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tekeous··on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store
Absolutely ridiculous, to require a DUNS number when so many apps are published by a single person, often for fun or hobby.
tekeous··on The meanest app: Duolingo subjects its users to "emotional blackmail"
Mango is super good and free with most library cards.
tekeous··on A network engineer in search of greener pastures
I am aware that the font is a divisive choice, lol. I wanted it to look like my scribbles on the page, because that's exactly what it is. Most people I know who read my blog use RSS anyway, and reader mode is a thing that exists.

However, reading over some of these comments, maybe I'll switch it back to Quicksand.

Edit: Fine, I changed it to improve readability.

tekeous··on Kino: Pro Video Camera
That’s what I said about Halide, before they moved it to a subscription model.
tekeous··on Apple and Goldman Sachs: A timeline of the messy partnership that will soon fall
They don’t since the Costco card changed to Visa
tekeous··on Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff
Well, is that normally supposed to happen?
tekeous··on Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
The dolphin game is to allow them to avoid some import/export restrictions by classifying it as a toy, which it is, and not a hacking tool. It’s not a professional device.
tekeous··on Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
Podman was good when it supported systemd unit files, so I could auto start and auto update containers, even entire pods with systemd.

Then they removed that in favor of Quadlet. Now in order to do a single container I can do a unit file, but for a pod, I need to use a Kubernetes cluster definition.

Plus, unlike Docker their containers bow to SELinux definitions, so I have repeatedly struggled with containers unable to access mapped directories.

So what is it, Podman? Should I just use Kubernetes? Should I just make dedicated directories for everything instead of mapping logical places for things?

tekeous··on Lawnchair Larry
Fucking legend
tekeous··on How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox
Me too. I’d love an iPod with classic interface, but it pulls WiFi and Apple Music from my iCloud account and stores my library offline. Nice big output for high end headphones and high end DAC and they’d have a banger.
tekeous··on Dbrand Is Suing Casetify
This is unlikely to succeed, because a)it is an image of their product taken with their own camera - so if Apple wins here the precedent is you can’t take photos OF an iPhone?? Like hell that’s ever going to happen, and Apple would be idiots to do that anyway, seeing your friends in photos with iPhones in clear view is just free advertising and plays into Apples thing for “Apple users are elite”.

And b)Apple’s copyright refers to hardware design. Dbrand didn’t make hardware - they made an image, or skin, or case. None of these are applicable competitors to Apple’s iPhone.

tekeous··on KDE desktop cube effect returns
We have that too, it’s called BurnMyWindows in the KDE effects repo
tekeous··on RIP to my 8-port Unifi switch after years and years of Texas outdoor temps
This is why I use Mikrotik. I swear they’re the last brand standing that is actually built tough. Affordable too.
tekeous··on Boox Palma review: A phone-shaped e-reader
Ships with Android 11…DOA if you ask me. Even e-readers need proper software support.
tekeous··on Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
I wonder if MikroTik would be compromised- they’re Latvian and don’t necessarily have to bow to the NSA.
tekeous··on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
Not visiting cost them nothing. No serve, no cost.

Viewing the ad made them money.

Visiting and not viewing the ad lost them money. They paid for the server but made no money.

Only one of these three options is painful enough for them to get the point. It’s harsh i know, writers need to eat, but they need to understand I won’t “pay” them with my eyeballs unless the site is usable in return at a bare minimum.

tekeous··on ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console
> arch-based clone of SteamOS 2

So SteamOS 3?

tekeous··on E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters
The robot delivery units from Starship Robotics are also largely off the shelf components including a Raspberry Pi and 4G hotspot.

It’s cheaper to buy Pis and make your startup than it is to make something yourself, which is equal parts impressive and sad.

tekeous··on Official Chrome extension to use iCloud Keychain Passwords
SimpleLogin is much more featured and supports extensions on all major platforms.
tekeous··on Nour: Play with Your Food (from Panic)
Steam page says 2023.
tekeous··on Pocket can kill the reader remotely
Now I don’t have any skin in this game, using Omnivore myself, but I’m not good at reading code. What’s this mean? I assume it’s not killing the reader as in I have nothing to fear for my life. Does this disable reader mode, or prevent some sites being used by Pocket? ELI5 please.
tekeous··on The One Ring card, Magic: The Gathering’s coveted collectible, has been found
I would like to point out that this card contains a critical error - the number reads 001/001, but in fact, there were twenty made.

As we all know, three were given to the elves, seven to the dwarves, nine to the race of Men, and the one the Dark Lord kept for himself.

tekeous··on Google Store gave me a locked device as warranty replacement
https://killedbygoogle.com except it’s your phone
tekeous··on Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps
We already have a solution to that, a unified search engine for most federated communities https://lemmyverse.net/communities

There is a duplicate communities and fragmentation problem, but…..did you see Reddit’s fragmentation? It’s about the same

tekeous··on Show HN: Apricot – because RSS won't come back unless we move it forward
when the apricot has an RSS feed on the homepage

I used the Apricot to subscribe to the Apricot

tekeous··on (GitHub) Copilot doesn’t work if profanity exists
If only we could deny Copilot from pulling your code by including # Fuck off Copilot #
tekeous··on Tell HN: Expect you may have to write off Microsoft if you self host email
Microsoft is a pain in the ass regardless - they block my email delivery from SimpleLogin. From their own servers.
tekeous··on DNS Resolver Quad9 Loses Global Pirate Site Blocking Case Against Sony
It’ll be interesting if this goes to users not being able to trust their DNS, because router manufacturers can just include their own. Unbound DNS has been around for a while, and they can’t stop a pirate site from broadcasting their own host name.

If we all ran our own DNS they can’t sue all of us.

tekeous··on Snapchat. Now on the Web
Funny enough, the amount of bots in my inbox went up by like 500% as soon as this launched. Weird how that works.

Also, now it’s easier to take screenshots.

Why was this a good idea? Who asked for this?

tekeous··on Filmora giving us another example of why people don’t trust Lifetime licenses
If I like the way the product works now, I want to use it that way indefinitely. Take Photoshop for example - if all I use is the brush and a bit of copy and paste, I don’t want to buy the new version and I don’t want to pay a subscription for upkeep of basic features. Just let me pay $30 for a license to use the tools the way they are now, for as long as I want. If they turn out a new version with better copy and paste, I’ll consider the upgrade(note that the term “upgrade” is why I would justify paying more over time).

A software like Microsoft Word - it’s mature, it’s not really getting better, why would I pay them monthly to use the same features?

My unRAID server software - I pay for unRAID once, and I expect my server to run until it dies. Why would I pay $20 a year or whatever just to keep my server running in my own house?

Services like Netflix on the other hand are turning out new content which is what I pay for. Content delivery is a different animal.

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