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People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at https://kagi.com/faq .

They basically query other search engines and APIs in a privatized manner and they use their own indexes as well. I used Google, Ecosia, StartPage, DDG, a self-hosted SearXNG instance and then Brave. I liked DDG and I kinda liked Brave Search, as well. But in comparison to Kagi, they're all not that good in my opinion.

The image search of Kagi is especially what blows me away. It just shows relevant results for my queries and I'm satisfied.

People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used it before and unfortunately, it sucks in comparison to Kagi.

People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 12 points 1 year ago (17 children)

That's why I use Kagi. It's a paid search engine and the results are actually really good.

The Ohio equivalent of "trying to reach you about your extended warranty" in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As a European, I don't get what this means.

Elon Musk says he knows the age of the universe. Disputes existence of dark matter as "sketch" in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 5 points 1 year ago

Why does this butthole get so much attention again and again? Jeez.

But I love death in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We eat tofu every now and then and like it a lot and I did already try out some meat "substitutes" and some of them are actually pretty good, but not cost-effective. I'm not saying I have to look at every cent I spend, but things have gotten harder in recent years, not gonna lie.

I don't need or want to replicate meat everywhere. I'm totally fine with non-meat dishes, but my complaint is that many of them don't taste as good as people (especially vegans) claim, even in restaurants. It's been quite disappointing multiple times to try that "really, really delicious curry", that in the end didn't really taste that great and it's been a recurring thing for me / us when trying to eat more plant-based foods. This is also true with cauliflower, for instance. I like it in "traditional" meals as side-dish, but no, to me, batter frying cauliflower doesn't make it good.

Mushrooms are a staple in our cooking, because I really like my umami flavor (I also use MSG a lot), but unfortunately, my daughter doesn't like any type of mushroom. I guess, it's the texture. Tried several different things and she always puts them away.

Anyway, thank you for your comment. Beyond meat has been on our "try out list" for quite some time.

But I love death in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much for the hint, I checked out the red lentil curry video and it does look quite delicious. Chicken curry is actually my favorite food and I tried green, brown and red lentil curry before, but didn't quite like them, even though I'm half asian, lol. I'll try her recipe, though.

I personally love coconut milk.

C/politics@lemmy.world being US only is weird in c/general@lemmy.world
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably not hard. But that doesn't solve the problem that a generic term is used for something US only on a platform that isn't US first.

But I love death in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 1 points 1 year ago

Seems to be pretty american. I'm from Germany and never had that.

Posted pictures no longer showing? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 2 points 1 year ago

Seems to be a problem with sh.itjust.works, I think.

C/politics@lemmy.world being US only is weird in c/general@lemmy.world
What's happening with Florisboard. in c/fossdroid@social.fossware.space
[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 6 points 1 year ago

Seems like it. That's sad, because it seems to be a very nice project and I'm still waiting for a FOSS keyboard that supports german and japanese input in one.

Well, it's open source, so anyone can continue working on it.

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(Semi-complete) [Saturday, 5 pm UTC+2] Planned Maintenance Work and System Upgrade (Don't update Jerboa yet!) (social.fossware.space)
 

**Edit 4: As you can see, we're finally on version 0.18.0. Due to the ARM64 architechture, I indeed had to jump through some hoops. Lemmy's documentation is absolutely worthless, as well. I guess it's been written by someone who didn't even test if the steps they describe actually work.

But well, here we are. Some images are not visible right now. Need to check out what's going on here.**

~~Edit 3: I kinda regret getting an ARM server for Lemmy now. Reverted my changes and went back to 0.17.3 for now. I'll either wait for an official 0.18.0 ARM64 image or switch to a server on AMD64 basis.~~

~~Edit 2: Now fiddling with the system. Please expect a couple outages over the next hour or two~~.

~~Edit: This is going to be delayed, because I suffered a hefty migraine attack today and am still very groggy now after it subsided. I'm sorry, I'll most likely do this later tonight or on Monday.~~

Hello everyone,

as Lemmy version 0.18.0 was released today, I'm planning to upgrade this instance to it tomorrow during the day.

⚠️ An outage is to be expected on Saturday at around 17:00 (5:00 pm) UTC+2 and may last from a couple minutes at best to an hour at worst. Hopefully. Fingers crossed. 🤞

📱 If you're using the Jerboa Android application to access FOSSware, we recommend to NOT update it to the latest version until the server has been sucessfully upgraded to Lemmy 0.18.0, as the latest version of Jerboa dropped support for Lemmy 0.17.x.

❤️ I wish you all a great weekend!

Further Technical ExplainationThis Lemmy instance runs within a Docker container on an arm64v8 host.

Usually, Docker images are provided by the Lemmy developers for amd64 and arm64, but an issue seems to prevent the arm64 Docker images from being created since Lemmy version 0.17.4. This is also the reason why this instance is still running version 0.17.3.

I'm going to take some time and build this thing myself in order to upgrade this instance, which might take some blood sacrifices, sweat and might also have me to jump through some hoops on fire and whatnot.

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New Moderator appointed! Hello, Astral Moira! (social.fossware.space)
 

Hello, community!

After reading about all the things that Reddit has done to alienate their userbase (hostility towards moderators that put thousands of hours of volunteer work into their site, blatantly claiming their userbase's content as theirs, not respecting the choice of their userbase when it comes to content deletion, etc.), I'm currently planning to start a larger offensive on r/fossdroid to create more attention for Lemmy.

