mbirth
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- Comment on 1 day ago:
Also: rss-bridge.org
- Comment on SearXNG doesn't load the settings ... 3 days ago:
Ah, gut zu wissen! Danke! :)
- Comment on Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 ... 3 days 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
anduwsgi.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
anduwsgi.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 5 days 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 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
NeoDB is Trakt.tv
- Comment on Why doesn't Ghost v6 include Fediverse commenting ? 1 week 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 weeks ago:
Yes, webtrees should fit that description.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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) 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address? 2 months ago:
There’s also FreeDNS. Their only ask is that you log into the account once every 6 months so they know you’re still using it.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 2 months ago:
That’s their servers being hammered at the moment.
- Comment on Zabbix in selfhosted env 2 months ago:
But can Prometheus + Grafana e.g. monitor a website’s content and alert when there is a new firmware version available?
Zabbix can be configured completely via its GUI. It’s really easy once you get the hang of it.
- Comment on Zabbix in selfhosted env 2 months ago:
I have this running on a Raspberry Pi 5:
services: db: image: postgres:16-alpine environment: - POSTGRES_USER=zabbix - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zabbix - PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data volumes: - /opt/docker/zabbix7/pgdata/16/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data networks: - zabbix7 restart: unless-stopped # fping needs setsuid # Connect to container as "root" and run: chmod +s /usr/sbin/fping server: image: zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest environment: - POSTGRES_USER=zabbix - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zabbix - PHP_TZ=Europe/London - ZBX_SERVER_NAME=zabbix.domain.com - ZBX_NODEADDRESS=zabbix-server:10051 cap_add: - NET_RAW - NET_ADMIN volumes: - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/alertscripts:/usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/externalscripts:/usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/mibs:/usr/lib/zabbix/mibs - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/modules:/usr/lib/zabbix/modules - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/export:/var/lib/zabbix/export - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/snmptraps:/var/lib/zabbix/snmptraps ports: - 10051:10051 depends_on: - db links: - "db:postgres-server" networks: - zabbix7 - traefik-public restart: unless-stopped web: image: zabbix/zabbix-web-nginx-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest restart: unless-stopped environment: - PHP_TZ=Europe/London - ZBX_SERVER_NAME=zabbix.domain.com - ZBX_SERVER_HOST=zabbix-server #ports: # - 10080:8080 # - 10081:443 depends_on: - server - db links: - "server:zabbix-server" - "db:postgres-server" networks: - zabbix7 - traefik-public labels: traefik.enable: "true" traefik.http.routers.zbx.rule: Host(`zabbix.domain.com`) traefik.http.routers.zbx.entrypoints: https traefik.http.routers.zbx.tls: "true" traefik.http.routers.zbx.tls.certresolver: le traefik.http.services.zbx.loadbalancer.server.port: "8080" networks: traefik-public: external: true zabbix7: attachable: true
- Comment on The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk 2 months ago:
Start your own instance, be the change you want to see in the world.
This right here is the beauty of the Fediverse. And as such, it’s not “The Fediverse” that’s a “Left Wing Circle Jerk”, it’s just the servers you’ve found so far.
- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 2 months ago:
Great, just make sure this never gets near some elevator control logic like in the movies “The Lift” (1983) or “The Shaft” aka. “Down” (2001).
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 months ago:
How do you think this will go down? Parents calling the ISP with “please unblock porn sites for me”? I see various things why this won’t work. From ISPs not wanting to increase the number of service calls over Apple’s Private WiFi MAC addresses to these kind of customers not even knowing how their devices appear on the router. Nah, completely unfeasible.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 months ago:
Your ISP doesn’t see which device accesses the Internet. They only see their router.
OTOH, most routers already have features to block websites for specific client devices. But good luck putting the onus on the parents to configure that properly.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 months ago:
Because it’s always a few fuckwits ruining it for the rest.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 months ago:
it should be built into your internet contract
This works fine with personal contracts like your mobile. (EE has a porn filter that you can disable in your account.)
But it doesn’t quite work for contracts that usually have multiple users. Like your home Internet. Because a child could connect to your WiFi and access that shmutz.