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If you're interested in (co-)moderating any of the communities created by me, you're welcome to message me.

I also have the account @[email protected]. Furthermore, I own the account @[email protected], which I hope to make a small bot out of in the future.

  • YSK about SomaFM, an independant non-commercial internet radio with really nice and diverse curated channels

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  • For a simple distraction-free control via Linux's command line, you can install mpg123 and add the following script files to /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/:

    /usr/local/bin/soma:

     
        
#! /usr/bin/bash
kill $(pgrep mpg123)
mpg123 -@ http://somafm.com/nossl/$1.pls

    /usr/local/bin/somaoff:

     
        
#! /usr/bin/bash
kill $(pgrep mpg123)

    Make them executable for everyone by running sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/soma /usr/local/bin/somaoff.

    You can now run from your console (or from KRunner on KDE, or via :sh from within helix):

     
        
# Tune into station "Lush"
soma lush 
# Turn Soma off
somaoff

    Works fine from a tty as well, even with bluetooth on my OpenSUSE at least.

    The specific station names to enter after soma are the ones in the URL of each station's webpage, e.g. “folkfwd” for Folk Forward, as its URL is https://somafm.com/folkfwd/.

  • YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results on DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through a user script

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  • This (e.g. on DuckDuckGo) only excludes the results for that one search, by adding the option "-site:example.com" to the query. When one conducts an entirely new search, the domain is included again. (Also, one will probably quickly reach a limit if one were to append a growing number of domain exclusion options to the search string.)

  • Anyone know a good note taking app?

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  • Notesnook! Extremely secure, and has free sync across devices.

  • Refurbished Lenovos in general (and LinuxPusher.dk, in particular)

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  • I bought a T5xx-Thinkpad from nbwn.de (=notebookswieneu.eu) many years ago. It was an extremely good purchase. They ship to the entire EU for free if your order is above 200€. They specialize in selling demonstration laptops, i.e. devices that companies tried out and then returned, so they are essentially new.

    However, I highly recommend to wait for the Windows 10 EOL to really hit around winter time, because then thousands if not millions of used and unused laptops that are sorted out for not supporting Windows 11 will flood the market. (Even if you're aiming to buy a laptop so new that it will probably also support Windows 11, the flood of older devices could well bring down the prices for such newer devices also.)

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    Signalgruppe für Linux-Einsteiger auf deutsch!

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  • Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - Please sign it!

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  • People with your attitude are a significant reason why people decide against Linux. It's doing Microsoft a service.

  • The German university KIT provides almost 30 free and open-source privacy-friendly Android apps. Example: A QR Scanner

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  • Yeah, the Android alternatives I have in mind are LineageOS, GrapheneOS and /e/OS, but I'm not sure on how good their privacy is. Most importantly though, they're often not available for older/non-mainstream smartphones.

    So policy-wise, a useful step could be to get wider standardization of smartphone hardware, to reduce the efforts needed to port alternative OSs there.

  • Has anybody here actually succeeded in getting an online conservative/right-winger to reflect and legitimately and long term shift their views left?

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  • Thank you, that's very insightful and useful.

  • Digital Independence

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  • Actually this might make for a fun propaganda game: Set up a website where every person can mark, for each item on the list, whether they made the switch, so that in the end they receive a picture they can share on social media so as to engage in a low-key "competition" with their friends.

  • Digital Independence

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  • Worth noting that with KeePassDX, there's a compatible mobile app.

  • John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives

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  • Love it, thanks! Just did it. The chosen domain may be a bit unfortunate though, I think, because it could be punished by many algorithms.