1 million euros to Gargron, eh.

Our next step is to build more ways for the community to get involved with Mastodon at all levels.

They could start by not ignoring Github issues until a solution is or isn’t silently built with no dialog and the issues closed.

Hopefully this will lead to a major improvement in the dysfunctional dev process, but I’m not holding my breath.

and support the idea that anyone not aligned with their authoritarian values should just “go back to Reddit”

I mean, I’m not a “tankie” and make a point of posting to non-ml communities when there’s a choice of ml and non-ml because I think there’s some toxic moderation going on there, but I also would prefer that shitlibs go back to reddit and stay there 🤷

Major .world players are just from Reddit so we can’t expect much.

Every time I mention blocking all of .world as a valid and good solution, 3 shitlibs downvote me and another angel gets their wings

I need to get my Georgist friend #onhere to rant about the enclosure of the commons

Watch with ever-growing horror and be glad you live where you do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdMWBv8kAo0

come and take it

I managed to figure out how to bypass the cert verification in dbconfig-mysql (named on the tin as dbconfig-common) and got my appliance set up!

1. apt install dbconfig-mysql before installing the PhpMyAdmin package

2. In /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/dbc-mysql, in both sections where temporary my.cnf is defined, set ssl-verify-server-cert = off right below the port = line.

3. to install PhpMyAdmin, run DEBIAN_PRIORITY=low apt install phpmyadmin and follow the prompts

4. In /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php add the following line directly under $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = $dbserver;:

   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl'] = true;
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl_verify'] = false;
   

This is why I say it can’t be reformed.

But shitlibs from .world wanna argue. Which is kind of a microcosm of why we are where we are in this country.

Thanks, but I really dislike adminer’s UI, although granted I’ve been using a fairly old version.

They “caved” (read: stage-managed a deliberate ratfuck scuttling to look like “caving”) because they work for the donor class, aka insurance middleman parasites

How about open source pluggable algos which can be optionally marked shareable between users and selected from a list sortable by number of “installs”

So like a user could define an algorithm to select posts, and then mark it shared, and other users could see it in a directory and try it out themselves, and optionally clone and hack on it, release a new version, etc.

As far as how the post selection algos could be defined, I’m thinking of something similar to the boolean query syntax in the Quod Libet music player, but one could also implement a more code-like syntax.

(I’m aware this is a huge ask, but I’ve had this idea for 8 years since my first Mastodon account, and have been too busy being oppressed by life to do anything about it.)

This isn’t “pathetic” and this isn’t deluded centrists standing on principle; it’s naked backstabbing ratfuck betrayal in the form of deliberate malicious collusion with premeditated intent to scuttle the healthcare fight, and it’s being run from the top on behalf of the 1%.

The eight senators were Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Dick Durbin of Illinois, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Angus King of Maine, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, but Levin said many more centrist lawmakers were likely “in on the play.”

On **MSNBC Monday, Shaheen acknowledged that Schumer was “kept informed” of the eight senators’ negotiations with the GOP regarding reopening the government.

[…]

“The coordinated nature of this—none [of the lawmakers who voted yes] are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate [minority] leader to stop it,”

(emphasis added)

The eight senators were Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Dick Durbin of Illinois, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Angus King of Maine, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, but Levin said many more centrist lawmakers were likely “in on the play.”

On MSNBC Monday, Shaheen acknowledged that Schumer was “kept informed” of the eight senators’ negotiations with the GOP regarding reopening the government.

[…]

“The coordinated nature of this—none [of the lawmakers who voted yes] are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate [minority] leader to stop it,”

The only path to effective opposition in the United States is through the destruction of the Democrat party. It can’t be reformed.

a terrible political opinion from deep within the bowels of Plato’s Cave storied instance lemmy.world?? no way 😮

it’s stress-induced capitulation.

Bold of you to take these assholes at their word.

They did this on purpose with malice aforethought to scuttle the fight for even a little consideration for healthcare costs drowning the 99%.

The Democrat party works for the donor class, exactly like their friends in the GOP. It couldn’t be any clearer.

This isn’t 8 deluded idiots standing on idiotic principle.

It’s a carefully stage-managed operation to scuttle the fight for even a few crumbs of healthcare.

Notice how every single one of these motherfuckers is either retiring or not up for re-election any time soon. They even rigged it so Schumer could vote no and take a little of the recent heat off himself.

The rot in the Democrat party goes all the way to the core. There’s no reforming it.

Yes, because the actual function of the Democrat party is to maintain the status quo by diverting energy from real opposition.