petrescatraian

petrescatraian , 9 hours ago

@Welp_im_damned replace the Samsung logo with the Google one

petrescatraian , 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

No worries! Also from Friendica

petrescatraian , 7 days ago

@Protoman64 Kbin has a separate interface for microblogging and groups, that's why it's not that obvious. For Lemmy, well, there's no type of blogging to begin with.

Friendica really shines in this regard, as it has the ability to interact with both groups and regular people in the same feed, while the posts are also clearly marked as such. 😁

@testing777

petrescatraian , 12 days ago

For political issues, you should petition governments directly on issues.

Not sure if this is a great alternative. This is a thing that is totally dependent from country to country. In my country, there is no such platform that I'm aware of (on the local or national level at least. Ok, I may petition the EU, but they may just have no responsibility into my matters).

Many institutions do have email addresses though, and if, for example, you have a website, you can write an email template and point to an institution where people could send that email. Even that I don't know how feasible it could be, but it could be more doable in more parts of the world, I think.

Otherwise, for Romania there is declic.ro, a platform owned by an NGO who relies solely on donations to run it, and also runs its own campaigns.

petrescatraian , 12 days ago

@Enkrod I see where you are going, but Eastern Europe generally has a lot to go in order to get inclusion right. Like, right now, one of the two larger far right parties in here (yes, we have two and we sent them both to Brussels) are heavily promoting an initiative to add into constitution the fact that a family can only be composed of a man and a woman, as well as the right to pay with cash (yes, I know how crazy that sounds, it doesn't matter what happens in reality). And we're already in both the EU and NATO.

@Burstar

petrescatraian , 14 days ago

@hedge Right now, most Fediverse projects are analogies of their centralized counterparts, albeit with some differences (e.g. you can add a title to Friendica posts, but not on the Facebook ones. You can add inline media to Friendica posts and comments, on Facebook you can't etc.), so you can take that in a way. A short answer to your question would be the one in the first comment of the post:

Interaction between Lemmy and Mastodon doesn’t work well because the two services structure their content differently. Lemmy is community based and Mastodon is user based. Lemmy doesn’t have a mechanism to follow an individual user, and Mastodon doesn’t have an analog to communities (afaik).

With the addition that you can follow Fediverse groups on Mastodon, but you cannot create Fediverse groups on Mastodon (as Mastodon itself doesn't have any group feature). If you're not looking into creating and admining groups yourself, then you can safely consider Mastodon. Otherwise, you can pick Friendica, Kbin, Mbin or Hubzilla (among others). In fact, this is how I see this very post on Friendica.

Also, btw, Pixelfed is also adding support for groups.

@morgunkorn

petrescatraian , 15 days ago

I think this means allowing the listing of third party app stores inside the Google Play Store - so you could search for F-Droid in Google Play for example instead of downloading and installing the .apk manually.

petrescatraian , 15 days ago

Does Ukraine have any "prosummer" type legislation (i.e. allowing people that are producing energy via their own means - generally solar - and sending it back into the grid to have their bills cut/be paid) in force? I think this will incentivize some people to install these solar panels where possible, so the power supply can be decentralized.

petrescatraian , 15 days ago

@barsoap I see. Thank you!

petrescatraian , 24 days ago

I mean, those are the traditional values they are fighting for - a traditional family made up of only one man and one woman, where one of them (usually the former) is aggressive with the other as a normal way of life.

This is also what the Putler-backed far right parties in Europe stand for.

petrescatraian , 24 days ago

Power is what they are fighting for and they are getting it.

Indeed, they are fighting for power, that's what every political force does. But what I was referring to was the way they do it - they put excessive emphasis on "traditional values" in their campaigns (whichever those might be). They picture an idilic image of these and sell to the public, so they can get the votes, while in reality, the stuff these mean is completely different. And it is not just the "traditional values" - history also plays a part in this.

