Posts by maple@hear-me.social
(DIR) Post #Ao0WUC9iC44qIeiOum by maple@hear-me.social
2024-11-13T13:47:55Z
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@blindcoder This is why you disable unattended upgrades. You want it to notify you and ask you, not just install them (although under some circumstances that might be less secure).Or maybe stop using #Ubuntu, there are plenty of other #Linux distros out there!
(DIR) Post #AqaoymYoAOi5QW874i by maple@hear-me.social
2025-01-29T22:36:15Z
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Let’s Encrypt intends to discontinue sending expiration notification emailshttps://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/22/Ending-Expiration-Emails#letsencrypt #selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted
(DIR) Post #Aqql75mWVT4gh5zU8G by maple@hear-me.social
2025-02-06T18:24:49Z
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@BrodieOnLinux The problem with #FUSE, at least on #Ubuntu 24.04, is that if you attempt to install it in the normal way (sudo apt install fuse) for some reason it first UNinstalls a bunch of other fairly essential stuff. I don't know if the fault is with FUSE or with the #apt installer but the net result is you cannot run any #AppImage file that depends on FUSE (and it appears that all of them do). I am not sure what genius created this situation but it's probably a good part of the reason why AppImages are not more widely used .The following additional packages will be installed: libfuse2t64The following packages will be REMOVED: flatpak fuse3 gnome-remote-desktop gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng gnome-software-plugin-flatpak gnome-sushi gvfs-fuse mintstick nautilus ntfs-3g ubuntu-desktop-minimal ubuntu-session xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gnome xdg-desktop-portal-gtkThe following NEW packages will be installed: fuse libfuse2t640 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 15 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
(DIR) Post #Aqu9jyFTQe5szyU1qq by maple@hear-me.social
2025-02-07T10:25:55Z
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@ronald Just my opinion, if you send me a message saying you will only be available to chat on a specific messaging platform, my response is going to be "you'll be missed" and then get on with my life and after a couple weeks I'll probably barely give you a second thought. People do not like feeling they are being strong-armed into doing something that they really have no desire to do.I actually had this happen with one of my best friends. At the time I was using a private #xmpp server and he decided he wanted to use #Telegram. I didn't much care for Telegram and one of the big reasons was that they required a phone number to sign up (and I imagine that holds many people back from signing up with #Signal, although I realize that in the case of Signal there are workarounds so at least you don't have to use YOUR phone number). And he didn't like xmpp because he could not find a client he liked (and this was several years ago, before all the fucking xmpp clients started refusing to communicate with servers with self-signed certificates, or I am certain that would have been an additional complication). And if I had known then what I know now about Telegram I'd have been even more adamant about not using it. Anyway, net result was after that we pretty much only communicated using plain old email until the day he died, though occasionally he did communicate via xmpp when he remembered how to use whatever client he was using.Point is, trying to motivate someone to do something by saying "if you don't do this I won't be there" will cause many people to just say (or at least think) "see ya around". It's like the kid who says "if you invite (another friend) to your birthday party I won't come". The correct response to that is always "So sorry to hear that, we'll all miss you" and then end the conversation.Right now I kind of feel like "a pox on all your houses" when it comes to messaging platforms, they pretty much all suck now, but in different ways. Signal would be great if they would get rid of that telephone number bullshit; if you require a phone number you are NOT a privacy focused application, period and end of story.
(DIR) Post #Aqu9k05yYvgWj63TKC by maple@hear-me.social
2025-02-07T18:17:31Z
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@praveen @ronald @ravi But again, one of the big reasons people don't want to use #WhatsApp, or #Telegram (or in some cases, #Signal), other than having some aversion to big corporations, is because they want their conversations to be private and secure. And is a service requires your phone number than it is NOT private. And if you are having a conversation with someone and THEY have given up their phone number, then your conversations with them are not truly private.I hate #Quicksy with the fire of a thousand burning suns because I feel it is the one #xmpp platform that just should not exist. It bring a level of insecurity to xmpp that has not previously existed, all because they are giving up privacy for convenience. Personally I simply would not trust that kind of platform. I understand what you are saying; there are people who are more than willing to give up privacy for convenience, in this case the convenience of only needing to use a phone number as an identifier. And in that case I say why not just leave them alone and let them stay on WhatsApp or Telegram or Signal; they are no worse off there and all their family and friends are probably there already. In fact I would argue that Signal is a far better choice for such folks, at least for now, because at least there they get more security than when using WhatsApp or Telegram and they will have a much larger community of people to talk to.
