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Websites which have opinions about how the local part of an email address should be constructed can get in the sea.

It's entirely up to me what my localpart looks like and I'll put + signs in it if I want to.

I'm curious what the real rationale is here -- I mean, what difference does it really make to them?

A screenshot from a website signup form declaring: "We do not support subaddressing in emails (“+” sign) on our platform."
in reply to Matthew Slowe

greem
greem
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at least they were polite.

My biggest beef is when the box pops up and says INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS.

Well now, Mx Application Developer, let me introduce you to RFC822 and all subsequent revisions...

Has a ring to it;-)
I just heard someone refer to the Bible as “The Goat Herder’s Guide to the Galaxy” and | will now forever be using this term.

🔓 ODEMYKÁM — zasloužíte si mít možnost tohle číst → Respekt: Kdo se bojí Lindy B. Dejte si to celé.

respekt.cz/tydenik/2024/47/kdo…


Kdo se bojí Lindy B.

Proč podcasty Krása a Slast Lindy Bartošové vyvolávají takové emoce. A proč mě mrzí, že jsem ji neznala jako mladá žena
Ivana Svobodová (Týdeník Respekt)

WTAF?
Picture of a box of cereals. It says “pumpkin spice Cheerios”

Yup, I’m calling it.

bsky will prevail where Mastodon failed. The recent migration triggered the critical mass of Chaos Muppet Energy that Masto’s culture works so hard to extinguish

Like a climactic moment in a Zelda game where the accumulation of artifacts and switches pulled channels mystical energy.

I will see you over there!

in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz

bsky: @daniloc.xyz
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tired: bluesky will be enshittified by financial incentives

wired: mastodon is already enshittified by poor management

inspired: bsky is adding a million users a day and now tops the Android list as well

User-built algorithms, a chronological timeline, a great blend of safety and product features

Plus a much more diverse slate of conversation topics and contributors

in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz

bsky: @daniloc.xyz
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Bluesky now growing at a rate of 12-13 users per second

So why am I beating this drum?

Mastodon’s failure to capture Twitter’s collapse is instructive as a once-in-a-generation cautionary tale

Product design matters, protocol ideology is not enough, and disliking capitalism is not an exemption from economics

You will read a lot of copium about the fediverse still being viable, but it is now the smaller development target. That has consequences.

bcounter.nat.vg

Bcounter

Almost-real-time Bluesky user count
bcounter.nat.vg
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz

bsky: @daniloc.xyz
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And I think the short version is this:

A professional team of 20 people, fully funded and paid a proper full-time wage, is an objectively more effective approach to building the future than one grumpy bottleneck guy making $60k a year and a bunch of other people looking on with wishful thinking

Disliking venture capital is NOT ENOUGH. You have to figure out a different model that still can fund enough deep, sustained, collaborative work to build a thing people want

in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz

bsky: @daniloc.xyz
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
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This is the mastodon energy in a nutshell, yup

“Love this crummy platform or get lost” is exactly how this happened

The final nail in the coffin here will be the culture.

freeradical.zone/@alltherum/11…

What's it to you?

2024-11-15 20:16:23


you sound like an investor.

*sees you have a pinned toot pimping AI*

Yeah, you've definitely made the right choice in leaving.


in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz

bsky: @daniloc.xyz
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
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But I think the thing that REALLY sticks in my craw is:

- Elon Musk is fundamentally an evil figure who must be stopped

and

- I don’t WANT to defeat Twitter

are mutually incompatible positions. If the place is really that bad it must be destroyed. And the way you do that is by displacing it in its niche

Building the Twitter killer is a moral imperative.

Instead the dominant Masto vibe is “Elon is terrible therefore let’s build a culturally marginal alternative with bad financials”

in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz

bsky: @daniloc.xyz
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This is kind of a microcosm of Masto Brain:

Bluesky has optimized safety and social features first ahead of client performance—eg reply gating, blocks that completely deny trolls access to your post’s audience, starter packs to bootstrap your social graph

while deferring client performance

An exercise for the reader to project whether Masto successfully applies these platform fundamentals before Bluesky invests in the nuts and bolts of client performance

toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/1134923…

Alex Russell (@slightlyoff@toot.cafe)

So I've got a bsky acct, and y'all, their web app is everything I warn about. It's React (because they have capitulated to the App Store game via Expo and "need" React Native), but it's also web-as-afterthought-flavoured React.
Toot Café
in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz

What's it to you?
What's it to you?
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you sound like an investor.

