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OnionPhone is a native Android application for anonymous, end-to-end encrypted push-to-talk voice and text communication over the Tor network. No servers, no accounts, no phone numbers — your .onion address is your identity.

Cross-platform compatible with Terminalphone — call between Android and Linux/Termux using the same protocol.

Optionally use your connection as a relay for ephermeral group channels.

Find the release page for version 1.0.2 which supports custom bridges for accessing censored networks.

By partaking in it.

tor is actually a bit more secure than i2p from my understanding. mostly it has to do with the routing, which is both the strength and weakness of tor.

Do humans also have an afterlife in lotr like elves? For that matter, what about dwarfs, hobbits (non fellowship) …orcs?

What do you think the orcs are? Like, which would be your preferred answer to the question, since there appears to be no singular one according to the youtube clip? Or could they be like a group of all four creation myths? :)

based on the text of The Silmarillion, I’d have to say that, being originally Elves, and Melkor having no power to create spirits or imbue living brings with spirits (not even the other Valar can do this, only Ilúvatar; this is demonstrated when Aulë creates the Dwarves), then the Orcs must still have Elven spirits, and thus go to Mandos when they die. but again, that’s assuming The Silmarillion is authoritative on the matter, which it may not be

Read his name in the credits then look him up in the library.

Though I doubt that would work for this.

Oh baby.

My question is… where did I go so right?

It includes characters like Daxter the Praying Mantis and Kiki the Lunar Moth, among others.

He is creating all the art (and he is damn good) and the dialogue, then his friends will help with the technical stuff.

Sure, it may never see the light of day, but I’m just proud he is doing something this weird.

That’s my boy.

Still my favorite scream of his.

Idk man… a lunar moth? Sounds more like a boo-boo to me

Hello all,

I gave a weird question. I follow many chefs on Facebook and save loads of recipes but they are difficult to find later and even more difficult to organize and use later. How do you deal with this?

I use Gourmand on desktop and Tournat on Android. Most feature rich recipe apps

I’ve been using the recipe add on for nextcloud, it works fine for me. I also have no idea if it works with facebook. It can load a recipe from a URL, but I don’t think facebook lets you look at things without logging in so it probably wouldn’t work.

If only I had friends I would’ve bought two!

It works with the a Scottish accent too!

Talk about scorched earth.

Vote manipulation is getting more common. Some recent examples:

• https://piefed.ca/c/comicstrips/p/527462/new-anti-bot-rules
  
• https://lemmy.ca/post/57235699
  

While the accounts were banned, the malicious voting activity stuck around.

Should admins have the ability to discard votes, and if so, which admins? Should community mods have that ability? Can you think of any ways that tools like this could be abused?

Wouldn’t say running in circles as much as ignoring the issues

if a legit user gets flagged as toxic, there’s no other consequence besides the warning, that doesn’t prevent anything from being seen.

Yet

Any experiences with a self-hosted assistant like the modern Google Assistant? Looking for something LLM-powered that is smarter than older assistants that would just try to call 3rd party tools directly and miss or misunderstand requests half of the time.

I’d like integration with a mobile app to use it from the phone and while driving. I see Home Assistant has an Android Auto integration. Has anyone used this, or another similar option? Any blatant limitations?

Install Ollama on a machine with fast CPU or GPU and enough RAM. I currently use Qwen3 that takes 8GB RAM. Runs on an NVIDIA GPU. Running it on CPU is also fast enough. There’s a 4GB version which is also decent for device control. Add Ollama integration in Home Assistant. Connect it to the Ollama on the other machine. Add Ollama as conversation agent to the Home Assistant’s voice assistant. Expose HA devices to be controllable. That’s about it.

But what’s acting like the little box in your house that listens like an Amazon echo?

I’ve noticed a lot of posts lately that are just spam for slopware, often not even having anything to do with self-hosting. As sad as I am about it, I’m pretty close to unsubscribing to keep spam out of my Lemmy feeds.

Before doing so, though, I wanted to ask if there was any formal policy or rule for the community that could help cut down on thr spam, and if so, what would be most useful for me to do when I see a spam post? That I’d, is the Report button the right tool, is there some other way to let moderators know?

I don’t know that I’d be on board for clamping to zero. You would have to decide if you are going to have a weighted zero (i.e. secret negative tally), and if so, why bother with clamping? If not, why have downvotes?

Scoring just demonstrates popularity. It’s a voluntary poll, and it has no bearing on the quality or validity of someone’s comment. I’ve seen good posts go unnoticed, and I’ve seen bad ones get lots of points. Voluntary polls are almost useless as a metric, and especially for a system like this one where all you have to do is click a button, it’s even less useful than one where you are required to write a statement about why you voted the way you did.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t be allowed to have downvotes as a way to gauge popularity, if that’s a metric they want to use to filter their content, nor do I think they should be forced to experience the Fediverse my way. I am however saying that reporting helps everyone, regardless of whether downvoting is enabled or not (plus it has the added benefit of potentially removing content that doesn’t belong; server space is a premium here, after all). We have options here on the Fediverse, and it’s a small ask to use the reporting feature and not assume there’s a “correct” or “standard” way to experience Lemmy. We can create something better than Reddit.

You’ve just traded down votes for the report button.

I say they are two different use cases. There is often a very wide gulf between a comment that I feel does not contribute to good discussion and one that is so heinous that it needs to be removed. Most of your comments for instance: pretty naive and banal adding little good to the discussion overall, but I don’t feel that you’ve said anything hateful, obscene, or aggressive enough to warrant total removal. Usually I just downvote and move on, especially when I don’t want to hear that person’s bad take reply on my own point of view. I’ve made an exception here for you simply because you are trolling all over this thread, seemingly inviting downvotes. But, I’m going to block you and move on because you’ve killed any interest I have in this thread or the larger discussion. I still don’t think your comments rise to the level of reporting.

Reports and blocks aren’t a replacement for downvotes and if your instances doesn’t federate downvotes you shouldn’t use them that way.

Like where can i start if im not good at cooking? how do i decide what i want to attempt to make aswell? i dont want to spend to much to begin but is there also a low cost way to start by chance?

Im keeping this brief but if you have a question for me leave a comment?

They peel so much easier when you drop them in boiling water, then straight into an ice bath. Nice job! It’s crazy what 1 minute can do to some foods.

As frustrating as it may be, my best recommendation is to borrow basic cookbooks from reputable authors from a public’s library or online library.

Here’s one that we have that has recipes that work:

https://archive.org/details/newcanadianbasic0000ferg

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7643452M/The_New_Canadian_Basics_Cookbook

You will need to build some techniques and learn to measure and to follow recipes to start.

This means learning to decode what recipes are telling you and replicate what they say. It means not making substitutions until you can predict what the outcomes will be.

It also means to be willing to do repetitive and tedious tasks.

In the past, we learned this from family, helping and picking up basic skills.

Now it’s harder. In theory, cooking videos could and should help but when the emphasis of cooking videos is to perform and get views, it’s not so successful as it could be.

Start with some simple recipes with not too many ingredients and not elaborate ones with complex techniques.