(^ I read this as witty sarcasm :) ) As a FOSS type person exposed to many facets, I must hand it to the people of France for running a lot of independent infrastructure. You’re out there living life and stumble across “yet another” French instance of something (git, email, whatever), probably with a collective behind it. Germany and The Netherlands are close behind as well, tons of collectives running infra all over the place by these fine folks.

I have my browser (Firefox) set to never play videos with:

user_pref("media.autoplay.default", 5);
user_pref("media.autoplay.blocking_policy", 2);

On mobile, I use “PipePipe” (NewPipe fork) which has a setting to not play videos on load. It’s possible to load just comments I’m sure (API or whatever they do already), I’ve found however just blocking all video from playing without a click across the entire internet leads to a nicer day. These settings should stop your click-to-read-comments from counting as a view or play of the video itself.

Aye, once you have to give up salt (sodium) and really start reading labels, looking around and whatnot for that purpose (blood pressure, heart disease), you end up learning about “splitting the sugars” in labeling and keep going down the rabbit hole. Oh gosh now you’re reading about additives, and…

Cutting sodium out of my diet caused a removal of all those other preprocessed things which in turn has lead to more fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts every day and healthy weight loss. What started out as a necessity has become a “hey, this is actually nice” eating life without added salts and sugars, along with increased fibre and nutritional value.

No because they don’t scream 🙀

!subscribe #electronmicroscopefacts

See here’s the thing - the mascot and URL are serving their purpose to deter the software author’s outsiders. They don’t want your business, it is a social signal being sent and the reception from your coworker? - did it’s job.

My comment was specifically about these round concave cardboard things - they, their shape and composition, is some weird magnet to the cats. It’s unlike a traditional post, there’s something in their brain that likes these things and they calm down after scratching and curl up in them. I’ve found them in various shapes and depths at Ross, the cats rotate from one to another as sleeping spots and all that cat juju. Here’s a random pic: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bPWIbZPwL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

One thing I’ve found to work is keeping a string (hoodie cord work great just snip the ends off) coiled up on the desk. They walk in wanting attention and you toss an end at them etc. and they rawr and attack. See if that’s what the lil guy wants.

I’ve also had tremendous luck with the circular cardboard “dish” shaped (concave) scratchers, a modern take on the classic cardboard scratcher. Somehow the act of scratching it then curling up for a nap in it appeals to the cats. Both are snoozing in them as I type 😺

Maintaining relationships with distant (geographic) friends. Everyone moves around going about their life, you slowly lose contact. Not intentional, “I’ll text later” and so on and next thing you know it’s been months or years.

He links it at the end, life imitating art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817280

See here’s the thing - to get the ability to downvote / flag articles, you have to say stuff in public enough times to get the 200 (400?) karma to unlock that. Well, how do you get that karma? You say the things that people on that site want to hear so they click upvote. Spot the curricular bias problem? It was intentionally designed this way.

It sounds good but in practice it doesn’t work out; laptops sleep, people put their phones on airplane at night, whatever happens in life. The “best” solutions use some sort of cache-and-forward relay (thinking like DeltaChat relays, or I hear SimpleX is adding them) but I think most end up looking at Snikket (xmpp) or Matrix for the group management etc. on a central server. The Disroot group uses “Movim” which is XMPP highly customized to a social experience.

I use DeltaChat with friends and there’s a lot of things you can’t do because it’s essentially P2P with caching relays - like Jami, all control and data is stored on the device(s). If all you’re looking for is a Signal replacement it’s great (and why we use it), but if you want good group social controls you gotta go the central server route.

I think Jami here could do with caching relays like Delta has, could move this project to the next level.

My bad, I didn’t think of that. My only thought was “$20 says this chucklehead won’t do squat” because we know.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS Here you go, argue with GrapheneOS - it’s an open platform, go ahead and make a masto account and share your thoughts with them. Tell them what you think! The rep who handles their masto account is very well spoken and presents rebuttals of value so I advise you bring your A game.

There are already instances doing this (and Mastodon ones as well), it’s a thing - there are warehousing no-user instances[1] But they could be blocked! We can’t have that, luckily…

…the Lemmy API and RSS feeds have no authorization around them for consuming the firehose of data; if I were a person doing this data gathering, I’d just passively monitor the firehoses off the top instances from random rotating IPs. Could and is most likely happening right now, can’t block them.

[1] I personally wrote a simple script which uses the fediverse observer info, grabs the XX most popular communities and builds a subscription import file to bootstrap a new Lemmy instance. wasn’t hard, just some curl and jq work.

Put HE (dns.he.net) in your back pocket - they run a free DNS service which includes slave (do we still call it that?) service so that you can add their resolver as an ultimate failover / failback if your self hosted DNS takes a dive for whatever reason things break in our world.

Generally, hosting your own DNS “should” mean having a primary and secondary on separate AS networks, or at least different provider routes or locations. But if you’re doing all this from home, where is the second location for DR purposes… exactly? I sure don’t have one, power goes out here everything goes dark - in the old days everyone used to do this (share out tertiary DNS to each other) but it’s become a thing of the past in today’s world. HE can help fill that gap.

To your point - I use Gcore DNS and Bunny DNS for my stuff, as I mainly use online VPSes and don’t run racks of hardware at the house. The only things I physically selfhost at home are a pair of old laptops acting as storage servers which backup all my bytes and bits from online to some SSDs.

…it… it was a joke. but OK thanks for letting us know.

At the top of the Lemmy UI underneath your title is a row of option icons; the icon to the left of the last icon with the three vertical dots - looks like maybe the Copy icon, sorta - is the Crosspost option. Click it and follow your nose, the new community dropdown is at the bottom of that next screen.

I would probably add rubber/etc feet on the cage to keep it from vibrating around as they spin, and maybe a handle for carrying! It’s a mobile laptop after all… :) What if someone tries to snatch-and-grab a HDD while you’re getting a coffee, do we have an alarm system? Lo-jack?

I feel attacked ;)

I have not tried/used it (yet?), but the kids are building Radicle for this very purpose. It gets a fair amount of techie coverage (blogs, comments, etc.) but sits in unique space compared to, say, Forgejo (classic self-hosted git).