Screw us always more, why?
Libb
joined 2 years ago
Same. I would have left long ago if that was not for that setting and without a careful selection of whatever community I subscribe to ;)
My only blocked content is a few people who I can't be bothered reading again. I also have two words blocked: Trump, Musk just to make sire 99.9% of the shittiest content is filtered out.
Sure but you still have to believe and trust Filen
Obviously, like I must trust anyone involved in the whole process of me using a computer/phone to do anything. From the maker of my device (that it doesn't contain some spyware out of the factory, I remember an issue like that with Lenovo and another with Sony), to the app I use but also my ISP (that in France is legally required to keep all my online activities for a few years, btw) but also the maker (and the seller) of my keyboard hoping that they too did not add some spyware or keylogger.
As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I moved a lot of my activities offline is me realizing my inability to trust (corporate-owned) digital tools to actually respect my privacy. The simplest solution for me was to remove as much as possible of that tech from my workflow ;)
Depends what you use cloud storage for obviously.
Indeed.
ok, but requiring standard TOTP 2FA is one thing. that can be perfectly privately and without any real issue.
I see at least three issues: the extra cost, the extra layer of complexity it introduces, and the almost complete loss of autonomy it creates. Exactly like with public transits in many places switching to digital tickets instead of paper ones, save that it's much worse when it concerns our ID and personal security/authentication.
but that and mandating the usage of an app with built in snitching and which refuses to work on non google-approved devices are different things.
That would not be an issue at all if there was no requirement/expectation to use any phone or device of any kind to begin with. To me, that's the real point worth considering but it's also a point very few are actually willing to consider because 'technology is always the solution, never the issue' ;)
This is not irrelevant if you just don't want to bother with encrypting them or with having to deal with a locked folder (I think I understand what that would be, but I'm not sure). Filen does encrypt the folder(s) I tell it to encrypt and sync them to its cloud storage. I have nothing to manage once I've setup the sync(s) I need. Different solutions for different needs.. and different types of users ;)
I use it too, as well as Infomaniak KDrive (not E2EE)
I'm not a gamer, but gamers have my entire support. That industry, like so many others, needs to be reminded they're not supposed to be making the rules.
There are ALLOT of people
You lost me right there. 'a lot' is purely subjective and is not much of a fact. I mean, there are 8 billions of us on the planet. So, what is a lot? How many 'people on the Internet who adhere to almost a religious orthodoxy to Left Wing values' have you personally met ? 10? 100? 1000? 10000? 100000? More? And how (what criteria) did you count them?
Have you guys ever considered going an opposite direcrion?
Have you ever, and why would that be different for anyone else that is not you?
Les lunettes et les verres que j'ai sur le nez pour te répondre ont presque 5 ans. Je vais bientôt changer les verres (pas la monture) parce que ma vue change (je suis suivi de près par un docteur des yeux, j'ai juste pas eu besoin de nouveaux verres depuis ce temps): je suis passé il y a quinze jours chez un nouvel opticien qui a été surpris de voir leur état qu'il a qualifié de 'neufs' ;)
Le revêtement peut s'user plus ou moins rapidement, d'où l'importance de :
- Délicatement les nettoyer. Jamais avec le t-shirt ou la chemise, ou la robe ou le chemisier (ni la tenue de plongée), sauf exceptionnellement (sérieux, une exception càd pas parce que c'est plus facile comme ça). Edit: et quand tu dois vraiment le faire à l'arrache, toujours souffler dessus avant, sur les 2 faces des verres: pour enlever le max de posusière et ajouter un peu de buée
- Pour les laver, j'utilise du... liquide vaisselle sous une filet d'eau courante et je nettoye les verres doucement avec la pulpe des doigts, pas de spray ni de lingettes 'pour les lunettes'. Le liquide vaisselle est vraiment super, je connais pas mieux.
