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- Comment on Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money 1 week ago:
I met another Brit travelling in Thailand who went to hospital with a stomach problem. They didn’t want to treat him until they got a confirmation email from his travel insurance. After they got the email they gave him a massive room to himself, lavished loads of food and drink on him and wouldn’t let him leave after he got better.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 1 week ago:
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- Comment on 'Naive' to trust Chinese firm with British Steel, UK minister says 1 week ago:
Perhaps he’ll be open to looking at all the stuff which has been sold off to the Americans now. I won’t hold my breath.
- Comment on ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric 1 week ago:
I’m totally up for this. Yes, some kids will find out how to circumvent it and yes, some parents won’t abide by it but even if a law isn’t completely enforceable it totally changes people’s attitudes on a population level. Look at the ban on smoking in indoor public spaces for example.
- Comment on ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric 1 week ago:
I’ve thought for a long time that a Mastodon instance administered by adults would be a good solution.
- Comment on Self-hostable bookmark app Hoarder has been rebranded to Karakeep after a long trademark dispute 1 week ago:
Of all the things you could do with your finite existence in this world, you choose to dispute the name of an open source selfhhostable bookmarking app
🤦♀️
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 1 week ago:
OK, does that mean it’s not possible to have a public IP using a cellular device?
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 1 week ago:
Awesome, that’s very close to what I had in mind in terms of hardware.
I’d mostly like to host a lightweight website but perhaps also some communications stuff like xmpp and maybe even email.
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 1 week ago:
How does that work? Thanks :)
- Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Time to yeet your smartphone into the long grass 1 week ago:
I absolutely love independent technology like this 👍
- Comment on Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep 2 weeks ago:
What I’m currently missing is a simple app for keeping contacts synced between my android phone and Linux desktop.
Excited to see what you do!
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 3 weeks ago:
I wish I could give your comment more than one upvote. I think the vast majority of us are not fully aware that we’re in the middle of an active Russian propaganda campaign. Apparently there are at least 10,000 people in Russia employed full-time on this and a tiny fraction of that here to try and combat it.
I think this is the first time our society has been subject to a state-backed propaganda campaign since the widespread adoption of the internet (which is of course not regulated like ‘legacy media’ is) and so it makes sense that most people aren’t really on their guard for it. The government has no excuse though. They are reported to by the intelligence services, who know exactly what is happening here.
- Comment on How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration? 3 weeks ago:
Would you be able to subscribe to those things via your account if they hadn’t made it across to your instance though? I’m no expert but perhaps this is side-effect of controls for moderating federation i.e blocking or allowing content from other instances.
I do agree that it should be easier to browse any instance though. Some Pixelfed instances browser home pages seem to allow it and some don’t - I’m guessing it’s an admin option somewhere.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I know what you mean. Map downloads especially can take up a lot of space/take a lot of mobile data to download. I tried to copy them across manually once but it didn’t work.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 weeks ago:
Organic Maps is definitely easier to use, especially for new users but OsmAnd is more powerful. I have both and they’re awesome.
- Comment on How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration? 3 weeks ago:
I use Pixelfed by subscribing to hashtags that I’m interested in and artists/photographers who I come across via hashtags or my instance feed.
I’m guessing that this is how Pixelfed is designed to be used as users and hashtags are what makes up your home feed.
I’ve never felt the need to browse by instance but I can see that this could be a cool feature to add if there are any which are dedicated to a particular subject or style. Of course the same functionality can be accomplished simply by users adding unique and specific hashtags to their posts e.g #celticsculptures or #seeninplymouth.
- Comment on copper 3 weeks ago:
This is what can happen if you don’t get anyone to look after your house when you’re away.
- Comment on London: Police to install permanent cameras equipped with live facial recognition 3 weeks ago:
They already rolled this out in Cardiff recently.
- Comment on Child support 4 weeks ago:
This just makes me angry
- Comment on calibre 8.0 4 weeks ago:
Another option for some Kobos is Inkbox/QuillOS. It’s a full open source OS replacement and is very cool. It was very usable last summer when I tried it out on my Kobo Lara HD and is probably even better now.
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut 1 month ago:
Reducing dependence on crackpot America is good in my book, as long as we’re not going to just spend that budget with them anyway.
But for gods sake get rid of the tax exemption on wealth to pay for it instead of cutting things that people actually need.
- Comment on Stalwart mail server 2 months ago:
I can’t comment on Stalwart but if you’re looking for something reliable and easy to install on a VPS I recommend YUNOhost, which is a FOSS server OS that has email out of the box.
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 2 months ago:
It seems odd that you’re here on a social media site then.
- Comment on Audiblez v4.0 is out: Generate Audiobooks from Ebooks 2 months ago:
Some people have to buy ebooks with DRM to support the author but like to strip it using a Calibre plugin, for various reasons.
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 2 months ago:
Check out YUNOhost. I had a Pixelfed server up and running in 20 mins.
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 2 months ago:
You’re 100% right about that. I’ve never ran out of nice posts to look at on Pixelfed. I think the medium & format is a lot less addictive and a lot more relaxing/positive, which might help to explain it.
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 2 months ago:
Pixelfed is definitely a good example of “its what you make it”.
Try searching for and following some hashtags that you’re interested in. I have an awesome home feed made up of art, design and photography hashtags and artists.
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 2 months ago:
I would love to know how you get on with this.