elizabethtai.com Why I Left Apple’s Ecosystem
I acknowledge that Apple products are sleeker, high in quality and they “just work”. But I still left the Apple Ecosystem anyway and have absolutely no regrets.
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ploum.net Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
Cool! When you say you requested to subscribe, does that mean the server needs to federate or does that mean I accidentally set it up in a way that subscribers need to be approved? If it's the latter I definitely need to change that
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A place to aggregate blog posts written by you or others, or a place to read posts and find blogs to add to your RSS feed. The more simple/“traditional” blog the better, but blogs on any platform not littered with ads and pop-ups are cool.
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Classic Blog Posts - a community for sharing blog posts
It seems hard to find classic style blogs for one off post reading or to subscribe to outside of social media so I thought I would try to set up a community for just that. The goal would be to create a community for quality blog posts of any genre that you find interesting (sharing your own is also highly encouraged), and being a community it can be subscribed to within Lemmy or within the community RSS feed to provide a selection of reading material.
I don't have a ton of experience writing rules and stuff, but I'd just ask that you avoid blog posts are solely partisan politics, blogs nearly unusable due to ads and such, corporate blogs, and posting things other than blog posts (e.g. news articles). Also, should go without saying, please don't break FMHY's rules or your own instance's rules, and please be nice.
selfawarepatterns.com The sorry state of social media
This week, as announced a couple of months ago, the Twitter feed on my blog’s sidebar finally broke. It was removed to put it out of its misery. This came after a fresh week of chaos at Twitt…
In the case of Firefox profiles maybe I can actually provide some useful info this time.
"firefox -ProfileManager" brings up the GUI profile manager and "firefox -P [profile name]" boots a particular profile.
Anyway, good luck.
Sorry, I've never tried to revert a package but I "think" synaptic can revert packages (system or otherwise) and shared it because I wanted to make sure it works on Linux mint. Maybe I should have clarified that's more of a "best guess" on my part than something I'm sure of.
The risk of rolling it back is even if brave works fine with an older version, if a different piece of software was tested with the newer version and expects it you could end up with a situation where other pieces of software that depend on it either break or keep trying to force you to update.
If you have a system backup and all you're risking is time then I'd say go for it, just wanted to bring up the potential risks and some other options as well.
You could check synaptic package manager to maybe see about rolling it back https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=179192
Though keep in mind that trying to roll back a particular dependency couldbee a good way to run into problem's.
You could also try re-install Brave and/or try installing as a flatpak to see if those fix it without rolling back
ploum.net Reinventing How We Use Computers
Reinventing How We Use Computers écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
Burning out from social media and the fediverse
- Very stable, and can run the bleeding edge through Snap/Flatpack/Appimages, Distrobox, or VMs/Containers
My understanding is that it's not really the disrto, but the software running on it that'd effect battery life and performance. Both Debian and Arch can come pretty bare bones on a blank install (Ubuntu and derivatives tend to come with a fair bit of stuff bundled out of the box).
I'd personally reccomend trying a Debian installation (I'd likely say use stable, but testing or sid are also options if you need quicker updates and don't care for flatpak/snap/appimage/distrobox). The installer plays nice with Windows, and you can skip installing a desktop during installation then CLI install a tiling window manager to really minimize 'bloat'.
firediarist.wordpress.com How I am blogging the IndieWeb way
Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Substack … if you’re building your content home on any of these, it’s time to wake up to the cold hard reality that they could all disappear on …
ploum.net Losing Signal
Losing Signal écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
crnkovic.dev Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
How I accidentally breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a 'state-of-the-art' encrypted messenger called Converso.
thatcomputerscientist.com That Computer Scientist - Nix is the New Arch!
Remember the days when everyone and their pet iguana was raving about Arch Linux? You couldn't escape the ever-so-subtle "I use Arch BTW" remarks in every Linux forum. Well, move over, Arch, because NixOS is here to steal your thunder! Nowadays, it seems that you can't browse YouTube or read a blog ...
ashcorp.dev Rebuilding my Homelab
So, after a year or two of working on my homelab on and off, I finally had some time to look at what I wanted to do with my Homelab infrastructure. For reference, I’ve been very much using it as a ‘ooh, that looks cool, I should try that’ kind of lab - something that doesn’t quite fit it’s use-case ...
So, after a year or two of working on my homelab on and off, I finally had some time to look at what I wanted to do with my Homelab infrastructure...
escapebigtech.info VPNs - Oh sweet summer child
Everyone told me to use a VPN to protect myself from tracking online and I know that staying safe online is an ever growing difficulty and I could be exploited by hackers. [REDACTED] allows me to change my IP address, making me harder to track, securing my privacy. The average privacy concious perso...
So, there you were, trotting through the Interweb Forest, feeling pretty good about yourself. You’ve got your Veil of Privacy draped fashionably over your shoulder, and you’ve just left the Temple of [REDACTED] feeling invisible. Oh, the sweet taste of online anonymity!
You’re ready to joust any shady DNS dragons or phishing sirens that dare cross your path. You’re like a knight in shining armor, except your armor is crafted from complicated algorithms and digital code. But then, bam! You bump into a Tracker Cookie, and let’s just say, this cookie doesn’t crumble. Turns out, this little biscuit isn’t fooled by your flashy Veil of Privacy. Tough luck, mate. Who knew browsing incognito could feel so…
Blogpost: Actually Good Distro Recomendations for Beginners
reggie.re Actually Good Distro Recomendations for Beginners
I grew tired of shitty “Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}” articles. This blogpost tries to be actually helpful and explains what to consider when choosing a distribution if you are a new user.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/324800
I grew tired of shitty "Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}" articles so I wrote a blogpost, that I would personally consider helpful when I was starting out, so I can simply link it to people when they ask my opinion on a beginner distro.
Objective criticism is welcome and encouraged.
firediarist.wordpress.com The point of my words
People are dying. The world is in chaos. Do our words matter?
We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less
ploum.net We need more of Richard Stallman, not less
We need more of Richard Stallman, not less écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366703
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698
Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.