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- Comment on WhiteWind is a blog that uses the AT Protocol 5 days ago:
I clicked this looking for ATDT+blogposts amd left disappointed
- Comment on How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact 1 week ago:
Am i fucked if i haven’t posted on facebook since like 2014?
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
So the web is a corporate war zone now and you can choose feudal protection or being attacked from all sides. What a time to be alive.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 1 week ago:
So now the adtech companies need to hire a minimum wage person in the EU, and I can write them a letter requesting they remove my anonimized data, doxxing myself in the process. Oh and now I know they’re sharing with 395 partners, as if that wasn’t obvious from uBlock before. And I get to sign a permission to process my data if I want to see a doctor.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 2 weeks ago:
What did GDPR solve? Did we get rid of advertisers sharing data?
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 2 weeks ago:
Woah holy shit I thought it was the usual Drew DeVault crying wolf, but it looks actually terrible. I wonder why my webservers never experienced this. Too insignificant?
- Comment on A look at Europe's options for building a “European Cloud”, which is likely to be more difficult than the €15B Galileo satellite system, and potential issues. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not in the tier 4+ space but I know Scaleway has solutions there, I haven’t seen them mentioned.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, of course, it would be better in many ways if the firmware wasn’t closed.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 weeks ago:
Open source stack will not prevent this. It’s not even a backdoor, it’s functionality that these researches think should be hidden from programmers for whatever reason.
Open source devices would have this functionality readily available for programmers. Look at rtl-sdr, using the words of these researches, it has a “backdoor” where a TV dongle may be used to listen to garage key fobs gasp everyone panic now!
- Comment on Is there anything the internet can't do? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 3 weeks ago:
What do your people ask then? “Does it come in red too?”
- Comment on CalDAV Server Without Exposing Server? 3 weeks ago:
Unless you live a very dynamic lifestyle that requires your calendar to be 24/7 synced, you can just use whatever server software you like, make it listen in LAN only, and have your devices sync when they’re at home.
DecSyncCC and Syncthing is another option.
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 4 weeks ago:
Maybe use a filesystem and syncthing this way? github.com/39aldo39/DecSync
Or you could use the free tier of some PaaS like
render.com/docs/free if you prefer a traditional approach - Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 4 weeks ago:
Balls, said the Queen, if I had two I’d be a king!
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 4 weeks ago:
If you remove the fishes, replece the cat with a baby, and add a dollar on a fishing hook, it’s literally the same.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 month 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 month ago:
It’s source-available
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Something p2p like Tox or Briar, both annoying for daily use.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 1 month 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 1 month 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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 4 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(?) 5 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 5 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 5 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.
