Reject Convenience Forum

Introductions :: Privacy Guy who suffers from Privacy Paranoia returns. :: Author Privacy_guy79

no_email@example.com (Privacy_guy79) — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:14:02 +0000

Hello, I am back. I have improved my security slightly. I have seen all mental outlaw and the hated one yt videos however, I am not able to go that far for OPSEC, I still need google for a few purposes. I have stopped using any big evil corp websites and apps. I currently use a nokia 130(the new hmd one).

Introductions :: Re: Introduce yourself! :: Reply by zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:06:24 +0000

Hi! im zirosi, just a smol little guy who programs stuff and was watched one too many Reject Convenience videos and now I want to make a browser... *please help*

Introductions :: Re: Introduce yourself! :: Reply by BellanaBanana

no_email@example.com (BellanaBanana) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:50:59 +0000

It's been a long time since I seen this format in a website.
Anyway I'm Bella, I am Australian, I got a Patreon which I posted elsewhere on this site, and I like to boycott companies I don't like.
Chocolate industry, Coca Cola, and fast food places. They were my favourites, but the companies do stuff I don't like and I am uncomfortable with buying their products now.

Great way to save money during the cost of living crisis, and if you look for alternatives sometimes smaller businesses have better products.

Volunteering :: Re: Ham radio comms for remote 50k foot race :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:30:56 +0000

This is really awsome, I always had Intresst for Ham Radios. I recently started to get my Ham Radio Licence. I am in a different Juristiction (Germany) but we also have a Ham Radio Licence, so I started talking to my Uncle over in the US who is a Ham Radio Operator. I really find the Topic really fucking Cool.

Volunteering :: Re: Help for a Computer Fundemantals Course :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:28:58 +0000

Assuming that these kids have experience using a mobile device, it could be helpful to tie the computing analogies they learned from there to the computer. For example, tablets have apps and computers have apps (sometimes called programs). When you open an app it usually takes up the whole screen, but on computers you can window them to see more at the same time, and move them around as you need to. Doing things like that could help make a computer seem less foreign, and then you can highlight the differences to show how a computer can do more than what a table or phone can do. I figure the last part is outside of the scope of your course, but something to think about.

Self Promotion :: boykisser.nl - My weblog :: Author loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:36:50 +0000

Well. I have a blog too where i blog about everything and other things.

I blog about happenings on the internet, happenings in fandoms. Everything.
You can find my blog over on https://boykisser.nl (yes, the meme)

I first started my blog when furry Soatok asked if there where any furryblogger out there, and he shared the fact there need to be more furries that have a weblog. I snagged the domainname boykisser.nl for quite cheap, and wanted to do something with it.
So thats how my weblog was born. It has already some posts on it.

But my weblog has more. I have a forum too. The internet needs more of those

At last i have a portal where i share links powered by shaarli.

So you can say i use my domain/webspace to my full potential.

If advertising a forum isnt allowed, feel free to edit/delete my post. The rules didnt say anything about it.

Self Promotion :: Re: boykisser.nl - My weblog :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:13:41 +0000

Looks Awesome, Can't wait to read it all. Also surprised you got the Domain, I would have thought it would already been taken. Also, how much did you pay? The standard Price or did you have to pay a Speciality Price?

Advertising your Forum is not at all against the rules (at least in my Interpretation). It's always fun to learn about new Forum's and Pages!

I also like the "Ad" on your Forum.

Self Promotion :: Re: boykisser.nl - My weblog :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:34:04 +0000

I bought the domain initially for less than a euro (with 5/6 euro for renewal).
I was surprised that the domain was still available at all.

Self Promotion :: Hey, check out my Patreon :: Author BellanaBanana

no_email@example.com (BellanaBanana) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:42:58 +0000

patreon.com/BellanaBanana

In the meantime I am studying Animation and Game Design at Curtin University.
I'm Australian, and endlessly trying to find something that works.

Aside from that I boycott certain companies, people here might feel the same.

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by mimi

no_email@example.com (mimi) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:03:10 +0000

heck yeaaa
I loved the birb/raven/crow OC and the pixel arts

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by foxx-doxx

no_email@example.com (foxx-doxx) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:32:36 +0000

mimi wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 4:03 am heck yeaaa
I loved the birb/raven/crow OC and the pixel arts

Awww! She appreciates it.

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by Speb

no_email@example.com (Speb) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:40:52 +0000

That'd be a really cool tattoo!

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:39:10 +0000

Thats some lovely drawings.
I really like it ^^

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by foxx-doxx

no_email@example.com (foxx-doxx) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:20:02 +0000

loebas wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 1:39 pm Thats some lovely drawings.
I really like it ^^

Phones :: Re: Not sure if I should switch to a dumbphone :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 02:19:22 +0000

I feel like I use my smartphone to a similar degree as OP, and yet I go the other way. I see dumphones like the Light Phone 3 and think that it looks so cool. But then I think about everything I use my phone for that I wouldn't want to lose and it doesn't make sense. Even if I spend like 2 hours on my phone, it was intentional, so I don't worry about my phone use holding me back. Since it's so easy for me to use my phone for only 20-30 minutes a day, I just let myself enjoy having it.

One downside of switching a dumbphone, especially if you're fine with your current phone usage, is that price of the dumbphone. Depending on what you want to get, it can be pretty pricey, like $500 and up. There are cheaper phones too, so it just depends on what you're going for.

Phones :: Re: Not sure if I should switch to a dumbphone :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:57:15 +0000

Where are feature phones that dear? In Germany, the Nokia 105 is only €20, while I could see many sound feature phones in the US for about $60. All are much cheaper than even the cheapest smartphones (€/$150), unless they are bundled with some telecom contract. The only feature phones I know to cost as much as you describe are satellite phones.

Phones :: Re: Not sure if I should switch to a dumbphone :: Reply by Chrishusk

no_email@example.com (Chrishusk) — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 04:23:21 +0000

After thinking it through some time I ended up deciding that I'm going order a Kyocera Dura XA Equip, a flip & feature phone for 125 usd. It has all the things I really wanted: 5mp camera, headphone jack, andriod asop so i can download apks.

I've already been using my current phone for about 3 or 4 years old and it's getting to the time of it's lifespan where repairs are going to be harder if not impossible to get for my speficic phone because of it's release date age. The phone served me well and it probably was going to start to have problems soon. Of course I will still keep it just in case I find that the dumbphone life isn't for me but I doubt that it's going to happen.
I will probably post about the Kyocera when I have used it for a couple of days.

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Phones :: Re: FOMO when switching to a dumb phone :: Reply by bubbafinches

no_email@example.com (bubbafinches) — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:38:08 +0000

This is a really relatable problem, you are not alone!!

The transition to a dumb phone has bettered my life, but it didn't happen all at once. Despite some sacrifices, I would totally still recommend it. What's great about all this is it's about what works for *you*, and what changes you want to make for your life that work!

I started with a dumb phone (Nokia 2660 flip), but regularly would still carry my old iphone with me places if i thought that id need modern apps. The iphone had no cell service, so no data plans. I relied on random/public internet connections. this wasnt too bad, because i live in a metro area. it was a nice challenge though to try and rely on the iphone less, while still having it around and feeling that sort of 'security blanket' of those apps if it was needed. Usually some random business somewhere has public wifi. if not, it became easier to just shrug and say "whatevs, ill figure it out without it".

eventually after feeling well detached from the iphone, i got a 'dumbphone' that can still handle modern apps (Cat S22). using stuff like instagram is such a pain in the ass that ill do it if i have to, but it's not worth the Scroll. It's still really just a phone that does calls and texts, but I can still get into my banking app in a pinch, or it can run Google Maps.

In the end, I found that my true friends followed me off of social media, in the sense that they met me half-way and texted me or called me personally. Everyone else... well... I learned that we weren't as close as I thought we were, and that's okay. The social transition aspect of this was honestly really hard. However, those mild connections loosening up made room for deeper connections. the FOMO was there for awhile, but once i started really living *my* life, and not one based around social media, it seemed to matter a lot less. I still feel left out sometimes, but then I remember how much richer my life is. To me it sorta feels like the FOMO around your drinking buddies going out if you're sober. You gotta decide where the line is for yourself and decide what's best for you! And then you live it! Best of luck to you!

Phones :: Re: In Search of a Dumbphone :: Reply by bubbafinches

no_email@example.com (bubbafinches) — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:15:55 +0000

Please report back!! I've been on a flip phone kick for a few years now, but sometimes there aren't many modern options out there for flippies, or the newer builds feel flimsy, so the "brick" design seems attractive because it seems like you could throw it around. ISO something "adventure ready"

I bought the Cat S22 for the robustness and like it very much for that, but its not perfect by any means so am open to options!

Phones :: Re: In Search of a Dumbphone :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:31:13 +0000

So yeah HMD, the ones I bought it from, cancelled my Order so it never arrived. So I had to use my Smartphone for my Holiday. But while on Holiday my Aunt told me that they get a lot of Phones, especially Flip Phones for Recycling, from her Work and she offered to bring me a selection. I picked one out, a Kyocera S2720 unlocked Verizon varient, While it is defiantly on the Cheap side and I haven't Daily driven it yet. I am going to try it out soon.

