As a European, I think it would be pretty funny if, after Brexit, the other parts of the former Empire joined the EU.
But at least right now, membership is probably more of a meme - some solid cooperation and shared institutions would be amazing, though.
So, a few years back, when a good friend of mine tried out Linux mint, one of the main reasons he didn't stick with it wasn't even compatibility or anything (although he probably would have switched to a rolling release as someone who values cutting edge updates). But what ultimately made him return to Windows was something, I have been scratching my head on how to best handle it: The file system structure ultimately being too much of a change.
Now, of course, if you are used to it, I wouldn't really call it better or worse - definitely more suited to what Linux ultimately is. But stuff like, "Where are the save games of my paradox games? Why is so much stuff in my user directory? Why is there no unified directoy for all the stuff I installed (including everything they use), like Program Files, but everything is scattered all around into different directories? Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?" were examples of hurdles, where the current answer seems to be "you just have to get used to it".
Now, I am not pleading to change the standard, there's good reasons for it. But are there good transitioning guides from Windows to Linux, that do a good job at explaining the structure of the file system? Because I remember, myself, only really getting used to it months into my Linux journey all those years ago.
Hmmm, for mine, it worked as soon as I had added it to the index - it then took a few days for the videos themselves to show up in the index. One thing I could imagine happening might be, that maybe videos already on the instance before it was added on the index will take even longer? In that case, maybe removing and re-adding them might work? But that's a wild guess.
Another thing that may have happened - if adding the instance recently definitely isn't the problem - maybe it got blacklisted from sepiasearch somehow? But if that were the case, I don't think they'd do it in a "shadowban" way, and the instance would just be removed from the index - unless I am misremembering their moderation policies.
Whatever is causing it, here's hoping you'll have a solution soon, and good luck solving the issue.
That's what I usually liken it to
Oh, that is almost comforting to hear, because a clear profit motive that can be linked to the original messages would indeed be pointing towards scam instead of weird stalker. That being said, it sadly would not on its own completely do away with the theory.
The current most likely theory of the people that dove headfirst into this seems to be, that she was a small streamer on peertube and other platforms (hence the many different webcam images, too). Looking into the chat of the stream on her peertube account reveals at least one person, that had all their messages removed by her. The linked accounts on the most common spam messages feel more like doxxing attempts, too - with ones like this asking for money most likely being copycats, as in the original messages and linked communities, there was a suspicious lack of asking for money or trying to start contact for a romance/catfishing scam.
This would all point to some kind of crazy stalker trying to doxx this woman for whatever reason, in a pretty weird way. Maybe they hoped it would get us all riled up and hating on her? Maybe they thought by just seeing her, we'd react in some way? Maybe they just wanted the feeling of power to doxx and intimidate her, and no real plan beyond that?
Whatever it is, it really looks more like creepy shit than scam shit at this point, from what I have gathered in the community research that has been happening.
I'm still poor, and have grown up in a poor family, so tourism has never really been a part of my lived reality, but one of the few travels I did in my 20s was a tour of the Scottish coasts in a VW bus with friends, including a visit to the Orkneys and these ruins. All I can say is: They are as beautiful as they are fascinating, probably one of the best Neolithic sites in Europe.
Oh, nice, that means I gotta upgrade 😀
Thank you for all your great work!
EDIT: Just ran the upgrade, everything seems to still work, and the new look and features feel great to me.
So far, the closest I had was a PC emulator (can't remember off the top of my head what it was called), that could present it as parallel-view 3D, which I am good enough at to sustain it for some bursts of gameplay - but the emulated screen was sadly tiny to not overstrain the eyes too much. I'd love to set it emulated like this up in person some time in the future.
As someone who is currently in the process of getting a diagnosis way into his thirties - this video was liberatory in how relateable it ~~feeled~~ felt.
I loved the punchiness of the quote: "You cannot persuade me of the simplicity of the world; I can only see the complexity". Because, for me personally at least, that put into words better than ever before a fundamental feeling I had about interacting with the world and others around me.
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Yeah, that one really isn't Linux's fault either, and both on Linux and Windows, it's always "exciting" to see which dev used which wild, new scheme for their config/save files.