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lemann, 5 months ago

Holy moly that is an absolute sh*t ton of ads!

lemann, 5 months ago

Because it’s from china doesn’t mean anything though lol. So are our phones, clothes, bikes, car electronics, batteries, practically all electronics except hard drives etc.

Don’t forget that there are talented individuals everywhere, regardless of whatever perceptions exist about their country of origin.

In this case, OP wants access to what they consider to be a good show, and that’s that 🤷‍♂️🏴‍☠️

lemann, 5 months ago

Hopefully everythings ok with Psythik. Nice to see you around though DJ Ivy!

lemann, 5 months ago

At least “Twitter” can be blocked nice and easily, “X” is pretty damn tricky without catching stuff like Xylophones, Exercise, Xbox etc

lemann, 5 months ago

Second this. Zorin OS, and Mandriva Linux (before they went bankrupt, and the community picked up development) were my first exposure to Linux over a decade ago, and the ux familiarity really helps a ton.

A lot of the other distros had funny stuff going on with multiple docks, open apps showing in the top dock, others looked like a Stardock Special and it was just a little confusing for younger me lol

lemann, 5 months ago

That community looks neat, subscribed!

But i’m not too sure how I feel about the bot being unlabeled as such, some users will want their lemmy experience to be 100% heart beating human, not some of it be transistor switching bots.

I personally keep bots visible, and just block what I don’t want to see… If a user has blocked all bots then they would probably know the implications.

If you want to run a daily thread for conversations which isn’t tagged as a bot, it would be nicer to create it manually, where the title and description has a personalised touch with how you’re doing etc, instead of a schedule bot pre-filling these from a template

lemann, 5 months ago

It’s something I can take up to some extent, less so at the moment though due to work and trying to get myself into a routine lol.

I have a local lemmy.world account @lemann which would be more ideal than this remote one

I do have some additional questions and potential ideas - an immediate concern would be myself getting blocked by users who blocked the bot to hide the daily threads 😂 so ideally would want to make sure the new human-posted “how are you doing” threads actually bring value to users rather than encourage a handful of the 6k subs to block me lol.

Could ask the community what their thoughts on the existing daily thread are - it looks like a great discussion starter to me personally, after looking at a handful they have a noticeable following with a few common users

lemann, 5 months ago

This would fit in pretty nicely at !thenightfeeling too

lemann, 5 months ago

Ohhh my apologies - just went again to look and saw it. I think I missed it because it doesn’t show as an image until you tap it

lemann, 5 months ago

Yepp looks like this is the one - thank you!

lemann, 5 months ago

Edit: sorry, I may have misunderstood your post - free email != email masking.

My original post below…

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Curious why you consider email address masking services as for those with “drastic anonymity” requirements?

I personally don’t think so: they are pretty much just a digital P.O. box, and are typically not anonymous in any way (subpoena/court order to the provider). They are built-in to Firefox too, it will automatically create new ones OOTB as you sign up on websites, if you click the autofill.

They are however IMO one effective tool out of many to restrict the ability of data brokers and hacking groups (aggregated breach datasets) alike from making money from your online presence without your consent.

In almost all cases this data is freely searchable for law enforcement and private investigators, allowing them to avoid going through the legal system to investigate and possibly detain you for things you’re not guilty of

lemann, 5 months ago

X.509 certs are commonly used in TLS/HTTPS.

Why is one needed in your boot process?

Don’t know why but I found this funny

lemann, 5 months ago

Or about the D.E.V.I.L.S. format listing option on ffmpeg

lemann, 5 months ago

Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.

This is hardly deranged, there is a lot worse than this which is more deserving of that description IMO lol

lemann, 5 months ago

Probably a good idea to look for a different client, call me tinfoil but I wouldn’t want to touch a very old mechanism that is supported/pushed by a very recognisable 3 letter agency

lemann, 5 months ago

I delete them from the ssh config folder after installation, along with the DSA and ECDSA keys. No ed25519? No auth.

Also prevents a handful of bots from attempting SSH login into your cloud infra, a lot of them don’t support ed25519 kex

lemann, 5 months ago

Why have they got three separate areas for it? That seens really counterintuitive IMO

Searching on stock Android gives a handful of results, but they’re all under one dedicated system area called “Gestures” 🫠 not spread out across several like what Samsung has done

lemann, 5 months ago

A bird walked in the path of my bicycle at the last minute 😭

lemann, 5 months ago

This made me literally LOL

lemann, 5 months ago

Blahaj needs to lock down their registrations for a while, seen three different spammers flooding lots of comment sections within the past day or so registered on their instance.

I think it’s a trolling group from a specific instance, if you inspect the location of the images attached in the comments

lemann, 5 months ago

if you dislike someone’s posting habits just block them

Everyone already does that 👌 but it’s not that great against spam users…

A spammer bot was repeatedly registering accounts on Blahaj and spamming nsfl memes in comment sections (apparently also gore and porn as mentioned by other users elsewhere). I saw & blocked 3 separate accounts before kinda just calling it quits taking a break from the app

Saw another thread on another instance about this too programming.dev/post/6749653

lemann, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

defederation should only be the last option

I would usually agree here, however if you’re the admin of an instance or a mod you’re going to quickly get tired of getting gore posts reported to you which originate from another instance.

A temporary defederation, as done by the admin in the link posted, IMO is the most effective solution right now, until Lemmy gets more mod tools to handle these edge cases in a more ideal way

Besides, according to your link the owner already solved the problem, so even less reason to do so.

The admin there re-federated with Blahaj after the issue was resolved 👍

Edit: to clarify, temporary defederation is only being mentioned because AFAIK the instance admin was offline at the time, and couldn’t restrict their registrations or ban the multiple spam bot accounts

lemann, 5 months ago

Free google play credit, I usually get an email every year for it

But I do pay for Plex, despite Jellyfin being a thing. If I like something and it’s worth it to me personally, why not 🤷‍♂️… but you will never find me defending their kinda crappy decisions like the new Discover feature, removal of “All Songs” from the plex apps in favor of moving people to Plexamp, removing the Gallery sync a few years ago etc.

Some people want their software to be 100% FOSS all-eyes-on-the-codebase, others just do a balancing act based on their personal values.

I value my software to be “transparent enough” in how it operates, “just work”, and hackable to some extent - if I really wanted to I can swap out the ffmpeg binary that Plex uses for transcoding to something else (doesn’t remove the Plex Pass limitation for those curious), I can hook into the server API to change ambient lighting colour based on the cover/background of whatever media is playing, I can create speakers running a Linux board to cast Plex media to, etc. But once that hackable ship sails, then I will look to FOSS alternatives.

For Niagara, everything “just worked”. No noticeable bugs, fast search, consistent feel and design, useful contextual info (e.g. next calendar event shows under the clock), and gestures that made sense for its overall UX. Using it felt less like you were using a “launcher”. The yearly sub was cheap enough that I wouldn’t mind covering for it if I didn’t get credits, and having a single person working on software usually comes with a high level of attention to detail (particularly in performance and UX) but it does have the downside that the experience may be more opinionated and closed compared to if it was a community-driven FOSS project instead IMO.

Alas, google didn’t send credits this year, Niagara made less sense for value/worth-it compared to Kvaesitso, so I abandoned it.

For me, Kvaesitso does everything in a slightly different, much more customizable way, and being FOSS was one of the things that made it particularly attractive as a replacement