Phones :: Re: In Search of a Dumbphone :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:11:22 +0000

The Kyocera series are quite nice! During my undergrad and early postgrad years in the US, I used one, as I mention in my introduction. The size, durability and capacity to tether have made it the most powerful feature phone without any needless SNS integration or ability to download applications I have ever witnessed. I honestly preferred it over the Nokia 105 which I got on returning to this country, and hearing that Verizon’s Kyoceras can be made to work here is rather encouraging. I might look into unlocking my old US American mobile if I ever need one again.

Cool Websites :: My friend’s art pages :: Author Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:04:29 +0000

I mentioned a friend whom I call Kohai in my post about escaping Discord. After that, somebody on the Pale Moon forum asking about my profile picture and the recent post about someone’s wife’s art site, I would like to introduce his work here. Although it was before his time, my friend loves the early web and has designed his Tumblr page to work without JavaScript. He is also to thank for my profile picture. He also has a Neocities page which he would like to develop and is active on Newgrounds.

Cool Websites :: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other :: Author cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:48:02 +0000

[https://www.thetruesize.com]

I wonder if I'm doing the [url] thing correctly

If that doesn't work: maybe [this](https://www.thetruesize.com) will work.
Or is it like (this)[https://www.thetruesize.com]?

You can "spawn" countries in (they're color-coded) and you can drag them around to "unstretch" them cause cause on most maps countries closer to the poles look bigger cause you're displaying a sphere on a 2d space so there's inevitable distortion.
And yk, you compare countries' sizes with each other.

Cool Websites :: Re: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:38:41 +0000

BBCode is not Reddit Markdown.
To use [url], write [url=http://www.example.com]text[/url], where ‘text’ stands for the words you would like to feature in the hyperlink: text.
Atlases often include diagrams like this, overlaying various important foreign countries, such as Japan or the USA, and also lakes over the country of origin. Because this is often overlooked, I will say in Mercator’s defence that it preserves all directions, which are the most important when navigating, intact.

Cool Websites :: Re: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other :: Reply by cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:58:52 +0000

I wasn't thinking Reddit but yeah, thought it was md.
So it's kinda like html. Thanks for the demonstration

Computers :: What are some cli tools YOU want :: Author zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:48:19 +0000

For the unix users out there on this forum, what are some cli tools that you would like to see.

And yes, this is the computers forum. All I have to say to that is software is a part of computers!!!

Computers :: Re: What are some cli tools YOU want :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:52:01 +0000

The first cli applicarion i would recommend is bpytop. This application shows off the usage off all your resources.
It shows off your CPU usage, total, and individual cores.
It shows off your RAM usage, and your disk usage.
And the same data top shows.
And it runs all from the command line.

Its very lightweight, and it shows all this infornation on your terminal(emulator). It even works remotely through SSH.

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 05:21:52 +0000

Want to come back to this saying i ditched Arch on all my spare devices, and settled with Linux Mint. Because it just works.

As i already posted in a other thread, i experienced some problems with EndeavourOS which where unfortunately dealbreakers for me. One the rolling release scheme, i dont have the time to constanly update my spare systems, and secondly my "iPad" would sometime lock up when woken up out of hibernation.

With linux mint i dont have the problems with it. (apart from some bluetooth probems on my Dell laptop)

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by Rain

no_email@example.com (Rain) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:49:29 +0000

I've been using Fedora Silverblue for about a year now and it suits my needs well enough. I chose Fedora mainly due to the semi-rolling release model (less prone to breakage than something like Arch, but it still gets frequent updates and a new GNOME version every six months), plus it's officially supported on my Framework laptop so it runs like a charm out of the box. The fact that it's an immutable distro also means I can easily roll back if an update happens to screw up my system. Most days I just want to get work done at my computer without having to worry about fixing my system so having that peace of mind is really appreciated.

I might check out NixOS eventually though if I ever feel like changing things up.

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:26 +0000

Guess what?
I DO use Arch now!! (btw...)
I like it, genuinely been treating me much better than most Ubuntu-based ones have been imo. I wrote a lil blog post about Arch just now if you're curious but it's been pretty nice, and though I did have some problems with installing it's honestly been pretty fun and neat to use.

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:06:00 +0000

I have been using Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 since 2020. I am a layman (ie I have no programming background) who likes to adjust the settings in the control panel, but prefers to avoid the terminal if I can at all help it, and Mint is ideal for this. I favoured (and favour) the Debian over the Ubuntu edition for the usual wariness over Canonical. I removed Flatpak, for I prefer traditional package management. Since LMDE 4 has been end-of-life, I disabled Mint Report and switched to LTS and later ELTS security updates. I have not yet decided what to do in 2029. Now that I am using Pidgin instead of Gajim, I really just need to know that my Flash plug-in 34·0·0·137) will continue to work. Although my GPU is Radeon (viz AMD Trinity [Radeon HD 7640G]), and I have only heard about Glibc-Flash incompatibility on Nvidia systems, I am naturally wary.

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 02:00:31 +0000

I... do use arch btw >;3

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by Monoki

no_email@example.com (Monoki) — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:03:29 +0000

Monoki wrote: Wed May 28, 2025 11:15 pm
rejectconvenience wrote: Sun Jul 28, 2024 9:28 am That's not true, I use pop_os, but what's your favorite distro?
I just installed Mint on an 10+ year old laptop of mine. Having fun with it so far even if the computer's slightly laggy from how old it is.

Update to this: installed it on my main laptop now too. May install a lighter Linux OS on the old one and use that as a server? Renderfarm? Not sure exactly.

Computers :: Re: How do reduce time spent on my computer :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:37:29 +0000

Is there something else that you are trying to do more of? Are there particular things that you want to stop doing on the computer? The way I see it I don't want to reduce my computer time in an absolute sense, rather I want to make sure that I'm being intentional with what I am doing on the computer.

For example, if I am wasting time on YouTube, I don't want to manage away all of my computer use. I only want to focus on that problem. Or if there's another goal I want to pursue, I'll take steps toward that whether it's on the computer or not.

I guess being more specific with what you're trying to tackle could help.

But if you want to reduce computer time in general, I would find other things to fill your time that don't involve the PC. Plan to hang out with friends, play video games, go for run. Set your intention on something else rather than intending to not use the PC. Otherwise you're just left with a vacuum and no activity to fill it.

Computers :: Re: How do reduce time spent on my computer :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:01:48 +0000

Go ahead and search for other hobbies.

I reduced my screentime with diamondpainting. Yes i know, it sounds weird, but it is really relaxing.
And there are a lot of other activities you can do as well.

I'm hitting the gym every friday now, and do my chores on the same day.

Or get an MP3 player, just any "nugget" will do. The internet archive has a lot of in store music for download if you need music, and bandcamp has a lot of niece artists you can support.
Listen to music without a screen

These are the things that reduced my screentime

Gaming :: Re: Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 :: Reply by Rain

no_email@example.com (Rain) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 02:02:20 +0000

In Galaxy 1 specifically I absolutely love the atmosphere in Space Junk, it's just so soothing and space-y. I'd say it's probably the first thing that comes to mind when I think about this game. In terms of gameplay/artistic direction Buoy Base is also hard to beat, you can tell the developers put lots of effort into it. I haven't played Galaxy 2 since I was a kid so I wouldn't say I have a favorite but the game itself feels very nostalgic to me.

It's funny how I was recently watching jan misali's video about the Super Mario series before I came across this thread, you might be interested in that if you haven't seen it already.

Gaming :: Re: Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 :: Reply by two_dogs_in_love

no_email@example.com (two_dogs_in_love) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:02:41 +0000

I just replayed Mario Galaxy one a couple months ago! I could never beat it when I was a kid because there was a scratch on the disc I had that made the game crash during the final cutscene after you beat Bowser. But this time I 100%'ed it (not to brag) and I'm planning on doing a Luigi run!

I remember liking the detail of how the game cycled through all the seasons of the honeyhive galaxy, revisiting it across multiple levels. But my favorite galaxies were the ones that were on the beach, like the Beach Bowl Galaxy and the Deep Dark Galaxy. I guess I liked the variety of environments and the chill beach vibes.

I haven't played Super Mario Galaxy 2 yet, but I just picked up a copy at a yard sale! I'm excited to get into that once I'm back in the Galaxy mood.

Gaming :: Deltarune's new chapters (spoilers) :: Author fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:38:24 +0000

Hey! Deltarune got its third and fourth chapters released! And, like usual, they're really good. I really loved them both. I want to know others' thoughts on the two chapters as well.
Did anyone else feel like Chapter 3's storytelling was a little bit rough around the edges, compared to chapters 2 and 4? I honestly felt like it was a little weak in its story structuring, almost like it felt a small bit rushed, but obviously I can't speak for certain on that. Besides, it was still GOOD. Tenna is hilarious. The humor in these two chapters is top-tier, and it's been a LONG time since I laughed this hard at a game. It's just that, to me, Chapter 3 tends to have some moments that come out of nowhere--like, is Susie not going to question why and how a dark fountain opened up in Kris' HOUSE? I feel like that'd raise concerns. And Ralsei kind of pulls the huge explanation moment a bit too early in my opinion, almost out of nowhere. I honestly feel like it might be the weakest chapter overall, even if it is still an 8/10 to me.
Chapter 4 on the other hand is brilliant. Amazingly done. Paced, structured, written brilliantly, and the new TP mechanics were great and made these unique boss fights REALLY interesting in ways I didn't expect. The climax battle against the Titan was incredible, too, it's unexpected but in a great way! Also, great music, just like always.

