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- Comment on Recommended email providers? 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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? 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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) 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
The point is, if the certificate gets stolen, there’s no GOOD mechanism for marking it bad.
That’s what OCSP is for. Only Google isn’t playing along as per that wiki entry.
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 2 weeks ago:
Settings --> Posts --> Interaction Bar
Then remove the combined up/down thingy and add the separate up and down chips. They show separate numbers.
Then do the same thing under Settings --> Comments --> Interaction Bar.
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 2 weeks ago:
Mlem - replaced Voyager for me.
- Comment on Family Email w/ Custom Domain 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 3 weeks ago:
But will they continue to moderate content by German leftist standards?
- Comment on Portable KVM for console access 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan 4 weeks 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 4 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? 5 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? 1 month ago:
Have you checked your parental controls?
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Works for me. EE Mobile in London.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 1 month ago:
They’ll probably make “Maps+” soon after.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Also: rss-bridge.org
- Comment on SearXNG doesn't load the settings ... 2 months ago:
Ah, gut zu wissen! Danke! :)
- Comment on Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo 2 months ago:
They don’t need to be on it to follow. Every Pixelfed account also has an RSS feed.
