Thorned_Rose @ Thorned_Rose @sh.itjust.works

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Over the ditch here, New Zealand isn't much better and like many countries only getting worse. The insane amount of personal information that essential companies (e.g. electricity, property managers, etc) is getting out of control and our digital privacy laws are still in the dark ages.

Its just less setup for me. My personal domain is shared with other people so I can't set a domain level catch all. That and its less setup for me. I have no automated way of easily creating new emails (and my email settings would get very cluttered with hundreds of different emails). With a generic email address that I use with a +, its just one email and whatever comes after the + will go to that email. Then I have more options for what to do with those emails in mail clients. In my case, I have different mail filters to send them to different mailbox folders. But I can also tag them, auto delete, auto forward, etc. Whatever your mail client filters can handle.

A savvy spammer can do that anyway by brute forcing whatever is before the @ for any email address at all.

I'm less concerned about spammers (which are annoyingly inevitable after a while) and more concerned with data breaches. Thus if I can see where my leaked email address came from, I know who to blame and its also a lot easier yo change my account logins.

And yes, some sites annoyingly disallow them but in that case I can create another email address for those since they are few and far between.

I use a custom domain with a personal email address that I only use for communicating with actual human beings. e.g. myname@example.com Then I have a generic email address that I use with a + for different services e.g. email+hfu2sb5d@example.com or email+ebay@example.com I use Bitwarden as my password manager and that can automatically generate a + email using random characters but I sometimes use the latter + form if I want a human readable email. This way I can see exactly what website/service has been breeched/sold my data if I get spam emails.

Cries in kiwi due to decades of successive useless governments and entrenched car culture

Thanks, that list is really helpful :)

I have, but I find it easier to understand if there's a human being explaining things as well. I can flounder pretty quickly now if I'm just dropped into it without any guidance :(

I'll have a look into that, thanks! :)

I don't think I will either. I gave up and did a general internet search to read people's opinions instead.

This is the first time I've had this much slop come up in one video. The search I used was "Actual budget vs Firefly III": https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=actual+budget+vs+firefly+iii. I mostly watch Linux tech related videos, some gaming stuff, DIY, bit of comedy here and there, philosophy and some socio-anarchist stuff (ya know, like protecting your privacy lol). No idea why I would get so much slop from one search other than the enshittification of YouTube is accelerating :/

Have you had to deal with refunds yet? I see that as a criticism and I would have to agree that the official doc's way of handling them is not ideal for our situation or the way refunds are handled in my country. Interested in knowing if anyone has come up with more creative solutions.

Once upon a time yes. But then once upon a time the whole internet. I used to hate watching videos for learning but I have cognitive issues now that makes visual learning easier for me. Actually written is now extremely difficult for me. So I will use reviews of things to see how they work before I try them out myself. Just a shame that its so hard to find a real human being to learn from online anymore.

Multiple videos that have the same style of thumbnail (AI generated face excepted). Multiple videos with a very similar thumbnail and exact same wording. They're all within the past year, mostly within the past 6 months (this software has existed for many years, why all of a sudden do multiple channels want to do vs or review videos of them). They're all short videos and its just not possible to give a proper breakdown of feature or a review of budgeting software in that amount of time. The few videos I tested used AI voices and all had a similar start (I didn't waste my time watching the whole video). The faces on the videos look AI generated or modified....

I subbed to this community but the barrage of political posts makes me want to unsub. I came here for amusingly infuriating posts not a constant reminder of how fucked up politics are (I'm not even in the US)

Sorry you're getting down voted. NMS has my most played number of hours of any game. But my spouse and I have felt really demotivated to play it of late because of just how damn buggy it has gotten. It's always been a buggy game (my Trace of Metal bug workaround was up for yeeears on Reddit before it was fixed and I've seen the odd comment that its still broken). The settlement update was completely unplayable for me and the bugs have piled higher with each update. We barely got through the Corvette expedition and missed the last one because the bugs have just killed our want to play. I wish there was more bug squashing and QOL updates than new 'features' that are actually just testing for Light No Fire.

https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2025/11/11/flock-camera-locations-map-eugene-springfield/87202411007/

You're very naive if you think only propaganda is controlled solely by right wingers lol

I fill almost every pen I own with a syringe because I hate the mess that dipping pens or converters can cause. So that's my main recommendation. Second method is a bit like filling a syringe. Dip nib, draw up ink with converter. Hold pen nib upwards and tap the pen to get the air to the top of the converter. Slowly screw the converter to push the air at the top out. Dip pen again again suck more ink in. Rinse and repeat till you have a satisfactory amount of fill. Honestly though, syringing ink into the converter is just easier. You can give the converter a little turn (once its back in the pen) to force ink into the feed faster if you can't be arsed waiting for it to make its way down the feed. 😊

This is one of the things I don't get about any of this shit - if we were talking about physical items, letters, a hard landline, physical art, written medical information, etc. this would require a warrant, court order or whatever. Why the fuck is digital anything viewed as a free-for-all by govts, AI techbros, data brokers et al. How do they not understand that just because something is 'digital' it doesn't deserve the same protections as before?!

Unless you're using GrapheneOS and then the answer is "Mostly but it depends".

Ah, the privacy invasion is indeed the devil. I wish more folks cottoned on to Jitsi.