*sees you have a pinned toot pimping AI*

Yeah, you've definitely made the right choice in leaving.

SEEING HOW THE JERKOFFS WHO RUN AMERICA SEEM SO EAGER TO THROW TRANS PEOPLE INTO THE WOODCHIPPER, I HAVE FOUND THE HILL I* WILL DIE ON:
Sticker that says "trans ppl existing does nothing negative to your life, you crybaby bitch."
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Welcome to the RB family, Canta 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/org.s…

Canta allows you to uninstall any app from your device, even if you don't have root access.

Once more, joint efforts by IzzyOnDroid and the author led to a successful RB :awesome:

RB status at IoD now: 341 apps (28.2%)

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„Canta“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Uninstall any app without root!
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

Estoy de vuelta por aquí (el fedi) después de unos días muy liado con las consecuencias del inevitable devenir del ser humano. Mañana de vuelta al trabajo, y a ver si escribo algo más entretenido.

Ayer celebramos la III Escuela de formación feminista provincial de @izquierda_unida, la primera mixta. Una jornada muy interesante, en la aprendimos muchísimo y un gran paso adelante para hacer de nuestra organización un espacio cada vez más igualitario.
@Izquierda Unida 🔻🇵🇸

How is it safe for anyone to run a Tor exit node? That seems like it's just asking to be taken down due to abuse, whether running on one's own Internet connection or a rented server. I guess it would only be safe when done on a rented server one is willing to throw away on a provider where they're not hosting anything else.

After consolidating all of the dependencies that #FeatherWiki uses into the project itself and stripping all the features it doesn't use, I managed to shave off 4 more kilobytes 🤯 Now I can use that extra space for some quality of life features like CSS variables for easier theming & extra settings toggles!

What other small-but-helpful addition would you like to see added to the Feather Wiki core? (no, I still won't add search to the core)

#FeatherWiki

Beautiful Focus Outlines bit.ly/4fTBHxV

Beautiful Focus Outlines

A weekly dose of web accessibility to help you bring it into your everyday work.
Accessibility Weekly

Painting a nuthatch, a thread:
in reply to Conny Duck

Conny Duck
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After painting the branch it is details time! I'm using my finest brushes for this and trying to show the direction of feathers without painting every individual one.
Closeup of the nuthatch painting, it has now more details than before.
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Conny Duck
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And here is the finished painting:
Eurasian Nuthatch, oil on wood panel, 20x20cm, Conny Duck November 2024
The finished painting of an European Nuthatch, now with all the detials light highlight in the eye. In the backgound of the photo part of the palette is visible.

My day is shaping up to be better than I thought. I managed to get the groceries ordered, and I stayed under budget. I made up some coffee with cocoa mix for @pooch754 and myself. There's a nice brisk breeze blowing threw the living room window, and I have football games to watch today. I'm feeling a lot brighter.
@rogue furball
in reply to RaineyDay

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yay! I'm glad your day's gotten better. I wish you an even better rest of the day and the night too. :)

In other news, Arcane is in its home stretch, and it’s running on maglev: 500 kph of smooth ride. You can definitely see all the shortcuts they took to avoid spending another year (or six) on the series—the montages abound—but the quiet moments and character work are still the real highlight.

#arcane

#arcane

yup

Scientists have discovered that Kenyan mealworm larvae can digest polystyrene, showing promise as a tool in addressing plastic waste management 🪱♻️

