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dontblink, 4 months ago

It’s the path of many of us here, now you will hate linux if you come from windows, give it a couple of months and you’ll ask yourself how the fuck you could be on windows till now.

dontblink, 4 months ago

I wonder why we don’t have AI browser extensions that can recognise and obscure possible ads / unwanted content yet

dontblink, 4 months ago

What about sexual and emotional education in schools?

dontblink, 4 months ago

Hisense A9 with full root + microG

A minimalist eink anti addictive machine that brings smartphones back to an actually useful tool removing literally all the bullshits.

dontblink, 5 months ago

Badum tssss

dontblink, 5 months ago

Video editing softwares definetely, kdenlive is nothing compared to stuff like sony vegas.

dontblink, 5 months ago

I like Debian with GNOME

dontblink, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I mean theoretically if you are hosting your own chat server, for example on Matrix, you can easily make all the chats unaccessible from the clients by issuing a command to shutdown your server or simply the chat server service if there’s no content cached locally.

I think you can do this pretty easily with a raspberry pi by connecting via ssh…

Just use a shell script that changes the static ip to something else after the command to shutdown the service/wipe out the data (depending on what your goal is) has been issued, or use a vpn or something like that if possible, because anyone issuing the command would need to know your server ip.

And issuing a command by ssh to a remote server both from smartphone or pc should be as easy that you can actually build a very small app for that, or use some app that creates shortcuts that directly connects and issue custom commands.

That way you are forced to give people your new ip every time chats become unaccessible/deleted and someone can’t connect back even if wanting to without talking to you, unless you decide you can use the older ip for whatever reason.

Of course not using your real ip but using some service like a vpn or proxy (or tor?) would be much better here, but i don’t really know how.

That can give you full power on the chat history and create the said “panic button” for every client involved.

dontblink, 5 months ago

I guess probably, because Matrix is thought for private chatting, i guess someone else might have had this same idea, i think matrix is opensource so there must be some client that does this.

dontblink, 5 months ago

Yeah sure, you have to trust your users

dontblink, 5 months ago

TREE STYLE TAB

dontblink, 5 months ago

There’s Bitcoin and lightning network :)

dontblink, 5 months ago

If it was less expensive and provided some privacy i would probably happily pay for it.

dontblink, 5 months ago

This app is amazing! I loved the infinity design, that’s so fucking amazing you took the time to bring it on Lemmy, i never really liked Jeroba!

dontblink, 6 months ago

I simply backup the /home folder, where the important files are with duplicity on my home server with ftp once a week, keeping records of the last 6 months. But as that only restores the home folder i also take a snapshot (which takes way more disk space) every month with timeshift too, which stays on the pc. Would be great if i could take complete snapshots via ftp just like with duplicity, but timeshift doesn’t do that.

dontblink, 7 months ago

Honestly when i first got into coding i liked the fact it could give me jobs i could do from every part of the world, that is still on demand and that gave a certain freedom on how you approach technology and customize it to make it your own, i always liked to tinker around with computer and i even have a small home server i use for several stuff. I loved how useful internet was to find informations otherwise unreachable and share stuff without censorship woth everyone, as i said i love the story of the cypherpunk movement, i see bitcoin as a real solution to our obsolete economy, and i thought i would have liked to have a role into changing this shitty system paradigms, my target was to work with lightining network or similar protocols maybe one day. However i feel like i’m changing lately and i’m lacking human interactions so much, there’s no point in building something toghether if there’s no emotions to share with others before, during and after the process. Maybe it’s just how i’m made, but i cannot stick to it, i just get super depressed and i see no point in doing it. Maybe i’m just lazy i don’t know, but it is like that.

Adding the fact that sometimes i feel like technology controls me, and not the opposite despite all the efforts i make, feels just super wrong and not how i want to live.

I’m studying webdevelopment so i’ve had the opportunity to work only on simple stuff so far, but it already feels super overwhelming, sometimes i get lost just in setting up my coding environment, just to realize it will only be one of many i’ll need to learn how to work with.

dontblink, 7 months ago

And how you deal with that, how do you choose what to do and what not to do?

dontblink, 7 months ago

I’m actually curious on Rust, i don’t like how dispersive can be JavaScript, i prefer to build smaller, maybe uglier things, but that work and are nicely stable, scalable and can be integrated on multiple different platforms. Also i love that almost everything runs on Cargo and i don’t have to choose between 100 things that essentially cover the same target. I also think the Discord idea is quite good, i just want to find someone who is on my same level to grow / build cool things toghether, or small projects on which i can actively partecipate, there’s also an association near me that promotes opensource projects and give free code lessons, i might give it a try as well and see if i meet someone there. I’m gonna give it another try before deciding of giving up, i think it is deserved.

dontblink, 4 months ago

I will add another amazing alternative i’ve found, currently working great: www.distractionfreeapps.comThis was exactly what i was looking for.