In my country, the AUR party makes heavy use of medieval rulers like Vlad the Impaler (yes, that one that is known in the Western pop culture as count Dracula) to stirr nostalgia for a past most people don't know. Or their Facebook pages post lots of ex-communist propaganda (messages like "before 1989 we were masters on our own lands, now we're slaves to the foreigners" or "we had an industry back then, we had factories, we were producing our own stuff, now we sold everything and we no longer have shit" etc.).

They are basically romanticising the past in order to get to power, and maybe blur the line between the democratic institutions afterward - just like in Russia, but also in Hungary or even Poland.

petrescatraian , 23 days ago

I know this whole thing is tiring and frustrating. I just explained how things look like in this side of the world, where in the current young(er) democratic regimes people are still nostalgic over the older despotic regimes where the economy was flourishing (spoiler: it was not) and basic human rights were systematically violated by the state.

I respect your opinion, and if there are any elections where you live, I urge you to go out and vote for the best option you may find. Be on the lookout for what every political force is saying/doing, corroborate all the information as good as you can, compare them, and choose the person you find less likely to turn your country into something like I described above.

Democracy is, after all, the power of the people, and if any politician/party is threatening to take away this power - or even erode it - then that one is not fit for any seat that is running for.

petrescatraian , 25 days ago

Wow, that looks fantastic. Congrats!

Out of curiosity, what are you planning to store there? Wine? Ice? 😁

petrescatraian , 25 days ago

Cool!

petrescatraian , 26 days ago

@maki I remember there was a photos plug-in or something for Nextcloud that allows you to see the photos in a gallery (Kinda like in Google Photos).

petrescatraian , 28 days ago

@e_t_wright well, that gas was due to be burnt by Russia anyway 😁

@LaFinlandia

petrescatraian , 30 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

@veroxii fair enough, that's pretty much an invisible shield for Russia to strike Ukraine without repercursions. I think the US and other states supporting Ukraine should also draw a red line and condition their opposition for Ukraine striking inside mainland Russia to Russia no longer using its land as a launching ground.

I.e.: if Russia keeps striking Ukraine from its own land, they will allow Ukraine to strike back.
@LaFinlandia

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

Unusually cold. Yesterday it was quite warm in the morning but then it got cloudy and cooler. Thought of going with a shirt only at work and I could not made a worse choice.

Other than that I think it's fine. I will have to look for a new job soon. 🥲

petrescatraian , 30 days ago

I thought of it, but at least I went with a pair of jeans over my underwear

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

Didn't they do that before with the Windows 10 timeline, which they later axed it off?

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@LaFinlandia Damn, I hope this is just in Russia at least...

We do need decentralized platforms to avoid this, but managing them by the said outlets might prove too hard for them...

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@ArbitraryValue Strategically? I don't know. But they're doing us Romanians a great service by destroying a source for all the mines being swept to our shores, lol.

@LaFinlandia

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

I get that. I was in a different situation than you, but I got the same question. For me, I think it would be the need for affection, but in a way that it would be kinda awkward for a friend to provide (and that I don't get from my friends at all).

If one can do without this, then cool.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@funn Online content is, sadly, more vulnerable than we think. All it takes is one server to go down, and the entire website/thing goes bust.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

Glamp

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

Just tried the mobile version of Winamp looking for a better Android music player. The interface looks great tbh, but man, they got no support for wma files and some of the tags are not read correctly (on the songs I own). I know this is not an issue for most of the people, but for me, it's really limiting on the music players I can use on my phone. Sadly, Winamp doesn't fit in this category either. Thank god there is Foobar that supports all these from day 1

petrescatraian , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Thanks! I'll check it out. Foobar is fine and does a lot of things that I do not see other players doing. What I didn't like was the fact that it has no adaptive icon and there is no way to display the lyrics of a song. Plus that I was looking for something that was following the material design guidelines more.

