jherazob

jherazob , 9 days ago

I missed this one, have a link?

jherazob , 13 days ago

My issue with these is that my use case is public transport, for that it seems like GMaps is still unbeatable, i hope to find an alternative as good or better based on OSM soon because it's the one tool i still have no alternative to

jherazob , 17 days ago

What about XMPP?

jherazob , 19 days ago

For nearly a decade

jherazob , 19 days ago

First time i hear of this, sounds handy, although I've seen some of those "loyalty card" thingies with chips for hands-free usage, i tend to avoid them as a general principle as they're the opposite of privacy-oriented but for the few that you do want (like the store where you always buy your groceries from, to get extra discounts) might be handy

jherazob , 19 days ago

Given that the XMPP contingent is around, is there a comparison between a typical 2024 XMPP server (with all the recommended extensions and whatever), and Matrix?

jherazob , 20 days ago

Gabe Newell has done a lot for gamers and SPECIALLY for us in Linux Gaming, but he's still a billionaire with a yacht collection , give him props for his contributions but i don't think adding him to a "Good people list" is quite on point

jherazob , 19 days ago

If i were so inclined, is there recommended managed GoToSocial hosting somewhere?

jherazob , 19 days ago

Yeah, i was not necessarily looking for a hosting by the project devs, just seeing if there was some company offering managed hosting like masto.host and others do for Mastodon and so on, i have a general idea how much would it cost to have managed Mastodon and was curious about other Fedi options for this

jherazob , 1 month ago

All these discussions turn into that because WE KNOW that no one will convince MS to stop doing whatever they want, specially after investing literally billions on this kind of technology, the idea of MS "being held accountable" is something that realistically will not happen, and literally the only leverage people have against them is to just stop playing their game. Oh yeah, it's not easy, but given the fact that MS have made it so that you'll HAVE to fight the tech and relearn stuff every time they unilaterally decide to change things you might as well put effort where it will make a difference and free you from their BS

jherazob , 1 month ago

Oh yeah, this MUST be done too, but expecting that to be the solution to MS apps getting worse all the time is for the moment not a solution for the random user of the day complaining of yet another MS enshittification escalation.

Switching to Linux gets you completely out of that mess and has lasting results, continuing to participate in the MS market might change things if the anti-monopoly forces taking encouraging actions the last few years continue advancing but will take years IF it happens, along with any class-action lawsuit, anything else in the meanwhile (patches, debloaters, secret policy rules or registry entries, etc.) is nothing more than a band-aid treating the symptoms.

So, these discussions always devolve to this because it's a proven and effective solution that works today and lasts, unlike any other patch that can be broken next time MS forces an update or catches you unaware, it's hard and imperfect and "not the CORRECT way to solve the problem", but works.

jherazob , 1 month ago

That's exactly the cure, not using Chrome

jherazob , 1 month ago

Any idea what are the "forked degoogled chromium" branches going to do about this?

jherazob , 1 month ago

Can i select two? Because yeah, Keaton, but Adam West is for everybody

jherazob , 1 month ago

I've mentioned this issue a few times, then "But Proton has proven to be good! It's OK" is the usual response, that's when i remind them of how Google also used to be good. I don't really use a notes taking app, but in general after Google, the idea of "one login, a gazillion apps" is something i dislike in principle because even if the one central authority doesn't go evil, one login incident and you're locked out of everything you depend on.

Yeah, I'll continue using Protonmail but that's likely all I'll use from them and diversify on the rest.

jherazob , 1 month ago

Even from the "all your eggs in one basket" kind of perspective it does feel worrisome, not to mention that i am unsure about this dilution of their focus on many apps being helpful, I'd rather have them focus on very few but rock solid and maintained services instead of going with the Google "we do everything" way to do things

jherazob , 1 month ago

Bought by Automattic? After they non-consensually took all of Tumblr and hosted Wordpress to train AI? And after their big boss revealed his transphobia? I guess i'll skip this one

jherazob , 1 month ago

Dammit yes! Mandatory shot out to David Revoy and his replacements of it (and the blog post where he mentions how he divested himself of CDNs).

jherazob , 1 month ago

Had a longer answer that went away for some reason 😭

Your criticism is fair, but:

• Using the email as a seed on the generator goes halfway there, here's an example, although of course it could never change
• Centralizing the avatar opens that service up to be grabbed for tracking like Gravatar did, or breaking the security of a site by injecting code without the consent of the site owner. The usual tradeoff between security/privacy and convenience.

Would be good to have a good user-managed way to do the same (well, beyond using an image on your own hosting, i guess)

jherazob , 1 month ago

Because money

jherazob , 1 month ago

I understand your position and hate that we live in a shitty world where that choice is forced on people, but from what i see it from here, you guys have a choice between choosing the guy who's not good but is at least doing some good, and the active fascist idolizing Hitler, with every neutral vote being effectively helping the fascist.

