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The tl;dr is that the play version of termux has been lagging behind the master github branch because of Google’s fuck fuck games with Android permissions. Now it’s been updated, but effectively neutered.

Basically, PlayStore termux-app v0.120 release is functionally equivalent to v0.108

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Cobalt.tools worked flawlessly!

EDIT: Ope, thought you were asking lol. Cobalt.tools rocks!

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Basically you can mirror the instapapered versions of your saved pages as markdown files in your obsidian vault. You can customize the whole thing basically so you can put it wherever and have it tie in to your PKM system however you want. I’ve got mine organized in weekly folders with a dataview block in my daily note showing the articles I’ve saved that day.

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Thats what really kicked me into using obsidian as much as I do.

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Did you even read the article? It’s not like all the users just get unrestricted access to storage to treat like a google drive, this is a backend thing. This guy is trying to find a solution to all the wasted bandwidth and storage space from sending copies to all the other instances they’re federated with, which is a legimate issue that the instance admins are already dealing with on a daily basis. This will let them pool resources to help lower costs for smaller instances.

As to the CSAM thing I can only imagine it would be easier for one instance to purge fifty images/restore from a backup and everyone else just have to redo their thumbnails as opposed to all the instances having to purge and restore but that’s just me.

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I’m just curious as to how you think these are insurmountable problems while every instance in existence today is already managing to navigate these issues.

The only thing the author is suggesting is to pool the resources that are going to waste copying media posts around the fediverse into a new backend (that means it’s not directly user accessible and presumably subject to the same restrictions as posts right now) so that the cost of media hosting is more distributed between all the fediverse instances instead of having the big ones hogging all the bandwidth of the small ones with memes because some users decided to subscribe to a community on say Lemmy.world.

Hosting a writefreely.org instance (k.fe.derate.me)

Looking through the writefreely.org instances on their website, a lot of the links are dead or closed for registration. The one that is open and working is promoting a paid version. Is hosting a writefreely instance heavy on resources, attracting the wrong people or just not "cool" enough?

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Literally just set one up yesterday on neocities, it was surprisingly easy. Of course then I managed to break it because I’m not as familiar with git as I’d like to be lol.

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I would also like to know this, best I could come up with was one of those electric water cooler pumps that fit over the top of the bottle.

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Also the inspectors should have arrest powers

Android App for tagging locations on a map?

I’m searching an android app to mark the locations of multiple parked cars. It should be possible to mark different cars somehow to identify them. It would also be cool if there is a feature to share the location with someone on another devica (like a sync between users, NOT copy of coordinates or link on maps...

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ATAK would work, but you’d need a TAK server to share location data with other devices. FreeTAK is nice. Though it’s a bit much if all you’re trying to do is share location among family and don’t need a whole-ass TACNET lol.

Otherwise Owntracks might fit the bill better. It hooks up to a MQTT network and you can use something like node-red to pretty easily pop that into a dashboard map if you’re not running something like Home Assistant.

Only thing I’m not sure about with Owntracks is the list of location points, but you could use Tasker or something to publish the coordinates to a different MQTT topic than the one your phone is posting to.

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Oh goody

thegreekgeek ,
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That’s the neat part, they did!

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah we’re about due for the bell riots, aren’t we?

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They also went blind

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Well of course not, ever since they got that deal with Uncle Sam they knew they could do anything up to Steve Ballmer kicking a secret service agent in the nuts and stealing the Football. Maybe even including that, won’t know until it happens lol.

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Former intoxicology tech, was both guys daily lol.

thegreekgeek ,
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Before my deck crapped out I was playing around with OpenRA, that was pretty fun. Romanov’s Vengeance really scratched my Red Alert 2 itch.

thegreekgeek ,
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Same, Generals and Tiberian Wars were all right but RA2 and Tiberian Sun were my jam.

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Have you tried going into the setting for the feed itself and using the CSS selector filters? You might be able to cut out the extraneous bits using that.

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It looks like it’s being used for cooling in some areas and static control in others.

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… Should someone tell him?

thegreekgeek ,
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Get some silvervine sticks too! Cats love those.

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Looks like you’re not the only one to have this issue, here’s what another user managed to figure out.

