The fact that it's been out for a year and federation is still only half-implemented suggests to me the decision to add it was pretty late in the development process, even if it was early in the marketing process.
Threads is for whoever Meta can sell it to, and I think it was pretty far along in its development before they actually committed to ActivityPub support.
Having used a butane iron before, I don't think it would. They don't have the temperature control modern digital irons can, and they're forbidden on flights.
Signal and WhatsApp work with the free messaging option. I was a little surprised by Signal.
I'm inclined to agree, and said so in the linked thread.
Basically, anyone who can read your home directory could decrypt your Signal database. That's about typical of traditional desktop applications, but questionable for security-oriented software. Mac OS and (sometimes) Linux have more robust credential management options, and Signal signaled (yes, pun intended) its intent to adopt them.
That's similar to the iFixit iron, as is the less expensive Pinecil.
Those are probably the best options currently available, but I want something more compact and self-contained.
I would not want multiple cells for reasons of ergonomics and convenience.
I probably don't need 100W for most field soldering. 60 is plenty, and temperature-controlled soldering irons usually don't need to pull high current continuously. It would need 60W for maybe 10 seconds when powered on, and when heating something large. The rest of the time, it takes relatively little power to keep the tip hot.
What I'm describing is, of course not the right tool for production soldering. It's for field work.
Assuming the M12 CP1.5 battery pack, it's probably three 18650s. Specifically, it's probably three LG HB series 18650s, which handle high burst loads well, but hold only 1500 mAh. A single Sony VTC6 holds 2/3 the energy of one of those packs. Wait... why am I speculating? Youtubers tear down power tool battery packs on video all the time, and someone did that one. They're Samsung 15Ms, which are a little worse than HBs.
Anyway, short runtimes are fine for most field repairs, which is the whole point of something entirely self-contained. Spare batteries can extend it indefinitely, but a battery soldering iron is probably not what I'd pick for extended soldering sessions.
I would accept a bit of an awkward balance for being self-contained.
Since 2014, but Android had already been out for six years at that point.
What I want from a battery soldering iron is a field-replaceable 18650 in the handle, not Webserial.
As a practical point, saying it in English will almost certainly communicate what you need to communicate. Almost everyone who makes international calls will recognize that you're speaking English even if they don't understand what you're saying, which suggests that the Russian or Korean speaking person they're trying to reach is not at that number.
We had several years of Android that mostly wasn't. Now it's hard work to get Android that isn't.
Apps on F-Droid are not using proprietary Google APIs and won't be affected.
The whole tech world saw Microsoft Palladium as a nightmare scenario, but was quiet ten years later when Apple and Google did the same thing to our phones. That was a mistake.
I understand why manufacturers did it; it bought them a bit more space.
I don't. New phones are huge while older, much smaller ones somehow found room for the analog audio jack.
I'm relatively content with my Pixel 4A running LineageOS (with root), but that's an experience that's really only suited to very technical users, in large part because some apps actively resist running in an environment the device owner actually controls.
My complaint is with the smartphone ecosystem as a whole: it's designed to empower the OS vendor and app developers over users. The entire tech world (outside Microsoft and maybe some corporate IT types) saw Microsoft Palladium as a nightmare scenario a couple decades ago. Now we've let Apple and Google do the same thing with barely a grumble out of the mainstream tech press.
I haven't been following the RCS story closely. My impression is it's a standard core on which each provider can tack on nonstandard extensions, and somehow carriers are involved even though it's internet-based. It sounds like people who won't adopt third-party internet messaging apps are going to continue to have a bad time.
computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
Borrowed from here
- Old leather wallet
- Flashlight (Skilhunt H150)
- Knife (Spyderco UKPK)
- Pepper spray (Sabre Red, with a pocket clip from a random flashlight)
- Phone (Pixel 4A)
- Keys, and another flashlight (Skilhunt EK1)
- Flash drive (Sandisk 128gb)
- 1.38€
I've been self-hosting email with Maddy for a bit, but haven't shared any of the addresses widely yet in part because I haven't set up a spam filter. I'm pleased with Maddy; there's much less to learn to get a server up and running with sane default behavior than with the email software of old.
Ideally, I'd like to go beyond just spam filtering and have something with arbitrary categories like newsletters and password resets. I would prefer that it learn categories when I move messages to IMAP folders from a mail client. Maddy can feed messages into arbitrary programs and pick a destination folder based on their output.
Web searches turn up a ton of classification programs, most of which seem to be more interested in playing accuracy golf with well-known corpora than expanding functionality beyond simple spam filtering.
