SnowC0de

My configuration : https://codeberg.org/SnowCode/dwm

Hello Lemmy!

I recently discovered the "Request my data" function of Discord. Now that I have the data Discord knows about me.

I would like to make an experiment that could be used to explain how metadata can say a lot about people.

The problem is, I never done that :grinning face with sweat: so I would like to know how I could get everything I can, only from the metadata contained in the package.

I know it's possible, according to the length of calls, the umber of messages, etc, to guess what kind of relation a user have with another, but I don't know how to do that.

This is a description of the data package: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004957991

Can you help me to know what are the information I can determine about myself using this package (only the metadata, or it's not fair :p)

Thanks in advance!

~Snow

I LOVE Wikipedia, I think it's one of the best websites of the internet.

But the fact is that Wikipedia has many flaws:

• Editing became very hard on Wikipedia based on the amount of rules to respect
• Wikipedia is biased, many cultures and minorities are not well represented among editors and pages.
• Wikipedia is a dependence, I can't imagine Wikipedia disappear, I think it already changed the way people see knowledge, not as something fixed anymore, but as something dynamic that changes and evolve.
• Wikipedia 'sources admission' are also very... Weird. Because you can be a professional in a special field, it doesn't mean your contribution will be accepted, just because your source is not coming from a 'reliable source', even if YOU are this reliable source.

There are other problems as well, but I think those are the most important ones.

What do you think about it? If you could change anything or everything to Wikipedia, what would you do?

This is the things I use on my computer. :)

Conditions for a good software accoridng to me

• Least number of visual stimulations. No notifications, no sounds, no tons of button everywhere... Best if it can be only used using keyboard.
• Light, my computer also wants to benefit from minimalism.
• Respects its users. It needs to be "free software" (free as freedom)
• Being necessary for you.

The basic stuff

• Xubuntu is my operating system.
• dwm (plus dmenu) is my window manager. Everything is done using a few shortcuts and takes no space on the screen. The shortcuts are easy to get, but the installation might be tricky for new linux users.
• st is my terminal. I use it for coding, writing and managing my system. The only thing I changed to it was to change the fontsize and enable the scrollback patch. But again it might be tricky to install for new linux users.

Browsing online

I already tried other stuff like "surf" but I don't like it because I want to use an adblocker.

• Firefox is my favorite browser. I use it because it's lighter than other browsers, and I can install uBlock Origin.

Writing

I need to write things for school and for myself. So I mainly use Marktext or nano to write my stuff.

• Marktext is a markdown editor. I like markdown because I don't want to pass the majority of my time on choosing fonts and stuff like that. Also I think it's more handy and reliable. I only use this app for exporting into pdf. I write using nano
• Nano is a terminal-based editor. Very easy to use, only terminal based. I use for both writing markdown and writing code.
• Libreoffice if I really need to have a "classic" office suite.

Communication

Chatting

• dino (xmpp client), it is my favorite chatting software. I like it more than Discord because, instead of joining a ton of useless channels, you only join the ones you want. (Also it's lighter than Matrix.)
• HexChat is my favorite IRC client. Yes I still use IRC, it's so simple and stupid, I love it!

Emails

• Thunderbird, it has a very "brut" interface, but very handy and powerful. You can setup filters to automatically clean your inbox. I never get up to 20 messages in my inbox this way.

Coding

I use nano as my code editor. That's it, same thing as said above.

• nano and st is my IDE :)
• openscad is the cad software I use. Basically, design things in 3D using code.

Video

• Shotcut is a nice video editor. Pretty straight forward. When I need something more advanced, I use kdenlive.
• VLC is a nice video viewer.

Photo

• Firefox is my image viewer.
• GIMP is my image editor. I don't want to use photoshop.

Sound

• Audacity is useful when I need to record sound
• pavucontrol is the tool I use to manage the input/output audio stuff.
• Musecore is a score editor I use to digitalize and read piano scores.

Hi! I am a beginner programmer, but I would like to understand the general process to go from a non-activitypub to an activity software (ie. Lemmy)

Hello! I tried to install Minecraft server on Yunohost.

But when I try to connect (even locally) it always timeout and I can't connect.

Do you have any clue on how to solve this?

When I run: curl <my ip>:25565

I get result when I do it on the server, but when I execute the same command on another device, it doesn't work. There is a timeout and it gives up.

Do you think this is because my server is slow or have you any clue on how I could solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!

I used to use Firefox in the past but I used it passively. Then I discovered Brave and I loved it, at that time.

Now I got back to Firefox and this is my list of killing features of Firefox that makes other browsers meaningless to me.

You can make screenshot of full pages

The screenshot feature of Firefox is really powerful to get things available offline and on phone.

Just by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + S makes you able to select, grab elements, make a screenshot of the view, or making a screenshot of a entire page.

This is so usefull!

You can customize the top bar

I love the fact that I can almost entierly customize the top bar.

I personally prefer to get as much space on the webpage and as small space on the rest of the screen, also because my computer's screen is really tiny.

So you can get it compact change the place of everything, add new cool elements, I love it.

