Thank-you brother. It’s getting ridiculous. That’s a great ‘planet’ blog with a wide interest range.

Thanks for the link.

Rather a scatter gun approach, affecting normal blogs; surveillance state. Thanks Tories.

Clock the banner at the bottom of the page (assuming you’re on a UK IP): https://lobste.rs/

Microsoft own half of OpenAI. (Corrections?)

They don’t need you. They own 50% of your 20 (currency unit) monthly sub to ChatGPT.

Soap bars. How quaint.

There’s a change detection add-on for Firefox I use for websites which don’t have RSS feeds. Might work on that other thing.

SiteDelta Watch.

Syncthing is fast. I have an IPv6 setup too which seems to help.

I have my downloads directory on my desktop linked to a downloads directory on my Android; you can’t link to the real Android downloads directory anymore so I use another.

When the file is removed from the desktop downloads directory it disappears from mobile.

I tried using Bluetooth between them but it’s more fiddly than Syncthing with my config. Switch Bluetooth on on desktop, connect to desktop, send file, disconnect, move file. Whereas Syncthing is always on.

However, before I started using Obsidian notes I used to transfer URLs using Signal’s Note-to-self thing. Signal on both desktop and mobile.

Obviously, I sync between mobile and desktop Obsidian using Syncthing.

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Thank-you for your kindness. And it is really kind!

I’m old so my view of prop software is rooted in the change of early Microsoft et al bringing real change to the dubious parasitic entities that they are today. I watched it slowly happen and have been delighted and contributing in a small way with Linux since the turn of the century.

RedHat had been sold to the ‘no-one ever got fired for buying IBM’ (I still can’t believe that they believed that that was a winning slogan). In these trying times the love for open source isn’t translating into enough cash; average people are stretched.

I can’t wait for the leaders in my country to stop pandering to the world’s oligarchs and serve the people that elected them.

Upvoted.

Appreciate the reply, but I don’t mind some proprietary code. There are very few reviews of open code by respected bodies (I’m writing in generality here). I’m certainly not qualified to review code. Just being open is only the beginning of the journey.

As we’ve seen with some open software recently there are some active hackers successfully targeting open software because it is open. Such exploits are not always discovered in good time.

https://thenewstack.io/why-so-much-open-source-software-is-vulnerable-to-hackers/

https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/github-desktop-vulnerability-risks.html

Etc etc.

I place store by the warrant responses and action of government entities against some software.

Fuck. They told me that they were storing my backups.

Signal. It’s changed a lot. For the better.

Do you use Netflix or other services/products with DRM?

That’s your answer.

Thank-you. Made me check my shit.

Just a reminder that most of us have backups of the vault. It’s not like the apocalypse.

No.

As opposed to Microsoft, Google, … NSA, or GCHQ servers. Or all of the above.

Assets* ftfy

Ditto. All those hurty downvotes.

Own a Porsche, VW … ?

This is just getting ridiculous, OP. Gen Z is the new catholic guilt.

There’s a priority mechanism in Fedora/flatpak but when I tried to give priority to flathub it was ignored.

Maybe it works now.

Thank-you.