Whooping_Seal
@Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Tailscale serve and sharing devices 2 weeks ago:
As of now I am currently using FreshRSS, although before I properly deploy this to other users in my family / friends I might give Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss) a shot as well. I don’t think the differences will matter for end-users as the majority of mine will likely all be using it through the API via a mobile app (e.g NetNewsWire (ios & mac), FluentReader (desktop), CapyReader (android) etc. etc.)., however the main difference that will dictate which one I stick with is the filtering capabilities and the ease of setup of article-collection with readibility / mercury to remove extrenuous content / ads.
I am also quite interested in miniflux, although it is quite intentionally bare bones. It lacks a plugin api (a potential security improvement), and instead natively supports many of the things people would use plugins for (native youtube-nocookie embedding / invidious embedding, integrations with readlater services like instapaper and wallabag, etc., integrated article fetching and parsing with readibility [and can change user agent / cookies to bypass bot protections]). It also seems to have a bit better security stance (supporting modern web browser features like passkeys, content sanitization, sanitizing url parameters in share links automatically etc.).
Miniflux definitely feels like the best ratio of ootb functionality + security, but the UI of FreshRSS feels more natural if you envisage less techy users to use it (and in my case I see one person using the website over an app).
- Comment on Tailscale serve and sharing devices 2 weeks ago:
That is what it seems like based on what I have read :/
I guess the best option in my case then is likely to add them as a non-admin user to my tailnet. The only concern I have is with the potential of one user deactivating the VPN connection unkowingly, which is probably where Funnel comes in as a better option, but I would prefer to avoid serving stuff on the web when possible. (It is specifically a FreshRSS instance for now)
- Comment on Tailscale serve and sharing devices 2 weeks ago:
Yes, there is two ways you can go about this. The way that you are thinking of (and the way that I would ideally like to go about this) is as listed on this help article. This is perfect for sharing a home server to some friends, and letting them access a given service without seeing any of your personal devices.
The other option is to have just one tailnet, but having multiple users as detailed here. Notably this can be a security regression (if you don’t limit access on a per-user basis with ACLs), but is ideal for sharing access to your entire network with your spouse / older children perhaps.
For example, I have a friend who has shared a minecraft server with me and that is an ideal example of sharing one node to a seperate tailnet. I am an admin of the server, and can manage the docker container for it + the backup sidecar and the SMB share, but that is where my access to his network structure ends.
This contrasts the situation with my partner for example, where we share a tailnet (with seperate user logins) to make things like gamestreaming just that much easier to setup. Hypothetically I can use ACLs to limit access to stuff like the Cockpit web-management portal, or block the SSH port, but I don’t feel like I need to in my specific case.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 2 weeks ago:
I still think a syncthing client of some form is ideal. As someone else mentioned there is the option of using the Syncthing Tray devs experimental android build. To avoid issues with sync-conflicts / maintain high-availability access to the most recent file, I sync the databse to a raspberry pi with the encryption option selected (not that the pi is untrusted per se, but it is a device that doesn’t need access to the file, it just serves the most recent changes to other devices since often my laptop / phone / desktop are not all on at the same time).
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 8 months ago:
There is also last.fm. I would have suggested libre.fm but they are no longer open to registrations it seems
This would replace the “algorithmic” component of spotify, I would still suggest some other options (sharing stuff in your social circle, seeing who opens for your favourite groups etc.)
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 11 months ago:
If you don’t mind clarifying, what do you mean by DoD?
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 11 months ago:
Frankly the best solution i have seen is always a combination of things. At least in the city I live in, people can take bikes on buses and trains, many people walk, and for trips that require trunk space (e.g furniture, DIY supplies etc) there is a Car sharing service that is cheaper than owning a car, or using ride share / taxi.
I don’t think waymo is a better option than a combination of what’s above, I think it can perhaps compliment it but it should not be the sole last-kilometre solution.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 11 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they still are a defence contractor in the US, they also are generally the option for biking computers. There are competitors but Garmin has a chokehold on that sector, with other options just feeling worse.
So while their smart watches are more niche than Apple, Samsung etc, they still have found a solid niche in the smart tracking sector.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 11 months ago:
I would also like to chime in regarding how the community is quite small, there are two (large-ish) Canadian instances but despite this there isn’t really a large francophone population here from what I’ve seen.
I think the western-anglo bias is in part because the community requires people to host the servers, for the community to even exist in the first place. Smaller regions (such as franco-canada, French speakers only making up ~24% of our population) will make up a smaller portion of the user base and likely found out about the App through other English-language resources.
Mastodon has a bit of a larger more diverse community, but it also has had the benefit of many more years of larger (but still niche) usage and arguably more severe issues with X formerly known as Twitter becoming a hell-hole.
