Illecors

@Illecors@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can recommend ffshare on android. Works like a pipe in unixland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Possible? Yes. Probable? No. LTE would work wonderfully for such usecase, but the firmware to it is never shared. Wifi would work theoretically, but the distance would get in a way. Bandwidth would go down all the way to a rounding error.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh TIL. Thought it was cock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  UK is a paper tiger on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the fediverse stats here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Inatances self report these stats. All you have to do is a single db query and all of a sudden you have 100 million MAU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no AI.

  What’s sold as an expert is actually a delusional graduate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Filled in the survey. A few notes:

  • Some of my answers make no sense on the surface - like the “experiment with new technology” block (4 questions). I’ve answered “Agree” to all of them, because I have taken time into account, which is not represented on the questions. Long story short - I do love experimenting with new tech, I’m almost always the first one to try something among my peers, but at the same I never blindly jump in (I’m hesitant) as most of the “new technology” is just
    • Someone repackaging foss and relabeling it
    • Some LLM bullshit
    • An inferior product to what already exists

  There are also scenarios where I have already found something that’s the best solution for my case, so I won’t even bother looking at something new, even if it might be the best thing since sliced bread for someone else.

  • TIme and effort setting up/maintaining (4 questions). It doesn’t take much time nor effort to set anything up now, but it did when I was starting out initially. I knew very little and a bunch of concepts hadn’t clicked, yet, so it took me days to set up Nextcloud and about half a year (on and off. Probably a week or so if it were all squeezed together) for email.

  • The performance and intent to use in the future questions are weird - they feel like the same question, just leveling off in intensity. I’ve selected the same answer for all of them. They probably should’ve been a single question with agree/disagree options swapped for intensity levels.

  Good luck with your PhD!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give Magic Earth a go, but osmand is just missing a bunch of stuff I got used to having I guess. The actual map part is fine.

  I use DAVx⁵ myself. It’s not ideal aesthetically, but honestly not a thing I worry about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been hoping for one for some time, but it wouldn’t be a smooth sailing even if everything was perfect. Get a pixel, install grapheneos and see if you can cope with it. I’ve been running it for a year now - lack of decent map app is my biggest issue that’s left. Waze is great for driving, but useless for everything else; it’s also owned by google. Most other apps are just reskinned google maps and don’t even load without gapps.

  And I’m a sysadmin. My degoogling journey began in 2018-2019 with running my own nextcloud for files, photo backup, contact and calendar sync, as well as my own email server. All that to say that I’ve had it fairly easy to ditch play store on a phone, but that’s not what most will experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Banana Split⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you’re shopping at tesco as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Point taken :D Coffee must kick in at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I, personally, like a language being rich. Nothing wrong with not knowing all the ins and outs, but calling for simplification on what is already an very simple language is odd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for mouse only games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mini Metro was the first thing that came to mind. Fun little time waster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shameless plug for !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe - duration is in the post title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does sound a bit like creating plausible deniability for some sketchy transactions later on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I be unreasonable? I’m gonna be unreasonable.

  Gentoo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the point of all mighty gods if they can’t be bothered to stop misery. If they do exist - they’re assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which one?

  My current top two are:

  • the one killed said boys in Ukraine
  • the other one killing said boys in Gaza
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just wrong. I’ve learnt many things! Such as

  • I don’t like it
  • Regulars smell
  • Everyone’s constantly guilt-tripped into giving money
  • The harmonics of that fancy version of piano (it’s not called that, slipped my mind atm) are actually awesome

  And many more!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to use simplex, mainly for the instance’s chat. 2 things to say:

  • notifications work perfectly even without play store
  • every device has a separate account - I can’t reuse the same one. Not the end of the world, but it’s really annoying
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia-linked hackers exploited Firefox and Windows bugs in 'widespread' hacking campaign⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this was the reason for f-droid suggesting removing firefox variants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP. I guess it depends on the frame of reference. Comparing to other inefficient methods it might seem OK :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to the Deep Sea!!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to the Deep Sea!!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What game is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  time is silent here. See you next time tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have 8 seconds.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for making me laugh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should have elections with no candidates.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That won’t really work. Had an exact thing in an unofficial capacity - more along the lines of “answer the questions to see what party you align with most”. The result - the biggest lying traitor shitbags were the match.

  Declared views != actual views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is created by the samw dev as pixelfed - wouldn’t be surprised if parts were reused to bootstrap quickly.