What do you think?

Gaming :: Re: Nintendo Switch 2 :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:16:07 +0000

I'm super conflicted about the Switch 2, and it seems like a lot of people are. I think we all see the two biggest pros and cons, to some capacity, right? On one hand, it looks like the next generation of Nintendo titles are going to be absolutely stellar. Brimming with personality and inventive design the likes of which we may not have seen since GALAXY, and yet... 450 dollars for a console with 70-80 dollar games. I really cannot afford to miss out on this generation of games, but I also can't afford to not miss out on it too. It's a real twist, especially for people like me who don't make that kind of money to just up and dispense for something like that. What if it breaks? I'll just be stuck forking over another 400 dollars for a new one? But... If I don't, I will never get to see Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza, and both of them look downright magical. It doesn't seem like they're backing down from the price either, so things are going to be difficult for a while. Here's hopes for some kind of miracle. I'm extremely divided on it, and I don't even want anything else right now. Tough.

Gaming :: Re: Nintendo Switch 2 :: Reply by rejectconvenience

no_email@example.com (rejectconvenience) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:39:29 +0000

I know this is probably an unpopular take, but the reason I don't want one is that it's too big. I normally use the Switch in handheld mode, and it's the perfect size for me. I really wish they'd put Wind Waker on the Switch 1 or even Switch OLED, I'd love to experience that game again, but I'm not willing to sacrifice the size of the console for that. There's other stuff mentioned here that I agree with, but if I'm being honest, the actual thing holding me back is the physical size.

Gaming :: Re: Nintendo Switch 2 :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 02:35:59 +0000

I'm happy that the new Switch is out for the folks who want it, but personally I feel like it's not different enough from the first Switch to justify getting it. It's just a slightly better Switch. But my current Switch still works and I haven't 100%ed all of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe courses yet so I don't think I need to upgrade for a while.

But it could also be a lifestyle thing. I'm in a stage of life where it's hard for me to game a lot, so games and consoles last longer for me. Unless it's something that gives me a different way of playing games, like a VR headset or a Steam Deck, I don't see a reason to buy new consoles when my current consoles work perfectly fine and have good games out. I will probably treat it like a PC upgrade - it will take years and years and in the end something has to break.

Gaming :: Re: Nintendo Switch 2 :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:51:18 +0000

It is hard for me to comment much about video games, for I play them so seldom. (World of Goo is the youngest game in my collection if I do not count visual novels.) Citric, your attitude towards consoles appears healthy. There is no reason to adopt something new when what we have already got suffices. It is one of the many reasons I keep this old computer, and this mood underlies many of my choices in declining to purchase things.

Gaming :: Game development on simple programs :: Author fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:34:20 +0000

For around three years (2021-2024) I made games on Scratch, and honestly, it was a lot of fun. I think Scratch is a great example of a website/program that's super easy to learn, even without guidance, while still being super flexible, especially when you open up the possibilities of modifications and extensions, which do it a lot of favors, but I won't get into that, haha

Now that I've started getting back into it and experimenting a little, it's made me curious about external programs, even ones that are extremely simple in nature and not easy to experiment with. Anyone here messed around with these as well? Got any examples you want to share? If so, what have you tried doing with it? If not, what programs or points of discussion intrigue you? Know of any especially impressive works made in simple, easy-to-use development programs? I'm really curious to reach out here a little.

Gaming :: Re: Game development on simple programs :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:52:35 +0000

I remember playing with Scratch a decade before you. Even back then, there existed Stencyl, which Kongregate introduced to me. It is virtually the same as Scratch, but targets adults without any programming background instead of being a didactic aid for children. Another utility for non-programmers which has existed for over twenty years is Game Maker, which was used to develop classics like Hyper Princess Pitch.

Gaming :: Re: Game development on simple programs :: Reply by cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:07:28 +0000

This brings me back a little. A couple years back there was this really simplistic game maker program for android that I used, before knowing a lick of programming. It was called Sketch Nation: Create.
It was very limited. You had certain game "presets", like you could make a platformer, a bullet hell style thing, a match-3 game etc. I think there were eight-or-so presets total.
Either way it was pretty cool. You made your own assets, customized the objectives and so on. People made some cool little games with their own little stories and objectives.

I looked into it a year or two ago and, iirc, it's not on the android store anymore but the apk can be found on sketchy apk hosting websites.
It's not very good. WAY more limiting that something even as simple as Scratch, but I'd probably recommend Sketch Nation to a complete beginner before having them try Scratch.

Sorry if this was a bit off-topic haha.

Gaming :: Anyone here into Kenshi? :: Author cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:40:01 +0000

I discovered Kenshi idk how many months ago and have fallen in love with it.

Currently doing a run that has been solo until very recently when I got 2 other dudes in my squad. My main guy is a martial arts powerhouse that takes many enemies out with ease and he's run around the entire map basically so he's also fast as fuck lol

Gaming :: Re: Anyone here into Kenshi? :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:56:03 +0000

I haven't heard of this game before but looking it up it really intrigues me. Seems like it takes after those kinds of immersive sim titles. I'm actually really interested in this, I think I'm gonna have to check it out... I love how dirty it looks, haha

Gaming :: Re: Anyone here into Kenshi? :: Reply by Linkard

no_email@example.com (Linkard) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:19:44 +0000

I LOVE Kenshi. Started playing it years ago (2018-2019).

Fun fact : for a while, I believe it was the largest static video game map ever, meaning it was the largest map in a game that didn't have aspect of it that was randomly generated (like for Daggerfall). The entire surface area is about the size of Basse-Terre Island (which is insanely big for a video game map).

I personally never messed with the base building mechanic (never liked that kind of stuff), but I also know that there's a lot to that. The game is just so good at letting you mess, which always leads to memorable scenarios and stories. I'm very likely to play Kenshi 2 when it comes out.

Gaming :: Re: Anyone here into Kenshi? :: Reply by cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:16:05 +0000

Yeah, Kenshi is great

Also I found this amazing kenshi wallpaper, on wallhaven, made by someone going by "agnafrei" (or just posted by agnafrei but made by someone else, idk hopefully I'm crediting the artist)

I wish there were more Kenshi wallpapers the game is so beautiful I wanna have a piece of it on my screen at all times

Gaming :: Re: controllers :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:40:21 +0000

One of my favorite gifts I ever got was a controller! It's a big pink Switch pro controller that's cat themed! It's pink and white with little ears, and a face and whiskers on the front, and even has these little claws on those bottom handles. The ears light up when you turn it on and it's adorable! And, of course, it didn't even get past my Switch's home menu, because the drift was so bad it rendered it useless, so now it's become part of the weird trinkets I have sitting on my desk.
I also have this pretty Xbox controller that's black with a deep turquoise glossy fade on it. I use it for everything. However, I REALLY want to feel the shape of a Gamecube controller. That big green A button is so enticing...

Gaming :: Re: controllers :: Reply by Pearlple

no_email@example.com (Pearlple) — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:49:26 +0000

I use the oldschool Steam controller, the discontinued one with two touchpads and only one stick. It's the only controller I ever had that feels comfortable in my comically large hands, even for longer gaming sessions. After setting up compatibility features for various other control schemes I never had any trouble with it and it has native mouse control support as well.
Even though I never had any issues with it in ~7 years, I got myself a second one from ebay, just in case.

Gaming :: Hero of Law - a Legend of Zelda / Phoenix Wright crossover rom hack! :: Author zonk

no_email@example.com (zonk) — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:11:05 +0000

Hero of Law is a crossover mod for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that puts Link into the shoes of a defence attorney!

I stumbled upon it in my feed yesterday. It seems to be quite a new rom hack. I've only seen the beginning but it is very silly and seems super fun.

Gaming :: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Author CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:55:26 +0000

Luanti (formerly Minetest)

An open source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server.

Available for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Android.

I feel like this crew would appreciate this since we value ownership and privacy. The community has made several games, but I think that the Minecraft clones like VoxeLibra and Mineclonia are the most popular. Look, it's not as good or polished as Minecraft, but I think it has charm and potential, and it feels awesome to play something that feels like old school Minecraft while being totally free of the Big Tech ecosystem Minecraft exists within.

https://www.luanti.org

PS - I'm not dunking on Minecraft, btw. I love that game and I think Mojang do a good job.

Music Players :: my iPod broken :( :: Author zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:57:58 +0000

So, A bit ago I got an iPod Mini 2nd gen, the "easiest iPod to mod..." no, no it was not.

