haui_lemmy

@haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Same with the communities I mod. No bans at all so far. But tbf they‘re smaller. The larger communities might be different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Those were a lot of different points. I think they’re important and I respect your view.

  I‘m not sure though if I see it exactly the same:

  ownership

  i think this assumes a lot. You could of course start more communities and I did so. But of course your goal can be different.

  authority

  I agree, authority should not be important.

  modding is easy

  I dont think that is the case. Modding - especially good modding - is very hard, as you mentioned yourself. A mod needs enough restraint to take their ego out of the equation and needs to see when the community rules get broken and act accordingly. A lot of bad mods are too eager or too lax with bigotry.

  only flagged content needs looking at

  It needs to be looked at first and the rest is optional, yes. But a mod should definitely trust their gut and be an active part in the community they mod. Ideally under a different name though so to divide between mod stuff and non.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CareerCupid (OkCupid for jobs) integration with ActivityPub: follow @thecupid@cupid.careers, answer polls, find like-minded people who would be great co-workers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly no. I am in the unfortunate situation that I have way too many projects atm. But if you feel like it, we can chat about it on matrix and compare ideas, push for more cooperators on some socials etc. Two people is 100% more support than my project saw so far. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CareerCupid (OkCupid for jobs) integration with ActivityPub: follow @thecupid@cupid.careers, answer polls, find like-minded people who would be great co-workers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be willing to help. I created a mastodon clone on github called fediwork. Feel free to check it out. My personal goal is to make it possible to find work without linkedin but have a more work focused setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for mentioning this.

  Of course it would be a lot better if there were more foss health apps.

  But as an open source dev, donor and contributor, it is absolutely impossible to make decent software on a nearly global scale with what usually amounts to one person in their free time without a single cent of income.

  I know there are theoretical workarounds like donations but even I (who uses mostly open source) cant donate to every app/library I use. You need to make few big donations instead of many small ones. Otherwise you donate to the banking system and thats it. For example I partly finance this platform we are talking on in larger chunks instead of weekly/monthly as not to pay too much fees.

  The issue is systemic. We desperately need something like open source tax which is to be paid by those who profit the most off it (large companies) and especially who dont pay any other taxes (mostly).

  And yes, compared to a chat app, a health app is niche. But you are right, that should be no problem.

  Please write to your political representative and speak out about us needing significantly more funding for open source. Many issues have been solved that way.

  Full time open source work must pay the rent and food, period. Sorry for the rant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they collect any data besides the stuff thats already pleasant in your files (day of creation, user who created it, etc), that is data collection and if you didnt activate it, its opt out. I didnt check daylio, I‘m talking about it in general.

  And yes, of course for profit companies will make more polished products. This doesnt even hinge on foss. Nextcloud is pretty polished and foss for example. That said, medical stuff is very niche and less common in foss (although present).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should i selfhost?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly how I see it and did it. Thanks for mentioning this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should i selfhost?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I only had to read like three or four sentences to arrive at the conclusion: yes, you should absolutely self host and you‘re already pretty far.

  Depending on your location, I suggest you first visit your local hackspace, if that exists. I have had a similar journey and it took me years to arrive at my current state. Had I learned about „hacker communities“ earlier, I would have taken a very different and less stressful path.

  You can check my personal setup at forge.giftedmc.com/haui/Setup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes to part one. You should not trust devs that do opt out data collection of any kind. If you‘re interested in a funny way to learn about this stuff, check out „security nightmares“ from the recent 38c3 congress.

  I suggest you keep track of your thoughts and moods with open source apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it just uses data that is on your device right now, that is okay. But if it keeps track on things, even on your device, it can lead to security vulnerabilities, depending how it is stored how long it is kept.

  And most importantly, enshittification and automatic updates could easily change that policy to retroactively hoover up all that precious data. This stuff is insanely valuable too.

  Not saying daylio is doing it or going to. Just that keeping data comes with a risk. ideally, there should be clear documentation what is being kept, where and for how long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. In bad times, that is true for me as well. But these times pass eventually. At least they always have in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I mostly try to be honest with myself as I found that copium rarely is helpful. We‘re in this mess now and we can either sulk or get going. I choose to get going day after day. Hows that for aspirational statements? :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being cynical and defeatist is a coping mechanism. Like racism, its a form of dealing with a continuously shitty situation while not addressing the real problem.

