Trac was great years ago. As much as I know, they were stuck on Python 2 until the very last moment 3 years ago, so it became almost unusable, and the UI is not responsive even today, not usable on phone. It used to be really great, but be careful relying on it before doing research on its current development.
Nextcloud Deck has an app as well that is on F-Droid.
There should be an option to say "I've read it and I decided against it" that makes the dot disappear.
Reddit has shown the middle finger to users' decade-long commitment, ignored all complaints, and demonstrated it doesn't care, which has destroyed all trust.
Now, Reddit is asking, "Can we be friends now so you can continue to work for us for free? We want to follow through with our plan of cashing in and need your contribution."
I can only advice to try out a color E ink eReader in person. Their screen is usually low contrast and dark, to a degree that you need to use it with backlight by default, which kinda defeats the purpose of an E ink eReader. For E ink, monochrome displays are still the way to go, and if you really need color, a device without E ink.
Many actions against another country are not based on the race of people living in it, but for political, economic, or military reasons.
This is not what most users signed up for when they signed up on Twitter.
You can feel better by seeing the upvoting system as a tool to raise visibility rather than a tool to show agreement with its content.
The feeling that commercial platforms give me is being harassed until I pay them money.
I like to support platforms, but don't like being milked like a milk cow.
That's why I'm completely open source and on free networks only.
Time for a federation of messengers. The XMPP protocol is ready and waiting for you.
Jitsi remains free. As you can see, this isn't about money but rather about privacy, which has diminished compared to before.
The issue with centralized systems becomes more apparent: the provders are held accountable for their users' actions.
Why does it make a difference that gun manufacturers charge for their weapens. They make them accessible for basically every adult. If they didn't sell them to basically everyone, many shootings would not happen, as world wide statistics show. Earning income on what they provide makes them even more responsible, because they profit off from the selling. I don't see why they are not being charged for selling it to people that use it to commit crimes, and someone providing an exit point does get charged because he lets people use it while he has no control at all over who uses his access point.
He doesn't care what people say about him, as long as they keep talking about him. You can make a lot of money by being a controversial figure nowadays. Being popular by being controversial is the business model.
And it works obviously. I didn't know this guy until this post.
Mix addictive ingredients into food and the consumer will eat more than naturally, but it's not better for him. Saying "more is better" and confusing "to engage" with "to like" is eval.
Ask anyone who works in IT and they'll confirm nothing gets ever deleted from all records and backups.
To see how your approach works, try using the Internet with Javascript turned off for reading text. You will realize you can't organize your life nowadays without bowing to what websites do technically.
Why do people think they are "buying" something when in fact they are "renting". Everything that's not in your power is not in your posession, hence it's not something you have bought. This counts for ebooks with DRM as well as those online games. Amazon and other companies call it "buying" to make people believe it's equal to real books, games ect. in their posession, and people do believe it.
Have you researched the reasons for "representative democracy"?
These are the reasons that come to mind at the moment, but there are likely many more.
Look at Brexit for an example of what can happen when people can vote directly.
Time to find interests that don't depend on a company taking advantage of my consumption habits.
The article is talking about "health problem" in its last paragraph. But Narcissism isn't a mental disorder or a mental illness; it is a personality disorder. (The narcissist is not suffering from the disorder; it's the surrounding people who are.) The whole text is based on the author's wrong understanding of the fundamentals of the subject, which renders the whole article useless.
This is about the free publicly hosted instance, used by the majority of the Jitsi users, who used it because they didn't have to login with a Google/Facebook/Github account. Which they now have to.
The software is free open source. But this case is not about the software. It's about the web instance that the majority of the people was using. And that instance now lost its privacy feature and shouldn't call itself privacy friendly anymore.
Buy the paper version, cut off the papers with a paper knife, and scan to PDF, with text layer. Takes half an hour for 300 pages, a book I'd read several hours. I paid for ownership, I'll own it. Legal in many countries, research the legal situation of your country of residence.
