The company’s reason is “brand protection”:

We carefully reviewed the project you shared with us (https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors). While we appreciate the initiative, we found that this is primarily a Wacom-led project, and the potential impact for GAOMON would be quite limited. Even if we added support for our devices, the system would still show the device as a GAOMON model, but the overall setup would display Wacom branding. More importantly, participating would require sharing our device specifications directly with Wacom – which is not something we can consider.

The last part of that reply is very wrong.

The article also has a reply from Peter Hutterer, a “senior software engineer at Red Hat and a maintainer of Linux’s core input device handling infrastructure since decades”, which is worth reading.

I wonder if t-i-m-e is a slur in a different language, because it definitely ain’t in portuguese, english, spanish, italian or japanese

“premium” .eu.cc domains go for 10 dollars from them. The ones they let people have for free are less than 2 USD for registration and yearly renewal. I’m willing to lose these domains if they try to charge for it

Yeah, I’ll need to set that dyndns, my IP4 isn’t fixed. Haven’t checked the IP6 tho, might try it later today - leaving the router turned off for some 10 minutes, then turning it back on will give me the answer

First of all I would suggest getting your own domain.

Isn’t this what I just did? mydomain.eu.cc Even if I can’t get it to renew for free next year, the experience of setting stuff up should be worth it.

really need to be exposed to the internet to get updates?

From my limited understanding of APub, it needs to be exposed/findable in order to send updates and for my user@server to show up. I’ll be reading https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#server-to-server-interactions to know better

Can’t it pull them from other servers?

Tunnel through an existing server? Or what, exactly? Wouldn’t connecting through an existing fedi server also enforce its blocklist down to me?

As I don’t have any VPS, it sounds like I’ll have to rely with cloudflare’s tunnel then? That or register with one listed here? https://github.com/savyasathe/free-vps

Looks like an objective that you’re supposed to lure your enemy into taking control of

TrackerControl for blocking apps from connecting to the internet

Simple apps for Gallery and File Browser

Markor for mardown note taking

JustPlayer for watching videos

I’ve yet to find a good music player, since f-droid’s search sucks - it only searches in the name and short description. I’ve tried Apollo and Odyssey, but neither has a fucking folder whitelist/blacklist setting and end up filled with audio from telegram and whatsapp. Also, most players completely ignore .opus format

Cheaper than having real products and trying to sell them, I guess

Or a Nintendo DS. Or the ill-fated OpenPandora

People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we’re nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win. This is adorable. It flies in the face of literally all of human history, where the more convenient thing always wins regardless of technical merit. VHS beat Betamax. USB-C took twenty years.

Hopefully, unlike betamax and laserdisc, the fediverse will trudge on despite the megacorporate protocols

People are fucking addicted to instagram and I’m the annoying “get rid of that shit” preacher to everyone I can. My gf has reduced her usage, but still checks it from time to time.

I always ask “Do you really need to use it?” - and almost always, their answer is “not really, but it’s the only place I can find X”. Some of my gf’s friends use it to find new places to go. Some of my boardgaming friends still use it, mostly to “know what events are coming up” or what new games are being released.

Instagram is essentially this age’s yellow pages of a telephone list, small businesses are super dependent on it and they’re forced to post fucking stories everyday or get erased by the algorithm

What exactly is the fediverse?

Servers that can federate over ActivityPub protocol. Any server that uses ActivityPub can be considered part of the fediverse.

What’s included in it?

Clones of corporate owned sites: twitter (mastodon, misskey), tumblr (wafrn), reddit (lemmy, piefed), facebook (friendica), plus others

I’ve hear much about fediverse and Lemmy, but is Lemmy part of it or not?

Yes, it is

Are other systems like Blue sky a part of it or not?

Bluesky isn’t, since they use a different protocol, but it’s possible to bridge and interact with it. Wafrn does it.

Do I transparently see posts from all those different systems?

This is the biggest “it depends” situation. For instance, by default, lemmy ignores most posts from mastodon and similars. However, mastodon users can post to lemmy communities if they use the proper @, but they cannot specify a title - their post body will also double as the title. They can also reply to comments, they’re easy to spot because they always have an @user when replying.

Some server types integrate the different things better than others. Friendica and Wafrn seem to be the best for “variety integration”.

After digging through the codebase, Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names. When a window title was too long and needed to be truncated, the algorithm responsible for doing so had no iteration limit. So it would spin indefinitely, locking up the desktop entirely.

Ah, no wonder it went unfixed for so long, most people would just rename stuff and carry on

Yeah, because that is certainly not going to be easily gamed like fucking facial scans that fall for games’ characters

“Yeah, ok, but why am I not charging them for health? Scratch that, why am I not charging them for their own work?”

Hey, the 3rd paragraph explains current day USA perfectly, just change Hitler for Trump! Who’da thunk!?

Any way to hook old phones to an external screen without wifi? Because that’d make this even better

If you want to experiment with PHP+Mysql, you can make an account on InfinityFree and do stuff there. Their free tier lets you have a free domain. As for learning content, I recommend looking for something like “making a blog from scratch with php”^[1] or some such, try to look for “from scratch” wherever possible, as those will avoid cumbersome frameworks and CLI commands (like artisan install blah, which you won’t have access with on InfinityFree)

You can create and edit files within the browser, from their control panel, but you can also set up a program to automatically connect via FTP, so you can code on your computer and the program magically syncs with the domain’s folder

Even if you don’t want to go out of the way with learning php, it can be useful to let you write markdown, the same type we use for posts here, and translate into plain html.

If you don’t feel like you’ll need programming or a database connection, you can go with a Neocities page and write html yourself. Again, the best way to learn will be by searching for “<how to do thing> from scratch”

“Possessive police capital is mixed egg” sounds like a great anime or manga