- onion ( @onion@feddit.de ) 80•2 months ago
Lemmy
(applause)
- delirious_owl ( @delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 8•2 months ago
Fuck Lemmy. I’m only here because there is nothing better (yet)
- SagXD ( @sag@lemm.ee ) 3•2 months ago
668 comments in 1 month. It means you like the content of lemmy
- delirious_owl ( @delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 1•2 months ago
Yes. The content produced by the users.
Lemmy devs are making the same mistake reddit made. They’re throwing the users under the bus, when its the users that make the platform.
- setVeryLoud(true); ( @isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 1•2 months ago
You can start your own instance, and you could even develop a compatible, federated protocol like kbin. That’s the beauty of the fediverse.
- delirious_owl ( @delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 2•2 months ago
Starting my own instance would just make me legally vulnerable because the tools for moderation dont exist.
I will likely jump to sublinks when available, which was created because of these issues.
- nasi_goreng ( @nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip ) 2•2 months ago
Why?
- delirious_owl ( @delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 9•2 months ago
Mostly because the devs are assholes that are throwing instance admins anf users under the bus by refusing to work on moderation tools and data privacy law related issues.
- Daniel Quinn ( @danielquinn@lemmy.ca ) English1•2 months ago
Are they refusing patches, or are you just expecting people to do what you want for free?
- delirious_owl ( @delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 1•2 months ago
They are refusing patches and we as a community do expext them to address serious legal issues that they are being paid by the community to address.
Its funny to watch them make the same mistakes as reddit.
- notthebees ( @notthebees@reddthat.com ) 63•2 months ago
Kde connect on my phone (iphone) and laptop.
- fine_sandy_bottom ( @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•2 months ago
I gave this a brief try but it seemed clunky in a gnome environment. Should I give it another go?
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 56•2 months ago
Firefox. Fuck chrome amiright
- schnurrito ( @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•2 months ago
The funny thing is that when Chrome was first released, I was pretty excited that open source web engines were becoming more widely adopted.
Whatever one thinks of the current dominance of Chrome, I vastly prefer it to the time when Internet Explorer 6 had >90% market share. Open standards and FOSS technologies really are a winning cause even if the end products aren’t always FOSS.
- gerdesj ( @gerdesj@lemmy.ml ) English51•2 months ago
Errm, Wireshark. Please bear with me.
Wireshark is a shining example of an open source project completely and utterly crapping on the closed source competition. As a result we all benefit. I recall spending a lot of someone else’s money on buying a sort of ruggedized laptop with two ethernet ports to do the job back in the day.
Nowdays, I can run up a tcpdump session on a firewall remotely with some carefully chosen timings and filters and download it to my PC and analyse it with Wireshark.
OK, all so convenient but is it any use?
Say you have a VoIP issue of some sort. The PCAP from tcpdump that you pass to Wireshark can analyse it to the nth degree. Wireshark knows all about SIP and RTP (and IAX) and you can even play back the voice streams or have them graphed so you can see what is wrong or whatever. That’s just VoIP, it has loads of other dissectors and decorators built in.
So what?
The UK (for example) will be dispensing with boring old, but reliable, POTS (Plain Old Telephony System) by 2025. Our entire copper telephony and things like RedCare (defunct soon) will go away.
We are swapping out circuit switching for packet switching. To be fair, a lot of the backend is already TCP/UDP/IP that is shielded away from us proles. When SoGEA (Single Order Generic Ethernet Access) really kicks in then the old school electric end to end connection will be lost in favour of packet switching, which never fails (honest guv).
If you are an IT bod of any sort, you really should be conversant with Wireshark.
- krash ( @krash@lemmy.ml ) 16•2 months ago
Thank you for the detailed reply and the explanations to (mostly) all the jargon :-)
Sweden is also doing a lot of deprecation of old telephony systems, those that I know of is that 2G and 3G are going away by 2025.
The less tech debt we pass onto future generations, the better.
- gerdesj ( @gerdesj@lemmy.ml ) English5•2 months ago
In the UK at least, the POTS (Plain Old …) copper phone lines carry an electrical current as well as signals and can power the handset. There are certain guarantees about this so that in an emergency your phone will still work so you can dial 999 (our original emergency number) or 112. Our fire regulations require something like 30 minutes before things should start failing. In the real world, you get out immediately and use your mobile.
We have an emergency alarm monitoring system used by businesses. Its generally known as “Red Care” which was a brand run by BT (British Telecom). You have a small device connected to a phone line (and powered by it) and it will monitor your fire detectors and building access control systems and a 24 hour manned monitoring centre will notify you in the event of an emergency. Nowadays, these devices will use your wifi and internet connection. Sometimes: old school is best.
