Mastodawn

@simonzerafa @ben @bloor Solid advice, cheers!

I do not want your cookies.
I do not want your email.
I do not want your notifications.
I do not want your ads.
I don't need to see your socials,
at least not those of the greedy kind,
And I don't need to see your AI for
whatever you have in mind.

I just wanted to see your website,
What's that, a popup survey?
Oh for fucks sake: never-mind.

VNKR Jun 4

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Jun 4

Especially now. More than ever. This is the way.

#LGBTQ #Pride #PrideMonth #DontLetFolksRollAlone

VNKR Jun 3

@siracusa I have to say, tall people with long legs really appreciate the flat bottom on a steering wheel. It makes it so much more comfortable to get in and out of the car with the steering wheel in the position comfortable for driving.

VNKR Jun 1

Martin Seeger Jun 1

I use one dedicated email address per service.

This is a golden rule I started about 20 years ago. Today I have about 700 email addresses in use. The Password Manager keeps track, which Email address is used for which service.

This has several advantages:

An attacker has no idea which email address I use for a certain service: this makes attacking my accounts a lot more painful
I can very easily sort incoming email associated with those services
It becomes more difficult to track me

Lately more and more services do no longer allow me to create an account with an email address I designate.

Instead authentication is delegated to a third party (e.g. Discord, Paypal) and the email address associated with that service is used.

Such a service will never receive any money from me.

VNKR May 26

Jake Williams May 26

Dear app developers,
I have never had the desire to review an app. Prompting me to leave a review doe not make me want to do it any more. Making me click multiple times to dismiss your "nudge" and get back to using the app just makes me want to uninstall it.
Sincerely,
Every smartphone user ever

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VNKR May 19

@bloor Labour have been in long enough to see that they are just the same as Tories and that's why people blame them.

VNKR May 5

Rachel Lawson May 5

If you care at all about whether public bodies, like the NHS, publish the code you paid for, you probably want to take a look at https://keepthingsopen.com

#openSource

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.

Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public.

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VNKR May 1

@atpfm Keeping server OS up to date as well as keeping apps up to date and migrations are easier if apps are decoupled from the OS with e.g. Docker.
Also depending on the number of servers it may make sense to introduce automation/IaaC (Ansible, Terraform). It may have a learning curve but LLMs make it way easier to write configs.

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VNKR Apr 29

@itsfoss Are the images in the article broken?