So, when I got it I just went straight into action. I don't remember what I did but all I know is that afterwards is that I did put in the microdrive to SD to microSD adapters in without a partition (idk something online said u had to do that) and now the screen is always blank even when its plugged in which it used to have a battery on the screen.

Now recently I watched a couple Reject Convenience videos and now I want to listen to stuff on my iPod. So if anyone can help, please do.

Music Players :: Re: my iPod broken :( :: Reply by bubbafinches

no_email@example.com (bubbafinches) — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:11:10 +0000

might be a stupid question, but did you try reverting the hardware to its original state? Or at least, taking out what you added in (the adapters and such). Might be worth seeing if you can get it back to where it was and start from sorta-scratch. I dont have experience with the Gen 2 Mini but did successfully mod my classic 5th gen (switched to flash storage) and restored the apple software on my nano 2nd gen.

I remember also when I changed the storage, I had to go on a mini side quest to restore the ipod to factory software before i could even start downloading any music or Rockbox. Things appeared very broken until I got it to restore through an older version of iTunes. Took some troubleshooting but got rockbox/functioning software for both my Nano 2nd Gen and the classic 5th gen.

I think I remember also that when I switched storage on the Classic and plugged it into my computer w/ iTunes, iTunes automatically detected the software as "broken" or whatever and offered to restore it. From there I just had to make sure that I had a version of iTunes that worked with the generation iPod i had. So maybe install itunes and see what happens when you plug it in?

Hope any of this experience helps!!! Good luck!!

Music Players :: Re: my iPod broken :( :: Reply by zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 02:28:11 +0000

bubbafinches wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2025 5:11 am might be a stupid question, but did you try reverting the hardware to its original state? Or at least, taking out what you added in (the adapters and such). Might be worth seeing if you can get it back to where it was and start from sorta-scratch. I dont have experience with the Gen 2 Mini but did successfully mod my classic 5th gen (switched to flash storage) and restored the apple software on my nano 2nd gen.

I remember also when I changed the storage, I had to go on a mini side quest to restore the ipod to factory software before i could even start downloading any music or Rockbox. Things appeared very broken until I got it to restore through an older version of iTunes. Took some troubleshooting but got rockbox/functioning software for both my Nano 2nd Gen and the classic 5th gen.

I think I remember also that when I switched storage on the Classic and plugged it into my computer w/ iTunes, iTunes automatically detected the software as "broken" or whatever and offered to restore it. From there I just had to make sure that I had a version of iTunes that worked with the generation iPod i had. So maybe install itunes and see what happens when you plug it in?

Hope any of this experience helps!!! Good luck!!

That is not a stupid question, and I have in fact tried to today but the original minidrive is corrupted. Also I've just been messing around with Itunes on windows, custom hard-drive, and other stuff like that but as of right now it almost only works when plugged in and it has the file error screen

Music Players :: Re: my iPod broken :( :: Reply by bubbafinches

no_email@example.com (bubbafinches) — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 22:52:13 +0000

zirosi wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 2:28 am
That is not a stupid question, and I have in fact tried to today but the original minidrive is corrupted. Also I've just been messing around with Itunes on windows, custom hard-drive, and other stuff like that but as of right now it almost only works when plugged in and it has the file error screen

well hey, it seems like maybe there was an improvement? in your first post you mentioned that it only showed a blank screen, but now its showing a file error screen? on the bright side the different error screens might lead us/you further into the fixing direction! this stuff can be super frustrating so i am cheering you on lol

Music Players :: FiiO Echo Mini :: Author PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:26:42 +0000

I've been wanting to get a dedicated mp3 player of sorts for a while. I was gonna repair my iPod but it genuinely would cost so much with each upgrade and shipping to Canada that it didn't seem financially viable. I also really don't want one of those Android ones that's basically just a phone with an SD card slot and bigger audio jacks cause I want a dedicated music device that just plays the mp3s I give it. No more than that. I just recently found out about the FiiO Echo Mini which I ordered today and am super excited to try out when it arrives. It costed me $60 CAD with the nice welcome discount AliExpress gave me (yes FiiO officially sells their products on AliExpress) which is significantly cheaper than the literal hundreds of dollars it would cost to add some features to an iPod like bluetooth + new battery + upgraded storage. Thoughts on this lil thing? I'm pretty hopeful for it when it arrives, I've heard good things about FiiO overall. Some of the main criticism I've heard is just that you can't use Apple Music and other streaming with it but I never expected that. I've been building up a bit of a Bandcamp library and even have some CDs now. I'll be back here once it arrives to give a little update on it :)

Music Players :: Re: FiiO Echo Mini :: Reply by zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:25:09 +0000

PossiblyAxolotl wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 9:26 pm I've been wanting to get a dedicated mp3 player of sorts for a while. I was gonna repair my iPod but it genuinely would cost so much with each upgrade and shipping to Canada that it didn't seem financially viable. I also really don't want one of those Android ones that's basically just a phone with an SD card slot and bigger audio jacks cause I want a dedicated music device that just plays the mp3s I give it. No more than that. I just recently found out about the FiiO Echo Mini which I ordered today and am super excited to try out when it arrives. It costed me $60 CAD with the nice welcome discount AliExpress gave me (yes FiiO officially sells their products on AliExpress) which is significantly cheaper than the literal hundreds of dollars it would cost to add some features to an iPod like bluetooth + new battery + upgraded storage. Thoughts on this lil thing? I'm pretty hopeful for it when it arrives, I've heard good things about FiiO overall. Some of the main criticism I've heard is just that you can't use Apple Music and other streaming with it but I never expected that. I've been building up a bit of a Bandcamp library and even have some CDs now. I'll be back here once it arrives to give a little update on it

That seems to me like a modern iPod (almost) and I have been looking for how to fix my iPod and it has been like 6+ months I've been trying to fix it, but at this point I was just looking for inexpensive music players. So, I will check that out. Hope you enjoy it

Online Privacy :: How to leave Discord behind? :: Author Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:45:25 +0000

For years, I have found myself unhappily bound to Discord. I began to use it in 2017, when I first began to care about privacy matters, as a far superior alternative to Skype and the old IM services which were shutting down then. Discord’s privacy policy at the present time remains tolerable, but I have always felt wary about it and, in any case, running the site in my browser heats my processor about 10°. (The ‘desktop version’ is intolerable for forcing automatic updates.) When I heard the rumours in March 2021 about Microsoft acquiring Discord, I abandoned my Discord account and was able to persuade most of my friends to keep in touch with me using XMPP. There have, unfortunately, been two problems with this.

The first of these, in chronological order, is that one of my friends, whom I know as ‘Soupy’, did not go along with me. I met Soupy through Discord in 2018. Although Soupy owns a laptop for a few purposes, he exclusively uses his iPhone for talking with friends, which makes him unique among people I know and makes it impossible for me to test IM applications for iOS in advance, for none of my other friends own an iPhone. To keep in touch with him, I created a new Discord account for the sole purpose of talking with him. We spoke, and speak, daily.

Years ago, when speaking with him about this, he had given a few reasons why he would not switch when I presented him with an XMPP client. The first is that, at the time, he had exhausted his iPhone’s storage and could not download any more applications, leaving him with only Skype and Discord for IM. (I do not know what he has done since Skype shut down.) The other, which he maintained even after getting a new iPhone, is that I tended to approach him about it feeling rather flustered. It is true that I suffer anxiety attacks rather more than average, and Soupy would often mistake my legitimate interests for another fleeting panic attack and refuse to make such dramatic changes in ways that could encourage my frenzy. I have not approached him more recently about this to learn whether his attitudes have changed.

The second problem has somewhat softened the first problem’s sting. In late April, all my XMPP clients (except Conversejs, which works in my backup browser but is awkward and unsuitable) suddenly failed. I have discussed this a bit more here, but it suffices to note that my technical attempts to diagnose the problem have been exhausted and I now consider XMPP unfit for purpose. By this time, only one friend who accompanied me to XMPP in 2021 remained. (The friendship with another grew weaker over the years due to changing interests and values, while a third ended quite dramatically in January after what could have been anything from his joining a sect to discovering hard drugs. The details are murky, but irrelevant.) This remaining, loyal friend, whom I will presently introduce elsewhere on this board, received the contact information for that Discord account I have been using all along to talk with Soupy. I am confident that ‘Kohai’, as I have nicknamed this friend for his relative youth, will accompany me whenever I can find a good Discord alternative. However, I have reconnected with some more Discord friends from before 2021, who had been unable for their own technical reasons to go along to XMPP, over the last year. I know less about their technical situations, but they have shown at least some openness to Discord alternatives if they can work. It remains for me to find one.