- Les ranger dans un bon étui quand elles ne sont pas sur le nez. J'ai des étuis un peu partout chez nous (2 sur le bureau, en permanence, par exemple) et, en déplacement j'ai toujours au moins 2 paires avec moi (de près + de loin) voir 3 paires en été (une solaire pour voir de près). J'ai donc toujours soit 2 soit 3 étuis rigides (et solides) dans mon sac
- sac où je range j'ai aussi 2 lingettes microfibres neuves de réserve (sèches, pas celle livrées avec un produit nettoyant).
- Je ne lave pas ces lingettes microfibres. Après un certain temps, pas long, dès que j'ai un doute en fait, je prends une nouvelle lingette. C'est un réflexe que j'ai pris tu temps où je faisais de la photo: le risque est bien trop réel qu'une poussière ou une merde microscopique reste dans la microfibre et raye le verre, vous niqant bien profond, toi et ton optique hors de prix (ou tes lunettes). Me demande pas comment j'ai acquis une telle sagesse ;)
- Je bricole aussi un peu. Pour ça, j'ai gardé ma précédente monture et mes anciens verres qui sont encore assez bon pour ce genre de situation où ils risquent de prendre des coups.
Trump va-t-il envoyer un bombardier survoler Lyon pour (aimablement) nous rappeler que c'est les USA seules qui décident de ce qu'on a le droit de faire chez nous? Edit: ha ben non, je suis con pas besoin d'un bombardier (même aimable), quand il suffit de nous coller des taxes de douane...
I don't think anyone would mind reading some short stories revolving around our beloved typewriters?
Last year, I started reading a series of anthologies edited by Richard Polt (from The Typewriter Revolution) titled Cold Hard Type.
When I started it, I had no idea this was a series at all, each one focusing on a specific theme. I just picked up Escapements—a mechanism that enables forward movement, step by step because it was about people in the near-ish future doing their best (after our digital world has collapsed) while using their typewriters. After maybe the third or fourth story, I was hooked and rushed to order the first volume (I had realized I was reading the second one in the series).
I finished this first volume like a kid eating a plate of cookies he had just ‘borrowed’ from his grandmother’s kitchen, and started the second volume the day it arrived at my door.
Paradigm Shifts—Typewriters Tales of Digital Collapse, focuses on the collapse itself seeing how people manage to get through it… with their trusty typewriter. It was as much of a blast to read as the previous volume. I wanted more of those yummy cookies.
So I did what I had to do and and asked my grandm... ordered the last three volumes.
I've started the third volume, Dead Keys (horror stories) with some some great texts in there too but I must admit I have a harder time finishing it. Don't worry too much as it's probably just me being very picky as, beside a very few authors, I'm not much into horror stories. And then life happened and I had to put the book away. That was almost a year ago. Shame on me.
But I've picked it up again this morning, and this time I will finish it and then I will dive into the two remaining volumes. Margin Releases—a mechanism for bypassing the normal bounds of a line of writing and Backspace—A device that allow a typist to return to a former position (quite surprisingly, focusing on time travel).
Icing on the cake, each story is printed in its own typed form (with info on the exact model(s) of machine used). At first, I thought it would distract and annoy me but it has not. Quite the contrary.
There is also a few illustrations and photography.
I expected to read a kind of funny but odd little book, maybe slightly better made than our fanzines from the good old days. It ended up being a very exciting read and one of the nicest surprise I've had in a long time.
The books are sold through Amazon’s print on demand service. Which means no exorbitant shipping rates, no matter where you live, and they aren’t expensive: Cold Hard Type
Why a WT?
We’ve a steadily growing community—we’re now 494 members! Welcome to all of you :)—but we still lack momentum.
The idea is to encourage more participation by sharing a weekly theme. This just an invitation and you’re more than welcome to comment about anything else (related to journaling), or to start your own thread ;)
Also: do you think we should do something to celebrate the 500th... if we manage to get there?
This week theme: What do you do you when you finish a journal?
Do you have any special rituals, or do you just start a new one?
