(This isn't related to any specific disinformation campaign -- sorry if it's off-topic for this community.)

In short: people mostly get false information from people they do not know very well. And, oddly enough, they are more likely to believe it than if they were given that false information from someone they know well.

I'm not sure if there is much here that is actionable by fediverse users, but it's probably good to know about. Especially if you're in a community that is mostly made up of people who only distantly "know" each other, rather than having more frequent, personal interactions with each other.

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

(also posted on @selfhost)

RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is an alternative to ARM. I had thought that we were still waiting for a stable Linux distribution on RISC-V devices, but it turns out many RISC-V machines can run Debian already.

Does anyone have a RISC-V device that they use regularly? How has it been working?

Lately I've been really liking the idea of having something hosted on a RISC-V machine. RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is a competitor to ARM. The idea of having a something running on an open source operating system, running on an open standard CPU, served from my house, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

I was under the impression that most Linux distributions were unstable on RISC-V. Turns out, I'm wrong about that. From a quick search, the following have official Debian images:

• Beagleboard Beagle-V Ahead
• Starfive Visionfive 2
• Milk-V Mars

and the Pine64 Star64 has a community-maintained Armbian image.

Does anyone here have a RISC-V single-board computer doing anything practical for you?

The 8bitdo keyboard has been pretty well-received as a ~$100 wireless keyboard with ABS keycaps. I love the way this C64 color scheme looks.

I have an 8bitdo arcade stick, which looks like it uses the same knob as this keyboard for selecting the wireless mode. I love the way it feels every time I turn it on.

Unfortunately, the keyboard doesn't use QMK -- it uses their own mapping software, which is Windows only. This makes it a non-starter for me, since I rarely use a Windows computer these days. But I just might have to copy that color scheme for my next build.

Hi, sorry if that title isn't very clear. I just started learning about nix a couple days ago; I'll explain what I mean.

I'm trying to set up a web application that I'm currently hosting with Docker containers, but do it with nix instead, like what's shown in this blog post: https://carjorvaz.com/posts/the-holy-grail-nextcloud-setup-made-easy-by-nixos/

However, I don't have NixOS on my server. I'm using Debian, with the nix package manager installed.

Is it possible to use a nix config file, like the one below, when only using the nix package manager? Currently it errors when I try to call nix-build with it, giving an error about calling a lambda function that never called self. If I remove the self argument, it complains about config, and so on.

{ self, config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

{
  services = {
    nextcloud = {
      enable = true;
      hostName = "cloud.example.com";

      package = pkgs.nextcloud27;

      # Let NixOS install and configure the database automatically.
      database.createLocally = true;

      # Let NixOS install and configure Redis caching automatically.
      configureRedis = true;

      < other settings here... >
    };
  };
}

From what I've read, the services part of that creates systemd services, which makes me think that it only works if you're on a full NixOS system and not only using the nix package manager. But it's been difficult to find a clear answer on that, probably because I'm still learning what terms to search for.