I was expecting this to be a half-baked plan to block something using a less-than-half-baked definition that would also cover security updates.

The fact that someone actually thinks explicitly blocking security updates is a good idea is just appalling.

So the $140/year subscription they're already collecting isn't enough for them?

I guess this is as good a reminder as any to look at what I'm actually using Prime for these days.

I learned the term "glass cliff" when she was hired.

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

It’s unclear what evidence Twitter has that former employees who now work at Meta continue to have access to Twitter intellectual property or trade secrets. Twitter responded to a request for comment with an automated email of a poop emoji.

Or for once the poop emoji is an accurate representation of the "evidence."

Stopped clock and all that.

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.

• 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.

^&@% Private equity again...

Political organizing is a great example of something that shouldn't be owned by this kind of firm.

(Followed by every other kind of organization. The concept of treating "business" as a set of interchangeable parts that move money in and out of opaque boxes and not actually focusing on what they do and why is massively broken IMO)

Mostly it doesn't matter for the person using it*, so you can just pick one that isn't overloaded to start. But...

Ways it does matter:

• Your instance's moderation policy and actions. (including what content is allowed/disallowed, how they deal with harassment, etc.)
• Server reliability. This can change drastically if a lot of people join at once, as many Lemmy sites have discovered this week! (I believe Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world have both upgraded their hardware in the last few days to deal with this!)
• Admin reliability. This is harder to tell up front, but it's worth taking a quick look at whether the admins seem to be active and responsive, whether they seem like they're in it for the long haul or if they're experimenting, etc.

Switching is sort of easy in that all you have to do is create a new account somewhere, and you don't need to tell your followers because Lemmy doesn't have user subscriptions (though someone could follow you from, say, Mastodon)...

...but it's also not easy in that Lemmy doesn't have tools to export/import your subscriptions (yet?) so you have to add them to the new account manually. And moving your posting/comment history isn't something that's doable at the moment, either.

What I did when moving from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world was put the old/new accounts in each others' bios and add "Old Account" to the old one's display name. I'm not too attached to my post history sticking to my profile.

*I think it matters a bit more for where you set up a community, on the basis that an instance focused around, say, history would be a better place to create an archaeology community than one focused around FOSS. Though you might want to cross-post articles about free software used in archaeology!

Aaaand I just read about the situation with Beehaw.org defederating from lemmy.world because their mods were overwhelmed, so that (for now) the two servers can't interact with each other.

So that's another way it matters.

When someone named Kafka says it's the "weirdest"...that says something!

Same. Thunderbird now has native support for CalDAV and I use DAVx5 to sync it with my Android devices.

OK, I like the comment here wondering about the thermometer's range: "things with an interesting temperature are generally uncomfortable to hold your hand next to. I'm sure there will be at least one support call because someone tries to measure fire from 1 inch away."

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

They don't really use the major.minor.bugfix scheme anymore. If they did, they wouldn't be at version 117.

I tend to think of them all as minor updates that add up over time, like a rolling release with numbers.

I'm using Nextcloud for a lot more than just file sharing. Calendar, contacts, tasks, RSS reader sync, etc.

I'm planning to re-post my more useful comments on my website, with enough context for them to be (hopefully) findable.

And even when you can, saving files one by one from Wayback is a lot slower than re-uploading your local copy to a new server

Technically true, yes. Useful for the question being asked? Not so much.

I just commented on this in another thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/76011

TL;DR: The server-to-client interactions on Lemmy are a lot heavier than the server-to-server interactions, so even if you're just using your own server to interact with communities on other servers, it should still take load off of the servers you would have been using directly.

My main desktop has been upgraded continuously from RHL5 (no E) in ~1999 to Fedora 38 today.

Well, almost continuously. I've done at least one fresh install, when I switched from 32-bit to 64-bit hardware.

Edit: I have used a lot of other distros on other boxes, both physical and virtual - I've just stuck with Fedora on that one.

On my own hardware: At home I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running JellyFin as a local media server, also experimenting with PiHole. One of these days I'd like to pull my NextCloud server in-house.

VPS: Nextcloud (including calendar, notes, contacts & RSS/Atom), GoToSocial, WordPress, Gemini, and personal website with a mix of home-grown parts and sections managed through Eleventy.

I've also experimented with self-hosting Calckey , Snac2 and Mastodon, but Mastodon's too heavy for a single user and Snac2 is lighter than I want to go with for now. I may try Calckey again at some point, though.

Eventually I'd like to set up Wallabag and migrate from Pocket.

KDE Plasma handles the touch screen fine on my PineTab2.

It works in LxQt too, but only in portrait mode (which is the default for this device). I keep meaning to look up how to tell it to rotate the touch coordinates along with the display, and I keep not getting around to it.

But the main issue I've run into is that most GUI apps for Linux are...let's just say they're not designed with touch input in mind.

Also:

3. A open, customizable algorithm that lets the user set their own priorities, and if it does any "learning" based on user actions, it's geared toward the user's priorities and easy for the user to see and correct what it's learned.

Again, key factors being: open, customizable, correctable, and serving the user, not serving the platform.

Also from shot just works.

Even better: the one-star review on the pre-order page complaining that it's not out yet!

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.

Done. Sorry I missed it at first!

As others have said: followers yes, posts, no. Some other Fediverse platforms can migrate posts, though, and I believe Firefish (previously known as Calckey) is able to import posts from Mastodon as well as from other instances of itself.

A backpack solves both problems!

I tried setting up both for a local music server last year, and found Plex's cloud requirements and constant upselling were more of a pain than it was worth. Jellyfin was the one I kept.

Examples of this might include prioritizing mutual followers on Mastodon, or prioritizing low-traffic subscribed communities on Lemmy so that they don't get lost in the 50 posts from the busier communities.

I think the tutorial posts are a great idea! Looking forward to the first one.

I'm using it for multiple services, not just one, and while some have apps available, not all do, and some features aren't supported in the corresponding app.

Yep. DigitalOcean specifically recommends SendGrid as an alternative: https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/why-is-smtp-blocked/

I actually really like the last one, with the vague globe and trees, and I think it would work for the page header and other places where you can see it clearly, but I think the two more cartoonish ones would stand up better to being shrunk down to the browser's tab bar. Of those two I like #3 better than #1.

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

I like Alpine Linux for my VPS servers, but that's because it's very lightweight, not because of ease of use.

For user friendliness I've heard really good things about Yunohost, which runs on Debian and lets you manage a lot of different software, Nextcloud included

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"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?"