[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Someone's concern for privacy can change throughout the day or at different locations. To keep the metaphor going, they might be fine with the top being open while they're driving, but want it closed when the car is parked.

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago
  • Dropped Reddit and Twitter completely. Actually deleted my Reddit account and deleted most of my Twitter history.
  • Stopped using Gmail as my primary email.
  • Went back to DVD and Blu-Ray for shows and movies I think I might want to rewatch.
  • Slowly importing stuff I've posted on various social media to my website.
  • Slowly moving stuff off of Google Drive and Dropbox to my local PC and/or Nextcloud.
  • Finally set up my Nextcloud server to use object storage so I can use it for auto-uploads without worrying about space.
  • Tried out a bunch of different Fediverse platforms.
  • Made more of an effort to report bugs instead of just living with them or using something else.
  • Deleted Chrome as my secondary browser and installed Vivaldi. (I've been using Firefox as my primary for a while.)

Moving stuff is slow because I don't want to just copy it all over, I want to decide what to keep in the process.

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submitted 10 months ago by KelsonV@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

"Like so many applications of AI, this new power is likely to be a double-edged sword: It may help people identify the locations of old snapshots from relatives, or allow field biologists to conduct rapid surveys of entire regions for invasive plant species, to name but a few of many likely beneficial applications.

"But it also could be used to expose information about individuals that they never intended to share, says Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union who studies technology. Stanley worries that similar technology, which he feels will almost certainly become widely available, could be used for government surveillance, corporate tracking or even stalking."

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I've gone back to Blu-Ray for some things because I no longer trust streaming sites to keep them available.

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Too narrow, hidden, minimal feedback...

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Murena is launching a smartphone with physical switches to turn off the camera, microphone and network.

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

^&@% Private equity again...

Political organizing is a great example of something that shouldn't be owned by this kind of firm.

(Followed by every other kind of organization. The concept of treating "business" as a set of interchangeable parts that move money in and out of opaque boxes and not actually focusing on what they do and why is massively broken IMO)

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I learned the term "glass cliff" when she was hired.

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"The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions."

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

So the $140/year subscription they're already collecting isn't enough for them?

I guess this is as good a reminder as any to look at what I'm actually using Prime for these days.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by KelsonV@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

My Nextcloud instance runs reasonably well on the server side, and my desktop and phone are able to render the web UI reasonably fast when I want to...but I also have a tablet with slow hardware and wifi that is just unusably slow with the Nextcloud web UI. Like, it'll take multiple seconds to render the login page, but only on this one device.

Does anyone know of an alternative web UI for Nextcloud that's optimized for downloading and rendering on slow connections/hardware?

Edit: I'm already using Nextcloud, and I'm using it for quite a few different services, some of which have native apps available, some of which don't, and of course even when an app is available, not all the features are implemented in it. The specific device I'm dealing with here is a Linux tablet, so while I can use native desktop applications for some features, it's not like it can just run Android apps. But the problem would apply to any comparably low-powered hardware like, say, an old laptop that can run native apps and efficiently-designed web applications well enough, but struggles with modern throw-a-million-javascript-libraries-at-it web development.

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submitted 1 year ago by KelsonV@lemmy.world to c/space@lemmy.world

DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn't getting the budget

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

I was expecting this to be a half-baked plan to block something using a less-than-half-baked definition that would also cover security updates.

The fact that someone actually thinks explicitly blocking security updates is a good idea is just appalling.

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submitted 1 year ago by KelsonV@lemmy.world to c/green@lemmy.ml
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Does this mean we can finally stop using these barriers to accessibility?

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STS (Secure Time Seeding) uses server time from SSL handshakes, which is fine when talking to other Microsoft servers, but other implementations put random data in that field to prevent fingerprinting.

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I've been using the Firefox Translations extension that this is probably building on. Also runs entirely in the client.

Having this built into the browser is going to be a great selling point.

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submitted 1 year ago by KelsonV@lemmy.world to c/webdev@lemmy.world

I'm getting Cloudflare's JavaScript-based screening page when trying to hit tinyurl.com with curl and extract the real link. Anyone know if this has been going on for a while?

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

It’s unclear what evidence Twitter has that former employees who now work at Meta continue to have access to Twitter intellectual property or trade secrets. Twitter responded to a request for comment with an automated email of a poop emoji.

Or for once the poop emoji is an accurate representation of the "evidence."

Stopped clock and all that.

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Reminder to self: buy physical copies of the shows I want to watch again.

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

It's not the static assets, it's the database queries

[-] KelsonV@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

I just commented on this in another thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/76011

TL;DR: The server-to-client interactions on Lemmy are a lot heavier than the server-to-server interactions, so even if you're just using your own server to interact with communities on other servers, it should still take load off of the servers you would have been using directly.

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