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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:38:26 UTC Amolith

I need to remotely control an iOS device with *something* like one might remotely control a PC with Teamviewer.

As far as I can tell, that *something* just doesn't exist.

Is that accurate or have I just missed some super obvious solution :akko_what:

This client is technologically illiterate and moving to Spain for a couple of months; he wants us to do things on his iPhone in Spain from the US.

We're looking at building a super jank contraption so he can set his phone in it, plug in a cable, and go away. There will be a webcam pointing down at the phone so we can see the screen (no third-party screen recording on iOS) and the cable he plugs in will emulate a mouse and keyboard. We'll VNC into the Pi and a Python (:neofox_x_x:) script will capture mouse movements/keystrokes and relay those to the iPhone.

I really don't want to build this shit if something already exists. Please tell me I'm dumb and point me to something that already exists.

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jun-2022 16:07:49 UTC Amolith

Another month, another bill; if you find #NixNet's services useful, please consider helping me out with hosting costs :blobfoxheart:
https://nixnet.services/donate
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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jun-2022 18:38:15 UTC Amolith
- Mental Tofu Haver
#NixNet's #Pleroma instance has updated to a fork called #Akkoma from @FloatingGhost; we now have

- Local-only posts
- Timeline specifically for DMs

and most importantly

- Custom emoji reactions that properly federate with #Misskey :bolbcheer:

There's probably some other nice things as well but I haven't poked around enough to find out :blobcat3c:

https://git.ihatebeinga.live/IHBAGang/akkoma
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1. akkoma
  
  from IHBAGang
  
  Lightweight social network branched off from Pleroma
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 06:33:45 UTC Amolith

Reminder to users: if you see content that's against your instance's rules, don't forget to report it :flan_guns:

Reminder to admins: if you see a problematic user on a particular instance and are about to defederate from said instance solely because of said user, don't assume that the user is representative of the instance as a whole and immediately defederate from them. Instead, look around the instance's timeline and contact the admin, giving them a couple days to respond. If it becomes clear that the user *is* representative of the instance as a whole and/or the admin just doesn't care, guns away :flan_guns:

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 07:12:32 UTC Amolith

FreeWear.org is an online FOSS merchandising store and a print shop. [They] offer T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, etc. of a high print quality. For every sold item, [they] donate a part to the association or organization to which they belong.
https://www.freewear.org
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1. Open Source T-shirts | FreeWear.org
  
  Open Source T-shirts - Stuff based on FOSS designs. We sell Open Source projects merchandise, and contribute a portion of each sale to each project as donation.
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Apr-2022 07:02:06 UTC Amolith
- Mellium Co-op :xmpp: :golang:
If anyone wants to work on adding support for OMEMO encryption to the @mellium XMPP library, there's a $100 bounty for it :akko_fingerguns:
https://opencollective.com/mellium/projects/omemo
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1. OMEMO Encryption - Open Collective
  
  Support end-to-end encryption with OMEMO
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Apr-2022 06:54:36 UTC Amolith

81 people in the #fediring's webring now :bolbsweat:
https://fediring.net

we need to get those numbers up! :akko_fistup:
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  Fediring.net
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Mar-2022 07:38:28 UTC Amolith

Reminder that my XMPP server has been given a Category A rating by a KDE project¹, is 100% compliant with the standard specifications², supports voice/video calls³, and has some awesome domains available⁴ :flan_guns:

More info about it can be found in the docs :flan_smile:
https://docs.nixnet.services/XMPP

1: https://invent.kde.org/melvo/xmpp-providers
2: https://compliance.conversations.im/server/nixnet.services/
3: I don't know of a third party who verifies this so you'll just have to trust me :flan_wink:
4: https://docs.nixnet.services/XMPP#Registration
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1. XMPP - NixNet
2. Melvin Keskin / XMPP Providers
  
  XMPP Providers - Curated List of Providers for Registration and Autocomplete
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  nixnet.services's compliance result | XMPP Compliance Tester
  
  from @iNPUTmice
  
  Check list of features supported by nixnet.services, it's historic results and subscribe to alerts about nixnet.services's results
4. XMPP - NixNet
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Mar-2022 06:48:18 UTC Amolith

https://www.humblebundle.com/stand-with-ukraine-bundle
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1. The violent and unlawful invasion in Ukraine is taking a tragic toll—displacing people, devastating families, and creating an urgent need for food, water, supplies, shelter, and safety. To help out how we can, we’ve joined forces with game creators, book publishers, and software makers around the globe for a bundle 100% dedicated to supporting the victims and refugees from Ukraine during this crisis. The Stand With Ukraine bundle features over 120 pieces of content worth over $2,500, including: Back 4 Blood, Satisfactory, Metro Exodus, & Fable Anniversary Pathfinder, Starfinder, & Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay books GameMaker Studio 2 Creator (12 months), Music Maker EDM Edition, RPG Maker VX, & Polygon game dev assets 100% of the proceeds will go to Razom for Ukraine, International Rescue Committee, International Medical Corps, and Direct Relief. Support vital humanitarian crisis relief efforts for the people of Ukraine today.
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2. Stand with Ukraine Bundle
  
