Nikita
#TimeMachine stopped working for some reason. Copying 6 gigabytes takes up to four hours, and then it gets stuck at ‘Freeing Up Space’, even though there is enough room for a full backup, let alone an incremental one. Internet search didn’t yield any results other than ‘Reformat drive as APFS and try again’. I don’t have a spare drive on hand at the moment, so I guess no backups for me. #LivingOnTheEdge
Nikita
New (short) blog post! In this one, I ramble about people using wrong data formats. https://www.kytta.dev/blog/data-format-minimisation/ This is post 007 of #100DaysToOffload
Nikita
Telegram FOSS[1] is a fork of Telegram for Android that doesn’t include closed-source binaries. Cons: Gets updates noticeably later than the official version Pros: Gets updates noticeably later than the official version, so there are no stories :blobcatgoogly:
Nikita
I got myself a new phone and am displeased to tell you that Android-to-Android migration is *still not good*. How I imagine #Android works: There are files under `/storage/emulated/0`. Some folders, like ‘Pictures’ are writable by user. Also, each app has it’s ‘data’ lying *somewhere*. When migrating, three things are done: 1) Apps get pulled as APKs and re-installed; 2) Apps’ data gets placed where it belongs; 3) User’s folders get copied as-is. It’s not how it works.
Nikita
How it works instead: 1) Apps that are on the Google Play get re-installed. F-Droid? Russian banking apps? Unlucky! 
Philipp
@kytta I could rant all day about iOS, but migrations are heaven, I still have chatlogs from 2015. Weirdest thing that happened to me was on lineageOS and titanium backup on a rooted S7, after reinstalling it my custom messaging sounds for telegram got replaced with random music mp3s from my sd-card. 
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@kytta Good thing that they both are yearly events. Add OpenSUSEConf to the list and setup a reminder for the next year now :)
Nikita
Hey @bitwarden, I have noticed you are now offering an EU-hosted instance. Good stuff! Is there a way to migrate my US-hosted account to the EU servers?
Bitwarden
@kytta Hey Nikita, more on this one here: https://bitwarden.com/help/server-geographies/#migrate-to-another-cloud
Nikita
EDITED: this post was me asking for job offers. I have now secured a job offer and am not searching any more.
Niklas Wolf
@kytta Just leaving this here as it might fit you 😊 I’m really enjoying working here 😊 
Jan-Lukas Else
@kytta Nice CV page! I might take some inspiration next time 😏 But I have the impression that all that counts is LinkedIn/Xing anyway.
Nikita
Can anyone recommend a lightweight, bare-bones status page? I am running Uptime Kuma at the moment, but it takes up a ton of RAM, which my RasPi does not like :D All I need is periodical HTTP GET and/or IP Ping and check for the response as well as a status page for the public
Kevin
@kytta found this list the other day. Maybe it has something you're looking for. https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages
Nikita
Fuck websites that do this. P.S. I didn't have DevTools open, I just have an ad blocker. 
Nikita
#Shareon v2.2.0 is out! This version added a share button for Microsoft Teams, as well as an overall “Share” button that uses Web Share API under the hood. Also, there now is the `data-hashtags` attribute that lets you set a hashtag for Twitter or Facebook. Huge thanks to Edward and Dimitrios, who made these changes happen!
Nikita
The only thing that irritates me about @thunderbird ‘Supernova’ is that the subjects of emails in the new list view have a slightly bolder-than-normal font weight (500 instead of 400), and now I always think I have a bunch of unread emails. Since the subject line is already bigger than the sender's name, there is no need for a separate weight.
Nikita
@thunderbird I hope the team will take this into consideration, but for now it's nothing a userChrome can't fix 😉
Nikita
You know how some podcast players can cut silence from audio? I need this, but for voice messages 😏
Jordan Erickson
@kytta I see the benefit of this, though it can also take away from the conversational aspect of it. Think intentional silence as part of communicating a thought or idea. This is used a lot in audio books and general storytelling. Edit: Of course maybe not as important for voicemail messages ;)
Nikita
https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/110679027331714717 (the owner of the server thinks Fosstodon is ‘a haven for extreme toxicity and followbots’, so I can't boost this properly)
Paramdeo Singh 🇬🇾
@kytta It's really a shame that the Achille's heel of the Fediverse is feudalism, but it's a very accurate post that sums up the unseen forces shaping the web ecosystem and driving a lot of the churn. As expected, the comments descended into a JavaScript flamewar!
Nikita
The thing that many naysayers fail to understand is that *we* are the ones in the bubble. We, a small portion of the Web, who hates centralisation and big corps. The rest of the world, the normies, do not care and will never care. For them, ease and clarity of use is of much bigger importance than privacy and public good. Why think about the complicated technical caveats of Fedi, when there's an app "all my friends and idols are on". 
mercurial idiot
@kytta I think we need to have a specific way of getting into Fedi where all you need to do is click and read, plus quick previews of the UIs and posts all in one website. Otherwise, lazy people wont get in here.
Nikita
I almost don't have any problems with Threads. It's data privacy policy is nothing new, it's data hoarding at its finest (classic Meta). Time will show whether it will kill Twitter (maybe even sooner, than we expect) or ActivityPub (I don't think it's possible). But why, WHY did they have to name it "Threads"? It's now impossible to filter it out or search for threads online. Poor parallel programmers / sewers 🧵
Nikita
What? You want to know what my DNS blocklist looks like? Oh, I'm glad you asked! 
Nikita
My laptop suddenly lost its Wi-Fi connection. It stopped receiving the IP address, even though the connection seemed to be intact. Several restarts of all devices (and a few mental breakdowns) later, I have noticed that my router banned my laptop for DoS. I guess I shouldn't mass-scan TCP ports while I'm at home 😂
Nikita
My feed today consists of basically three things: 🤖 #Reddit API changes taking effect, 🐦 #Twitter requiring an account to view tweets, and 🇨🇦 #CanadaDay
Nikita
Speaking of birdsite: Is there a way to archive websites to any public archive using one's session? So, if I want to send someone a link to a tweet I can see while logged in, how would I do it apart from taking a screenshot?
Clem Fandango
@kytta I no longer use Twitter or Reddit, but happy Canada Day... thanks for the reminder, must text my brother 😜
Nikita
Can you recommend me a typing trainer? I have never learned how to type blindly, and I want to improve my speeds. Monkeytype is cool, but it's more of a testing rig rather than an actual trainer. I would like to use one that would tell me the fingers to use to type letters. A desired extra would be support for numbers and symbols.
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Luis Norambuena
@kytta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead 😅 That's where I learned the most!
Aaron
@kytta Back in the 90s my school used this to teach us the home row and which finger to use for various keys. https://www.atrtonline.com/index.html |
Gregory's Server
In case you’re worried: Time Machine is not the only backup that I have 😁