(DIR) Post #Aqu9k1WFGkIB8rLxuS by maple@hear-me.social
2025-02-07T19:28:00Z
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@uexo @praveen @ronald @ravi Yes but the conversations are still compromised, so there is no advantage to using #xmpp and it very much limits who you can talk to because most people have never heard of xmpp, and of those that have, some have tried it and decided it's too complicated, while many others just prefer to be on a larger, more well-known platform. And yes, you are kind of restricting the freedom of others, because now no one using xmpp can be certain they are not having a conversation with someone who has given up privacy for convenience, thus making the entire conversation vulnerable. Sure, there is always some degree of trust involved when you are talking to someone else, but that other person may not think that using #Quicksy is an important detail to disclose to conversation partners. So in my opinion, the fact that Quicksy exists totally destroys the freedom of all other xmpp users to know that they are conversing over a reasonably private and secure connection. It's like saying that the Quicksy users aren't peeing in your end of the swimming pool, so it doesn't affect you. And since #Signal is far easier to set up and use, and gives you a much wider universe of people to talk to, you might just as well use that.I mean, if Quicksy ever ditched phone numbers and let you use a made up identifier, I would have a much higher opinion of them, but right now I think they should be expelled from the xmpp universe. Also, uexo, it seem you just want to argue all the time and I am sick of wasting my time arguing with you about fucking xmpp related topics, so I am blocking you. Life is too short to be constantly aruging with someone who just wants to argue.
(DIR) Post #Ar1DMTV96PIgfNf6ci by maple@hear-me.social
2025-02-11T19:28:22Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Well they are wrong, the #Gnome desktop is pronounced with the G.Would it really kill #developers to avoid naming things in such a way that the pronunciation is ambiguous? Prime example: #Ubuntu. I and everyone I know (that knows anything about Linux) calls it "You-bun-too" and since none of us were familiar with the African pronunciation of the word nor what it meant, we just started pronouncing it phonetically (American English) and that seems to be how everyone here still pronounces it, unless maybe they are making a speech or video. This confusion could have all been avoided if they had chosen another name with an unambiguous pronunciation, or maybe if they had printed (what they consider) the correct pronunciation on every CD cover or sleeve they sent out in the early. But almost no one, particularly in English-speaking North America, is really certain exactly how it is supposed to be pronounced, so many of us just keep saying "You-bun-too" !There are probably a few other example of this in the tech world. But then beyond that there is the matter of developers using too similar names for versions. If I told you "I am running that #Debian version that starts with a B" you would probably have no idea which version I am talking about (Buzz? Bo? Buster? Bullseye? Bookworm?), yet if you are not a Toy Story fan (or don't have kids) you might have a real hard time keeping the versions straight!
(DIR) Post #Ar2qzgnbgbJeZZwlBQ by maple@hear-me.social
2025-02-12T14:16:10Z
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@Cyrillic @BrodieOnLinux Fuck you, you racist asshole. You can go straight to hell. I would deliberately pronounce words in whatever way you don't.
