The problem with not being part of the problem is that, in many cases, it means no longer being able to be part of vast chunks of society. Take it from me - I’ve been boycotting Big Media and most entertainment platforms for about a decade, and now I genuinely can’t have any hobbies, besides of maybe activism, to share something with friends to begin with.
Can you use SyncThing along with Nextcloud? I currently use Nextcloud to store my data, but the one part where it still lags a bit behind is on Android specifically (you need to manually sync certain changes).
You can just use something like YunoHost, and synchronize weekly encrypted backups via Nextcloud or Syncthing to all of your computers. That way, if your server ends up busted for whatever reason, you can just restore it elsewhere and go back to business
VaultWarden user here - yes you can now use your own self-hosted server to store passkeys and that’s a gigantic game-changer. Just install the BitWarden add-on on a recent version of Firefox and voilà
Paying for content: fair enough
Paying almost A THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR for content: barely worth it
And not just any paywall, a NINETY-NINE CANADIAN DOLLARS PER MONTH ONE. Granted the first month is a single dollar, but still, that’s a grand total of C$1090 A YEAR.
That logo really makes me feel like the site is basically Twitter under neo-Nazi occupation
Google’s Polymer library working better on the Chromium engine has been known for years, and Mozilla has been doing its best to keep up with Google’s wrenches in the engine, this seven-year-old bug being one of many examples: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367205
Wondering what will Elmo choose to do: redirect all requests from twitter.com to x.com, or push a 404 on the twitter.com domain just to force all the websites that still embed tweets, er, posts to acknowledge the new URL.
Considering that AliExpress and Wish have the bad fame of being both dirt-cheap and dirt-quality, I was surprised that Temu actually managed to snatch a slice of the budget pie. Temu being a privacy trojan to fetch as much personal data from gullible customers as possible makes a lot of sense in retrospect
Been there done that. Best you can do is ask them on the Discord channel if you’re blocked by Cloudflare (their anti-DDOS firewall) and whether they can unblock your domain. My own domain accidentally triggered their Cloudflare once, mostly because I tried to use more than a service to follow them from a single IP (both via Lemmy and Pleroma/Akkoma) so it exceeded their rate
Agreed. YAML is a pain to edit manually, to ensure that all the tabulation is correct and the parser does not choke. JSON is passable, but you must be mindful about the brackets. XML is too verbose and duplicative. INI files are just good enough.
Everyone is willing to stop paying for the content, but very few are willing to boycott it instead.
Personally though, I use Kate. Ain’t got time to learn new keybindings
I don’t go that far yet, but I did uninstall the Reddit, Meta/Facebook and X/Twitter apps off my phone. Whenever I need to check those I just use the browser. Been using federated services more often as a result, and I lose less time procrastinating. (My watch list on YouTube is still at the verge of reaching the maximum size allowed, but hey, baby steps)
I didn’t expect to see scientists replicating experiments on Twitch of all places but hey, livestreaming tests should be the norm now
Most if not all Mastodon/Pleroma apps already use OAuth by default. I’m surprised that Lemmy hasn’t implemented it yet. I wonder if KBin does already?
It’d be nice to do something similar for Mastodon.
This is exactly why I expect the Fedipact holders to end up talking only among themselves. In order to truly defederate from Meta, they would have to recursively defederate from everyone that does not explicitly block Meta as well.
Yeah about that, I never really had any friends, and now it’s increasingly difficult to make any if you don’t watch movies or listen to music or follow sports or play the more popular video games. There’s preciously little to talk about if you don’t engage in popular culture out of ethical concerns.