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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But this can be used as an argument for the OS to provide a simple and anonymous “yes, this user is an adult” flag instead of having to scan your face or ID on each and every website or for every browser app.

  Also, Apple is doing TV, Music, Podcasts, so they probably need the age check for one of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mastodon.social has some serious hickups today (and lately)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is your sign to find a smaller instance and support that one instead. Or, maybe even go the selfhosting route and setup a GotoSocial instance for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Do you have natural freckles or did you use that shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype again?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are not a Gitea customer, you are not being informed of security updates in a timely manner

  I don’t need a notification of issues, I need a notification of when there’s a new version to roll out. And that can be solved by using things like WatchTower or setting up release notifications on GitHub.

  And, of course, a comparison hosted on ForgeJo’s webpage will make it out that they’re “the better choice”.

  Also, ForgeJo was promising federation which is still a WIP several years later.

  Oh no, it doesn’t do the big feature™. I guess it’s unusable now.

  Well, that was the one big distinguishing thing between the two, back when ForgeJo was the new kid on the block. ForgeJo wanted to make it a priority to implement federation.

  And I never said it’s unusable - it’s just that I, personally, don’t see any reason to switch from Gitea to ForgeJo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m staying with Gitea. They’ve created the Ltd. so they can sell professional support as most businesses will want a proper invoice. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Also, ForgeJo was promising federation which is still a WIP several years later. And, the one time I’ve tried ForgeJo it shit itself when I’ve added an emoji to my username. For some reason Gitea didn’t have any problem with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the F⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It works in both directions. I’ve been shadowbanned from mastodon.social because one user misinterpreted my comment about something political (related to Germany), reported me and apparently their (German) mod was either lazy or followed the same misinterpretation and shadowbanned me - for life.

  And there’s no way to object this as their support only answers to members. Which I am not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and an especially fun fact is that people with high-end equipment prefer MP3 over lossless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But did they use oxygen-free copper (OFC) wire? Because otherwise the results are skewed as regular copper sounds just as bad as a banana stuck in wet mud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed.social and gram.social abnormalities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Posts can also get synced if someone from gram.social searched for a direct link to a post. E.g. if you go to gram.social and search for https://pixelfed.social/p/pixuser/1234, it’ll get synced in the background and show up if you follow @pixuser later on. (Depending on how long the instance caches it.)

  Likes and Reshares of external posts are local to their instance. Those won’t get sent to other instances. E.g. on my private GotoSocial I don’t see the correct amount of likes or reshares of posts from other instances. I’ll have to visit the posts on their original instance for that. (But then, I rarely care.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed.social and gram.social abnormalities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fediverse works like newsletters via email. If you search for an account on a different server, only the last few items are (sometimes) pulled and shown on your local instance. Only after subscribing/following that other account, you’ll get new(!) updates sent to your local server. For older messages, you’ll have to visit the other account’s server.

  Maybe those 2 photos you see were shared with gram.social earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup restoration and migration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For #1 a quick search spat out this.

  For #2 have a look into XPenlogy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be confused with the original Web Intents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re doing test rides already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many containers are you all running?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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  64 containers in total, 60 running - the remaining 4 are Watchtowers that I run manually whenever I feel like it (and have time to fix things if something should break).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “You have 20 seconds to comply.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.