KelsonV

joined 1 year ago
[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Someone's concern for privacy can change throughout the day or at different locations. To keep the metaphor going, they might be fine with the top being open while they're driving, but want it closed when the car is parked.

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Same here. The learning curve is higher on Vespucci, but once you're familiar with it it's extremely capable!

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • Dropped Reddit and Twitter completely. Actually deleted my Reddit account and deleted most of my Twitter history.
  • Stopped using Gmail as my primary email.
  • Went back to DVD and Blu-Ray for shows and movies I think I might want to rewatch.
  • Slowly importing stuff I've posted on various social media to my website.
  • Slowly moving stuff off of Google Drive and Dropbox to my local PC and/or Nextcloud.
  • Finally set up my Nextcloud server to use object storage so I can use it for auto-uploads without worrying about space.
  • Tried out a bunch of different Fediverse platforms.
  • Made more of an effort to report bugs instead of just living with them or using something else.
  • Deleted Chrome as my secondary browser and installed Vivaldi. (I've been using Firefox as my primary for a while.)

Moving stuff is slow because I don't want to just copy it all over, I want to decide what to keep in the process.

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Wow, imagine how upset they'd be if they listened to the rest of the lyrics!

 

"Like so many applications of AI, this new power is likely to be a double-edged sword: It may help people identify the locations of old snapshots from relatives, or allow field biologists to conduct rapid surveys of entire regions for invasive plant species, to name but a few of many likely beneficial applications.

"But it also could be used to expose information about individuals that they never intended to share, says Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union who studies technology. Stanley worries that similar technology, which he feels will almost certainly become widely available, could be used for government surveillance, corporate tracking or even stalking."

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"the private enforcement mechanism" -- which is essentially an end run around restrictions on what the government is technically not allowed to do itself, by heavily implying that they want something done instead of explicitly hiring someone to do it. "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

[citation needed]

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

....decided what they want the outcome to be, and formulates some kind of argument that results in that outcome

You might say his results were...predetermined

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

I've gone back to Blu-Ray for some things because I no longer trust streaming sites to keep them available.

 

Too narrow, hidden, minimal feedback...

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Looks like it is available for free, but you get a really awkward username. I just enabled it on an old WP.com blog that I have on a free account and while @kelson.wordpress.com@kelson.wordpress.com works (I was able to subscribe to it from both Mastodon and GoToSocial), it's a bit unwieldy.

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Apparently not anymore. I have a free account on WordPress.com and I just turned it on like you said.

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Same here. I have a few applications that I had to specifically turn on Wayland support for (Thunderbird & Vivaldi, for instance), and a lot that work just fine, and the ones I have issues with are mostly the X-only apps running on Xwayland, which tend to be less stable than they were directly under X, but there are only a few that I still use.

 

Murena is launching a smartphone with physical switches to turn off the camera, microphone and network.

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)
 

"The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions."

 

My Nextcloud instance runs reasonably well on the server side, and my desktop and phone are able to render the web UI reasonably fast when I want to...but I also have a tablet with slow hardware and wifi that is just unusably slow with the Nextcloud web UI. Like, it'll take multiple seconds to render the login page, but only on this one device.

Does anyone know of an alternative web UI for Nextcloud that's optimized for downloading and rendering on slow connections/hardware?

Edit: I'm already using Nextcloud, and I'm using it for quite a few different services, some of which have native apps available, some of which don't, and of course even when an app is available, not all the features are implemented in it. The specific device I'm dealing with here is a Linux tablet, so while I can use native desktop applications for some features, it's not like it can just run Android apps. But the problem would apply to any comparably low-powered hardware like, say, an old laptop that can run native apps and efficiently-designed web applications well enough, but struggles with modern throw-a-million-javascript-libraries-at-it web development.

 

DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn't getting the budget

 

Does this mean we can finally stop using these barriers to accessibility?

 

STS (Secure Time Seeding) uses server time from SSL handshakes, which is fine when talking to other Microsoft servers, but other implementations put random data in that field to prevent fingerprinting.

 

I'm getting Cloudflare's JavaScript-based screening page when trying to hit tinyurl.com with curl and extract the real link. Anyone know if this has been going on for a while?

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