pootriarch

appimages just got less easy…

i don’t know which update did it - i think it must have been os-level (i run pop_os, derived from ubuntu) - but appimages silently stopped working. double-click, nothing. finally i looked in the log out of desparation, which said ‘appimages require fuse’.

more accurately, appimages require fuse 2 and the os had just upgraded to fuse 3. the fix is to heat-seek libfuse2, and don’t mess with any other fuse-related package as things can start wrecking themselves:

sudo apt install libfuse2

originally seen on an omgubuntu post

this is true. having said that - i follow a peertube-based french outfit called blast (can’t speak french, just look at the pictures). if i go to a different site (peertube.stream, liberta.vip) and look at a video, the streams are coming off video.blast-info.fr.

there’s no question video is a huge resource suck, and that nobody would want to host a lot of other people’s videos. i just wonder, if the model is federated indexes but owner-hosted video, i wonder if there’s a use case that can work at scale.

against which kitchen pots have proven surprisingly useful elsewhere. against all odds

thanks to this post, i’m trying out searxng and then kagi, neither of which i knew. hopefully there’s a searx instance configured roughly to how i’d want. i’m not philosophically opposed to paying, but search is a delicate thing to be personally identifiable - and i don’t care what your privacy policy is, if you’re taking my money, you can connect me with my clicks

woah are those negative or slide? we have a place here that i used to hand a hundred or so negatives at a time, but that was in the before times. they’re still here but don’t really advertise scanning anymore, so not clear on what would be possible

this political stuff is a mess that i hadn’t been aware of when i jumped into this ecosystem. the two fortunate things are

• that tankie stuff is stuff i don’t see in /all, and if they’re just unreasonably disappearing content, i wouldn’t have known what was missing; and
• i arrived in an instance whose admin’s main and self-proclaimed myopia is being a swiftie, which completely lacks the global thermonuclear war of tankie, though the incoming could eventually be a different tune

i’ll definitely be watching for this though, and wonder if it will become like masto where they actively try to funnel all noobs into their instance

in my home network the host is often sleeping and syncthing isn’t particularly piggy - i expect it to just do the right thing.

i imagine there are network setups where you’d have some networks you trust for syncing at distance and some you don’t, but i could only speculate on that.

location access should only be needed if you’re allowing sync only on a specific wi-fi network - to android, the ability to see wi-fi network identities is what requires location permission.

if you say sync only over wi-fi but you don’t restrict to specific networks, you shouldn’t need location to be on.

i allow sync over (any) wi-fi but i have global discovery disabled on all devices and i don’t forward the port on my home router. if i am paired to some other wi-fi, they don’t see each other so no data is passed.