The free downloads are slow, but as books are usually small, it is perfectly usable without donating.

Do you mean “red hat” for RHEL or USA republicans?

I slowly start to believe that sh.itjust.works needs to be defederated. I’ve been seeing too many idiots on that instance lately.

Pacman installs binaries in the root partition because they are installed system-wide. I don’t think that pacman can install binaries for a single user (inside the home partition).

One way of achieving that would be compiling or downloading the binaries manually as a normal user and putting the .desktop file in .local/share/applications. The program would then be only accessible for a single user though.

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If you only need music streaming, then a service like Navidrome may be better.

I don’t think it is even needed. An intelligent AI capable of killing humans would see all the gore and sadness on the internet and just decide to kill us all. An AI that lets itself be influenced by some internet article won’t have the capabilities to end humanity.

The current AI does have no way of destroying humanity, because it is made to do only one thing right. We haven’t yet made a general AI.

The whole “AI will destroy us” thing is certainly blown out of proportion and fueled by themes like Skynet. It having a reason to let us live doesn’t guarantee freedom though. A rogue AI could still just enslave us or use us as energy sources (which is dumb and copied from The Matrix).

AI ≠ Algorithm

An algorithm always answers/does the same on an input, AI doesn’t. Blaming AI for algorithmic content delivery is false.

It is not the algorithm that is destroying humanity, but the financial incentive of the people standing behind it.

Have you tried playing the files locally with VLC or MPV? Is the audio out of sync in the files themselves or is it because of Jellyfin?

Sometimes the audio on my client is out of sync, but after stopping and resuming the video, the audio syncs again.

“World IDs are issued on the Worldcoin protocol, which allows individuals to prove that they are human to any verifier (including web2 applications) while maintaining their privacy through zero-knowledge proofs.”

“The Orb uses multispectral sensors to verify humanness and uniqueness to issue an Orb-verified World ID, with all images being promptly deleted on-device per default” Whitepaper

I guess that the information is somehow encrypted. The whitepaper doesn’t really seem to explain how a website can verify that the “World ID” is owned by a real human. Does the blockchain prohibit an individual from creating multiple World IDs? The World App doesn’t seem to collect any official PII, except an E-Mail address and a phone number, which you can have multiple of.

If you can create multiple World IDs, which are anonymous (at least the whitepaper and the Google Play Store says so), then bots could also just use a World ID to “verify” that they are human. The whitepaper is really shallow and doesn’t explain some of the most important aspects of verification.

You get an “anonymous” ID, which is created by biometrics, which are “promptly” deleted after creation of the ID. By that logic it is impossible to stop individuals from creating multiple IDs, except everyone’s state-issued identity is recorded and saved on a central server, which is bad privacy-wise.

I recommend viewing an instance as someone’s house/home. If you create an account on someone’s instance, you need to abide by their rules, because you are their guest. You can’t go to someone and expect them to tolerate everything you say/do.

If you can’t find an instance that tolerates your views, you should create one which does. That is the great thing about decentralization. If you don’t want to create a home for your views or don’t like decentralization, you should stay on corporate social media, which you can see as a public square. Everyone can join and say what thay want and they only get banned if they get too loud.

The “official” Fediverse is mainly used by a certain type of individuals who hold specific views about love, life and politics. It is not designed to be a public square and it is made easy to filter out opinions you don’t like.

By your other comments I think that you hold conservative values about the world. There are/were instances for conservative opinions, but they don’t/didn’t federate at all. Maybe that’s the reason you can’t find any people supporting your views. Parler.com for example used a Mastodon server as a base for their social media network, but they never enabled federation.

Another example might be gab.com, which is still active and used by many conservative people.