#PlasticPollution #EnvironmentalScience #Sustainability

moneyweb.co.za/news/africa/pla…

#sustainability #plasticpollution #environmentalscience
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When I was a teenager, from 1994 to sometime in 1996, I wanted to run a BBS (bulletin board system). But even after I got a computer of my own, the blocker would be getting a dedicated phone line, or several such lines if I wanted to run a cool multi-node BBS with real-time chat, multiplayer games, etc. I wish I still had the specs for the main computer that one of my city's biggest BBSes, a 65-line BBS, ran on. Some kind of high-end 486, I think. I certainly didn't have that. 1/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
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In the intervening decades, I've been a sysadmin on several servers, both virtual and dedicated, both work and personal. The first time I personally rented a virtual private server with root access was in 2004, on an early VPS provider that used Virtuozzo. I've been able to afford my own rented dedicated server for a while now, and I've had one for a couple of years. 4/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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And now I've got AT&T fiber Internet in my apartment with 1 gigabit in both directions. I recently added a static IPv4 block, and I just set up a Quartz64 single-board computer to use as a server. That SBC is sitting silently in an out-of-the-way location in my apartment. It's undeniably underpowered by today's standards, but it's tens to hundreds of times as powerful as those machines that ran LambdaMOO or that local 65-line BBS in the 90s. It's kind of amazing when put in those terms. 5/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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That SBC has a quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU, 4 GB of RAM, and a 64 GB eMMC module (I'm thinking about adding an NVMe SSD via the M.2 slot). With that little SBC and my gigabit fiber connection, I could host *several* 90s MOOs and BBSes (well, not with dialup, but accessible via telnet), and probably even something equivalent to the original LambdaMOO at its peak. So far I've only set up a couple of little static sites (though one of them has a few big files.) 6/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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And yet that little computer would probably be considered not powerful enough for today's multi-user applications, like, say, a Mastodon instance. 7/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Anyway, thinking back to those multi-user systems in the 90s got me thinking that I'm really wasting what I've got now if I'm just going to set up some self-hosted applications for myself, my sister, and maybe a handful of friends. Seems like I could be doing so much more. Of course, then the limiting factor becomes time; I already have plenty to do with actual work projects. 8/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Adam MacLeod
Adam MacLeod
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I apologize for blowing up your timeline. I've just found your thread fascinating, and relatable. I've been doing some sort of self-hosting for 22 years. But I tend to take a hybrid approach with it. Very critical projects, and especially money-making projects always get their own VPS or dedicated resources at well-established data centers. But personal stuff, I definitely tend to self-host that stuff. My reasoning is that I am in absolutely full control of it, well, aside from the ISP breaking my connection. But everything else, I own, run and control myself. And if things really do break, I'm not at any significant loss. I can spin it up somewhere else when I have the time, and life goes on. But of course, all your points are completely valid, and you'll have to evaluate them for yourself. Do you have the time to do all this? Is it really worth it? Are there systems out there that can do what you need/want in less time that won't break the bank? And on the flip side, would you rather be in absolute full control of your and your family's personal data? Would you like to save associated money costs with storage by buying hardware once, rather than renting it monthly? I'm sure you've got all this in your head, and are making your own considerations on it already. This is my last post, as not to bother you. I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my previous posts. I'll wish you well on your hosting endeavours, however they may turn out.
in reply to Adam MacLeod

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@adam No need to apologize for replying so much. Yeah, those are all valid points. And I'm certainly not going to move any commercial services into my apartment.
@Adam MacLeod
in reply to Matt Campbell

Adam MacLeod
Adam MacLeod
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Technology really has come an insanely long way in such a short time. Just think, we have finger-nail-sized memory chips that can hold terabytes of data, and just 20 years ago, a consumer could not even own a single device that held that much data. And in terms of RAM, we've gone from kilobytes as standard to tens of gigabytes as standard, and that's not even talking about high performance computing, where they measure RAM in terabytes now. And in terms of Internet and networking, we've gone from tens of kilobit dialup connections that were not always on, to always-on gigabit and beyond. I'm always blown away, every single time, when I run a speed test, and see the results of my 8-gigabit symmetrical home fiber connection.
in reply to Adam MacLeod

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@adam Wow, you've got 8-gigabit. I know I can upgrade to at least 2 gigabit here. Maybe I will. My new SBC server can only handle 1 gigabit though.
@Adam MacLeod
in reply to Matt Campbell

Adam MacLeod
Adam MacLeod
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Yeah, I've put $ tens of thousands into my network. Aside from the UPS, my VoIP phone, and the five Raspberry Pi 4 boards, and the WiFi devices, everything else is ten gigabit. If you are serious about getting into the self-hosted realm, I would recommend the upgrade. Even though a single device may not go beyond a gigabit, it is probably a good idea to have some spare bandwidth left over for your own use.

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."

— Matsuo Basho

#JapanesePhilosopy #philosophy #JapaneseReligion #japan #MentalHealth #mindfulness #mindfulliving #bettermentjourney

#philosophy #japan #MentalHealth #mindfulness #bettermentjourney #mindfulliving #japanesephilosopy #japanesereligion

If you, like me, are bored to death by the current levels of cinematography in seasonal anime slop, do yourself a favour, and watch Dandadan. Go into it blind, but give it a chance for the first arc of four episodes. Then, once you reach episode 7, you’ll see what Science SARU has cooked.

