It’s so messed up that OS vendors just assume it’s okay to throw ads onto your desktop or your phone. My Samsung just started throwing them in my notifications, and there’s no way to turn them off.
I didn’t want to have to root my phone and install a different version of Android on it, but this is downright hostile.
@deadsuperhero Even with stock Android, it’s just kind of disgraceful how awful the Google Play store is. “Let users find and install apps they’re looking for” seems to be dead last in their feature checklist.
It’s kind of funny to see people freak out about systemd, when Microsoft is building a moment-to-moment surveillance system.
I don’t doubt that this could be a useful tool, but the potential for harm makes it completely fucking dystopian. That it’s also a black box that you can’t examine the source code of makes it way worse.
@gellenburg FreeBSD is pretty great. I’m still in the Ubuntu world these days for convenience, but if Canonical keeps up with the bullshit, I may strongly consider it!
@deadsuperhero FreeBSD has the ability to run native Linux ELF binaries (no virtualization) which is just voodoo magic to me. I love FreeBSD. There's something so cathartic about compiling your own kernel, custom tailored to your exact setup and hardware, from source. ;-)
I’ve been really, really getting into Jim Croce, after a recommendation by a coworker. I think what I love most about this guy is that he can really tell a story through his music. This is a guy that worked all kinds of odd jobs to support his family, while also pursuing his dream of music.
Jim Croce was the salt of the earth. He was thoughtful, heartfelt, and incredibly funny. His music was a beautiful marriage of 70’s rock with hints of blue collar workin’ man country.
Do you ever get a sad pang of nostalgia about the place you came from? Do you look back at a town, and get sad about the potential it once had, and despair the decline it met instead?
I feel that way about Peoria, Illinois, and the surrounding area. It was once prosperous. As a kid, it was on the up-and-up.
But, that city has long been a symbol of its own problems: an abandoned downtown, companies that mostly offer dead-end careers, and a frustrated, depressed population that would rather live anywhere else.
After Caterpillar moved their headquarters, there’s been a black hole in the economy there. Cat used to employ thousands of people in the area - blue collar, white collar, you name it. It propped up everything around it - small businesses, restaurants, bars, and music venues.
That place just feels like it’s barely holding on now. It would take a lot of work to improve anything, from starting businesses to making transit more accessible to getting rid of food deserts. Everything depended on one company for like 80 years, and the layout and flow of things required workers to live in small towns half an hour away.
The Midwest in general just feels kind of fucked nowadays.
Weird question: can anyone recommend an email hosting service that is more or less just an inbox/outbox? No groupware or collaboration, just spin up a bunch of accounts and integrate them with your own suite of apps?
I’m really interested in using Nextcloud as a full replacement for Google Workspace in our organization. It’s really good! There are ways to automatically provision accounts in there, through SSO or other kinds of integration, so that new people get access on their first login.
But, almost every hosted email service is kind of trying to be their own Google Workspace alternative, with bells and whistles that I don’t really need.
@deadsuperhero :neocat_think: technically, this is a misskey (and forks) feature. but ye, its a really nice feature to have. lets me organize stuff i want to refer in the future without having to maintain a linklist in textfiles or something
Due to the amount of days I’ve accrued in my leave balance, I officially was able to put in my two weeks’ notice with the United States Air Force today.
This is a weird time for me. I’m figuring out what my future looks like, and planning on going back to school full-time. Part of me is really happy, another part of me is sad, worried, terrified, burnt out, and depressed.
I had some amazing experiences, and met some incredible people. We made memories together. Walking away from that puts me in a really weird spot. I have to take time to figure my shit out.
@deadsuperhero I'm retired and only now have the time to figure this kind of stuff out.
A few things I have to work on daily are being kind to myself, not caring how that looks to others, and remembering that I'm different, have different needs that even I have to keep reminding myself about.
One of those is that I've always needed more time than others, for anything, and that it is bad for me to go against that. Unfortunately it's been the habit of a lifetime, so hard to change.
Trying out #Tokodon on the desktop, since I'm gradually shifting back to #KDE these days. So far it's...alright?
I've always loved the idea of a Fediverse client that integrates nicely with the desktop, while offering full access to whatever features that platform gives you. But, I'm hard pressed to find a client that does everything I want. 😅
A minor annoyance is that mobile clients like @moshidon are really, really good nowadays. Desktop clients, though? Some are great, but a lot of them feel like they’re five years behind, in terms of user experience.
This is my nine year old #beagle girl. Her name is Lori. She’s a diva, but my heart melts for her.
I adore this dog. She follows me everywhere, cuddles with me, and gives jealous looks / barks whenever I smooch my wife. She also regularly tilts her head back and goes “Bwoo!” as a greeting. ♥️
Had to sift through my medical data for my various VA Disability claims, and came across notes from various therapy sessions. It was interesting to read old discussions from another point of view, but it’s a real can of worms.
As a fun little experiment, @damon and I worked together to get a #Mastodon instance up and running that stores media on #IPFS! It was an interesting learning experience.
I don’t think we’re ready to announce anything yet, as this was in service of another project in development. But, there’s an increasing number of ways to host content on an IPFS node service, and tie it back to platforms like Mastodon using an S3-compatible API for Object Storage and some proxying.
This is all pretty rudimentary, but the big-brain realization is that a more robust version could be done by pairing Minio to s3x if we wanted to self-host an IPFS node with those specific features.
@deadsuperhero
I expect more of this, not just re #IPFS but as #p2p systems are happening, storage models will change for the better. #Autonomi is the project I'm most familiar with and they have already talked about this and have partners ready to upload their data. They are not yet revealed, but I wouldn't be surprised if replacing AWS was in there.
I'm working on a demo myself in the area of web publishing and browsing, and am very excited about this whole area, so I wish you luck. @damon
@deadsuperhero I don't get why you see so "few narrow applications". IPFS storage could be used to store the media (videos, sounds). We then could hope that every instance where someone follow you will get the toot and store the attachments in their local IPFS node. So, the more popular your content become, the more it is available, à la BitTorrent. You then can selfhost on your instance and no longer need costly CDN, S3. Benefits seems obvious to me but I may miss something 🤔