NettoHikari

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 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.

 

Just some cutsies enjoying the weather.

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The Dark Wave (social.fossware.space)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This is my current daily driver. A couple weeks ago, I decided to give a more minimal launcher a chance and I really like it. No inconsistent icon themes and less noise in general.

Tell me what you think!

Information
 

Hello, guys!

As mentioned in the server maintenance post, 2FA is now available with Lemmy 0.18.0. However, the implementation seems to be borked.

Issues right now
  • Instead of a QR code as usual, users will be presented with a button that opens a link
  • There's no check whether or not the generated tokens work, 2FA is just being enabled without prior safety-check
  • This might be too complicated for non-tech-savvy users, and they're effectively locking themselves out of their accounts
  • After copying the generated secret to Bitwarden, the generated TOTP tokens don't seem to work anyway (didn't try with Aegis, etc.)

You can track the GitHub issue here.

Temporary Solution

Even though I'm not happy about it, I'll force-disable 2FA for now. If you enable it, it's gonna jump back to disabled after a short amount of time.

Gonna update you guys when this is fixed. Thank you!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Edit: Updated lemmy to 0.18.1.rc.10 and lemmy-ui to 0.18.1.rc.11. ARM64 images on Docker Hub.


Hello, guys.

As you might've noticed by the downtime, I decided to upgrade the server today, because I pretty much failed yesterday, due to migraine.

👍 Good news: The server is now running the latest version of Lemmy, 0.18.0.

👎 Bad news: There are still some issues that may or may not affect usability. But so far, things seem to be pretty minor.

This version of Lemmy brings a bunch of performance- and usability optimizations, for instance:
  • WebUI looks sleeker
  • Better editor
  • Resubscribing to Communities that show "Subscribe Pending" should actually subscribe now (works with lemmy.ml communities, but not lemmy.world, for instance, partially fixes this)
  • 2 factor authentication (2FA) is now a thing*
  • Custom emojis are now possible (maybe someone wants to make some FOSS emojis?)
  • Improved error messages (no more white screens)
  • Error messages during login and registration are finally fixed (fixes this)
Some issues I encountered so far:
  • CAPTCHAs were patched out temporarily, so we're going to switch to manual approval in the meantime (GitHub Issue)
  • "couldnt_find_object" error during search (GitHub Issue)
  • *2FA implementation is not well done for non-tech-savyy users and might lead to self-lockout until password reset is issued (GitHub Issue)

⚠️ In case you encounter more issues, please let me know by commenting underneath this post or by posting in /c/fossware_support.

✌️

Updated lemmy to 0.18.1.rc.10 and lemmy-ui to 0.18.1.rc.11. ARM64 images on Docker Hub.

 

**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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Hulyet, hulyet, kinderlekh (y.donttrackme.fossware.space)
 

Hey, guys.

I'm not learning yiddish, nor am I jewish. But I recently remembered this song, called "Hulyet, hulyet, kinderlekh" (pardon if that's not the correct way to write it) and wanted to share it with you. I really like this version, as it kinda gives goosebumps.

I also know the version by Zupfgeigenhansel, too.

Good stuff!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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!

✌️

 

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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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.


 

RAWR!

 

Hello, community!

r/fossdroid moderator here! I just wanted to chime in and explain that I created this community quite some time ago to check out Lemmy "back in the day", when it still was pretty unstable, etc. and then practically immediately abandoned it.

Shortly before and during the Reddit blackout, many people flocked to Lemmy, resulting in the instability of many major Lemmy instances. This and some other reasons led me to host our own instance, called FOSSware.

You don't have to re-register there. Just subscribe to fossdroid with your already existing Lemmy account.

See you there!

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