Mikina

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that part about WhatsApp is annoying. I just have a spearate profile on Graphene that has only WhatsApp installed, and whenever it wants me to refresh a session I just switch to the profile and log in.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

There is, but it requires you to log into the app every two weeks to maintain a session. You can setup a emulator to do it for you. I just have a separate profile on my Graphene with Only WhatsApp that I switch to and login whenever I get a warning.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I've been using it for almost a year by now, and so far I didn't have any problems. I've not considered that problem though, so it might be happening and I was just lucky.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

WhenI was setting it up, it took me only like two hours tops. The ansible project is well documented, has a clear setup guide, and the process is really just getting server with ssh access, changing DNS, changing around 5 values in the ansible config and running it.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As far as I know the Discord bridge has some limitations, the major one being that IIRC it doesn't atually support calls. But just for chatting across servers it has worked well for me.

There's also the fact that you have to either trust the project with your password (as in, the the bridfe adds a matrix bot that runs on your server, but needs your pssword), since I think it uses the web version in the background (but then you can also use it for DMs and any server), or set up a bot on the discord server you want to bridge, which obviously cant be done if you're not an admin. It's a foss project, but there's always a small risk of it gping rogue.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Its pretty well documented and easy to follow, it took me only like an hour to setup.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 75 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (39 children)

I'm hodsting my own Matrix server with WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord (you don't need a bot for that, you can just share your login with the bridge) and Messenger bridge. I have all my IMs in one app, don't have to install spyware on my phone, and I can make bots that troll annoying people that message me on any platform.

Hosting it was super simple, thanks to the Ansible project that's extremely robust and well done, I literally just got a hosting, domain amd changed like 5 config values to enable the bridges I wanted, gave it an IP and ssh key, and ran it. And if I need to update, I literally "just update" (it's all wrapped up into "just" tool), and it eve handles cases where I didn't update for a while, failing graciously and telling me what I need to do maually, usually just rename some config values.

I wholly recommend it. You probably wont convince your friends to switch from , and this is the best compromise.

I'm using a small instance on Hetzner, for 6$ a month. You could in theory get a free oracle cloud instance for it, but I didn't manage to get one.

And you can easily share it with anyone interrested, make them an account, so they can also consolidate their DMs. I'm sharing it with a few friends and colleagues.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Hak5 OMG cable does something similar, if I'm not mistaken. I don't have time to check, and I'm not sure if it's just a glorified rubber ducky, but a vaguely remember it did have wireless capabilities.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 74 points 1 year ago

At press time, the pair had reportedly gotten into a blowout fight after Jasmine intercepted an anatomically impossible nude from one of Musk’s other girlfriend apps.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the quality of search results tends to be degraded [without JavaScript].

Lol, how? That's such bullshit.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Wait what, I'd kind of assune that all surgeries have to be consensual?

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen this warning in a lot of apps, like Teams, Messenger or some authenticators, and some of the time I could simply ignore it and continue using the app. I think some of apps simply use it for push notifications that I can get by without.

Not all, though. Sometimes it simply doesn't work.

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