Edit: just checked it. Seems like it's not properly reading some artist tags, so it cannot find them:

i.postimg.cc/Y249YqV3/Screensh…

Plus, in Foobar, a split album is displayed in both artist's views. Poweramp simply creates a different artist entry, just for the split:

i.postimg.cc/66DQ0xxN/Screensh…

I did not check how an album with multiple discs is displayed, but I still find Foobar's library management capabilities unlike any other's.

I do have to admit that Poweramp has a cool interface though.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

search results will become secondary as they push their service

Oh, so they're gonna emphasize less on search results and more onto their half-arsed services that they're axing from time to time? This is so Google of them.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

Of course this is for neutrality and not because they actually support Russia. Just like refusing Romania to join Schengen is for neutrality and blocking non-existent migrant routes, and not because they actually support Russia.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

Hello fellow Romanian 😀)

E și xenofobie la mijloc, dar dacă te uiți pe hartă, dintre noi doi perechea veselă din 2007 și croații, fix pe la croați treceau rutele de migranți. Dar cu ei nu au avut nimic.

Numai cu noi și cu bulgarii au avut. Și nu m-ar mira ca ei doar să joace jocul Rusiei și să ne țină pe noi afară pentru a influența forțele politice eurosceptice.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@Barbarian wrote:

Insofar as Russia is involved in the Schengen decision-making, they're likely just attempting to deepen existing fault lines and create more instability. In that context, I completely agree with the pro-Russian eurosceptic angle.

That's what I meant, exactly.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

The whole proliferation of the AI has been, by far, the worst technological advancement out there. Worse than using personal data for advertising and gathering huge amounts of it.

Stuff like this can happen to anyone and can deceive everybody. We'll no longer be able to trust what we're seeing or hearing at all. And the person being faked will have the most to lose out of this.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@MHSJenkins Start from number 2 for the most obscure and underused ones:

makeuseof.com/tag/5-free-opera…

petrescatraian , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

"Elon Musk can't invent"

petrescatraian OP , 1 month ago

@perishthethought I see. So the feeds from the OPML file are imported into the reader's own database, right?

petrescatraian OP , 1 month ago

@perishthethought thank you!

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@tardigrada slightly funny thing: neom in Romanian kinda translates as non-human which seems perfectly fit to the company's overall project.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@apis weird that it doesn't show. I said it is translated into n o n - h u m a n

Hope it's not blocked again in any way if I type it like this...

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

Probably your app, idk. On my end I see it fine on beehaw's website.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

Yeah, that's what I intended to do.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

Seems someone went ahead of me and archived the very same link, if anyone stumbles across it afterwards:

archive.ph/uE7mT

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@hedge Not really a video, but the 1st pic in this article seems the best for me.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@electro1 wrote:

but it's ugly..😅

Have you tried changing the default theme? I changed mine to Frio Dark Blue and it looks like this.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@electro1 Which app more exactly? I'm not aware of Friendica having any mobile app. The web version seems more than fine. If, however, you want a dedicated mobile app, then check out Relatica.

Friendica also supports the Mastodon API, so you can also log in with pretty much any Mastodon app.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

@electro1 they do need to update their website a bit fwiw. Friendiqa is not that great at all. But no, that's not an official one either. They do not have any first-party app at all.

Edit: You can also find a help section wherever you might choose to create an account, or a wiki available at wiki.friendi.ca/ with more information.

And if you want to get more familiar with how Friendica works, you can also check out (and share) anubis2814's videos on YouTube on the topic:

youtube.com/watch?v=-4wsAmXnaE…

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@Riven Probably phones without headphone jacks are those that can no longer be used as regular FM radios - as the antenna was actually the headset (at least that's my experience) - and another reason why phones without the jack suck. Never had a phone with a built-in FM antenna FWIW.

But yea, I do get your point. Phones could do so much more than accessing Facebook, Instagram and posting photos there or something like that.

petrescatraian , 1 month ago

@Riven Yea, it also needs the software. Here in Romania, every phone I've owned had an FM Radio app preinstalled, including the current one. Didn't try any jackless phone to see if it's there as well, and if yes, how does it work.