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YSK: Keeping your accounts/online identity safe in the age of the fediverse/federated networks
  • This is a good explanation of the feature for use with Lemmy.

    I’m gonna be an annoying pedant for a second though and say that “hide my email” and “sign in with apple” are two different and unique features, though they both act as an email relay.

    The former just creates a semi-random email address for you that forwards to your email. This address will end in “@icloud.com,” making it indistinguishable from any other iCloud email address (other than the ridiculous address you get).

    The latter is an authentication system that allows you to sign up for services that support it with your apple account. The service doesn’t get your password directly of course, when you click the “sign in with apple” button it will redirect you to an apple sign in, typically faceID or touchID, and when you sign in successfully (or are already signed in to Apple) it will redirect back to the service with a token that says “this person is cool.”

    Importantly for this conversation though, you can optionally send the service your real email or a generated email address as a relay, but the generated email is not the same as the email generated by “Hide my email,” instead it’s a clearly random series of characters and ends in “@privaterelay.appleid.com”.

    In the end they have roughly the same purpose for your email, but the important bit here is that on Lemmy, only “hide my email” will be useful. There are no Lemmy instances that support “sign in with Apple” (yet).

    Okay, I’ll stop being a pedant now. Sorry for being annoying there.

  • I can't figure out how to get rid of this "language_not_allowed" problem.

    I have this issue with all of the apps I'm trying out—Memmy, Mlem, and wefwef—so obviously this is a "me" issue or a "lemmy" issue. I can't figure out how to set my language in Lemmy though. I've set my profile languages to "Undetermined" and "English" and I've turned on all languages on my server.

    However, when I post directly from my server's primary interface, I do always need to manually select the language.

    Does anyone have any idea to what I'm doing wrong? I'd love to get this fixed, and hopefully it'll help anyone else having a similar problem. If there's just a doc somewhere I missed, I'd love the link please.

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    How do you host your container services?
  • Kubernetes, but I’m getting a bit tired of dealing with it. I might try using microVMs for what I’m currently using Pods, and hopefully make the whole system easier to maintain. The overhead for kubernetes is a heck of a lot more than I anticipated, I had to set up a whole second machine for what I used to be able to do on a single one.

  • What's your favorite RSS Reader?

    Back in the olden times, I was an avid user of Google Reader. I had dozens of RSS feeds and went through my feeds religiously. When Reader was killed I jumped to Feedly, and while it was alright for a while I just couldn't get into it and eventually fell off and found Reddit.

    Well, it's been around a decade and I'm interested in jumping back into RSS. I've seen a lot of suggestions, but right now Reeder and News Explorer are the two I'm looking at. Ideally I'm looking for one that can at least sync between macOS, iPadOS, and iOS; but watchOS would be a an excellent bonus (and tvOS is ludicrous, but News Explorer supports it, so sure?).

    Do you use an RSS reader anymore? What do you use or recommend, and why? I'd love to know.

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  • I've not looked for myself, but does Lemmy or Kbin have good, accessible tooling? They're both much more modern so I would expect that it would be a priority, but they're also much less mature so I wouldn't be surprised if little in that way has been implemented yet.

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