Let’s Encrypt intends to discontinue sending expiration notification emails
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/22/Ending-Expiration-Emails
[#]letsencrypt #selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted
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THIS! THIS is what I have been trying to get across to the #XMPP proponents!!! Setting up an XMPP server (and obtaining a certificate if necessary) needs to be EASY (WITHOUT REQUIRING A PHONE NUMBER!!!!!). Configuring a client should also be EASY and should not require the server to have a signed certificate if the user doesn't care about that (particularly when the server is on the same local network as the user).
Here's the easiest thing Linux developers can do to win more users
https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-the-easiest-thing-linux-developers-can-do-to-win-more-users/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Why do I have this dreadful feeling that they have stopped feeding the face-eating leopards, so that when they are released tomorrow they will be extra hungry?
[#]uspol #USPolitics #US #LeopardsAteMyFace
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Just a heads up if you use #Kodi - if you have a library of TV shows, try pulling the network connection from your Kodi machine (or your router if your TV shows are stored on a network share - the idea is to simulate an Internet outage, not to cut off your Kodi box from your local network) and then try playing a TV show. Does it play a few seconds of the show and freeze up hard? If so, you might want to ask why Kodi is connecting to the Internet every time you watch a TV show!
This was observed on Kodi Omega running on Ubuntu 24.04 but it may affect other platforms and versions as well.
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Has anyone tried the #Ptyxis terminal program that is apparently going to become the default, or at least the recommended program, in both Fedora and Ubuntu? There is a discussion at "Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal" https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Ptyxis-Recommended
Those who are into programming might not like it much because it doesn't have all the bells and whistles programmers expect, but for people who just want to access their home servers or something like that it's probably more than adequate. What I am wondering is has anyone else experienced the issue of controls and dropdowns being almost unreadable because of the low contrast text and icons used?
(Also, if you read through the issue tracker at https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/issues especially the "closed" issues, you find some, um, "interesting" responses by the author. I wonder if this is essentially a one person project and he is imposing his design choices and just closing reports by anyone who doesn't agree with his choices, or if maybe he is truly overwhelmed by the number of reports he has received).
Hope maybe someone will do a review of this at some point because I'd love to know if I;m the only one who thinks it maybe should have been kept in the oven a while longer before being accepted by #Fedora and #Ubuntu .
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What program do you #Ubuntu #Linux guys use to view .rtf (Rich Text Format) files if you don't want to install a full office suite? There is a program in Flathub called TextEdit that will do it but it has a TERRIBLE user interface, looks like it was written for Windows 3.1! Plus if you manage to lock it up (quite easy to do) it seems to trash your system's resources to the point where the entire system locks up. Surely there has to be a better way to read the occasional .rtf file?
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I am getting so sick of Mastodon's web based client losing my place in the timeline just because I go read a notification that came in. It doesn't always happen but it does happen too often still. If people are leaving #Mastodon and going to #Bluesky (or some other non-federated service) I suspect the failings of the user interface are a big part of it.
And no, I will NEVER pay for some third party's client just to read Mastodon when there is what is supposed to be an official web client, and besides I only read Mastodon on a Ubuntu desktop computer anyway. But every time some annoyance like this happens, Bluesky starts to look more and more attractive.
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This is just insane - this to me is part of the reason why people are getting elected that say the most awful things with no sense of shame; people are getting sick and tired of being attacked for saying something that in no way was intended to be offensive, and that no reasonable person would ever see as offensive. Fuck the #C++ ISO Standards Group, it seems they are a bunch of politically correct asshole Karens just looking for some reason to be offended.
C++ Standards Contributor Banned For Using Word "Question"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebz4ev_B2ec
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There is an #AI program I'd really like to find but it would have to be something that I could self-host (on #Ubuntu #Linux ) and that does not rely on any cloud based service. What I'd like to be able to do is when I find a technical article that contains information I might need someday, I would like to be able to give the URL of that article to the AI. Then later on, if I ask a question that was answered by something I have saved, the AI would he able to either tell me the answer or provide the URL (preferably the former, since web sites sometimes go away). I have no idea how this would work from a technical standpoint, but think of it as kind of like adding a selected article to something like the Internet archive (Wayback Machine), then being able to ask questions and have it give answers only from the articles you have previously added (or at least prefer those articles).
The reason I said it should be something you can self host, if that's feasible, is that I'd also like to be able to add other documents (not necessarily just web-based articles) that might contain sensitive information, such as all my Joplin notes. There is information in those that I would not want stored on someone else's cloud server (no matter how secure they may think their server is). I mean, if there was a free to use service that essentially does what I want, I would probably use it just to save articles from the web so I can refer to them later (instead of having an ungodly number of open tabs in my web browser) but I would be reluctant to save anything that might contain sensitive information or personally identifying details. Also there may be information I don't want to reference so as not to get irrelevant or wrong answers (think of the issue of doing a Google search and getting nothing but irrelevant or outdated results).
