density
@density@kbin.social
- Comment on Webmail client with decent search and large mailbox support? 8 months ago:
for myself I find the existing android clients far from adequate. if you have filters, folders, identities etc it is a fuck tonne of set up. last time i tried i just gave up.
- Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash 8 months ago:
rss
- Comment on are people still all riled up about beehaw? 8 months ago:
actually what you said was
any opinion
it's not a crime. but you know lemmy isn't a court of law right? you sound like an asshole.
whether it deserves a ban I guess that depends on the context.
- Comment on are people still all riled up about beehaw? 8 months ago:
sorry but that's like the dumbest thing anyone ever said. have you heard of intagram facebook tiktok linkedin grindr tindr and every other APP
- Comment on are people still all riled up about beehaw? 8 months ago:
it's like going to a party and then just hanging out in the kitchen. or spending the whole night out on the porch smokin cigs.
madness
- Submitted 9 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 79 comments
- Comment on Proposal for GitLab to support ActivityPub 9 months ago:
well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.
If this isn't Github already, what is?
- Comment on What software does Internet Archive run? 9 months ago:
a network between networks to make them more resilient i think you've just invented the arpanet?.
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
It seems that hourly rates of german lawyers are €100 to €500 which is about what I would expect. Even a few hours of time is a lot. To explain the case, have the lawyer or their designate review it, prepare for a case and show up to court is many hours at a minimum. Even if it is a simple matter.
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
it isn’t known which side is in the right
vs
If the defendent is obviously in the right
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
But the defendant still has to put the funds up in the first place? It's a huge gamble and most people don't even have the ante available.
Is there anywhere in the world that has a robust and comprehensive public funding for legal entanglements of all types?
- Comment on What is going on with Kbin 9 months ago:
According to https://fedidb.org/software/kbin there are a grand total of 29 active kbin servers. Of 61,489 users on all instances, 59,962 of these are on kbin.social. Monthly active users being 4,775/4,938
kbin.social, as you are aware, is owned and run by @earnest.
In other words I am not sure who you are addressing here. >99% of kbin users are on a single server which has little chance of switching to mbin.
Why don't you just go and enjoy the platform of your choice? This performative misery is so strange.
- Comment on pooling media libraries - like distributed storage 10 months ago:
tell me why i shouldn't use plex as I'm always tempted by it whenever these threads come up and everyone who uses it is so happy.
But free/libre is so much more delicious.
But don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
- Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next. 10 months ago:
I have a hard time thinking how it would work. For example your comment posted at https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/5907612 posted at "Sunday, December 24th, 2023 at 8:40:09 AM GMT+00:00". If you back up and restore to a new account in 6 months, does your new account get to retroactively repost this comment to December 2023? What about top posts you make?
Individual emails make sense as lone documents but on social media the individual items are only comprehensible in context.
If you just want a record of your individual posts/comments without context you can point an RSS reader at the feed available on your home instance user page. (Lemmy users only; for some reason this feature not available to kbin.)
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
finally, a lemmy instance which tolerates the posting of memes
- Comment on how did we survive threads earlier this year? 10 months ago:
a lot of pups
I found there was too much cat stuff on threadiverse at first. I enjoy a cat in a box or a cat on a keyboard or "this is my life now" or even wearing a kitten as a hat here or there but the whole things was cats cats cats with arch linux memes mixed in.
a pup fucking a pumpkin
oh pups. lol.
- Submitted 10 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on Hiring Someone to setup servers 10 months ago:
they don't want to do it as a hobby. they want to have other hobbies.
- Comment on Hiring Someone to setup servers 10 months ago:
Hello I have also literally spent thousands of hours on the general topic of self hosting and related stuff such as linux, filesystems, networking, hardware, software etc etc. Yes, it is possible to be this stupid.
Here is my simple math:
2000 hours / 12 hour days = 167 days. I have been generally building up on this subject for about 10 years. And in COVID I had a lot of blocks of days where I was just at the computer. For more than 12 hours. I think I have easily spent more than 2000 hours.
