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[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they're trying to save time, so i had always wished for something that would waste their time. like a bollard that popped up and stayed up until the next bus came. money matters, but it does indeed matter differently by how much you have. these are misbehaving dogs. the corrective is best served up right at the point of infraction, and by taking away the advantage they were trying to get

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[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The main URL points to this: san francisco map bit

 

In the web UI, OSM can't be zoomed in far enough to see the names of POIs in reasonably dense areas. I can get around this by going into edit mode, and mobile apps don't have this restriction. But the out-of-the-box experience, for non-insiders just using the web site, doesn't reveal all that OSM has to offer.

Does anyone know what the rationale for this is?

MusicBrainz' Picard app could start that, in a huge batch. But it would still require a bunch of eyeballing. I only do an album at a time, now and then.

 

Strawberry Music Player provides ListenBrainz with a lot more metadata than any other player or scrobbler I've found.

I had a track that ListenBrainz consistently attributed to the wrong album, but on a lark, I put the folder into Picard and had it tag the files. Since then, listens submitted by Strawberry have the correct album cover art, but those from Pano Scrobbler still have the wrong one.

Looking at Strawberry's source code, it's picking up release and artist MBIDs that it finds on your music files and including them as part of the submission.

This cleans up a ton of weirdness that one could see in ListenBrainz but not last.fm (which I scrobble in parallel), such as plays for live and greatest-hits albums being attributed to whatever studio album they came from — something that didn't happen all the time, but frequently enough to be maddening.

last.fm has its own quirks, above all considering Unicode ‘smart quote marks’ and ASCII 'dumb quote marks' to be different things. Which they technically are, but last.fm's automatic tag correction fixes many other minor things like periods and spacing, while never matching up different quote marks.

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it's perhaps interesting to see what existing apps ZipoApps has on the Android Play Store.

 

with the simple tools suite being sold to a purveyor of non-foss things, remind me of your favorite lists of recommended apps? i was using simple contacts and am not immediately sure of a good replacement. i would want one without internet permissions, which was why i disabled the google builtin.

 

(i own this in digital format, we are not the same)

 

I had reimaged my old Samsung on LineageOS as it seemed to be the only alternative that supported my model. It was fine until I installed OSMAnd, which couldn't get a location. Shame on me for not noticing that I would need microG for that. Not feeling comfortable with all the rooting and flashing needed to shoehorn microG into an existing image, I figured I'd try LineageOS for microG.

Having loaded a lot onto this phone already, I wanted to try a dirty flash first, knowing full well it might not work. The first prerequisite is to use an image of LOS/µG that is dated higher than the image in the phone. I had just updated, so I needed to wait for the next one.

The docs say that LineageOS for microG will be updated "a couple of times a month". But the latest LOS/µG image has remained at 11/2/23. This means I haven't had an opportunity to try the dirty flash, but it's also a security warning sign for me—LOS updates weekly like clockwork. Irregular and slower-than-promised updates make me a bit nervous for this aspect of device safety. It's not just my model either; most of the images are backdated more than two weeks.

https://download.lineage.microg.org/

(Yes, I know my boot loader is unlocked, and no, Calyx and Graphene don't support me, so I made my choice between physical insecurity and Google insecurity.)

no idea. impossible to rule out. there's no good answer to 'why' that i've seen

 

Ten years after the Ten tour that became a farewell, the girls are planning a tour but not new music — because the studio would feel too weird without Sarah Harding, who has been claimed by cancer.

strangest thing. i updated firefox and now i have no notifications. only a limited number of sites have notification perms; they still say they have that permission and my system settings still have firefox allowed. i have another machine running ubuntu (with firefox from the PPA for apt) and notifications are unchanged there.

Prerequisites

  • Internet-facing web server with reverse proxy and domain name (preferably SSL of course)
  • Server behind the reverse proxy with Rust environment

Installation

  • Don't bother downloading the source code to your server; installing it that way gives you a big debug executable
  • Instead just cargo install mollysocket
  • Move the mollysocket executable if desired
  • Run mollysocket once so that it will emit the default config

Configuration

  • Fish the config file out of .config/mollysocket/default-config.toml and copy it somewhere.

config.toml

  • In the new file, replace the allowed_endpoints line with allowed_endpoints = ['*']. The default 0.0.0.0 config appears to be a bug; this setting controls access to endpoints within the app, not IPs from outside. Leaving the original value causes mollysocket to reject everything.
  • Put a proper path in the db = './mollysocket.db' line rather than just having it land wherever you're sitting.
  • Delete the mollysocket.db that was created on first run (even if it's already where you're intending to put it). This is just to make sure the web server creates it and has the correct permissions.

Run script

  • The environment variable ROCKET_PORT must be set or the server will sit and do nothing. It's best to create all of the environment variables mentioned in the README, whether that is in a user profile script or in a shell script that wraps startup. You can change any of these values, but they must exist.
  • export ROCKET_PORT=8020
    export RUST_LOG=info
    export MOLLY_CONF=/path/to/your/config.toml
    

Proxy server

  • You'll need to proxy everything from / to your mollysocket server and ROCKET_PORT.
  • Exclude anything that you may need served from your web server, such as .well-known.

Things to know

you probably already found this, but for others who might be curious:

https://molly.im/

https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android

in the settings if you change notification method from websocket to unified push, the UP settings come up, including a server address (which is what they intend to be used) or some air gap mode that i can't find documented

 

The Molly fork of Signal now has a variant that supports UnifiedPush, but it requires a helper called Mollysocket to be installed on a server somewhere. I can't get my head around the (we'll call them 'lean') docs, and I've never encountered such a helper for other UP apps. They just ask what to attach to, and they attach.

Has anyone fought through this?

thank you. sounds like i get the official working, or nothing at all.

 

i hadn't fired up my python project in an age, probably two vscodium updates. when i did, i had no more syntax checking and the alert window showed errors reaching the 'jedi' server.

downgrading the vscode-python extension to 2023.16.0 was seen as the surefire way to clear this. it worked for me, too - got my syntax error highlighting back and no pesky errors in the alert pane.

they created a new issue against the extension, or the packaging system, or something, which was closed immediately though the problem still persisted. the chatter was about a cache, somewhere, with a lot of 'perhaps' and 'if'. one day i'll try bumping this back up, maybe after vscode-python passes the problematic 2023.18.0 version.

 

My friend's Last.FM app has died on iOS. While we try to get it working, would anyone like to recommend a favorite third-party app?

 

every so often someone posts a link and someone else asks, where can i get a link that's on a different service? songwhip is an aggregator that provides a page with links to multiple services. obviously if you want to post the exact video or the exact remix, a direct link is what you need. but it's quite useful for 'joe bob says check it out' scenarios.

 

A few updates ago Pop started nagging me to accept firmware updates. My layman's reading of the release notes is that it's a Microsoft package that can block boot based on an ever-increasing number of packages they don't like.

Is it safe to take an update like this? Unlike a kernel change, I don't know how to recover if this goes wrong.

 

ooooh, give you up

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