At this time, my best guess for a suitable alternative would be IRC in some form or other, but I am still too ignorant on key details for me to be able ot present this with confidence. I knew it existed as a child, but took the internet safety rule ‘don’t talk to strangers online’ too literally because autism and never used it. I know little about how Discord works on mobile, but I would need to know Soupy would be notified if I send him a message at any random time in the same way he would be on Discord. Moreover, my friends and I often send messages to one another when the other is asleep, for us to see in the morning. It is impossible for me to leave my computer on overnight, and none of us are technically experienced enough to be able to set up a bouncer on our own. (Even as I write this, I am only vaguely aware of what a bouncer is or does.) I could only find for the iPhone one apparently adequate IRC client, it costs money and I have no way to verify it would really work as a drop-in Discord replacement before introducing it to Soupy. Moreover, advice in how to discuss this so it might fare better than my past attempts would surely help me. This community seems the best place to ask for where to look for such a thing. I have wanted to break this last shackle to the IT mainstream for a very long time, but I need to know this so I can do so without losing my friends.

TL;DR: I need a drop-in substitute for Discord which will work both for me running Debian 10 and my friend who only uses an iPhone. XMPP seemed the best choice for years, but has lately disqualified itself. IRC is the current best candidate, but I need more information before I could actually try it. I also need a way to discuss this with him without appearing to be in one of my (relatively common) panic attacks as I have seemed when trying years ago.

Online Privacy :: Re: How to leave Discord behind? :: Reply by zonk

no_email@example.com (zonk) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:36:07 +0000

Is there a reason you can't use Signal? That's probably the lowest-friction option. I have been searching for a better option but haven't really found one so far.

I will say as an active IRC user that IRC is probably unfit for your purposes. It is really not designed for asynchronous communication like you want. As a compromise, you could use IRC for when you are both online to chat and use good old email for sending messages when the other is offline.

Online Privacy :: Re: How to leave Discord behind? :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:48:44 +0000

zonk wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 2:36 pm Is there a reason you can't use Signal? That's probably the lowest-friction option. I have been searching for a better option but haven't really so far.

As I have declared in my introduction, I do not own a smartphone, or even a mobile phone at all now. Hence, creating an account is impossible for me (even if an existing account can be used without one) unless there is some way, unknown to me, to do so without one. Signal and Telegram had both caught my attention early on, but this unhappy fact has turned me away from both.
Because this forum does not support [hr], [br], [line] or anything like it, this self-referential line of text will break the original message from this addendum instead. Good on you for reading it!
I was reminded today of Wire, which apparently supports iOS and is reliable enough for our government to use, but does not require a mobile to register. I remember testing it once on my own years ago and encountering some forgotten problem quickly, but this was long enough ago that I think I should consider it afresh. Is anybody here familiar with it (or some other alternative)? It seems promising also, but I would need to know more about it before going ahead.

Online Privacy :: Re: How to leave Discord behind? :: Reply by BlueChinchompa

no_email@example.com (BlueChinchompa) — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:11:08 +0000

I would recommend giving revolt (most discord like) or Matrix a shot. They both offer desktop and mobile clients without a phone number. You can also self host them (Matrix is better for self hosting since its federated with other instances)

https://revolt.chat/
https://matrix.org/

Online Privacy :: Re: How to leave Discord behind? :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:52:31 +0000

I recall hearing sometimes before about Matrix, but until today, I had lingered under the false impression that it was only possible to run self-hosted instances, which I lack the capacity to do for several reasons. Out of everything considered so far, I think Matrix would likely serve best. Would you be able to recommend (for Soupy) an iOS client and (for me) a client that looks more like it belongs in the 2000s than today? The master list offers three mature iOS clients for him, but Nheko, in its own words, ‘feels more like a mainstream chat app (Element, Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client’, whereas I definitively want something that feels like an IRC client. (CLI interfaces are rather alien to me.)

Online Privacy :: Persuading a friend to use Jabber :: Author Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 11:38:55 +0000

This is a sequel to my earlier one about leaving Discord; a large change in my conditions which solves one of my original problems justifies a new post after my understanding of netiquette. I am happy to report that I have got my XMPP account working again, simply by using Pidgin instead of Gajim or Psi, and learnt that ChatSecure is recommended as an iOS client. (I would be grateful if any iPhone users here could tell me in more detail about how smoothly it works.) Hence, my remaining problem is now rather social than technical. How can I convince my iPhone-using friend, who is apathetic about privacy matters, to download ChatSecure, create a Jabber account and use it to communicate with me instead of Discord? He is busy this weekend, and I happened to suffer one of my worse panic attacks after being bullied online yesterday, so I realise that I should wait at least a few days. When and how do I go about this?

I should also mention that I also preside over another chatroom for friends with five other users, three of whom are active, which, for simplicity, I did not discuss in the original. All are Windows users, but only one was able to figure out how to use Gajim. Advice on how to ease a transition of that group chat onto Jabber would also be welcome, but I realise progress is incremental.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:13:00 +0000

I hate Cloudflare with a passion. It imposes the requirement for many sites to enable JavaScript and cookies, which I always disable by default and the site proper does not actually require, and thereby turns me away. (If I wish to access the site’s text, I will use the Internet Archive instead. I have only excepted two sites from this policy, one of which actually needed cookies anyway.) For some months earlier this year, the Cloudflare turnstile failed in Pale Moon, which was a headache for everyone involved, and leaves me little confidence in Cloudflare’s other services. The only nice thing I can say about it is that it is not Recaptcha.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:23:30 +0000

Well it's a Cloud based Analytics Platform, I am always a bit skeptical of them. The Insight they Provide is valuable to the Website owner but can also vary easily breach the Terms of Privacy first Design. Especially if they share Visitor Data between Customers. Which can be used to create a big inferred Data Network about everyone who has Visited your site.

Cloudflare, as Maestro mentioned already, has many Issues. While my experience with their Services isn't Bad. I have a heard a lot of Horror Story's with Customer Support and Marketing Departments. So I be careful to use them.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:10:18 +0000

As an alternative, I think the best examples of captchas for ensuring all and only natural persons may access the site are those which appear on DuckDuckGo and Xcancel when JavaScript and cookies are disabled. The first requires selecting three pictures of ducks from a grid of nine, as in the picture. The other resembles a traditional site captcha in reading numbers from an image, where the numbers are a one-time password generated by means unknown to me. The only fault in them which I could imagine is that I do not know how they would treat the blind. Many sites have also lately implemented Anubis. While it still requires scripts and cookies, it is, at least, far less intrusive than Cloudflare.

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Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:47:46 +0000

Mæstro wrote: Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:55 pm As an alternative, I think the best examples of captchas for ensuring all and only natural persons may access the site are those which appear on DuckDuckGo and Xcancel when JavaScript and cookies are disabled. The first requires selecting three pictures of ducks from a grid of nine. (I will update this post with an example when the site next demands it.) The other resembles a traditional site captcha in reading numbers from an image, where the numbers are a one-time password generated by means unknown to me. The only fault in them which I could imagine is that I do not know how they would treat the blind. Many sites have also lately implemented Anubis. While it still requires scripts and cookies, it is, at least, far less intrusive than Cloudflare.

Anubis isnt really a Captcha System, it only makes it harder and therefor more expensive to visit your Website. Harder meaning in Resources not in actual effort on the User Side. It's more there to prevent continues Scrapes of your pages. By making the Computer that is scrapping you do some hard Math.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:14:10 +0000

Because I disable cookies by default, I can attest that Anubis denies rejected users access and is therefore a proper captcha, even if it requires no user input. It does not merely punish scrapers the way that an email server punishes spammers by tolling the client’s processor whenever a message is sent.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:23:11 +0000

Mæstro wrote: Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:14 pm Because I disable cookies by default, I can attest that Anubis denies rejected users access and is therefore a proper captcha, even if it requires no user input. It does not merely punish scrapers the way that an email server punishes spammers by tolling the client’s processor whenever a message is sent.

Cookies don't determine if smth is a Captcha. Anubis blocks Connections that couldn't execute the Proof of Work or which don't have Cookie Capabilities. Regardless of it being a Bot or a Human. But that doesn't make it a Captcha. That is only a Feature Requirement. A Captcha does require a form of Human Interaction, like a Text you have to type in or as simple as Clicking a Check Mark. The goal of a Captcha is to determine if smth is a Bot and, if set to do so, block it.
At least in my Interpretation of what a Captcha is.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:21:56 +0000

Crazyroostereye wrote: Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:23 pm Cookies don't determine if smth is a Captcha.

Verb sap. The full argument is as follows: Anubis blocks traffic to those whom it denies, its behaviour towards cookieless browsers serving as evidence of this.

Different sources give slightly different definitions on whether human interaction is necessary, or are vague enough that it is unclear whether a user or his computer must complete the challenge. (My usual dictionary, Collins, defines ‘captcha’ narrowly enough to exclude this site’s registration form’s.) The word’s coiners define it as ‘a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.’ Anubis’ hashing tests do this. In my case, activating cookies is a manual process, so it is a captcha in your sense also.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:23:43 +0000

You make a Good Point.

But In the Definition of Collins and the word's coiners its goal is to determine if a Connection is from a Human or a Bot. Anubis doesn't, nor it tries to determine if a Connection is Human or Bot. It just sets a Requirement your Browser has to meet and requires you to do a Calculation.

Mæstro wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:21 am ‘a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.’

