It is breathtaking how many improvements (major) get completed each month in PieFed. You all are incredible and awesome. Thank you for your work and devotion!

60-hours a week, plus commuting time? Probably just a requirement for salaried workers.

I’m surprised the article was laser focused on return to the office, but didn’t mention anything about the even worse 60-hour-a-week work requirement (plus commute time) that they are asking for.

This is very nice!

I’m glad you asked. This has been irritating me for a long time.

From the article:

“… a number of organizations that voted to abstain seem unenthused (and uncertain that it can actually be implemented), so this may not come to pass, especially on the timeline proposed here.”

The proposed target is 2029. It’s just a proposal. I don’t think “probably” is warranted.

This tells me that you’d be in a lot of trouble if you lost your phone or had to wipe it because someone got into it. It’s probably good then that you’re now thinking about this so you can prepare for a time when you won’t have your phone for other reasons.

All sites supporting 2FA usually allow you to use a second method. Email is usually an alternative. Assuming that your email is your universal second OTP method, you just need to make sure you will always have access to your email account and you’ll be fine. So just solve for the OTP problem for your email account.

Pre-buy your burner phone and make it a second OTP device for your email account. For more assurance, buy a couple of physical keys (like Yubikey) that can be used with your email account. These can also be set up for some of your other accounts that support it, which may be more convenient than email when accessing them.

This better be an April Fools joke

I tried translating something before posting it to the same language (Thai) and apparently nobody understood what I was talking about. But enough people understood English, so at least some people would have understood me if I just posted it in English. The others could try translating.

Responding in English, if this is your language, is not Anglo domination. A lot of people learn English as a second language, so many know it. If you translate to Japanese and post it, then when people translate it to English, or Spanish, whatever, it will make no sense whatsoever.

When I traveled to France, a Middle Eastern family came into the restaurant and asked for the English menu. They couldn’t read the French menu. But they knew enough English. That’s when I realized that restaurants in France offered English menus, not for Westerners, but because more people in the world were likely to understand it rather than French.

I post in English. Translating from English to Spanish is better than English to Japanese to Spanish.

Astounding number of changes! Thank you so much, all, for your hard work on this!

Well said

I see no legitimate reason for not using a User Agent string, like all the other crawlers use, other than the desire to hide the crawler and make it difficult to block.

I don’t accept his explanation. I see it as gaslighting.

Yes, it’s worth it. I own mine for just the reason you give. You can take it to any other provider. And there’s no danger of the email provider deciding to close your account or cutting you off unexpectedly. Imagine losing your email access. At least with your own domain, you can switch it that same day to someone else.

Unsure about whois lookup privacy. My registrar hides my details as an option. Anyone looking up the domain just sees them as the contact for the domain.

You can go to https://hear-me.social and click on the register button. This puts up a Cloudflare managed challenge screen which endlessly loops when using Pale Moon. It would be interesting to see if Waterfox has the same issue.

I just duplicated this. I downloaded Pale Moon and went to https://hear-me.social and clicked on “Register”. It puts up a Cloudflare “managed challenge” which loops endlessly when using Pale Moon, but not the other browsers I’ve tried it with, including Zen, another Firefox fork.

It’s a problem, for sure.

Zen has the container tab function built-in on their Firefox fork. You don’t even need to install the extension.

And isn’t is amazing that they keep begging for donations, so their CEO can get at least $7MM a year? WTF? They are millionaires, and they expect us to contribute money to them, as if they are some deity? And Mitchell Baker is doing a shit job too. She’s worth minimum wage.

Have you tried asking in helpers@forum.friendi.ca, the Friendica support group?

Are you using an obscure email provider? They may be rejecting the emails based on the domain name or because the IP address was used for spam ages ago.

I run a number of Fediverse servers and rarely, but occasionally, run into a situation where an obscure email provider rejects my server emails out-of-hand as spam. I think in my case it’s because the IP address of my server, maybe years ago, before I had it, was used for spamming or something.

Anyway, if you’re not using a mainstream email provider, you might try using a different email address.

I de-federated from it on 3 of my servers for all the reasons stated here.

Yep. A “private” message where the recipient is listed in the message is a DM in Mastodon. It will only be delivered to the mentioned person.