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ChrisWere

@ChrisWere@toot.wales

I was born at a very young age. Now I love #Linux and #FOSS. Profile picture and banner credit: https://toot.wales/@LucyCorbett.

PeerTube (videos) https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/video-channels/readyfedigo
Pixelfed (photos) https://pix.toot.wales/PixelChris

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ChrisWere, to random
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I love the filters for @pixelfed. Anyone wanna check out my photos I'm @PixelChris.

ChrisWere, to readyfedigo
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My website recently hit one million views recently. I've given it a spruce-up and it's the best place to keep up-to-date with whatever I'm working on.

https://chriswere.wales

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@PixelChris
@readyfedigo

ChrisWere,
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@TheFrenchGhosty @PixelChris @readyfedigo Freebooters isn't gone. We'll be back soon. Promise.

ChrisWere, to random
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Does @cwtch have any plans on releasing for the F-Droid store?

nixCraft, to random
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Bluesky says goodbye to Mr. Jack (co-founder and former CEO of Twitter). He is back to bird site. He has been posting there for the past few days. Then unfollowed everyone except three accounts (Musk, Snowden, and Assange's wife). 😂

ChrisWere,
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@nixCraft Bluesky is crumbling!

ChrisWere, to random
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I'm giving the instant messenger Cwtch a go. If anyone wants to try it out with me my address is: m3fictsqfhdmdkz5h322qydc2lbtliqmmmmb2yfenkdoy5mynohvqwad

ChrisWere,
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@MattiP Rolls off the tongue, haha.

ChrisWere, (edited ) to random
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Has anyone compiled Dillo from source? I'm on Debian and can't seem to find the fltk1.3 library it needs.

ChrisWere,
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@peterkotrcka Ahhh, forgot to put the lib at the beginning, haha. Thank for that :-D

pch, to random
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I have to get into using Passkeys. I use 2FA but passkeys confuse me.

ChrisWere,
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@pch Yeah they're a bit confusing to me too

ChrisWere, to random
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Animals are innocent.

Animals are innocent music video.

ChrisWere, to random
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May the fourth of May be with you this May.

TechConnectify, to random
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Real thought:

What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.

When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.

It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.

ChrisWere, (edited )
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@TechConnectify There's a lot of people today who think we don't have much of a future, and there seems to be no political enthusiasm to change that from the people with power.

Millennials are jaded by what's happened to the economy in the past 25 years.

Gen Z had to experience some of their formative years in Covid lockdowns, watching a useful political class flail around and fail to deal with it.

And Gen Alpha are likely going to having to deal with oncoming climate change effects.

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they don't let you play flash games on the college computers anymore, because of woke

ChrisWere,
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@ipg It's health and safety gone mad!!!!

ChrisWere, to random
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The more heavy-handed legislation on IMs comes down, the more sensible P2P IM apps become. If you take out the server - per se - everyone becomes responsible for their own data. There's no 'service' to fine, or penalise.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/eu-csam-scanning-council-proposal-flaws/

ChrisWere,
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@fedops I need to give simple x a go.

louisa_, to animals
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Walked down to the village to vote. No dogs at the polling station unfortunately but we met a very friendly one on the lane on the way, which was nice.

Also, we walked down through our garden and (what is now) the cow field. Our cat Kaufman followed us through the garden then sat on the stile at the bottom and watched us cross the field.

As we returned an hour later, we joked about whether he'd still be waiting for us -- and he was 😍😍😍

(Very blurry shot from about 50m away)

#CatsOfMastodon

A low quality photo of a grassy hill. About half way up, there is a wooden stile with wire stock fence on one side. A black cat is patiently sitting in loaf position at the base of the stile.

ChrisWere,
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@louisa_ No doggos outside my polling station either either. Sadness.

ChrisWere, to photography
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I saw these cool looking ducks yesterday.
#photography #photo #ducks

ChrisWere,
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Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

ChrisWere,
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@Edent I've been tripped up by simpler scams. That's pretty devious.

LateNightLinux, to random
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What's the best open source app or utility that no one else has heard of?

(Please note that your replies may be read out and discussed on an episode of Late Night)

ChrisWere,
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@LateNightLinux I've recently discovered this neat little FOSS utility which makes quick-and-easy file transfers using only a browser. Comes in handy a lot.
https://www.sharedrop.io

ChrisWere, to random
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Ten likes and I do a video on the @dillo browser.

ChrisWere,
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@dillo Well that was quick.

ChrisWere,
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@peterkotrcka @dillo Oooo, i'll have to give that a go.

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", or NetNews, is a text-only social discussions forum, or rather a set of a great many forums, called "newsgroups," carried by multiple servers around the world. Although the original developers closed down their instance in 2010, that was just one server out of hundreds, and many are still running just fine. It never went away – it's still alive, you can get on it for free, and there is a choice of client apps for most OSes to help you navigate."

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

ChrisWere,
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@zeruch I honestly don't know why we don't use IRC more, there are so many benefits to it over other platforms.

ChrisWere,
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@zeruch Interesting, I'm a little surprised at that. I thought it would have been relatively simple compared with modern systems.

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