Not much of a choice, yes, but that's where you are, and any vote not going to the not good guy will help the fascist. So that's your choice, will you choose to fly over the cliff along with everybody else in the rest of the car or help avoiding that?

jherazob , 1 month ago

That's one of the problems of a global communication network. There was a quote i read some years ago (which i wish i could find again) that more or less said that people with some talent who in the past would have been the pride of their village now compete with world class in that skill and now are seen as "average", yet in reality they're talented, is just that the bar has been unfairly raised to "Beat the best in the world".

jherazob , 1 month ago

Here's the actual source, the original investigation post is linked in it too

jherazob OP , 1 month ago

That doesn't seem to be FOSS, i see no code, at a glance it looks like another closed, VC-backed commercial platform unless i missed something

jherazob , 2 months ago

Can't say i feel like i have fully wrapped my head around this solution, but having migrated Mastodon instances before i see the need for it, this could help a lot as mentioned. And in addition, lots of people usually have multiple accounts across Fedi ("Here's my main Mastodon one, here's a Lemmy one, here's one on Bookwyrm to rate books, here's a Pixelfed one, etc.") and this could help unify them which is good, "I'll log in with this account on this server i had never seen before and it just works".

That said, having either repeatedly seen (or occasionally, personally had) TERRIBLE experiences in the past with linked accounts on commercial platforms (like when somebody gets their Gmail account banned for whatever reason and suddenly their whole online life is halted down to banking, or when linking two unrelated accounts lets one company access to spy on the person much deeper than before, or many other cases) i have to say that i feel a visceral level of discomfort at the possibility of this coming to Fedi, even if i feel this might just be paranoia I'm still not sure what kind of power would bad actors gain over you in this setup, like admins of rogue instances, Big Tech spy-happy corporate entities once they do fully arrive here, hackers who suddenly have a magical key over everything yours, etc.

jherazob , 2 months ago

Just earlier today i saw this phrase about cryptocurrency: "price discovery for bitcoin happens on an exchange that admitted a few months ago to being a criminal conspiracy". Yeah, there's HUGE problems with central banks, but by this point it should be very clear that a wild west casino full of scammers will not save us from that, it doesn't matter what were the initial ideals of people about crypto, it's main function now and for many years since it's beginnings has been scamming real money out of people.

jherazob , 2 months ago

That's just a different color of casino chip, in the end is still cryptocurrency, which as mentioned is not where we want to be

jherazob , 2 months ago

So, let me see if i understand the argument: Discord, a piece of closed source software which is very popular at the moment because they hit first (user inertia) and haven't yet ramped up the enshittification (but sooner or later will because they already announced the intention to go the IPO route), wins over free software alternatives because of a 100% unofficial bot designed to help with one tiny niche user case most users of the platform haven't even heard about, which is itself free software and therefore could be migrated and/or adapted to other free software?

I'm not sure the argument is very solid

jherazob , 2 months ago

I use this, it's very much not perfect but works: https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

jherazob , 2 months ago

It also does not coincide with most people

jherazob , 2 months ago

I dislike when they say in news clips that Signal represents the “current gold standard” for E2EE chats, it doesn't, Signal is a helluva lot better than the commercial stuff that mines user data but there's stuff like SimpleX Chat that doesn't leak even metadata because it doesn't have it.

Still, this is a good thing, these megacorps have their iron grip on people because they have raised walls around their services making it painful for people to move to a different service, tearing down those walls can only help us all.

jherazob , 2 months ago

Direct link for the lazy: Wafrn, a Tumblr-like Fediverse platform, and the code: frontend and backend. Seems VERY* early in development, so hopefully some of the masses fleeing Tumblr will be devs to contribute to it

Quick edit: Love that on the linked thread, the dev answered something from within their platform, and it was very much a Tumblr-style answer

jherazob , 2 months ago

Many years late, and still requires having your number. Good first step though, we'll see once a phone number is not required.

jherazob , 3 months ago

But then you'd have to use the Vision Pro...

jherazob , 3 months ago

Is it this one?

jherazob , 4 months ago

Kagi went to bed with Brave, and when people protested they ignored it

jherazob , 4 months ago

Kagi went to bed with Brave, and when people protested they ignored it

jherazob , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Here's a Masto thread explaining a bit the polemic

TL;DR: They became partners with Brave, when people pointed out Brave's objectionable politics they responded... poorly (still read the thread, it has much more info)

Quick edit: Was pointed at this, looks like it's even worse and the Kagi owner himself might be very objectionable too

Second edit: And it keeps getting worse, of course they had to get into AI...

jherazob , 4 months ago

Once Nova got bought i tried Neo Launcher and it has been more than close enough for me, a year and a half later and i'm still using it

jherazob , 4 months ago

Simple Gallery got removed when people found it had non-FOSS Google libraries linked in while checking the Fossify rebrand/rework, just export your preferences and import them on Fossify Gallery (BE AWARE: There's a bug in some launchers when an app uses custom icons like Simple Gallery and Fossify do, which breaks them, you'll notice it if you import the preferences and you can no longer launch the app and have to uninstall/reinstall it to be able to even launch it again, in that case edit the exported Simple Gallery preferences and remove the icon line)

jherazob , 4 months ago

Tibor betrayed us and sold the Simple Apps suite to a sleazy adtech company a while ago, there were multiple posts on this suggesting replacements, then one of the most active devs forked it into Fossify, removing all the branding and references to the original, work is still ongoing on this, already some of the apps have been rereleased, here's a handy matrix of the progress on the rerelease from somebody on Github

jherazob , 4 months ago

Try setting up a personal email server in 2024 and tell me afterwards how fun the experience was