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- Comment on Cannot load additional pages in Jerboa 2 days ago:
“How long are you willing to wait for the page load” seems to be the intersection; I have the same problems (Jerboa and webUI) and frequently just give up waiting on the webUI. My guess is that the internal Jerboa timeout-wait triggers quicker than a human waiting, so they’re one in the same problem.
I received a 504 gateway error this morning trying to load lemm.ee front page too, the status.lemm.ee page says everything is OK but… well, shenanigans. Strange things afoot at the Circle-K.
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 5 days ago:
If you have access to some sort of basic Linux system (cloud server, local server whatever works for you) you can run a program on a timer such as isync.sourceforge.io (Debian package:
isync) which reads email from one source and clones it to another. Be careful and run it in a security context that meets your needs (I use a local laptop w/encryption at home that runs headless 24/7, think raspberry Pi mode).This includes IMAP (1) -> IMAP (2) as well as IMAP -> Local and so on; as with any app you’ll need to spend a bit learning how to build the optimum config file for your needs, but once you get it going it’s truly a “set and forget” little widget. Use an on-fail service like healthchecks.io in your wrapper script to get notified on error, then go about your life.
- Comment on The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid 3 weeks ago:
Quick update for anyone still reading this thread:
@fdroidorg@floss.social As with any other app, we flagged Fennec and Mull with KnownVuln until the app is updated. Contributors fixed the issues that delayed versions 130 and later. Stand by for the build.
- Comment on The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid 3 weeks ago:
A bit of backstory on how we got here - in June 2024 Mozilla chose to (a) integrate the source tree of Firefox Mobile into their huge monorepo (“gecko-dev”), and (b) move the source off of Github onto their own git servers (“Mozilla Central”). You can read about it in the now-archived old repo:
This was then compounded by a core Android build kit (“NDK”) choosing to remove parts of the toolchain which is/was used to build Firefox releases (ergo, forcing another change to build process):
Together these have caused a bit of a kerfuffle in getting new releases compiled and released via the official F-Droid methodology. See the other comment about the Mull version in their private repo, they’re having to use a Mozilla pre-built clang (a compiler toolchain) now to make it work for the time being.
- Comment on The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid 3 weeks ago:
The link(s) to add their F-Droid repo if not running DivestOS: divestos.org/pages/our_apps.html#repos
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 4 weeks ago:
Option 3
Reasoning:
- Upside 2: 100% best for lemm.ee health; lowest legal risk, lower cost to run.
- Downside 1: I think it comes down to what lemm.ee is trying to provide as a user experience; in my use and expectation, it’s not for masking my IP, making me anonymous or similar. It’s for reading and interacting with people, looking at memes and reading lots of news stories. I have no expectation my IP is masked from remote sites - I open all external news links in a Private tab anyways (to stop cookies and other junk) so they’re already getting my IP anyway. “why should images be any different, really?” There are other lemmy instances out there catering to extreme privacy.
- Downside 2: this could be, should be, whatever handles by better page loading threading in the code; the content surrounding an image is just HTML, the load of the image is a secondary task. If the rendering of the view of the page is reliant upon 200 OK image loads, that feels like a deficiency in design and it needs to be async threaded to “lazy load” and not block.
At a high level, many other solutions - Mastodon, even Nostr webapps and phone apps which is all about being anonymous for some folks - do direct content load from the source and do not proxy loading. The switch back to option 3 falls in line with what every other generic service/solution does in the social web space.
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 5 weeks ago:
(x-posted comment) There’s a MV3 alternate (same dev!) “uBlock Origin Lite” which this article completely misses out on mentioning: …google.com/…/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
There are certain websites and tools which need chrome/chromium making it a necessary evil; for example there’s a new trend in firmware flashing of devices like ESP32 boards and HAM/GMRS radios which are web based and use Chrome tech. This new MV3 fork isn’t as good as the original but it’s better than nothing and does stop some ad trash.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As a sort of historical side comment regarding your concern about misinformation - “how much does it cost to register one?” has been the litmus test to use for a long time (I’m of an age). More specific to
.info, it was one of the very first “new” TLDs introduced in 2002/2003 and the owners basically gave away millions of domains for free to gain market share.[1]This led to a lot of scammers, hackers, malware and whatnot infecting the entire
.infoTLD and it was in trouble by having the entire thing blocked even around 2012, almost 10 years after introduction.[2] It was troubled with new “crackdowns” (enforcement rules) as well due to it’s overwhelming use for nefarious purposes.[3]Ad-hoc data from my own employment experience, in 2024 it’s still 100% blocked (like ref[2]) by corporate firewalls who leverage strict rules along with many others who had the same troubled history (
.xyzto name one) and the whole list of “free” domains. However,.infonow generally costs $20 USD/yr (with many places offering first year discount for less than $5 USD) so I think it’s trying to turn itself around.Point being, “unrestricted” TLDs which are super cheap have had the historical tendency to attract scammers, phishers, malware and other nefarious entities because the cost of doing business at scale (these guys register hundreds of domains to churn through for short periods of time - “keep moving, don’t get caught” i.e.). Having lived through this whole saga, I open all TLDs I know to be cheap/free in private/incognito tabs and treat them with suspicion at first.
- Comment on Good PS5 controller? 1 month ago:
I have successfully sent back a PS5 controller (the original from the box) within the 1-yr warranty; they sent me a brand new controller. You comment “every quarter”, those controllers should be under warranty. Here is the US based link to get started: repairs.playstation.com/s/request-repair?id=2&loc…
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 3 months ago:
In addition to the other comments which more directly address your question, DNS has been / can be used to exfiltrate data from “secure” networks. Search “dns data exfiltration” in your favourite search engine and you’ll get several high quality articles. Typical mitigations might be to limit which DNS servers your network can contact, restrict packet sizes to the bare minimum which valid use would have and so forth.
- Comment on Trying to use PayPal to do a Ko-fi donation... 4 months ago:
Might I recommend liberapay.com ? As a user, I can donate with PayPal and they minimize vendor fees by collecting up front from me and performing recurring donations to you (lemm.ee) and it allows me to retain personal privacy if so desired (per the other reply). Here is the core Lemmy developer using the platform for example: liberapay.com/dessalines/ | liberapay.com/Lemmy/