(just gonna be annoying and note that the 404 Media article isn’t a true “paywall”, they addressed this on their blog: https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/. If you create an account you don’t need to pay and they email the published articles in full every day.)

I just use whatever text editor I have and make MD files synced with Syncthing. On mobile I use Markor.

I’ve tried several different methods, and as much as I try to be organised, I feel pretty good with my folder of files.

This is a bit of a TIL for me. Alberta and Saskatchewan, obvious. I didn’t know that NB had an active anti-trans policy in effect.

Debian

I’ve tried different distros and liked them, but tend to come back to Debian.

My scepticism is through the roof reading this. First, I find it hard to believe that he has two working units unless they are programmed to sit in front of a terminal and tap Y…

The rest speaks for itself: Musk likes to BS.

If you are geoblocked you can stream it with https://ga.pbs-video.pbs.org/videos/nova/de12ed2c-17e6-4434-a430-7f80c26a6002/2000426341/hd-16x9-mezzanine-1080p/nova5107-AABR-AVC_793.m3u8 with mpv

See also: this thread on Mastodon https://octodon.social/@cwebber/112451933593063510

Ok. Makes sense. The video is geoblocked for me so I probably should’ve kept my mouth shut

Maybe just bad research. I haven’t tried, but I’m sure if you search for “how to protect yourself online” some of the SEO manipulating websites show up in the first results.

Yup

An old friend of mine that I’ve lost touch with is Chinese. They lived in Europe for a number of years. When they couldn’t get a new job their visa ran out and the went back home.

No problem getting a job. They had a place to live. Things were good.

But… When they left Europe they basically told their roommate, a student who was about 10 years their younger, that they were leaving and that’s it. They abandoned the apartment. This left not only rent up to the student, but also the €300 fee of changing the name on the rental contract.

If a police investigation is launched against someone in China, you can be damned sure they will turn up something. If this influencer ever saw a doobie they will find out, and if they never did drugs they will find an acquaintance who did.

I say this because one day when my friend left work there was a car waiting. It was the father of her roommate. Turns out he was a “special” police officer. He told them to get in and gave her a folder. The folder had photos of them, their friends, even me. There were notes on the friends, SMS and social media exchanges. This included references to drugs. He took them to a bank, told them to take out the equivalent of €900 (he had their bank statements already) or their family would hear about this…and then he left them there on the street.

There are solutions that work. Like you, I would enjoy a simple app that allows for subscriptions and playlists without tracking or using an account. I mostly use RSS feeds (newsboat) and watch the videos through mpv.

And yt-fzf is great too. It uses invidious instances instead of YouTube links.

Ebook reader for me too. It would be hard not to bring my DAP, but that only has a 13 hours battery. My old Kobo, though, has hundreds of books plus some games like solitaire, sudoku and boggle.

Username checks out

So many to choose from. If I close my eyes I can practically stream certain episodes of the The Simpsons and King of the Hill. Other series have had such touching scenes they can still bring a tear to my eye 30 years after originally airing.

But, today I’m thinking about the perfect episode of a series about absolutely awful people… Seinfeld.

I understand why today someone wouldn’t watch that show (2 of those mains really showed their true colours and the main jas somehow avoided some deserved scrutiny), but when it was airing on my channels it was the thing to watch and talk about. Stupid Friends was just something to watch to make sure you didn’t miss the start of Seinfeld.

One amazing episode, The Marine Biologist, ended with a scene at Monk’s diner as George recounted his adventure.

That episode managed to have multiple arcs with a unique denouement and simple gag at the end.

The next day at school we couldn’t shut up about it.

Before you delete your comments and reviews change them to something very basic and neutral?

The convo on HN about this article is worth a quick scroll.

The first comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570137) launches a discussion about freedom filled with anecdotes. There are even more anecdotes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570364). And even some praise (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570484).

I am not a dev. I don’t rice, I don’t game. I’m a FOSS user and have been for years. If I run into a problem, there is no way I will be creating an account on Discord to get help. It might not be worth the time and effort. A searchable forum is good enough. IRC logs are good enough. Email lists are good enough. But, also, some open source software makes onboarding seem more cumbersome than it actually is. Getting on Matrix is easy, but in he eyes of a new user it comes off as Herculean. And when a dev decides to use Discord we shake our fists instead of proposing a solution like operating the bridge for them.

Step in the right direction, which is appreciated…

But: https://fosstodon.org/@link2xt/111965597727225353

Server can look up account identifier (username) and also phone number by username.

Dang. The fire got close to my family’s homes. 22 y/o probably won’t get max sentence but this will probably mess up his career aspects.

Yep. I have never had to use Discord. Or, I suppose I should say I haven’t had to use it yet. But when I see that a project uses Discord and not a forum or even Discourse, Matrix or IRC, I just hope I never have to ask for help.

Anki

That’s the basis of Bloom’s taxonomy: knowledge or memorization

Spaced repetition apps, like Anki and Duolingo help a lot with the base, the rest needs guided learning with regular activities.