

Meta also argued that the BitTorrent sharing was a necessity to get the valuable (but pirated) data.
Actually that’s not true, they could have done hit-and-run, not that it helps anything though.
🇬🇧 | 24yo French web dev & tech enthusiast
🇫🇷 | Développeur web Limougeaud de 24 ans passionné par l’informatique
Main fediverse account (Mastodon) : mamot.fr/@KaKi87
Blog (Lemmy) : blog.kaki87.net
Formerly @KaKi87@sh.itjust.works, moved because of Cloudflare.


Meta also argued that the BitTorrent sharing was a necessity to get the valuable (but pirated) data.
Actually that’s not true, they could have done hit-and-run, not that it helps anything though.


23k people in 29 countries.
Per country, that’s not even as many people as in the small town where my parents lived in the middle of nowhere, and in total, that’s not even a fifth of the population of the city I now live in, which isn’t that big either.
With the same proportion, I’m sure one could say 30% of gen z is far-right.


The company also stresses that the data helped establish U.S. global leadership in AI.
Just like the data helps establish much needed universal access to education and entertainment.
But of course, the argument is only relevant when it goes in favor of the rich people.


Oh, indeed.
However, if you click switch the “hide links” dropdown to “show links”, there’s a bunch of forum links appearing, if you can create or already have an account on one of those then you could download there, or you could download elsewhere while making sure the hashes match.
I concur with @poVoq@slrpnk.net’s testimony :
Collabora Office […] ended up using less server resources when idle than OnlyOffice
I actually don’t know about Collabora, but I do know that OnlyOffice uses a lot of server resources and is quite hard to set up, even when using Docker Compose.
So, currently, I’m using the desktop client with WebDAV instead.
However, you said :
CryptPad […] uses OnlyOffice client side
So, if CryptPad provides an alternative backend for OnlyOffice, then I’ll be curious to know whether it uses less resources than OnlyOffice’s official backend, and whether there are other alternative backends.
As for Collabora, I wouldn’t recommend it, nor NextCloud in general, to be honest.


There’s a link on fmhy.net
Funny, I wanted to do the same thing as well, but then I gave up and explained why on the Ghost blog I created afterward : https://blog.kaki87.net/intro/


I specifically asked whether the Markdown editor is WYSIWYG, like Typora, which isn’t the same thing as MS Word WYSIWYG.


Is the Markdown editor WYSIWYG, like Typora ?


Salut!
Coucou !
the more in the country you live, the les frequently the connections are
That’s right.
According to your mail
What do you mean ?
you do seem to get write far away from Limoges. Is the bus service so much better there
I don’t know how it is in Brive so I can’t compare, but we do have a pretty good bus network : inside the city, all stops are served every 10-15 minutes, and in the suburbs, stops are served once or twice an hour.
or is it a bit of planning?
Sometimes I do have to plan for longer-than-usual layovers or walking, e.g. 20 minutes, and sometimes the the bus just doesn’t go far enough and I have to ask them to pick me up at the nearest stop which is usually a 5 min drive away.


You’re welcome !
Apparently, it’s 12 years old, though I haven’t heard of it until 3 years ago when I started using it.


I would have liked to include this, but no, I never took note of this. Maybe I will in 2026.
If you’d like a few more details though, I answered a previous comment about this.


When they asked about how much to pay, my exact words are : I ask you pay me based on what you can afford and how satisfied you are.
But yeah, sometimes, they say : “come on, you gotta give me an amount, pal”. In which case, I’ll just say people usually pay me between 20 and 40 bucks.


Thank you !
How do people find you?
On an app called “AlloVoisins” (I’m French btw), which in English would sound close to Nextdoor I suppose (literal translation would be “HelloNeighbor”), but it’s not the same kind of app. People can post about their need of a good or service (and only that, it’s not social media), then people who can provide will answer (and it only works one-way like this), so it’s closer to Craigslist but not exactly (we do have a 1:1 equivalent of Craigslist, it works well for goods but not for services).
One funny thing is a lot of people say they will recommend me to people, yet in the 3 years that I’ve been doing this, it only happened once that I was actually contacted directly after being recommended by someone esle.
One even funnier thing : only a few weeks apart, I received requests from two people literally living next to each other, neighbors, who talk to each other daily where their respective yards connect, yet they both went through the app.
Is the number of people asking for linux increasing?
Actually nobody asks for Linux, most of the people I install Linux for don’t even know what Windows is, despite having been using it for years. I offer to install it, when I know that the person could use it and not loose one bit of their routine while enjoying their computer almost as if it was new just because the system will be lighter (and not harrassing them about updates).


Thank you for your appreciation !


I would have liked to include this, but it wouldn’t really be data nor beautiful cause I don’t have accurate statistics, not even with approximate ranges.
However, I can tell you that most of the people I help are at least middle-aged and often seniors.
One notable exception is the one data recovery entry : they were a university student using a very cheap and/or old HDD (IDE, not even SATA) until they suddenly couldn’t access anything, I was able to save everything they needed into a new one.
Another one is a few weeks ago (so not on this chart because 2026), I received a request from a mom who had bought their young son their first computer, a noname desktop from Amazon, that was poorly assembled : their issue was the monitor would turn off between 30-90 mins after starting a game, they thought it was a GPU overloading/overheating issue, but no, it was a false contact due to the GPU’s power plug being stuck in a twisting position against the case door.


Nope, as mentioned, I do it on my free time, aside from my real job. The goal isn’t to make money, but to lend a hand to people in need. That’s why it’s pay-what-you-want. This also gives me a rare perspective : I get to know truly how much people value my services.
That’s a nice unintended pun for a publisher named “404media” to talk about removed stuff being backed up