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smileyhead ,

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This choice is just in theory. Like Cory Doctorow said, you and your close friend circle cannot agree where to eat launch today, how the heck are you going to agree on which chat app to switch to? I got my choice and deleted Facebook, no looking back, but guess what? I missed A LOT of information from my collage including many meetings.

With this law, people would no longer need to bother any of their friends to install anything, they could start switching one by one to what they like.

smileyhead ,

As if Play Store + App Store duopoly was not enough of a headacke for everyday living, now I would need to explain myself of not using iMessage or Google Messages.

smileyhead ,

It is only a suggestion. Like, if a gatekeeper wants to actually become open and adopt a protocol here we are showing you the path. But Apple is not like that, they would do absolute minimum and propably even less.

smileyhead ,

DVDs are still not bad if someone really wants to buy a movie. Cheaper than BluRay and with much weaker DRM. Video is very low quality in today’s standards, but bitrate and autio quality is better than any streaming.

I know a nice comparason, faxes. Imagine a fax 2.0 protocol released just before sending documents by email become normal that do not got adapted, but all of a sudden Google start promoting it as nudging Apple to adapt it. Advertised as a better quality, faster fax, with (yet ro standardize) encryption.

smileyhead ,

XMPP had more features than RCS even when RCS was being created and was actively developed for all those years unlike RCS. It also much simpler to implement and you don’t have to be cellular provider to have a server.

smileyhead ,

Messaging sevices 😅

smileyhead ,

Hmm, maybe you’re right :P. But the point is the second half.

Self hosted Wetransfer?

Hello, i am looking for a self hosted application for sharing files like with wetransfer. I have tried the discontinued Firefox Send which has nice features like link expiry and works great in general but lacks authentication (only offers simple password protection). I also want the option to share with registered users. Is...

smileyhead ,

Lufi is exaclly that, demo here: lufi.fiat-tux.fr

smileyhead ,

Um, unfortunetly no, sorry.

smileyhead ,

Missing the days when developing a new browser was possible.

smileyhead ,

My music collection is still less than hundreds of GBs, so I give up doing my own streaming for now.

My setup is super simple, I just sync my Music folder by Syncthing app on all my devices. To download on my Android phone I use NewPipe to find a song (in three-dots menu there is section specific to songs without videos) and share it to the Seal app. On computer I use yt-dlp command, but there are nice apps on Flathub too. By this I do not need sophisticated automated system, only need to put file downloaded from YouTube, ripped from CD by abcd or pirated from torrent in Music folder and then it’s synced.

This is because I found streaming apps using D-Sub or Subsonic protocols very clunky and just bearable, while custom ones like for Jellyfin are not available or the best on all platforms.

smileyhead ,

An ideal phone:

  • Fairphone 4/5 like build
  • Unlocking the bootloader without asking manufacturer for the code
  • Access to the flashing and pairing tools from the factory to eliminate bricking
  • U-boot, Coreboot or similar sane bootloader
  • (Close to) mainline Linux support for the components, to enable “lifetime” updates and OS freedom
  • Optional: headphone jack and SD card slot
smileyhead ,
  • We create WWW, where everyone can freely put things on and discuss anything.
  • Oh no! But what about the profits?
  • We create this summarize tool to quickly get knowleadge without always needing to peek deeper into text.
  • Oh no! But what about the profits?

Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong...

smileyhead ,

Green energy is still not free energy.

Every amout of green energy a crypto miner uses is less green energy for everything else. You take 3% (country consumption) of capacity from the green grid, you must up at least 3% the production in existing coal plants.

smileyhead ,

And spend it on calculating useless hashes instead of reducing coal mining?

New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option (www.howtogeek.com)

Ubuntu’s popularity often makes it the default choice for new Linux users. But there are tons of other Linux operating systems that deserve your attention. As such, I’ve highlighted some Ubuntu alternatives so you can choose based on your needs and requirements—because conformity is boring.

smileyhead ,

It’s Arch Linux with preinstalled stuff right from the install. I won’t recommend it, you still would need a good amount of knowleadge first to drive an Arch based system.

Imagine a Windows modification with some gaming tools preinstalled and scripts for one-click install things that usuallu take five clicks. Great, but only to speed up things you do often.

smileyhead ,

Oh shit, I wanted to steal a car but now because of this ban it will be illegal, how bad.

Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)

Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption::The U.S Energy Information Administration is now requiring large-scale cryptomining operations to report their energy consumption. Inevitably this will bring about new regulations that will restrict...

smileyhead ,

You are talking like if this was creating any real value. Replace “mining crypto” with “wasting” in these.

smileyhead ,

Linux is currently mostly made by big corpo, but they are held by community and Linus’es checks.

