I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as qaz@lemmy.ml until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I’m interested in Linux, FOSS, and several other subjects.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • qaz@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPaid SSL vs Letsencrypt
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    5 days ago

    Numeric .xyz domains only cost $1 a year. They’re not great for things like mail because they’re often used by spammers (probably because of the price), but it’s great for cheap signed DNS hostnames.

    I point it to the server on my local network and use Wireguard to connect myself.







  • New Firefox forks are quite interesting. I’ve tried it, these are my impressions so far:

    • The UI looks a little bit too much like a generic electron app to me, there is no option for native GTK or QT theming.
    • It seems they ship version that use the newer CPU instructions to optimize the application, I’m not sure standard Firefox does. This is neat. It does feel a bit faster but I’m unsure whether this is because of optimizations or because I have 100x as many tabs open on vanilla Firefox right now.
    • The vertical tabs are very nice. I currently use the “Tree Style Tab” extension and some hacky CSS scripts for that, and this seems like it would work a lot better.
    • The shortcuts are off by default, which is nice, but still seem to be the same as Firefox.
    • It feels a bit buggy. I had to restart the application to be able to load a site.
    • They kept Firefox sync, which I like.
    • You can choose between dark and light mode on the first startup, but I haven’t been able to find the setting again.

    Conclusion Overall, a decent Firefox rebrand. Better tab management, split windows, and workspaces seem quite nice. I would probably consider using it if it put the settings in 1 place and didn’t have any bugs.










  • Lemmy.world has kept open signups open during every large Reddit exodus while many others didn’t. It’s also decently reliable, has decent moderation and is well known. The reason why people didn’t move after is probably because instance migration on Lemmy isn’t possible* so they just stick with what they use.

    *Yes I don’t consider exporting/importing followed communities a migration