leraje

@leraje@lemmy.ml

Creator of Mullem - a Firefox Add On to create and manage combined feeds for multiple Lemmy communities across any Lemmy instances.

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Need help learning how to read books again

I used to be an avid reader, but years of high school and depression completely ruined that. I haven’t been able to complete a novel since senior year six years ago. It’s frustrating to me and I want to know how I can overcome my lack of focus and anxiety. I’ve heard I’m not alone when it comes to this sort of thing at...

leraje,

Short stories is the answer. They do seem to mainly the province of horror and sci-fi but even if that’s not a favoured genre(s) it’s a way back in. Try Night Shift or Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (give The Mist a miss though, it’s not really a ‘short’ short story). Take it a page at a time, stop reading the minute you start to lose interest, try again 15mins later. Remember it’s fun activity not a competitive sport, take all the time you need, the books you want to read are going nowhere :)

leraje,

Are you being human trafficked?

GOS International Message To Former TST UK Members

The Global Order of Satan wish to congratulate the members of the former TST UK chapter on their recent decision to disaffiliate from The Satanic Temple. We know from experience such conclusions are not easily reached. It takes fearless introspection to discard dearly held loyalties, and your immediate reward is likely to be...

leraje,

Are you trying to compare OP with Galileo?

leraje,

You really need to re-read that book, but without the preconceived rightwing slant.

leraje,

If I'm referring people to a book I always use a link to its OpenLibrary entry. If I'm discussing a book, I do it on the Bookwyrm instance I'm on.

In short - use both :)

leraje,

That's a good point. My thinking was to try and avoid high VPS costs. Anything more than €10 is out of my price range really and this seemed a way of running via a high spec machine without a high price.

leraje,

Thank you, I'll look into that.

leraje,

Forum packages have been around for at least 20 years. I'm terms of forum like features the only difference is federation.

Best VPNs

My subrsiption with surfshark is ending soon and I was wondering if there was something better around the same price. There are a lot of ads about many VPNs but a lot of them don't look so "safe and private" as they want you to think so it's hard to really figure it out. I don't want to spend too much since I don't use them very...

leraje,

Another vote for Mullvad. You can pay by cash, vouchers (in some countries) or Monero for total privacy.

leraje,

They have recently removed support for port forwarding. That won't stop a user being able to torrent but it will stop seeding and will affect discoverability and speed somewhat.

Has no negative impact on their privacy features

leraje,

F. is no longer true. They recently removed support for this after lots of people abused the feature.

leraje,

A VPN service isn't for illegal stuff. It can be used that way but for me its usefulness is in providing a layer of privacy between me, my ISP and online services I use.

[Project] Having trouble deploying Lemmy? Try my new script! Get up and running in minutes! (github.com)

In the past few days, I've seen a number of people having trouble getting Lemmy set up on their own servers. That motivated me to create Lemmy-Easy-Deploy, a dead-simple solution to deploying Lemmy using Docker Compose under the hood....

leraje,

Does docker need to be already installed on my local machine and my VPS?

My Opinion of the Fediverse so far.

Help me out here. Like a lot of ex-redditors, I made my way to the fediverse to find a whole new world of social media. Is it confusing at first? Yes. It takes a moment to adjust and learn the difference between an instance and a server and all that. But the one thing that confuses all hell out of me is @name. Not because it...

leraje,

Well, the issue is that although both an instance that uses Mastodon and an instance that uses Lemmy communicate using ActivityPub, the way the might choose to display the passed info is different. Lemmy for example can have longer posts than Mastodon (a micro blogging service) can handle.

There does need to be a way to handle that but I don't think its really in place yet. Let's not forget the fediverse is a very young thing, not all the issues are resolved yet.

leraje,

Reddit is not going to go away. And if there's a set of tools to autoedirect/replace content to a Lemmy based community it won't be long before its automodded and possibly even excluded server side in the reddit codebase.

They've said it themselves - profit is their target. They'll do pretty much anything to prevent that being impeded.

I will have to participate on Reddit as I help mod a sub for an org that risks being misrepresented. But that's all I'll go for, no more participation in any other sub (unless I spot some misrepresentation of what's happened or of the fediverse). My community is here now.

Maybe its time we just moved on from Reddit and worrying about what its done and concentrate on building the community here.

How to get started with Monero

I've see many people mention monero in similar discussion forums many times. As a person who only ever uses cash for most of their transactions besides the ones online, how does one get started in acquiring monero? I have no idea and would like to know if theres reliable/reputable sources for information thats extremely noob...

leraje,

After installing the wallet from getmonero, I went to localmonero.co and located a reputable seller in my country who accepted Amazon gift cards bought with cash.

I then bought an Amazon gift card using cash and kept the reciepts.

I then, as per requirements of the seller, took photos of the gift card number and the receipts to demonstrate the date and the fact I'd paid with cash. After sending these images to my PC I edited them in gimp to remove store identifying info from the receipts image, ran both images through a metadata removal tool and initiated the trade with the seller with the images. They accepted the trade and approx 20mins later the XMR was in my wallet

leraje,

Ooooh, I see - that makes perfect sense. Thanks :)

leraje,

Your best bet is https://lemmy.ml/c/selfhost but your options are either self host at home or a VPS. Hetzner are a decent VPS provider, some people are using them with 4gb ram/60gb space which is about £6 a month. I'm going to go for 8gb RAM/80gb space.

You can either use Ansible, Docker, Yunohost or do it all manually.

leraje,

Its convenience. 99% don't care about anything apart from getting what they need. The blackout caused them inconvenience so its therefore annoying. Its the same attitude that can appear when workers take strike action.

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