This is also not the case with the Proof or Work test that Anubis Presents, as Computers are the only ones that can preform the Calculations in a timely manner.
The way Anubis works is by making Hard to Compute calculation that the Computer has to preform, which its intent is to increase the Computing bill of Bot Networks that access the Website frequently.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:23:10 +0000

Now, this is more interesting than bickering over the real definition of captcha.
For my part, I would define captcha as software intended to filter online requests so only those by natural persons succeed.

Crazyroostereye wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:23 am Anubis doesn't [determine if a Connection is from a Human or a Bot], nor it tries to determine if a Connection is Human or Bot.

I think this is false, for Anubis itself and its official documentation state otherwise. Anubis’ official instance introduces itself to users as ‘making sure you’re not a bot’, as shown in the attached screenshot. The readme describes Anubis as a firewall and an alternative to Cloudflare, an unambiguous captcha (where ticking a box is the challenge), which is why I had brought it up in the first place. The developer’s explanation states that Anubis is intended to block scrapers, although it does so by testing features.

]Computers are the only ones that can preform the Calculations in a timely manner.

This is literally true, and when I spoke of vagueness in my post, this is what I had in mind. Anubis says on the official instance if cookies are blocked that it ‘requires cookies [for] making sure you are a valid client’. ‘Client’ can refer just as well to the end user himself or the computer which he uses to access the server. The user, not the computer, is reading the message, but Anubis tests the computer itself. None of the definitions I have found are pedantic enough to bother splitting this hair, so neither do I.

The way Anubis works is by making Hard to Compute calculation that the Computer has to preform, which its intent is to increase the Computing bill of Bot Networks that access the Website frequently.

It is true, from the the developer’s comments, that Anubis uses the same technology, that also in Hashcash, which is used (among other things) for punishing spambots, but from the above documentation, Anubis infers from the results whether to deny bot networks access. The readme also mentions that legitimate web crawlers will fail to index sites wielding Anubis, which would not happen if it only tolled the user’s processor like some antispam measures.

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Online Privacy :: The fun new world of surveillance pricing :: Author rejectconvenience

no_email@example.com (rejectconvenience) — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:38:21 +0000

Cara Nicole just made a fantastic video on the topic. I am surprised I had no idea this was a thing, but all these privacy policies are starting to make a lot more sense...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmlwDVDNEQc

Online Privacy :: The closing circle of privacy :: Author CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:07:09 +0000

Over the past couple of days I've really been feeling how digital privacy is being slowly lost. I try to do what I can to preserve my privacy in a reasonable way, based on my threat model, but it sometimes I feel the sacrifice. And it comes up even in small things.

For example, I tried moving most of my text communications to Signal. That didn't go very far. So then I tried getting everyone to use WhatsApp since there was a high likelihood most of my contacts use that. WhatsApp has worked out where I can actually get a response from folks. So far so good, right?

Well, I know that most of these folks would prefer to use iMessage. I use Android so the experience isn't the same, but at least it would stay in the main app they use. They don't like to use WhatsApp, sometimes to the point of texting me rather than messaging via WhatsApp (this is not across the board, just in some circumstances). Then sometimes I will try holding conversations over WhatsApp but they're somewhat limited.

In the back of my mind I have the sneaking suspicion that if I just texted people that I would not be having these problems. In effect there is friction in maintaining a relationship with me just because I'm using another app. That's sad for me because all I'm trying to do is use something that's a little more private.

But it gets worse than that. Recently I tried going back to Instagram to share some specific stories. I started following a bunch of folks who I know in real life or knew at one point. There they all are. I joined the party! I could keep up with what they're doing, they're proactively messaging me, I can see their stories and they can see mine. And so can Meta. I found the place where everyone chooses to live and share their lives, and it's on a platform that takes advantage of them for simply wanting to connect with others.

To be clear, Meta is at fault here. It is Meta that is taking advantage of their users by spying on them and manipulating their emotions with algorithms. However, emotionally, as a dude who just wants to connect with his friends, it's frustrating to see them having a party where the entry fee is my privacy - a party that many times could literally be happening on Signal based on the ways many of them use Instagram! It's frustrating to have basic pathways to connection be locked behind exploitative gates while the people who are inside could leave at any time. It makes me feel like I have to choose between connection and privacy.

I don't see this problem going away. I'm trying to find solutions. Lots of folks are feeling lonely nowadays, and I'm a little upset to feel like I am exacerbating my own problem just because I don't want a company or the government to be able to listen to my every conversation.

Other Tech :: Being kind and patient online :: Author Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:18:01 +0000

My friend (below) and I (above wrote: ‘Nobody has ever taught me how to disagree with people, especially acquaintances or near-strangers, online.’
‘Now that I think of it, I don't think it's taught at all.’

I have often found myself in unwanted debates with wrong people on the internet. I do not seek them out, and have been better at avoiding them since the beginning of this year, but I can sleepwalk into them rather easily. The closest advice I have ever actually heard about this is the canonical: ‘don’t feed the trolls’, but this does not address cases where one is dealing with people one sees often enough in the same chatroom to know they are not trolls, but honest dissidents. Disputed themes can involve matters of fact, where I expect us to disagree over method also. Nobody changes his mind after quarrelling with an online stranger for a while, so I never expect or even try to persuade; it feels more like being called to testify.

A New Zealander site for youth offers the most comprehensive advice I have been able to find, but even it only says ‘[s]ometimes it's best to ignore people who are wrong on the internet’ and ‘[n]ot everyone is open to having their mistakes corrected. That's OK!’ I do not know how to ignore someone wrong online, and slang expressions like ‘OK’ always confuse me, for I do not know how to translate them into intelligible, formal English. Neither instruction gives me clear, concrete steps of what to do. A friend once suggested ‘disengage’, but that still does not tell me how, that is, what to do. I need positive directions: ‘do nothing’ and ‘do not do xyz’ do not suffice for me, while ‘leave the discussion and do some other activity’ gives anyone the power to force me out of a conversation by saying something false. What should I do when somebody, either in reply to me or otherwise, expresses some innocent falsehood in a chatroom where I am present, so I can avoid falling, again and again, into this pit?

Other Tech :: Re: Being kind and patient online :: Reply by zonk

no_email@example.com (zonk) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:12:10 +0000

The first step is intellectual honesty: don't be so sure that the other person is wrong. You can be mistaken, too. Starting from that perspective should disarm your immediate emotional reaction to someone stating something you don't think is true. You should orient yourself with the goal that everyone in the conversation approaches the truth, even if that means you're the one who's mistaken.

That said, I disagree with the perspective of that article that it's "OK" for people to not be open to receiving corrections. If you state a position in public (especially a matter of fact), you should be open to challenge, or else you are wilfully ignorant, which is dangerous to society.

I think the best way to respond to people with whom you disagree is by asking honest and genuine questions. Probe their knowledge by trying to get to the bottom of why they believe what they said. Your goal should be to understand the other person's perspective out of genuine curiosity, and you should be open to the possibility that they have good reasons for their belief. This practice is called street epistemology, and it usually comes up around the topic of religion, but I have applied it with respect to politics as well.

It may also help you to ask yourself what you hope to gain by arguing with someone on the internet. Do a simple cost/benefit analysis to decide if it's worth your time.

I don't think there's any silver bullet for this problem. People are going to be wrong on the internet, and if you can't bring yourself to ignore it, then you're going to get swept up in arguments with them. I think the best you can do is try to at least make it as productive as possible.

Other Tech :: Re: Being kind and patient online :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:52:44 +0000

I now find myself in the ironic position where I disagree with many (not all) points you raise in your post. Perhaps I might, with any luck, achieve some insight into how to go about my original problem trying to frame a polite response to it.

zonk wrote: Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:12 pm …don't be so sure that the other person is wrong. You can be mistaken, too… everyone in the conversation approaches the truth, even if that means you're the one who's mistaken… you should be open to the possibility that they have good reasons for their belief.

My disputes often sprout from philosophical themes. For example, having been the only idealist in a room full of materialists has sometimes indirectly led to conflict, naturally about indirectly related matters, notably when they presume materialist principles in other statements which I then have reason to reject. My reasons are a priori and a casual conversation cannot overturn them. With most people, I cannot expect even meaningfully to discuss the underlying cleft, although I know full well it is there. (If I want to weigh the merits of rival ontologies, I would rather read an academic philosopher than some random layman with an internet connexion.) The discussion must therefore remain superficial, which I think engenders much of the problem I face, although I think it would be at least as bad if we proceeded to quarrel over metaphysics or whatever else.

I think the best way to respond to people with whom you disagree is by asking honest and genuine questions. Probe their knowledge by trying to get to the bottom of why they believe what they said. Your goal should be to understand the other person's perspective out of genuine curiosity…

Oddly enough, this is what I tended to do until this year: seeking to understand them on their own terms. This approach went far worse for everybody involved.

This practice is called street epistemology, and it usually comes up around the topic of religion, but I have applied it with respect to politics as well.

I recognise, and have indeed read in full, the book you have most likely got in mind. A street epistemologist is as insufferable as his evangelical equivalent, the presuppositionalist. Both promote only the kind of religious intolerance that I wish to flee. I do not want to be a gadfly.