#anime #DanDaDan

#anime #DanDaDan
in reply to Emmanuele Bassi

Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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As usual, kViN on the Sakugabooru blog wrote a great piece on the technical and creative background of the production: blog.sakugabooru.com/2024/10/2…

Dandadan Production Notes #01-04

Now that the first arc of the Dandadan anime is over, we can look back at how it represents its series director's extraordinary obsession with internal logic, the way that has enabled creative choices, and also the limitations that its team has to na…
kViN (Sakuga Blog)

#SilentSunday
A snowy mountain scene. I'm on a snowshoe path empty besides my dog, there are small icy ponds to my side and forested mountainsides around me. The sky is so grey and the ground is so white there's not a super obvious separation except where the trees make boundaries between sky and earth.
#SilentSunday

Ninja Warrior in a Japanese Outpost Town

#ComfyUI #AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #synthography #TrainedAlgorithmicMedia

A female ninja warrior in dark blue and black armor walks confidently through a traditional Japanese outpost town. The streets are lined with wooden buildings, glowing lanterns, and a backdrop of distant mountains. Her poised stance and determined expression capture the essence of stealth and strength.
#generativeart #comfyui #algorithmicart #synthography #trainedalgorithmicmedia

Happy Sunday everyone. Your #dad #joke for the morning:

How much does the aurora borealis weigh?
Not much, it’s pretty light.

#joke #dad

This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.

I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.

So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.

#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse

#opensource #fediverse #Mastodon #socialNetworks #JoinTheFediverse #socialmedia #community #trust #bsdcafe #digitalfreedom

#SilentSunday

#photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #fog #squared #minimalism

This square black-and-white photograph with a white border captures a foggy scene characterized by minimalism and contrast. A tall power line tower is positioned on the left side of the frame, its structure partially obscured by the dense fog, while its delicate wires stretch diagonally across the upper left corner, gradually fading into the mist. In the lower right corner, the silhouette of a solitary person walking adds a sense of scale and evokes a feeling of solitude. The flat, dark ground contrasts sharply with the light, misty atmosphere above. The white border emphasizes the clean, minimalist composition, enhancing the quiet and contemplative mood of the image.
#photography #BlackAndWhite #monochrome #fog #SilentSunday #minimalism #squared

My wild friends keep me sane. I’m grateful.

#EllisSquirrel

One of my friendly eastern gray squirrels perched on the railing of the kitchen door steps, asking for good nuts. He’s like a bushy tailed prairie dog, absolutely adorable. He has one tarantula like hand forward on the railing. The background is the leafless elm sapling branches, the wooden fence, and the blue sky with a few marshmallow clouds.
#ellissquirrel
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Really happy with how my latest embroidery project turned out. I used a pattern from a magazine (credit to www.lucyfreeman.co.uk) Learned some new techniques, my favourite being sewing with multiple different colour threads on the same needle to blend colours together!

#embroidery #mushrooms #embroideryHoop #toadstools #fibreArt #fiberArt #MastoArt

An oval embroidery hoop containing a mushroom themed design, depicting a diverse array of fungi on a navy blue background.
Close up photo of an oval embroidery hoop containing a mushroom themed design, depicting a diverse array of fungi on a navy blue background.
#mastoart #embroidery #mushrooms #embroideryhoop #toadstools #fibreart #fiberart

Unlimited! I worked for a company that had unlimited PTO, I used it without fear. My mental and physical health is important.

#work #pto

Corporate America be like: "yea we will give you unlimited PTO. But we will make you afraid to use it."
#work #pto

The #spotify app for windows surprises me over and over. I remembered it as a big, weird you need to tab around a ton of times ap. But now I must say, it's really comfortable to use!
#spotify
in reply to Jonathan

André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Oh really? Don't you need to turn virtual cursor on and off anymore?
in reply to André Polykanine

Jonathan
Jonathan
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Well what I do is open the app, arrow down to my library, go out of browse mode, and click through it with the arrows, select the playlist, tab in to the table, and just play the songs. If I need I tab to the mini player, but I remembered it to be way more difficult. Also some useful shortcuts include CTRL+left/right arrow, skip to previous/next song. CTRL+UP/DOWN, volume. CTRL+SPACE, well that one is obvious. Surely there are more I don't know of.
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I have enjoyed Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast for years. This fall though he is shipping a fictional piece about a revolution on Mars in the 2200s. Having listened to his historical accounts, I do quite like him using the same tone with a fictional revolution.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes as they say.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/…


11.0- Welcome to the Martian Revolution

Podcast Episode · Revolutions · S12 E2 · 6m
Apple Podcasts
in reply to Mike Gifford

Anders Lagerfjärd
Anders Lagerfjärd
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It was incredibly strange to hear the start of the Mars story, in the exact same format and voice as the ten revolutions covered in the main show, but I quickly got into it. He's a great storyteller.

