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If someone you knew had a partner who was prohibiting them from making their own decisions, threatening them and anyone who helps them for going against their wishes, and physically preventing them from leaving, you would probably be extremely concerned.
This is literally what Republicans are doing to women in red states.
They are codifying abuse.
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E-mail vs Capitalism
Interesting talk about the history of e-mail, which is also federated, that I think is worth paying attention to in the context of the fediverse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q
Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things - Dylan Beattie - NDC Oslo 2023
We're not quite sure exactly when email was invented. Sometime around 1971. We do know exactly when spam was invented: May 3rd, 1978, when Gary Thuerk emaile...YouTube
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I refer to this as βstallmanisingβ
Named after Richard Stallman, stallmanising is to be so obnoxious about your perfectly good and just cause, that you actively turn people against it.
Donβt stallmanise your causes.
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We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact)
There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.
We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.
We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.
#meta #FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin
Restoring ownCloud
Definitely need a proper backup system or at least faster Internet. This is my workaround for moving my ownCloud instance to my new VPS (the data itself is backed up locally on several machines but my upload is only 20MB so it would take ages).
Tar it, split the tar into 10GB files to get around a file size limitation, then copy the files to OneDrive with rclone. Then copy them back and re-assemble them (hopefully, as I say the actual data is backed up as well).
(a clip of a terminal showing a listing of files split from an archive called cloud.tar.lz4 that are being restored to a directory using pv, tar and lz4)
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I did eventually find what seems to be a better way to achieve this (substituting MEGA for the suggested cloud storage):
https://opensource.com/article/17/10/backing-your-machines-borg
How to roll your own backup solution with BorgBackup, Rclone, and Wasabi cloud storage
Protect your data with an automated backup solution built on open source software and inexpensive cloud storage.Opensource.com
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Firefox PWA support on desktop
How is it that Firefox *still* has no progressive web app support on desktop? This is a deal-breaker for me as I have a number of web services I want to run as their own 'apps', not hidden in a browser tab.
There is a third-party browser extension, *but*:
1. It installs it's own copy of Firefox in another directory to host the PWAs. Apart from the fact this seems wasteful, there is no indication that this copy will be updated properly.
2. It completely isolates the PWAs from the normal browser profile (arguably also a feature, but I'd like to be able to choose).
3. Links in the PWA, such as to websites in my webmail, open inside the PWA rather than being forwarded back to the main browser.
4. It's not 'official', and I don't like depending on something like this where I can't rely on Mozilla developers to be careful not to break it.
There is a tool that works on Manjaro called webapp-manager developed by the people at Linux Mint, but that's Linux only and one of the use cases is for my wall-mounted Surface Pro which runs Windows 11 (I also use this machine for the likes of Netflix/Prime etc in full res, hence why I haven't Linuxed it so that's not an option).
So, back to a Chromium derivative (probably Brave) it is. Chromium itself is out because I use the sync features. :(
Tools I mentioned if anyone is interested in trying them:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/
https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager (also available in the Arch User Repository)
Rant over.
Progressive Web Apps for Firefox β Get this Extension for π¦ Firefox (en-GB)
Download Progressive Web Apps for Firefox for Firefox. A tool to install, manage and use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Mozilla Firefoxaddons.mozilla.org
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Today I've been playing around with this
GitHub - PromtEngineer/localGPT: Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models. No data leaves your device and 100% private.
Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models. No data leaves your device and 100% private. - GitHub - PromtEngineer/localGPT: Chat with your documents on your local device using ...GitHub
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