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Terence Eden Dec 21, 2022

🆕 blog! “Offline Messaging Apps Using Bluetooth”

Problem: My wife and I are going on a long plane journey and don't have seats next to each other. How can we communicate? Constraints: The plane WiFi is ruinously expensive. The in-seat messaging service isn't private. We both have Android phones. Preferences: Open Source. Secure. Easy to use. Solution: Use Bluetooth messaging ap…

Offline Messaging Apps Using Bluetooth

Problem: My wife and I are going on a long plane journey and don't have seats next to each other. How can we communicate? Constraints: The plane WiFi is ruinously expensive. The in-seat messaging service isn't private. We both have Android phones. Preferences: Open Source. Secure. Easy to use. Solution: Use Bluetooth messaging app Briar. The Good The app was pretty easy to set up. Enter a…

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(car '(potato lisper)) moved to fosstodon Dec 21, 2022

I have grown into the decision to move instances. But where?

(car '(potato lisper)) moved to fosstodon Dec 20, 2022

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like

say an artist posts their art here on the fediverse

and gets a commission

and does it and gets paid and all that

at the end of the day that's a NET POSITIVE

because it helped someone continue to survive

once again, this is about CONTINUING TO EXIST

you gotta know who your enemies are, y'know? it's actual capitalists, not regular people just trying to put food on the fucking table

(car '(potato lisper)) moved to fosstodon Dec 20, 2022

Roni Rolle Laukkarinen Dec 20, 2022

Relatable.

(car '(potato lisper)) moved to fosstodon Dec 19, 2022

DaxAeterna ✨ (witchandry)Dec 18, 2022

I am slowly losing it. I beg, I plead: there is no need to do things like "Elno" and "Eloon" or El*n. Just use "Elon" so that those of us who don't want to see that can have actual, workable filters. There is no full-text search, so using "Elon" will not result in trolls being able to find your post just by putting "Elon" in the search. Mastodon searches only on hashtags This isn't Twitter. #FediTips

(car '(potato lisper)) moved to fosstodon Dec 19, 2022

Yey, EXWM works under #nixos. Now onto other fun things.

(car '(potato lisper)) moved to fosstodon Dec 19, 2022

Can someone explain to me how to add extraPackages to exwm under #nixos? I get error: undefined variable 'epkgs' when I try to evaluate my config. This is the line extraPackages = with epkgs; [