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gedaliyah

@ gedaliyah @lemmy.world

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2mo ago

Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?
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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago
Wow, I just recovered a childhood memory

2mo ago

Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

GeoCities

2mo ago

What would you like to see on the Fediverse?

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I couldn't quite follow all that. TLDR?

2mo ago

What would you like to see on the Fediverse?

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Thanks, I did not realize. I just did a quick search because I remembered an app but couldn't remember the name. Must be something else.

Edit: Maybe it was mapillary after all. They were acquired by Meta in 2020. A better option looks to be KartaView.

2mo ago

What is your favourite album of all time?

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Album I would listen to start to finish on any given day: Rubber Soul by the Beatles.

Favorite overall album to listen to: Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.

Most important album: London Calling by The Clash

2mo ago

What would you like to see on the Fediverse?

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I'd love to see that wonderful interoperability we were all promised. It should be possible to have one identity/account that's connected to multiple services. I should be able to log in once, post some thoughts on Mastodon, share a photo on Pixelfed, and comment on a PeerTube video. Some services have tried to combine various formats with a little success, but it has been very limited, and generally broken.

2mo ago

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Not the one you're replying to, but I'd generally agree.

If someone wants to post on Peertube, they basically either have to have the time, funding, and know-how to self-host, or arrive with an established audience. Someone with great creative talent does not necessarily want to run an expensive and complicated software project. Someone who has an established audience has very little incentive to jump to federation.

PeerTube is improving slowly. There are now a few instances with open registration, which could mean more fertile ground for good content. We shall see.

2mo ago

What would you like to see on the Fediverse?

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Absolutely. The organizations that have the most to gain and the most capability to manage instances are

local governments,
news publishers/journalists, and
Universities

These are groups that have unique publishing and legal mandates that already have the IT departments and adequate sway to compel users. They already host email and websites, and regularly come into conflict with corporate messaging platforms.

2mo ago

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

OpenStreetMap is frankly about as good as a crowdsourced map can possibly be.

And it's always improving. Mobile apps like CoMaps let you add business information. There are also apps like Every Door, MapComplete, or SCEE, which particularly emphasize updating OSM on the go.

There are apps for adding photos, such as Mapilary or Panoramax, which are not built into OSM, but built on top of it.

There have been a few attempts at FOSS review projects, like lib.reviews or mangrove.reviews, although it is tricky to reach critical mass.

Each of these are huge organizational challenges and data management challenges on their own. Without selling ads or mining data, it's hard for me to imagine a single project that does evey part and does it well.

2mo ago

What would you like to see on the Fediverse?

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Interesting ... It looks pretty active. A few dozen instances, mainly in Germany. This has real potential.

2mo ago

Shoutout to my selfhosting homies with a partner, kid, and cat(s), with these storage prices. T_T

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Pretty much 50% of the reason I started selfhosting

3mo ago

Wimbledon! More in the description

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Don't understand the downvotes at all

3mo ago

Selfhosted & AI

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Yep. It is a time-suck to see an interesting new project only to check it out and find out it's AI slop. For some apps, it doesn't bother me... They may not require the access or stability of critical apps. Other times, I just can't trust a slop app, and it would be very helpful to know which it is in advance.

3mo ago

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots. Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 3mo ago

A centaur is a human that can do more than an ordinary person... A person plus a horse is able to do more. Making our tools work for us allows us to do more.

A reverse centaur is when our tools are using us instead. Rather than a driver using a computer to navigate more efficiently, Amazon drivers are more like computers that use humans as a component to drive more efficiently than the computer itself could. Not great for the human.

3mo ago

"We Listened" - Commodore Reduces The Price Of Its Forthcoming Callback 8020 'Dumbphone'

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Yes, by "most any" of course I mean that you can find a device with almost any spec or form factor you choose. If you like pixel, you can choose lineage or graphene. If you have an old phone lying around - with hundreds supported by lineage - there's a good chance it works.

3mo ago

"We Listened" - Commodore Reduces The Price Of Its Forthcoming Callback 8020 'Dumbphone'

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 3mo ago

This can easily be achieved with most any Android phone.

Switch to a degoogled OS like GrapheneOS or LineageOS
Install a minimalist launcher (there are dozens)
install CoMaps for private gps and navigation
use whatever chromium browser comes on the phone or install a privacy browser like Firefox (again, there are dozens)
add a notes app (there are dozens)

3mo ago

Running my own fediverse instance for the people who need it the most

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 3mo ago

There are also mesh systems that are worth looking into, if it's possible to get access to the hardware for communication that is potentially harder for the government to track.

3mo ago

Running my own fediverse instance for the people who need it the most

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 3mo ago

I'm not sure of the details about the situation in Iran, but from my understanding, it seems that it would be much safer to set up a server outside the country that's run by you and others inside the country. It's fairly easy to set up virtual private servers, although you may need to arrange payment outside the country.

That would be much safer than hosting it with the physical infrastructure inside your borders. If you're hosting the physical infrastructure, it makes it much easier to locate. If the server is not in Iran, then it may be difficult or impossible for the government to seize it and access the contents.

There are people on this site who are far more expert than I when it comes to network security. Follow their feedback and you may even find someone willing to partner with you to help set it up.

3mo ago

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Trick question. Time dilation means nothing ever actually enters a black hole. It just keeps getting infinitesimally close.

3mo ago

Does anybody know what's going on with Calibre Web Automated? [Solved]

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gedaliyah @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Part of what caught my attention is a feature that the current version removed with a note that it was being re-worked for the next release. It has been reliable for me, but there is also regular activity in the bug reports.