Same. I would have left long ago if that was not for that setting and without a careful selection of whatever community I subscribe to ;)
My only blocked content is a few people who I can't be bothered reading again. I also have two words blocked: Trump, Musk just to make sire 99.9% of the shittiest content is filtered out.
Sure but you still have to believe and trust Filen
Obviously, like I must trust anyone involved in the whole process of me using a computer/phone to do anything. From the maker of my device (that it doesn't contain some spyware out of the factory, I remember an issue like that with Lenovo and another with Sony), to the app I use but also my ISP (that in France is legally required to keep all my online activities for a few years, btw) but also the maker (and the seller) of my keyboard hoping that they too did not add some spyware or keylogger.
As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I moved a lot of my activities offline is me realizing my inability to trust (corporate-owned) digital tools to actually respect my privacy. The simplest solution for me was to remove as much as possible of that tech from my workflow ;)
Depends what you use cloud storage for obviously.
Indeed.
ok, but requiring standard TOTP 2FA is one thing. that can be perfectly privately and without any real issue.
I see at least three issues: the extra cost, the extra layer of complexity it introduces, and the almost complete loss of autonomy it creates. Exactly like with public transits in many places switching to digital tickets instead of paper ones, save that it's much worse when it concerns our ID and personal security/authentication.
but that and mandating the usage of an app with built in snitching and which refuses to work on non google-approved devices are different things.
That would not be an issue at all if there was no requirement/expectation to use any phone or device of any kind to begin with. To me, that's the real point worth considering but it's also a point very few are actually willing to consider because 'technology is always the solution, never the issue' ;)
This is not irrelevant if you just don't want to bother with encrypting them or with having to deal with a locked folder (I think I understand what that would be, but I'm not sure). Filen does encrypt the folder(s) I tell it to encrypt and sync them to its cloud storage. I have nothing to manage once I've setup the sync(s) I need. Different solutions for different needs.. and different types of users ;)
I use it too, as well as Infomaniak KDrive (not E2EE)
I'm not a gamer, but gamers have my entire support. That industry, like so many others, needs to be reminded they're not supposed to be making the rules.
What I don’t understand is people need to hate it publicly and not simply just block it
Probably the same motivation as the need to promote it publicly and not alone bye oneself, wouldn't you agree?
Les lunettes et les verres que j'ai sur le nez pour te répondre ont presque 5 ans. Je vais bientôt changer les verres (pas la monture) parce que ma vue change (je suis suivi de près par un docteur des yeux, j'ai juste pas eu besoin de nouveaux verres depuis ce temps): je suis passé il y a quinze jours chez un nouvel opticien qui a été surpris de voir leur état qu'il a qualifié de 'neufs' ;)
Le revêtement peut s'user plus ou moins rapidement, d'où l'importance de :
Trump va-t-il envoyer un bombardier survoler Lyon pour (aimablement) nous rappeler que c'est les USA seules qui décident de ce qu'on a le droit de faire chez nous? Edit: ha ben non, je suis con pas besoin d'un bombardier (même aimable), quand il suffit de nous coller des taxes de douane...
The default home feed: out of the box, it puts too much shit in the face of newcomers.
Once filtered out, it's great but one must first learn to filter the noise out which, I'm pretty sure, is dissuasive to a lot of non-geek users like myself.
I don't think anyone would mind reading some short stories revolving around our beloved typewriters?
Last year, I started reading a series of anthologies edited by Richard Polt (from The Typewriter Revolution) titled Cold Hard Type.
When I started it, I had no idea this was a series at all, each one focusing on a specific theme. I just picked up Escapements—a mechanism that enables forward movement, step by step because it was about people in the near-ish future doing their best (after our digital world has collapsed) while using their typewriters. After maybe the third or fourth story, I was hooked and rushed to order the first volume (I had realized I was reading the second one in the series).
I finished this first volume like a kid eating a plate of cookies he had just ‘borrowed’ from his grandmother’s kitchen, and started the second volume the day it arrived at my door.
Paradigm Shifts—Typewriters Tales of Digital Collapse, focuses on the collapse itself seeing how people manage to get through it… with their trusty typewriter. It was as much of a blast to read as the previous volume. I wanted more of those yummy cookies.
So I did what I had to do and and asked my grandm... ordered the last three volumes.
I've started the third volume, Dead Keys (horror stories) with some some great texts in there too but I must admit I have a harder time finishing it. Don't worry too much as it's probably just me being very picky as, beside a very few authors, I'm not much into horror stories. And then life happened and I had to put the book away. That was almost a year ago. Shame on me.
