drone509

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I use FBReader everyday. When you say that it's netblocked, what do you mean? I've been able to use it in airplane mode with no issues. I'm using v3.7.6.

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

In Massachusetts I think it generally is listed on the receipt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Everything I've seen has indicated US inflation rates dropping steadily since 2022. What inflation are you seeing?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an American, I'm honestly excited to see how it will turn out. Hope it's not a catastrophe, but at least there'll be something to learn no matter what happens.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I've had this issue before. My limited understanding is that your home server fetches copies of communities somebody on your server is subbed to. But if you're the first person, it can take it a few hours to federate (took mine a day.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I understand those concerns, but I'm not sure if this really improved the security of mastodon, an inherently very insecure software, and it definitely deprived us of a useful tool. Defederation works at stopping spam, but I don't think it really helps much when it comes to preventing people from seeing things you post. It stops a single server, but bad actors can just migrate to a new one, or spin up a new hostname.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (13 children)

I hated the backlash the bridgy dev received. His project was genuinely useful, helped to solve one of people's most common criticisms of the fediverse. And after he was browbeat into giving it up, everything still got hoovered up by bots and fed into AI models anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think Debian unstable works great on laptops, and it's hard to beat for stability.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know it isn't really the point, but your setup is so visually pleasant. Very aesthetic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The books Walkaway (Cory Doctorow) and Accelerando (Charles Stross) both give me nostalgia for a time when the future seemed like an exciting challenge instead of an unbearable one.