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- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 1 day ago:
If you’re happy with how Apple Password works for you, I can recommend StrongBox. It keeps all data in a KeePass2 database and integrates into Apple’s AutoFill API. That means it feels almost native when using it. No browser plugin needed. (At least not for Safari.) And you can decide how you sync the database file.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
I prefer the term “sophisticated text completion”.
- Comment on Selfhosting DJ sets? (Soundcloud-style) 2 days ago:
Doesn’t get any more secure than a battle-tested web server hosting simple MP3 files and a text file.
Convenience might be a thing, though. I’m in the Apple ecosystem so their Podcasts app shows that feed on all devices and tracks listening progress, etc.
If I didn’t have that, I’m still a lifetime customer with PocketCasts and PocketCasts Web. So, that’s that. But if you don’t have anything similar in place, a self-hosted streaming server might be the best way to go, yes.
- Comment on Selfhosting DJ sets? (Soundcloud-style) 3 days ago:
Do you need a web player? I’ve got several years of a radio show on my web server and wrote a script that created an RSS feed for them. This way I can open that in any podcast player (even web based ones) to listen to it.
- Comment on Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why. 1 week ago:
but I didn’t use the word “flower”
Well, hopefully you’ve added an
ALTtext to the picture for all those visually challenged people out there - which then also helps search engines. - Comment on Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why. 2 weeks ago:
There’s also Marginalia if you’re looking for some rather traditional web search.
- Comment on Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks 2 weeks ago:
I’ve entered the serial number of my Germany-bought model and it said it’s not from the affected batch and safe to use.
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 2 weeks ago:
it’s rotting peoples critical thinking
@gork is this real?
- Comment on Ghost 6.0 releases next month with ActivityPub support 3 weeks ago:
At least WP is free, Ghost is as “free” until you find out its only useful with the rest of the payed platform. editorjs.io is much better in that sense.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 3 weeks ago:
Can you, though? Because I remember when DVB started in Europe, they’ve sent a signal during commercials that makes your device block the fast forward feature.
I don’t know whether that’s still a thing. But you needed a hacked firmware on your TV / set top box to allow to FFWD through commercials back then.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 3 weeks ago:
Same here. And I’m waiting for them to finally do it because it’ll free up so much of my time. I might start reading books again.
Also, it’s the last Google-service I’m using. So, banning me from it will allow me to finally delete my Google account.
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago:
It’s not lemmy.zip that’s blocked in the UK, they (lemmy.zip) block every visitor from the UK as they don’t want to get in trouble for violating the UK’s Online Safety Act.
- Comment on A WYSIWYG editor for personal website? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re on macOS, there’s blocs. It seems to pop up on BundleHunt for a fraction of their normal price every once in a while.
Then, there’s RapidWeaver Elements - which just went into Early Access.
However, you might want to evaluate whether a static site generator or some small CMS like GRAV can work for you.
- Comment on Mastodon.social shadowbanned me and there's no way to contact anyone about it 4 weeks ago:
IMHO, it’s one thing if you want to limit everything from there on your instance and on your own will, but a completely different thing for them to basically secretly ban you from their whole instance just because one single person on there felt offended and reported you. There surely must be something in between doing nothing and this sitewide shadowban.
- Comment on Mastodon.social shadowbanned me and there's no way to contact anyone about it 4 weeks ago:
That slogan was originally coined in 1848 by King Ludwig I. But as with many things, the nazis severely tainted it. (Even though it was used by the socialist party after WWII, too.)
There’s a whole German Wikipedia article about this.
- Comment on Mastodon.social shadowbanned me and there's no way to contact anyone about it 4 weeks ago:
The VS is completely independent.
§7 BVerfSchG:
Die Bundesregierung kann, wenn ein Angriff auf die verfassungsmäßige Ordnung des Bundes erfolgt, den obersten Landesbehörden die für die Zusammenarbeit der Länder mit dem Bund auf dem Gebiete des Verfassungsschutzes erforderlichen Weisungen erteilen.
or in English:
The federal government can, if there is an attack on the constitutional order of the Federation, give necessary orders to the highest Federal State authorities for working together with the Federation in terms of protection of the constitution.
- Comment on Mastodon.social shadowbanned me and there's no way to contact anyone about it 4 weeks ago:
Just for transparency: The first link is the “old” report from 2021 which was public IIRC. The partA/partB links seem to point to the newer one - clearly showing the “VS - NUR FÜR DEN DIENSTGEBRAUCH” (“Verschlusssache” - confidential, official use only) at the top.
