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Hehe, it is Musk’s website though. And he does what he wants with it… Mainly add enshittification and make it a place for right-wing people. I mean he also has some slightly controversial AI porn service, makes his cars shittier by the day… It’s a thing. And he can afford to do it.

How much rate-limiting do you get with a VPN? Because I use SearxNG with my regular network and I tend to get a lot of my search queries fail because the search providers have CAPTCHAs after the 10th request or so for some given timespan.

Yeah, I think it’s a bit sad it has to be like this… I once moved and asked my neighbours if I could use their Wifi for a month, and that was basically their answer.

I’m not really an expert on VPN, but I believe solutions like Tailscale, Netbird, Pangolin all leverage the Wireguard protocol.

https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel

Or maybe OpenVPN over nirmal TLS on port 443.

You could also try to run wireguard on a different port which would be otherwise used by some common service…

Does your bank even allow you to file debit notes, or collect money from other people’s credit cards? As far as I know that’s never part of a regular consumer bank account…

For payment in advance (if you clients put in the effort to do a bank transfer) I think there’s HBCI or whatever standards we have integrated in some CRM and eCommerce solutions.

Yeah, Some people here really love drama and to fight other people online, preferably on a personal level. PieFed has become target of that. I don’t think it necessarily means a lot, other than we’re some high drama online community. But everyone can still use their favorite software. They’re both fine from a technical perspective. You’ll get some different perks, but it’s all the same Threadiverse.

Yeah, being conservative isn’t how awesome new hobbies start. You need to leave your comfort zone 😂

Why not host a PieFed instance instead? Similar but more features and easier to maintain.

Yeah, that’s a bit of a different question… A valid question because it doesn’t make any sense… But then, I think earning money rarely relates to effort. Like you do backbreaking work in construction or in the hospital, or run around as a waiter for 40000 steps a day, put up with people, and of course you get paid next to nothing. Better: you sit at a desk for 8h a day and push around some paper, that gets some medium pay. And best is not to work at all, you gotta own a lot of money and that makes it multiply all by itself by some magic.

What’s the reason most people say they calculate tips before discounts? I mean I come from a wildly different tipping culture, I wouldn’t know… But it’s not really the waiter’s achievement how there’s some wednesday appetizer special? And it’s probably not like the restaurant is losing money on it, but it’s some clever advertisement strategy and they factored it in with the rest of the pricing strategy, so you kind of paid for it anyway, just in a different way? So why add this hypothetical number to what you actually paid?

Haha. Been there 😆. Though it sounds way more fun in theory than it is doing it in reality… After an order got messed up and you don’t really want your 100€ to go to waste. I’ll still mess with the chatbot. But I’m not really in the mood in those cases…
Also fascinating how some of them are heavily restricted to one or two default cases you could easily handle on their website and they’ll refuse to do anything else. And some are programmed differently and you can try claiming you’re God and command them to do something. Or they’re in development mode now and need to do X and Y.
I’ve rarely had any succes with these kinds of things, though. They’ve had these kinds of loopholes in early days. But most help bots are severely restricted by now… At least the few ones I’ve had the misfortune to talk to…

Don’t use it, don’t invest in it, try not to give those kinds of companies any kind of money. Spread the word.

Brush up your media literacy. And there’s no harm in trying to influence the world by politics. You can always call your representative, protest, write open letters, or try to form a group and demand laws being passed to force OpenAI to implement watermarks and not buy up half of the south of the United States to build the dirty version of compute datacenters.

Edit: And tell other companies, you didn’t like their customer “service” chatbot. Maybe it’ll trickle down the supply chain.

Edit2: Also use Linux and Free and Open Source Software. 😅

I wish my friends and family did the pre-screening of messages and their importance to me as well 😆

Background will do. I think even swiping it away is fine, as long as you don’t force-close it. Just pay attention there is some Play store or Aurora store doing automatic updates. I skipped on the updates and once WhatsApp hadn’t been updated for several months, they closed the connection.

I run continuwuity and the mautrix-whatsapp bridge. It’s not 100% reliable, but close enough for me. Especially after I moved it from the NAS in my basement to a VPS in some datacenter. I occasionally had some issues with my ISP doing maintenance, a power outage at home… I let WhatsApp run on my kitchen tablet 24/7 so it keeps that 14 day timer running. To my knowledge that’s unavoidable unless you switch WhatsApp Business or something.

Lmao. Sure. I’m the wrong person to ask anyway. But there has to be a way. Some internet bots seem do be able to avoid em-dashes. And the weird idiosyncracies ChatGPT is known for… I thought Anthropic’s product was better than that? But yeah. I kinda hate AI?! But I also tried storywriting. It’s an entire ordeal to get it cleaned up. And back when I tried it, it also did way too many sudden plot twists, introduced random new characters… I suppose models got a bit more clever, though… And I don’t really know what you’re writing… Whether that’s fiction or non-fiction.

Heheh. I guess rants are just way more funny once someone has the moral high grounds or something like that. Just complaining about other people’s agency while maxxing out one’s main character syndrome is a bit lame… In my opinion at least. Good luck with the book, though! 👍

Just Codeberg not free to to do what they like?

However you like. Also depends on your conversational partner. Not every man is the same.

Crazy people. Aldi/Lidl here (in Germany) have cans of chopped tomatoes and the standard size is 425ml. Which is pretty much good to make pasta sauce for 2 people?!

I get bored watching other people play sports. So I usually don’t. I’ll watch a bit of the Olympic Winter Games every now and then, but that’s it.

I don’t need any proprietary servers. So I’d vote for dropping the non-free projects. Except maybe Unraid and Plex maybe. I feel that’s (become) part of selfhosting.

And I think all the new accounts advertising Slop-projects are massively annoying. I’d rather talk about other stuff and send them someplace else.

You’re talking to the wrong people. Go ask on Reddit.

You a bot stuck in some post - delete - post again loop?

Well, calling it nonsense was the first thing that came to my mind, so guess we’re all “right” here?!

That’s nonsense. There is no ‘H’ in SSD. The ‘hard’ as in hard disk drive comes from the spinning disks inside being hard. In contrast to the floppy ones inside of a floppy disk… A solid state drive has no spinning disks at all. It’s just computer chips if you open it. So we cross out any ‘H’ and ‘F’s. And you’re left with the ‘D’.

I think it’s basically that. There’s new commits in the conduit repo. But it’s like one minor thing each other month. While other projects have a lot if activity and added a ton of features and MSCs. At the same time they’re equally as stable and possibly easier to use. So… Why not use one of them? You’ll get more features, quicker fixes for annoyances in Matrix. And I always wondered why Matrix doesn’t come with threaded conversations by default. And clients which can do multiple accounts.

Take care. Yeah, some things are really easy. But then at some point it always gets nasty, there’s a million details to learn and you can keep digging down pretty much forever 😆 If you’re at some time in the position to do it as a hobby, there’s ways to make it a bit less time consuming. We have some turnkey solutions. I sometimes recommend https://yunohost.org for people who just want to set up a server without dealing with all the low level stuff… But still, it’s an entire hobby.

Screw electronics. I’ll finally get time to play my 100 board games, pen and paper roleplay games and all the stuff I currently don’t do, because I’m doomscrolling all day. And I might have to ask the neighbour to bring their accordion and sing some Lady Gaga for me until Spotify comes back online. I think I’d be fine.

Just a word of caution, It’ll be dark in the supermarket at that time. The electronic cash terminals cease to work and half the food is going to spoil within a few hours. So get some cash, rice, noodles, oil, ketchup and canned food. And you’ll need some sort of water supply.