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- Comment on A bit of my selfhost journey [that no one asked about] 1 hour ago:
So your server is running NextCloud? I hope you have it locked down tight, with all it’s web ui access points.
I started out with by doing my own calendar.
Wasn’t the first thing for me, but the most consistent over time. Calendar and Contacts, synced between phone and laptop. I used first DaviCal, now Radicale.
The next move I did was to bring my todo list over.
AFAIK these are just CalDAV calendars labeled todo; all you need is a different client app, the server software is the same.
Only downsides is that it is a bit more strict (particularly on the mobile app) about an ssl cert.
Can you explain? Doing things encrypted by default is extremely important.
- Comment on Who is the world's foremost expert on human nervous system and relaxation? 1 hour ago:
Any type of “who’s the best” question is unlikely to succeed. Even if you have sports competitions to back you up. But with such a vaguely defined topic? Sorry.
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 hour ago:
What about Russian? Serious question; around here it was a relatively popular choice (we share a border with Russia) one or two decades ago, but I suspect this might have changed recently.
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 hour ago:
frankly a minor, tangential part of the OP
No, it wasn’t
with an essay
Hyperbole
it does come across as heavy-handed
No, it doesn’t. And what does that even mean? “I took your question seriously and attempt a serious answer” == “heavy-handed”? “I don’t agree with all your points” == “heavy-handed”? Seriously, what does “heavy-handed” even mean? It seems to imply aggression or abuse of power?
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 hour ago:
“challenge” (with an informative explanation) == “grill”
Thanks for clarifying which sort of internet user you are.
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 hour ago:
It’s a good question and I’m not dismissing you! But
As an American who grew up at a religious school in the 90s, we absolutely did not
that in itself is such an American thing to say. First the unspoken assumption that everybody understands what you mean by “religious”. And if I looked around here where I live I’m sure I could find a christian (which btw does not mean the same as in the US) school that teaches chinese. And probably even the leaders of such schools have never considered to separate languages into “christian” and “non-christian”.
The second half of your question seems a bit paranoid. Are you implying that every Chinese language class is secretly funded by the PRC? Are you afraid that your country might switch to Chinese at some point? Do you have a problem with English not being the No. 1 langauage, globally? I’m no friend of China’s political system, but this seems excessive.
- Comment on Should I apologize to this person? 1 day ago:
“It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done”
Something similar once happened to me, and I tried to contact her almost 10 years later, wanting to apologize, but never got an answer. She probably thought I was being creepy. I still have mixed feelings about this.
- Comment on Making Stinging Nettle Beer | Atomic Shtimp 2 days ago:
Thanks. I really didn’t want to search through 37 minutes for this statement.
I don’t mean to sound dismissive though; I’d love me some nettle beer with hops.
All that said, most leaves get more bitter as they grow, i.e. more towards the end of the season. Hmmm…
- Comment on Making Stinging Nettle Beer | Atomic Shtimp 2 days ago:
I am doubtful about this. Don’t get me wrong, I love the taste and aroma of stinging nettles, but neither seems a good replacement for hops. They’re not bitter, even a little sweet, and kinda nutty/umami.
I’d rather see nettles as an addition (not complete replacement) to the maltiness.
That said, lots of hop-less beers exist, whole traditions around it.
I haven’t tried of course, and the video probably cannot answer that question either - or can it?
- Comment on US man stages $1 bank robbery to get state healthcare (2011) 2 days ago:
(2011)
Well it shows that the bad state of the United States is nothing new; it’s just even worse now.
- Comment on Selling Surveillance as Convenience 2 days ago:
Important.
But news it is not, this has been the case ever since smartphones became a thing and probably before that too.
Surveillance & convenience have been packaged together right from the start. It’s the best way to get people to agree. Whoever designs these things created a false correlation between the two: you cannot have convenience without also having your data mined. Every schmuck who claims “I don’t care, I have nothing to hide” has swallowed this. Because if there was no advantage to being mined, they’d say “Why should I agree to that, I’m not stupid” instead.
- Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. 2 days ago:
The taste just isn’t the same.
- Comment on Saying "over" on the radio is like the null byte at the end of a string. 2 days ago:
passengersclients - Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. 2 days ago:
Off topic, but in Portugal was the first time me, a Central European, ever ate a ripe Papaya. Yum! Thanks to the Azores. The shit you get in the supermarkets round here is useless. Same for mangoes, usually.
- Comment on Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google – elilla & friends’ very occasional blog thing 2 days ago:
AI summary? 😲
- Comment on Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google – elilla & friends’ very occasional blog thing 2 days ago:
I remember 2007, when I got a gmail account and thought it was a much better alternative to whatever I had before.
