Spudger

@Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org

One who spudges.

Linux • KDE • Mozilla • Matrix • Proton • Music • Star Labs • Veg

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines?

I’m kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it’s 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they’re useless. It’s always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying...

Spudger,

One of the problems I have with search engines when looking for tech solutions is that the results are incredibly out of date. I don’t bother any more and just go straight to the product’s own support forum. Where possible I add the forum’s own search entry to Firefox’s search box. At least I no longer get answers to a problem no one has had since 2018.

Spudger,

Have you ever been confused by coconut milk? Do you think that hamburgers come from Hamburg? Are sweetbreads made from wheat and sugar?

Spudger,

Exactly. If they want honesty in labelling then images of happy cows in fields on dairy products should be replaced by pictures of young calves being pulled from their mothers so they don’t consume the milk.

Spudger,

The earliest known burgers I have read about were made and sold as roadside snacks in the Roman empire.

Spudger,

I looked through the Giant Instruction Manual of Lemmy for this and I couldn’t see any recommendations about titles but I’ll change it for you if I can.

Spudger,

Pot/kettle.

‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups

declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-…

NED money has gone to UK investigative groups Bellingcat, Finance Uncovered and openDemocracy, as well as media freedom and training organisations Index on Censorship, Article 19, the Media Legal Defence Initiative, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Spudger,

Pot/kettle.

‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups

declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-…

NED money has gone to UK investigative groups Bellingcat, Finance Uncovered and openDemocracy, as well as media freedom and training organisations Index on Censorship, Article 19, the Media Legal Defence Initiative, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Spudger,

The whole Bellendcat thing sounded a bit sus to me when I first came across them being lionised in the UK press. One plonker sitting in his bedroom outdoing the might of the Five Eyes? Mmm, sure.

Spudger,

It was Mozilla for me back in 2000. I gradually replaced all the proprietary apps I was using on Windows with FLOSS alternatives and then finally made the mover to Linux around 2010. The only closed stuff I use now is an iPhone and I despise it.

dazo, (edited ) to privacy

Hey @protonprivacy, @protonmail

I just had another quick test of #ProtonCalendar .... I'm really happy to see the internal sharing capabilities coming in place.

The only truly missing feature now is basically a bridge solution so I can have my calendar in Thunderbird. Is such a bridge in your plans?

Also, how integrated is the calendar on #Anrdoid these days? I've not tested it this time, as last time it was completely unintegrated and was quite a hazzle to get other apps adding events to the calender. I can probably get used to using only the Proton Calendar app on Android - but an interface for other apps to add events is a must.

As this is progressing, I'm getting closer to replace #EteSync for calendars with Proton Calendar. But you're still not quite there yet, unfortunately.

#privacy #e2ee

Spudger,

A Thunderbird bridge would be useful but the missing Calendar feature for me is search. Other than that it’s close to perfect.

No 10’s Ulez stance reverses ‘decades of clean air progress’, says Sadiq Khan (www.theguardian.com)

“The government has given financial assistance to Birmingham, Bristol and Portsmouth to help fund their clean air zones but has refused to support London’s scheme, arguing that powers over transport and air quality are devolved to the capital.”

Spudger,

The problem with No. 10 is that there’s no one in there old enough to remember walking to school through winter smog. Pollution kills and legislation saves lives: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956

Spudger,

Quite.

Spudger,

Ask ten people what good defaults would be and you’ll get ten very different responses. This is exactly why Dolphin, and Plasma in general, are so easy to tweak to your ideal.

Dolphin the file manager I always wanted.

Spudger,

Mrs Spudger manages a fleet of mobile devices, mostly Apple. She uses an Apple service called Business Manager to administer the devices. Here’s a quote from the manual:

“Reset user passwords

If users forget their password, you can reset it. Resetting their password allows them to get a new temporary password, at which time they will have to create a new password for their Managed Apple ID.”

In other words, Johnson is talking utter bollocks. He doesn’t need to know the password. His best defence is to drop it off a North Sea ferry, in a Rebekah Vardy stylee.

Spudger,

Mrs Spudger manages a fleet of mobile devices, mostly Apple. She uses an Apple service called Business Manager to administer the devices. Here’s a quote from the manual:

“Reset user passwords

If users forget their password, you can reset it. Resetting their password allows them to get a new temporary password, at which time they will have to create a new password for their Managed Apple ID.”

In other words, Johnson is talking utter bollocks. He doesn’t need to know the password. His best defence is to drop it off a North Sea ferry, in a Rebekah Vardy stylee.

Spudger,

Just read what I said again. Mrs Spudger does this for a living. She knows what she’s talking about. The phone doesn’t have to be connected to the public internet. It can just be connected to a private wi-fi network for this purpose.

Phones like this are very tightly locked down. This is not the iPhone you may be used to. The management software even has its own private Apps Store. The user can’t just add or remove random apps from the public App Store. The device manager can also prevent any deletion of content.

These things aren’t left to chance, especially when we’re talking about the highest office in the land.

Spudger,

Didn’t the Tories bring in some legislation that would enable the government to store all our private communications? I know this buffoon will argue that the law is only supposed to apply to the little people. It doesn’t count for old Etonians.

Spudger,

I don’t know what the authors are complaining about. All the AI is doing is trawling through a lexicon of words and rearranging them into an order that will sell books. It’s exactly what authors do. This is about money.

Spudger,

Kpat.

Spudger,

Last weekend I was rummaging around in the clearance bin at the local entertainment shop. I picked up One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and A Clockwork Orange for $5.00 each and Quatermass and the Pit for $2.95. That’s this weekend sorted for telly time. Mrs Spudger hasn’t seen any of these.

Oh, and new speakers too, at long last.

Spudger,

Some gems there among the Des O’Connor stuff. Cheers.

Spudger,

Good news. I use it once a week to check if a relative is still alive.

Spudger,

Oh, it’s not that simple. I could call, email or any number of other methods. It’s just that I’d rather not communicate with a right wing, paranoid, fear-spreading, racist nut job. I just need to know they’re still breathing. This individual is spewing bile every single day,

Spudger,

I was going to suggest Ralf Horris but his play date with karma didn’t go as well as he’d hoped.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • everett
  • magazineikmin
  • mdbf
  • thenastyranch
  • khanakhh
  • rosin
  • Youngstown
  • ethstaker
  • slotface
  • modclub
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • Durango
  • provamag3
  • ngwrru68w68
  • InstantRegret
  • tacticalgear
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cubers
  • normalnudes
  • osvaldo12
  • tester
  • anitta
  • cisconetworking
  • megavids
  • Leos
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •