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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But if they’re doing it half-assed as most services, it won’t be a challenge for AI to generate random IDs and a matching avatar for photo/video verification. The only way this could work is if they’d verify your ID by reading the NFC chip inside the passport or ID card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make the Wordpress media library be somewhere else?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A hacky solution would be to copy all images into a directory on the other server and sshfs-mount that to where WordPress expects it on the current server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I would have preferred the BlackBerry Classic style of keyboard because I think it looks cooler, I must admit I didn’t have any issues with the keys, their clickiness or finding them blindly. The keyboard types really awesome.

  My main issue is the muscle memory from my BlackBerry days which had the Shift key at the bottom where the Clicks has the 123 key. But that’s getting better the more often I use the Clicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve bought the Clicks keyboard for my iPhone 16 but was unhappy with it being a huge brick while in that case. And the effort to swap cases often keeps me from using it.

  Looks like they’ve heard my prayers because they’re now releasing a MagSafe+Bluetooth slider keyboard - which also brings a small power boost. I hope this is going to be as good as it sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a new registrar/name server for .at⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  INWX seems to offer .at Domains as well as an API.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed 1.5 is released - move posts, upload video files, better chat and more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  poison the pool for LLMs

  This is the correct answer. Some people wanted to try making the þ show up in future LLM answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This probably won’t help you much, but Apple Mail has this feature regardless of the server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you’ve edited and then deleted all your comments before closing the account? There are nice scripts for that and it’ll devalue Reddit if there’s less useful information on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenWRT router⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out GL.iNet products. They’re all based on OpenWrt with a more beginner-friendly GUI on top. (LuCi can be installed via a few clicks.) And very affordable. Some can be flashed to vanilla OpenWrt as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did it for a while but my system was constantly busy and there was this controversy about the image cache and possible CSAM which then prompted me to switch to using the flagship instance. Haven’t tried any of the alternatives, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reitti v3.1.0: A year of self-hosting my location history (1.1k stars and 46 releases later)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This GitHub and the README in there say otherwise. Also the fact that I’ve got it running locally. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reitti v3.1.0: A year of self-hosting my location history (1.1k stars and 46 releases later)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does it compare to DaWarIch which seems to be basically the same?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. Once in a while I update the config with all the changed engines. But that’s about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that wireless CarPlay works via WiFi. And your car only has 1 wifi module. So, it’s either providing a hotspot or wireless CarPlay. You could try whether it makes a difference connecting your phone via cable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a website where you can test if your private key is leaked inspired by haveibeenpwned⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “You have 20 seconds to comply.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could add the podcast to NeoDB and link there. While the item pages aren’t properly federated, all the user comments and ratings are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommended email providers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a so-called “Asteroid” with UberSpace. You just have to bring your own domain and configure DNS to use their servers. Unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases, Sieve scripts … and SSH access.

  Apart from that, I’ve got a free account with disroot for emergencies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Items are tracked using IDs. But if a movie was imported from Douban, NeoDB only knows the Douban ID. Same with IMDb. However, since TheMovieDB records often have IMDb IDs as well, it’ll import both identifiers if you import from there.

  And there’s a feature to merge duplicate imports into one. This will make that resulting record available under all the different IDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, whenever you mark a movie or an episode as “to watch”, “watching” or “watched”, this gets published like a Mastodon post. You also have the option to automatically retoot this from your main Mastodon account. Others can follow you from Mastodon and react to your events. (For some reason, they don’t properly show up here, though.) And, of course, it all shows up for other users on NeoDB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can always join one of the mainly English instances like Eggplant.place or ReviewDB or host your own. But as long as the majority of NeoDB.social users are Chinese, the dominant language there won’t change.

  OTOH it’s easy to use the API - so, instead of doing it manually, I’m tempted to write a small tool that you can throw a link to a movie or show at and it’ll change all Chinese actor names to their English counterparts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Changing to Openwrt router made my Homelab slower. Could you help me dissect the issue?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried it with the original GL.iNet firmware? There might be some optimisations in there that are missing from plain OpenWrt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To quote myself:

  There’s just one little quirk: since this app started out in China, many actors show up with their Chinese names - but can be easily edited to their English names.

  The author of the app is Chinese (but speaks English, too).

  The actors get imported upon the very first import of a movie/show. And when a movie is imported from Douban first, the actors will all show up with their Chinese transliterations. If you import a new movie from TheMovieDB, they’ll show up with their English names. But as mentioned above, you can edit the names - which is what I usually do for US-movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  After Trakt changed to a subscription, I’ve went with NeoDB. This is a federated network, so you can also host it yourself if you like. All entries there can be published into the Fediverse, too. It tracks movies, shows, books, and games. And it automatically imports from IMDb, TheMovieDB, Amazon, Steam, and many more. There’s just one little quirk: since this app started out in China, many actors show up with their Chinese names - but can be easily edited to their English names.

  There’s also eggplant.place which is the development build of NeoDB and might be unstable but has more English content.

  @mbirth@neodb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get followers on mastodon (or any other non-thread social media)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apart from the stuff already mentioned, never stop shouting into the void about stuff that interests you or projects you’re working on. Add a few relevant hashtags so your toots can be discovered. It may take a while, but people will come. Don’t give up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe Infuse has Jellyfin support on Apple TV. But they want like £100 for a lifetime license or £2 a month / £13 a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s Encrypt is. But tools to keep 100s of certificates up to date sometimes are not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tuvix - Self-Hosted RSS Aggregator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d still like some algorithm in my RSS aggregator. One, that detects articles talking about the same thing and groups them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then there’s the older way of checking CRLs which any tool of the past few decades should support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of companies that still call themself “startup” even after several years with a successful product. Just so they can rip employees off with low base pay and unpaid overtime because “we’re a startup”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure it’s the SSL seller lobby just wanting more money, tbh. Selling snake oil security.

  And selling “certificate automation” tools.