Ever heard about chargeback? Credit card is supreme in terms of protection against scams.
One thing I miss from Twitter that Mastodon has only partially is to be able to search through the network for some keywords, like breaking news, events, and so on, so I can see other people takes on that.
So I made a small project that aims to fill this gap.
I've seen some previous attempts that made many people upset, I hope this time nobody will take their forks and pitches to burn me as it's:
- calling mastodon instances public local timelines via their API
- takes only posts that are made by accounts that OPT-IN to being indexed (there's noindex flag that I honor)
- keeps the posts in database for a short time (currently one hour) to avoid abuse and also to lower costs of running it
It gives me a lot of fun and for me it's quite useful, so I guess someone might find it useful as well.
Also, it's open source, but GPL license so it stays FOSS forever.
Happy to take any feedback, also happy to add some instances that are not yet being listened to. It turns out opt-in people are not that many so adding even large instances doesn't make my server belly up.
Instances: https://github.com/Kukei-eu/kukei-masto/blob/main/server/instances.js
Shameless self promo: I was upset by this as well so I’m working now on a curated search engine just for anything related to webdev. It focuses on blogs and docs. No BS, just high quality sources.
Also it’s hosted on a PC in my living room ;)
Service shows you a code that you scan with your device. This code transfers some challenge and information where to send a response. Your device checks if you’re you and then sends a response telling the server you try to log in that hey this guys is indeed the guy, here’s the problem I solved using my private key (asynchronous encryption).
What the fucking fuck. In Europe this would cause French and Germans combined beheading entire governments. One thing I want to keep to myself is my porn choices. Giving my ID to a porn site sounds like a big fucking NO
Stuttering is a failure connection between brain, lungs and mouth. Has nothing to do with hands so no, sign language people don’t stutter.
Source: I stutter since 4yo and spent a lot of time with other stuttering people helping them.
I keep my drives encrypted with a key currently hosted in my router hoping they wouldn’t steal that. I’m thinking of actually putting it to cloud so I can disable it remotely.
It was quite a ride to make everything work and I made a blog post explaining it so I remember what I did.
https://nowicki.io/self-hosting-lvm-raid1-with-key-over-ftp/
This is more European thing. At least it’s same or similar in Poland and Scandinavia. In Poland you can own a forest but you’re not allowed to fence it nor deny entry and mushroom picking. Also in Poland it’s not even that easy to cut a tree. Even in your own backyard. Unless it’s a fruit tree.
French troops are actually already on the ground though. Recently it’s been discovered that France sent a radio-electronic warfare hardware to Ukraine that’s operating near the front lines. With the troops that are operating it. Although not officially French but some French foreign legions troops assigned for this mission, so totally not French. Just troops that you can buy in a troop shop.
I don’t change underwear once a few days. I used to in the past but since I live with my wife she made me change it every day.
Empire of The Sun and Fiddler on The Roof. Two classics, one with young Christian Bale, stupidity of war when people stop being humans, and second about dark Europe history but also love, family, getting older.
Two absolute essentials.
Am no native English speaker so I have to ask. Excuse me WHAT?
Feel free to post it on your own ;)
It’s called Dead Sea effect and can be a killing factor to an IT company.
Sometimes though it can be good overall if company has too many seniors I guess.
http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-dead-sea-effect/
It wouldn’t hurt if she would post on multiple mediums, including let’s say Mastodon
So, in the era of increasingly good AI powered tools and general search engines full of SEO spam, last week I started creating something little old school and against the trends.
For now It's a have-fun-and-find-out project that main aim is to provide good search results for general web development queries with a special focus on independent blog authors.
The thesis is that no SEO spam website is in the index, which will already filter out most annoying noise on Google/Bing.
Search results are grouped per type: docs, blogs and magazines (e.g. blog platforms or bigger websites).
For now it's far from being done in terms of having a full index, but in most cases it already replaces my go-to search engine when I'm looking up some stuff during work.
I'm looking forward hearing out what y'all think and if you think it makes sense overall I can only encourage you to post some links to blogs or docs that are still missing in the index. I'm more than happy to add it to the crawler.
Responds like: "nei, total shit, who would need that" also accepted but constructive critique more appreciated ;)
EDIT: everyone many thanks for all your voices and comments. I'm super grateful for all of them and happy that we have such place like Lemmy!
I wonder if others also have this feeling that during evenings smurfs are more prominent.
I’m silver 3 for some time and when I play during lunchtime I win all the games. Not super easily but I win them. Then I go up in ranking and in the evening when I play again I see a drastic increase of skill in my opponents. Which makes me barely win or loose and then I go down again few slots.
I have to say it’s quite annoying and I consider not playing competitive any more during late hours to finally be able to jump to gold.