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  • What-pilled am I?

  • I'm sympathetic to many parts of the despair you shared. As for naming it as a whole:

    Gnosticism? (Belief in a malevolent deity...)

    Nihilism?

    Fatalism?

    Misanthropy?

    As you said, though, "there is room for human connection even in a gulag". Positives can be found in life. Look for the good bits. Play to your strengths. Help others when possible. Maybe look for charities or state agencies that can help you with the job-hunt? Stay healthy.

  • Study finds that industrial chicken farms are accelerating the spread of a major foodborne disease

  • Germany's Merz demands sweeping EU budget cuts

  • The article has an interesting passage about how Irish aluminium is currently being sold to Russia for weapons, and the EU is (rightly) trying to stop this.

  • Trump order endorses plan to halve vaccines recommended for children

  • “MAHA MAHAHAHA!”

  • Ptouch-print compile error: Could not find GD library

  • I overlooked this line from the docs:

    Benötigt werden cmake, git, libgd und libusb - bei manchen Distributionen (z.B. Ubuntu) sind die Header-Files in separaten Paketen "libusb-dev" die ggf. noch nachinstalliert werden müssen.

    I should have done sudo apt install libgd-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev before attempting compilation.

  • EU gives Russian luxury fur a pass

  • Mullvad on the Donation Controversy

  • On 18 Jan 2025, before Proton and Mullvad CEOs came out in support of the far right, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) recommended:

    • Mullvad (Sweden)
    • Mozilla VPN* (USA/Sweden)
    • Proton VPN (Switzerland)
    • Tunnelbear (USA/Canada; owned by McAfee in USA)
    • IVPN (Gibraltar)
    • Windscribe (Canada)

    I've crossed out the first three, since Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad, and Mullvad's and Proton's CEOs support extremists.

    Nym is not on the list, so presumably didn't meet FPF's requirements.

  • Is there a fix for, "This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete."

  • if you follow a user their future posts will be sent to your server. We were talking about implementing a backfill option, but there is no eta yet

    Thank you for explaining. That must indeed be the reason I couldn't see those toots on Mbin.

    so no guarantee it will be implemented at all. But since it is an annoying problem, maybe it will

    Backfill would be great! Server capacity concerns notwithstanding.

    In the meantime, clearer wording for the info banner would be an easy, helpful UX improvement:

    • Before subscribing: "This Fediverse profile is hosted on a different server than yours. If you, or another user on your server, were to subscribe to this profile, the profile's subsequent posts would be displayed here. The profile's older posts can be viewed on their server"

    • After subscribing: "This Fediverse profile is hosted on a different server than yours. Now that you have subscribed, the profile's future posts will be displayed here. The profile's older posts can be viewed on their server"

  • Looking for selfhosted alternative to "Find my phone"

  • Is there a fix for, "This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete."

  • Thanks for your reply. I should have been clearer!

    It's not the banner that bothers me, it's the fact that that microblog's posts (toots) aren't being displayed when viewed from Mbin!

    Is there anything I can do in order to get those posts to propagate through to Mbin? Would I have to contact the admin for the Mbin instance hosting my account? Something else?

  • In Mbin, how do I view a feed/page consisting solely of posts from users I follow?

  • In Mbin, how do I view a feed/page consisting solely of posts from users I follow?

  • In Mbin, how do I view a feed/page consisting solely of posts from users I follow?

  • @Pamasich@kbin.earth thanks. Unforunately, I can't see a globe icon or the word "All".

    Here's a screenshot showing Edward Betts's Mastodon profile as viewed from Mbin. As you can see, I follow his Mastodon account from my Mbin account.

    I can see his posts on that page. But what I can't figure out is how to see his posts, and posts from other Mastodon accounts I follow, in a single page or feed on Mbin.

  • The Onion was right about high-speed busses replacing high-speed rail

  • I'm all for extra public transit, but 140mph on a bus (not a guided bus) sounds highly unsafe. 70mph is more realistic.

    Kinetic energy rises with the square of velocity, so a 140mph bus would have 4x the KE of a 70mph bus.

    • 70mph crash: dangerous but should be survivable for seat-belted passengers.
    • 140mph crash: probably fatal to everyone on board and anyone in its path.