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.
Same here. The learning curve is higher on Vespucci, but once you're familiar with it it's extremely capable!
Not sure how you get from Fediverse people researching what server admin/moderation structures work well and which ones don't to CIA censorship.
I use Nextcloud Notes and Tasks extensively.
Notes is kind of bare-bones compared to Carnet, which is more like Google Keep, but it's fast, syncs with its own Android app, and stores notes as regular files in your Nextcloud folder so you can use any text editor with them.
Tasks hooks into the calendar system and can sync with anything that supports CalDAV. I use Davx5 to sync it (along with my calendars and contacts) to my phone, where I use OpenTasks to actually manage my to-do list. The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't support recurring tasks very well. I've sort of managed to work around that by syncing with Thunderbird, which lets me create recurring tasks in the underlying calendar data.
- 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.
Wow, imagine how upset they'd be if they listened to the rest of the lyrics!
>"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."
"What would incentivise companies to use it over a regular website with tracking and whatnot?"
Nothing...and that's kinda the point.
Oh geez, thinking back to the "we had it first!" wars between Opera fans and Firefox fans about tabs back in the pre-Chrome days...
Firefox, and Vivaldi for the occasional site that doesn't work on Gecko. (They're built on the Chromium engine, but absolutely refusing to implement this crap)
"the private enforcement mechanism" -- which is essentially an end run around restrictions on what the government is technically not allowed to do itself, by heavily implying that they want something done instead of explicitly hiring someone to do it. "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
I've gone back to Blu-Ray for some things because I no longer trust streaming sites to keep them available.
Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem...
Too narrow, hidden, minimal feedback...
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 @kelson.wordpress.com@kelson.wordpress.com works (I was able to subscribe to it from both Mastodon and GoToSocial), it's a bit unwieldy.
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.
^&@% 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)
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."
The rest of the page? Probably. I stopped reading after the comic.
I have a single Raspberry Pi 3b as a local file/media server running Jellyfin. I'm also running BOINC and seeding torrents of various Linux distributions. External HDD for storage, plus a thumb drive for the local media and another for the torrents so it only has to spin up when someone's actually using it.
It's not super-fast by any means, but it's fast enough to listen to music over my LAN, which is the main thing I need it to do quickly. Though eventually I plan on setting up a better NAS on something with faster I/O.
The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions. But if programming languages were games, which would be which?
"The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions."
So the $140/year subscription they're already collecting isn't enough for them?
I guess this is as good a reminder as any to look at what I'm actually using Prime for these days.
We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links add...
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.
"I'm not sure who thought it was a good idea to put up CubeSats with Artemis I."
DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn't getting the budget
Eoghan Daltun has spent 14 years creating a showcase of native biodiversity.
Does this mean we can finally stop using these barriers to accessibility?
Windows Secure Time Seeding resets clocks months or years off the correct time.
STS (Secure Time Seeding) uses server time from SSL handshakes, which is fine when talking to other Microsoft servers, but other implementations put random data in that field to prevent fingerprinting.
Red alert! For the last six months, EFF, our supporters, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress. We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together—po...
New fossil from China captures the last moments of a life-or-death struggle.
GitHub has identified a low-volume social engineering campaign that targets the personal accounts of employees of technology firms. No GitHub or npm systems were compromised in this campaign. We’re publishing this blog post as a warning for our customers to prevent exploitation by this threat actor.
We have exciting news! iNaturalist is now an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. This is a big day for iNaturalist. Since launching in 2008, the iNaturalist team and organization has evolved, and we’re thrilled about this next milestone. iNaturalist began as a master’s project at the University of Cali...
I was a fan of the Wolfman/Perez #NewTeenTitans run back in the day, and never got around to watching the #Titans TV series. With streaming services dropping shows left and right, I wonder if I should take the opportunity to watch it before it disappears.
I know Steam on Linux uses a Wine environment to run Windows games, but I was recently reminded that you can run the Windows version of Steam in a Wine bottle. Is there any advantage to doing it this way instead of running the Linux client with Proton?
As organizations fret over the potential risks of remote work, new research suggests the real dangers lurk within the office itself. That's the finding from a groundbreaking study from the Farmer School of Business at Miami University.
TL;DR: People working in the office tend to get complacent and take more risks, figuring that IT is taking care of security, while people working from home know it's up to them.
It seems that we’ve had a rash of formerly loved internet services going down the enshittification curve. As coined (brilliantly) by Cory Doctorow, enshittification is the process by which a compan…
