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The posts on both the BuyInEU communities seem pretty serious lately, but after reading latest Derek Guy's (dieworkwear.com) "Excited to Wear This Spring" post, I found Filt - the French net shopping bag manufacturer that makes their bags (and other stuff) in France

https://www.filt1860.fr/en/9-net-shopping-bag

Click the yellow "+" to open the DNS IPs for IPv4/v6/DoH/DoT

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You may already know this from Quad9, but DNS4EU is an European Commission initiative

"Ringer" means that the t-shirt's body is a different color than the elastic on the cuffs of the armholes and on the collar. e.g. the t-shirt body is white, but the cuffs and collar are navy. Sometimes the words "contrast trims" or "contrast piping" are used.

Here are some brands I found:

I really like the Velour Garments one because it's 300gsm and made in Spain but it's out of stock. Considering all the options I'm now leaning towards fruit of the loom, but I know it's not going to be very well made, since it's loom. I'll maybe get one from them and then keep looking

Does anyone know any other options? The ones I listed are all t-shirts, but I wasn't able to find a ringer tanktop anywhere.

I've been researching dumbphones lately and wanted to share about the developments I've learned. I'll be writing from an European perspective. I am omitting Android since I wasn't interested in it. Android Go is discontinued, if you care.

CloudFone

This is an addon to the barebones OS manufacturers add to their phones. Such OS' are e.g. HMD (formely Nokia) S30+ or other Mocor RTOS based systtems. This addon is an "app" within the OS that's a browser which offloads the rendering to another server. It works similar to the Puffin browser.

The advantage here is that the underlying browser engine is ran and updated on the server. This helps avoid the KaiOS situation: KaiOS v2 (the last version in Europe) uses Firefox 48 (current version is 137). CloudFone could be running the latest stable Chromium even on an old device, as long as the rendering server is updated to that version. The remote server rendering is obviously more powerful than what the little feature phone can normally do.

You can see how it works here: https://youtu.be/coaLnA7Twl4?t=295

The disadvantage here is that those apps do not work offline - you need to connect to the server over the Internet to render them. If the underyling rendering server is ever shut down, you lose all your apps and your phone is back to being a dumb-dumbphone. It seems like you don't have control over what apps are available and which are not. These could be rug-pulled at any moment. There are some rumors on /r/dumbphones about a WhatsApp CloudFone app which would be big. Some of the apps are something you wouldn't want on a dumbphone, like tiktok or yt shorts.

The trick is that the firmware versions with CloudFone enabled are only offered to phones in India. The only way to get these firmware versions is to download a custom firmware from the Russian 4pda.to forums. This custom firmware seems to be available for Nokia 3210 4G 2024 or Nokia 220 4G. A more powerful option would be HMD 110 4G 2024 since it has 128 MB RAM, but I couldn't find the CloudFone enabled firmware for it.

I get that this approach is not acceptable to the freedom-oriented, tech-savvy demographic on Lemmy, but it looks like this is where the mainstreaim is heading right now.

The downside of the non-KaiOS devices is that they normally don't support WiFi and thus can't serve as a mobile hotspot. There are devices like itel R60+ which can, however, but I have no idea which website to import it from.

KaiOS

The latest KaiOS version on devices sold in Europe is KaiOS v2.5.x. The latest available outside Europe is 3.1 (?). There's supposedly KaiOS v4 in the works. People say it's dead.

KaiOS is just not an European thing - this is balantly obvious if you look at HMD's "Barbie phone" - it uses KaiOS 3.1 in the US version, but in Europe, it uses the basic HMD S30+ OS.

There's a KaiOS jailbreaking community. See https://wiki.bananahackers.net/en/devices for supported devices. Apps you can install with the jailbreak are here: https://store.bananahackers.net/. I've seen an XMPP client and a Matrix one too.

I've been only considering devices with a USB-C port and available in Europe and what I've found is Blackview N1000 (somewhat easily available on Allegro in Poland, has USB-C and is jailbreakable according to bananahackers wiki, but it supposedly resets itself on long +20m phone calls), Gigaset GL7 (USB-C, unknown if jailbreakable, available only if you buy secondhand from someone), myPhone UP smart LTE (USB-C, non jailbreakable), Maxcom MK281 (microusb, not known if jailbreakable, can buy secondhand only). Note that some of those aren't jailbreakable according to the bananahackers table above.

You could also import an US KaiOS v3/v4 (TCL Flip 4 is KaiOS v4, US only) phone, but the overlap in LTE bands is only on band 7 (I think?), meaning it'd only have reception in cities. There's someone that imported an US Nokia 2780 and reports it works in Italy on /r/dumbphones.

KaiOS devices mostly can serve as a mobile hotspot, which is nice.

postmarketOS

Phones that run KaiOS out of the factory normally have 0.5 GB of RAM, meaning they can boot Linux. See https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Feature_Phone The newest device in this table is the NA Nokia 2780 released in 2022. The feature support tables seems not to support calls.

