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Yeah, I wouldn’t mind a newsletter once a month with about 5 bullet points summarizing the most important events.

means you are now uninformed and unable to stop it from sucking

This seems better than being informed and unable to stop it from sucking, which was what I was doing previously.

closing down your visibility to, for example, news and politics that are negative puts you in a bad place to vote

I mean, I kiiinda agree, but not totally. I definitely do vote. I usually block out a few days to research candidates and propositions before filling out my ballot. So I am making an informed vote.

However, I don’t see how getting a play-by-play of the world falling apart is helpful. I get the summary when it’s time to vote, then I put it away. I can’t stop Trump from doing stupid shit. I can’t stop the war in Ukraine. I can’t stop Elon from befriending Nazis.

put on your big girl panties and let’s get past the worldwide push for authoritarian take overs

How?? All I can do is vote in my own country. And I did that. I’ve tried talking to friends and family, but I have yet to convince a Trumper of anything. They don’t care about reality. It doesn’t matter if I have all my facts straight. They don’t want to listen.

I can donate to Ukraine for the war, donate to orgs suing the government, or go to a protest, but all of that seems orthogonal to watching daily/weekly news.

It seems like being “informed” is just a way to “feel” like you’re doing something? Am I missing something here? I don’t get it.

My experience with my friends and family:

I left Facebook a long time ago and never looked back.

I’ve been blocking as many news/political communities as possible. Also, this helped: https://lemmy.today/post/22524765

Oooooh, wait. Does Quadlet let you run containers via systemd unit files??

Quadlet is a tool for running Podman containers under systemd in an optimal way by allowing containers to run under systemd in a declarative way.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/quadlet-podman

That’s cool! Thanks! TIL!

Yeah, you’re right. Bad advice actually. Oops.

Shortcut: use Tailscale to create your own private network and avoid hosting on the big, bad Internet. Otherwise, you really have to be careful on how you protect your services.

Minor downside (or upside) is that you’ll have to install the Tailscale app on each device you want to make part of the network.

This made hosting at home a lot easier for me.

Update: Ah! I misread the post. Tailscale doesn’t make sense for this use case. My bad! 😅

Gah. This hits hard. Too often I feel like a guest in my own damn country.

I wish Voyager could filter posts based on image text as well…

Interesting! I didn’t realize this! https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

only the copyright holder or someone having assignment of the copyright can enforce the license. If there are multiple authors of a copyrighted work, successful enforcement depends on having the cooperation of all authors.

So it seems like the FSF does this in order to be able to enforce GPL. Buuut, these guys really gotta be the exception. I feel like the probability of the FSF selling out and going full corporate evil is pretty low…

a good idea to have a CLA so that’s no conflict that the project owns the code.

That’s exactly the problem though. The project owning the code, instead of the contributors owning the code.

I don’t think the type of license matters too much if you have to sign a CLA, since the company can just change it whenever they want. For example, you can be AGPL today (Joplin) and then not AGPL tomorrow.

The Thunderbird desktop app for Linux has a “Export to Mobile” feature. It generates a QR code that you can scan on your phone to, I guess (I haven’t tried it), transfer the login info of your email accounts from desktop to phone. After that, IMAP should take care of syncing the emails from the server to each device.

Seems like the owners of Gitea did something like a self-coup and kicked out community members from the project. https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/

Forgejo is the community-driven fork of Gitea.

People like to act like Docker containers and environment variables are simple. But so often these things are not.

Oh for sure. I hate it when apps are like “EZ one line install” but then spin up a bunch of Docker containers. It’s just more potential for shit to break.

A huge reason I like Navidrome is because it’s just a single static Go binary. Can’t get much easier to manage than that. Plus a bunch of native music apps are available as well. Wish more software was like that.

For the specific case I’m talking about (CLAs), I check if the project (on GitHub or wherever) requires signing a CLA to contribute. In Joplin’s case, they do:

• https://joplinapp.org/news/20221221-agpl/#what-does-it-change-for-developers
• https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/dev/index.md#signing-the-individual-contributor-license-agreement

Basically, with a CLA they can change the license at any time to whatever they want. If they want to go closed source tomorrow they can with zero trouble. Without a CLA, they would need approval from everyone who has contributed to the project to do a license change, giving the project proper open source protections.

Ah, yeah. That’s why I’m wondering if I’m missing something… Like, cool. I know B sold my address… now what? I guess it’s a neat metric to know?

One thing I would like to see is a way to distinguish which apps do Real™ Open Source vs fakie open source. For example, I see Joplin on there saying “Your secure, open-source note-taking companion”. I guess that’s technically true at this point in time, but they also force contributors to sign a CLA so they have the option to pull the rug later on. (Something which does happen.)

They even say so explicitly:

This is necessary so that if we ever want to change the license again we are able to do so

— https://joplinapp.org/news/20221221-agpl/#what-does-it-change-for-developers

And fine, if they want to do that it’s up to them. I’d just like a quick way to tell the difference between open source 😒 and Open Source 😄.

Hosted apps means you can use them on multiple devices. Otherwise, I have to wait until I get home, power up my laptop, wait for the OS to boot, wait for the app to load, then do the thing I wanted to do.

Any thoughts on how to solve the data sync problem without hosting? I guess I remember some apps doing a local network sync to get data to multiple devices. I kinda remember having problems with that not working all the time…

Yeah! I’ve had surprisingly good luck on soulseek! Didn’t even know what I was missing!