data with no encrypted contents than that the drive installed into a computer has no data. I do have some USB sticks etc with genuinely nothing on them because I wiped them with /dev/urandom at some point, and they’re lying around waiting for me to need an unused USB drive. The average person doesn’t have an “unused computer” with nothing on it, just random data on the drive. Especially if you are an activist/organiser, if the state finds your computer with just pure random data on it and no encryption header I think they will assume it is deniably encrypted.

Moreover as I know that it is no open to sign up how to get a RiseUP account?

Invite. Last time I checked, they weren’t allowing invites because of abuse.

Tbh if you don’t know anyone with an account you are almost definitely not the target demographic. If you need just email then there are plenty of more general privacy email providers that aren’t specifically for organisers, or you could self-host.

You can use a password manager so you don’t have to remember it. And enable 2FA, shouldn’t really be possible for some rando to get into it, only well-resourced and organised attackers.

I didn’t know they allowed you to search without JS before. If you’re at the point of disabling JS, presumably for security or privacy reasons, why not just use DDG which works perfectly well without JS?

Ah lol sure. It depends on what level of state repression you’re looking at. Regular cops will just not bother trying to decrypt a drive if they don’t have the password and you don’t freely give it up (you have the right to refuse to provide a password here, it’s under the same kind of principle as having the right to not incriminate yourself), but I’m sure military intelligence etc will go to the wrench technique. Also deniable encryption for anything particularly sensitive is good for the old wrench technique.

It’s off at the moment. I turn it off whenever I’m not using it for security reasons, and also just noise reasons so the fan doesn’t bother me. It boots relatively quickly so I’m unbothered.

I don’t want to say where I live for anonymity reasons, but I will note that it’s fairly standard for political dissidents to be raided by any government so it doesn’t actually particularly narrow down my location.

What’s the wrench technique?

I encrypt all my drives. Me and the people I know get occasionally raided by the police. Plus I guess also provides protection for nosy civilians who get their hands on my devices. Unlike most security measures, there is hardly any downside to encrypting your drives—a minor performance hit, not noticeable on modern hardware, and having to type in a password upon boot, which you normally have to do anyway.

we refused pressure to deplatform both Palestinian student groups and Zionist student groups

Insane equivocation. One of those is a national and ethnic group; the other is a political movement whose pet project is currently on trial for genocide… “we refused pressure to deplatform both Jewish student groups and National Socialist student groups”

This except it’s activity on the PR I submitted and it’s just a bot marking it as stale because there’s been no activity. Well it’s ready to merge if a maintainer would just click the button… Or tell me why they won’t merge it

I use LLMs for search results when conventional search engines aren’t providing relevant results, and then I can fact-check whatever answers the LLMs give me. Especially using them to ask questions that are easy to verify, like mathematical questions where I can check the validity of the answers. Or similarly programming questions where I can read through the solution, check the documentation for any functions used, and make sure the output is logical, and make any tweaks if the LLM gives a nearly-correct answer. I always ask LLMs to cite their sources so I can check those too.

I also sometimes use LLMs for formatting, like when I copy text off a PDF and the spacing is all funky.

I don’t use LLMs for this, but I imagine that they would be a better replacement for previous automated translation tools. Translation seems to be one of the most obvious applications since LLMs are just language pattern recognition at the end of the day. Obviously for anything important they need to be checked by a human, but they would e.g. allow for people to participate in online communities where they don’t speak the community’s language.

electron microscope

Bloat, why should my microscope be running an entire chromium browser?

Yeah, I was also using FreeTube when Mullvad got blocked. Mullvad’s South African servers worked for me for a while but they’re now blocked too, and I’ve tried a bunch of countries and all blocked. Annoyingly even yt-dlp is blocked with Mullvad on now, so I can’t even use that to watch YouTube.

I’d like to know if any of these frontends work with Mullvad VPN, because all the Mullvad servers I’ve tried have been blocked. Even on youtube.com I’m getting throttled to the point where all videos are 360p. Ridiculous, but I’m not turning my VPN off just for YouTube videos.

Well in all seriousness, humans can consent and cows can’t (or if they can, they have no unambiguous way to communicate this consent to humans), so human leather is more ethical.

Usually only available to citizens of the same country. I don’t actually know of any libraries that allow access to people who are neither residents nor citizens of the country, but there may be some.