But I've picked it up again this morning, and this time I will finish it and then I will dive into the two remaining volumes. Margin Releases—a mechanism for bypassing the normal bounds of a line of writing and Backspace—A device that allow a typist to return to a former position (quite surprisingly, focusing on time travel).
Icing on the cake, each story is printed in its own typed form (with info on the exact model(s) of machine used). At first, I thought it would distract and annoy me but it has not. Quite the contrary.
There is also a few illustrations and photography.
I expected to read a kind of funny but odd little book, maybe slightly better made than our fanzines from the good old days. It ended up being a very exciting read and one of the nicest surprise I've had in a long time.
The books are sold through Amazon’s print on demand service. Which means no exorbitant shipping rates, no matter where you live, and they aren’t expensive: Cold Hard Type
Not 100% sure it's the right place to post this but it also feels a lot like it 100% belongs here. So, let me know what you think ;)
I don’t know about you but when I decided I've had enough of the big bloated web, it was not just to get back to a Web that was not rotten to its core by marketing-money—and the annihilation of any notion of privacy marketing requires in order to better track everything we do so they can sell more ads. This mattered a lot to me, obviously. But it was not my sole motivation to be looking for a smaller and a more humane Web.
My other reason was to reduce my digital-waste.
Be it storage space used on the server for all the large pictures, or the energy used to make scripts run and to transmit always more volume of data between the server and the computers of any visitor.
So, without being a developer myself, I searched for ways to create a website as small and as light as possible; I searched for ways to reduce the size of the images too so they would waste less space and load faster.
It goes without saying, but to reduce waste the first thing was to refuse tracking, scripts and ads. In summary, I don't have ads at all and I don’t know who is visiting my website or what they do when they're visiting... unless that person decides to tell me by contacting me... through email, or here on Lemmy, as there is no way to publish a comment (but that's not directly related to e-waste, it's me not wanting to deal with spam ;)
Here is what I managed to get, I thought it might interest others and could be an interesting discussion:
To give you an idea, here is the picture I used in my last post (posted this morning). It’s a 1000x710px PNG screenshot of my desktop (879,5kB), next to it is a 700px JPEG (118,1kB) and next to it is a 700px AVIF at... 22,6 Kb. If you want ot check the actual image quality (not this poor compressed version) of the AVIF file go check the actual post.
Since AVIF can be tricky to get right, I wrote a small script that does the conversion for me using the imagemagick and the ffmepg command lines (they will need to be installed on your computer). I could only use a recent version of imagemagick (and that’s what I did when I was still using a Mac computer) but I’ve gotten better results using ffmpeg for the AVIF conversion.
#Excerpt of the full script
# resize 700 px if is larger than 700
# add an unsharp mask (sharper image)
# Save temp file in /temp
convert "$1" -resize 700x700\> -unsharp 0x1 "/tmp/$NOW.jpg"
# convert temp file to avif using ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i "/tmp/$NOW.jpg" -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p "$DIR/optimized.avif"
Since I’m also lazy as fuck and don’t fancy myself typing complex command lines when I can avoid it, I transformed those little scripts into Nemo 'Actions' (Nemo is the file explorer that comes with my Linux Mint system, Actions are one of its nifty feature that lets it execute scripts through the contextual menu). So, now all I need to do is to right-click on whatever picture to have it converted as a jpeg, AVIF (and also a B&W version if I ever need it).
Which makes it almost immediate to get the image I need. If you have never written one, an Action looks something like that:
[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Optimize AVIF
Comment=Convert to a 700px AVIF file
Icon-Name=image
Exec=<action_scripts/makeAvif.sh %F>
Selection=any
Extensions=png;PNG;jpg;jpeg;JPG;JPEG;webp;WEBP;AVIF;avif
Quote=double
If you want to reuse those scripts/Action, they’re on my codeberg Git repo.
Dislaimer: I’m not a dev and I’m not even much of a geek. So, there is no warranty it will work. All I can say is that this works well enough for me and I'm ok with the result. There is no doubt this could be improved upon a lot. If you ever feel like doing it, you’re more than welcome to but please do let me know, so I can also use your improvements.
Also, if you have suggestions, tips, ideas to optimize further my website and images, do not hesitate to share them.
Since you managed to read everything to that point, and in case you want to have a look at my website ;)
Screw us always more, why?