I self-hosted my own email for a few years, everything was set up and reporting correctly, but Google just would never have it. I think the worst is it would be a bit inconsistent.

Anyway, I switched to an email provider with my own domain and it’s much more reliable. That is until this week, I have noticed that some services are rejecting my domain. I think there is some whitelisting nonsense going on, but in those instances I just use an alias and that seems to work.

I just want to have control of my data!

I choose to believe this is true

…Cafetiere?

I didn’t realise I wanted to read up about Linux firewalls, but apparently I did. Thanks

It’s… Perfect

He’s a bad bad man, also known as The Sewing-Life Alchemist.

It’s free for a single user, but you pay a subscription per user for collaborative use.

I’m just a solo enthusiast so it’s free for what I’d use it for.

Edit: I guess to your earlier point perhaps this a step towards enshitification and they might well put more and more tools behind a paywall.

There are a few other options, such as Bruno.

https://www.usebruno.com/

But if you can spare the time to learn curl it’s probably the most versatile.

I don’t think I made myself clear; I am relievd because I thought I was going to lose access to my apps in the next update cycle. The thought of that filled me with anxiety, but now I have more time to prepare.

I’m hoping that something like lineageOS will be unaffected and will be available for my device before Google remove sideloading altogether

Yep, it’s pretty bad, it sets a bad precedent, and has me looking for alternatives.

When it was originally announced I got the impression that Google would soon be removing the ability to sideload apps altogether and as I almost entirely use apps installed from “untrusted” sources this would have been a nightmare for me.

So while I think this whole situation is shit, and will almost certainly lead to Google removing the ability to sideload apps in the future, for me the immediate anxiety has been lifted.

It appears that the “security wait” will be a one time thing when you first allow installing from unverified sources. After enabling it it will remain on indefiniately.

Not quite as bad as I was fearing, but will kinda annoying.

You can find it here: Dim on github

Jellyfin is A-ok for the tech illiterate. I actually think it might be easier to navigate and use because it’s a bit more simple than Plex.

Yep

They’re not false, but they don’t show the whole picture, as one paragraph seldom can.

If you are referring the action in Runcorn, of which they are said to have “stormed, scaled, and occupied” the premises of the military equipment manufacturer at 4.30am, I wouldn’t say that counts as violence. I would say that violence is typically considered harm to a person or people, not windows and drones.

We have ‘freedom of expression’ as outlined in the 1998 Human Rights Act. The HRA says that we are free to express ourselves as we see fit so long as it is within the confines of the law.

We have relatively strong hate speech laws as outlined in the 1986 Public Order Act, which makes it an offense to “[make] threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviours that causes, or is likely to cause, another person harassment, alarm or distress” and “language that encourages terrorism”.

Recently a non-violent pro-Palestine, activist group (Palestine Action) was prescribed as a terrorist group, making it illegal to support any of their actions.

London is already the third most surveilled city in the world with 73 cameras per 1000 people. So yeah, we’re not that far behind.

My gut reaction to this article was probably the same as a lot of people here “this is just baby boomers complaining about younger people again” and it kinda is, but it’s mostly a targeted parliamentary review into the effects of ageism on the older generation, and I would expect the government to do a similar review on the younger generation, if they haven’t already.

I do believe that pinning negative stereotypes on whole generations is wrong. It was wrong when the boomers did it to the millenials, it is wrong when millenials do it to gen z, and it’s wrong to go the other way.

Where does all the power and wealth concentrate? Amongst the boomers and older Gen x. Are they all wealthy and powerful? Fuck no! We’re all being exploited by the top 0.1% of the population, let’s not forget that.

Carrie Underwood doesn’t surprise me, but The Village People news hurts.

Personally, I love to tinker (especially on my main machine) so I don’t mind the complexities of setting up neovim. However, I do mess around with a bunch of servers, and I like to edit code on those servers, meaning I am often installing/compiling neovim and copying over my config before I can get to work.

What I am liking about helix is the idea that its default setup has what I need to get started straight away.

I am looking forward to giving helix a go.