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lemmy

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Hot Take: Lemmy communities should function similar to hashtags on Mastodon.

Or, I think this can be, kinds of, archived by 'simple' enhancement at client side without changing today's server side implementation. At Lemmy client, user can choose to group several different communities to user defined virtual community. Like today's client, we have 'All' and 'subscribrd' 2 big groups, If the web/app client allow user define more group like 'news' 'meme' etc, and combined then in one view, then that's pretty much meet your needs? Tbh, this will be very cool feature if any client can do this, or there is already such client?

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Debian 13 Trixie release planned for 2025-08-09

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Sorry didn't login for some time. Yeah, basically Trixie is 'fixed' naming, and 'testing' or 'stable' is floating. So thats correct month ago or anytime before release Testing is same as Trixie. I want to use stable in my repo setting so it will float to future major release automatically

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Been daily driving Arch for 6 months now, but considering moving back to Debian. Not really taking full advantage of the Arch pros

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Also, don't forget Debian testing. Once you are comfortable or gain enough experience to move closer to not-that-stable, or, if you have spare machine/harddisk to try now, Debian testing is a very good balance between stable and unstable. I know many people against it, so just my opinion and I am happily use it as my main desktop as well on my home sever for 10+ years. Again I am IT person and rare case it does breaks. if you ever want to try some new packages, there is Debian testing.

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Migrating away from Fedora, looking for advice.

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Want share my 2c as I prefer testing over sid. It is balance which side you want. Sid got break more freq but also fixed more quickly. Testing has less break but fix also come slowly. For me I prefer less break. So I setup preference/policy to get testing higher than sid. This is not for breakage/fix nor security fix. This is about package available. I think Firefox is one example that testing only has esr so it will install latest from sid and most other packages still tracking testing. Again personal choices and that's beauty of Linux.

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Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer

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Just feel things are very different now. Much harder to fight/work around with govt. And this leads to my 2nd link that, kinds of conspiracy, that we maybe already have backdoor in open source projects because they are hard to detect as long as there are pre-build tools.

Anyway, lots of feelings after reading this post...

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Could you compress text files by mapping a word to how commonly it is used and translating it with an application?

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There is simply no way to pre-store any arbitrary long text because the possible combination is just tooo huge. It is like draw a bullseye where you arrow landed. You search any paragraph, it search existing index, if not found then save it and assign it a new index. Of course it may use some algorithms to optimize/decrease the space needed.

From it's wiki page, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel_(website) ''' The website can generate all possible pages of 3200 characters and allows users to choose among about 10^4677 potential pages of books. '''

PS, I think again, indeed this actually does not need any storage, it can be URL to text encoding/decoding, the URL itself can determine/generate the actual text. And same for the opposite direction