KelsonV

@KelsonV@lemmy.world

Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him.

Main: @kelson
Website: KVibber.com #IndieWeb

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Goodbye Chrome. It was great while it lasted. (lemmy.ca)

I’m fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.

KelsonV, 7 months ago

“What would incentivise companies to use it over a regular website with tracking and whatnot?”

Nothing…and that’s kinda the point.

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Trump Supporters Have a Meltdown After Green Day Slam 'MAGA Agenda' During New Year's Show (www.rollingstone.com)

KelsonV, 5 months ago

Wow, imagine how upset they’d be if they listened to the rest of the lyrics!

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Scrollbars are becoming a problem (artemis.sh)

Too narrow, hidden, minimal feedback…

In what ways has your use of technology/internet changed in 2023? (lemmy.ml)

I figured this may lead to an interesting discussion in the comments....

KelsonV, 5 months ago

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.

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If Programming Languages Were Games (Comic) (toggl.com)

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

Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse (infrastructureinsights.fund)

Three months ago I posted about the Atlantic Council’s interest in the controlling the fediverse: lemmy.ml/post/6641106...

KelsonV, 4 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.

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Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs (www.schneier.com)

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

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KelsonV, 4 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.

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What's a good way to map bathrooms/showers/water fountains?

I don’t see an option to enter that info on StreetComplete or EveryDoor, and it would be hard to open your laptop every time...

KelsonV, 4 months ago

Same here. The learning curve is higher on Vespucci, but once you’re familiar with it it’s extremely capable!

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Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc (arstechnica.com)

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.

Attackers invite targets to collaborate on a project, convincing them to download and run a repository with malicious npm dependencies. (github.blog)

Murena Two will have a a kill switch to prevent snooping (murena.com)

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

You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills (Edit: US-specific) (www.eff.org)

Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos (www.npr.org)

"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....

New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy (www.eff.org)

Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification (www.techdirt.com)

Is there an alternative "lite" web front-end for Nextcloud?

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...

NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network (arstechnica.com)

DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn’t getting the budget

Any good nextcloud plugins for Productivity?

Hey guys, I am pretty new to nextcloud....

KelsonV, 4 months ago

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.

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iNaturalist is Now an Independent Nonprofit (www.inaturalist.org)

For people who like the live-action Titans show: What do you like about it?

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.

Steam in Wine vs. Steam running Wine?

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?