Unfortunetly for browsers most of the giants focused on Chromium, which Google has final say over. Also Linux is OS, where browser should be simple and websites should work even if some one API is not supported. In Chromium’s world web"apps" are won’t be compatible with anything non-Chromium. Any browser would be required to support 99+% of Chromium features or not work.

smileyhead ,

SSH can do just that, example:

ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080 user@host

smileyhead ,

If parts pairing is nessesary, then just publish the tool used for pairing?

smileyhead ,

Nothing wrong with paying for content? Enshittification is about something different than just being expensive or bad.

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You cannot put custom firmware. If spyware is hidden in drivers, bootloader or even firmware of the modem there is nothing we can do about it. Custom ROMs are just replacing things above the kernel and below apps.

Still of course things average non CIA person should not worry about. Google apps with high privileges are removed with custom ROMs.

smileyhead ,

I don’t get the dislikes, it is a great question. But as someone above, I think the cost was to dicover a way to make blue LED at all and make it scalable, then it’s just like any other product.

smileyhead ,

Do not enter very large rooms (especially Matrix HQ!) and you’ll be fine.

I know it sounds extreme, but you may want to ban Matrix HQ from the start and just infrom anyone wanting to join your instance if they are ok with that. This room alone is a spam anyway and it took >100GB of space on my database, cleaning wasn’t simple.

Write me a message if you want any help 😊.

smileyhead ,

As if they didn’t learned their lessor with Twitter.

smileyhead , (edited )

That going into corporate, VC funded, centralization focused and privately controlled social network is not good long-term idea.

Myself I have nothing against profit itself, but the relationship of how single entity can manage network.

smileyhead ,

It’s the mindset. Standard bodies already have plenty of protocols established, with ActivityPub being the latest trend implemented in dozens of different federated apps. XMPP for real time data flow or (not yet standardized) Matrix for shared graph databases. Bluesky is another XKCD 927.

I won’t expect anything great from a social service from the start hosted on Amazon AWS, with domain bought from Google Domains, developed on Microsoft GitHub, announcing app first on Apple AppStore and not supporting basic decentralization-friendly things like IPv6.

smileyhead ,

Then please, buy them a normal computer, even used, to play with at least 🙏.

smileyhead ,

Why not just use files?

smileyhead ,

USB 2, 3 and 4 are not direct new versions depracating previous ones. Those are tiers, versions are reprecented after the point, like 3.1 is directly better than 3.0 .

USB 2 is not something that shouldn’t be used because USB 3 exists. It is just simpler, just four pins, two for power and two for data, meanwhile USB 4 requires much more complex stuff. Just like new Intel i7 processor does not invalidate new Intel i3.

Still on a high-end phone 2.0 is bad, like putting i3 on high-end laptop.

smileyhead ,

Freedom of speech does not mean the medium would allow you to say whatever you like. It means you can choose whatever medium you like.

smileyhead ,

Then it’s more interesting than I thought.

smileyhead ,

Solution: Just encrypt it with a password.

smileyhead ,

It’s like with SMS, needs communication of the OS to the modem to the carrier’s server. And just like with anything carrier related the progress is very slow, no mobile phone even supports it (for now only Android with Google’s own app that connects to proxy to bypass the modem) and… is my opinion unnessesary.

smileyhead ,

Only if Signal decided to apply for connection, which I doubt they’ll do.

smileyhead ,

Without bridges only if WhatsApp incorporate Matrix protocol. There must be something to translate different APIs/protocols.

smileyhead ,

Yeah, for me my family and close friends have no problem because I explained and told I am not going to use Facebook products. But when meeting new people, especially groups of people there is a big barrier.

smileyhead ,

I recommend seeing talks from Matrix protocol that explain potencial and doable solutions.

smileyhead , (edited )

Decentralized network. Number of servers on the network: 1.

smileyhead , (edited )

Disqus. Would be great to add federated comments to any news, blog or static site.

smileyhead ,

It’s hacky and not something a professional site would use. Cannot moderate comments for example.

smileyhead ,

Then Telegram do something bad or stupid (it already started to) and you’ll have to transfer all your friends again…

smileyhead ,

Imagine being required to have the same app as your friend to send a message.

smileyhead ,

To be honest the things that matter on optimalization now on mobile are app size, what push notifications providers it supports and the speed itself is only a little concern.

But it matters in compatibility situations, like running mobile apps on desktops or on other OSes.

smileyhead ,

By choosing the lesser evil it is only getting bigger.

smileyhead ,

And before locking check if the ROM boots at all! Locking will wipe data anyway, so it’s better safe than sorry as a button to allow unlocking is in the system settings.

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