Obviously, the question concerns pen and paper journalers more than digital users but don’t hesitate to comment as a digital user too! Explain us how you manage switching app (or if you don't switch and only use one, like I used to do when I used DayOne), or if you lack the emotion of finally filling the very last page of a notebook and starting a new one? Or if there is no emotion associated with that?
Edit: once again, I used my non-admin account to post this weekly thread. Silly me. Feel free to petition and demand a less amateurish admin if you feel like it's needed. I won't protest :p
Not 100% sure it's the right place to post this but it also feels a lot like it 100% belongs here. So, let me know what you think ;)
I don’t know about you but when I decided I've had enough of the big bloated web, it was not just to get back to a Web that was not rotten to its core by marketing-money—and the annihilation of any notion of privacy marketing requires in order to better track everything we do so they can sell more ads. This mattered a lot to me, obviously. But it was not my sole motivation to be looking for a smaller and a more humane Web.
My other reason was to reduce my digital-waste.
Be it storage space used on the server for all the large pictures, or the energy used to make scripts run and to transmit always more volume of data between the server and the computers of any visitor.
So, without being a developer myself, I searched for ways to create a website as small and as light as possible; I searched for ways to reduce the size of the images too so they would waste less space and load faster.
It goes without saying, but to reduce waste the first thing was to refuse tracking, scripts and ads. In summary, I don't have ads at all and I don’t know who is visiting my website or what they do when they're visiting... unless that person decides to tell me by contacting me... through email, or here on Lemmy, as there is no way to publish a comment (but that's not directly related to e-waste, it's me not wanting to deal with spam ;)
Here is what I managed to get, I thought it might interest others and could be an interesting discussion:
- The website is static, it's generated through Hugo. Only the resulting HTML pages (full static, no PHP or JS) are uploaded on the server, with a really minimal CSS sheet.
- Minimalism was my objective to begin with but Hugo can do fancier stuff too. On my website there is nothing fancy, no animation and no effects. Just text and a few images (even the dark theme you can see in the first screenshot is not managed by the website: it's a FF extension called Dark Reader doing it). Also, the home page is text-only so it loads even faster (less than 14kB).
- I don’t think there is a single script running in the background but since I’m not an expert and only transformed an existing theme there may still be something hidden somewhere? All I can safely say is that the website loads very fast and that if there is a script running I honestly don't know about it.
- For optimizing the images I did quite a lot of research. Testing various approaches and compression algorithms. I ended up adopting the… AVIF video file format. Yep, a video format that works flawlessly to save static images and that also saves a lot of storage, like a lot.
To give you an idea, here is the picture I used in my last post (posted this morning). It’s a 1000x710px PNG screenshot of my desktop (879,5kB), next to it is a 700px JPEG (118,1kB) and next to it is a 700px AVIF at... 22,6 Kb. If you want ot check the actual image quality (not this poor compressed version) of the AVIF file go check the actual post.
Since AVIF can be tricky to get right, I wrote a small script that does the conversion for me using the imagemagick and the ffmepg command lines (they will need to be installed on your computer). I could only use a recent version of imagemagick (and that’s what I did when I was still using a Mac computer) but I’ve gotten better results using ffmpeg for the AVIF conversion.
#Excerpt of the full script
# resize 700 px if is larger than 700
# add an unsharp mask (sharper image)
# Save temp file in /temp
convert "$1" -resize 700x700\> -unsharp 0x1 "/tmp/$NOW.jpg"
# convert temp file to avif using ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i "/tmp/$NOW.jpg" -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p "$DIR/optimized.avif"
Since I’m also lazy as fuck and don’t fancy myself typing complex command lines when I can avoid it, I transformed those little scripts into Nemo 'Actions' (Nemo is the file explorer that comes with my Linux Mint system, Actions are one of its nifty feature that lets it execute scripts through the contextual menu). So, now all I need to do is to right-click on whatever picture to have it converted as a jpeg, AVIF (and also a B&W version if I ever need it).
