Reporting Google to the Competition & Markets Authority (UK): Android Developer Verification
https://lemmy.world/post/37195729
Reporting Google to the Competition & Markets Authority (UK): Android Developer Verification - Lemmy.World
Dan is a UK based full stack web developer who is working on Bookstack, a
self-hostable wiki platform (MIT license). On Google’s recent announcement about
developer verification he writes: > This is a massive leap in control, further
centralising approval power to Google across the entire Android ecosystem while
cementing themselves as the ultimate gatekeeper of what users can run on their
own devices, all under the guise of security. This is a further step away from
an open ecosystem, while being harmful to any platform competition & innovation.
> …as a UK resident I feel my best bet to counter this is via the Competition &
Markets Authority (CMA). He includes his report as a basis for others to use
perhaps.
What are your favourite books about movies?
https://lemmy.world/post/34879905
What are your favourite books about movies? - Lemmy.World
I just read Mark Kermode’s book about The Exorcist and really enjoyed it,
finding new appreciation for the film. Any recommendations for books that have
elevated a movie for you?
Securing a 'public' service for family
https://lemmy.world/post/34398729
Securing a 'public' service for family - Lemmy.World
I would like to host a public service for some family, probably Peertube so we
can share some videos. Invite only. There’s no way I’m going to get everyone
onto a VPN, it’s a non-starter though I would prefer it. I am thinking to use a
VPS with anubis and either crowdsec or fail2ban (or both?!) in front of
Peertube. Will apply as much hardening as I can muster behind that: things in
containers, systemd hardening, SELinux/Apparmor enabled/tuned, separate users
for services, the usual. All ports shut except 80/443, firewall up. Despite all
this I expect it will get scanned and attacked as it will have to expose ports
80/443 to the world so for family it will just work. Is there anything else I
should consider for security? Is Peertube the weakest link in the chain? (a
little concerned their min password length is 6 it seems and no 2fa). So long as
I keep whole thing up-to-date is it as secure as anybody can manage these days
(without resorting to VPN)? Is it all too much hassle and I should look for a
company that offers hosted Peertube so they can worry about it? Thanks for any
and all advice.
Are there any external shade covers/frost shields that wraparound car windscreen and front windows?
https://lemmy.world/post/33235628
Are there any external shade covers/frost shields that wraparound car windscreen and front windows? - Lemmy.World
As title, available in UK a bonus!
Photo management - storing friends' photos
https://lemmy.world/post/32753632
Photo management - storing friends' photos - Lemmy.World
Figured I’d ask here as thought self-hosters would care most about looking after
their photos. What do you do with friends’ photos you’d like to keep hold of?
Maybe there’s a pic on a chat app or they’ve sent you a link to an album on
google photos. Would you just throw into your own pile of photos or do you
carefully adjust metadata to indicate who took them? Just use dirs to separate
them from your own? Interested in any and all thoughts.
YouGov WECA Mayor Poll - Lemmy.World
From
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52069-combined-authority-mayoral-elections-2025-where-does-voting-intention-stand
[https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52069-combined-authority-mayoral-elections-2025-where-does-voting-intention-stand]
255 return code from command substitution of wait builtin but why?
https://lemmy.world/post/24376098
255 return code from command substitution of wait builtin but why? - Lemmy.World
In the code below we wait for a background process twice. In the first paragraph
we get the expected 0 return code from the wait. In the second paragraph the
only change is wrapping the wait in a command substitution which instead gives a
255 return code. Why is this? bash sleep 1 & wait $! echo $? # prints "0" sleep
1 & a=$(wait $!) # <---- only difference is cmd substitution echo $? # prints
"255" Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
How was Storm Darragh for you? - Lemmy.World
Some gusts of 45mph in Horfield and Fulton according to
https://martynhicks.uk/weather/data.php
[https://martynhicks.uk/weather/data.php] so I think we escaped the worst in the
city. A few things blew around but no damage near us.
Photo management at the cmdline - recommendations?
https://lemmy.world/post/20834220
Photo management at the cmdline - recommendations? - Lemmy.World
Can anyone recommend a tool to manage photos at the cmdline? I just want to move
photos into dirs based on their metadata (YYYY/DD), occasionally fix up metadata
(adjust dates), rename photo filenames to match a template and/or query my
photos for certain things. It doesn’t need to be a gallery or image touch-up
tool, I have other things for that. I’m aware of exiftool and ImageMagick,
perhaps they can do the job but they seem quite low level, really need to build
scripts around them - I’d like something that operates at a slightly higher
level so I don’t have to do too much scripting. A quick search turned up chee
[https://github.com/eikek/chee] (GPLv3) which can: - search photos using a
simple query language - manage named queries (called collections) - copy/symlink
images into a custom folder structure …but it’s not had an update in a few years
(maybe it’s feature complete tho!) Any other suggestions? Thanks.
