KelsonV

KelsonV, 7 months ago

“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?”

KelsonV, 5 months ago

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

KelsonV, 10 months ago

That’s something I noticed when I first started using it, too. One of the first things was picking out the different kids of small birds that my brain had previously filed under “small bird.” A sparrow here, a finch there, a warbler or a phoebe, those are starlings not blackbirds or small crows, etc.

I’m still not good at telling different dandelion-like species apart, though, and I’m happy to let the app make its best guess on those and let someone else sort them out!

KelsonV, 7 months ago

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…

KelsonV, 7 months ago

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

KelsonV, 4 months ago

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

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.