Does anything such as this exist?
[#]ArtificialIntelligence #artificial_intelligence
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Today I learned that if in #Ubuntu #Linux if you mess up your #dconf settings, maybe by clicking on the wrong thing in a #Gnome Extension (such as "Just Perfection", which really isn't perfect because it doesn't prompt you before making changes that can't easily be reversed), AND if you have a very recent backup of your home directory (because you use BackInTime or similar backup software), you can try restoring a very recent version of the file
/home/username/.config/dconf/user
(Replace username with your actual user name). Works in Ubuntu 24.04. Use at your own risk, and remember any changes you have made since that file was backed up will be lost. Just to be safe you make want to copy the existing file somewhere before restoring from the backup, in case restoring it makes things worse.
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As people are seeking to place blame fort the outcome of #Election2024 why is everyone ignoring the elephant in the room? Russian disinformation and #trolling by Putin's minions were a huge part of the problem. Of course they were aided by corporate social media who were complicit in spreading the lies and #disinformation, but without the Russian troll farms actively working to destroy America from the inside there might have been far less contentiousness on those platforms.
If we tried to influence a Russian election the way they influenced ours I'm sure there would be hell to pay. But the worst part is that our government knew it was happening and could do little about it because, you know, freedom of speech and all that. I have thought for a long time that the "free speech absolutists" have their heads up their asses when it comes to how free speech should work, particularly in the days when everyone has a world-wide megaphone.
The problem is, how do you allow individuals to express their ideas and beliefs without letting huge corporations and even foreign entities have a MUCH BIGGER megaphone that actually stifles the individual free speech that the Bill of Rights attempted to protect? It doesn't do much good for an individual to have freedom of speech if a huge corporation can block or censor their posts, or a thousand trolls can shout at them that they are crazy and wrong. The writers of the Bill of Rights could never have anticipated a day like today, When I was a child the huge newspapers and broadcast networks already had something of a monopoly on speech but at least they weren't under the influence of foreign governments to the degree social media is today.
I think there was a time, even up to a decade ago, when we could have preserved freedom of speech for individuals, while still preventing foreign governments and huge corporations from drowning out the voice of the common person, but I don't see our current corrupt Supreme Court allowing the current situation to change. I wish the free speech absolutists would have been a little more open to the idea that maybe there really should be some limits on speech, particularly for foreign actors that are seeking to destabilize your country.
Russia, China, North Korea, and similar countries have no broblem limiting what their citizens can read, and no I am not saying we should emulate them, but is it really fair to allow nations like that to infulence our citizens while at the same time their citizens have a much harder time even getting factual information from the western nations, let alone being subjected to a constant barrage of lies and #propaganda ? And yes, I know many "free" nations also use propaganda, my point is we're not allowed to just constantly send it to their citizens via social media.
Just something to think about, if we somehow manage to survive the mess we're in now.
[#]FreeSpeech #Speech #FirstAmendment #BillOfRights #SocialMedia
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I just watched the #USA #VicePresidentialDebate and I am confused about one thing, throughout the entire debate Vance acted as if V.P. Harris almost had queen-like power to get her agenda in place over the last almost four years. Do Vice Presidents have powers I'm not aware of? She was not President, she certainly was not Congress (half of which is controlled by Republicans), but he acted as though she could have done everything she wants to do already. How, exactly, was she supposed to do that? Did I miss something about the powers of Vice Presidents back when I was in Civics class in High School?
[#]uspol #USPolitics
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I still hate every #Mastodon client I have tried, for several reasons, but it got me to thinking about something I wish existed. See, I think Mastodon should work like email or maybe an #RSS newsreader - you have a client that goes out and gets your unread messages at regular intervals in your home timeline, and separately gets your notifications, and collects and saves them to your hard drive. Then when you want to read them it shows you every unread message. If you stop reading for any reason, it will know where you left off and will save your place in the timeline until you get back. It will never, ever take you to the newest message in the timeline unless YOU tell it to. It will never lose messages you haven't yet read because it will store them locally once downloaded, and will only delete them after you have read them. It will let you sort messages by time posted or by hashtags or by post authors (and possibly other ways I have not thought of).
For bonus points, it will check multiple #Fediverse accounts and eliminate duplicate posts that appear on both accounts (if you want it to). For even more bonus points, it will contain an OPTIONAL AI that will let you flag posts you like and then after it learns what you like it will promote similar posts FROM YOUR HOME TIMELINE to the top of your unread posts lists, again only if YOU want it to. In other words it would be YOU controlling the algorithm, not the algorithm trying to control you.
I really could not hate every single Mastodon reader I have found more, even the web-based ones, and the big reason is that every damn one of them loses your place in the timeline if you go away for any reason. Some are worse than others, and the official web client is probably the least bad (at least if you click on a post to read the thread you can come back to where you were, but that's about it), but I find myself not wanting to read Mastodon at all because the clients are so terrible in that regard. :(
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Trying to switch from MacOS to #Ubuntu #Linux and it is proving to be far more of a challenge than I thought. Is there any site or forum that is particularly good for finding replacement software? I will say this much, don't ask an AI, they are terrible at figuring out what you really want and just tend to make generic suggestions.
