@tardigrada I hope the fucker in Kremlin will leave us as soon as possible. It just all feels like a bad dream that you can’t believe it’s real…

@thingsiplay Last year they offered 20 GB free for every referral - both for you and the person you referred - because of their anniversary. And the features just make it such a compelling option as well. Such a great service.

@hedge

It does

@hedge I am quite a hoarder for cloud services, lol. The most private ones I use are Mega, pCloud and Nextcloud. Alternatively, you can also use Syncthing if you only care about syncing your files over.

@user68k I think this will be the first GTK3 app that will have an actual options menu instead of a tucked away hamburger menu with options. I think it’s gonna be interesting.

@0x815 as the saying goes in my country: The bowed head - the sword won’t cut it.

@0x815 Madlads.

@imblue A bit late I think? Wasn’t Qt also available for Android since a while ago? I mean, there are some apps that I know of.

@0x815 as a fun fact (probably losely related to this but anyway), this is the modern version of what the (former) Kingdom of Hungary did in medieval times with the Szekely and the German speaking minorities in Transylvania (in today’s counties of Covasna and Harghita) - only that they also recruited these people into the army.

Fast forward to today, this is why we have a substantial minority of Hungarians in the geographical middle of the country.

@rosethornRangerTTV I understand that some buses and other form of transport do not come on time, but on the other hand, one myst acknowledge that everything has a schedule and a time. You can’t force a train not to leave the station just because you didn’t show up on time (I mean, in my country many trains are leaving late anyways, but that’s not the point). You’ll just be delaying other people too.

I tend to be a late person as well, but whenever I have the possibility I either:
a. Put stuff in my calendar, with a notification prior to the event, so that I know when to get ready.
b. Run and/or rush. Literally. I know it isn’t a possibility for many, and it might be dangerous for me (I do my best not to hit into other people when I do and I can dodge really well), but if you hurry up you’ll never be late more than a few minutes, maximum 20. Happens to me every time. If you can’t run, try going at a faster pace.
c. If I see there is a high chance I am not getting there in time, I announce my lateness to the person I meet with so that they won’t be too upset.

I know getting on time can be hard sometimes, but it is a thing up to every single individual to sort out. You sometimes do not have the luxury of getting late somewhere and calling them ableist (even if they might be) might not help you out.

I wonder how nobody was concerned about this possibility up until now…

@theangriestbird he probably showed him the sanctions are in fact working.

@downpunxx

This is 2024 Russia. Actual reporting counts as espionage, while propaganda reporting is considered fine journalism

@clark I used Notally at first, but I wanted cross-device syncing at some point. So I discovered this app by a developer called Bill The Farmer, which this is insanely small (just a few KB). I keep my notes in pCloud. I’m not sure how private it is, but I am thinking of storing them inside a veracrypt container, synced with pCloud instead, and I am also keeping an eye on other options that have the ability of storing notes as Markdown files.

I’m keeping an eye for now on Quillpad ver. 1.5 but I’m open to other options as well. 😁

Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition Philippines soldiers.

For political issues, you should petition governments directly on issues.

Not sure if this is a great alternative. This is a thing that is totally dependent from country to country. In my country, there is no such platform that I’m aware of (on the local or national level at least. Ok, I may petition the EU, but they may just have no responsibility into my matters).

Many institutions do have email addresses though, and if, for example, you have a website, you can write an email template and point to an institution where people could send that email. Even that I don’t know how feasible it could be, but it could be more doable in more parts of the world, I think.

Otherwise, for Romania there is declic.ro, a platform owned by an NGO who relies solely on donations to run it, and also runs its own campaigns.

I know this whole thing is tiring and frustrating. I just explained how things look like in this side of the world, where in the current young(er) democratic regimes people are still nostalgic over the older despotic regimes where the economy was flourishing (spoiler: it was not) and basic human rights were systematically violated by the state.

I respect your opinion, and if there are any elections where you live, I urge you to go out and vote for the best option you may find. Be on the lookout for what every political force is saying/doing, corroborate all the information as good as you can, compare them, and choose the person you find less likely to turn your country into something like I described above.

Democracy is, after all, the power of the people, and if any politician/party is threatening to take away this power - or even erode it - then that one is not fit for any seat that is running for.

Power is what they are fighting for and they are getting it.

Indeed, they are fighting for power, that’s what every political force does. But what I was referring to was the way they do it - they put excessive emphasis on “traditional values” in their campaigns (whichever those might be). They picture an idilic image of these and sell to the public, so they can get the votes, while in reality, the stuff these mean is completely different. And it is not just the “traditional values” - history also plays a part in this.

In my country, the AUR party makes heavy use of medieval rulers like Vlad the Impaler (yes, that one that is known in the Western pop culture as count Dracula) to stirr nostalgia for a past most people don’t know. Or their Facebook pages post lots of ex-communist propaganda (messages like “before 1989 we were masters on our own lands, now we’re slaves to the foreigners” or “we had an industry back then, we had factories, we were producing our own stuff, now we sold everything and we no longer have shit” etc.).

They are basically romanticising the past in order to get to power, and maybe blur the line between the democratic institutions afterward - just like in Russia, but also in Hungary or even Poland.

I mean, those are the traditional values they are fighting for - a traditional family made up of only one man and one woman, where one of them (usually the former) is aggressive with the other as a normal way of life.

This is also what the Putler-backed far right parties in Europe stand for.

@maki I remember there was a photos plug-in or something for Nextcloud that allows you to see the photos in a gallery (Kinda like in Google Photos).