SoCs

The "Feature phone SoCs" section seems to be gone from the Unisoc website. The Wikipedia SoC Unisoc table lists e.g. T107 but doesn't list the newer T127 or T157 (supports 5G and only ever used on Asian feature phones)

Before today, mailbox.org's 2FA mechanism was unorthodox. In the login screen, you typed in the TOTP in the password field and then added a 4 digit static pin at the end. This got people confused, as it's different than the usual login+password then TOTP. Now it's just like that.

There's also other goodies, like separate passwords for IMAP and SMTP, WebDAV, CardDAV/CalDAV (one password for both), Exchange Sync. Before today, you'd be using your main mailbox.org password for all of the above. Looks like IMAP access is not even possible without creating a separate password https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/account-article/how-to-use-two-factor-authentication-2fa/

There doesn't seem to be support for the YubiKey TOTP anymore. No passkeys or hardware webauthn either for now.

mailbox.org is based on OpenXchange.

From a post here I realized Bitwarden (the password manager) is an US company. I also noticed when I login into bitwarden, I login into the bitwarden.com domain.

There now seems to be a bitwarden.eu domain too. Did anybody try to migrate their account from the .com (US) to .eu (EU) region?

Is the process really so weird? Do you really have to create a separate .eu account then migrate your passwords by exporting/importing from account to account manually? And then closing your .com account? This also suppsedly involves cancelling your subscription in the US region and rebuying it in the EU one.

I am aware I can use keepass or vaultwarden and self host rather than paying to the US, I just don't trust the resiliency of my own homelab as I am abroad a lot and can't afford for my passwords to be unavailable. So I'm doing this as a half measure

https://bitwarden.com/help/server-geographies/

EDIT: I created a .eu account with the same mail as my .com account, exported an encrypted json from my .com account where I have premium, imported into the new .eu account without a subscription, then wrote to support using https://bitwarden.com/contact/ (sent to billing department) to transfer my subscription. They replied very quickly with an automated e-mail to which I needed to respond "YES MIGRATE MY SUBSCRIPTION - [bunchofnumbers]" and they moved my subscription.

It took like 30 minutes from my initial e-mail to complete the whole process.

I'm currently traveling for months at a time and my homelab has become unreachable to me over VPN due to a unknown complication after a power outage.

Just as a learning experience for all, my mistake was that I set-up my VPN very far down the stack - as a wg-easy app inside TrueNAS SCALE's apps ecosystem. My very important reason for doing it was that way was that wg-easy allows for setting up client devices with a QR code...

Anyway, the NAS is not booting back up nor do the TrueNAS apps. I should've set my VPN up right at the front of the network - on my MikroTik router that also supports Wireguard. The funny thing is I was so happy that my NAS has IPMI and whatnot but now I can't even access it.

For now the NAS is kept powered on from what I know, it just doesn't boot. This should help prevent bitrot until I'm back. All important files are backed up on a 3rd party service.

It's a shame my Jellyfin and Navidrome inaccessible, but I'll live.

Now I'm thinking about buying an UPS so that this doesn't happen in the future. I'd like the UPS to be fanless and rackmount, so that limits me to ~700VA territory.

Devices in my homelab pull about 65W idle and spike to say 150W when everything is booting. ISP modem, router, POE+ switch, AP, NAS. I might add another 20W due to a Lenovo M920q in the future.

I only really care about NUT and graceful shutdown instead of long runtime on battery.

I was thinking about this: https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/SMT750RMI2U/

In my country I can get it with new batteries (no front panel) and a network card for NUT for a total of 180 EUR.

Would that work? Would you be afraid of leaving an UPS (it is kinda like a bomb after all) unattended an leaving your home for 6 months at a time?

After reading a non-fiction book, do you beat yourself up over not remembering all that much? This is especially painful if the book took years to complete (e.g. Anne Applebaum's "Gulag").

It's a bit ridiculous to expect to become an Encyclopedia after reading something in passing too, though.

I feel as if working with a computer and using the internet daily destroyed my attention span, which is why I'm self concious about this.

I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I've given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It's unreal how strict the requirements are now.

1. Give e-mail (ok)
2. Give phone number (.... eeh, ok)
3. Use the new account for a while
4. Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi). There are also some verification promps where you have to record a video and rotate your face left to right

If this isn't a message to move to indie web I don't know what is

I was working with NPM package.json files a lot lately and I often found myself saving them in an unparseable state. json-ts-mode highlights syntax errors in yellow but it wasn't enough.

I didn't want to use flymake-eslint becuase it requires having the jsonlint binary in the PATH and I just wanted a simple Lisp solution.

The code tries to parse the current buffer on save using Emacs' built-in json-parse-string and moves the cursor to the location of the parsing error if it fails.

The below code naively assumes that the saved buffer is always the current buffer, which may very well not be the case (e.g. (save-some-buffers)).

It also probably won't save JSON5 files which have // comments inside because json-parse-string won't handle that.

