smiletolerantly

@smiletolerantly@awful.systems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Re: Spain: the headline was bullshit. If you are arrested and then investigated and it turns out you use Graphene, they’ll go “huh, I wonder why. We’ve seen a lot of drug dealers use Graphene. Let’s investigate in that direction as well”.

  Noone is being arrested or targeted FOR having GOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted calendar⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  InfCloud. Works well with Radicale, and does contacts, too.

  It’s not pretty, but works very well for the 5/100 times I want to check through a browser instead of Calendar app / Thunderbird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Using simple-nixos-mailserver as the foundation.

  Really great experience, and have had no deliverability issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope forgejo’s federation efforts come along. Being able to host projects on my own instance, yet receive contributions without having to allow people to register on my instance, would give me the push to completely abandon Github.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google should have called it JIF, not WebP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How does it feel to have the objectively best sense of humor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Piefuckers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just going to leave this here: Wigner’s friend.

  In Timelike Infinity, there’s a group following that logic through to its conclusion, committing a bit of terrorism on the galactic scale to make Final Observer-senpai notice them.

  Batshit insane, 10/10, one of Baxter’s tamer plotlines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨society⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss the Be Like Bill memes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is about as useful as the assholes going “It’s not Pedophilia, it’s Hebephilia!”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? These companies act like they are selling food and we are stealing it.

  In reality, they put a big “free beer” sign up, we go and happily accept the beer, and then they act outraged that we refuse when they try to piss in the mug after handing it to us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I don’t have a contract with the site, agreeing to pay them in any way, shape or form. They voluntarily show me seit content, but that does not obligate me to also accept their ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your homescreen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, thanks! It’s a photo I took almost a decode ago in New Zealand. Here’s a link.

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  I also have a second “swipe” to the homescreen, but I make a point to keep apps installed to a minimum, and everything else is not used commonly enough to justify a place on the homescreen. 95% of my app opens are probably Firefox, haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your homescreen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  I kinda like it, but fuck Xiaomi for disabling gestures unless you iss their launcher.

  Used Kvaesitso previously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a selfhosted eBooks app that can do this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, in supported apps / protocols. Koreader, for example, should have 2-way sync for eBooks, and Mihon has 2-way sync for Manga.

  +1 for kavita. It also has a nice webreader ui.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember to 2FA your kidneys.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would passkeys solve your grievances for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grow a Garden Calculator⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… In my case it would be “calculate how much loss you’ve been making by growing your own veggies!”, lol.

  (Container gardening and watering add up, but I am not complaining, I am not doing this to save/earn money)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grow a Garden Calculator⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was SO confused until I checked the community.

  Thought this was about literal, real-world vegatable gardens as a hobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, that’s great to hear!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Again for Germany, it’s handled by a single provider, and they absolutely do utilize CoCo tech. (Source: I work at one of the involved companies, sorry, not going to be more specific)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the case of Germany: confidential computing tech ensures all data is encrypted in storage and in memory, shielded even against data center employees / hosting providers. I imagine that’s become the standard for most countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure you choose a proper open source one, else the app might collect data as well…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When we need to know each others location, we share it via element / matrix. Our own server, so no third party.

  Happens maybe four times a year.

  (Also, do you just always have location services enabled?? IMO it’s a battery drain, I pretty much only enable it for this and while I need to navigate)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, nice. In that case just beware to move /var/lib/private/conduwuit to /var/lib/private/continuwuity, not /var/lib/conduwuit to its counterpart

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah crap, forgot to ping you! Sorry!!

  Yep, easy decision now. Migration went smoothly, just had to move the state dir and chown it to continuwuity:continuwuity. Might be different on docker though, no idea, sorry 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Update: seems to me tuwunel is drama waiting to happen. See updated post for details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, even QR I can only accept as an option, as in completely optionally. I’m out and about without a phone quite frequently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, completely agree. It seems that the matrix foundation could easily take a different path to allow the community to flourish and third-party servers to have a much easier time. Since I’m not federated, I wouldn’t even mind if whatever fork I’ll end up on eventually says “fuck this, we’re not following synapse specs any more”.

  But yeah, I am sure selling premium accounts on matrix.org is what will save the matrix ecosystem… 🤦🏼‍♀️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Understandable.