Which makes it almost immediate to get the image I need. If you have never written one, an Action looks something like that:
[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Optimize AVIF
Comment=Convert to a 700px AVIF file
Icon-Name=image
Exec=<action_scripts/makeAvif.sh %F>
Selection=any
Extensions=png;PNG;jpg;jpeg;JPG;JPEG;webp;WEBP;AVIF;avif
Quote=double
If you want to reuse those scripts/Action, they’re on my codeberg Git repo.
Dislaimer: I’m not a dev and I’m not even much of a geek. So, there is no warranty it will work. All I can say is that this works well enough for me and I'm ok with the result. There is no doubt this could be improved upon a lot. If you ever feel like doing it, you’re more than welcome to but please do let me know, so I can also use your improvements.
Also, if you have suggestions, tips, ideas to optimize further my website and images, do not hesitate to share them.
Since you managed to read everything to that point, and in case you want to have a look at my website ;)
The topic everyone was impatiently waiting for, we can all agree.
Ballpoint pens and fountain pens
If you did not knew it already the Cristal Bic, the world most used ballpoint pen, is French and even though the brand is now global and have factories in many countries (including the US, among other brands they own the US Waterman), they still made part of their production in the EU, in France and Spain.
(For those like me who worries about plastic/throw away pens, you may not know that Bic has recently started selling an aluminum body that's shaped like the cristal Bic that you can insert a refill in. Also, and for much longer, they make it possible to buy refills for the cheap plastic cristal Bic by packs of 50—so, you can keep using the same single clear plastic body for much longer only replacing the ink. Alas, those refills are not as readily available as the Bic itself.)
If you're interested in Bic history, and want to know more about what they do, they have this PDF available for download.
I'm not affiliated with them, I just have been chewing on one or another of their Bic pens for well over 50 years now and I quite like them. And that is coming from a lifelong fountain pen user...
Fountain pens? One may want to consider the excellent German brand Lamy which offers both cheap and expensive models of fountain pens (and ballpoint pens too, but not as cheap as Bic). Their cheap ‘Lamy Safari’ pictured here was designed in the 80s/90s to help kids proper handwriting and is still, imho, one of the best cheap/beginner-friendly fountain pen one could buy here in Europe. Its also real sturdy while still being easy to fix if anythign was to happen to it ;)
Also, I think they look gorgeous with their bright flashy colors :p
(colored) Pencils
If you're more into pencils, may I suggest you check the German FaberCastell or the Swiss Caran d'Ache? They're very different kind of pencils but they're also both amazingly good, be it their 'cheaper' lines (say, for kids) as well as, obviously, their artist lines (much more expensive too).
Watercolors
For watercolors, I would suggest the Dutch Royal Talens. Their student-grade paint 'Van Gogh' is unbelievably good for its price, as well as their artist-grade 'Rembrandt'. Heck, even their cheapest 'ArtCreation' line is nice (and it also offers truly excellent and cheap sketchbooks)
Obviously, the English Winsor & Newton whose artist grade paints are now made in France if I'm not mistaken, as well as their Cotman student-grade—but if you go the student grade road, I would strongly suggest you give Royal Talens 'Van Gogh' a try, like really, as you may be surprised.
The French Sennelier, they have a honey-based artist-grade watercolors that are so bright <3. They also have a student grade called 'La Petite Aquarelle'.
Last but certainly not least, I would not want to forget the Ukrainian's Rosa. A recent discovery for me (a little over a year ago) which I quite like.
One should also talk about paint brushes for watercolors, and about inks for fountain pens as in both cases there are excellent EU brands, but this is already way too long ;)
Your turn! Do you know any other European brand of pens, pencils or watercolors?
Edit: updated the title from 'in the EU' to 'in Europe'
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Thx a lot, that's quite spot on :)
Sorry for the delay, I'm busy testing out https://piefed.social/u/Libb Not sure if I will be staying on Jlai.lu/lemmy or move there to be honest. Both have strengths and both have their flaws ;)