deadcatbounce @ deadcatbounce @reddthat.com

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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.

Buy two domains at least. One for the actual email and one for redirection email addresses with something like addy.io .

In the UK, open personal details can be resisted from whois listings under data protection, but you can use a mailbox or office address to make that a redirect.

I use a control domain to control all my other customer domains and I separate DNS, domain hosting, email, and websites so no-one has too much control. That was a painful lesson to learn.

Picking domain names is hard. Whatever you pick it will sound silly or it's already been taken. Just make it easy to spell and short to reduce the pain of spelling it out, and these days LLM tools can help choose.

This is premium quality fecal master in your water; thanks Thames Water and Anglian water. Premium is reassuringly expensive.

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.

😁

Good call.

Maybe the Americans can find some aluminum on another planet. There's none on earth.

I'm kinda done with the flavour of pigs-at-the-trough leadership democracy that the UK is now. Anarchy for the win.

Google's whole business model is based on being a paid spam provider. You may not have noticed that all Google products to a greater or lesser extent allow you to buy spam destined for other people or be provided with spam by Google paid for by the above.

How did you miss that?

I guess they wound the filter down a little.

If they've got the tech to go to and terraform another planet, why can't they reform this planet?

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.

Phew!

Upvoted.

They're all shite grifters. All of them.

Starmer just kills old people to save money. The public never remembers anything, and fewer and fewer people are voting because there is nothing to vote given that manifestos are ignored within weeks.

Anarchy for the win.

Boys, no-one has yet stated that the front bench has paid the due tax on the freebies they've been getting so far. Not even thinking about the free cash the last twenty years worth of government have given to their mates.

The seriously rich only pay tax voluntarily. Start with the medium wealthy and the grifter MPs.

Gen Y/millennials and X discover Christian religion (at least?) is a safe place for paedophilic preachers.

Be careful Gen A and Z. It's not safe at many levels.

Upvoted for asking.

Meh.

Yeah. Kebab and vodka. As expected.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

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.