The reader mode

I discovered the reader mode at the perfect time, when I needed to read a very long page. I clicked on this icon I never saw, and this was exactly what I needed!

I don't like reading on most websites, the background is white, the font is not adapted, the position is widescreen, there are a lot of sidebars, ads, etc.

With the reader mode I was surprised about the customization of the pages that is very useful and easy to use at the same time.

Then finally, what I use all the time now, the TTS function. The voice is weird, but when you find the correct speed and read it at the same time. It just makes the reading process much easier than ever. You can hear it and read it at the same time. This is incredible to me.

Firefox is so lightweight compared to Chromium based softwares

This was the original reason why I switched, Firefox use a such tiny part of CPU compared to other browsers!

The web devlopper options looks so nice!

The devlopper options have cool animations, powerful usage, snippets, almost a real editor in the browser.

Brave's problems

The Brave company have done some bad things to the users in their back, the thing that first frustrated me was the sponsored background when you open a new tab. I didn't activated the Tokens and I stil got ads. This go against their vision of 'You are not product'.

Also they auto-completed the urls when you wanted to go on affliated links automatically.

Without counting that the Brave adblocker is meaningless compared to Ublock Origin. Not enough options according to me.

And I think customization is something that is missing on Brave in general.

What I miss from Brave

I don't miss a lot of things, but if I needed to list a few that would be:

• The speed that was really incredible, I try to reproduce it using Ublock Origin
• The torrent client in Brave is really useful, you don't need any other apps and no need to go out the browser's comfort zone.

https://imgur.com/a/f8c9yQP Translation:

WARNING: This page is disabled and is not visible by the users. But you can still see it because you are connected to the intranet.

I am not connected to the intranet tho.

WARNING: This page is only available from the intranet.

Nope.

WARNING: This page is not available anymore

Uuuh.

WARNING: This page is not available from the 31-12-9999 at 00:00

Not as sure, I think I travelled through time.

WARNING: This page will be unavailable from the 23-02-2015 at 00:00.

Do I travelled in the past or in the future?

Hello! This is my list of my preferred open-source apps for Android. Tell me in the comments what are yours and I will add them.

• 10 000 sentences : Learn new vocabulary in many languages

• Alarmio : A alternative alarm clock

• AnkiDroid : Virtual flash cards to learn faster your courses

• Audio Recorder : A simple audio recorder

• Aurora Store : Get access to play store apps without the official app

• Briar : Send messages in peer to peer way, using bluetooth, current network or remotly.

• Camera : From the simple app list. A simple and easy to use camera

• CameraRoll : Alternative gallery app with a beautiful UI as a camera roll.

• Chubby Click : Metronome

• Counter : Explicit name, just counting stuff

• DiskUsage : Scan your disk to find the biggest folders and apps in a advanced way

• F-Droid : A app store with only open-source apps

• GitNex : A Gitea client for Android

• Goodtime : A pomodoro app

• JitSi meet : Alternative to Skype or Zoom

• KISS : A cool simple launcher with only a search bar and a history

• Lightning : A fast and lightweight web browser

• Loop Habit Tracker : A very cool and handy habit tracker with statistics

• LTE Cleaner : Like CCleaner, but easier

• MAPS.ME : OSM client that I think is better than OSMand

• MasterPassword : A sync-less password manager

• MoneyWallet : A budget manager

• NewPipe : My most used app so far, you can download, listen in background, popup or fullscreen for MediaCCC, Peertube, SoundCloud or YouTube.

• Open Note Scanner : Detect papers to scan them using your phone, unfortunatly there is no export to PDF so see the next app.

• PDF Converter : Convert images to pdf

• OpenFoodFacts : Scan codebar of food products to get simple and easy to read nutrition facts.

• OpenRecipes : Add your own recipes

• Markor : A simple note taking app

• Red Moon : A blue light filter

• ScreenCam : Record your screen (no root required)

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon : A dungeon RPG

• Signal : Alternative to whatsapp but you can also use it as SMS Not available on F-Droid

• Slide : Reddit client (oopsie)

• Tasks : The best todo app I found

• TrebleShot : Transfer files to other devices through the same network.

• Tusky : Mastodon client

• Vectorify da home! : Create your own wallpapers using simple SVG

• Vinyl : Music player

• Yaaic : IRC client

• AnySoftKeyboard : A simple and powerful keyboard

• AfWall+ : ip tables based firewall Require root privileges

• Otter : front-end music player to Funkwhale instances

• Aurora Droid : Alternative F-Droid client

• Firefox Preview : Future version of Fennec on Android, support 6 privacy-related extensions and has been re-written with Firefox's new GeckoView

• Mattermost : Beta client for Mattermost

• FOSS Browser : Simple browser based on Android's WebView. The intention is to provide a simple and light weight but powerful browser with a nice looking user interface.

• Rocket Chat : Rocket Chat client

• Delta Chat : ???

• Mumla : Voice chat on Mumble servers

• RadioDroid : Browse internet radios

• Conversations : Encrypted, userfriendly XMPP instant messaging client for mobile

• Exodus Privacy : Exodus Privacy helps you to know which trackers and permissions are embedded in apps installed on your device.