Long answer, it’s true.

Letters, punctuation, and spaces are just about the only ASCII in that art.

The replacement battery you bought in 2017 was the last of the genuine stock for that 2012 Thinkpad model. Now it’s only poor quality aftermarket. Maybe just stick with the existing genuine battery – its 47 second runtime should be enough time for AC loss to trigger a custom script to make it hibernate.

• https://budgetlightforum.com/ flashlights et cetera
• so many automotive forums
• https://eevblog.com/forum electronics engineering
• https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/ audio, lots of diy
• https://www.finishing.com/ - metal anodising/plating/finishing. This incredible forum has been running since before the internet, originally a BBS.
• https://www.automaticwasher.org/ washing machines and dishwashers
• https://elektrotanya.com/ electronics repair

https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor

Whittaker’s phrasing is ambiguous. Could be read as expressing one of a number of things:

• The paper/article is misleading and distracting from meaningful threats to privacy.
• That the original tweet is using misleading accusations to distract us from the article’s revelations of meaningful threats to privacy.
• That Appelbaum’s authorship of the research is an unwanted negative association which undermines the attention deserved by the threats documented in the paper which are misleadingly justified as necessary by eg. governments.

It’s difficult to know without a better understanding of Whittaker’s position on the various matters at hand, so I don’t know.

• Discourse
• Zulip

What ideally I’d like is some sort of good encrypted email […], which can achieve decent Android integration. Proton apps are pretty useless to that effect […]

Don’t need provider-specific apps if their services use standard protocols:

• IMAP: Fair Email or K-9 Mail(/Thunderbird)
• CalDAV: DAVx⁵

Open Food Network is worth a look.

Their repository is available.

Anyone can now provide that service. Why pay OpenAI when you can pay a different service who is cheaper or provides a service more aligned with your needs or ethics or legal requirements?

Really interesting proposal! To a degree the structure of Lemmy/Mbin/etc may be quite close to the categorising and moderating aspect, and might be a good place to start collecting URLs to crawl.

Each community could be considered analogous to a (rather chaotic) webring. When an instance doesn’t meet your moderation expectation, defederate; if a MengZi user wants to see search results from different defederated segments, use a MengZi instance that federates with both, or just have both plugged into a searx instance.

The categorising side of MengZi could be (from an activitypub perspective) like a very cut down version of lemmy –each webring/category being a community, each website being a post, comments disabled or limited/filtered to hashtags.

A webring could be a specific sort of category/community, where a submitted website’s url’s page must contain specific metadata definining its membership in that ring or it is automoderated and removed. Such a category could automoderate the url and title to be the default page defined by its membership metadata. Existing webring html element standards could suffice.

A website could be crossposted to other categories, including to other instances, even to/from lemmy or other compatible activitypub sites. If a (cross)posted post is not a url returning the correct mime type for a category then it can be automoderated and deleted; same for other arbitrary criteria a category could define.

A website/post on MengZi could be accompanied by relevant crawling metadata, even full search database data available via the api for sharing to other MengZi instances to save duplication of crawling effort while distributing the database.

• For incoming mail, on your server run a mail retrieval agent like fetchmail to fetch mail from the externally hosted mailbox into a maildir on your server.
• To serve that maildir to your clients, on your server run a mail delivery agent like the IMAP server Dovecot.
• To accept outgoing mail from your clients, on your server run something like Postfix with a relayhost configured with the details of your externally hosted SMTP server.

There’s nothing unusual or tricky about any of this arrangement.

https://jaas.8x8.vc/#/pricing

(I have never used their commercial offering).

Jitsi works really well, and the developers seem to have made an effort to have it work well on any platform, even mobile browsers and PSTN. I’ve always found it the lowest friction teleconferencing method for all types of users.

It’s self-hostable, integrates with SIP, and 8x8’s commercial offering mentions HIPAA, BAA and GDPR.

When you let an industry regulate itself, you end up with the 737-MAX and a reassurance that existing 737 pilots don’t need further training to fly it…

Flows nicely, but it’s an inaccurate collage of plot elements.

• Isildur lost the ring in a river.
• Déagol found the ring in a river.
• Sméagol killed Déagol for the ring.
• Sméagol (now Gollum) lost the ring in a cave.
• Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Frodo, Gollum, 🌋?

sudo userdel -r project_tmp