is there any interest in broadcasting these ads in Spain? it'd most certainly take some work to dub it into spanish but i'd love to see it, there's too little awareness over censorship problems
@[email protected] In Poland and other neighboring countries we used to have regimes that also liked to do it, now westerners can also experience good ol totalitarianism :)
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Very interesting that he points out that a guy is Jewish, does not give good vibes. Ofc most of the things he's done don't give me good vibes either.
Anyway, I can't remember the last time I've used Mega, for anything. None of the cool sites use them, afaik. There's like a million better sites now, and the best stuff is in Russia, since they barely touch piracy sites. it's so often in a piracy sites lifecycle for them to start on a normal tld, get banned, move to a weird tld, get banned, then move to a cool foreign countries tld.
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Dotcom is now effectively Musk's hanger-on of a somewhat insane type. He posts a lot of megalomaniac and incoherent right-wing stuff (and I mean incoherent even by right-wing standards), as seen here. He hasn't had anything to do with MEGA for many years, he's been in a sort of exile in New Zealand, and frankly he seems as if he's isolated and mentally deteriorating.
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Down in the deep south near Glenorchy. Isolated even for a New Zealander. Find Queenstown on a map and then follow the shore of the lake Queenstown is on to the west, tada Glenorchy. He lives there
It's not even good for piracy because of the shitty bandwidth limits for users that pop up halfway through downloading something and make you wait until tomorrow or pay.
He's speaking about a previous Prime Minister of NZ. Who's actually secular, but has some Jewish heritage through a grandmother, but was raised Anglican, but really non religious.
I briefly met him at Defcon years ago and got an immediate off putting vibe to say the least. Then I saw him get up and tell his unhinged life story which then lead to a pitch for some crypto bullshit. I wish I had saved the 60 or so seconds I spent talking to him.
Why? Mega is so good IMO. No speed limit, no rate limit, no time limit. Rapidshare for example limits the speed I believe to only 200 kbit/s and only allows 2 or 3 file downloads per day. Uploaded is even worse with 50 kbit/s. Fuckingfast is better regarding speed, but I believe they have a time limit, meaning after X days it gets automatically deleted.
But there are still people who upload their stuff on that platform only. And that stuff is so niche, you can’t find it anywhere else or it simply is the highest quality.
It would be a dream if people would upload to mega.
Back when I was in Jordan, I visited a music store. They had a big screen on the wall with Windows Explorer open with a huge catalog of .mp3s. You could choose anything and they would burn the CD for you. Everything was clean and tidy as you would expect for a shop in a central location. Made me aware of how much legislators work to protect the rights of those few companies that own the rights.
Antisemites don't actually care about his religion. It's racism. Jewish heritage means Jew, which to them means evil. No Jewish heritage but in their way means secret Jew, which to them means secretly evil.
Hi !Friendica Support , I think I gave the wrong command, I updated friendica to the dev version , I forgot to write --no-dev I noticed that I have the version Friendica 'Blutwurz' 2026.04-dev - 1586
I have to be honest, I feel quite lazy. Can I stay with this version or is it a security issue? Thanks in advance
@Anomaly ☑️ You can stay there, because its actually very close to the official stable branch. But you should be carefull with updates because they may not be very polished :)
Interesting stuff I found using BB Code from around the web
As you may already know, Friendica makes BB Code as a basis of it's formatting. You can use it to embed all sorts of content in your posts, comments, even on your profile. Basically, anything that is not unformatted text only uses some BB Code somewhere. While most of the web nowadays uses HTML for embeds or relies on Markdown, there are plenty of other tools that still make use of it. They are mostly designed to be used on forums (since they are the ones making heavy use of BB Code nowadays basically), but they can be used here as well. I decided to share with you some of the interesting such tools that I mostly use.
Post temporary images and host the images externally using postimages.org
When you want to post an image, you can either post it directly to your Friendica instance. However, there are cases when you would like to have it hosted externally: you might want to save storage on your server, or, if you're li
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Interesting stuff I found using BB Code from around the web
As you may already know, Friendica makes BB Code as a basis of it's formatting. You can use it to embed all sorts of content in your posts, comments, even on your profile. Basically, anything that is not unformatted text only uses some BB Code somewhere. While most of the web nowadays uses HTML for embeds or relies on Markdown, there are plenty of other tools that still make use of it. They are mostly designed to be used on forums (since they are the ones making heavy use of BB Code nowadays basically), but they can be used here as well. I decided to share with you some of the interesting such tools that I mostly use.
Post temporary images and host the images externally using postimages.org
When you want to post an image, you can either post it directly to your Friendica instance. However, there are cases when you would like to have it hosted externally: you might want to save storage on your server, or, if you're like me, you'd like not to overcrowd your Wall Photos album. In addition, you can also use an external uploader if you want your image to be available only for a limited time. There are plenty of external photo hosting services, including something like the infamous Imgur. However, the one I use the most is Postimages.org.