Google used to nurture an image of being the “good one” among megacorps; they championed open standards (except when they didn’t), supported open source projects (until they backstabbed them), and used language that corporate wasn’t supposed to use, like “don’t be evil” (until they, infamously and in a true dark comedy move, retracted that motto).
my main job was to fix boring bugs on the Ruby on Rails internal user accounting system that someone else had developed. When I complained that this was a far cry from the academia-like, exciting research environment I had been promised, and asked to be assigned to a more challenging project, I was told the following rationale against it: “no”. Moreover the deadlines and expectations were such that even if I worked (unpaid) overtime every day, I was still was at risk of a performance review. Making actual use of the “20% time” felt like a pipe dream.
And all that with wages well below even the local market in our crumbling Third World economy.
Like most employees I blamed myself for not working hard enough to get good compensation—or to have time to exercise my right of 20% free time… Until I saw in the “Googlegeist” statistics that some 95% of employees never use their “20% time” at all, being trapped under the same pressures as I was.
When she dared bring it up, this was the reaction - and I know this scenario all too well though I never worked at Google:
The result of this was my boss having a fit over me “backstabbing” him. See, me complaining about the unfulfilled recruiter promises marked me as an Unhappy Googler. And Google, if you remember, was the Best Place To Work.
I said, “But the issue is real and not my fault, don’t you agree? I just used the data to bring it to attention. Didn’t you say we operate under ‘radical transparency’?” (I was young and believed in this kind of slogan. Yes, I was a sitting duck and didn’t stand a chance.)
Boss replied, “Radical transparency doesn’t mean you get to say negative things.”
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 2 days ago:
it’s all taxpayer money anyway
Good point.
- Comment on Saying "over" on the radio is like the null byte at the end of a string. 2 days ago:
Reminds me of some TV show where a rookie cop tended to forget that and the cop on the other end just stubbornly waited for an answer, every time.
Of course you can always just stop listening after n bytes, no need for a null byte then.
- Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. 2 days ago:
Assuming slrpnk stands for solar punk - that produces funny little theories in my mind about the server location.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 3 days ago:
Imagine paying for “Premium Lite”
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 4 days ago:
Reddit had a huge problem with moderators who banned without just cause
And they now have a huge problem with bots & admins who ban “without just cause”. Except to them it’s no problem at all, it’s the desired shift towards more “marketability” I guess.
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 4 days ago:
Yeah that paragraph really got me. Very far from what is actually going down on reddit these days.
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 4 days ago:
Most people don’t care about decentralization, they just want a place where everyone they disagree with is banned. That’s why the left LOVED twitter pre-musk buyout, and then hated it since. That’s why the right love truth social, cause there are no left people there. Now that reddit doesn’t allow just outright death threats and calls for violence against people they hate, the left who love it are now claiming it’s a “right leaning” platform and looking for other places.
You had me at first, but you lost me here. “reddit doesn’t allow just outright death threats and calls for violence” is not a correct description of what’s going on over there and consequently the rest of that sentence is nonsense, just like the one-dimensional politicizing.
Some of us just want a place with zero bans and where unless you break the law with your speech, zero censorship and moderation.
Sure, “some” certainly want that, but that’s not the point of the fedi/lemmiverse and you know it. You took a very loooong breath to get to this in the end, even making it political along the way. Some people will upvote you only because they didn’t take the time to finish reading.
Also - the law is different in different countries, and the fediverse is global. “Unless you break the law with your speech” really isn’t the point you think it is.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 4 days ago:
I personally don’t like their kitchen sink approach.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 4 days ago:
Thanks for the tip. Already set it up. I like it - does just what I need and not much more. And the web interface can be disabled.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 4 days ago:
I’m not sure how you’re having compatibility issues as I would think CalDAV is a standard protocol?
There used to be a mismatch between the spec and Google’s implementation of it.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 4 days ago:
It was mostly a mismatch between the spec and Google’s implementation of it.
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- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 4 days ago:
Dark Patterns is a broad term, but it’s also the worst aspect of commercialising “free” software/web services etc.
I hope the term is already part of whatever regulations the EU has there, and I hope this and similar complaints succeed.
- Comment on Fake It Till You Make It? Builder.ai’s $1.5B AI Scam Exposed 4 days ago:
The scandal serves as a stark reminder that whilst artificial intelligence continues advancing rapidly, human expertise remains irreplaceable in many complex technical domains—a lesson that Builder.ai learned through public humiliation rather than honest business practices.