Unpopular opinion: if you still use substack then you are just helping fascism. Which mean....
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Jérôme Carretero
Jérôme Carretero
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Started a list of ethical centralized cloud services, here it is:

1. @Framasoft stuff
2. TODO FIXME

@Framasoft

Zajtra mám kontrolu u doktorky a pravdepodobne zruším PNku i keď ja neviem, budem sa musieť zamyslieť nad tým čo dávam do pľúc lebo to bude asi riešenie.

Moon 🌕

If there is *any* area that #curl is not best-in-class, we should put in more work and improve curl in that area. While at the same time keep up and polish it in all other aspects.
#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Force of Habit
Force of Habit
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Thank you, if you say this, I shouldn't even try. I would be wasting my time. Cheers!

I'm about to buy the Kindle book UK Christmas Number Ones - 1952-2023: The history of the nation's favourite festive hits and the stories behind them by Felix Mensah.
Two years ago I bought 70 Years of Christmas Number Ones by Andrew Burford. That was very good. So I'll see what new things I can learn from this one.

My sister wants to de-Google as much as practical. She's not a programmer or sysadmin, but I can set up stuff for her. For file storage, including both documents and photos, should I set her up with SyncThing, self-hosted Nextcloud, both, or something else?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
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Related question: For Zoom-style meetings, what's the best self-hosted option, considering both accessibility and general ease of use? Jitsi Meet, Big Blue Button, or something else?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Brandon
Brandon
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I would pick next cloud. It’s between Jitsi Meet and Nextcloud Talk anyways for me.
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in reply to Matt Campbell

Simran
Simran
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Haven't used it myself but there is also jami.net/ as a possible Zoom alternative

Jami

Jami - the distributed and open source communication platform
Jami
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in reply to Matt Campbell

James Scholes
James Scholes
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I'm curious about the leap from de-Googling to everything being self-hosted. Does your sister specifically want to stop using Google services, or big tech in general?
in reply to Matt Campbell

James Scholes
James Scholes
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Fair enough. I've never tried any of the meeting alternatives, so I'll be watching to see if anyone else has thoughts. Zoom is becoming increasingly painful to use.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Hmm, I know someone who used the jitsi app thing, and I don't think they're selfhosting, but the website is accessible.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Dave🌱
Dave🌱
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if you and/or your sister want to make use of several of the features Nextcloud offers, more like a Google Apps replacement, it's probably the best self hostable choice.
For me I went with a hosted email solution six or seven years ago that takes care of all my email/calendar/contacts needs (Fastmail), so went with SyncThing as a Dropbox replacement, with most of its global discovery stuff disabled.
I think I've only tried the former, but Jitsu Meet and BBB both seem like nice solutions.

Signed up at #BlueSky, just in case. And guess what? I had to ask my wife to help me dealing with gods damned #HateCaptcha. I wish the person who designed such pseudo-accessibility at #HCaptcha was obliged to work without a monitor and without a mouse for a whole month, just for justice.
#bluesky #hcaptcha #hatecaptcha

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Ten years ago I explained why #curl defaults to stdout:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/11/17…


Why curl defaults to stdout

(Recap: I founded the curl project, I am still the lead developer and maintainer) When asking curl to get a URL it'll send the output to stdout by default.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Christen Lofland
Christen Lofland
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I always feel embarrassed, alone at home in my office with nobody watching me of course, when I run curl, see it dump my file to stdout and then use wget instead because I cannot immediately remember how to properly make a file with curl, even though I could spend 30 seconds looking it up. 😅

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Tuta
#encryption #Germany #blackfriday #tuta
in reply to Tuta

bodri
bodri
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Revolutionary would be enough for me. Can I downgrade later ?
in reply to Tuta

Erklärbär
Erklärbär
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I am thinking about upgrading my subscription, but I am confused now. Is this valid for existing customers as well?

amen on this one. O wow you are kidding me. This is the 99999th reason why the mobile version of Facebook shouldn't hav gone away. So on the PC that site defaults to the full FB and it doesn't list the names of the "people you may know". it only mentions how many mutual friends we have got with the person; wow! #accessibility or lack of.
#Accessibility
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