mbirth

@mbirth@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Family Email w/ Custom Domain⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Disroot allows domain linking after a donation. But only 1GB storage on the otherwise free tier.

  I personally use Uberspace who offer 10GB storage, managed server with SSH access and unlimited email addresses and aliases for 6€/month. (Can be lowered to 2€ if you have a reason.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But will they continue to moderate content by German leftist standards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portable KVM for console access⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  GL.iNet also has a KVM now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a better SD card. I’ve used my various Raspberrys with SD cards for years without any issues. The only single incident I’ve had was a card turning read-only. Which I’ve only noticed because system updates were gone after a reboot. But all the main data was still there and accessible. And a simple clone to a new card followed by fsck restored full functionality in the Pi again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But what do you do with your Passkey in your password manager if you have to login on another device (you don’t own)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m running a local SearXNG which still provides usable results. I don’t see the point in paying for what’s basically a smart phone book. If everything fails, I’m going full #oldweb and use #webrings or some of those retro lists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you checked your parental controls?

  www.virginmedia.com/help/…/parental-controls

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check whether your provider enabled some kind of adult content filter or something like that. Maybe archive.org ended up the blocklist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Works for me. EE Mobile in London.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll probably make “Maps+” soon after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also: rss-bridge.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SearXNG doesn't load the settings ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, gut zu wissen! Danke! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t need to be on it to follow. Every Pixelfed account also has an RSS feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you should make a few Instagram posts about Pixelfed to teach them… 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy they do have Internet, don’t they? It’s just a website. You share your photos, they can click on the link to see them. And even then: Pixelfed can be added to your home screen as a PWA. 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SearXNG doesn't load the settings ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The important bit is -v /opt/podman/searxng/config:/etc/searxng:Z in the podman call. This will mount your local directory (i.e. on the host the container is running on) /opt/podman/searxng/config into the container as /etc/searxng (which is where SearXNG is searching for its config). Make sure that the local directory exists and is writeable by your user account before starting the container. This way your config will persist even when the container gets replaced by an updated version.

  IIRC, after running the container for the first time, SearXNG should put a settings.yml and uwsgi.ini there. You can edit them and restart the container for the changes to take.

  On later container updates, SearXNG will put the latest versions of the default configs as settings.yml.new and uwsgi.ini.new. This way it doesn’t overwrite your config and allows you to manually merge the new defaults into your running config. (If you only see the *.new files after starting the container for the first time, rename them and remove the .new part.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  News Explorer on macOS, iOS and ipadOS. Syncs everything, so whatever device you pick up, you can continue reading where you left off. Also supports following people on Mastodon and YouTube channels via RSS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only good thing is that Apple isn’t supposed to mention that TCN to the public or acknowledge its existence at all. So, they are leaving people that have the Advanced Protection turned on alone as they don’t have a way of explaining a reason to turn it off. So far at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to manage docker compose apps?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can Dockge manage/cleanup unused images and containers by now? That’s the only reason I keep using Portainer - because it can show all the other stuff and lets me free up space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As Plume isn’t maintained anymore, there are also a few ActivityPub plugins for WordPress which work very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  NeoDB is Trakt.tv

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Ghost v6 include Fediverse commenting ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because

  A) Solving Captchas isn’t protecting from abuse/spam anymore. People in countries with cheap labour costs are being paid (or forced) to solve these for spam networks. And nowadays, LLMs can solve them almost better than any human. Manual approval is completely infeasible once you have a somewhat larger following.

  Tying comments to some form of account is at least somewhat of a hurdle for spammers.

  and

  B) Some people want to keep ownership of their data. As long as the comment is tied to my account, I can easily find, edit or even delete it. Try that with some comment you made on some obscure blog 5 years ago; which address you don’t remember and with an email address you no longer have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted family archive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, webtrees should fit that description.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who always had some kind of PDA (CASIO digital diary, Palm, Compaq iPaq) and switched onto the smartphone bandwagon pretty early (SonyEricsson P800/P910i, Qtek 9000, various Androids and various iPhones) … I don’t think I could enjoy the experience with a dumb phone. I love modern technology too much.

  I once had a colleague that religiously only used a Nokia 3210 (the newer 3G/4G model). Which meant 160 character messages only. No emojis, no photos (as MMS were expensive). He was also the kind of person to use paper maps when driving - incl. stopping to look for alternative routes if some road was blocked or jammed. That’s definitely not for me.

  The only way this could work for me would be to have some small PDA that can connect to the phone to use the Internet. And I appreciate that both devices have been merged into smartphones at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ion Fury just felt wrong to me. Looks and feels like Duke3D, but isn’t. And it’s somehow missing some of that character from back in the days. Hard to explain. I’d rather recommend Shadow Warrior Classic (or the Redux Version) which also uses the Build engine, came out shortly after Duke3D and has some great humour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam users in the UK will need a credit card to access “mature content” games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, you’re right. Just checked my account again and I now see this message:

  Under the UK Online Safety Act, Valve is required to verify that you are 18 or older before accessing mature sexual content. If you wish to do so, please add a valid UK credit card to your account and afterwards update the Mature Content Preferences.

  That wasn’t there a few hours ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam users in the UK will need a credit card to access “mature content” games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an US-based news article. They don’t know the difference between credit and debit cards. Debit cards will work, too. (As per this article.) And you basically get them thrown at you with any bank account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There were ads! But these were simple banner graphics of 468x60 pixels. In the worst case it was an animated GIF. But hosted on the same server as the page and without any tracking shenanigans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, back in the days the early bird price was $169 and MSRP was supposed to be $199. And now we’re looking at $225 pre-order price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ham and bacon sold in Tesco and M&S found to contain cancer-causing chemicals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly season?

  However, the analysis, commissioned by the Coalition Against Nitrites and undertaken by Food Science Fusion and the laboratory experts Rejuvetech, found the levels of nitrites in all 21 products were well below the 150mg/kg legal limit.