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- Comment on Welcome, new users! 4 weeks ago:
…sick of reddit kowtowing to billionaires interests
Welcome. If you’re not aware, BlueSky is seeded by venture capital money and is generally under the ownership of billionaires; their “federation” is you optionally running a server that hosts your own (meta)data but the access to use that data (your content feed) still goes through one and only one website owned, operated and moderated by billionaires. They’ve already made it well known they intend on adding ads to their platform and have not yet worked out actual server federation. $0.02
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 month ago:
All the other replies tiptoeing around this - OP, your son has hormones raging in his body, he’s going to masturbate a lot. In my opinion and I’m going to be blunt, maybe focus on:
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letting him know it’s normal for all this hormonal activity, masturbation is OK and not something to be frowned upon or ridiculed (well unless you two joke a lot which would be cool). In fact, as he starts to go out on dates gently suggest he rub one out before the date to calm his hormones the F down, which leads me to…
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he’s gonna get boners all the time, it’s just a thing that comes with all those raging hormones. It can happen in unfortunate places and unfortunate circumstances (8th grade science class wearing stretchy shorts? SURE WHY NOT), so as a mom be aware this could be happening but he of course doesn’t want to say anything to you. Ignore or treat it as normal (or again, bust a joke if you’re tight like that).
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teach him to respect his partners and not be just letting his hormones take over and he wants to stick his dick in everything. This is I feel something is missed on all “sex ed”, to me the biggest part is not the physical act but the negative emotional results if he lets those hormones take over. Hetero or gay doesn’t matter, it’s all the same - your partner has feelings and be aware (“don’t be an f’ing asshole”).
I’m of an age these days, but man I wish someone in an adult capacity had covered the above when I was a teenager. Instead, growing up with repressed catholic type parents it took me way, way too long to grasp the above on my own.
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- Comment on Cannot load additional pages in Jerboa 4 months 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? 4 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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) 5 months 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 months 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.