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YNH ease of installation for everything is unrivaled, but upgrades even of popular apps such as Synapse broke on me repeatedly, backups didn’t want to restore, and my domain with it kept getting banned by Google Safe Browsing without explanation (fuck Google, but I didn’t have much success getting “normal” users to share that view). Other servers with manually written docker-compose files caused much less friction.

If needed, I can make Yoself show recent RSS from Mastodon

Added tonight, ^1.1.0 on npm. Set another INCIDENT=https://example.org/@mastodon.rss environment variable for it to work. Looks like text + date link at the top of the page. Fetches once every 10 minutes; shows toots from last 48h in static html. No demo for this feature because I don’t currently have an incident history account.

Same. Would be cool if Nextcloud could also act as a LDAP server for apps that don’t support OIDC.

I can make a Docker image, like the one I made for Lanquiz. It’s not high on my to do list, though. Before that, I want to update integration tests (working draft still not committed), and store data under system-specific paths not in repo subdirectories (breaking change).

Yep) My program for that purpose: https://codeberg.org/nykula/imgie - resurrected three months ago because another person on PieFed reminded me of it. Should just work. Ping me if it doesn’t.

Agreed that QR codes should be accompanied by text links for accessibility, because many times the scanning fails due to bad light, old camera or shaky hands.

Syncthing. I connect both devices to same Wi-Fi, copy a file to a shared directory, and wait a minute.

Depends on how they’re organized. If they’re accountable to their community, organized with as little hierarchy as possible, and have rotation of leadership while filling its roles from the members, they’re good. But it’s very rare. If the heads are appointed top-down by the government or self-selected, which is more common, there arise same issues as with companies.

NGOs advertising themselves as offering legal help to vulnerable people promise help and later do nothing but saying in the media how helpful they are, or refuse said help. Playing bureaucratic football when the person is question is member of multiple vulnerable groups: why you go here for help, go there. Other NGOs trying to take control of grassroots youth movements after offering to help with some resources. More NGOs serving as PR vehicles of their solo leaders while pretending to advance human rights. Names: Insight, KyivPride, LGBT Military, EcoAction, many of them tbh, because it’s all the same “community”.

Regarding government entities, there are constant attempts, for years, by state companies providing water, to write generated or fake values for previous month so that you can’t report correct lower values and have to pay more. Do we consider police a government entity? Haven’t helped a single time, but harassed more than once.

About Reddit, I haven’t used it much and I can’t say anything about it besides it not very interesting. Lemmy developers are notorious assholes when it comes to anything about my country, so I’m not trying to promote it. I use other fedi tech because I like it and contribute.

Nonprofits and government entities are just as happy to fuck you over, in my and relatives’ experience.

Basically you give it a directory with a few thousand randomly named meme images, and it asks a model to generate descriptions for each of them, that you can later search? Sounds useful.

YunoHost application is here: https://apps.yunohost.org/app/languagetool

Docs for installing LanguageTool manually are here: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server - version 20260528 works on Debian 13 under WSL, needs openjdk-25-jre-headless and the --public option. The extension settings have a localhost option, I didn’t have to change anything else.

Note that premium as of today costs $2.50 per month if you pay for two years in advance. Running LanguageTool on a laptop isn’t very fast for languages other than English, so paying them for the cloud might provide a better experience than self-hosting.

Have you tried adding Tor hidden services? It was the easiest solution for me to expose ports from behind the provider’s NAT to my phone when not at home.