Do you remember the era of popups before popup blockers? You’d land on malicious site and have autoplay porn sounds 37 windows deep and just have to long press the power button to get away from the shame. Twas rough then, still rough now.
Unless we’re talking about the days when lynx could render the whole site. Those were days when we didn’t have too many problems like this.
This is a case of stupid laws that still don’t understand the internet (35+ years in to wide use, mofos)
If an http GET request initiated from country A traverses routers and wires around the globe to grab some data from a server in country B, then we have to accept that the owners of the server are not “operating in country A” and in fact the user in country A is responsible for import.
If some laws in country A have a problem with this, then they should unplug their internet wires at the border, or at least learn how to use them and/or govern their citizens.
All that is tongue in cheek to say they can fuck right off.
That was Donnys way to scratch Elon’s back for helping with the campaign. After the back stabbing and subsequent fall out, I’m sure Elon took all his people out.
Beholden to the AAPL ticker.
I’m not really an expert on Android but isn’t it available in open source?
I’m curious why we don’t see more open source phone hardware and a fork of Android that doesn’t have egregious centralization. FOSS ideology has solved this in many areas.
Is the core issue that banking apps won’t run without signing or in a “secure environment”? And Google’s apps won’t run without play / Google services?
Eek, I’m moving towards nextcloud (and away from Google fast as possible). Is there a better all-in-one groupware + files + collab + office apps suite out there?
It does appear that nextcloud’s devs are eyeballs deep in php tech debt, so their pace of development and integration has slowed.
It’s so big that none of their FOSS components are going to be #1 on their own.
Recently upgraded the version and had to allow untested app versions (which had just disappeared) because they hadn’t been updated yet. That’s a weird problem and yeah, I don’t really want to be beta tester everytime I try and open a document.
They also don’t really have a nice docker compose based deployment yet.
But I couldn’t be happier to be leaving google in the dust, so there’s that.
Your’s is an interesting edge case but maybe the best solution is keeping a folder full of pics on an external drive and plugging it in only when you need it?
There’s a really nice Google Take-Out parser for immich that will preserve all your meta data during import. It was kind of a dream to use, it worked so smoothly.
In my case, I moved about 100k photos and videos, and I’m still periodically finding old flash drives and SD cards laying around that were never imported, so im using the migration to catch up on decades of photo archival. So far, all good.
Looking forward to joining you guys in the upcoming rebellion.
I’ve been self-hosting since the '90s. I used to have an NT 3.51 server in my house. I had a dial in BBS that worked because of an extensive collection of .bat files that would echo AT commands to my COM ports to reset the modems between calls. I remember when we had to compile the slackware kernel from source to get peripherals to work.
But in this last year I took the time to seriously learn docker/podman, and now I’m never going back to running stuff directly on the host OS.
I love it because I can deploy instantly… Oftentimes in a single command line. Docker compose allows for quickly nuking and rebuilding, oftentimes saving your entire config to one or two files.
And if you need to slap in a traefik, or a postgres, or some other service into your group of containers, now it can be done in seconds completely abstracted from any kind of local dependencies. Even more useful, if you need to move them from one VPS to another, or upgrade/downgrade core hardware, it’s now a process that takes minutes. Absolutely beautiful.
Whi knows man, maybe threesomes and are more normal in nature than originally assumed.
🎶You and me, baby, ain’t nothin’ but mammals…
If eBay didn’t suck so bad, I’d say just use that as your “box”
Heck, maybe what we really need is an online exchange. Mail in a cable, get a cable of your choice in return. So when you need some rare cable you’ve got it on demand… Just 5 days and $6 in shipping. Aww fuck it.
15 years is too long, it doesn’t match the state of the industry or technological progress.
If anything this slows down innovation which leads me to suspect the 15 year idea was though of by someone who dislikes any technical changes.
To be fair, somewhat cheaper than the other way.
Did a 4000 mile round trip this summer and barely any bugs. Wild.
I have a memory of a road trip in the 90s where we must have driven through a whole swarm, probably somewhere in western Montana, because it almost sounded like hail as they were splatting on the windshield. Sorry, maybe I killed them all that day.
States have always been able to do these things.
Perhaps there are a few other administrative tasks they should collaborate on as well…
Wire is pretty much never removed once it’s laid out and I’m sure a lot of DSL based internet connections still run over same twisted pair that would have carried POTS lines.
But you’re probably right that there’s a VoIP device keeping these up and working, maybe just more than 6 ft away and instead in some Telco box down the street.
I think POTS installations will remain for decades more in niche cases - emergency backups in elevators, security systems, hospitals, fire departments. And evidently Grandma’s AOL internet connection up until this month haha
On sites where people tend to sort by low price, keep shipping separate.
On sites where people buy based on emotion, give free shipping to improve conversion rates and close the deal.
I pay for it, also no ads except the sponsor plugs, which are pretty easy to skip. Overall a better experience than the non premium. I don’t live in the USA so my cost is like $5/month.
Interesting, I want to try some of these solutions.
I set up luks on some of my selfhosted virtualbox instances to protect against physical theft, but power issues cause all too frequent restarts that are a serious pain to physically access.
An ssh call in a script that could be remotely used to unlock and complete the boot would be so handy.