The way it works is simple: You select a picture from your computer, select for how long do you want to keep the image on the website if you want to (default is no expiration). You can also snip your screen and press Ctrl+V (or whichever keyboard shortcut you/your OS use(s) for pasting) into the home page, and it will upload your image automatically (remember to select the expiration date beforehand when uploading this way). Once your photo is uploaded, you'll be greeted with the following screen:
You'll want to use either the option that says Hotlink for forums (for pasting without giving it a second thought) or the Direct link one (I've underlined both in the screenshot above).
In fact, the very screenshots I have posted here, are through postimages.org. Postimages also offers a way to upload via URL (which is also handy, but Friendica also handles images uploaded externally via URL in the first place), as well as a desktop app for Windows. They do not seem to have any Mac or Linux app though.
Post about the concerts you enjoyed with setlist.fm
Setlist.fm is self-titled the setlist wiki. It's a place where people keep track of the live concerts they've been to, as well as the songs that were played on (the set list basically). Every set list you share on Friendica basically looks like this:
Sharing a set list is easy; open the set list you want, then scroll down to Share or embed this setlist. You'll want to copy everything that's in the Last.fm Event Review box in the right. Last.fm is a music tracking service that also uses BB Code internally, for their artists, albums and music wikis, as well as for profiles or comments (similarly to Friendica).
If you want to customize your setlist before sharing, click the Customize your setlist.fm widget below the two boxes.
You'll be directed to a screen where you can set a different size of the widget, as well as select a different font out of 3 options and a different color for the font, the background and the border.
Once you're done, click update to preview your result, and scroll down and copy all the text from the box labeled Last.fm Event Review, and paste it everywhere you want in Friendica.
Last.fm (the service I mentioned earlier) is a hugely popular service for keeping track of everything you listen to (also called scrobbling), and making it public (if you want). All you have to do is to configure your scrobbler app (it also has an official app that does it for you). Many music players, as well as Spotify, also allow you to connect to it directly. However, last.fm is proprietary and appears to be owned by CBS Interactive.
There's an open source answer to it, an independent service called libre.fm. From my experience, libre.fm works the best with Pano Scrobbler. For iOS, I found no option to scrobble directly, but you can also link a last.fm account to your libre.fm account and scrobble both ways.
On last.fm, there's an option to set an "obsession" to your profile - basically a scrobble that you really enjoyed (hence the name). It will stay there for around two weeks. libre.fm doesn't have this functionality, but you can use Friendica for it. Here's how you can do it:
Go to your profile, then go to either Overview or Recent tracks, then scroll down to the song you want to use.
You'll want to click on the date of your scrobble (third column, the rightmost one), not the song name or the artist.
From there, scroll down to Embed this anywhere and copy everything in the box. You'll get something like this where you paste it:
Or you can click on "View/share as image" and share that URL here on Friendica by using the [img][/img] tag.
You can also embed what you're currently listening by pasting [img][img]https://libre.fm/user/<your-username-here>/now[/img][/img] (of course, replace <your-username-here> with your actual username).
libre.fm was built on GNU FM, a software that you could self-host. They are however transitioning to something called "hacienda" and are promising Fediverse integration as well. It will be interesting how this will work out, but I do hope they'll keep the BB Code integration as well, and maybe even expand it to some other stuff.
Go treasure hunting with Opencaching
There's an interesting real-world game out there called Geocaching. What you have to do is to basically go at some designated locations on the map. You'll find various recipients called "caches" containing a paper log. You take that cache out as careful as possible (in order to not be seen by other people passing by), write down your username and hide the cache, with the log, back in the place you found it. Afterward, you log your find on the platform. Most of the time you're looking for the needle in the haystack, but it's a fun way to visit various places.
There's an open alternative to it called Opencaching. It's a network of websites (not communicating through any protocol though, afaik), out of which opencaching.de is the biggest, covering Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.
You can use c:geo on Android to log caches to Opencaching.
You can share your brief stats about your found/hidden caches by going to My profile in your geocaching account, then copying your text next to BBCode for your statpic. Then, you can paste that as well on your profile, on a pinned post etc.
This widget can also be customized by clicking on Choose statpic on the top of the page.
From there, you can change your label (displayed on the last row), as well as use a different style for that widget.
These are pretty much all the external services I know that use BB Code in an interesting way. I hope you'll find these useful and/or fun to use.
What about you? Do you know other such services? Let me know in the comments below.
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is there any interest in broadcasting these ads in Spain? it'd most certainly take some work to dub it into spanish but i'd love to see it, there's too little awareness over censorship problems
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