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If you want to play around with different elevator algorithms, there’s Elevator Saga where you can code your own.

I’d probably go retro, use something like Dillo and stick to more classic webpages. Or go full Gopher/Gemini.

Instead of uBlock Origin rather use AdNauseam. It’s basically uBlock Origin, but it “clicks” on the blocked ads so the ad networks still have to pay website owners.

IPoAC

EDIT: Meh, they’ve removed the example picture for “packet loss”.

So the mean reason people have now unreadable optical data is that they stopped thinking about it a long time ago for an utter lack of options.

Well, there are 100GB and 120GB Bluray M-Discs. But yeah, the only things larger are either spinning rust (i.e. HDDs that need to be refreshed regularly to prevent bit rot) or very expensive LTO hardware and tapes.

Liability ≠ Warranty

Read for yourself!

Samsung will, at its option, either: (1) repair or replace the Product with new or refurbished Product of equal or greater capacity and functionality; or (2) refund the then current market value of the Product at the time the warranty claim is made to Samsung if Samsung is unable to repair or replace the Product.

Advanced Data Protection OFF --> Apple has the decryption key for your data in iCloud

Advanced Data Protection ON --> The encryption key is kept on your devices only (and icloud.com doesn’t work without prior authorisation/key exchange from you, and then only for a specified time)

More info:

• https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756

Are you not using the “Advanced Data Protection”?

From the website:

Apple’s initial compatibility list incorrectly said that the Apple Watch Series 9 would not support watchOS 27. We’ve updated this article following the company’s confirmation that the device will indeed get the latest software.

Yeah, probably. But this doesn’t help much when the damage is already done, i.e. people have already commented bad things. And might even entice people (that might’ve downloaded it) to upload it again. Also, not sure whether this works as easy on e.g. TikTok.

Filming by itself isn’t illegal in Germany, but publishing the footage without consent of everyone in the video is. (“Recht am eigenen Bild”) Don’t know how this applies if the perpetrator is from the USA and publishes the recording there, though.

And even if - good luck in suing someone from the US while you’re still in Germany.

Tell that to some states in the US where there’s a thing called “one-party consent”, i.e. if one party knows about the recording (which the wearer obviously would), it’s legal.

There was a similar news article in Germany a few days ago. It was about a “pick-up artist/dating coach/influencer” named Erick Ronaldo secretly filming some girl at the Oktoberfest and posting it to his channel where that girl was ridiculed in the comments. (Fun fact: when the news media approached that guy and asked for a statement, he demanded $7,500 for an interview - which they, of course, didn’t pay)

Manually backdating is one thing, but importing them from Instagram with the original timestamp is a different. That’s why #2871 is still open and #4558 was closed as “not planned”, I guess.

There’s already a feature request for that: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2871

So far, I only know of GotoSocial that allows backdating new posts. And it even has a “gallery” theme that you can set as default to get something remotely similar to Pixelfed.

My gateway drug was turning my HP laptop into a Hackintosh. However, as you say you’re “not a techy person”, you’ll probably want to buy a working Macbook - as you suggested.

Best would be going to some Apple store and trying out the different models (the cheaper “Neo” and the normal “Air”) and sizes and see what feels okay for you. Once you have it, try to use the Safari browser where you can as other browsers might wreck the battery runtime. And remember: There’s a BSD underneath, so many commandline tools you know from the Linux world work there, too. (Make sure to check out Homebrew!)

Posted from a 2020 M1 Macbook Pro.

Meshtastic is good for local mesh nets with a limited number of participants. If you rather want to connect to larger meshes, Meshcore is the better choice as it’s far more reliable in larger nets.

Not much to expand. Some German left-wing politicians “ordered” a report on the German right-wing party. That report was deemed “secret”, so nobody was supposed to see it. Left-wing politicians told everyone that this secret report is the ultimate proof the right-wing party is extremist and can finally be forbidden and banned. Which is the part I said I doubt until there’s a way for everyone to see the actual report and verify the findings. (I’ve compared that to “Sure, I did my homework. But then my dog ate it.”)

Someone reported me with the note “supports <name of Germany’s right-wing party>”. And that’s that. Shadowban for life. No way to contest it or explain myself as support auto-responds with “we only answer to actual members of <instance>”.

(And yes, that “report” leaked later and turned out to be just a collection of quotes from social media from party members. Nothing against the law and lots of quotes were taken far out of context. It was great stuff for the media for a week or two but that’s it. Nothing ever came out of it.)

I’ve earned a lifelong shadowban on the largest Mastodon instance just because I doubted a political paper (which later turned out to be as unsubstantial as I said it would be). And there’s no way to contact support as support only answers to actual members, not people from a different instance. So, ever since, whenever I reply to someone from there, they need to approve my comment before anyone else from that instance can see it. Same for when I want to follow someone new from there. It’s ridiculous.