Some things I am (still) looking for include:
A program that lives in the Ubuntu top menu bar (NOT the dock) and that when you click on it will show you text snippets and that will allow you to click on any one of them with your MOUSE, and either paste it in the foreground process (preferably), or copy it to the Ubuntu clipboard. This is for storing frequently used text strings. Here I am trying to replace a MacOS program called Clipy which is ALSO a clipboard manager, and I have found a replacement clipboard manager that works for me (Diodon) but as far as I can see it does not let you save a separate list of text snippets that never changes.
Speaking of clipboards, is there a program that will always keep the two Linux clipboards in sync (so both have the same content) without making selection of text using the mouse totally wonky? It is REALLY confusing to me to have two different clipboards.
I'm still looking for a decent RSS feed reader that will show you the full text of articles without making you click on each one individually. I have looked at several and have not found a single one I like. There used to be a Windows program called GreatNews that I liked (and thought about trying to run in WINE) but apparently it has not been updated since 2015 and the developer that made it (Curio Studio) apparently is no longer around, but I wonder if that got renamed to something else or whatever happened to it. This is to replace Vienna.
Finally I am looking for a good single-site browser for turning specific web sites into standalone apps (as a stopgap until I can find some decent standalone apps that work in Linux). Here I am trying to replace Fluid.
I am seriously wondering if my inability to find good apps is based partly on my decision to run Ubuntu. It seems like the combination of Gnome with Wayland causes a lot of issues that might not be a problem with a different desktop environment or if I was running X windows, but is that really an issue or am I just imagining things? As I was looking for software (especially the clipboard stuff) I got the sense that there was a lot you could do in X windows that you cannot do in Wayland, and especially Wayland paired with Gnome.
The thing is, though, that I like to use my mouse rather than my keyboard and I like GUI's and menus and such, so there are many programs that some other Linux users might find appealing that would totally turn me off, for example Espanso would be an example of a program that does not appeal to be at all because it is oriented toward people who prefer using the keyboard and who have good enough memories to remember all the shortcuts.
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I have been trying to move from MacOS to #Linux (specifically #Ubuntu ) insofar as is possile, but there are a couple of pieces of software I cannot seem to find good replacements for.
One is a good free #RSS / #atom #newsreader that I can use WITHOUT connecting to any cloud services that aggregate feeds (in other words it will go out and get each feed individually) and that has what is sometimes called a "magazine" or "newspaper" view option. In many news #feedreader applications there are three panes - you select a feed (or folder containg a group of feeds) in one pane, and headlines from the feed(s) appear in a second pane. You then have to click on each headline individually to read the full text, which to me is annoying as hell. In "newspaper" or "magazine" view (if done correctly) there are only two panes, one shows your list of feeds and feed folders(groups of related feeds) and the other is the window where you read the articles just by scrolling through them, much like you read articles in your home feed in most Mastodon apps, but the difference is that if the feed contains the full text of the article then the full text appears. So you can scroll through all the articles quickly, without having to guess from the headlines which are interesting or relevant. That's why they tend to call it magazine or newspaper view; in either of those publications you almost always see the headline followed the full article. You can get this view using Vienna on MacOS but nothing I have found in Linux will do it. I had thought Fluent Reader might, but it has two issues, first it truncates many articles so it is not giving the full text, but also if you have a wide screen display it leaves far too much white space on the page (plus it is not a very visually appealing app, and I spend a lot of time reading feeds so that actually sort of matters).
The other is a free and easy to use dual pane file manager similar to ForkLift, that will work both with local directories and will also let you connect to external systems using sftp. In particular it will let you connect to server "A" in one pane and select files to move to server "B" in the second pane. #Muon come kind of close but it does not seem to recoznize key authentication and it tells you that passwords are saved insecurely in plain text, so that's a big "no". And besides that it really is not very intuitive. Maybe it would do what I want if I could actually figure out how to use it, but on the other hand they don't seem too concerned about security.
At this point I have found usable replacements for nearly everything else that I use regularly. There is one other difference that drives me crazy, though - in MacOS if I am in a program such as a newsfeed reader or an instant messaging program or whatever, and I click a link, it will send it to a #Firefox tab AND Firefox will immediately come to the foreground. Under #Ubuntu if you do the same thing, it will open a new tab in Firefox (I am pretty certain I had to set some preference to get that to happen) BUT Firefox does not become the foreground application. So, I think that nothing happened when I clicked the link, and click it again, and of course each time I click it is opening a new tab in Firefox to the same URL but I don't realize it because Firefox isn't coming to the foreground. Is there any way to make that happen in Ubuntu?
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