Also old.lemmy.sdf.org!

These instances are specifically made for people testing code that interfaces with Lemmy. This includes front ends and bots.

You should not use any communities on real instances since people will see your testing on their local page.

it still doesn’t work with a whole load of software even with Wine.

I don’t think being able to run programs designed and compiled for windows is a requirement to be considered a usable os. For example, you can not run safari on windows. Does this mean windows doesn’t count as a usable os?

I think the definition of useable should be that software exists that can do the kind of things you want to do on your computer. In that sense, Linux is perfecty useable on the desktop, at least for people who have similar computing requirements to me.

I absolutely think you should loose your license for being responsible for a crash.

Maybe that means not many people should be driving. That would explain tens of thousands of Americans that die in car crashes each year.

I think businesses would be fine now that we have a superior form of personal transportation: the ebike

What does that sign mean? It looks to me like a mixed number that would evaluate to car + bike / motorbike

Ebike subsidies take no time. Increaseing bus frequencies is a bit faster (depending on local job markets). Painting bike gutters is pretty fast. Putting some traffic cones for modal filters is pretty fast.

It’s true that this change will be tough for poor people who bought cars in the short term. But it’s good for poor people who didn’t buy cars in the short term (which is a lot of people with the most need). And good for all poor people in the long term.

If you want to help poor people, subsidizing an antisocial form of transportation that some poor people use is not a good choice.

Making cars mandatory fucks over working class people.

The government should stop subsidizing driving and put that money into a form of transportation that doesn’t require 10k a year for citizens to participate.

Did you try my suggestion in this comment?

https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/1491482

I think your problem is that you aren’t pointing PowerShell at the right folder. You can use the cd command to get to the right folder containing the python script and config file.

It’s not too bad, it seems more difficult because I added all the steps. Changing the folder PowerShell is looking at is easy to do, but hard to explain.

Here’s a thread where I helped someone else with the process on windows: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/1420339

The steps are:

1. Set up the python code
   1. Go to https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate/releases/tag/v1.1.0
   2. Download the zip file
   3. Extract the zip file, to make a folder somewhere on your system called lemmy_migrate-1.1.0. Remember where this folder is
   4. Inside the folder you will find a file called config.ini. Use notepad to edit the file to have your server URL and login credentials.
2. Set up the python interpreter
   1. Install python from https://www.python.org/downloads/
   2. Open powershell
   3. install the python package requests by pasting the following command into powershell: py -m pip install --user requests
3. Use the python interpreter to interpret your python
   1. first make sure powershell is looking at the correct folder. One way to do this is to open the lemmy_migrate-1.1.0 folder in windows explorer. right click on the box that shows you the path, and copy the text. then write cd <pasted path> in powershell. This path will very likely be something like C:\\Users\Wu9fee\Downloads\lemmy_migrate-1.1.0. If you don’t want to copy and paste the path from explorer, you can just do cd Downloads then cd lemmy_migrate-1.1.0
   2. Finaly, you can run the python command with py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini

Let me know if you run into any problems.

If you can pull this off, you can officially say you know how to code.

I bet replacing python3 with py will work:

py -m pip install --user requests
py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini

What problem are you having? Ive been using the 2nd gen for years, and didn’t notice any problems, except more xruns than I think ought to happen. But it’s hard to know what to blame for xruns.

First, edit the .ini file with your lemmy servers, usernames and passwords.

Then make sure you have python interpreter with requests installed. You can check this with python3 -m pip show requests. if it says something like package not found, you should look into how to install python requests on your operatation system. If you downloaded it from python.org, python3 -m pip install --user requests should work.

Then you can do python3 lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini. Let me know if you run into any problems!

It would be possible to have a fully decentralized Lemmy. For example, just have everyone self host an instance and perhaps change how caching works. But there’s a downside of being harder for users to use and more duplation of moderation.

Federation is a balance between the decentralization and centralization

I’ve used this tool to migrate subscriptions.

Is temporary posts the feature you’re looking for?

One weakness of open platforms like activitypub is that it’s hard to ensure that your post is deleted. A bad actor can make a permanent copy of data they receive through activitypub.

I guess this is a situation where the proper name of GNU / Linux is useful

Edit: Chrome OS is is a GNU/ Linux and a couple of “proper” Linuxes are not.

I disagree with some of your criticisms of this community:

Netherlands have a GDP greater than every US state except for 4 of them

Walkable cities are cheaper than car infrastructure. Lots of good work was done by Urban3 demonstrates this be calculating the tax income vs tax burden of city blocks. For example, here is their analysis of my city: Eugene Oregon

less land area than 41 of US state

NJB calls this “The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities”

the Netherlands are: unique.

I disagree. Lots of developed countries in Europe and Asia have desirable urban disign. In fact, I would argue that the USA is uniquely bad. Heres a graph from vision zero:

But for the meat and potatos:

If you like spreadsheets presented as a youtube video: you should check out citynerd. Here’s a video where he lists cities with affordable, walkable neighborhoods: 10 Walkable US Cities That Won’t Bankrupt You. Spoiler: Pittsburgh wins.

I think that parking reforms is the best way to move away from car dependency, and these are being mandated in the state of Oregon, which has also had urban growth boundaries for a long time.