Huh? Is this relevant, or some kind of bot spam?

So far, this isn’t much of anything.

Telegram already closes public channels reported for copyright violations.

Some excerpts from this post:

Compared to other platforms, we do not see the seriousness of Telegram to cooperate.

. . .

In May 2023, progress appeared to be going in the wrong direction. Telegram was reportedly refusing to cooperate with the Ministry of Communications and Digital on the basis it did not wish to participate in any form of politically-related censorship.

. . .

With no obviously public comment from Telegram on the matter, it’s hard to say how the social platform views its end of what appears to be an informal agreement.

Telegram will be acutely aware, however, that whatever it gives, others will demand too. That may ultimately limit Telegram’s response, whatever it may be, whenever it arrives – if it even arrives at all.

In 2020 I paid a one time fee for a lifetime of Pro. Is that definitely not still an option?

Find the wiki page for “hard mode.”

I made my account with them early on. I signed up to subscription content to eventually get around to reading, using that address. I signed up for other services, using that address, where access to that address was my only recovery option. I joined IRL community interest groups with that address.

Then I spent a long time without checking it, and they deactivated the account and I’ve lost all data and messages sent there.

And lost my discord account, too. Even though I have the correct discord credentials, discord decided to lock me out unless I can confirm I still have that tuta email address.

I’m using the Firefox addon Redirector, and one of my rules there redirects community links using regex. I keep adding to the pattern as I encounter more instances. Currently it’s:

Pattern: https://(lemdro\.id|lemmy\.run|beehaw\.org|lemmy\.ml|sh\.itjust\.works|lemmy\.fmhy\.ml|lemmy\.dbzer0\.com|lemmy\.world|sopuli\.xyz|lemmy\.kde\.social|lemmygrad\.ml|mander\.xyz|lemmy\.ca|zerobytes\.monster)/c/(.*)

Redirect to: https://programming.dev/c/$2@$1

https://nestedtext.org/

It’s like yaml but simple, consistent, untyped, and you never need to escape any characters, ever.

Types and validation aren’t going to be great unless they’re in the actual code anyway.

https://archive.is/3wE0g

Create a ~/.netrc file with content like this:

machine dropout login YOUREMAIL password YOURPASSWORD

yt-dlp can use this:

yt-dlp --referer 'https://www.dropout.tv/' -nf 'http-540p' VIDEO_URL

That “http-540p” and alternatives can be listed:

yt-dlp --referer 'https://www.dropout.tv/' -n --list-formats VIDEO_URL 

Some of my favorites:

• Launcher: Niagara
• Rom: LineageOS
• Browser: Firefox (with DarkReader and uBlock Origin)
• Reddit: Relay (is this ending?)
• HackerNews: Harmonic
• Lemmy: Jerboa (haven’t tried alternatives)
• Podcasts: AntennaPod (haven’t tried much else)
• Identify stuff: LeafSnap (plants), SoundHound, Merlin (birds!)
• Books: Moon+ Reader Pro
• Barcodes: Catima
• Computer stuff: KDE Connect
• File stuff: Material Files and ZArchiver
• TTS: @Voice Aloud Reader
• Passwords: Bitwarden
• Icons: Crayon or Viral
• Keyboards: MS SwiftKey, maybe someday FlorisBoard, sometimes Hacker’s Keyboard
• Scrobbles: Simple Scrobbler
• Video: VLC and NewPipe
• Weather: Weawow

EDITS:

• Lemmy: Liftoff
• Chat: Telegram
• Email: Delta Chat?