keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
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Please make sure to read this carefully before ordering a #PinePhonePro:
The #PinePhone Pro is still very much in development, and thus just won't be your daily driver smartphone upon receiving the device.
Read https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_Pro_(pine64-pinephonepro) to get an idea.
I don't want to hamper your excitement, but I also don't want to see you start a rant YouTube channel because you're upset due to not reading this properly. The PPP is really cool, but it's not your new "privacy smartphone" at this point.
@staltz it would be really convenient if your activitypub account had toots/posts that referenced your blog posts so they could be boosted more directly (and bring more visibility to Manyverse). Thanks for writing them in any case
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@ScottMortimer There is also this excellent blog post in response: https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html :)
@thahajemnireal@mastodon.social @werwolf @xerz using XMPP & helping people onboard is getting easier with @snikket_im
There's still the question of which snikket server to use if you don't have the ability to run your own. That's something that I think Mastodon and Matrix did better: a decent default instance with effective encouragement to migrate to other smaller ones.
WhatsApp had a good twist with the "$1/year after first year" to seed the network
@danie10 I'd love to boost this, but looking at those URLs I just can't bring myself to. Any chance of a cleaned up version?
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One of the main reasons we don’t have a truly decentralised internet is actually really simple: it’s the fact that providers globally don’t give us symmetric upload/download speeds and fixed IP addresses at home. Kills decentralisation at the root. 1/2
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Anyone who thinks decentralization is an unmitigated good never heard of cars in comparison to public transport
TIL that a chromebook I bought a couple of years ago (intending to install Debian on, but got shelved until an immediate need for kids in online learning) has been officially abandoned for security updates by Google. I didn't realize how short the interval was before Google forced a choice between using an insecure browser or creating a massive amount of ewaste.
Luckily I should still be able to liberate this one (thanks Debian!) but most people won't. What a sad state of affairs.
Seems that Honda infotainment units are having date issues as of 2022-01-01 where the date gets rolled back to 2002 and stuck. This appears to be another instance of the (unfortunately named) "Y2K22" bug, similar to those hitting Microsoft Exchange servers at the same time.
Storing dates & times as "YYMMDDHHMM" in an int should have been seen as a bad idea. Sounds as though it may be August (!) before a fix is available.
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Good luck #BlackBerry users... you have been mobile security pioneers!
"The shutdown means the phones will no longer reliably function for "data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality"
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Before you buy that e-book from Amazon, do yourself a favor and see if the publisher has a website with direct sales.
I've found a number of books that I was interested in DRM-free, in EPUB format, and sometimes at a discounted price, just by poking around a little.
@dthompson what temperature of water do you put in it? Does it have a cover or other insulation to slow the heat dispersal?
@Sommer@mastodon.social maybe split the difference with a slight adjustment of "I will not let a PR sit over one work week"?
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You can connect WordPress blogs to the Fediverse by using the ActivityPub plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
The plugin lets people on Mastodon etc. follow your blog as well as share and comment on your blog posts.
The author of the plugin is @pfefferle
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James Webb Space Telescope over Earth
Image Credit: Arianespace, ESA, NASA, CSA, CNES
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I've always been told it's better to write comments describing the *why* rather than the *what*. This was for a couple of reasons but the primary one was that if you can't understand what the code does by reading it, you shouldn't be messing with it. That makes perfect sense to me.
However, Jon Calhoun from the Go Time podcast recently interviewed a (nearly) blind developer, Dominic St-Pierre, who had a very interesting take on this. He said that describing the *what* actually makes code more accessible; it saves those using screen readers from having to sit through a whole code block to figure out what could have been described in a comment in just a few words.
Those of us without any vision impairment can skim through and understand a whole page of code in just a few minutes while it might take half an hour with a screen reader.
Good comments can save a ton of time
https://changelog.com/gotime/209
However, Jon Calhoun from the Go Time podcast recently interviewed a (nearly) blind developer, Dominic St-Pierre, who had a very interesting take on this. He said that describing the *what* actually makes code more accessible; it saves those using screen readers from having to sit through a whole code block to figure out what could have been described in a comment in just a few words.
Those of us without any vision impairment can skim through and understand a whole page of code in just a few minutes while it might take half an hour with a screen reader.
Good comments can save a ton of time
https://changelog.com/gotime/209
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@jlcrawf Yes, and if you do an unauthorized repair of a Tesla, you run the risk of Tesla remotely disabling Supercharging "for safety" (but really about control). The Rich Rebuilds Youtube channel had covered a lot of the issues around how Tesla is trying to redefine the traditional secondary repair market to lock people into dealerships for repairs, and making it hard for owners or unauthorized mechanics to get spare parts. Think Apple, but for cars.
Joined Jun 2019