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the “AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act” now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making...

thegreekgeek ,
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Oh fuck I forgot about that troglodyte. My parents were Limbaugh losers back in the day. Now they’re anti-vaxxers.

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BOLOS!

Fired Google workers ousted over Israeli contract protests file complaint with labor regulators (apnews.com)

Dozens of Google workers who were fired after internal protests surrounding a lucrative contract that the technology company has with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with labor regulators in an attempt to get their jobs back....

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I’m in the process of doing this with my former employer (NLRB complaint). It’s not as much trying to get your job back as getting what you’re owed, be it severance or your pound of flesh lol.

A lot of contracts specify that you have to go through arbitration to resolve disputes with the company as opposed to the courts, which is both good and bad. Bad because it takes a while and they’re usually all buddy buddy with the people who pay them, but good because arbitration is pretty expensive and making them do all this when they’d rather be done with you brings me joy.

Also this gives companies the opportunity to use more rope to hang themselves with if they try to do funny stuff with their arbitrator, the NLRB can overrule arbitration decisions if they’re “repugnant”.

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Oof, that’s what killed my V1 setup lol

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They couldn’t effectively serve ads through it lol

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Not out yet unfortunately.

EDIT: I lied, link is here. There’s no releases as of yet.

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Or get a geofence warrant

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah I use bitwarden and it was pretty panless. My only issue was on github the addon didn’t pick up on the passkey initially, had to make a new one.

thegreekgeek ,
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Oh damn I forgot about silverlight. Only thing I used that was for some random Twitter client.

thegreekgeek ,
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I’ve been using copymethat but I’m trying to move to obsidian.

thegreekgeek ,
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I’m trying to find that out myself, just started playing with it yesterday. Right now I’ve got a personal store of recipes in CopyMeThat, and that’s got some nice features like meal planning and shopping lists but its not integrated into anything.

I’ve seen a few approaches so far, some guy on the forums has all the ingredients stored in the front matter and uses dataviewjs to display them in the note which allows for unit conversion but I think that’s too much, I still want to be able to read them without obsidian.

Right now I’ve got tags and method and ingredients in the front matter along with checklist add-on formatted tasks in the main part of the note. Eventually I want to have it pull a recipe at random and put it in my weekly note or something.

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Former hotel bartender here, can confirm.

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I very much did! I posted that before I had my coffee so I didn’t meant to imply that I still worked there, because I don’t anymore. Got fired last year for doing what I thought was an official union action but in fact wasn’t. Not too torn up though, they’re paying for me to go back to school lol.

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I think in this case the pod is your instance and you’d be interacting with it like you’d interact with an alternative frontend for Lemmy.

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah I had the traefik reverse proxy set up for a while until it updated to 2.x and all my configs broke. At that point I gave up and just paid for the nabu casa URL.

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Im looking at dashy’s widget documentation and it doesn’t look like they have an API query widget quite yet. You could probably output the temp sensor as an RSS feed and pick it up with dashy’s datafeed widget.

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah I honestly forgot about this integration lol. Kinda want to see how I can work it into my setup now.

thegreekgeek ,
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Man I miss zero punctuation. Good on them though.

thegreekgeek ,
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Oh yeah, that’s the stuff! Man I missed this. Only thing is I don’t recognize most of those games lol.

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the root cause of shortages of low-cost, off-patent generic drugs is well established. These drugs have razor-thin to non-existent profit margins, driven by middle managers who have, in recent years, pushed down wholesale prices to rock-bottom levels. In some cases, generic manufacturers lose money on the drugs, disincentivizing other players in the pharmaceutical industry from stepping in to bolster fragile supply chains. Several generic manufacturers have filed for bankruptcy recently.

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Well no, but if you’re engaged in some drug-fueled (heh) 4d chess with the competition vying for the lowest price, a global disruption to the supply chain is going to play merry hell with whatever passes for well-laid plans in corporate management these days.

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https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/806ed529-b2ca-4221-ac5c-1be1b86cfe23.webp

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One of these days I’m going to find out where they hide those speakers and when I do I’m bringing an icepick to the pump.

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Ehhh, it’s not like I’d actually do it, but the thought of doing it while I’m pumping gas gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside.

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah that makes sense. My comment had more to do with the potential of a open source search engine/crawler than anything it currently does. Though I feel the optics feature might be able to account for that eventually.

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