(DIR) Post #AtFpirRCKmHZ15plh2 by maple@hear-me.social
2025-04-19T16:28:27Z
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@thelinuxcast It's funny but I am probably a good 30 years older than you and I agree with you but for different reasons. For example, I hate it when shows that are supposed to be action/adventure shows spend a good third of the show on relationships, or hop around from subplot to subplot, or start a story arc that stretches out over multiple episodes. But I can see why you might like some of that, because you still have a good memory. You can remember all those subplots and twists and turns. And how do I know you have a good memory? Because you are a Linux devotee. Anyone can be a Linux user, if you pick the proper distro, but to get into the sort of things you get into you really need a very good memory.I grew up in an age when TV was much different. One of my favorite shows was The Rockford Files. Now and then, a story might span multiple episodes but that was still really risky. The reason was that back then, if your local network TV affiliate was not a network owned and operated station, the network had no control over what their local affiliates actually showed. They might show the network program, or they might show a locally produced special (often bought and paid for by some local company). Or maybe fucking Billy Graham or some other snake oil selling televangelist would buy out a whole week of prime time programming. If part two of a show you were watching was on that night, too bad for you. Of if there was a tornado warning in one remote county in your viewing era, your local weather clowns would break into your show and basically tell you the same thing over and over for the next hour or two. And add to that, if you still had an older model TV with vacuum tubes, it might decide to blow a tube when you turned on the set to watch TV for the night. Some people saw the TV repairman more often than half of their relatives, until they finally bought a solid-state TV.So given all that, if you were a TV producer you did not want to make it essential to have seen previous episodes to know what was going on. Now it is just the opposite, and as I noted that is terrible for people whose memories aren't what they used to be. This, I think, is part of the reason binge watching became popular - if each episode won't stand alone, at least you can watch the episodes one after another so previous episodes are still fresh in your mind. Nobody really wants to watch TV for ten hours straight, but if that's the only way you can follow the plot, you might do it.And add to that the general lack of creativity (did all the writers get Covid brain?) and the recycling of scripts (now possibly partially rewritten by AI) and the low production budgets, and the ever looming threat of DRM on the broadcast TV channels (see LonTV or The Antenna Man on YouTube for details), and I think TV, and especially broadcast TV, is dangerously close to going the way of the long distance telephone call.
(DIR) Post #Atp6UolAVihMd4qzom by maple@hear-me.social
2025-05-06T16:51:18Z
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@BrodieOnLinux I think it means we should hope post-beta Cosmic is as good as some people think it will be, because both Gnome and KDE kinda suck in their own ways.
(DIR) Post #AuR2SqAX9qlFG3nadM by maple@hear-me.social
2025-05-21T19:30:38Z
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Well, #Trump voters, you voted for him despite knowing exactly who he is, because you wanted to "own the Libs" and because you think you are stronger and better than them. If you are dependent on Medicare or Medicaid, you better hope you are right and that you never get sick because Trump and his rich cronies are stealing your health care so they can cut their taxes and those of their wealthy friends. As for you, if you get sick, you can fuck off and die for all they care, and remember that #Covid is still a thing and there are new variants starting to make an appearance.It boggles the mind that #Republicans are so willing to allow their own constituents to suffer and die due to lack of medical care, but that is the current #USA for you. You won't be "owning the Libs" or displaying strength and power from the grave, but at least Trump and his cronies will be more corrupt and more wealthy thanks to you. And maybe you will only realize your error as you are gasping for your last breaths out on the street (because you could not afford hospital care and the hospitals are so full they are just turning away patients with no private insurance) or when you can't afford food because your private medical insurance premiums are so high, but by then it will be too late. As you lie dying, maybe Trump will fly over you in his gift jet from Qatar and discharge his toilet waste on you as a final blessing.Or, maybe you will stop watching Fox News and the other right-wing propaganda outlets... no, who am I kidding?! That's never going to happen until you personally experience what you have brought on yourselves. I just wish all the other Americans didn't have to suffer because of your stupidity.www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/05/its-a-nightmare-trumps-beautiful-bill-slashes-500b-from-medicare-dems-warn — https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/05/its-a-nightmare-trumps-beautiful-bill-slashes-500b-from-medicare-dems-warn/#USPol #USPolitics
(DIR) Post #AuR2bkVXZjYMJ3sA0u by maple@hear-me.social
2025-05-22T16:47:56Z
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HOUSE MAY GIVE TRUMP NEW LAW ENDING CONTEMPT OF COURT - 5.22.25 — https://omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/house-may-give-trump-new-law-ending-contempt-of-court-5-22-25#Trump #USPol #USPolitics