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  • They could still use whatever config format they wanted - this would just be for providing their config schema. It also doesn’t need to be YAML, that’s just the easiest one for me to type on my phone. In fact, I think most schema validation programs rely on JSON as it is.

    I also don’t think programs should be required to provide it. Many core programs and kernel modules would likely take years if they ever were able to add it just to avoid the risk of mistakes causing any major issues, especially if they haven’t needed an update in years. There are also many config files that use their own nonstandardized schema. A possibility is that they could be allowed to provide a CLI tool which could update the config or they could just ignore it entirely.

    But creating a common schema for… well, the config schema would make it easier for systems to provide a frontend interface for updating your configs.


  • Seriously - Linux needs a standardized config schema spec. Something that programs should provide which an application can read and provide a frontend interface for the users to adjust config files.

    Could be something like:

    schema_version: 1.0
    application:
      name: Poo Analyzer
      icon_path: /etc/pooanalyzer/images/icon.png
      description: Analyzes photos of poo
    schema:
      - config_file:
          path: /etc/pooanalyzer/conf/poo.conf
          conf_type: ini
        configs:
          - field: poo_directory
            type: dir_path
            name: Poo Image Directory
            description: Directory of Poo Images
            icon_path: /etc/pooanalyzer/images/poo.png
          - field: poo_type
            type: list
            name: Poo Types
            description: Types of Poo to Analyze 
            values:
              - dog
              - cat
              - human
              - brown bear
            icon_path: /etc/pooanalyzer/images/animal.png
              ...
    

    Any distro could then create any frontend they’d like to manage this - the user could even install their own.





  • If this wasn’t posted by the White House account, I’d definitely believe it was posted by someone against the deportations.

    It’s an innocent looking woman bawling her eyes out while being arrested. Why would they think this would help their anti-immigration cause?

    I mean, I actually know why. Because that’s what the conservatives want. They know innocent people are being arrested and denied due process. It’s not that they don’t care - they actively want it.

    Go look at /r/conservative on Reddit. These people are cheering Rubio on after he announced that visaholders are being deported due to something they said or protested with no evidence being offered. And I’m not joking or exaggerating.


  • That’s not even recent. Russia has been astroturfing Reddit since at least 2015.

    I remember reading /r/politics pretty often back then. All of a sudden, half the posts were from RT talking about Hillary and the DNC. Yes, what they did to Bernie was bullshit but the point was clearly to either get people to vote for Trump instead or to encourage people not to vote.

    Now, like you said, it’s about the war. All of a sudden, every single post about the invasion has dozens of people who are totes Ukrainian and think that Zelenskyy is a monster who refuses to end the war. Yet they either have a rather bare post/comment history or never mentioned the war before.

    And, if you go to the profile for any user who identified themselves as Ukrainian years ago, it’s crazy but they’re still in favor of the war and protecting Ukraine.

    This is what propaganda is. It’s not just the government putting up posters saying you should listen to them; it’s convincing you that your views are extreme and unpopular.



  • I’d argue Lemmy and other decentralized platforms are the last bastion for free speech instead of Reddit though.

    Lemmy is kind of forced to be, too.

    Horrific speech can be removed from the site. But if you want to see it, the admin logs are open to the public. Other instances also aren’t forced to play along with the views of one instance. And each instance can choose whether they want to connect with others.

    So you could create your own Christian Nationalist and White Supremacist Lemmy. But our instances don’t have to federate with it. And if they choose to do so, we can leave for a different one or the users can block it entirely.

    Lemmy lets anyone have a platform and, simultaneously, it doesn’t force anyone to listen to you just because you have your own platform. Basically, everything that makes Lemmy a decentralized platform also makes it good for moderation without harming free speech.




  • They’ll sometimes have issues but I haven’t ever heard of an actual attack against any of them.

    You’ll need a Usenet server but at least two is preferable - one following DMCA and one following NTD.

    Then you’ll need indexers. There’s no limit on these that you’ll want. Each will have different content and you can use some services to track how often you actually get good results from them or how much overlap there is.

    Then get a download client. I like SABNZBd.

    After that, you can automate it. Sonarr is gold standard for TV shows and Radarr for movies. Lidarr exists for music but it’s pretty hard to automate good music since there are so many different versions - radio edits, DJ, live, samples, remixes, etc.

    Best part about Usenet is that it’s much easier to get what you want. With Torrents, you’re relying on seeders for each file you’re downloading. These mostly end up being newer media and usually the shittiest quality someone can produce (looking at you, YIFY).

    With Usenet, it’s all coming from the servers. If it’s been uploaded, it’s almost always still there and you can usually download it as fast as your Internet connection allows. Sometimes you’ll find missing parts, almost always due to either DMCA/NTD requests or because the uploads were old and not downloaded recently enough. The former is the reason I recommend at least two servers. However, you’ll still usually have multiple other versions of that file uploaded elsewhere. If you’re using Sonarr/Radarr, they will mark it as a failed download and try another matching item instead.


  • Yeah something like that should be doable but it would require that programs provide a schema and the OS to have a way for the programs to “announce” themselves so it can be aware of the configuration files and the schema.

    I’m sure some project could create a GUI that could cover the most common applications, though.

    It’s always fun trying to set up a program, learning the config syntax, running it, having it fail, and then spending an hour debugging before you realize it never even read your config changes because you were supposed to use one of the other half dozen conf files it has spread all across your drive. Is it under /etc/, /usr/local/etc/, /opt/, or your home directory?



  • There are existing standards. The issue is that there are too many different standards and some programs will choose to make their conf files half standardized, half unique.

    There’s INI, YAML, JSON, XML, TOML, etc.

    Honestly, the Linux team needs to just choose one of these formats, declare it the gold standard, and slowly migrate the config files for most core components over to it. By declaring a standard, you’ll eventually get the developers of most major third-party tools and components to eventually migrate.