pootriarch

i’m shopping for mp3 players for precisely this reason - a friend has an ipod touch that abruptly stopped scrobbling. the last.fm app is stuck in a loop sucking battery. and she needs bluetooth anyway. she has always kept music and phone separate but now we have to ask the five whys on that before getting her a new unfamiliar gadget.

neo store refuses to run if you don’t grant it the right to send notifications and bypass battery optimizations. if an app demands a permission and doesn’t have a plausible explanation why it needs it, i don’t keep it :/

imo magic earth is a navigation app, full stop. it does that amazingly well, including live traffic, but i wouldn’t use it for anything else. organic maps is a better general-purpose map but isn’t a patch on magic earth for nav.

appimages just got less easy…

i don’t know which update did it - i think it must have been os-level (i run pop_os, derived from ubuntu) - but appimages silently stopped working. double-click, nothing. finally i looked in the log out of desparation, which said ‘appimages require fuse’.

more accurately, appimages require fuse 2 and the os had just upgraded to fuse 3. the fix is to heat-seek libfuse2, and don’t mess with any other fuse-related package as things can start wrecking themselves:

sudo apt install libfuse2

originally seen on an omgubuntu post

this is true. having said that - i follow a peertube-based french outfit called blast (can’t speak french, just look at the pictures). if i go to a different site (peertube.stream, liberta.vip) and look at a video, the streams are coming off video.blast-info.fr.

there’s no question video is a huge resource suck, and that nobody would want to host a lot of other people’s videos. i just wonder, if the model is federated indexes but owner-hosted video, i wonder if there’s a use case that can work at scale.

against which kitchen pots have proven surprisingly useful elsewhere. against all odds

long ago i shifted to vscodium, a packaged version of only the open-source base of vscode that provides most but not all of the available extensions. for two reasons: so that i didn’t leak telemetry to m$, and so that i wouldn’t get used to features that aren’t open source. it’s available in a lot of package managers, mac/windows as well as linux

thanks to this post, i’m trying out searxng and then kagi, neither of which i knew. hopefully there’s a searx instance configured roughly to how i’d want. i’m not philosophically opposed to paying, but search is a delicate thing to be personally identifiable - and i don’t care what your privacy policy is, if you’re taking my money, you can connect me with my clicks

woah are those negative or slide? we have a place here that i used to hand a hundred or so negatives at a time, but that was in the before times. they’re still here but don’t really advertise scanning anymore, so not clear on what would be possible

this political stuff is a mess that i hadn’t been aware of when i jumped into this ecosystem. the two fortunate things are

• that tankie stuff is stuff i don’t see in /all, and if they’re just unreasonably disappearing content, i wouldn’t have known what was missing; and
• i arrived in an instance whose admin’s main and self-proclaimed myopia is being a swiftie, which completely lacks the global thermonuclear war of tankie, though the incoming could eventually be a different tune

i’ll definitely be watching for this though, and wonder if it will become like masto where they actively try to funnel all noobs into their instance

we’re just getting started so you’ve either been waiting your whole life for this instance, or you’re glad it’s on someone else’s rack.

PopHeads is for, well pop music-heads. and i’ve no clue how to link it so it works for everyone. that’s a regular web link, apparently !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech will work better for some.

the instance also just tipped up a meme community and plans to build out artist communities as well. the first is for taylor swift, so yeah, our mod buttons say ‘hater’ on them.

I really enjoy Python, but as I use it more I’ve found the quality of the docs to be an impediment. They’re hard to reference quickly.

this, and the need to understand the wordpress core, pushed me into php long ago; python used to be my primary language.

since about the beginning of the year, php docs now are often behind captchas. i don’t know what in my environment triggers them, but i know they trigger me, and so i’ve been refactoring things back into python. mediocre and accessible docs >> somewhat better docs behind captchas. it’s impossible to navigate the changes for change’s sake between php 7 and 8 when you keep getting stopped to identify which fuzzy photo is of a dust cloud.

these are my home projects. for work, it’s typescript/js/react against java/spring back end. i code mostly the front end now, but since i’ve also done java, i can make better tickets when there’s a back-end problem :)

in my home network the host is often sleeping and syncthing isn’t particularly piggy - i expect it to just do the right thing.

i imagine there are network setups where you’d have some networks you trust for syncing at distance and some you don’t, but i could only speculate on that.

location access should only be needed if you’re allowing sync only on a specific wi-fi network - to android, the ability to see wi-fi network identities is what requires location permission.

if you say sync only over wi-fi but you don’t restrict to specific networks, you shouldn’t need location to be on.

i allow sync over (any) wi-fi but i have global discovery disabled on all devices and i don’t forward the port on my home router. if i am paired to some other wi-fi, they don’t see each other so no data is passed.