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14 days agoI’ve used it several months and can recommend it. No issues so far and seems to get regular updates for bugfixes and minor new features.
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Why is this cropped and scrubbed so that we can’t see who the original artist is?
Yeah DuckDNS gave me many false positive outages where its resolution failed, for multiple half-days every year I used it (5yrs+).
I moved to the afraid.org and its been solid, if anyone’s looking for another free service - only cost is you have to log in once every six months to validate your account is not dormant. They have a paid tier which gives more features (that most home users will never need), and that allows the guy running it to fund a very reliable service.
I’m surprised the amount of people saying they have had no issues with DucksDNS. I’ve used it for about five years and had issues on and off with it being unresponsive many times.
Gave up and moved to afraid.org about a year back and that’s been a very solid service ever since.
I’m 95% sure this is parody because if it was real there’s no way this person’s family would ask them to host Thanksgiving. And nobody blocks 443 on a guest wifi… that’d block everything they’d even need the guest wifi for.
Update from Simon aka imsodin, Syncthing Maintainer
tl;dr for android users: No need to switch apps at this time, the current install continues to work and is safe. If you can disable app auto-updates, please do that for now to be on the safe side.
Good news: Had a good chat with @nel0x. He is a collaborator on researchxxl’s repo and just marked those releases as “pre-release”, which prevents the obtainium auto-upgrades. So we are back to no immediate risk for users and we can take it slowly, trying to establish communication and more context. It’s still possible and imo likely that nothing nefarious is going on, just a very suboptimal handover that needs clearing up. There’s no need to go dig for repos on github, the technicalities of continuing to publish an app are not an issue - the open/relevant points are about a possible direct continuation of the existing app (or not), the time/effort that needs to be volunteered to publish an app and the trust in whoever does that. Hopefully we can work something out. If you are interested in helping maintain the app, let us know, other than that imo nothing to do here except if you are a user, to do the above in the tl;dr and every now and then check-in on the status (now and then being more like every week than every hour 😉 ).
You mean like complaining on the Internet about a throwaway joke in a webcomic?
The Friends dig was just a utilitarian punchline for the comic to add some comedy to the informative nature of the first panel. I dunno why people take things to heart so much when there really are so, so many better shows than Friends. The comic doesn’t even say that Friends is bad, just that there’s better. Show viewing options have expanded and improved a lot since 1994.
Some people don’t mind sharing the land they have with them. Especially as the land available to wildlife decreases year on year.
Personally I’ll take insects and native rodents over sterile trimmed grass any day, especially for the front yard which doesn’t even get used aside from a ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ style lawn and garden manicure unspoken competition.
245·2 months agoThe malignment of anyone supportive of free-speech with ‘obviously they’re bigots’ is a really dumb take that plays into the hands of oppressive governments.
Considering their examples of ‘free speech under attack’ being the UK and Germany - places that have absolutely stomped on Palestine-support protesters over the last few years, I think your assumptions could be completely off base.
They are not using Microsoft’s official systems at all - this is an expensive self-hosted services that they run, so maybe, instead of jumping to comment and saying “I don’t even need to read Mojangs statement” you probably should next time.
Does not apply so much in warm weather countries. All the spiders that come into our house are also easily found loving life outside (Australia). I just gently move them out, except daddy long-legs, generally let some of them stay as pest control.
5·3 months agoSecond Syncthing, it is very fast, reliable, and flexible.
I used it coming from FileSync and Dropbox, and I had to change the way I thought about my shared folders to architect a good system for me. Eg: each root shared folder should serve a particular function that determines which devices it should be shared to (does this share need to be accessible in your phone? Laptop? PC? NAS?).
FYI you can set up untrusted peer sync to have your files all synching to another device (SFF device at your friend or relatives house, or a cloud server). That eliminates the concern of your house burning down, while keeping all of your Syncthing data secure and not worrying about it being stolen or accessed. If your house burns down you can connect back to the untrusted peer sync, put in your passphrase, and your data will all return.
5·3 months agoWhen I see I have a message/reply in my Lemmy inbox, then open the inbox and see nothing - there is such a relaxing feeling pressing “mark all as read”, knowing I just avoided an annoying interaction from some idiot I’ve blocked in the past.
2·3 months agoIn my (limited) understanding of it ‘blobs’ are encrypted blocks of data that are distributed with apps in their APK. The app code internally will then have references to the blobs to indicate start and end locations in the blobs and usually a function that reference serves.
That means less for closed source apps, as they could contain any obfuscated code already - but open source advocates are very skeptical of arbitrary blobs, as they can be used to distribute anything - trackers or malicious code for instance. Their primary function in the Google App store seems to be to distribute signing certificates, encrypted keys and checksums that Google uses to verify the build version and that app is from the Play Store (Google calls this ‘frosting’ the app, going with their Android dessert theme).
So I have not checked, but I imagine the Signal direct-download APK would not have blobs as it’s not been signed/‘frosted’ by Google.
See brief discussion below from IzzyOnDroid devs for additional terms if you’re curious to research further.
That’s great to hear, I might give it another try. Thanks
Wrong. Signal does not require play services. You can build the apk yourself from the source code, or you can download the prebuilt apk directly from Signal here: https://signal.org/android/apk/
This apk is self-updating and does not require Google Play services to update nor message. If it detects Google Play Services (or OpenGApps/microG), Signal will register you as an Firebase Cloud Messaging user for push notifications. If you do not have those services installed it will use WebSocket connection to the Signal servers instead.
I tried it but ultimately went back to Signal via microG, as the push notifications are half the value of instant messaging - WebSocket was unreliable. I tested about 3 years ago though, so they may have improved their implementation.
Or, ya know… Its rule 4 of the community that “post title must match article title”.
Very common rule on news communities to prevent people adding heavily editorialised statements that have no mention in the article they’re sharing. You’re welcome to add your editorialising in the post subtitle/text as far as I’ve seen. Pretty simple.
I agree with your take on the original news article, fwiw - it’s a fair concern. But communities have posting rules and you broke them.
21·3 months agoCool. Power to you - we clearly have differing tastes. OP was on the fence and asked for an opinion so I gave mine, not sure who else I’d be speaking for. Now you’ve given yours, so they’ve even wider opinions 👍
Go ahead. Watch it. 🤷🏻
Thanks for that, they have a bunch of silly fun stuff on Giphy and found their original comics from your info.
https://giphy.com/mushroommovie
https://m.webtoons.com/en/canvas/silly-shroomans/positivity/viewer?title_no=45042&episode_no=839