- digdilem ( @digdilem@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
I respectfully disagree.
I had redcare via Age Concern for my mum before she went into a home with dementia - it was a few years ago and it was all that was available.
Nowadays, the panic alarms are, I believe, entirely self contained using a sim card and mobile connectivity and include location information - so they are not reliant on local power or internet connection. That locational information could be life saving - one time my mother got very confused, left her flat and was wandering around outside in freezing conditions. Luckily someone heard her calling out and took her home, but she could easily have died that night and was so confused that she didn’t think to use her dongle which was still around her neck, and it is doubtful it would have been in range of her base station anyway. A modern system can also include geofencing and even positional data (if someone falls down), takes it off, or battery runs low and automatically alert. Just like redcare, the modern systems are manned 24/7 just the same.
Sometimes old school is not best.
- gerdesj ( @gerdesj@lemmy.ml ) English2•2 months ago
I think we might be writing at cross purposes. The system you had for your mum obviously worked effectively for you and that is the important thing.
POTS provide(s|d) a fixed point of reference - your address is registered against the number for 999 etc; it provides power for a handset or device; Its been like that for a lot of decades! These are cast iron guarantees. A POTS line has guarantees, enshrined in UK law, that mobile etc does not have. POTS is circuit switched (well it was) which means there is a physical path between the ends for the duration of the conversation.
So, by old school, I mean that you currently have important guarantees about telephony in the UK that will evaporate in future. In 2025 or so, we in the UK will have finished migrating from our old school POTS copper lines and will enjoy our smart new SoGEA lines instead. Single Order Generic Ethernet Access. Instead of an emulated circuit switched line we will use VoIP across the entire country. Nothing wrong with that but it probably won’t have the guarantees that POTS had.
Red Care is no more - BT have dropped it on the floor as of Feb this year which may indicate that things are not well with our future comms promises. The general system that Red Care was one product of is still available.
This is the important point: Promises (in law) that we used to be able to rely on for comms may (will) be binned.
- heyoni ( @heyoni@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
I was thinking about getting a landline again (US) simply because VoIP and cellular all have issues with latency I find jarring.
- Takios ( @Takios@feddit.de ) 9•2 months ago
I love Wireshark but I hate every day I have to open it up :D
- gerdesj ( @gerdesj@lemmy.ml ) English5•2 months ago
I know what you mean. You’ve already read a load of log files on behalf of an “engineer” who seems incapable of doing it themself. You’ve also eliminated DNS and NTP and laughed at suggestions relating to SFC /SCANNOW. Then you roll up your sleeves and plug into the Matrix …
- Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English2•2 months ago
For the past week and a half of a networking fundamentals class I just finished Tuesday, we were learning the basics of Wireshark. So far the biggest problem I’ve found with it is that I couldn’t find a version for Linux so I could use it on my laptop (couldn’t get it to work on wine either).
- gerdesj ( @gerdesj@lemmy.ml ) English2•2 months ago
Which distro do you use? Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Gentoo have packages and I’ve no doubt that most others do too. On Linux you should not have to go to random websites and download stuff and faff around - use the built in distribution packages. If you are not sure what you’ve got try this at a command prompt and read the output:
$ cat /etc/os-release
As a last resort, you can run tcpdump on nearly anything and dump to .pcap, transfer that and then open that in Wireshark. Note that modern Windows has a OpenSSH client and server available so getting files around via scp is a doddle. Windows can even do NFS too and there is of course Samba - but CIFS/SMB can be tricksy.
- greywolf0x1 ( @greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
There’s also a flatpak package for it. Wireshark On Flathub
- Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English1•2 months ago
I swear I have selective male blindness because I found it in the package manager for my distro after doing a quick search command.
- PenguinCoder ( @Penguincoder@beehaw.org ) English1•2 months ago
And if you’re a CLI nerd,
tshark
is the same thing. Of course very useful for PCAP analysis of any sort.
- bonegakrejg ( @bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml ) 25•2 months ago
Joplin for notes, and Rclone drastically improves any cloud services.
- loki ( @loki@lemmy.ml ) English19•2 months ago
Gadgetbridge lets you connect and get data from supported smart or fitness watch without manufacturers app. Completely local.
- mondoman712 ( @mondoman712@lemmy.ml ) English17•2 months ago
Paperless has taken me from various stacks of important documents strewn around my apartment, to having all of these things nicely organised and searchable.
- trilobite ( @trilobite@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months ago
Absolutely second this. Its been a game changer
- observantTrapezium ( @observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca ) 16•2 months ago
Borg for backup. I’m really surprised it’s not more widely known. It’s an incredible piece of software.