- Comment on Mastodon.social shadowbanned me and there's no way to contact anyone about it 4 weeks ago:
Keyword: supposedly
Because that’s what it said in the report my instance has received. Somebody on the moderation team made the same mental gymnastics you did. Just because I’ve questioned the stated conclusion of a report that was kept secret from the public. Nothing else. Nowhere did I say that I support that party. I just don’t like blindly trusting what politicians (and their government institutions) announce without giving any challengeable proof.
Their status as extremist as per that report mentioned in my toot has been revoked/put on hold until a proper court case: German news article
If it was as crystal clear as you make it out, why revoke it?
(These days, the constitutional courts of all the states try to get that status reinstated in their respective states. But that wasn’t a thing back when I did this toot.)
- Comment on Mastodon.social shadowbanned me and there's no way to contact anyone about it 4 weeks ago:
They claim “usually within 24 hours”. 2 days later I still have no reply. But yeah, I might try the follow-up email… although I don’t have much confidence that it’ll do anything. It’s more important that people get to know the risks of these huge monolithic instances.
- Comment on Mastodon.social shadowbanned me and there's no way to contact anyone about it 4 weeks ago:
These are quite some mental gymnastics going from my toot:
Oh, did he? He just stood there and claimed something. There was supposedly a great report with all the hard facts, but no one was allowed to see it. That’s not much different from “Yes, I did my homework, but then my dog ate it.”
(Correctly translated, btw.)
to:
3: […] Support for violent groups or events is prohibited.
Wow! Just wow! You should sign up as a moderator on mastodon.social. You’d fit right in.
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- Comment on Apple’s Smart Glasses Expected to Hit the Market by Late Next Year! 4 weeks ago:
The glasses will include cameras, microphones, and speakers for real-time interaction, allowing users to make calls, get directions, enjoy music, and benefit from live translations.
I can do all that with my AirPods already. What would I need those glasses for?
Despite “AR” features being absent, do they at least have a simple display in them - similar to the Even Realities G1?
- Comment on Apple’s Smart Glasses Expected to Hit the Market by Late Next Year! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I can’t imagine they do this single piece of glass approach they came up with in those designs…
- Comment on Wifi Portal 4 weeks ago:
Same here. It’s probably easier to print out the QR code(s) for your home wifi network(s) on a piece of paper and hand that to guests when they come over…
- Comment on Autonomes Fahren: Lidar kann Smartphone-Kameras schwer beschädigen 5 weeks ago:
It was exactly this and people were furiously pointing it out in the comments.
- Comment on Autonomes Fahren: Lidar kann Smartphone-Kameras schwer beschädigen 5 weeks ago:
No, the LIDAR is an infrared laser. Invisible and harmless to the human eye, but a phone’s camera can pick it up. And due to the intensity, if going too close, it’ll burn out the pixels of the camera sensor leaving permanent damage.
Here’s a great demonstration: x.com/niccruzpatane/status/1924485047580586294
- Comment on Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark 5 weeks ago:
You mean cyclists?
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 5 weeks ago:
Why do you prefer Discord? What do I miss?
I’ve had a discussion with someone about this. Apparently, there are people that enjoy the social contact. Some seem to like sitting in a Discord chat all day long and answering the same questions over and over again. Others like to “just ask” someone instead of looking for a solution themselves.
That there’s no clear structure of all the solutions provided via Discord and thus people have to ask the same things, nor a proper way of backing everything up in case Discord goes rogue seems to be blissfully ignored.
It’s probably part of the same phenomenon that, nowadays, people seem unable to write or read a few lines of documentation and instead create/watch 20 minutes on YouTube.
- Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 5 weeks ago:
At least in Germany you vote for parties. These parties then create coalitions which water down most of the reasons why they were elected in the first place.
The guy in the EU council is supposed to be the highest leader of each country. In Germany that’s the Chancellor. Which is elected by those parties/coalitions. You as a normal person have no say in who it’s going to be.
Same for the EU commission. You have no real influence on who’s going.
Then those parties/coalitions create lists of candidates for becoming MEPs. You vote for those lists. There’s no way to vote for specific people to go to the EU parliament. And those lists are basically suggestions as people can be crossed out or exchanged on those lists even after the elections are over.
- Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 5 weeks ago:
Nobody voted for the people sitting in lovely Brussels and making decisions that impact all member countries in all their different situations. It was good when it was still the EEC and meant to improve trading between member countries. And trading only. How we ended up with this monster of EU trying to dictate things like you can’t sell cucumbers which are curved more than X degrees, or banning incandescent and halogen light bulbs, and stuff like that… I don’t know. But I don’t like it.