[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 1 day ago

That sounds perfect. Installing the system -devel package and -lfreetype is the right way to do it. Glad you got it working!

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 1 day ago

Remove the locally compiled install and install freetype-devel, and see if that works.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 1 day ago

That is what GNU Stow does, with a lot of package-management-like helper commands which make it all organized and convenient.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 1 day ago

i don’t. i install the dev package of my distro

I think you cracked the code. I was really curious what distribution this person was using that didn't have freetype, but missing installing the -dev package makes perfect sense and I definitely remember doing that and tearing my hair out trying to figure out why I couldn't compile some thing that needed dev headers.

OP, install libfreetype-dev or its equivalent on your system. 90% chance that fixes it.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 1 day ago

I definitely wouldn't recommend changing every include.

Can you configure freetype to go straight into /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include instead, with no freetype/? That would be how I would attack it. Most libraries are going to have a way to configure them to go where you want them to go. GNU Stow can be very useful here to keep things organized.

What distro are you using that doesn't have freetype available? That seems strange.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 10 points 3 days ago

Even if you know it was very bad, you don't really know how bad it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jDbJbCuKl4

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 9 points 3 days ago

He's blind and has lost his sense of smell, so he has trouble finding his food before other turtles push him away and steal it, but he still knows how to fuck and to show up to support Frederick if some human he doesn't know is messing with Frederick's genitals.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 11 points 3 days ago

Due to his advanced age, Jonathan spends his days doing almost everything with his mate, including eating, sleeping and mating.[13] The sex of Frederica, one of two of his favourite tortoises thought to be female (the other being Emily), as well as his companion since 1991, was cast into doubt in 2017 when island veterinarian Catherine Man indicated that due to a deformity of its plastron its sex could not be verified,[4] and is now known to be male, being renamed Frederik.[1] While Frederik was undergoing the examination, Jonathan came over and did not leave the side of Frederik and the veterinarian during the entire process.

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I've been seeing some complaints about paywalled content being posted in the rss.ponder.cat communities.

Here's my proposal:

  • Split the bot into two users: free@rss.ponder.cat and paywall@rss.ponder.cat.
  • Make a rule similar to some other communities, forbidding people from posting full text or links to archive.is on the paywalled communities.
  • If you like some of the paywalled content, subscribe to it. You can afford $5-10/month for one or two sources, and it'll help them a lot. Creating good content on the internet isn't free.
  • If you don't want the paywalled content, block the paywall bot and you won't have to see it in your feed.
  • If you don't want any of it, block both bots or the whole instance.

It's a real problem that Lemmy communities sometimes have paywalled content from 50 different sources, which makes it annoying to use and unreasonable to tell people to subscribe to content they want to read, because they would need 50 different subscriptions.

I think the RSS bot is a better solution than just ripping off content from all the high-quality online news sources and shrugging your shoulders if they go out of business and can't do it anymore a year from now. Everybody wins. High quality online news can still pay their bills, and you get a good way to stay up to date on it within Lemmy.

I'm posting this here instead of in the meta community because I have a feeling that most of the people who are saying they don't like the paywalled content are not subscribed, and I'd like to get feedback from the community as a whole.

What do people think?

Edit: I've implemented the proposal. There are now separate bots @free@rss.ponder.cat and @paywall@rss.ponder.cat.

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Hackaday.com serves up Fresh Hacks Every Day from around the Internet. Their playful posts are the gold-standard in entertainment for engineers and engineering enthusiasts.

/c/hackaday@rss.ponder.cat hosts every post from Hackaday for your Lemmy reading pleasure.

!hackaday@rss.ponder.cat

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 28 points 2 months ago

Can the pages play music, and animated avatars? I feel like you're onto something.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 10 points 2 months ago

What's lacking in the moderation tools? I've heard a lot of people talk about the lack. What are some things that are hard to do?

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I started up my own instance and now I have realized that there's no reason anyone would join mine instead of any other instance.

That's no good. What neat stuff would the Fediverse like to see in a Lemmy instance?

  • Follow RSS feeds in your Lemmy feed? I have that already, in a way, but it would be nice to be able to do it for any feed automatically without it being clunky.
  • Follow Mastodon users? Or tags?
  • Embedded video? That seems costly.
  • Hackability? The ability to run your own customized front end? Or good scripting features in the browser console?
  • A better looking UI? This one is functional but it's not pretty.
  • Better moderation? I have heard the Lemmy tools aren't that good.
  • Something else?
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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 9 points 2 months ago

It enables you to use Lemmy as your RSS reader.

You could always add all the feeds to your RSS reader including the Lemmy communities, but now you can do the other way around, even if you don't habitually use RSS.

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Yesterday I posted about rss.ponder.cat, with communities automatically fed from a selection of RSS feeds. Today I made !meta@rss.ponder.cat, with:

  • A sticky-post roadmap of the RSS feeds that are already available
  • A place for people to request communities to be added
  • A place for me to post announcements about new communities

I don't plan to spam !newcommunities@lemmy.world with every new RSS feed, but I figured I would let people know the location of the community that will get announcements about new RSS feed communities, in case they want to subscribe to it.

Cheers!

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rss.ponder.cat is live! You can have Lemmy communities fed by RSS news feeds:

A lot of big sites offer feeds for different categories of article, but I'm not sure it is smart to mirror every single one into a Lemmy community. The ones above, for periodicals like the BBC, are only the front page stories, which seems necessary for it not to turn into spam.

The Ars mirror, on the other hand, I broke down by category, at least partly. You can get all the articles:

Or, you can subscribe to individual categories of articles:

I'll see how it goes. I don't want it to become a source of spam.

If you want to have an RSS feed as a community, ask. They're easy to add. Just say something and I'll set it up.

Happy RSSing!

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 19 points 2 months ago

It's a hacked-together python script. Should I try to clean it up and open source it? It's not well-organized right now, though.

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