Also, not really lesser known software, but a lesser known feature of file systems including the ones we use in FOSS operating systems: extended file attributes - useful to add metadata to files without modifying them.
- amigan ( @theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me ) English6•2 months ago
restic is better.
- Leraje ( @leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•2 months ago
As an add-on (sort of) to Borg, I was told about Vorta yesterday and installed it to run scheduled, encrypted backups of my local machine to an external drive, but you can also ssh to a remote server if you wish. Works like a dream.
- RBG ( @RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•2 months ago
Borg, Vorta, Star Trek is everywhere. Why did they name these for the evil guys? Could have named it “The Sisko”, everyone know he is infallable.
- turkishdelight ( @turkishdelight@lemmy.ml ) 15•2 months ago
pivpn for wireguard setup:
newpipe and libretube for youtube:
And the entire Fossify app suite in Android:
scrcpy for connecting to my Android screen from my laptop:
kde connect for general android/laptop connectivity:
- Chaotic Entropy ( @ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ) English4•2 months ago
The Fossify apps do look pretty slick.
- ayam ( @ayam@lemm.ee ) 14•2 months ago
- RiMusic basically saves me about 6 bucks a month from spotify subscription lol
- Droid-Ify much better interface to F-Droid
- Grayjay newpipe but with much better ui, worth nothing is developed by louis rousmann
- NixOS not necessarily improve my daily life but i’ve been having a really good time trying it recently
- Interstellar_1 ( @Interstellar_1@pawb.social ) 9•2 months ago
Grayjay isn’t open source
- ayam ( @ayam@lemm.ee ) 8•2 months ago
Actually you’re kinda right, their own license doesn’t allow commercial redistribution (kinda similar with CC:NC) which make them not open source. I personally have no problems with that though.
- ShadowCat ( @ShadowCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•2 months ago
I think it is: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
- isthereanyseal ( @isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•2 months ago
It is open source. But the license is not foss at the moment. They expresed their desire to make something that send revenue to creators
- chebra ( @chebra@mstdn.io ) 6•2 months ago
@isthereanydeal therefore it’s not open source. See for something to be called “open source” it needs a bit more than just for the code to be readable. The only people who define open source as source readable are the people who don’t want to create open source software.
- isthereanyseal ( @isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•2 months ago
There’s a clear difference between open source and free open source software. It is open source but the licence is not “free”. Not entirely at least
- chebra ( @chebra@mstdn.io ) 1•2 months ago
@isthereanydeal Nope. That distinction only appeared when big companies kinda became afraid of open source software, so they wanted to redefine the term, create some confusion, corrupt it…
- isthereanyseal ( @isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•2 months ago
You may have a point but there’s a difference anyway
- heyoni ( @heyoni@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
Did you unselect your upvote?
- chebra ( @chebra@mstdn.io ) 1•2 months ago
@heyoni I’m commenting from mastodon, I don’t even see any upvotes. Someone just started downvoting me because they ran out of arguments 🤷♂️
- n0x0n ( @n0x0n@feddit.de ) 2•2 months ago
Open source is when the source code is available.
Free software is when the source is available and the license lets you exercise your 4 freedoms.
- chebra ( @chebra@mstdn.io ) 0•2 months ago
@n0x0n You are wrong though: https://opensource.org/osd
> Introduction
> Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code.Literally the first sentence.
The definition you are using is being spread by the likes of Meta and Amazon.
- n0x0n ( @n0x0n@feddit.de ) 1•2 months ago
Taking only a part of my post does not make sense in this context.
- chebra ( @chebra@mstdn.io ) 0•2 months ago
@n0x0n Providing an authoritative source which directly contradicts your statement, that does not make any sense to you? I’m sorry then.
- lseif ( @lseif@sopuli.xyz ) 14•2 months ago
linux
- digdilem ( @digdilem@lemmy.ml ) 11•2 months ago
I like the energy, but this doesn’t qualify as “lesser known”
- lseif ( @lseif@sopuli.xyz ) 8•2 months ago
okay, reroll. uhh… firefox?
- runeko ( @runeko@programming.dev ) 2•2 months ago
Ooooh. So close. Care for a third try?
- lseif ( @lseif@sopuli.xyz ) 1•2 months ago
hmmm… microsoft?
- mFat ( @mfat@lemdro.id ) English13•2 months ago
Shotcut helped me get rid of the heavy, bloated Premiere Pro.
- Gargari ( @Gargari@lemmy.ml ) English13•2 months ago
rclone - you can use cheapest cloud or s3 provider and sync encrypted data. Syncthing - sync across devices.
- passepartout ( @passepartout@feddit.de ) 10•2 months ago
Loop habit tracker app on android: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits
They are in the google play store and f-droid i believe