In order to moderate and promote this community, as well as this instance, I just appointed Astral Moira (@ostrich, u/ubertr0_n on Reddit) as moderator and 2nd instance administrator.

I always noticed on Reddit that Astral Moira has very broad knowledge about FOSS and is very passionate about it, so I think, they're a good fit!

✌️

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Suspicious Instances are now being defederated automatically (social.fossware.space)
 

Hey guys!

Thanks to the awesome Lemmy Overseer (GitHub) project and as an effort to block off instances with too lax sign up policies and therefore too many bot accounts, such instances will now be blocked / defederated automatically.

FOSSware defederates such instances temporarily, as we believe that the users should decide what they want to see and what not.

✌️

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Unverified Accounts will now be removed periodically (social.fossware.space)
 

Hey, guys.

After noticing that accounts registered by bots (before enabling CAPTCHA) count towards this instance's user count, skewing the statistics, I just implemented a job in the backend that'll remove accounts with unverified e-mail addresses after 1 day.

✌️

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CAPTCHAs enabled for now (social.fossware.space)
 

Hey there!

We're experiencing a high frequency of failed bot account signups since around 2 hours or so. They're all using random names with the same pattern and random GMail e-mail addresses.

In an effort to combat this and to prevent GMail from rate-limiting our mail server, I just enabled CAPTCHAs during registration for now.

In case you experience an issue during registration, please e-mail admin fossware space. Thank you!

Technical stuffI'm going to see wether or not it'd be feasible to connect Fail2Ban to Lemmy in order to stop sign ups like that.

I'll go ahead and remove the accounts that were created from the database.

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OK, I just posted Sam - But this RAWR warrants it's own Post, right? (social.fossware.space)
 

RAWR!

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Shifty Shellshock (social.fossware.space)
 
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Reminder: You MAY create Communities (Subreddits) here, if you want! (social.fossware.space)
 

Hey!

The title says it: Anyone can create communities (subreddits) on FOSSware and moderate them, just as on Reddit.

People can access your communities by typing !yourcommunity@social.fossware.space in the search bar of their instance.

To create a community, click on "Create Community" in the navigation bar and let's gooo~

And yes, we also allow NSFW and controversial topics, as long as no rules or laws are broken. If you're unsure, message me or post in /c/fossware_support first.

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Privacy-respecting Frontends for popular Services run by FOSSware now available! (Teddit, Nitter, Piped) (social.fossware.space)
 

Hey, community.

As previously announced in our migration post on Reddit, FOSSware now also sports instances of alternative front-ends for popular services like Reddit, Twitter and YouTube that are known to violate your privacy and freedom by tracking you.

By design, these alternative front-ends don't allow you to log in to your accounts, if you have any. However, there's usually a way to configure them and export your preferences.

In case of Piped, you can even create an account on our Piped instance.

Please be aware that any of these tools may be rate-limited at any time. In this case, you may have to try a different instance.

Reddit 👉 Teddit

🔗 Our Instance (https://r.donttrackme.fossware.space)
🔗 Other Instances

🧾 Source Code^(AGPL-3.0)^

Twitter 👉 Nitter

🔗 Our Instance (https://t.donttrackme.fossware.space)
🔗 Other Instances

📱 Nitter for Android on F-Droid

🧾 Source Code^(AGPL-3.0)^

YouTube 👉 Piped

🔗 Our Instance (https://y.donttrackme.fossware.space)
🔗 Other Instances

📱 LibreTube for Android on F-Droid

🧾 Source Code^(AGPL-3.0)^

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What are your recommended FOSS Android apps? (social.fossware.space)
 

Hey, there!

To get things going here and also because I'm interested in what kind of fun stuff you're running on your phones, I'll post a list of apps that I'm using daily or that are part of my Android experience.

To start it all off, I'd like to emphasize that I try to run FOSS apps almost exclusively and I also don't use Google Play Services whatsoever (not even MicroG). I do run some very few closed source applications in a separate profile with Insular, but I plain out refuse to run them if they flat out require Google Play Services.

Feel free to tell me what YOU are running in the comments!

My installed Apps

Apps not available on F-Droid

These are apps that aren't available on F-Droid, due to either containing non-free dependencies or other reasons.

  • Bitwarden^(GPL-3.0)^ | Powerful cloud password manager with auto-fill capabilities*
  • boum^(MPL-2.0)^ | Client for listening to music on Jellyfin*
  • Brave^(MPL-2.0)^ | Web browser based on Chromium with privacy in mind (I use it when Mull breaks something)
  • Record You^(GPL-3.0)^ | Record your voice or your screen

Honorable Mentions

These are apps that I wholeheartedly recommend, but don't use any more, because I replaced them with something else.

*CAN be used as a client for self-hosted services
**Offers additional features if root access is present
***Requires root access to be present
****Part of a Magisk module

Edit: Added some links and changed Infinity's description

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Is arm64v8 a second class citizen? (social.fossware.space)
 

Hey!

I'm running Lemmy on a arm64v8 machine at Hetzner. The latest update (0.17.4) isn't available for this architecture yet. Will a Docker image be provided?

Thank you very much for your work!

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Subscribe Pending? (social.fossware.space)
 

When subscribing to a community on another instance, the subscribe button will change to "Subscribe pending".

This appears to be a bug, as the content you're subscribed to will appear anyway.

You can follow this issue in the issue tracker, as well.

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