Jason2357
@Jason2357@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 4 hours ago:
Indeed. Owning your mail is a spectrum. I think it’s really best to transition from something like gmail to fully owning the stack in steps, over a significant amount of time. It will take a while to change over the address on everything a while anyway. No real need to go whole-hog right away and then burn out.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 5 hours ago:
Precisely. I’d be more likely to switch to one of those pocket “hot spot” devices. Just a thing in my pocket that gives devices I control internet access and maybe has a shitty web interface I can log into for basic SMS when absolutely necessary. No microphone, no camera, no GPS, no access to my actual computing environment. Only 2 downsides are maintaining battery charge in multiple devices and the fact that those hotspots are generally hot garbage, and so unreliable.
Maybe, a flip phone if one existed that was 1) a full-time good quality internet hotspot (i.e., good battery), and 2) lacked a GPS and camera, and hardware disconnected the microphone when closed. Now that I think about it, that would be a fantastic device… if it existed.
- Comment on Someone finally made a "Sonarr for YouTube" 1 day ago:
They have a whole list of these in the linked Readme. Thanks for posting - I was considering setting up pinchflat but this might be a lot lighter on resources.
My use case: I would like to run something like this, but either directly on, or syncing to my laptop. I don’t watch much YouTube, but it would be nice to have stuff to watch offline, and cut google out of all the behavioural metadata.
- Comment on How to make a Tailscale-like mesh VPN work without the internet? 6 days ago:
Since wireguard only awks connections with matching keys, on a private lan, I bet you could just scan the network for all hosts and try the wireguard connection. A hack, but might work.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 6 days ago:
Glad someone else noticed this. I don’t care that the “small” web isn’t as extensive or as polished as the corporate web, but all the anti-scraper stuff and cookie pop-ups are the actual death. It’s horrible.
Off to gopher and Gemini I guess.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 6 days ago:
Then how would they email you?
Look at addy.io and similar.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
Wow, my brain really failed me here! I ALSO listened to Picks and Shovels recently, which was narrated by Will Wheaton, and somehow the voices got switched in my memory. You are correct, Cory recorded this himself.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
He has the first hour and a half (of 9) in his latest podcast, if you want a real preview: craphound.com/…/enshittification-episode-500/
I decided to order the epub because no matter how I try, I can’t enjoy Wesley’s voice (sorry Will).
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 week ago:
It’s always projection. They always assume the other side is doing what they do or plan to do. They tell on themselves years in advance.
- Comment on AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access 1 week ago:
I wonder how many of those 164k are people who are still being billed for a service they no longer use.
- Comment on Train your brain 1 week ago:
The post isn’t a sound legal argument, but it is an ethical one.
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 1 week ago:
Ideally, the cellular modem just looks like a network device and usb sound card to the OS. Jail it as much as possible.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 2 weeks ago:
Cloudflare is a protection racket. They cover so many websites because it’s easier to pay the mafia.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s just recovering a little of the energy spent in desalination, making it slightly less energy consuming.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
Reduction in emissions, absolutely! Direct carbon capture isn’t that. It’s a scam, destroying money for no benefit.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
Neither trees nor these can help much if fossil fuels continue to be burned at increasing rates.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
This will only ever make sense when we have carbon neutral energy that is “too cheap to meter.” So, like, nuclear fusion, or solar panels become cheaper than tar roofs. In other words, these systems will make sense after climate change is solved. lol.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 weeks ago:
It’s the misleading “generated” electricity headline. It just re-captures some of the spent energy to be slightly more efficient.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 weeks ago:
They are just re-capturing some of the energy the system spent turning salt water into fresh. Because that results in extremely salty brine water waste, you can get some energy as it gets diluted back down to sea water concentration.
There no “new” energy in the system, it’s just wasting less.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I find systems designed for high latency by being “offline-first” interesting. Sync large quantities of information when you can, then consume offline. Like Usenet and email used to be. Most things don’t actually need to be “instant”.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Sneakernets, my friend. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pocket full of microsd cards traveling on the subway.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 weeks ago:
Any entry that is changing hourly (or even monthly) is probably not a topic you should be relying on an encyclopedia entry for anyway. Use the tool for what the tool is good for.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
If you get a device and install Graphine now, it should be fine. It’s your future device options that will probably not include an AOSP alternative os. Hopefully Linux will be an option then, but there might be a bit of a dark age in between.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
I really like Runbox. Nothing particularity fancy, just pure standards compliant email, with excellent reputation, for a very low cost. They have a “drive” too.
There’s also mailbox.org, tuta, the upcoming “thunder mail”, proton, fast mail, probably your domain provider or VPS provider offers email as an add on. Consider paying for a email and a domain. It can be as low as $30 a year, and you become the customer instead of the product. Owning your identity.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Make sure you have swap enabled and it’s fine. Any file host is going to be aggressive with memory to cache all the files and metadata for quicker browsing.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
I run Nextcloud inside a VM, running on a decade+ old Intel gen 3 computer and the interface is snappier than navigating around google drive.
It is finickier to self-host than syncthing though, if all you need is sync. There are also tones of providers out there that will sell you Nextcloud or similar services.
- Comment on Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk 2 weeks ago:
Automation tech was also never about actually reducing humans either. Going all the way back to the broad loom, it always results in the same number of workers or greater - just that productivity (profits) increase and labour becomes de-skilled and more precarious.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 2 weeks ago:
We don’t need competition in the x86 space, we need competition in the mobile/desktop/server space. That could easily be performance competitive ARM or RISC-v or whatever. Better even with diversity of design.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty open. Step 1 is make income tax as painful as possible, step 2 is get rid of it in favour of tarrifs and other regressive revenue generating fees. And MAGA was already convinced that progressive taxation helped people they want hurt.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 2 weeks ago:
It’s corporate socialism later, when the government bails them out.