It reads like a piece of comedy, except that it's real.
The color screen of e-readers is too dark for me and substantially lacks contrast. It's very noticable. The layer for pen recognition already makes the screen darker, but the color display is adding a lot more to the darkness and lack of contrast. I would only go with an e-reader with black/white screen and even without pen recognition.
Furthermore, e-readers are much more fragile than mobile phones. The design of their screen leads to a high probability of getting broken which is a common thing, search "ereader screen broken" online. My Boox e-reader fell 50 centimeters and the screen was broken, which renders the whole devide unresponsive.
The pen recognition is not as precise as on tablets. You can draw with it, but it's a bit annoying and not for detailed work.
So my suggestion is to go with a device that costs less than 200 USD and do anything else than reading on a phone or tablet.
I think this has an effect most people don't think of: Media will just lose it's value as a trusted source for information. We'll just lose the ability of broadcasting media as anything could be faked. Humanity is back to "word of mouth", I guess.
I remember there was a time Google tried to be the best search engine out there, by ranking first what has most value for the user. Now it is ranking first what brings them more money, hence undermining Google's credibility, and making itself less ueful for the user. The enshittification of Google for everyone to see.
Because the long-term influence of such a powerful yet detrimental network like Facebook is bad, and when the negative effects for the Fediverse show up, or even later, when enough people realize it, the Fediverse will have been influenced in a way that it can't go back to a healthy state.
I'd expect that the advertisement is relevant to the content of the page. But I don't know, as I haven't seen a single bit of advertisement for the last 15 years.
Why would Javascript be a major piece of functionality for a website that is based on text articles?
Let's start with Facebook first, the platform that made a walled garden out of
You can't trust Facebook, it's about turning its users into a product for marketers, and that's it.
Exactly. "Wait and see" if they implement EEE in the Fediverse is naive because by the time we detect their actions, it will be too late to protect the Fediverse from its effects.
They promote Ubuntu-based distros, which cannot be trusted anymore, and they forget to mention Fedora as a better alternative.
Here is why you shouldn't use Ubuntu:
Canonical’s Ubuntu is not recommended because it contains Amazon ads and data leaks by default. GNU/Linux distributions based on Ubuntu are also currently not recommended due to several other reasons.
Source: https://prism-break.org/en/subcategories/gnu-linux-operating-systems/
It's not only about ignoring Facebook users. Imagine in real life a bully comes to your group and you could block him, so you don't see him, but he still influences the people around you in a negative way, changing the environment you used to love. You better make sure he stays out of your circle. Facebook has a long record of destroying other social networks.
Every product should include the price of what it costs today to repair the damage done to the environment by that particular product. That way the external negative effects get internalized to the individual that takes the decision, and also the damage can be covered.
Somehow I think the whole planet is endangered ...
AI training to suggest emoji reactions? Really? 😂
In many cases a Markdown checklist in a shared text file works better than those dynamic task apps. Add new tasks at the bottom of the list as they come up, and cross them off when being done. At the end of a month you start a new checklist with open tasks you consider still relevant and mark them as migrated on the old list.
# Shared Tasks
## May 2023
* [X] done task
* [X] another done task
* [-] deleted task
* [>] migrated task (to next month)
## July 2023
* [ ] migrated task (from last month)
* [ ] new open task
- comment
- another comment
- [ ] nested task A
- [ ] nested task B
* [X] some done task
This way all you need is Syncthing or a cloud storage with a shared folder.
By migrating you'll get a fresh list every month, and a monthly protocoll of what has been done in the previous months.
There is a downside: Because many people don't see the negative long-term effects, Facebook will have enough time to influence and dominate the Fediverse in a negative way. The masses don't see what Facebook is doing in the long run.
There's also not much reason to federate with Facebook. Sign up there if you like that network.
When there's a post about privacy issues, expect alternatives with more privacy be mentioned. It's just that there are so many moments that big corporations violate user's privacy nowadays, so that's why you see it that often.