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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Consume art. It helps a lot to read/watch/hear some content that is similar to your experience and resonates with you. Helps to know that you’re not alone and others have experienced/reflected/studied these experiences before. Reading philosophy helps me as well. Might not talk exactly about my situation, but gives the tools and processes to help me think through my issues.

    You would think that in this age of instant, free, accessible communication; finding someone to share with would not be difficult. But somehow people care about each other’s problems less than ever. I’ve never found any Lemmy social group that connects people.






  • I needed to make a chat server for a bunch of normie extended family members. They need an easy to use mobile chat. Registering on PC complicates things. Then adding the mobile client for authorised encrypted messaging wasn’t really going to be realistic for everyone to do.

    If anyone knows of a chat/voice/video self hosted app thats easy to deploy and use, I would be very interested in any suggested solution. Vocechat was not easy to deploy or get voice chat working…and the app sucks.







  • When I was a kid in the 90s, there used to small fringe groups talking about global warming and everyone else rolled their eyes. Now when it’s too late, people have started caring.

    Privacy, security and anonymity are at that place now. Anyone talking about how fucked up it is that even your TV and fridge is mining all the data it can, is considered to be a fringe alarmist. People are going to wait till the world is on fire before taking this seriously. There was an uproar when WhatsApp changed its terms of service a couple of years ago and that died down and nothing changed. The uproar from this (and Discord) will also die down and nothing will change. Maybe one day people will see this as relevant to their lives and take it seriously.





  • I’ve spent time with firefighters and paramedics. They can end up sitting around doing nothing for a significant portion of the day. This is the nature of emergency work. If you want someone to be instantly available the minute there’s an emergency, then you can’t really have them do anything else important. All they can do is work that can be dropped instantly (or do nothing). The same applies to any emergency service… emergency doctors, emergency plumbers, emergency locksmiths, emergency IT workers. Business managers hate this because no one likes the idea of paying someone who is not doing 100% work the whole time, but you just have to pay people to be available and do nothing else of major significance.