mbirth 🇬🇧
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mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse?English
10·17 days agoYou could add the podcast to NeoDB and link there. While the item pages aren’t properly federated, all the user comments and ratings are.
MacOS and Panic Nova
I’ve got a so-called “Asteroid” with UberSpace. You just have to bring your own domain and configure DNS to use their servers. Unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases, Sieve scripts … and SSH access.
Apart from that, I’ve got a free account with disroot for emergencies.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for Software to Track Watched ShowsEnglish
2·21 days agoItems are tracked using IDs. But if a movie was imported from Douban, NeoDB only knows the Douban ID. Same with IMDb. However, since TheMovieDB records often have IMDb IDs as well, it’ll import both identifiers if you import from there.
And there’s a feature to merge duplicate imports into one. This will make that resulting record available under all the different IDs.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for Software to Track Watched ShowsEnglish
1·21 days agoYes, whenever you mark a movie or an episode as “to watch”, “watching” or “watched”, this gets published like a Mastodon post. You also have the option to automatically retoot this from your main Mastodon account. Others can follow you from Mastodon and react to your events. (For some reason, they don’t properly show up here, though.) And, of course, it all shows up for other users on NeoDB.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for Software to Track Watched ShowsEnglish
4·21 days agoYou can always join one of the mainly English instances like Eggplant.place or ReviewDB or host your own. But as long as the majority of NeoDB.social users are Chinese, the dominant language there won’t change.
OTOH it’s easy to use the API - so, instead of doing it manually, I’m tempted to write a small tool that you can throw a link to a movie or show at and it’ll change all Chinese actor names to their English counterparts.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Changing to Openwrt router made my Homelab slower. Could you help me dissect the issue?English
4·21 days agoHave you tried it with the original GL.iNet firmware? There might be some optimisations in there that are missing from plain OpenWrt.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for Software to Track Watched ShowsEnglish
10·21 days agoTo quote myself:
There’s just one little quirk: since this app started out in China, many actors show up with their Chinese names - but can be easily edited to their English names.
The author of the app is Chinese (but speaks English, too).
The actors get imported upon the very first import of a movie/show. And when a movie is imported from Douban first, the actors will all show up with their Chinese transliterations. If you import a new movie from TheMovieDB, they’ll show up with their English names. But as mentioned above, you can edit the names - which is what I usually do for US-movies. Descriptions support multi-language, though. Once an English description has been imported, it should show up for you while Chinese people will continue to see the Chinese description.
And the more English-language users start to use NeoDB, the more initially-English content will pop up.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for Software to Track Watched ShowsEnglish
13·21 days agoAfter Trakt changed to a subscription, I’ve went with NeoDB. This is a federated network, so you can also host it yourself if you like. All entries there can be published into the Fediverse, too. It tracks movies, shows, books, and games. And it automatically imports from IMDb, TheMovieDB, Amazon, Steam, and many more. There’s just one little quirk: since this app started out in China, many actors show up with their Chinese names - but can be easily edited to their English names.
There’s also eggplant.place which is the development build of NeoDB and might be unstable but has more English content.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•How do I get a circle on mastodon (or any other non-thread social media)English
3·26 days agoApart from the stuff already mentioned, never stop shouting into the void about stuff that interests you or projects you’re working on. Add a few relevant hashtags so your toots can be discovered. It may take a while, but people will come. Don’t give up.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Home Assistant vs. HomeKit QuestionsEnglish
13·28 days ago¿Por qué no los dos? Make Home Assistant your master automation system because it supports a huge amount of devices. And then expose those to HomeKit using the HomeKit Bridge service.
This makes all compatible devices (i.e. everything HomeKit can interpret) show up in Apple Home, too.
That’s how I do it, so I can ask my HomePods to turn lights on and off or lower the blinds.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 DaysEnglish
1·1 month agoLet’s Encrypt is. But tools to keep 100s of certificates up to date sometimes are not.
I’d still like some algorithm in my RSS aggregator. One, that detects articles talking about the same thing and groups them.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 DaysEnglish
1·1 month agoThen there’s the older way of checking CRLs which any tool of the past few decades should support.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 DaysEnglish
1·1 month agoI’m pretty sure it’s the SSL seller lobby just wanting more money, tbh. Selling snake oil security.
And selling “certificate automation” tools.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 DaysEnglish
211·1 month agoThe point is, if the certificate gets stolen, there’s no GOOD mechanism for marking it bad.
That’s what OCSP is for. Only Google isn’t playing along as per that wiki entry.
Settings --> Posts --> Interaction Bar
Then remove the combined up/down thingy and add the separate up and down chips. They show separate numbers.
Then do the same thing under Settings --> Comments --> Interaction Bar.
Mlem - replaced Voyager for me.


Same here. Once in a while I update the config with all the changed engines. But that’s about it.