…ask yourself what you hope to gain by arguing with someone on the internet. Do a simple cost/benefit analysis to decide if it's worth your time… I think the best you can do is try to at least make it as productive as possible.

I never hope to gain anything. The profit motive itself is absent in me. Words like productive and useful ring in my ear like mean and base. I think I could ignore things if only I knew how. This social skill, for somebody for whom this is not obvious or easy, is perhaps complex like learning to play an instrument, but I believe it can be taught.

I paused often when writing this. Writing on a bulletin board, where the pressure to reply in real time disappears, has felt less distressing than something like this would have been if I were in a chat room and therefore pressured to answer comments as they arrive. I also find myself revising, even cutting some segments after posting to avoid my phrasing seeming too barbed. The quick pace of a live chat might be the biggest problem.
Like before, I am using this sham break. Perhaps I should just use an em dash in future instead.
As a precaution, I have edited my Discord profile, where these unsought quarrels tend to occur, to include the statement:

I wrote:Volatile: please do not reply if we disagree about something, to avoid quarrels.

Moderators where I belong have also told me they will quench such sparking conversations before they burst into flame, but admit they cannot always be present. I also wish to avoid the threat of charges of hypocrisy if somebody else says something disagreeable. This remedy is incomplete, and I am open to further suggestions on how to prevent online strife.

Other Tech :: Re: RSS Readers? :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:41:15 +0000

Even in childhood, I thought to myself that RSS feeds looked like sad, drained versions of the sites from which they derived. I just check manually the sites I like according to their release schedules: Fanbox daily, Xkcd every few days &c.

Other Tech :: Re: RSS Readers? :: Reply by addy

no_email@example.com (addy) — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:58:37 +0000

I've gone with NewsBlur; works well enough for my needs, seems to have some pretty good features and can be self-hosted <3

Other Tech :: Re: RSS Readers? :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 05:02:19 +0000

I use feeder for android on my shoephone. Its available in the f-droid store.
Its a very simple, and non intrusive. I havent used it in a while, but now i'm started to using it again.

Oh yeah its open-source as well, you can find the source code over here: https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder

Other Tech :: Re: I'm considering renting a server :: Reply by Davidmenk321

no_email@example.com (Davidmenk321) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:17:24 +0000

Haha, been there! I started with Raspberry Pis too—felt like I was running NASA on a toaster . If you're serious about hosting stuff like Nextcloud, Minecraft, or your own mini-Twitter, you’ll want something beefier. I stumbled on HostNoc(server provider) while hunting for the best server deals, and honestly, for the price, it felt like I was robbing them (legally, of course). Way better than selling a kidney to afford some other hosts. Definitely worth a look before you marry Hetzner !

Other Tech :: Re: I'm considering renting a server :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:44:13 +0000

I used my raspberry pi for my nextcloud too.

I'm in the progress of migrating everything from YunoHost to HestiaCP. Currently i moved from a 120GB SSD to a 2TB HDD i had lying around. But as you have guessed, it doesnt really work out yet. SO i ordered a external NVMe SSD for it (Samsung T7, 2TB). Hope that will up the performance.

But anyway. I dont like YunoHost. It worked fine for my nextcloud, but thats it. I tried hosting my website on it, but its very restricted in what you can do. (no custom robots.txt, 404 pages etc. Unless you change the whole server configuration) This is the reason i migrated to HestiaCP.

Tech News :: Decline in Invidious ‘related videos’ :: Author Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:34:21 +0000

NB: I am posting this under ‘tech news’, for this is a recent development online I have observed myself. As far as I know, nobody has yet reported on it.

Many others here surely use Invidious, a proxy for YouTube. Until recently, it tended to produce related videos which, like YouTube in the 2000s, were actually related to the reel being shown, making it easy to browse. Within the last fortnight, I have begun to witness a worrying lapse. Mingled among the relevant films are what are, presumably, popular or trending results on YouTube as a whole. Sometimes, these default recommendations are offensive: a professor discussing ‘shocking truths’, or rather the same trite, hateful anti-Moslem rhetoric we have all had the misfortune to hear once before, came up at one point. Most times, the popular films are simply clutter. Invidious itself is surely innocent. I know Invidious has been struggling lately against YouTube’s hostility, and I assume that this debasement is upstream.

I have observed this mostly in Nadeko’s instance, simply because this is the one I happen to use the most, but it appears to affect other instances also. An anime clip on YewTube gives, as ‘related videos’, in the order in which they appear, a massacre in Austria (four times), Peppa Pig (twice), German as well as Austrian and (more often) US politics, the war in the Ukraine (twice), Digital Circus, an aeroplane crash and only one other link about anime. Has anybody else noticed similar trends on other Invidious instances lately, or even better, heard an explanation for it?

Tech News :: Re: Decline in Invidious ‘related videos’ :: Reply by Rain

no_email@example.com (Rain) — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:19:48 +0000

I use Invidious every now and then and I've noticed this too. I mostly use the yewtu.be instance, which is hosted in Germany, and most of the related videos I've seen recently were news/politics videos in German (I can't tell exactly what they were about though since I don't speak German). My guess was that something changed on the YouTube side and that it was just showing me popular videos from whichever country the instance happened to be hosted in. I don't remember coming across any hateful content like what you're describing though, that's definitely worrying.

Tech News :: Re: Decline in Invidious ‘related videos’ :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:13:39 +0000

Happily, Invidious settings allow one to block related videos. I did not know this until today, and would otherwise have used µBlock to achieve the same. If Invidious resumes suggesting actually related film in future, please let me know, but I can, at least, shut out the nonsense meanwhile.

Art :: Some silly creature designs :: Author fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:55:04 +0000

Been having a game idea in the works recently, and I've been mapping it out before I actually start. It's about inanimate object-based creatures, themed around collecting them and such. Here's three I like, named Carghost, Aeghiss, and Tyrantula (that name's my favorite).

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Aeghiss.png

Tyrantula.png

Let me know if you have ideas/criticisms of the designs! I'd love to improve them all further.

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Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by DedRoll

no_email@example.com (DedRoll) — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:54:49 +0000

Cool idea!

I have this idea of stapler creature because it already look menacing lol

Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:32:11 +0000

DedRoll wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:54 pm Cool idea!

I have this idea of stapler creature because it already look menacing lol

Oh you are so right. That HAS to be in it. I can't not.

Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by SapphireFire

no_email@example.com (SapphireFire) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:55:38 +0000

I love the color choices you've made here. Very vibrant with lots of contrast!

Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by Speb

no_email@example.com (Speb) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:35:37 +0000

Big fan of the second two, better designs than most recent Pokémon

Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:42:34 +0000

Super cool designs! I agree with the pokemon similarity, though I don't know if that's intentional.

Books :: Re: Favourite quirky "feature" in a book? :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:47:42 +0000

In my early childhood, I recall owning a series of four books: introducing the earth’s interior, the regions of the ocean, the human body and the solar system. In the books’ centres, there were overlapping cutaways which would be lifted off with each page. This included the book’s cover, which might have been covered in protective, clear plastic. Hence, the geology book would depict all the earth’s layers, its first page would concern the crust and show the same as the cover, but the next page would discuss the upper mantle and the crust imagery would have been lifted away and so on. I know that the volumes on the earth, sea and space were also compiled without this fun feature into an ordinary, much smaller book, but I had the giant, fun volumes first.

Movies and TV :: Everythig Glitch Productions pushes out :: Author Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:00:06 +0000

I just wanted to leave a general Appreciation and Discussion Topic open for Glitch Productions and all they make.
I find the Animations they push out are unique and the Story's entertaining. As a big fan of Animation, I really like the fact that Glitch is showing you can succeed in Indie Animation, and how they try to push the whole Community to the Front with things like GlitchX, or they're Partnership with Lackadaisy.

I'm in general a big fan of all they're Shows they have Produced. And can't wait to see what Knights Of Guinevere will bring especially because it's made by Dana Terrace and other The Owl House alumni.

Movies and TV :: Re: Everythig Glitch Productions pushes out :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:48:21 +0000

Being totally honest, I'm not always huge on most of Glitch Productions' stuff, but I don't care much because the studio is suuuuper important to indie animation as a whole. It's really, really nice to see something like them, dedicated to bringing artists' visions to life and all. I don't think I can stress enough to anyone just how special it is, and how much hope it gives me for the future of animated shows on the internet. I really hope Glitch gets to stay around for a long time and continue finding success.

Also I do really like the Gaslight District pilot. The Knights teaser interests me a ton, I can't wait to see more of that.

Movies and TV :: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Author Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:30:52 +0000

After seeing somebody named ‘Sapphire Fire’ here, I knew I was not the only enthusiast on this board. I watched the series as a child when it was first airing. At first, I was too young to recognise that the series was ongoing and therefore supposed that, when gur Rnegu Xvatqbz sryy at the end of Book Two, that was simply the end; this misconception was put to rest when I followed Book Three as it released, day by day. I recall obtaining many of the trading cards which had been released for it (but not the mat or anything else needed actually to play), the PSP game, three of the worldbuilding books and even a plush Appa which, I think, is somewhere in my closet to this day. I never knew about the comics as a child and lost interest in Korra while the first series was airing, but I had stayed in the cinema far longer than I should have in the vain hope that the film would improve. I watched the original series again a year ago, renewing my interest in it. I have not written fanfiction or anything like this, but I have speculated privately about subjects like how substances like wood ought to be interpreted through the four elements, leading me to read a fair deal from academic and primary sources on the history of chemistry. I have also been able to enjoy private discussions with friends who were either too old or young to watch when the series was new. How have you enjoyed the crown jewel of US American animation over the years?

