I like “heat pump”. It’s a very nice ELI5 name. It’s a pump for heat. A water pump takes water and forces it to where it wouldn’t go naturally. A heat pump does the same.

I’m obviously a fan of LE but a simple self-hosted option with a custom CA would be great for local machines:

• I don’t want every Raspberry Pi/laptop/temp VM/whatever published into the cert transparency record
• Configuring the router to forward every local hostname to the machine’s .well-known would be awful (if my ISP even allowed port 80)
• Exposing local machines to the Internet is an unnecessary degradation of security

It’s a modern take on the Pidgin concept. Pidgin ran locally on one computer and didn’t sync anything between any of your other Pidgin installs. Also, your login details for every account were usually in plaintext on disk. In practice, it feels

Beeper (really Matrix + bridges) is a network service that you can access with a browser, mobile app, whatever.

Same. I forget how long I’ve had it (primary domain even) and I just got the email today.

Isn’t Apple restricting their part of that to EU citizens?

Google Voice is not available in my country. Plus, it’s Google.

Also, Google Voice takes my top pick for the next round of Google product executions. It receives no updates: no RCS, no fake iMessage support (parsing the Liked "prev message" stuff), and it’s buggy as shit.

I’d gladly even pay for GVoice if it meant it got a renovation and it was going to outlast Google’s attention span. Telephony is something I just don’t want to self-host because there’s no way telecom companies will make it easy.

Cisco owned the “iPhone” trademark and was actively using it to sell products. Weirder things have happened.

Apple simply started using it and told Cisco, “Make me stop”.

My Pass setup uses an NFC Yubikey, which works on my PC and Android. On Android, Open Keychain can use the key for the ssh connection as well.

The git server for syncing is just ssh with a forced command.

The gpg key itself is backed up on a thumb drive, in case I need to recreate the yubikey.

It’s mindblowing how smooth (and fast!) suspend/resume is on the Steam Deck.

I haven’t tried it yet but I vaguely recall traefik had a better proxy-auth setup while nginx locked it away behind their freemium plan.

What a super weird question. “Cloud computing” is distributed computing. Distributed computing is practically all we have left. Bitcoin/crypto, Kubernetes, Bit Torrent, and endless AWS/Cloud infra patterns. Then we have our happy little Fediverse here.

I feel the author was trying to say “is at home distributed computing dying?” In which case, yes, because Mobile took over and you really can’t do background compute on those. Certainly not like how SETI@Home worked.

Also Password Store! Syncs over Git and on Android you can use a Yubikey so that the private key isn’t even on your phone.

But yes, KeePassXC is way more user friendly. Anything touching PGP/GPG is an automatic red flag for family.

I’m getting CS-nerd excited about how this is all going to play out. Federated moderation is hard and so many awful, clunky things have been tried before. Are we actually going to see a web-of-trust or reputation system that reaches widespread adoption? It’s gotta be silent and noninteractive as there’s no way to expect normal people to put up with the complexity.

On a desktop, I used Stylus (FF) to indent child replies by 1.5em. As a person totally new to lemmy, that helped me navigate more easily and on a laptop, I have the horizontal space to spare.

Looks like Stylus isn’t available for FF/Android yet so I guess I’ll have to go the more circuitous route with Tampermonkey or something when I get there.