getpokedagain's comments

On: Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)

[getpokedagain]

This is a wonderful app. Thanks for making builds available via Obtainium. You will be getting a donation shortly. I will assuredly use this when I go hiking and fishing.

[nativeforks → getpokedagain]

Thank you so much that really means a lot!

Beyond donating, the best way to support MBCompass is simply spreading the word. That helps more people discover it, contribute to it, and make it better for everyone.

On: Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities

[getpokedagain]

I was going to ask. Is a goal here for users to self/locally host if they like?

[BLGardner → getpokedagain]

Yes, you can self host if you’d like as long as you don’t make it public. Be sure to get the latest version from GitHub periodically, or not. If it’s working no need to update.

On: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

[getpokedagain]

Thanks !

On: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

[getpokedagain]

I'm not sure I understand. Are you implying we should not design our technology around serious edge cases that humans encounter in life? Why wouldn't we target people in crisis when we design crisis management information sites?

[cadamsdotcom → getpokedagain]

I’m saying no one will unless incentivised to.

[getpokedagain → cadamsdotcom]

Oh yes absolutely.

On: During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

[getpokedagain]

One thing that I would also suggest folks who are resonating with this piece consider...

Local copies of important information on your mobile device. Generally your laptops are not going to see much use. Mobile apps tend to fake local data and store lots of things to the cloud. We tend to ignore such things like backups and local copies nowadays. Most of the time we can get away without any worry here but consider keeping a copy of things like medications and their non commercial names for situations like this as well.

[safety1st → getpokedagain]

Syncthing is the way! Along with the Material Files app from F-droid, I finally get to have a file based workflow on Android.

[subscribed → safety1st]

You'll probably want to add localsend to the mix.

[nicbou → safety1st]

Syncthing is also great

On: The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café

[getpokedagain]

Most cafes even chains like Starbucks sell americanos in the USA.

On: On privacy and control

[getpokedagain]

I use organic maps. I also have a seperate user profile that can not run in the background that has Google maps installed and use that sparingly. I've used it once in the last 6 months.

On: Things I want to say to my boss

[getpokedagain]

If this were good for stock go up 9/10 startups wouldn't fail. While cutting corners can be needed at times doing the wrong thing doesn't. Eventually the wrong thing also pisses off the market and turns your company into a joke with a bad reputation.

[frm88 → getpokedagain]

company into a joke with a bad reputation

... which doesn't really matter anymore either as long as it's profitable, see Facebook, Twitter, Boeing...

On: PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

[getpokedagain]

Maybe this is ok?

Many non open source apps do get critical mass but they eventually go bust. Emacs, git, Linux and I think even Mastodon have a slower uptake but do not seem to have such a high risk of collapse. While YouTube and Facebook et al seem to have an insurmountable moat and collection of users the reality is recent history is littered with boom to bust failures:

MySpace, Vine, Yahoo all the way back to GeoCities.

I would be patient and only worry if mastodon is actively dying.

For me it's the only social media app I have installed.

On: GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

[getpokedagain]

I guess my 8a is gonna have to do for a bit longer. This one is very exciting.