I often use a commercial VPN service, which I suspect is not rare among Lemmy users. Most of the time, I'm able to post to lemmy.world, but on occasion I am not. The default web UI provides zero feedback, just a spinning submit button forever, but if I look in the browser dev tools, I can see it's being blocked.
I understand that some limitations are necessary to prevent spam and other abuse, however this is a very blunt instrument. The fact that I have a 10 month old account with consistent activity should outweigh any IP address reputation issues.
Perhaps the VPN limitations could be narrowed in scope to cover only account creation and posts from young accounts.
It has been a long time coming, but today marks a monumental leap forward in the world of illumination, and I'm proud to announce an upgrade which will usher in a new era of lighting technology. Yo...
If I want to quickly pitch "you should follow X, Y, and Z using RSS because [problems with social media]" to people who have never heard of RSS, what readers should I recommend?
I want at least web (not self-hosted), Android, and iOS options. Native apps for Mac and Windows would be nice as well. Linux users probably already know what RSS is.
There absolutely must be a free option good for at least 25 feeds because unfamiliar tech is a hard enough sell without having to pay. I'll grudgingly accept ads if that's the tradeoff for something beginner-friendly.
When I attempt to upload images to lemmy.world via the desktop web UI, I get the following error message:
> SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
Looking at network traffic in dev tools, I see that I'm getting a 403 page from Cloudflare saying:
> Sorry, you have been blocked > You are unable to access lemmy.world > Why have I been blocked? > This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks....
I also get error messages when trying to upload images using Connect and Sync on an Android device. I successfully uploaded images in the past.
We just hit 2000 subscribers! I’d like to thank everyone for showing up here to create a new community, and what better way than giving stuff away?
I’m giving away the Nitecore MH10 v2 I reviewed. I can ship it anywhere in the USA or EU, but EU winners will have to wait until mid September. This is a basic, beginner-friendly flashlight that can accept almost all 18650 and 21700 batteries.
To enter, leave a top-level comment on this post before midnight UTC on Sunday, August 27, 2023. Only accounts that have posted or commented on /c/flashlight prior to this being posted are eligible to win.
Luminus SFT-40 L5 HB4 Warm White 3000K CRI95 Long Throw SMD 5050 LED
- Skilhunt M150 v2 (519A swap)
- Kershaw Launch 5
I just updated my Mastodon server to the latest version due to a security vulnerability. I got a 500 page and error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported in the logs from mastodon-web.
I could reproduce by running bin/webpack from the command line. Some searching led me to try Node 16 LTS, but then I get an apparently blank page when I load the site and call to eval() blocked by CSP in the browser console.
The API works normally; this only affects the website.
I want a folding knife that can get away with most most of the things I know better than to do with a folding knife. That leads to specific criteria:
- Price: under $100, lower is better. I might break it.
- Lock: crossbar, backlock, compression, or something similarly strong. Not liner/frame/button. I might want to trust the lock more than is prudent.
- Steel: tough stainless like AEB-L, 14C28N, or Nitro-V. I might baton through salt-driftwood with it and put it away wet. See toughness chart.
- Blade: Ideally 3.25-2.5" (85-90mm) and a tip that isn't dainty. I might pry with it.
- Pivot: washers, not bearings. I might get mud in it.
- I dislike thumbstuds, but will accept them if they're not in the cutting path.
Less than 24 hours after yesterday's post, an Olight rep got in touch by email. A few hours after that, they sent the full payment.
Why YSK: I've been seeing an increasing number of phone photos shared online in 9:16, 9:21 or similarly tall aspect ratios, often with parts of the subject cut off. I've asked a few people why they cropped their images that way, and none of them knew they were cropped.
Stacked camera sensors have been a thing for a while now; they have improved sensitivity to light by stacking translucent photodiodes on top of each other.
The Nichia 719A is the inverse; translucent LEDs are stacked on top of each other (in a single package) for increased intensity.
I grabbed random photos from my reviews for the community icon and banner so we'd have something right away, but I think it would be fun to have rotating community contributions.
Post flashlight-related images that are your original content in replies. Upvote images you like. The image with the most upvotes on Monday, June 19 will become our banner for at least a month.
Disclaimers:
- We'll ignore downvotes
- Images should be suitable for the roughly 3:1 crop of the desktop banner and the squarer formats used for mobile and the sidebar
- Images should be on-topic and tasteful
- Mods may disqualify submissions for reasons I haven't thought of yet
Most people here are probably already aware of the situation on Reddit. This is a thread to discuss it here.
- Skilhunt M200 v3 (Nichia 519A)
- Artisan Cutlery Archaeo NL
- Google Pixel 4A
- An old leather trifold wallet
- Keys
- Sandisk USB A/C flash drive
- A few Euros