KelsonV

@KelsonV@lemmy.ml

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

Website: KVibber.com
Mastodon: @KelsonV

Moved to KelsonV@lemmy.world

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KelsonV,

Yeah, it’s made more for refining and confirming details than for adding entirely new objects.

When I want to add something that’s not on the map yet, I either add a note in StreetComplete and come back to it later on my computer, or I add it using Vespucci. (I’ve been known to add items using Vespucci, then reload the data on StreetComplete so I can fill in details that aren’t in the presets and that I can’t remember how to tag manually!)

KelsonV,

I've been wondering lately what the difference is and finally looked it up.

It turns out: There isn't one! Hub is just a marketing name they're using with newer versions, and Hub 5 = Nextcloud 27

https://github.com/nextcloud/server/wiki/Maintenance-and-Release-Schedule

They could certainly do a much better job of clarifying that, though!

KelsonV,

Hmm, a quick look at the html on the logged-out view of a post with lots of comments shows no sign of a meta robots tag, so the pages are technically crawlable. this one

But it looks like only about 25 comments out of 439 are in the html on that first page view, so probably only those will be picked up by a crawl?

Commenting across instances

If I registered at lemmy.world, is it possible to still comment on a thread at say lemmy.ml? I get the expected "You are not logged in" and while subscribing is easy enough, I'm not able to comment or interact with other instances. This seems normal as users are unique per instance, I just want to make sure I'm not missing a key...

KelsonV,

If my instance closes down, will I lose control over all of the copied content from my previous account

Once the old instance is gone, yes. If it fails suddenly and never comes back up, there's not much that can be done about that, unfortunately.

If the old server closes up shop in a planned way, and the admins give you enough advance notice, you can take whatever steps you want before the shutdown.

I'm not sure if Lemmy has this feature, but some servers (Mastodon, off the top of my head) have a "self-destruct" mode to send out delete notices during a planned shutdown. It's not a 100% guarantee that all the other copies will go away, but neither is deleting a random post from an active server!

KelsonV,

is a book review site like Goodreads

is a blogging service, and Medium is actually working on Fediverse integration.

notanonymous26, to lemmy
@notanonymous26@fosstodon.org avatar

@lemmy Hi I am planning on joining Lemmy however I was reading about some privacy issues with the platform. I am going to share some of them and what do you think about it?

--Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible

-Deleted account usernames remain visible too

-Anything remains visible on federated servers!

-When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server

KelsonV,

The fact that other copies might be out there (assuming a crawler archived the particular page while a post was up) isn't a reason not to remove the copies you can control.

KelsonV,

By that logic, there's no point in ever deleting anything online, so why even bother with hiding them? Just leave everything up there forever, whether the person who wrote it still wants it to be there or not.

Also, not everyone has the time, programming skills and resources to just fork a project, never mind run their own server. That's not a constructive approach to a "this feature ought to work better" discussion.

KelsonV,

Mastodon has the same fatal flaw. They want to keep your history and relationships hostage so you can’t leave.

You can migrate your relationships to a new Mastodon server.

And while you can't directly transfer the history (the debate over how/whether to do this has gone on for literally years), you can export an archive you can keep locally, and there are tools out there to parse it and convert it to some other form (static website, whatever). Someone's probably written an importer by now, though I'd have to look.

KelsonV,

Unless someone can convince them that healthcare is the work of their boogeyman du jour

I think they have already.

KelsonV,

I fired up Minecraft for the first time in a year a couple of days ago...and today I'm so glad it was a vanilla instance.

KelsonV,

Some that exist on here, but aren't active:

KelsonV,

So that's what the UART-to-USB thing was for! I couldn't find any mention of it in the user guide. Fortunately my screen turned on fine!

KelsonV,

Sure, servers are cheaper now. Domains are cheap now. TLS certs are free now. But that happened after the advertising business model became dominant.

For a while, server power was barely keeping up with the rise in demand, and you couldn't just add another cloud server or bump up the RAM allocation on the one you have, you had to physically install new hardware. That took a larger chunk of money than adding $5 to your hosting plan, and time to set up the hardware.

By the time the tech stack got significantly cheaper (between faster hardware and virtualization, not to mention Let's Encrypt), advertising was already entrenched and starting to coalesce around a handful of big networks.

KelsonV,

Firefox can do this out of the box. Just set it to delete site data on exit, and add your whitelisted sites to the list of exceptions

KelsonV,

Even just caching the not-logged-in views can be a big help, as I've found with self-hosted WordPress.

KelsonV,

If you use a Nextcloud server, there's a good collection of apps (some official, some third-party) that work with it. The ones I use:

Nextcloud - main app, does authentication, file access, optional auto-upload photos Nextcloud Notes - kind of like Google Keep, but simpler. (IIRC Carnet is more like Keep, and also open) Nextcloud Talk - instant messaging, supposedly can do voice but I've never used it for that Nextcloud News - RSS reader that syncs your feeds and read/unread through your Nextcloud server

Plus these apps that aren't Nextcloud-specific, but work with it and other sync methods:

OpenTasks - ToDo list (needs Dav5x to sync) DAVx5 - Syncs contacts, calendars and to-do items between any CalDav, CardDav or WebDav servers and your Android system, so you can access them with any local contacts or calendar app. (For instance: K-9 Mail can use contacts from my Google account and my Nextcloud account, and Simple Calendar can do the same with my calendars.) Floccus - Bookmarks manager that can sync across multiple desktop browsers and the mobile app, using any of several sync options including Nextcloud

KelsonV,

NextCloud provides WebDAV access for its file storage, in addition to the sync apps.

KelsonV,

I wish I was surprised instead of just angry, but knowing that area...

KelsonV,

I would assume it involves computer-related writings, history, etc. How people communicate online, hypertext fiction, wikis, the differences in how people write and present media online compared to on paper. How people have used memes, emoji, etc. Hacker lore. Some overlap with digital arts and social sciences - ethics, media creation

KelsonV,

I can't imagine why it would.

KelsonV,

This post alone now has as many upvotes as I saw someone on Reddit claim Lemmy had total users.

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