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I wrote a blog post about surveillance and why states suddenly seem so interrested in it in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is the problem? Maybe reload the page? If you want the link to the post: https://blog.strawberrycloud.org/2026/05/15/democracy-has-given-up-pretending/ .

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I wrote a blog post about surveillance and why states suddenly seem so interrested in it (blog.strawberrycloud.org)
 

If you have any feedback, feel free to post it.

Real-Debrid’s Renewed Piracy Crackdown Follows Corporate Restructuring in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The main reason in this case, is because I live in Germany, so I'll be fucking executed, if I get caught pirating.

I already payed a thousand euros a few years ago when I was caught seedimg "Her" (I forgot to turn on my VPN). That's when I decided to never do anything risky again, so I got a debrid service. That's fine, because no actual seeding is now happening through my ip.

Your Google Android device is about to stop being yours in c/opensource@programming.dev
[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

I'd probably recommend something with GrapheneOS as it's pretty easy to install and use. I personally use it as well and never had any issues with it. You might want to look if your Banking apps work, but other than that, you can pretty much install most major apps through Aurora (like WhatsApp, Signal etc.)

If you want to go fully open, you could also try buying a Fairphone 4 and installing PostmarketOS on it, as I see PostmarketOS as the long-term ideal future OS for phones, because it frees us from the shackles of phone update cycles and gives the user full control over their OS (including changing the desktop environment).

But if you want to use PostmarketOS you have to be willing to tinker and not everything will work perfectly. Especially the camera will not be perfectly supported, even on the well supported Fairphone 4, your pictures will look worse than the ones you could take on Android, because there aren't good drivers and post processing yet. But it can be really cool if you are an enthusiast.

Real-Debrid’s Renewed Piracy Crackdown Follows Corporate Restructuring in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Yeah, noticed that a few days ago, most of the stuff I watched on streamio was gone.

Luckily, my subscription runs out in like 45 days anyways, so I just switched to Torbox. Works pretty well and is at a similar price. Too bad for the 4€ I wasted, but what can you do I guess

Terms of Service in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What new features is Mint getting?

Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] DeckPacker@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

You could also consider donating it to the projects you are hosting. Because developing that software still takes a lot of labour and these devs really need it

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Do you think an Interrail trip through 8 countries in 21 days would be enjoyable? (piefed.social)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by DeckPacker@piefed.social to c/travel@lemmy.world
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So me and some friends are currently planning a trip through Europe. Nothing is really set in stone yet, our first question is if we want to do a roadtrip with a camper-van or an Interrail trip.

I guess the advantage of a train would be, that it would be a lot more enjoyable to cover larger distances than with a camper. I thought, maybe it would be really cool, if we did like a larger tour through Europe, so I researched a bit and planned a hypothetical trip through Germany (where we live) to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and back to Germany.

That sounds like a lot, but with the train routes, I looked up it would be doable with only 9 travel days, 4 of which would take the whole day (10-12 hours) and 5 of which would only take half a day (4-6 hours). I thought, that could be quite reasonable and it would be a great adventure type trip.

Do you think that could be cool, or would it get exhausting to quick?

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We should rethink how the communitcation channels for piefed devs work (piefed.social)
 

So currently, we have two different closed-off developer chats on Zulip and Matrix.
This means, that new devs will be confused about which channel to join and experienced devs have to actively look around in both channels for questions to answer.
This seems like a really inefficient system, so we should at least decide on one official communication channel.

The other issue with this is the closed-off nature of these real-time chat applications. Shure, anyone can join, but answers to technical questions will inevitably get burried in unstructured long chatlogs, which no new develloper will read through. That will lead to a lot of questions being asked, that were already answered previously.

If we abandoned these channels in favor of one unified piefed community (like piefed-devellopment@piefed.social) or something, we could build a good knowledge base of answered questions, that are easy to search through and look around in and will also get indexed by search engines. This will make it easier and easier for new developers to join over time, as they will be able to look through an increasingly extensive knowledge base if they have any questions and also easily find the people, that are willing to help them.

Funnily enough, Rimou has already talked about the advantages of a forum-like communication channel for open source devellopers, so i think it's time for us to apply this to our own project.