oldfart
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- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 2 days ago:
Has there been any progress in self-hosting sync server since Mozilla abandoned the old version a few years ago and created a behemoth with some exotic database that requires lots of resources?
- Comment on Email provider for home server alerts 1 week ago:
Install dovecot and set up your email client to connect to it. Email is trivial if you’re not sending to other hosts.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 week ago:
In mine, the keys stopped working reliably, but it was still my favourite Android phone so far
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 week ago:
And recaptcha. And Google-hosted Javascript libraries. And youtube embeds.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 week ago:
It’s source-available
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 2 weeks ago:
Yeah they fucked up v30, i updated from v29 a few weeks back and had to restore it and now I’m back at 29
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 3 weeks ago:
Something p2p like Tox or Briar, both annoying for daily use.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 3 weeks ago:
We went full circle to the early 2000s, slapping PGP on top of public messaging platforms!
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 3 weeks ago:
Hetzner’s S3 is immature, they just started beta last year, and are rough at the edges
- Comment on Odin - a self-hosted FOSS streaming service. 1 month ago:
So it’s like Seren, but for Android instead of Kodi, and with a mandatory server part?
- Comment on heat your body, not your house -- using an infrared heat lamp 1 month ago:
Happy to see I’m not the only one. I tried many things for personal heating and they were only making discomfort a bit lower.
The best one I think was a 2 kW quartz “garden” heater, but it’s 2 kW, I could heat my whole home with a gas furnace for a similar price.
- Comment on Zero to Hero 3 months ago:
I made good brussels ONCE. I have the recipe and tried to do it many times, never could make them good again, always too bitter. I know it’s possible but I’ll wait a decade for stars to align again.
- Comment on JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?) 3 months ago:
For that one time when systemd-logind crashed on every boot on an unmodified CentOS install because of an OOM.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 3 months ago:
Just a note, high denominations are not great during emergencies, unless you mean big purchase emergencies. Buying food and gas with high denomination bills may end up in seller not accepting the bill because they have no change. Or happily accepting that bill despite having no change.
For small change, you could take the jar to your bank and make a cash deposit (and see the cashier die inside). In some branches they have machines for counting change.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 3 months ago:
Taler e-money is issued with a validity period. One month before the expiration date, you wallet should automatically exchange any digital cash that is about to expire for new digital cash with an extended validity period.
Haha no, thanks. I really don’t understand why Stallman stands behind dystopian statist money.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 3 months ago:
The moment you start using this argument you become a tinfoil hat money laundering thug. Being afraid of putin is more socially acceptable.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 3 months ago:
😱
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 4 months ago:
Matplotlib
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 4 months ago:
I also prefer a spreadsheet, but for a proficient coder it’s not a week long job, unless they build it on bare metal. You can do a lot in an hour with a visualization library.
- Comment on Google Cache Is Now Fully Dead. 5 months ago:
That’s not the same at all. Archivebox would do the trick if it was pre-populated with every page Google Search has in its index.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 5 months ago:
Fuck them, but it’s not like anything changes for people who currently watch ads, or who pay for Premium. It’s us who they’re fighting, and we don’t generate any income.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 5 months ago:
Plot thickens
- Comment on We lost Keanu 5 months ago:
Anyone else wondering what that bed notification is?
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 5 months ago:
But I don’t want to learn. I want the machine to free me from tedious tasks I already know how to do. There’s no learning experience in creating a Wordpress plugin or a shell script.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 5 months ago:
Yeah, phones are a lost case.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 5 months ago:
I’d like to use good GUI programs designed for using with a keyboard, but it seems touch UI is the main theme for bigger developers these days, and keyboard is an afterthought at best
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 5 months ago:
Since when is it not okay to have an opinion on how you’d like your computer to work? You’re saying it as if usability was an objective truth, not a preference of majority of users. People are different, everyone is talking about neurodiversity, and you’re saying that loving lowest common denominator UIs are the only acceptable opinion in the light of objective facts.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 5 months ago:
Thankfully, the normies are moving away from computer and maybe the ecosystem will heal in our lifetimes 🤞
- Comment on Thank you! 5 months ago:
For whatever reason, at the time Italian coffee names became so popular 15 or so years ago, coffee became either super intense or a dessert. I’m old and I just want a mild coffee like I used to drink before the fashion, not a super strong one. Call me a lightweight if you want, I don’t take pride in doing stimmulants.
- Comment on Submit Your Cool Site/Blogs 5 months ago:
“This will be my Gemini homepage one day!” on 90% of them