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- Comment on Chat Control 2.0: what if Signal supports user-made Add-ons, one which encrypts all messages? Could that circumvent Chat Control 2.0? 2 days ago:
It’s not about prohibiting e2ee; it’s about enforcing client-side scanning.
Yes, that also breaks e2ee, but they can still go “nooo! E2ee is still perfectly fine and legal! You know, as ling as we get to read anything anyways”
And realistically, this will probably end up being implemented on an OS-level as well. So even using a self-hosted matrix server would not be immune.
Not to mention that both you and your conversation partner needs to take steps to evade this; one party is not sufficient.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 3 days ago:
Not OP, but: watched Haruhi a while back in English Dub, because there’s no German one. It was ok. The main POV character’s monotone voice was fitting in a fun way, but almost everyone else still has this fake energy to it (esp Haruhi and Asahina). Really hard to describe.
In general it’s baffling to me how fake English dubs sound, especially because there clearly are a lot of talented English voice actors doing the voices for cartoons etc.
I have the privilege of comparing the English Dubs to the German ones for a lot of shows, and it’s really interesting how, while the German VAs sound distinctly different from the Japanese originals, they sound natural and not overacted, while the English counterparts almost always sound like they were told “make it sound as fake as possible”.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 3 days ago:
What this lovely person said.
Also, and maybe I am alone here, but when I said learning to write, I really meant with a pen, on paper (or a tablet, I guess), not through an app where you need to smush your fingers in approximately the right place for the line to snap to the correct position; that does not really translate to being able to write.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 3 days ago:
Me and my GF are currently doing this. Some recommendations from personal experience:
- Pimsleur is really nice for getting from 0 to being able to speak and understand some amount. It’s very much less overwhelming than jumping head-first into grammar. You can find torrents for it. It’s also a really good way to learn to listen to and speak Japanese out loud, something most other resources lack.
- everyone recommends Genki, and I concurr; it’s a good book series on grammar, with plenty exercises. Will really help filling in the gaps where you have gotten a feeling for things with Pimsleur, but are not able to grasp the underlying concepts intuitively.
- don’t shy away from Hiragana and Katakana. They are easy to learn (seriously, spend an afternoon on each and then do kana.pro for a week and never look back). Ignoring this will prevent you from using most learning resources.
- use Anki; again, everyone says this, because it’s true. You can download a pre-made pack for Genki. 10-15 cards a day are a good leisurely pace, allowing you to tackle a new chapter in Genki approximately every 7-10 days.
- don’t fall in the rabbithole of watching YouTube videos on learning Japanese. Just study instead. If there’s a concrete thing you struggle with, look for a Video on that topic. Most of the geberal advice videos seem to come from English-speaking folks for whom Japanese is their first foreign language (which is great! Don’t get me wrong!), and the resulting information ranges from obvious to questionable.
- decide if you want to learn Kanji (if you don’t know them anyways, given your stated experience). I’d recommend it. It’s actually quite fun, and if you want to watch Anime in Japanese, there’s a good chance you’ll have to use Japanese subs for a while to help along anyways…
- most people online seem to suggest only learning to read Kanji, because “you never need to handwrite things today anyways”. I call bullshit. It’s marginal additional effort, can actually help you with recognition, and if you ever end up needing / wanting to write by hand, you’d have to start all over otherwise.
Lastly, no, it is not a waste of time. Apart from anime, a new language means new ways of thinking, of challenging yourself, of being able to experience people and culture through a new lense, and potentially increasing job opportunities.
Plus if you ever end up visiting Japan, it really comes in handy.
Feel free to ask any followup things that I’ve forgotten about…
- Comment on I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop. 5 days ago:
Do not
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Do bots/scrapers check uncommon ports? 1 week ago:
TBH, it sounds like you have nothing to worry about then! Open ports aren’t really an issue in-and-on itself, they are problematic because the software listening on them might be vulnerable, and the (standard-) ports can provide knowledge about the nature pf the application, making it easier to target specific software with an exploit.
Since a bot has no way of finding out what services you are running, they could only attack caddy - which I’d put down as a negligible danger.
- Comment on Do bots/scrapers check uncommon ports? 1 week ago:
My ISP blocks incoming data to common ports unless you get a business account.
Oof, sorry, that sucks. I think you could still go the route I described though: For your domain
example.comand example servicemyservice, listen on port:12345and drop everything that isn’t requestingmyservice.example.com:12345. Then forward the matching requests to your services actual port, e.g.23456, which is closed to the internet. - Comment on Do bots/scrapers check uncommon ports? 1 week ago:
I am scratching my head here: why open up ports at all? It it just to avoid having to pay for a domain? The usual way to go about this is to only proxy 443 traffic to the intended host/vm/port based on the (sub) domain, and just drop everything else, including requests on 443 that do not match your subdomains.
Granted, there are some services actually requiring open ports, but the majority don’t (and you mention a webserver, where we’re definitely back to: why open anything beyond 443?).
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 1 week ago:
Client side, under advanced:
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 2 weeks ago:
That’s a setting
- Comment on oh cool 2 weeks ago:
ALright, thanks for the recommendation :) And yeah, “weird” and “metal” are good descriptions. Additionally, the backstory we got in S1 was definitely “fire”.
- Comment on oh cool 2 weeks ago:
I liked the first 80% of the first season, and stopped watching halfway into S02E01. Is it worth continuing? Do we get any answers? Are they satisfying?
- 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Using simple-nixos-mailserver as the foundation.
Really great experience, and have had no deliverability issues.
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- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
Piefuckers
- Comment on xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I miss the Be Like Bill memes
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 month 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) 1 month 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) 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Hey, thanks! It’s a photo I took almost a decode ago in New Zealand. Here’s a link.
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 1 month ago:
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? 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
Would passkeys solve your grievances for you?
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 month ago:
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