  If you look at the small amount of people that drink 1000$ wine bottles for lunch while you‘re struggling to pay the rent, then you find the problem these cynics are unable to address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caddy and forgejo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont know about caddy but nginx proxy manager does this very well. Also, if running in docker, you can expose the port that runs ssh for forgejo und a different port than the host machine‘s (eg 2222). In that case you just put the remote in with the port and call it a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxenfree is being completely removed from itch.io in October⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of Minecraft’s development⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They‘re probably also gonna wreck the modding community with this as it has been hard to keep up already.

  I personally will stay with voxelibre as it is open source and doesnt have telemetry baked in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft *Movie Edition*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen the blender movie? Its quite short but you dont need any equipment to make good animated movies anymore. Its all there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for chiming in. Thats very insightful. It still seems like bsky is claiming to be something that its not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft *Movie Edition*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I‘m somewhat sure the person who made the trailer will make a version of the film out of pure spite that works exactly like this and its going to be the best thing ever, maybe even shaking the movie industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, from up close it seems like people can have their own servers (i checked wurzelmann.at which is currently on the frontpage) but they do not seem to have their own frontend.

  This indeed makes it so that for people to actually SEE your content you must federate with one entity and are controlled by them.

  Imo this is very bad because it takes the freedom out of federation. Yes, you dont need to login to an app but if they ban you or defederate or delete your post, nobody will see it, right?

  Please someone who has tried and gets the technical details shed light on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel free to make a community or find one and link it here! :) i‘ll happily join and put in some work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Check fedipact.online for instances that have defederated threads. Good luck! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is IONOS ok for a VPS?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I‘ve been their webhosting for 10 years and besides some minor errors (website didnt work for 30 mins here and there) I‘m very happy.

  I informed myself about their cloud programme with help of a sales rep and although it is quite expensive compared to hetzner, it seems very usable.

  I dont think you need to worry about them for a vps. Its not like they would rob you or your data will be lost. They might turn out to be slightly better or worse than hetzner long term which would both be fine in my book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix let-down⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix is a protocol, unlike discord. The problems often come with the different clients. I personally suggest fluffychat wherever I go since that is the most usable in my experience. Element I have installed as a backup on all my devices if I need to troubleshoot.

  Same as with apple‘s „iforgot“ service: the privilege of privacy comes with responsibility. You must either take care of a couple things yourself or pay someone to do it. On discord, a huge margin of people pays with real money and the rest with their data.

  To the topic: Matrix rooms have a version and the server you make them on matters a lot. Therefore I would stay on org if none of you know your way around. If you have skills, make your own and configure it in the most non individual way possible for maximum compatibility. If people cant join even when you invited them, you might have to check if the servers each federate correctly. If not, switch servers or tell your admin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who do they think they are?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats exceptionally insightful. Thank you for sharing some rate wisdom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cryptolancing - A job marketplace where you can pay and be paid in crypto for your work⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree 100%. If you want any help from a fellow admin and coder, my matrix handle is in my profile. Feel free to hit me up.

  If you search for lemmy bots you should definitely find some.

  Also, I couldnt subscribe earlier, not sure why. I‘ll try again in a sec but you should keep an eye on it because this can hamper popularity substantially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cryptolancing - A job marketplace where you can pay and be paid in crypto for your work⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont get the blanket-hate. I saw your initial post about this and I‘m glad you went through with it.

  You might want to have concise methods and tipps in your sidebar to mitigate scams because they will likely happen as they do with real money.

  Judging from the reaction, you might also straight up look for mods who can delete span and trolling since hate = trolls will come and try to shut you down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google dropping ublock origin represents a flawless David vs Goliath victory for its developer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Although thats probably not whats going to happen if google gets broken up but I‘ll still happily pay for firefox just for the sake of breaking up google.

  Death to megacorporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for your opinion.