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@feannag@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t help that plenty of places still follow old IT guidelines that are bad, so they all get lumped together. E.g. change password every 45 days, can’t BT the last 10, must have 4 characters different, and we don’t have a password manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just started using Summit and they show accounts less than 30 days old. Really slick ui too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar noon is the only real noon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The other use for timezones besides local midnight is the offset between geographical areas. UTC+2 or UTC+4. if I start work at 6 UTC and my buddy at 10 UTC, I know for scheduling purposes we are 4 hours shifted from each other. Whether you have to do math or not depends, but it is still a “timezone” by a different name. The only way to completely get rid of timezones is to ignore local time altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar noon is the only real noon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except when you have to work with people geographically separated. Trying to figure out when their work hours are UTC, and when yours are, so as to line it up. Boom, you’ve reinvented timezones by a different name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used Kobo and Ebooks.com, and import into my Calibre library. I know some authors have a way to purchase directly on their site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It absolutely does. plugins.calibre-ebook.com there is a KFX input plugin. Also, if using an older version of kindle for PC you can batch download your whole library and import to Calibre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how can i self host my music?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t Syncthing for Android getting sundowned?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahoy me hearties⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think academia is entirely different from news. This is research often funded with public money where the article fees aren’t going to the author. Seems a lot more reasonable to demand that the public should be able to read it for free.