danie10

danie10 , 2 months ago to technology in Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"

Good points. Yes, I do prefer to give an instance at least the benefit of the doubt. Difference tho really with Fediverse is you have to search and follow stuff to see it. It does not get inserted into your feed through ads or people playing the algorithms. So generally I’m only seeing what I follow. I suppose we do need to choose our instances wisely. Certainly, if an instance (not just a user on it) is really spamming or impacting on other instances, I suppose there can be grounds to block it. But we have not all been spammed yet by Threads. I don’t like Threads (cancelled all my accounts years ago) but I left a few good friends and family there that I would like to reconnect with, and follow them. I also like that my metadata stays on the Fediverse side, so I don’t need a Threads account or their app tracking me.

I just would not like to be denied the option to even reconnect with my family and friends. Same goes for WhatsApp interoperating on Signal protocol - I have many friends and colleagues I left behind on WhatsApp, and would like to reconnect again with them.

danie10 OP , 2 months ago to technology in Proton Pass now supports passkeys on all devices and plans: Beating Bitwarden to mobile devices

I’m using the browser add-on in Linux across all my browsers. I do have the Bitwarden app for Linux, but to be honest I never open it as it is a pain to have to open a separate app, and then copy and paste. Isn’t it just more seamless to let it replace the browser password manager on Linux? If I want to tidy up my Bitwarden vault, I also do that in the browser.

danie10 OP , 3 months ago to technology in Proton Pass now supports passkeys on all devices and plans: Beating Bitwarden to mobile devices

And yet I missed their announcement about their passkeys. In today’s competitive world, I think any company that does not advertise in some way, is really not going to survive (as much as I don’t like ads either). Maybe I don’t see that much as I am paying.

danie10 OP , 3 months ago to technology in Google Just Revealed When Apple Will Officially Adopt RCS: Northern Hemisphere Fall 2024

Hence word “official” not being mentioned. As I recall it was spotted in the code.

danie10 , 3 months ago to technology in Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"

Especially when any individual can decide themselves to block Threads or Lemmy.

danie10 , 3 months ago to technology in Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"

I agree 100%. I don’t need someone else overriding my existing right to decide whether I want to block or not (where is that going to stop). Anyway, I connect and follow individuals, not their whole instance. I’m not going to see anything from Threads unless I choose to follow someone. And if any friend reboosts stuff I don’t like (from Threads or anywhere else) I block that “friend”.

danie10 , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Lemmy, what's your internet speed in mbps?

341 Mbps down, 144 Mbps up at about $65pm in South Africa (advertised 300/150).

danie10 , 3 months ago to linux in What does your desktop look like?

KDE Plasma on Manjaro Linux

• Desktop folder pinned to left screen for working stuff
• Conky on my 3rd screen for monitoring resources
• Plasma Activity folder on 3rd screen for general folders used often (On Gaming and Video Recording activities this folder differs for those activities)
• Golobonotes pinned notes on 3rd screen fore commonly accessed references

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ab9f5f72-6572-40a0-bcc5-bf2f756a4422.webp

danie10 , 4 months ago to gaming in What is your game to de stress ?

Snowrunner - stunning scenery and realism, and you can take it as slow as you want…

danie10 , 4 months ago to linux in Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption

The post here is a link to an online survey being done by the Signal Community. Users need to follow the link to answer the survey if they wish (but it means creating yet another new account which I’m getting pretty tired of as I’m now passing over 900 different logins all with unique passwords etc ;-)

danie10 , 5 months ago to linux in When Windows 10 dies, I am going to jump ship over to Linux. Which version would you recommend for someone with zero prior experience with Linux? **Edit: Linux Mint it shall be.**

Yes Linux Mint. You CAN migrate later to other distros without losing your data so feel free to test others out later when you feel ready and know more about them.

danie10 OP , 5 months ago to fediverse in Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network

That was the instance I signed up at, about 10 mins before I posted this link. Lemmy also went down in the last day, so nothing is bulletproof. But the site is working as I’m browsing and commenting right now.

danie10 OP , 5 months ago to fediverse in Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network

There Matrix discussion forum may be best place to ask - matrix.to/#/#mbin:melroy.org

danie10 OP , 5 months ago to fediverse in Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network

No, the pull requests are to do with submissions of source code to the core project. The project owner has to review and accept those changes for them to happen (or not).

danie10 OP , 5 months ago to fediverse in Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network

kbin had not been accepting some commits and apparently were moving quite slowly with newer features. So, this is more like a dev version type implementation. It is more “open” to changes and commits apparently. Not more “open” as in open-source.