Sponsors, paywall, using it to advertise or support your business, etc.

I would like to tell my story which led to me encrypting my PC hard drive, even if it’ not a laptop.

I had a iMac, first it was from work but when I left the company I bought it ao I could keep it. When asked if I want to encrypt the drive while setting it up I denied because it’s not a laptop so I didn’t take it with me so it couldn’t get stolen.

Until I woke up one day and this big iMac which was the center of my desk was suddenly gone, together with my Nikon camera, my external sound card and other electronics the thieves could grab quickly while I was snoring in the bedroom.

I didn’t mind the hardware so much and I had backups of most of the things already anyway, but the feeling that they could mount the HDD and get all the data especially I was logged in to all websites and change my passwords, etc.

Since then I’m encrypting everything.

Not like on YouTube, but differently.

I have it build in into my instance and while it is the best, doesn’t mean it is usable.

Oh and finding new content is kind of impossible, I wish PeerTube was set up more like Lemmy with communities which you subsribe to instead of channels people need to follow explicitly.

I can’t run my own Odysee instance to be independent of third parties which might moderate away my content if they don’t like it. My content my rules.

I mean I did throw up a PT instance and publish my videos exclusively on it, and I’m getting decent views if the topic is interesting and I promote it on hacker news, I’m getting several thousands of views. But that does not fix the PeerTube mobile app, nor the fact that finding content is practically impossible and the subscribe mechanism constantly randomly stops working, there is no app for my TV (like SmartTube) etc.

I’m all in with PeerTube as a creator, but as a user it’s a terrible experience.

Yeah that’s interesting, actually in 5th or 6th grade one of the girls stole such a magazine from her older brother and brought it to school to show it around for some reason.

Intel! You know what to do!

Makes sense, because with the nvidia graphics card you could generate AI porn.

I use sycthing and it’setup and forget.

I don’t mind paying. In fact I do that to keep my privacy by hosting most of my social media myself instead of using big corps social media and other services like immich, ollama, home assistant, Firefox sync, ttrss, and many more.

I’m not only paying for the hardware but also with a lot of time to host and keep everything up.

https://voiceinput.futo.org/

FUTO voice input. For English it’s good enough. But if you want to mix languages then no.

So the goal is to replace YouTube with non-video content not just replacing it with a different ui or provider. That sounds more doable. Good to hear that it improved.

I’m hosting my own server and my own bridges. Some of the bridges are rock solid and I never need to do anything other than keeping them updated like the discord, the signal, the Telegram and Slack ones.

Others I installed but they are breaking now and then and I have to fiddle with them like FB messanger, WhatsApp.

The third category is the ones that theoretically should work but I can’t get them to work like WeChat or Kakao Chat, because they are in a bad shape, outdated or like in WeChats case my account is flagged to not be able to do that for some reason.

And then there are the chats which have no way to be integrated like Instagram I think.

From what I understand beeper is just a matrix server with all those bridges installed and they configure update and run them making shire that everything works. And to be honest, that is a lot of work and it’s a good value proposition.

But yes you’re right they need to decrypt your chats on their server so that the bridge can deliver the messages. Actually I made a video explaining it a while ago about Element One which is doing it in the same way: https://tube.jeena.net/w/rYhp4ZT5Ykw1aBGqMr62KG

Keep it just in your head until Elon Musk forces Neural link on everyone, then you’re fucked.

I think video is very unnecessary, audio is the most important and there are great ones which don’t use the internet or even WiFi but a different radio signal like https://a.co/d/3YAxSzw

If she really can’t do it without video then I’d buy a ubiquity one because they work without internet connection if you set them up like that. Then only you can access it. But they are quite expensive especially the ones with 2 way audio.

Nice try robot!

Are there the same problems with Thunderbird as with Firefox?

I made this https://github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker/ which supports PostgreSQL but sadly they broke the upstream images in newer versions.

Someone did the work to rebuild the images and fix the problems in new versions, looks promising: https://github.com/porelli/firefox-sync

It’s nothing personal, just statistics.

It happens more often than you think ^^

I have two, one which is firstname@lastname.name and the second my internet handle which is jeena so hello@jeena.net

First hint is already on the FrontPage:

We do expect you to understand how to use email and how to configure your DNS to use our service

Second hint, the very aggressive way their documentation is written with big font, repeating and slight threats. See https://mxroutedocs.com/dns/dnsrecords/

Third one, their refund policy in the FAQs:

We do not offer refunds. Please do not sign up unless you are comfortable with your choice.

And there are quite many people writing about their encounters online with them, like:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/rbwqew/mxroute_are_they_rude_on_purpose_whats_been_your/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/mxroute/comments/1b1nk52/one_of_the_worst_service/

And so on. If you can handle working in open source you can handle them too. They are very direct which is off putting for some people, but they care deeply about their customers.

oh yeah, I have my own domain since Uhm 2004 and have switched providers about, hm, six times without problems. I never delete emails either (spam I do) and just use Thunderbird’s drag and drop to move MA mails from one server to another.

https://mxroute.com/ if you need many different domains and email addresses but don’t need a huge amount of space, very cheap and just works.

But if you have issues the guys who run it are quite rough and brutal, so support wil be tough on you and expect you know a lot about protocols, etc.

Oh shit, clicked on the wrong one, will delete it, sorry!

I would look for better alternatives for your niche questions. They clearly don’t want you there.

T-map, Kakao-map, Google maps, OSM in that order because I live in Korea.

This is probably only a problem with the online version. In contrast to google and openAI they, like meta, let you download the model and run it offline, where they can’t access any of this data I presume.

You could make the syncing automated with syncthing for example.

What about WiFi triangulation?

It has nothing to do with AntennaPod, it just downloads the file from the server and the server looks at your IP address and just chooses what add to put at the beginning of the file.

Just give it the wrong wifi password.

Can’t they just copy and paste the articles URL from the browsers adress bar? Or are you blocking anyone with a referee from Facebook, etc.?

The only time I call anyone is when my partner can’t find her phone and I have to call it, because we set it so that my number is on the VIP list so it will ring even if it’s on mute or Do not disturb mode.

It’s probably 15 years ago I used XMPP the last time. Back then there were many compatibility problems between the apps and especially on the mobile phone with push notifications, etc. There were problems sending media and VOIP calls were non existent outside of the Google clients.

My guess is that some of those things improved but I have not heard anyone in my circles using it, especially since Matrix became a bit more popular, most of the Open Source projects on IRC also moved to Matrix.

I think Matrix is the way to go because you can host your own server and be completely self hosting without a 3rd party involved.

As far as I know you can’t host your own signal server which connects to their servers.

I’m using Signal with the rest of the family and most friends.