I still have extremely rickety set up that mostly isn't doing any of the things I want. It's fine for me because I have learned a lot, have fun, and nothing is mission critical. If I had money/business that was reliant on this I would absolutely pay someone! That is just part of doing business. Especially if anyone else was at all reliant upon it. If I have employees or the work I do is important than it is only respectful and professional to swallow the costs to ensure it is done at quality. And even if its just for my own use, not everyone enjoys this stuff and still want to be free of google etc.
Everyone here reminds me of all the shitty landlords who do such a bad job of "fixing" things themselves instead of paying the going rate for a trade to come do it right and to code. Like 3 visits to install an interior doorknob and never getting it right. Like dude, just admit you aren't any good at installing doorknobs. And please don't go near the plumbing.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
when people say this I always think of the little tray of wheatgrass I used to grow on my counter sometimes
touching it was just about as useful as anything else you could do with it
cat liked to nibble on it though
- Comment on After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down 11 months ago:
yes axactly
- Comment on After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down 11 months ago:
omg i stand corrected
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction
also it only lasted 1 week?? i felt like it was 9 months long
TODO: read the wikipedia beyond the introduction
- Comment on Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? 11 months ago:
fuck man, this silver bullet looks pretty cool. project is about 1.5 years old? i guess it's been longer than that since i investigated these kinds of tools
https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet
While you can use SilverBullet as a simple note taking application that stores notes in plain markdown files on disk, it becomes truly powerful in the hands of more technical power users. By leveraging metadata annotations, its Objects infrastructure, Live Queries and Live Templates, SilverBullet becomes a powerful end-user programming tool, enabling you to quickly develop various types of ad-hoc knowledge applications.
I have errands to run this weekend and I cannot spend the whole time immersed in this.
- Comment on Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? 11 months ago:
borg is fab; i don't think there is a mobile component tho?
restic iirc is complicated and more advanced
don't forget rsync which is sync but is the basis of various back up tools
- Comment on Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? 11 months ago:
best description I have ever read of syncthing. they should put this in their readme or about page. describes the pros & cons in an honest way. I've had all the problems you describe and will probably have them again in the future, be confounded, be frustrated.
I get (mostly) worry-free backups
except this; it's sync not back up. ;) but it is very backup-like and in some situations does the job as well or better than backups
I <3 syncthing nevertheless
- Comment on Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? 11 months ago:
does it support plain markdown?
IME joplin has its own format
- Comment on Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? 11 months ago:
most ide’s are extremely fun to use as text editors
my kind of fun
- Comment on After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down 11 months ago:
I think youtube-dl had a situation like that, now yt-dlp. (except I don't know if the original dev's status is confirmed?)
also exa, now forked to eza. My impression is for this case, the original dev is OK.
But honestly I have encountered lots of software packages which have been dropped and picked up in this way. Man pages can contain history like this, occasionally going back to the 80s or even 70s for the basics. The main problem is that the original software package is so well known and sometimes it's hard to find out about the newer iterations so they have a difficult time picking up steam. I used to have a bookmarklet that would show forks on github sorted by activity; occasionally this allowed finding the more recently-developed project. But more likely you have to wait to stumble on it in a forum.
- Comment on After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down 11 months ago:
I recall reading about a university ?compsci? lab where the professor who leads it assigns her students to examine priority dependency chains. They trace everything back and report on who is maintaining various upstream packages, and identify situations where it is like just one person or otherwise really vulnerable. Then they have some sort of institutional resources to offer that person support and add extra hands to the workflow. So it is more proactive than what you are describing in that they are going out and looking for things that could be problems, not just awaiting a disastrous exploit and patching it up after the fact.
But it's just some small group somewhere. On the main I think we agree on the deficit of support for FLOSS components and applications that functionally run the whole world. It's so crazy but invisible. I am not a developer, just a fan of developers and their work. Most people I know IRL are not developers. Everyone thinks the software on their phone works because Apple and Google pay engineers to build everything. They don't know about all the FLOSS components to the phone, the services it uses, the network etc, and how so many bits and pieces are maintained in part or in whole by volunteers on their free time.
Remember when the boat got stuck in the panama canal and everyone was suddenly interested in supply chains? I forsee/fear the event that prompts the whole world to learn about dependency chains.
- Comment on After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down 11 months ago:
Not sure what ASF is (something Software Foundation?) but sounds like they are a solution and not a problem