Many (if not most) new cars have their own cellular service built in. They spin this as being able to hotspot to your vehicle if you pay for data or being able to remote lock/start your vehicle with their app. However, the vehicle manufacturer has their own plan allowing them to relay back telemetry data regardless of whether you buy a data package.

Not sure that’s entirely true. Thankfully this attack vector required custom emojis, so it was limited to those specific Lemmy instances. Other attack vectors we may not be so lucky and it could spread through federation.

Lemmy decided to go with SHA256 for TOTP seed. This is a very odd move since many 2FA apps don’t support SHA256. I actually had to write a quick python script to spit out my 2FA code since Bitwarden doesn’t support it. Hopefully either Lemmy will change to SHA-1 or Bitwarden will start to support SHA256 seeds.

I started using SearXNG and actually blocked Reddit from the results. As someone who almost always put “Reddit” in my google searches, I’ve been impressed with the quality of my search results without relying on Reddit.

Boost or US Mobile are the new Mint. Think Boost actually has a chance of hanging around for a while since they are owned by Dish who is building out their own network of towers (think they just hit coverage of 70% of US). They also use both T-Mobile and AT&T for roaming with their rainbow sims, which is extremely rare. US Mobile is a Verizon MVNO… their “unlimited” package has the same priority as post-paid Verizon customers for the first 30gb each month, but I’m afraid they’re eventually going to get bought out by Verizon ala Mint.

I think you mean explicitly open the port on your router, but even then that’s not true. Plex by default will proxy your traffic so that even closed off servers can be reached. It is pretty easy to disable remote access in the server settings though.

I ran arch (btw) for years on my XPS. Just grabbed the new Air 15 and I don’t think I could go back. Considered trying Asahi, but I just don’t see a reason to.

I really wish more apps were straight up switching to Lemmy like this.

I will be declining my refund. Got way more use out of Apollo than any other app.

Every community has their feeds listed in the sidebar. That is actually how the bot is controlled. It looks up communities, scrapes any RSS feeds in the sidebar and then posts any unseen links to the community.

https://github.com/kensand/rss-lemmy-bot

Just to be clear… this is not the source to linkbot. The creator of this rss bot is @kensand@lemmy.kensand.net

I have plans to open source linkbot once I clean up the code. It was thrown together in a couple of hours yesterday, so it’s not well formatted. However, someone just commented on another post that they had just finished their bot and posted it to GitHub. I haven’t looked into it at all, but you can find the link to that comment here.

That’s the idea. Linkbot will scrape all of the feeds from the community sidebar and post new links from the RSS feeds.

It makes me smile to see so many "fuck yes"s. Glad everyone is as excited as I was to launch it.

I’m still debating allowing signups on my instance. That wasn’t really the goal of this project and managing a Lemmy instance with a sizable user base isn’t something I had in the scope of the project. More than likely it’ll stay how it is, but I don’t want to say I’ll never allow signups.

I’ve seen a lot of chatter about meta-communities to solve the fragmentation issue. Hopefully that is something the devs have on their roadmap. Think there are still a lot of bugs and performance issues they need to work out first.

The few communities I have built were just the big ones I could think of to get to launch. I’m more than happy to build out new communities or add/change/remove feeds as people have feedback.

Fuck yes!

That’s just due to me adding the Crypto community at someone’s request. It just backfilled all of the old articles. You can also just not subscribe to the crypto community if you don’t want to see those posts.

I didn’t realize it would be so easy when I wrote the script. Knowing what I know now I’d just check adafruit every couple minutes starting a bit before 8:30am PST.

It’s not that difficult to get a Pi 4. I wrote a python script that scraped rpilocator’s rss feed every 5 minutes and would notify my phone when one was available in the US. It went off basically every day around 8:30am PST when Adafruit would drop 100+ Pi4s. I’ve picked up two in the past week (one for my Voron printer and another for a RetroPi cabinet). They did sell out fairly fast… in about 10 minutes or so.