(defun rtz/json-parse-pre ()
    (interactive)
    (if (eq major-mode 'json-ts-mode)
        (condition-case err
            (progn 
  	    (json-parse-string
  	     (buffer-substring-no-properties
  	      (point-min)
  	      (point-max)))
              nil)
          (json-parse-error
           (goto-char (nth 3 err)) (error err)))))

  (setq write-file-functions '(rtz/json-parse-pre))

Są sobie takie desktopowe programy do rachunkowości (np. GnuCash). Nie trzeba być jakimś wielkim rekinem biznesu, można nimi po prostu liczyć comiesięczny budżet i dotychczasowy majątek, po prostu wpisujesz:

• mam tyle pieniędzy w gotówce
• mam tyle pieniędzy na "głównym" koncie bankowym
• mam tyle pieniędzy na lokacie na takim i takim procencie

Można też w nich oczywiście śledzić wydatki. Przy płaceniu kartą wszystkie transakcje widać w przecież na stronie banku po zalogowaniu.

No tylko że, w ciągu miesiąca tych transakcji to jest z paredziesiąt. Więc po jednej stronie okna masz otwartą stronę banku a po prawej program do księgowości. I tak przepisujesz wartość transakcji i jej datę z jednego programu do drugiego. Wrzucasz też transakcje do odpowiednich kategorii: rachunki, żywność, odzież. Tak wiem że mBank już przydziela płatnosci do różnych kategorii sam z siebie, ale program do rachunkowości ma dużo innych funkcji z którymi webapp mBanku nie ma szans.

Na szczęscie w GnuCash jest wsparcie dla AqBanking, a AqBanking wspiera banki które korzystają z protokołu FinTS.

• https://www.gnucash.org/
• https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/AqBanking
• https://aquamaniac.de/rdm/ (po niemiecku, przepuśccie przez translator)

Korzystając z AqBanking i FinTS można z poziomu tej desktopowej apki wykonywać takie akcje jak:

• pobierz saldo konta (tj. zsynchronizuj to co jest w banku z tym co jest w GnuCash)
• pobierz historię transakcji (tj. to co sprawia że nie musisz jak głupi co tydzień przepisywać wykonanych transakcji)
• :o wyślij przelew bankowy (whaat) - trzeba podać PIN FinTS przy każdej transakcji

Wszystko fajnie, ale niestety okazuje się że FinTS jest tylko niemeckim standardem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinTS

HBCI [prekursor FinTS przyp. OP.] was originally designed by Germany's three banking "pillar" networks, namely the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, German Cooperative Financial Group, and Association of German Banks.

Idąc dalej, do wspomnianego Association of German banks należy Commerzbank, który jest większościowym właścicielem mBanku, więc teoretycznie mają know-how i ludzi którzy mogliby to zrobić. Ja wiem, że w bankowości wszystko porusza się powoli (ile czasu zajęło zanim pierwszy bank w Polsce zaczął obsługiwać klucze U2F - ING), ale no kurde Polska jest przecież fintechowym poligonem doświadczalnym.

Tutaj nawet ktoś na forum ING o to dopytywał (ostatni post 2022): https://spolecznosc.ing.pl/-/Konta-osobiste-i-firmowe/Pliki-HBCI-OFX/td-p/16907 No i jest też taki o projekt na GitHubie na wsparcie AqBanking do mBanku: https://github.com/Mestrona/mbank

Nawet na chwilę zastanawiałems się czy mógłbym otworzyć prawdziwe niemieckie konto bankowe, ale zakładam że nie byłoby to nijak opłacalne przez transakcje w PLN.

Yes, I know the answer is "don't buy them".

Anyway: I've been seeing posts in places that follow the format: "Look how item X in (rich country) costs the same or is more expensive than in Poland"

Admittedly, those posts aren't about basic necessities. They are about football tickets and the stadium beers or about Subway sandwiches. Although from personal experience, I know that this is happening with groceries as well. Inflation and the war across the border was a great excuse to hike the price of some goods. This doesn't seem just to me, given the wage disparity between say Ireland and Poland. But hey, you gotta get that YoY 20% growth somehow. Poland being the poster child of "look what capitalism does".

So when we take the example of buying groceries to stay alive, what alternative do you have to the large stores that are obviously fucking you over? I can afford to pay those inflated prices, I just don't want to affirm the effectiveness of the "let's hike the prices of everything because we have the excuse to" master plan.

Here are some loose (privileged), perhaps not particularly good ideas that I've had:

1. Buy food from the inflation basket The Polish (and others probably too) statistical institution keeps a "secret" basket of items based on which the inflation is calculated. It's clear that at least some of those items are known to the stores, because they always cost less, to artificially keep the inflation down. This could work, as long as the stores don't drop the ball on the quality.

2. Buy local? The thing is that while a supermarket chain has a team of people trying to get people to buy more stuff, the humble farmer selling stuff on the local vegetable market does not.

The same goes for clothes, as I could get bring my own materials and get some made by a local tailor, rather than buying off-the-rack chinesium from Zara. And look a little more old school wearing it. Though a tailor is a different level of service.

My local fancy soap shop is several times more expensive than just buying generic tallow bar soap. Sure it's made by local workers within my city, but that's part of the value, hence the price hike.