sorry it was meant to be mangas

understandable.

I do not feel that connected to any empire, but if you talk in today terms, what is india, was not really a 1 big soverign entity. It was much like todays europe - tonnes of states. One could argue mughals were the most recent empire under which a very large part of current India was under (almost entirety of north and west and central). they had a larger cultural impact. Our current most spoken language (hindi) did not exist, lets just say, 200 years ago. there were tonnes of derivaties from older sanskrit and dravidian roots (european equivalent would be romanic and germanic roots). what mughals brought (not them, it existed before as brought by trade and previous empire (tipu sultante, which is very small, but still some what important)) were the languages usually used in islamic world - arabic and persian (farsi as we call it). from these older languages and their amalgamations we got “hindustani” . Consider it parent of hindi and urdu (most spoken languages in northern india, and pakistan). these 2 languages are in some sense same - 2 speakers can communicate orally, but not in writing, because urdu reatined the arabic script, and hindi retained the devanagri script (sanskrit). Mughals had a large enough impact on india, something our current administration really tries to downplay, and paint in very bad light. Yes, they were not the ideal, utopic, do-no-evil kingdom. But no empire has been that, ever. they were very comparable in terms of other empires in terms of social standards.

that hurt a lot

if so, and we also include mangas, I am a one piece historian (and also a member of library of ohara)

(i accidentally wrote magas instead of mangas, but i am still leaving it here in brackets, because someone actually made a joke of it which gave me a slight chuckle, so do not want to ruin that)

one could make an argument that mughal empire is mongol empire, in the same sense that byzantine is roman (but not really)

babar, first (almost undisputed) ruler of mughal empire was descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan.

thank you. but i would prefer not to host stuff on google drive. but some other provider could work (as i said, i am willing to pay a reasonable amount).

So keep a backup. Torrents can be messy because they can be broken if there are no seeders.

If the content is static, then I’d recommend some older P2P filesharing like eD2K to keep one big zip/rar file backup shared among peers.

yes. content would be partially static. most files will not update, only new stuff will be added. and some files be updated.

i did not know syncting could have multiple masters. afaik, syncthing had a master-slave architecture, where a folder on a device is master, and another folder is slave (both can true simultaneously, a folder can be used both as source and sync). if there is another folder, it can be slave of prior 2, but not master, because then you can have conflicting results (which master to pick). do you possibly mean something like a pyramid/tree architecture, where a father nodes has 2 daughter node, and each daughter has 2 and so on. if so, that is even harder to setup (getting people to ask others if they will be their father/daughter cell. this also has problem if some node is out of sync (because of being offline or something), daughters and grand daughter will also not sync. A cyclic link list is also possible, but again chain can be broken. and this can not be a doubly linked list either (2 masters). or is there some other way?

cheating aside

that was just one case. I was stupid. Now I am not.

I did appreciate such archives and made use of them.

to share notes, PDFs, try old exams to prepare…

exactly why i never said no to anyone. it is the age old saying - we stand on shoulder of giants. I remember falling ill, not being able to attend classes, and missing stuff. but then some friend would lend their notes. drive imo is just for that.

And while we are discussing this shit, can we also “formalise” our rules. we currently have atleast 2 posts (on by me about schadenfreude and you about utu…, there maybe are more) which state some rules. similarly we have rules in sidebar, and there are not enumerated, which imo makes it harder to read specific stuff.

maybe, we can make a official rules post, and keep it perma pinned (same rules in sidebar), and for anynew rules added, we will make a new post, which shall also stay pinned for something like 2 weeks, and corresponding rule be added in perma rule post, and linking to explainer post. this way perma rule post will be short (so people actual read it unlike terms and services).

reason for doing both a perma pinned and sidebar is to insure that most people going to community page are reminded to actually read rules. I, for example, hardly pay any attention to sidebar. some will never really go to community page. so both kinds of people will be shown rules. hence, less people will claim to not know rules.

Again, this is just a proposal, so feel free to scrutinise/improve it, or form a separate alternate

yes, i was not suggesting we should ban him right away. only if they admit to be affiliated to utu… . but self admission would likely be rare if they are actually affiliated. if they are not affiliated (my current belief, because they have made human looking comments as well), then a warning (or 2) should suffice.

should remove the user’s utubepublisher.in posts on sight.

i think even that is a bit overkill for warning period (the period until we recieve some statement from them). maybe I or someone else can keep linking to original source articles.

I am not sure if i discussed with you are wolfeh, but i had proposed a 3 strike ban rule. break a standard rule thrice (ideally in 3 separate posts/days) and you recieve a ban. you can challenge it by messaging a mod, but final decisions remains with mods.

This is mostly to save people from getting banned by breaking rules like calling others bad shit while they were high and not in senses. If you repeatedly shit, we can not keep ooverlooking. there would not be a official count kept for anyone, just a unooficial “hey i saw this guy being reported last week, and they are shitting again”

some day you’ll graduate as well and life will move on for you.

