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  • Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud

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  • The issue does not exist with the version installed from F-Droid. I think the Play Store version is a different build with the feature disabled as a condition of hosting it on the Play Sore.

    The Android app itself still works with the permission, and we released new versions on the external F-Droid store. So the limit is a “purely” Google Play Store-related problem.

  • [System32] No but like for real

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  • Mostly true, but a few months ago there was some reports of an automatic firmware update that blocked 3rd party ink or toner. It was probably my fault since I just bought a Brother and this sort of thing always seems to happen to me.

    This reminds me, I need to learn how to partition my network to keep thebprinter from reaching the internet.

  • [ItsMegComics] Those Customers

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  • Cory doctrow frequently writes about how voting with your dollars is somewhat ineffective because then the richest people have the most votes.

    I still boycott places, though.

  • a site for making bots for the fediverse

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  • Probably true, but there were still some useful bots that I enjoyed on a regular basis like the metric conversion bot, the invidious link switcher and the remindme bot.

    I think that Lemmy will allow you to use bots only if you declare them as such which should allow users to block or allow to customize their own experiences.

  • Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs

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  • I'd take those last 5 bullets. I've worked hard to gain salary only to find that it didn't matter. Every review I've ever had was a lie. If I was given a good raise, I was told that it was my hard work. If it was a bad raise, they found one item to give me 'satisfactory'. A bunch of us shared our salaries over drinks one evening and we all were about the same. That was a big surprise to me.

    Back to the point of the original article, employees talking is bad for employers. Unionization is one way to solve the collective agreement problem, but there are others. When employees (or any group for that matter) organize, they can make things happen.

  • Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs

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  • I hear this argument against unionization all the time:

    During those days the only thing a tech union would do would make your life balance better, but at the cost of your salary.

    It feels like fear mongering when there are no data to back it up (this is not a knock against your post, it's a complaint against the argument against unionization). I only know one person in a union and they have limited anecdotal data that shows that the cost of being in a union is offset by salary gains.

  • OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing

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  • For those too lazy to click through to the article and don't know what an Ai Pin is;

    The Humane Ai Pin is a wearable, internet-connected AI device designed to offer a phone-free way to interact with an AI assistant from anywhere.

  • When was the last time you felt that you were well represented by a politician - be it at local or national level? What was the occasion?

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  • Now, as with any politician, he's made some moves that i don't favor, like one year there was a tax surplus, so he gave it away instead of giving it back.

  • When was the last time you felt that you were well represented by a politician - be it at local or national level? What was the occasion?

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  • Tim Walz during covid.

    I saw that small businesses like restaurants wanted to close for the safety of their employees but the national chains wanted to stay open for profits. If individual businesses would have closed, they would lose business possibly forever. They needed the statevto mandate a closure to protect their employees and their ability to keep their customers. Walz declared a closure. I've spoken with almost s dozen local businesses who all feel the same.

    Conversely, Walz allowed chiropractors to stay open because the state saw that they took some of the load off of the already overloaded hospitals.

    Looking at all the bumper stickers and yard signs, he is quite unpopular, but I feel that he looked at the evidence (not the politics) and made a hard decision at the potential expense of his career.

    Bonus, during covid, he had the best ASL interpreter on the press releases.

  • If Nothing is Exposed, Am I Safe?

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  • I was hacked years ago. I was hosting a test instance of a phpbb for a local club. Work blocked SSH, so I opened up telnet. They either got in from telnet or a php flaw and installed password sniffers and replaced some tools (ps, top) with tools that would hide the sniffer service they installed.

    After that, I changed my model. My time lab is for learning and having fun. I'm going to make mistakes and leave something exposed or vulnerable and hackers are going to get in. Under this new model, I need to be able to restore the system easily after a breach. I have a local backup and a remote backup and I have build scripts (ansible) so that I can restore the system if I need to. I've had to do this twice. Once from my own mistake and one from hardware failure.

  • Backing up IaC

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  • Same. I have spent way more time troubleshooting a pipeline than it saves. I like the idea of automation but laziness prevails.

  • Backing up IaC

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  • For my own curiosity, how do you perform a build? Is it all done in pipelines, kicked off on change? Do you execute the whole infra build each time you release an update?

  • Backing up IaC

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  • As others have said, a traditional off site backup will work. How do you plan to perform a restore, though? If you need the self hosted source repo, it won't be available until the infrastructure is stood to creating another circular dependency.

    I'm still in the early stages of exploring this, too. My solution is to run a local filesystem git clone of the "main" repo and execute it with a Taskfile that builds a docker image from which it can execute the ansible infrastructure build. It is somewhat manual but I have performed a full rebuild a few times after some Big Mistakes.

  • What are your last-minute purchases before tariff hell begins?

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  • Excellent answer. I fall into the category of your last paragraph. I feel like I'm in a country not my own and if this is what the populace wants, maybe I'm in the wrong place.

    This actually connects a few things for me that I've been thinking about lately. I believe that the current "ruling" class has figured out, among other things, that it is easy to disrupt a collective action problem while somehow also solving it for their own groups. If you look at the people in the cabinet and other supporters, they'd all be fighting each other, but are somehow united under one man.

    If I understand your post correctly, organizing to protest puts like minded people together to further organize into groups that can unite to solve common problems even if their personal problems differ. For example, if I'm out to support trans youth and I meet up with someone to support women's reproductive rights, we both have a common vested interest in changing the current political climate even if I'm also a gun owner.

  • What are your last-minute purchases before tariff hell begins?

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  • We had millions of protesters over the weekend. Did anyone listen? Nope.

    What's supposed to happen from protests? Let's say that you have a representative who was just elected or reelected and they're fully aligned with the current administration's policies. They don't need votes or your support. Of what use will protests have?

  • Testing vs Prod

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  • After breaking "prod" many times, I have a Dev (local machine), Test (small VM) and Prod (big VM). My test is just less RAM and space and I need to spin down certain K8s things to spin up others, but it's a close mirror of Prod, just less.

  • Why can't California and New York make their own medicare for all?

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  • Does this imply that a state funded health insurance for all will operate at a net loss?

  • The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

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  • I can't speak to the quality outlook, but from what I understand about enshittification, it typically requires a self-serving entity like a corporation whose interests are not in alignment with its customers/consumers/userbase. In some of Mr. Doctrow's writings, he indicates that federating cans be a "circuit breaker" for enshittification.

    In a well federated platform, when one node begins to act counter to its users, the users can easily move nodes/instances. This is one of the reasons why there needed to be a law to allow phone number portability. Email is similar, but only if you own your own domain. Look for Cory Doctrow's writings on BlueSky for more examples.

  • What are your recipes that yield the best leftovers?

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  • I was going to post a link to Once A Month Meals (or is it Cooking?) but it looks like they charge a subscription now. A lot of sites have freezable recipes now.

    Anyhow, it's different than leftovers. Cooking lasagne? Make 4 trays. Burritos? Make 25. The key to freezer meals is to cool them completely before freezing and wrap it tightly or else you'll get frost. For pasta, get those tin trays and use press&seal to store. For burritos, wrap in parchment paper, then foil as foil can stick to the tortilla.