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There are UI guidelines to make apps show something however useless it might be. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/loading

I guess most developers go for a logo rather than a spinner. Maybe they worry that folk will forget what app they tapped on?

I dropped Reddit, but I’m still not 100% into Lemmy. To put it another way: Reddit was a pinned tab, as is Mastodon, webmail, Qobuz, and a whole bunch of other essentials. Lemmy is unpinned and gets looked at briefly every 2-3 days.

The rubber on mine turned sticky and I got rid of it. It was nasty to touch. I’d get another if it was a different material. Ended up with a G903 but not keen and want something new after just a year.

I do hope so. Temporary things have a stickiness that makes them semi-permanent. May as well go with 418 then :o)

CP is something that’s prevented me from hosting imaging solutions in the past, out of risk-avoidance so I’ve given it a lot of thought over the years. The lack of support from Cloudflare hasn’t helped, and making it USA-only weakens it as a general solution. That said, I’ll still run some sites via Cloudflare because I’m certain it tracks the content regardless without the mandate to enforce or alert, and that tracking may help lead to the original source [pure opinion here with hard facts, but I use CF for other reasons].

Now that I want to host fediverse things safely, it’s still a concern. I’m not in the US, I’m in the UK and host in Canada. Doesn’t matter greatly. They’d still take all my equipment while they investigate IF they had sufficient evidence to charge. But they WON’T because the CP is attributable to someone else. The main takeaway from all of this, for me, is to NEVER take backups of actual content, only settings/accounts. Holding archives is dangerous because only I would have access to their contents.

Defederate aggressively, block paths as needed, keep logs, don’t run it from home, etc etc. Keeping records gets most folk out of sticky legal situations.

451 or 403 would be more appropriate as it’s not available for legal reasons. 410 Gone would also fit well if it’s a permanent block. I’d steer clear of 5xx server side because it encourages retry-later. The client has requested something not served, firmly placing it into the 4xx category. The other problem with 503 in particular is that it indicates server overload, falsely in the case of a path ban.

Sad to hear that about Hey: that was how I felt about Basecamp. It’s a shame they are repeating the same mistakes.

I’m halfway between proton and fastmail, mostly because I like and trust protonvpn. It’s tough to choose. For pure email, I’d pick fastmail.

That’s good to know, I don’t think I’ve had any communication about this 😕

That’s correct: I use FOSS where possible, and if I must use closed source it must store data in an open standard.

As you insist on evidence: I can create and open 100% of my archives in all systems I use now or in the foreseeable future without installing additional software. RAR fails that test.

The other reason: RAR is a closed format, and like I said there are better alternatives that are not proprietary.

Likewise your philosophy is that RAR is best and you are free to have that opinion also without providing evidence.

I scan all files already, so nothing new there.

Personally I choose to not deal with RAR and use a format that isn’t proprietary, isn’t patent encumbered, and is FOSS. These are rational, evidence based choices. There are plenty of alternatives that fit my needs better as well as those of my clients and peers.

In no particular order: Fastmail, Proton, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, Gandi (free if you buy a domain), I’ve heard Hey is ok, but haven’t used it.

Indeed, I don’t trust those either. As for RAR being “bad”, no I don’t agree with that - but I’ve only ever seen it used in that context. If someone sent me one it would raise an eyebrow, much more so than if someone sent me a .7z file. Likewise if I used it professionally, it would arouse suspicions amongst my peers more than if I used 7zip.

I’ve never come across a legitimate use of RAR, you are quite right about the link to warez/virus/trojans and other malware but it will never shake that association. As for Kaspersky, I trust that steaming pile of Russian spyware even less.

For this much data I’d want to use multiple vans in case one suffers an unexpected hardware failure 😃

It’s much the same when I send .tar.gz / .tgz files. Folk get uppity about it not being .zip. I don’t bother with other formats purely because I know I can expand them anywhere without installing additional software.

As for .rar, I always view them with suspicion. Dodgy.

I know I’m probably in the minority here but… I’m a desk jockey.

I don’t use Lemmy on a handheld. I didn’t use Reddit that way either. The web interface works well enough for me, or rather whatever lemmy.ca uses is good when set to vaporwave-light. Try the different themes, some are better than others.

The pagination though… it’s a little short for my taste but I prefer it over doomscrolling.

kiro5hin

I seem to recall spending time on there, but that’s about all I remember about it.

I kinda dabbled in most of them, except 4chan. In no particular order: Various webrings, usenet, tumblr, stumbleupon, digg, kiro5hin, reddit, slashdot, twitter, lots of rss. More reading than posting.

Here’s hoping that happens, but it still won’t fix two things: Firefox is kinda weird and clumsy on mobile, and it’ll still need attestation if that’s implemented on key websites as a hard-barrier to usage. I’m now on Android (I alternate between the two, so next cycle will be Apple), and even as a highly technical type I don’t sideload on there anyway, so I think few will sideload on iOS either.

Probably, which gives more ways to collect data and still uses WebKit underneath.