rikudou

Can be from any kind of media.

For me it's Margot from The Magicians (which is interesting because in the books she is anything but) and Jesse Faden from Control.

I have a MIG Switch and a few pirated games, though I'm afraid it will ban my account, including games I've bought.

I don't use Switch anymore due to philosophical reasons, so it's probably not a huge deal, but it would probably still piss me off, because I spent some money there.

Do you think it could be mitigated by resetting the switch to the factory settings and never logging in?

Currently I'm using Google Play books and there are few things I'm used to and can't live without:

• turning pages by volume keys
• cloud syncing (doesn't have to be their cloud, but implementing some cloud services would be nice, bonus points for S3 compatible)
• searching text in the book
• supports epub

I want to switch to something open source because I'm often using my S-Pen to turn pages and I'd like my book reader to support it too. I'm fine with contributing the code myself (as I've done for the comic book reader app I'm using), but if there already is one, it would save me some work.

Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

I guess we all kinda knew that, but it's always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

I'd like to introduce my app which I have been working on for about half a year, it's called Baby Journal and it's an end-to-end encrypted app for tracking your baby activities, like feeding, diaper changes and so on.

On iOS you can install it to your homescreen as a webapp, on Android you can either install it as a webapp or directly from Google Play. On both you can just run it from your browser. Neither has any advantage over the other, the content will be the same.

Links:

• baby-journal.app - the (optionally installable) webapp
• Google Play Store
• Backend source code
• App source code

Now onto the app itself!

The biggest feature is that it's entirely end to end encrypted and I as the server operator have no access to your unencrypted data. I'm of the opinion that the privacy of your kids should not be compromised for some company to make a quick buck.

What activities can the app track?

• feeding tracking - nursing (left and right breast separately), bottle, solid foods
• diaper changes - wet, poopy or both, you can also select the color and amount
• breast pumping - left and right breast separately
• sleeping
• temperature taking
• weight
• length
• milestones - with cute descriptions!
  • with ability to add custom milestones

And some cool features!

• tracker - just hit start on your activity and let the app count how long it takes
• multiple babies - if you have more than one bundle of joy, you can switch between them easily
• sharing with multiple other accounts - you can easily share your data with as many people as you want without compromising privacy
• shared tracking - if you use the app with multiple people, you can enable shared tracking - start tracking on one device, finish tracking on another
• data at a quick glance - on the main screen you can see when was your baby fed for the last time, when they had a diaper changed and so on
• various fine-tune settings - do you want to calculate the time since last feeding since the beginning of the feeding or since the end? Do you want to ignore small gaps between multiple feedings (for example 10 minutes while you switch from nursing to bottle) as one feeding session? Does water count as feeding? All configurable!
• daily summary - you can get a nice summary where you can see all the important data in a concise format

Currently the data can only be tracked in metric units, but imperial support is coming.

Note that the encrypted nature has one downside - if you don't export your account code and lose access to the app (for example your device breaks), there's no way to recover your account. I advise you to securely store your account code as soon as possible.

For advanced users there's also a self-hosting option! You can run your own backend and app. Or you can just run your own backend and point the official app to it. Currently there's not much documentation on how to do that, but if you need that, I can write something up.

Do let me know if you have any questions!

A new feature has been added, this one is especially useful for recurring post - it allows you to add the date and/or time of the post to the title.

As an example you can use this exact post which should contain a date that looks something like 2023-10-04 14:15:00+0200 (note that the second will most likely be different, because the scheduler is not exact to the second).

This is how I've written the title in Lemmy Schedule: Lemmy schedule - add date to the post title (example: #[InjectDate('Y-m-d H:i:sO')]#).

You may notice the #[InjectDate('Y-m-d H:i:sO')]# - this is an expression that will be evaluated at the time of posting. Currently only the InjectDate expression is supported and it takes exactly one parameter. If you're a programmer, you probably recognize it, it's a format for the date. Just beware that it uses the PHP date format which might differ slightly from your favorite language.

If you're not a programmer, the documentation is not that hard - you see a letter (like F) and its description (A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March). When you include F in the parameter, it means it will be replaced with current month name (October). If this is too hard for you and you want it for one or few posts, tell what you want the title to look like and I'll write it for you.

Note that there's a preview of what the title looks like:

You'll also know if you've provided something that looks like it should be an expression but is not recognized:

Here are some examples:

• Weekly discussion - week ##[InjectDate('W')]# - Weekly discussion - week #40
• Monthly discussion - #[InjectDate('F')]# #[InjectDate('Y')]# - Monthly discussion - October 2023
• Monthly discussion - #[InjectDate('F Y')]# - equivalent to the above, just wanted to show that you can use it multiple times
• Daily thread - #[InjectDate('d.m.Y')]# - Daily thread - 03.10.2023

Let me know what you think!

You can find the tool at https://schedule.lemmings.world
You can also self-host it using docker: https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule/#self-hosting---docker

My Lemmy Schedule app now includes the option to get notified of new posts in a specific community!

In case you haven't heard about the app before, here's what other things it can do:

• schedule a post and post it to multiple communities
  • you can upload an image as well and choose between uploading to your Lemmy instance or to Imgur
• create a recurring post that gets posted at a specific date and time (especially useful for daily/weekly/monthly/end-of-month threads)
• schedule pinning and unpinning of posts (instance and community)
  • the pinning and unpinning can be specified as part of creating a post
• the aforementioned notifications about unread posts from a specific community (useful for mods)
  • can be also set using a recurring schedule, so you can get the report daily/weekly/monthly etc.

To learn more, visit the [email protected] community.

P.S. It's open source and can be self-hosted using docker!

TL;DR

Google’s ‘ad auctions’ face a privacy challenge in the Netherlands. Google has been accused of intrusive online surveillance by more than 82,000 people who have signed up to a class action lawsuit against the tech giant in the Netherlands.

Adobe starts paying out stock contributors for helping train AI. To train Firefly, its generative AI model, the company only uses content that it has rights to through its stock image platform Adobe Stock or that is in the public domain. Adobe has now started to make good on its promise to compensate Adobe Stock creators who may lose out from the widespread adoption of AI.

UK backs down on encryption-breaking plan. The plan was to compel service providers, including messengers, to scan encrypted chats for child porn. Although the British government promised not to force companies to use unproven technology to snoop on users, it may try to enforce the so-called “spy clause” in the future if better and more secure (in the government’s eyes) technology emerges.

WhatsApp denies it will have ads. The Financial Times has reported that WhatsApp is considering inserting ads into lists of conversations with contacts in a bid to increase its revenue. A rebuttal from WhatsApp head Will Cathcart followed. “This @FT story is false. We aren’t doing this.” Still, the FT stood by their story, claiming that before it was published they had reached out to WhatsApp, and they had not denied such conversations could have taken place. Citing sources within WhatsApp, the FT then reported that another option that was being discussed is to introduce a paid ad-free version of WhatsApp.

X unveils verification system based on govt. ID. X, formerly Twitter, has begun offering its paid subscribers a new way of verification. Now, they can upload their government-issued IDs along with their selfie, and get an “ID verified” label on their profile along with “prioritized support.”

The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.

Multiple people have been asking about it, so the support for self-hosting using docker is added.

The quickest way to get it up and running is using docker-compose: https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule/#docker-compose

In the coming days I'll be adding support for locking the app to a single instance only, meaning if you self host it alongside your Lemmy instance, only people from your own instance will be able to use it.

Edit: The hosted version is at https://schedule.lemmings.world and the support forum is at [email protected]