[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's both a generational shift and education issue.

I grew up remembering the early days of going online. The only pc at home was shared by family, so I knew early on that covering my tracks (erasing browser history) was important. When Chrome came out and incognito mode became a thing, I instinctively knew that it was just a shortcut for a separate browser profile that does not share the main profiles cookies and history, that it didn't store activities on the local device. I knew that internet providers could still know what I acceded, and so on.

I can't ask for the same kind of awareness for people that grew up with smartphones, proprietary walled gardens and apps with most of the complexities hidden beneath pretty UI.

It's even worse when it comes to the general population - this isn't the 90s where college students and tech minded people made up the internet users, this isn't the early 2000s where people still had to use a desktop PC to access the web, with its components more or less open to tinker.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 46 points 7 months ago

Whatever your thoughts on cryptocurrency might be, this is borderline gambling addiction.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 159 points 8 months ago

I'm dreading for the day they introduce dynamic pricing based on who's buying and refuses to sell without a full face scan.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 29 points 9 months ago

Why is everything a video or a chatroom instead of a properly documented webpage, I will never understand.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 29 points 10 months ago

When I was told to get lost and go back to China because the pandemic reliefs were for the fellow countrymen.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 63 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In Korean we have these conjugated forms. They both sound the same:

  1. 나아 [na.a] (from 낫다) be/become better
  2. 낳아 [na.a] (from 낳다) give birth (to a baby)

So when given A as an example:

(A) 감기에 걸렸어요. I got a cold.
(B) 빨리 나으세요! Hope you get better soon!
(C) 빨리 낳으세요! Hope you give birth soon!

For some reason Koreans across all ages write C instead of B by mistake. It became a national joke at this point and some do it ironically on purpose. I used to teach Korean. Imagine my face every time.

There are more but I'm on my phone. Will do more later.

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So I got hold of a domain that shows my exact full name. I thought it would be useful for showing up as "professional" when working in IT and sending resumes.

I got some mail forwarded using the domain registrar. I also made a small static website, which only has hello world for now but soon will get the contents filled up.

But then... what? I suppose I can host anything I want, but then there's the whole "real name - gotta look professional" aspect that makes me weary of hosting a Lemmy instance, for example, when the domain without my name attached wouldn't.

I suppose having personal domains were cool in the 90s where people were barely learning about "the internets". Not so anymore?

Is there a usefulness in having a domain name with your real name attached on this age?

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 39 points 1 year ago

Charlottesville was the wake up call for many. Never I expected nazis openly marching on US soil, chanting slogans straight from WW2... nearly a century after WW2.

It also must suck for the locals to have their town's name being forever associated to those scums.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 111 points 1 year ago

It's actually cool to see a government body embrace new technologies to promote their language and culture.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 46 points 1 year ago

It reads like one of those 4chan pranks actually gaining followers.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 30 points 1 year ago

They have their own happy cheering crowd, so nothing to worry about from their pov.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 61 points 1 year ago

First you need to put on your robe and wizard hat.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 30 points 1 year ago

I'm afraid they'll break off Debian one day. Supporting snap is one thing, sabotaging well established user cases (apt installing deb, not being a snap prozy) is another.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by neutron@thelemmy.club to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

It often happens that a given lemmy link didn't match with my own login from another instance. This causes troubles to comment and participate in the thread. This is what I have learned so far. Is there a better method of doing this? Browser extension suggestions are welcome.

Context:

  • Have an account @username on instance lemmy.test and being logged in
  • Given a lemmy link lemmy.example.com/post/12345
  • Want to comment as @username@lemmy.test on lemmy.example.com/post/12345

Expected behavior:

  • Opening links from lemmy.example.com automatically recognizes login from lemmy.test, commenting and voting done without problems

Actual behavior:

  • Instance lemmy.example.com expects logins only from its own server, not other federated servers like lemmy.test

Manual fix (for web browsers):

  • Check for the "federation link" (the icon with five-colored star, is there a name for this?) from linked URL's page. (If the icon does not exist, check Observations below)
  • Open "search" from own instance (lemmy.test > search)
  • Enter the "federation link" at search bar.
  • First result should be a URL that's compatible with the own instance: e.g. lemmy.test/post/98765

Observations:

  • If the link and its OP shares the same instance domain (@user@lemmy.example.com posting to [!community@lemmy.example.com](/c/community@lemmy.example.com)), then the federation link should be the link itself (please confirm if this is actually true).
  • If not, then the "federation link" has to be obtained.
  • INCLUDE HTTPS before domain, otherwise it won't appear in the search:

https://lemmy.example.com/post/12345 OK
lemmy.example.com/post/12345 NOT OK

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by neutron@thelemmy.club to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I currently carry a dual-sim phone to have two numbers, private and work each. I am not entirely happy with this setup however:

  • Dual sim phones aren't common and cost more when I have to upgrade.
  • I need call recording for business, but android phones aren't very clear when it comes to call recording support. I had to try and return several new devices.
  • I would love to have additional temporary phone numbers for privacy (e.g. retails).

And here's my situation:

  • Google Voice is not available in my country. Plus, it's Google.
  • Prepaid SIM cards are cheap and easy to acquire where I live.
  • I have a bunch of old spare android phones.

I was thinking, could I leave the SIM cards for private and work at home, inserted to phones/devices that are managed by a call-forwarding server, which transparently forward the calls to a third device I am actually carrying?

Self hosted Google Voice is what I would love to have.

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