- Comment on Designing a replacement IO plate for my GameCube 1 year ago:
That makes a lot more sense! I’m sad now though I thought this was some cool homebrew-ery going on since the GameCube is just a power pc computer (I’ve seen people run Linux on the hardware before).
- Comment on PS2 Memory Cards 1 year ago:
For FreeMC Boot, would you put it on a secondary OEM Card? Or is it best to just use one card for everything.
Sadly I don’t live in Europe, and the chain game stores here don’t sell them anymore. But there is lots of local places here that have good return policies / testing of everything before putting it on shelves.
Thank you very much for your insight!
- Comment on Designing a replacement IO plate for my GameCube 1 year ago:
If you don’t mind me asking, what exactly is the use of a floppy drive on a game cube?
3d printing an IO shield is a great idea! Retro console modding is a great use of a 3d printer.
- Submitted 1 year ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs 1 year ago:
Frankly I would like to not use Apple CarPlay / Android Auto — however, the built in software needs to actually usable and continuously updated.
I particularly want to see better non-touch input. Rotary dial + buttons à la Mazda, and much better voice input. I live in a multilingual region, and it consequently renders most in-built navigation voice commands useless, as it won’t understand language switching. Even Google assitant has issues with this despite supporting multiple input languages, usually resulting in me saying the entire command in the same language as the address. (Or just giving up if the name and street are in two languages).
But with built in systems that only support one language at a time, I just can’t say some of the addresses since I don’t know how it wants me to mispronounce them in English.
I also have found media playback frustrating in any modern vehicle. This is likely a lot harder to solve, but the inability to switch playlists or change playback settings without my phone connected to Android Auto is frustrating when in vehicles without it.
I know this is very ranty and not that big of a deal, it’s just frustrating seeing so little progress in the past decade on this front — and in some aspects like human interface design of vehicles, they have frankly regressed. If I look at the voice input systems on cars from 15-20 years ago there has been huge improvement, but even 10 years ago to now it doesn’t feel that different. Maybe a few new commands, but the quality of recognition / utility of the system is lacking.
- Comment on Proton will no longer post on Mastodon 1 year ago:
Passwords I would recommend Bitwarden or KeePass (both of which are in the PrivacyGuides wiki, particularly usefull for KeePass where there are different clients depending on OS)
Email / contacts / calendar I am still struggling on to be quite honest. I am debating right now on Mailbox.org + EteSync OR just using Posteo.de (while it has some security regressions compared to Mailbox.org, it has encrypted contacts and calendar). To be quite honest though the options available in this space are quite frustrating, it is really hard to find a solution that allows for interoperability / data portability as well as E2EE / elevated security.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I would say the only potential “benefit” is if the account contains non-public facing personal information - you are reducing the chance it gets leaked via data breach (assuming, of course, they actually erase your data properly)
But I would say it is at least worth it to reduce that potential risk, but you should also go into it assuming that anything that was publicly accessible has been archived / saved by someone.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I for some reason recall at one point WhatsApp’s encryption was actually an audited implementation of Signal’s encryption. But that is so long ago that I doubt that holds much weight now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton 1 year ago:
Would it run ok on a SBC, such as a raspberry pi? I don’t mind self hosting, but I don’t have the space for a full blown server setup in my appartment sadly (as fun as it would be)
- Comment on Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton 1 year ago:
I see in the FAQ they mention that “If you would like, you can encrypt your calendar and address book with your password. Therefore, only you have access to your data”
Is there any “downsides” to this in terms of interoperability with other calendar / contact apps?
Thank you so much for your suggestion, this seems like it fills the issues I had when researching mailbox.org
- Comment on Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton 1 year ago:
How reliable is the syncing? I currently sync a lot of things with Syncthing, and while it is great to not rely on a shady centralized cloud service, decentralized syncing also has its own problems (potential sync conflicts in my KeePass databases mostly)
It definitely seems like an interesting option though! Thank you so much :)
- Comment on Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton 1 year ago:
This is sadly what I was fearing running into, but I thought I would ask here nonetheless to see what other options people have even if they require some compromises on my goals
- Comment on Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton 1 year ago:
Do you self-host or do you pay? Just curious what your experience has been with the two options :)
Thank you for the suggestion!
- Submitted 1 year ago to privacyguides@lemmy.one | 24 comments
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 1 year ago:
I feel like the major one for me (that hasn’t been listed) is Ape Escape. Growing up i played the (arguably worse) remaster of it for the PSP. Genuinely interesting to play a platformer so different yet so clearly reactionary to Mario 64. And it’s also just interesting how they handle the analog sticks in terms of controls
Like many games of the era the controls are frankly janky, but they are just so much fun