Movies and TV :: Re: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 17:55:45 +0000

It was also broadcasted on Dutch television, with dutch localization.
I watched the series on Nickelodeon, well actually my younger sister did.
I loved the show too.

Movies and TV :: Re: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:37:11 +0000

Similar here to, I watched it on German TV with localization which probably broke a couple of the Jokes. I do rewatch the show every now and then in English or German depending on how I feel like. I think the last time was in 2023. I also watched Korra all the way through when it was airing, but I do agree It didn't hock me as much as the Original Series did. But I didn't find it bad, just not as good as the Original.

There wasn't a Store, at least I didn't see one, that carried Avatar Merchandise back then so I never got some. Up until now I didn't even know they had Trading cards. But yeah its one of my all-time Favourite TV shows.

Movies and TV :: Re: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:46:57 +0000

My father went on business trips to the USA often when I was a child, affording me access to much of the early merchandise which has been forgotten or neglected in later years. I do not think any jokes break when we recall the characters diagenetically speak Chinese with one another: any puns in the German or English versions are interpolations.

Movies and TV :: Re: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Reply by SapphireFire

no_email@example.com (SapphireFire) — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:05:32 +0000

Avatar the Last Airbender was peak! I too grew up watching it on TV but I still continue to rewatch and enjoy it as an adult. The themes and message of the original show really are timeless.

Music :: Re: What album is on repeat for you? :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:46:48 +0000

I've been listening to Ocean Deep by Arcologies lately. It's not on repeat, but it's definitely in the mix of albums I will listen to in the day. I tend not to listen to albums on repeat, but I will give an album one listen every day for a while. It's drum and bass I think is what it's called?

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list ... mb0ozDsY9A

Animals :: Frog :: Author fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:26:39 +0000

This unbelievable creature plagues my household with an attitude most foul.

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felix2.jpg

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Good News :: Re: Helped my fiancée make her first website! :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:04:20 +0000

I've been browseing to her website, and have to say it looks so great. With diary and everything.

Journaling :: Re: Favorite Pens :: Reply by zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:26 +0000

Currently my favourite pen, I don't use them that often, is the Pilot G-2 07 black gel pen.

Disclaimer, that is one of the only pens I have tried... I do not like ball point pens though

Other :: Convenience Rejection Absurd Bingo 🦀 :: Author addy

no_email@example.com (addy) — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:54:44 +0000

I was watching the stream and decided to create a 5x5 stream bingo (the middle spot is "free") for the inconvenienced. Here's a link to the PDF with 42 variants (uploaded to Proton Drive, allows preview) and here are the 24 prompts (?) in no particular order if you don't like random links:

Something doesn't work on stream
Have you ever experienced Deja Vu?
"This is not the worst privacy policy I've read"
Mentioning tea
*evil laughter*
LOVE examples in privacy policies
3 blues on the Privacy Visualizer
1 red on the Privacy Visualizer
Stream longer than 3 hours
"You guys are funny!"
"Ayy!"
Sharing a great video on stream
*investigate*
Reoccuring difficulties reading a word
Mentioning the greatness of CCPA
Break time!
Channel name joke
Mentioning the greatness of GDPR
1 yellow on the Privacy Visualizer
angwy >:(
*glimmering eyes*
Pokebugs.com
Discussion about Pokemon
Laugh counter over 10

Feel free to propose changes and whatnot <3

Other :: Re: 🦀Convenience Thread🦀 :: Reply by Offline

no_email@example.com (Offline) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:50:32 +0000

YouTube. It helps me get though the long work days by having not just podcasts but tons and tons of videos I can just leave on in the background and listen to. There's just tons of videos and playlists on that site that I'm not sure what could ever replace it honestly. My addiction to it outside of work is pretty manageable with the extensions I've installed so replacing it in the first place isn't all that big of a deal anyway.

Discord is another that I kind of wish I could replace but all my friends are there and I doubt I could get all of them to switch messaging apps

Other :: Re: 🦀Convenience Thread🦀 :: Reply by Speb

no_email@example.com (Speb) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:58:08 +0000

YouTube, although I used Revanced, too much great content.
Discord, there are not a whole lot of BBS websites out there that I know of and finding a good ones are hard, and trusting so many of them with my data is a big ask, also all my friends use discord and its the only way I communicate with some of them.
Snapchat, yeah I'm a huge zoomer but my partner and all my friends used it growing up in school and they won't switch to anything else.
Spotify, I really hate this company, so predatory and anti-consumer, not to mention they shouldnt exist as they started out by hosting pirated music and not paying artists, so I get a cracked version with no ads, but all my music is on there, and it is built quite well. If I care about an artist, I purchase physical copies and official merch.
Netflix for now, again its to convenient for my girlfriend so until I get a self hosted solution up and running, which should be soon, its a necessary evil to rent my shows and have them pulled from underneath me (now i have to binge watch overlord before it disappears)
Samsung and Android, there is no point replacing my phone yet, it'll just create e-waste, so when it dies I'll get a nothing and support my fellow europoors and get a nothing, or a second hand pixel with a different OS.
Windows, I play too many video games with friends to worry about anti-cheat and if my account will be banned for running Linux, although I do run Linux on my laptop.

One Convenience I have never really had was Amazon, always hated them for as long as I've had my own money to spend, I ordered the odd book or charger off of their over the years if somebody I knew had prime and thats about it.

Other :: Re: 🦀Convenience Thread🦀 :: Reply by VulpesFox

no_email@example.com (VulpesFox) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:03:28 +0000

I got a lot I haven't rejected yet, but the biggest one is definitely YouTube. I watch enough there to justify premium, and while i'm more intentional about my time... I'm not quite there lol

Other :: Re: 🦀Convenience Thread🦀 :: Reply by rejectconvenience

no_email@example.com (rejectconvenience) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:32:49 +0000

That I refuse to give up? Hmm... I mean YouTube, but it's also my job now, so it makes sense... hmm... I mean anything surrounding the YouTube channel, like Patreon, Discord, etc., those are all sort of conveniences that I benefit from. This is a good question, though!

Oh, you know what, Sponsor Block and ublock are things I refuse to give up. Those make a huge difference for me. I also hate to admit it, but I do find myself falling back to Final Cut for editing. It's just a lot easier, and I mean I bought it 12 years ago for like $200, which seems like a solid deal given how much usage I've gotten out of it. macOS makes me a n g e r y sometimes, but it's just faster than Blender (for cutting things down for the projector content). Blender doesn't properly allocate the CPU for exporting edits on any computer, so yeah.

Other :: Re: test :: Reply by Alexandr08

no_email@example.com (Alexandr08) — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 23:47:49 +0000

t e s t

Other :: Re: test :: Reply by Mark

no_email@example.com (Mark) — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:00:48 +0000

test

Other :: Re: test :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:56:46 +0000

ʇsǝʇ

Other :: Re: test :: Reply by Rain

no_email@example.com (Rain) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:28:50 +0000

test

Other :: Re: test :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:20:22 +0000

I see exactly what video that is

Feedback :: More formatting options :: Author Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:52:41 +0000

I am also an active user on the Pale Moon forum, which likewise uses BBCode. That board’s formatting options include striking text, inserting horizontal rules and more. At times, I have found myself unable to use here a formatting option I would use there and trying to substitute it. I strongly recommend we adopt more of these.

Reject Convenience Forum

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Introductions :: Privacy Guy who suffers from Privacy Paranoia returns. :: Author Privacy_guy79

Introductions :: Re: Introduce yourself! :: Reply by zirosi

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Phones :: Re: Not sure if I should switch to a dumbphone :: Reply by CitricScion

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Cool Websites :: My friend’s art pages :: Author Mæstro

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Computers :: What are some cli tools YOU want :: Author zirosi

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Computers :: Re: How do reduce time spent on my computer :: Reply by CitricScion

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Gaming :: Re: Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 :: Reply by Rain

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Gaming :: Deltarune's new chapters (spoilers) :: Author fitsoab

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Gaming :: Game development on simple programs :: Author fitsoab

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Gaming :: Anyone here into Kenshi? :: Author cl0ud

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Gaming :: Hero of Law - a Legend of Zelda / Phoenix Wright crossover rom hack! :: Author zonk

Gaming :: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Author CitricScion

Music Players :: my iPod broken :( :: Author zirosi

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Music Players :: FiiO Echo Mini :: Author PossiblyAxolotl

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Online Privacy :: How to leave Discord behind? :: Author Mæstro

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Online Privacy :: Persuading a friend to use Jabber :: Author Mæstro

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