I am graduating. That is why when i leave, i want to leave stuff in a functional state so they do not have to start a fresh. I did mention this in post, but i wrote a whole lot more than i should have, and i do not expect anyone to read all this.

ou’ll move far away, get a full-time job, maybe have new hobbies or a family and time will come and you’ll stop supporting it as well. I’ve seen that all the time and most privately run things vanish sooner than later.

absolutely. as i said, individuals work for selfish reasons, and once i leave, i would not have a selfish reason anymore.

And I’d say if you’re the main/sole contributor of content, it’s questionable if this even survives long term. Unless people upload recent exams and material, the content will become obsolete after a few years.

yes. it does get obsolete. but our department is still relatively new (5th or 6th year since establishment) and hence, most course have not been taught by 2 or more profs. hence, much of it will stay relevant as long as professors stay.

My juniors have started bugging me again to get drive working again (new sem has started).

So you kind of need some community anyways.

I would have to pull some shit to form a sub division of department society. then i can get budget to either buy some drive subscription, or set something local, but set it behind some proxy, so it would appear not to be hosted in college (reverse vpn if you will)

i do not think syncting would scale well with ~200 people during exam seasons. Also, that would require everyone to download syncthing (practically impossible task)(i think syncthing android app is depreceated or something, and only forks are alive, no idea about ioss clients). Also, that would actually download stuff, all from one server, that would be expensive (fetching 1 file or 1 course worth of file is relatively cheaper as compared to fetching all course files. At that point, i might as well implement a private torrent.

would general memes be better or something like !linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works (where you would have to actually include the etymology of sand in subtext or something)

there is another resource run by dev club, but not many of our department folks are in dev club. Also, their solution imo is worse. they techinically do have a index with search, but not a good one. also - very slooooooooooooow. Ans this is when their solution is smaller than mine (and their solution gets contribution from other departments as well).

I understand it would be better be done by a entity instead of a person, but problem is, entities would have to abide by institute rules. and then whole lot of problems from “why not possible” point 2 applies.

I could get some of my juniors to form a small group within department, but i do not think many of them do anything unless they are given a motive for it. and there is no real motive to maintain a good database other than helping others. entities can do “good things” but individuals often do it for selfish reasons. that was partially the case with me. I used to make notes, and then tons of messages from classmates to share notes, and got fed of sending stuff individually. then i started sending stuff in group chat, but not having a good way to search chat history meant people would not find it, and ask me again. so i made a drive. a course happens where people have to install software, but actual instructions are very hard - i get messages - i make scripts to install, or compile the end product and just ship it. You might think these are good deeds, but they are still selfish acts. I used to maintain a good directory structure anyway, might as well upload it.

it is meant to be editted by others. I do not think many others will be able to use cryptomator (afaik you would have to download the whole cryptomator folder, and then update). Still, thanks!

I would seriously consider this, and try to implement this weekend.

Like this your stuff is compliant and you allow folks to access a google drive for example that you or someone else can manage.

people would not differentiate (in future, i would not be the one to upload stuff, but newer gens would), so i would set everything to be uploaded to google. I would still try to maintain 2 offline backups in case google gets angry.

I use it to share with family that is not tech literate.

that is definitely reinforcing.

I would still try to find if i can host directly in campus, and not google or any 3rd party at all.

this is actually very close to pseudocylindrical projections (an example is the orange peal like sliced maps, wiki says its called Goode homolosine). they look wierd, are dicontinous, but still largely preserve area and angles.

this one is very similar, except sizes are still wierd, and uses different radii spheres, which makes it both non angle and size preserving.

thanks for the suggesion, but syncing is not the problem currently. I can use stuff like rsync, or rclone for drive providers. problem is where to sync to.

I could try these, but the problem is, I am graduating. I could set it up once, and maybe even give someone else (or myself) remote access to the hosting infra, but I would likely be less available to manage stuff.

Good dsolutions though. I could possibly try to make the latter solution work (managing nexcloud is relatively harder imo, and i have no idea how would i mount a encrypted google drive to it). It still feels like something only i would have to maintain, but if I can get it in a setup and forget stage (or like a annual maintainence), then I could consider it.

the only problem now is money. I would have to use vps for this kinda stuff. the sbc + ssd idea was something i had proposed to a junior. but hosting anything in college premises with college internet would have to “techinically comply with copyright rules”. if it was a git like solution or torrent like, even administrators would not be able to access the stuff (comparable in tech literacy)(i am not talking about people who manage or internet infra, but copyright stuff, like our library department). With a drive like setup, they would be able to use it too.

Can i setup a password to access the stuff, like a simple password, common for all? then only student who have password be able to use it. maybe i can setup http authentication. but then again i would fall back to - it is getting too tough for them to use it.

I’m not aware of a solid centralized place to find high quality, multi-app color schemes like these.

maybe, we should make a lemmy community, with all color themes, and something like 1 post for 1 color theme. in the comments, we can add various places (or ways) you can use/install them, and maybe a weekly/monthly post, to rank the best themes of the months (rnaking all existing posts by activity in last x amount of time).