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Mikina

@ Mikina @programming.dev

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  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • I'm using https://freetubeapp.io/ and so far it mostly works. You have to stay on top of updates, and age-restricted videos can be a problem, but the feature I love most is that it can subscribe to creators without an account, and it just shows you time-sorted feed. It also has native sponsorblock baked in, and has support for downloading videos, or using an invidious as a proxy.

    You can turn off autoplay, comments, recommended videos and other engagement-maxing bullshit, so it's just a video player without distractions that I can use to follow stuff I'm directly interested in, that doesn't force content on me.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • And pasted here so you don't have to click.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Turning off TVs with adds has been the only usage I've been getting out of my Flipper zero. Doesn't work always, but I did have some success and I'll always try whenever I have to spend time longer time anywhere.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Exactly!

    I have the same relationship with ads as the OP, and even deeper hatred for fingerprinting to the point there is a lot of friction in my daily tech usage. Lot of stuff breaks, I have to fill captchas often, maintain self-hosted tech, get wrong time zone and language I don't know on websites, etc. (On one hand it's a boon, because it is keeping my pretty serious internet addiction in check and it has kept me away from most social networks and short form content).

    They have just installed this annoying kind of LCD slideshow adds that are a long screen alongside underground line, and I'm actively trying to avoid and not look at it, same with any IRL ads. I really hope we'll get some FOSS smartglases tech eventually, just so I can have an IRL adblock that replaces adds around you that I've seen a demo for.

    But, I have seen (single instances) of adds over the year that I appreciated, because it's more a clever art than an add. But 99% of adds isn't that, and it's just annoying intrusive attention grabbing slop designed to burn into your mind. Fuck that.

  • Privacy @programming.dev
    Mikina @programming.dev

    Self-hosting Matrix is pretty easy thanks to matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • I highly recommend looking into Matrix Ansible Deploy, has an amazing documentation and actually works robustly. It will make the whole process of hosting it way easier, I only needed to change like 5 config values, give Ansible the SSH key for my server, and then basically run "just setup-all" from a Ansible docker.

  • linux rule

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  • That's actually an impressive setup! I've been mostly gaming on desktop Bazzite, but usually just connect through Sunlight/Moonlight from a laptop in bed. Never really considered a proxmox setup.

    I might look into it, that sounds pretty useful. Already have an old desktop I sometimes use as a server, with older GPU and some RAM, so it would make for a great test environment for this kind of things.

  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • It's extremely easy, the Matrix ansible deploy project is very simple to use (with at least basic tech literacy), is very well documented and as far as I've seen in the past few years of using it do deploy and update my Matrix instance - it's also very robust. I haven't seen it fail a single time, which tends to be a problem with larger Docker/Ansible projects.

    I'm paying 7$ a month for a cheap server on Hetzner, you also need a domain name, and the whole setup took like an hour.

  • linux rule

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  • How is your Qubes experience, if you don't mind me asking? I always loved the idea, especially since some of my work are different cybersecurity/pentesting projects, where both the separation of trust/data and the ability to quickly run templated environments per project sound super useful, but I never really got around doing it.

    Do you daily drive it? I'm also pretty much a gamer, and while I could imagine it on my work laptop, I'm not sure if it's feasible when gaming is one of my main focuses on PC. I can kind of imagine that a virtualization-based OS would be terrible for gaming.

  • The FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says

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  • Ah, TIL. Though I can't really come up with much that would scale well to the modern world where technologies are involved. But that might be only because I'm not thinking local enough, since that's what matters.

    However, I'm sure there's an anarchist zine about exactly that.

  • The FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says

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  • Is it even possible? I mean, you need to share the chat, and probably have it publicly joinable.

    Keeping feds out is basically impossible. Sharing the group only in person could work a bit, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had undercover agents at any major gatherings.

  • Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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  • You're right, I did realize that it's a pretty offtopic and no value comment a short while after posting, but too late to go edit it out.

    Thanks for the video, Down the Rabitt Hole videos about EVE Online are my absolute favorites, so this will be a good watch.

  • Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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  • https://allthatsinteresting.com/terry-davis

    Haven't heard about this piece of internet lore. It's really tragic, and I shudder to think how differently would it go if he had access to ChatGPT.

    Or rather, probably not much different, but there are already several cases of people nudged to the exactly same path solely thanks to AI, that they wouldn't have probably ended up on so quickly. It sucks.

  • Ads have a new trick for ad blockers

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  • The companies are wastly overestimating how much I care about seeing their slop content.

    The hatered for forced logins, age verification or prompts like these has been slowly curing my internet addiction. I'm not signing up or accepting your bullshit.

  • Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

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  • I'm not really looking for a new phone, but for an OS to put onto my old PinePhone. It shouldn't matter that they are no longer made, no?

    As far as I know, which isn't a lot tbh, the hardware is ok, but most of the issues were on OS level, not being mature enough.

  • Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

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  • I have a few years old Pinephone in a drawer I never really got around to using, because back then the state of phone Linux easn't really usable. Failed calls, issues with battery life and the like.

    Does anyone knows if it got better?

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    Google Details Android Lockdown — 750 Million Users Must Upgrade

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  • I can use my bank app on Graphene profile without google services installed. I really hope they won't require this, but if they do, it's something I'm willing to change my bank over.

    Hopefully there'll be at least one bank that doesn't.

  • If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?

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  • I recommend transfering to Cloudfare, since they have guaranteed wholesale price (no added fees, and only what the tld owner and ICANN asks), so they should be cheapest (since anything less is selling at a loss for the registrar, at least ifI understand right).

    Namecheap has started overcharging me like 20+$ on a renewal compared to CF. So, transfering after a first year (which is where registrars like Namecheap take a loss and give you a discount) is probably the cheapest way how to go about it.

  • If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?

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  • As far as I know, Cloudfare is the only registrar that offers you wholesale price, as in the price asked by the tld owners. So, you a registrar can't go lower, because that's what they pay for it.

    But, a lot of registrars will give you first year at a heavy discount (so, at a loss), just so they can ramp up the price to wholesale + a lot extra. I got my domain for like 5$, and they then asked for 40$ for renewal, while wholesale is around 25$.

    So, I just transfered to Cloudfare for the renewal. Tbh I don't remember if it was the first or second year, and what are the transfer rules, but I think it should be possible to just buy a first year at heavy discount with i.e Namecheap or something, and immediately transfer to Cloudfare for the first renewal at wholesale price.

  • Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much | Aeon Essays

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  • AI has been a pretty good help for writing.

    Asking it for help to flesh out your unique story idea, unexpected plot twists or in general help with figuring out where to take your story/game mechanics/dm campaign, and then making sure to avoid anything it suggests as the most boring and obvious solution has been a great help with inspiration.

  • Privacy @programming.dev
    Mikina @programming.dev

    ChatControl has been already happening since 2021 for most common services, does anything change for people who use them?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Mikina @programming.dev

    New Jetbrains Update Dropped

  • Programming @programming.dev
    Mikina @programming.dev

    What do you think would be an actually good use of blockchain/smart contracts? What kind of problems (big or small) is it a good tool for?

  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works
    Mikina @programming.dev

    I'm looking for games with unique or experimental game design

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Mikina @programming.dev

    In my understanding of the main principles of the Fediverse, federating with any large corp should never even be considered. Is my understanding wrong? What is the "idea of the fediverse" to you?