Many (if not most) new cars have their own cellular service built in. They spin this as being able to hotspot to your vehicle if you pay for data or being able to remote lock/start your vehicle with their app. However, the vehicle manufacturer has their own plan allowing them to relay back telemetry data regardless of whether you buy a data package.

Lemmy decided to go with SHA256 for TOTP seed. This is a very odd move since many 2FA apps don’t support SHA256. I actually had to write a quick python script to spit out my 2FA code since Bitwarden doesn’t support it. Hopefully either Lemmy will change to SHA-1 or Bitwarden will start to support SHA256 seeds.

That's just due to me adding the Crypto community at someone's request. It just backfilled all of the old articles. You can also just not subscribe to the crypto community if you don't want to see those posts.

It makes me smile to see so many "fuck yes"s. Glad everyone is as excited as I was to launch it.

I'm still debating allowing signups on my instance. That wasn't really the goal of this project and managing a Lemmy instance with a sizable user base isn't something I had in the scope of the project. More than likely it'll stay how it is, but I don't want to say I'll never allow signups.

I've seen a lot of chatter about meta-communities to solve the fragmentation issue. Hopefully that is something the devs have on their roadmap. Think there are still a lot of bugs and performance issues they need to work out first.

The few communities I have built were just the big ones I could think of to get to launch. I'm more than happy to build out new communities or add/change/remove feeds as people have feedback.

Fuck yes!

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Not in the way that it would have happened in an environment that's CO2 levels are slowly increasing.

Not sure that’s entirely true. Thankfully this attack vector required custom emojis, so it was limited to those specific Lemmy instances. Other attack vectors we may not be so lucky and it could spread through federation.

I really wish more apps were straight up switching to Lemmy like this.

You know what they say about great minds!

This is fantastic! Thank you!! I'll work through the list and see what I can do.

I didn’t realize it would be so easy when I wrote the script. Knowing what I know now I’d just check adafruit every couple minutes starting a bit before 8:30am PST.

It’s not that difficult to get a Pi 4. I wrote a python script that scraped rpilocator’s rss feed every 5 minutes and would notify my phone when one was available in the US. It went off basically every day around 8:30am PST when Adafruit would drop 100+ Pi4s. I’ve picked up two in the past week (one for my Voron printer and another for a RetroPi cabinet). They did sell out fairly fast.. in about 10 minutes or so.

I considered this, but really would prefer to stay away from Reddit feeds. That feels like we're trying to bring Reddit to Lemmy and imho Lemmy should be its own thing. I could be persuaded if they keep RSS feeds around post-July 1st.

Since the posts are to my Lemmy.link server, all of the posts and comments will be on my server. The mod work will be on me to maintain.

I'm still actively working on it, but once it's in a good place I'll throw it up on GitHub and post it to !meta@lemmy.link

You'll need to search for the community. If you can't find it you can sometimes force your local lemmy instance to sync by going to yourlemmyinstance.com/c/space@lemmy.link

Great idea! Added it. Might take a couple minutes to refresh.

That's the idea. Linkbot will scrape all of the feeds from the community sidebar and post new links from the RSS feeds.

ScrollAnywhere is amazing. I've used BetterMouse on Mac for several months now and have grown accustomed to scrolling by click-dragging. Really wish there was some sort of similar app for Windows and Linux, but unfortunately I've spent hours searching and haven't found anything.

My exact thoughts. Hypoxia is a terrible way to go.

I’m not a doctor, but I stayed at a holiday in express last night.

Yep. As I start to see which RSS sources are junk I'll remove them and attempt to replace with better quality feeds. If you have any suggestions I'm all ears.

We'll get that one up here shortly.> Lemmy.link

edit: and its now live. might take a couple minutes before the refresh runs.

That appears to be an Android error. Might be a bug in the app or Lemmy instance you're on.

That is a great idea.. I'll start looking into it. The hard part is finding quality RSS feeds that don't post a bunch of junk.

Absolutely! If you think of any others let me know.

That's the goal! If we can get enough subscribers to the communities the upvotes will cause the cream to rise to the top.

Absolutely fair points and I already had the concern about being "fair and balanced". The feeds I've added so far are either diverse (Youtube News is a great example: it contains both CNN and Fox News YouTube feeds) or are generally considered neutral (AP News and Reuters).

When it comes to UFOs and religion I'd have no problem adding them, but would absolutely break those out into their own communities. If someone is super interested in UFOs then they are welcome to subscribe to the UFO community with like minded people. Ultimately I'm trying to keep the number of feeds per community fairly low and make sure they are on-topic.

All that said I think it's up to the community to upvote/downvote as they wish. That is really the power of link aggregators like Lemmy and Reddit. Crap gets downvoted into oblivion and the spicy nugs float to the top. Link aggregators do come with their own drawbacks (echo chambers and trolls to name two), but they are very powerful once you've found the right communities.

Thank you for the well wishes! Sorry it's not right for you, but I really appreciate the feedback to make sure I'm executing this properly.

That's definitely not the goal. My vision of this project was to simply combine Lemmy + RSS. You get the benefit of news stream from RSS with the community upvotes/downvotes and comments of Lemmy. I had initially tried to set up TT-RSS and Newsblur, but both of them were difficult to set up and this felt like a better solution. I'm also extremely open to adding communities and feeds as requested.. absolutely not trying to curate news for people.

I have plans to open source linkbot once I clean up the code. It was thrown together in a couple of hours yesterday, so it's not well formatted. However, someone just commented on another post that they had just finished their bot and posted it to GitHub. I haven't looked into it at all, but you can find the link to that comment here.

It's been a while since I've used OpenVPN, but if I remember correctly when I had this issue I had to change "dev tun" to "dev tap". Ultimately the problem was that OpenVPN was assigning an ip on an unrouted subnet. I could access the internet, but not local devices.

Personally I switched to Wireguard. It's just so much easier to configure and add/manage devices. OpenVPN is way more powerful and configurable than I need.

I've added a programming community with Stack Overflow's blog as a feed. I'll see what else I can come up with.

https://github.com/kensand/rss-lemmy-bot

Just to be clear.. this is not the source to linkbot. The creator of this rss bot is @kensand@lemmy.kensand.net

Every community has their feeds listed in the sidebar. That is actually how the bot is controlled. It looks up communities, scrapes any RSS feeds in the sidebar and then posts any unseen links to the community.

Thank you! Really hope everyone enjoys it. The more people upvoting the easier it is for the good stuff to filter to the top!

Boost or US Mobile are the new Mint. Think Boost actually has a chance of hanging around for a while since they are owned by Dish who is building out their own network of towers (think they just hit coverage of 70% of US). They also use both T-Mobile and AT&T for roaming with their rainbow sims, which is extremely rare. US Mobile is a Verizon MVNO.. their "unlimited" package has the same priority as post-paid Verizon customers for the first 30gb each month, but I'm afraid they're eventually going to get bought out by Verizon ala Mint.

The other guy will eventually plea. It would be stupid not to.

I started using SearXNG and actually blocked Reddit from the results. As someone who almost always put “Reddit” in my google searches, I’ve been impressed with the quality of my search results without relying on Reddit.

Yep. I was just trying to explain to my spouse how to subscribe to lemmy.link communities from their main instance. It is not intuitive at all. Unfortunately I don't have an Android device, but if you go to the Communities tab on beehaw.org you should be able to search for the communities on lemmy.link.

Great catch! Can't believe I didn't already have that. I've added World News with BBC and Al Jazeera. Also added US News community with NBC and CBS US news feeds.