  Support vital humanitarian crisis relief for the people of Ukraine with an all-to-charity bundle featuring games, books, and software.
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Mar-2022 21:13:52 UTC Amolith

PSA: I get more of these than I can count and they just go straight to my junk folder. I read the subject, look at the sender, and usually just move it to spam without ever even opening it.

I actually use the affiliates listed I list on NixNet. They didn't contact me to gRoW tHeIr BRanD or anything like that; I used the service for a while, decided others might find it useful, looked for some kind of affiliate program, then signed up for it myself.
https://nixnet.services/affiliates/

I derive genuine value from them, they're not just marketing spam to pump some crappy startup.
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2. Affiliates
  
  Support NixNet by making purchases with affiliate links and vouchers
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 08:13:10 UTC Amolith

https://neal.fun/dark-patterns/

> Websites on the internet are constantly trying to get you to complete actions. Whether it's buying something, reccomending a friend or posting private information, there is a lot of value in getting you to perform specific actions. However, some websites go too far and try to trick or mislead you into doing what they want. This has led to what are called "Dark Patterns", or shady ways of tricking you into performing actions without you knowing.

> It's important that you are aware of these patterns, and so below are a list of dark patterns with interactive examples. The more you know, the more control you will have.
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  Dark Patterns
  
  Dark patterns are tricks that companies use to get you to do things without your knowledge
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Mar-2022 19:20:12 UTC Amolith

Does anyone know of a good way to theme a desktop in a more adaptive way? At night, I definitely prefer using dark themes, but I'm thinking about switching to light themes during the day. With my current setup, that would require manually editing a bunch of configs, logging out, and logging back in, which isn't great.

I would be perfectly fine with something like a script that overwrites variables in configs and restarts those apps but that's a lot of work to create myself :akko_thonk:

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 00:37:33 UTC Amolith

Another month, another bill; if you find #NixNet's services useful, please consider helping us out with hosting costs :blobfoxheart:
https://nixnet.services/donate
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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Feb-2022 10:21:44 UTC Amolith

The #Fediring website now has a search bar that forwards queries to #Lieu, a #webring search engine :flan_cheer:
https://fediring.net
https://search.fediring.net
https://github.com/cblgh/lieu
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  Fediring.net
2. GitHub - cblgh/lieu: community search engine
  
  community search engine. Contribute to cblgh/lieu development by creating an account on GitHub.
3. Lieu — webring search engine
  
  Lieu is a neighbourhood search engine, a way for personal webrings to increase serendipitous connexions.
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Feb-2022 10:43:35 UTC Amolith

Me: *clicks interesting post to view thread*
Scroll bar: *requires microscope to see*
Me: *slowly clicks back button*

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Feb-2022 20:28:10 UTC Amolith

Does anyone know good tools for applying OCR to a scanned document?

I don't want any organisation, tagging, cloud, etc. features, just something akin to imagemagick that reads the PDF, does the OCR magick, then spits out the OCRed PDF to a separate file.

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 11:48:33 UTC Amolith

In general and in your personal experience, is the German/Austrian/Swiss population more privacy-conscious than that of the US?

I don't mean your specific friend group, I'm talking about the general population at large.

I think this is a personal stereotype I've developed and I'd like to find out how accurate it is (or isn't) from people who actually live there :blobfoxthink:

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Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 08:43:57 UTC Amolith

Hmm #Fediring search engine? :cirno_think:
https://github.com/cblgh/lieu
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1. GitHub - cblgh/lieu: community search engine
  
  community search engine. Contribute to cblgh/lieu development by creating an account on GitHub.
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 08:43:56 UTC Amolith
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- Amolith
We're crawling all 52 sites :comfyeyes:
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1. screenshot of me running "lieu crawl" in a terminal
  https://nixnet.social/media/79e80667bd938acc1cb1dc80ec046e24adcfb281fc34384c2f62bd818626fcdf.png?name=image.png
Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 08:43:55 UTC Amolith
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- Amolith
Crawling finished, ingest finished, and server is running. Try it out and let me know if you think it's worth setting up long-term :comfy:
https://wip.secluded.site

(might be a little slow because it's running on my PC in the US and proxied through my server in Finland over WireGuard)
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1. Lieu — webring search engine
  
  Lieu is a neighbourhood search engine, a way for personal webrings to increase serendipitous connexions.

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