KelsonV

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Someone's concern for privacy can change throughout the day or at different locations. To keep the metaphor going, they might be fine with the top being open while they're driving, but want it closed when the car is parked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not sure how you get from Fediverse people researching what server admin/moderation structures work well and which ones don't to CIA censorship.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  • Dropped Reddit and Twitter completely. Actually deleted my Reddit account and deleted most of my Twitter history.
  • Stopped using Gmail as my primary email.
  • Went back to DVD and Blu-Ray for shows and movies I think I might want to rewatch.
  • Slowly importing stuff I've posted on various social media to my website.
  • Slowly moving stuff off of Google Drive and Dropbox to my local PC and/or Nextcloud.
  • Finally set up my Nextcloud server to use object storage so I can use it for auto-uploads without worrying about space.
  • Tried out a bunch of different Fediverse platforms.
  • Made more of an effort to report bugs instead of just living with them or using something else.
  • Deleted Chrome as my secondary browser and installed Vivaldi. (I've been using Firefox as my primary for a while.)

Moving stuff is slow because I don't want to just copy it all over, I want to decide what to keep in the process.

 

"Like so many applications of AI, this new power is likely to be a double-edged sword: It may help people identify the locations of old snapshots from relatives, or allow field biologists to conduct rapid surveys of entire regions for invasive plant species, to name but a few of many likely beneficial applications.

"But it also could be used to expose information about individuals that they never intended to share, says Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union who studies technology. Stanley worries that similar technology, which he feels will almost certainly become widely available, could be used for government surveillance, corporate tracking or even stalking."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

[citation needed]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

....decided what they want the outcome to be, and formulates some kind of argument that results in that outcome

You might say his results were...predetermined

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I've gone back to Blu-Ray for some things because I no longer trust streaming sites to keep them available.

 

Too narrow, hidden, minimal feedback...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks like it is available for free, but you get a really awkward username. I just enabled it on an old WP.com blog that I have on a free account and while @[email protected] works (I was able to subscribe to it from both Mastodon and GoToSocial), it's a bit unwieldy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently not anymore. I have a free account on WordPress.com and I just turned it on like you said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. I have a few applications that I had to specifically turn on Wayland support for (Thunderbird & Vivaldi, for instance), and a lot that work just fine, and the ones I have issues with are mostly the X-only apps running on Xwayland, which tend to be less stable than they were directly under X, but there are only a few that I still use.

 

Murena is launching a smartphone with physical switches to turn off the camera, microphone and network.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

^&@% Private equity again...

Political organizing is a great example of something that shouldn't be owned by this kind of firm.

(Followed by every other kind of organization. The concept of treating "business" as a set of interchangeable parts that move money in and out of opaque boxes and not actually focusing on what they do and why is massively broken IMO)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

OK, I like the comment here wondering about the thermometer's range: "things with an interesting temperature are generally uncomfortable to hold your hand next to. I'm sure there will be at least one support call because someone tries to measure fire from 1 inch away."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

When someone named Kafka says it's the "weirdest"...that says something!

 

"The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions."

 

My Nextcloud instance runs reasonably well on the server side, and my desktop and phone are able to render the web UI reasonably fast when I want to...but I also have a tablet with slow hardware and wifi that is just unusably slow with the Nextcloud web UI. Like, it'll take multiple seconds to render the login page, but only on this one device.

Does anyone know of an alternative web UI for Nextcloud that's optimized for downloading and rendering on slow connections/hardware?

Edit: I'm already using Nextcloud, and I'm using it for quite a few different services, some of which have native apps available, some of which don't, and of course even when an app is available, not all the features are implemented in it. The specific device I'm dealing with here is a Linux tablet, so while I can use native desktop applications for some features, it's not like it can just run Android apps. But the problem would apply to any comparably low-powered hardware like, say, an old laptop that can run native apps and efficiently-designed web applications well enough, but struggles with modern throw-a-million-javascript-libraries-at-it web development.

 

Does this mean we can finally stop using these barriers to accessibility?

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