€25 is double with our exchange rate and our org would be pushed to afford even $10 per month. We’re not a massive charity, just a small community organisation. I was looking into AWS because it would cost little to nothing with the non-profit credits.

I’ve had a self hosted Matrix server at home so I’m familiar with it but the format is too much towards the chat end of the communication spectrum than the forum end and we need something that’s either a forum or similar in format.

Federation is an absolute no-no as we would have no control over any other servers the data federated to. And as far as I can work out, Matrix still has metadata issues. I realise going from Facebook to Matrix is still a massive leap in privacy but if people ask why it’s better than Facebook, if it can’t be a high level of security, it makes it harder to convince them (even though staying on FB would be worse - people have just become so normalised to FB’s privacy invasion, they just don’t think about or want to think about it). And despite having used Matrix for a while, I’ve become wary of where Element is taking things.

We could go the XMPP route but, again, we need something on the forum end of the spectrum, not something like group chat, Facebook (which makes finding previous information difficult), or Discord (same problem).

If I need to change the icons for accessibility reasons, does my anti-ableism cancel out my bigotry? 😅

“All the temporary shit will be saved on the hardcoded directory ~/.fuckyou and not /tmp”

.fuckyou 😂😂

A recent bugbear of mine has been hardcoded icons.

It’s crazy how perfectly I can hear his voice, with that unique intonation and pauses, saying this. He’ll be turning 100 years old this year, bless him.

This is our ginger in both pictures. You can never predict which side you will get.

Aside: don’t buy into the myth that older cars need more maintenance or cost more to maintain. Its an excellent sales pitch to convince people to keep upgrading but it’s not always reality. Modern cars can easily cost more to repair and maintain than older cars because more technology = more that can break. Car manufacturers have, over time, crammed more and more proprietary parts into cars which they can then charge exorbitant amounts for and force you to use their mechanics rather than your local.

I have both an 25+ year old Toyota that’s still going strong and still only needs basic maintenance (parts are also easily available and cheap). I also have an ‘older’ Nissan Leaf EV that is very little maintenance and has nothing in it that reports back to Nissan. It’s got a nice balance of technology and most things we can maintain or repair ourselves if we want. Parts for this are also easily accessible and cheap.

I also highly recommend people learn more vehicle maintenance themselves (easier of older cars with less tech) so you can either do things yourself and/or you’ve got more knowledge yo protect yourself from mechanics and car dealers who try to scam you by repairing/replacing things that don’t need it.

I switched to GrapheneOS about a year ago. It was a conscious choice and I also wanted to use my phone as a phone. I installed the absolute minimal apps needed to function when out and about. I refuse to use things like Messenger and WhatsApp (I redirect friends and fam to Signal). I also experienced a decrease in phone usage which has been really nice. I feel like I’ve definitely kicked the doomscrolling habit as I don’t feel inclined to pick up my phone all the time and the only time I use Lemmy (Voyager app is the only social media app on my phone) is when I’m in a waiting room.

I really love the freedom that my phone is (mostly) just a phone and I’m not constantly online and constantly available. There’s just this weight lifted of not being constantly aware or hypervigilant about my phone.

If I ever couldn’t use Graphene anymore for whatever reason, I would just go back to using a dumb phone and prepare ahead more.

Is there a particular reason for Zulip vs something like Signal or Jitsi or Matrix? (Also asking for myself because I’ve been looking into Matrix again lately and this is the second time I’ve seen Zulip come up and in relation to VTTs lol)

Reminds me of a friend who had this whole long social media series using #notourcat and I always read it as No Tour Cat. I was like, damn, poor kitty doesn’t get to tour like the other kitties 😅

No. It was seized by the New Zealand government. Don’t think that NZ is some great democracy, our govt is turning into an authoritarian nightmare the same as everywhere else. Mega can’t be trusted anymore

!blurrypicturesofcats@lemmy.world

Teach her the wonders of Jellyfin and Stremio

Plex is already starting to add subscriptions for BS reasons.

Too bad that whenever I’ve tried it, its eaten my battery

This is lower light than the op

My orange does this too 😅

The thing that jumps out for me is the huge pupils. Cats only get that if its low light, they’re targeting something, or drugs. If they were targeting something then there is a massive mismatch between their posture and body language and their pupil dilation.

On the other hand, generative AI know that humans find large pupils on animals cute and is more likely to spit out an image of a cat with dilated pupils.

My money is on AI slop 🙁

Over the ditch here, New Zealand isn’t much better and like many countries only getting worse. The insane amount of personal information that essential companies (e.g. electricity, property managers, etc) is getting out of control and our digital privacy laws are still in the dark ages.

Its just less setup for me. My personal domain is shared with other people so I can’t set a domain level catch all. That and its less setup for me. I have no automated way of easily creating new emails (and my email settings would get very cluttered with hundreds of different emails). With a generic email address that I use with a +, its just one email and whatever comes after the + will go to that email. Then I have more options for what to do with those emails in mail clients. In my case, I have different mail filters to send them to different mailbox folders. But I can also tag them, auto delete, auto forward, etc. Whatever your mail client filters can handle.

A savvy spammer can do that anyway by brute forcing whatever is before the @ for any email address at all.

I’m less concerned about spammers (which are annoyingly inevitable after a while) and more concerned with data breaches. Thus if I can see where my leaked email address came from, I know who to blame and its also a lot easier yo change my account logins.

And yes, some sites annoyingly disallow them but in that case I can create another email address for those since they are few and far between.

I use a custom domain with a personal email address that I only use for communicating with actual human beings. e.g. myname@example.com Then I have a generic email address that I use with a + for different services e.g. email+hfu2sb5d@example.com or email+ebay@example.com I use Bitwarden as my password manager and that can automatically generate a + email using random characters but I sometimes use the latter + form if I want a human readable email. This way I can see exactly what website/service has been breeched/sold my data if I get spam emails.