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How can I learn to fly?

I stopped believing in reality when I learned about soulism. I now believe that I have wings.

But so far it seems like I don't yet believe in them hard enough. So maybe I need to force myself to believe in them?

What do you think about jumping off the Eiffel Tower so that I can finally reject the last reality-propaganda?

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showerthoughts·ShowerthoughtsbyDeckPacker

It is pretty cool how easy the internet and personal computers have made it to communicate with encryption

The internet is mostly known for being a nightmare for your privacy, but I also think there is another side to that coin. I mean, it is insanely easy (and common) these days to do all your internet communication with messengers, that have pretty much unbreakable encryption (Signal). That was not possible for the average person before computers and the internet. The government could easily read all you private letters.

Also, all our web traffic is fully encrypted with https (although that is more of a security than a privacy thing) and most modern phones automatically do full disk encryption for your files. It is also trivialilly easy to use a proper end to end encrypted cloud storage (proton, tuta etc.) or even use unsafe cloud storage like Google Drive as long as you encrypt your files locally before uploading.

I know, the internet is still a net negative for most peoples privacy, but it is pretty cool how far we've come with encryption.

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piefed_dev·PieFed DevelopersbyDeckPacker

Does anyone know of an easy way to test the API?

Hey,
so I am currently working on this issue, where I probably need to fix something with the API calls. The problem is, that I don't really know how to test this, when I did anything in the webui, it worked as expected, but I don't know of easy way to test the API without looking much deeper into it and maybe writing a python script for it or something like that. I also tried to use a third party client, like Summit, but that didn't really work with my development-instance.

Has anyone here ever dealt with this issue before and if so, how have you solved it?

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Do you think an Interrail trip through 8 countries in 21 days would be enjoyable?

So me and some friends are currently planning a trip through Europe. Nothing is really set in stone yet, our first question is if we want to do a roadtrip with a camper-van or an Interrail trip.

I guess the advantage of a train would be, that it would be a lot more enjoyable to cover larger distances than with a camper. I thought, maybe it would be really cool, if we did like a larger tour through Europe, so I researched a bit and planned a hypothetical trip through Germany (where we live) to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and back to Germany.

That sounds like a lot, but with the train routes, I looked up it would be doable with only 9 travel days, 4 of which would take the whole day (10-12 hours) and 5 of which would only take half a day (4-6 hours). I thought, that could be quite reasonable and it would be a great adventure type trip.

Do you think that could be cool, or would it get exhausting to quick?

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solarpunktravel·Solarpunk Travel🚲🚆⛵byDeckPacker

Do you think an Interrail trip through 8 countries in 21 days would be enjoyable?

So me and some friends are currently planning a trip through Europe. Nothing is really set in stone yet, our first question is if we want to do a roadtrip with a camper-van or an Interrail trip.

I guess the advantage of a train would be, that it would be a lot more enjoyable to cover larger distances than with a camper. I thought, maybe it would be really cool, if we did like a larger tour through Europe, so I researched a bit and planned a hypothetical trip through Germany (where we live) to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and back to Germany.

That sounds like a lot, but with the train routes, I looked up it would be doable with only 9 travel days, 4 of which would take the whole day (10-12 hours) and 5 of which would only take half a day (4-6 hours). I thought, that could be quite reasonable and it would be a great adventure type trip.

Do you think that could be cool, or would it get exhausting to quick?

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piefed_meta·PieFed MetabyDeckPacker

We should rethink how the communitcation channels for piefed devs work

So currently, we have two different closed-off developer chats on Zulip and Matrix.
This means, that new devs will be confused about which channel to join and experienced devs have to actively look around in both channels for questions to answer.
This seems like a really inefficient system, so we should at least decide on one official communication channel.

The other issue with this is the closed-off nature of these real-time chat applications. Shure, anyone can join, but answers to technical questions will inevitably get burried in unstructured long chatlogs, which no new develloper will read through. That will lead to a lot of questions being asked, that were already answered previously.

If we abandoned these channels in favor of one unified piefed community (like [email protected]) or something, we could build a good knowledge base of answered questions, that are easy to search through and look around in and will also get indexed by search engines. This will make it easier and easier for new developers to join over time, as they will be able to look through an increasingly extensive knowledge base if they have any questions and also easily find the people, that are willing to help them.

Funnily enough, Rimou has already talked about the advantages of a forum-like communication channel for open source devellopers, so i think it's time for us to apply this to our own project.

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