Interesting, I had no idea about Falcon until now.

What’s wrong with https://lmstudio.ai or https://jan.ai for offline, private, FOSS use?

Plus, one could start for free; it doesn’t need to be yourusername [dot] com!

Hmm, now that makes me wonder if there’s such a thing as a FOSS web host—as open as one could be, anyway…

information in a way I’m uncomfortable with.

Huh, what’s that? Maybe I did this so long ago that I don’t remember before I started getting big into privacy.

Interesting, didn’t know that. Ironically, I’ve unintentionally followed this definition anyway because I think open-source is so incredible that I always describe FOSS as specifically FOSS, not “just” freeware.

In fact, I’ve pivoted so strongly to FOSS as of late that I haven’t even said the word “freeware” in… years… dang…

Hmm, I wonder if Betterbird has solved that problem… I’ve actually only ever used webmail as I didn’t understand the benefit of a desktop platform—until these (increasingly) privacy-invasive times!

Fascinating, thanks. This is like the ad-focused counterpart to that one AI image generation-harming tool, Nightshade.

no mercy for surveillance capitalists!

There, all fixed now.

Right, so I’m wondering what client that is.

Thunderbird/Betterbird?

Huh, then I wonder if I may need to go older. Ironic. Well, I’m just using Bluetooth for now lol… I know, not the best…

I could not get that thing to transfer files… but I also see it’s had multiple updates this month, so maybe it’s resolved my issues…

Hmm. Thanks, though I’m seeking universal /offline so if I get URLs in other platforms, I won’t have to turn to the browser to purge them of junk. Or maybe this could be converted into a standalone program…

It rarely ever does anything in my experience.

Anyway, I built a URL-cleaning script in AutoHotkey, but that’s Windows-only; I, too, am on the hunt for a Linux equivalent. Maybe this could be done in SikuliX or Espanso, via a Python script, but I suck at Python so far.

Weird, I had no idea that there was such a sharp restriction on the Linux platform! Well, what about using scrcpy to access your phone on the computer?

Due to their security focus only very few messages can load from your phone

Source? I’ve never heard of nor experienced this. In my experience as a longtime Signal user, it’s Signal Desktop that sometimes misses messages while phones never do (unless you botch a transfer).

Who are you with now?

Ha, you wouldn’t want that attempt; with my programming skills, I’d only mess up the game!

macOS blocks tools like Espanso from viewing or modifying login input fields.

I wonder if SikuliX may be of interest to you, then. I just invoke KeePassXC’s built-in autotyper; it’s not too much more painful for me. Anyway, thanks for sharing! We certainly use it for very different things. Here’s a Reddit search URL generation script that I use sporadically:

  - trigger: '`rs'
    replace: '{{output}}'
    vars:
      - name: form
        type: form
        params:
          layout: |
            [[subdomain]]
            Subreddit (optional): [[subreddit]]
            Query:
            [[query]]
          fields:
            subdomain:
              type: choice
              values:
                - www
                - old
              default: old
      - name: output
        type: script
        params:
          args:
            - python
            - -c
            - |
              if '{{form.subreddit}}':
                print(f'https://{{form.subdomain}}.reddit.com/r/{{form.subreddit}}/search?q={{form.query}}&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on')
              else:
                print(f'https://{{form.subdomain}}.reddit.com/search?q={{form.query}}&include_over_18=on')

I wanna make a Lemmy equivalent of this, eventually…

Update: Okay, just did for my instance!

  - trigger: "`lemmy"
    propagate_case: true
    replace: "https://programming.dev/search?q={{lemmy.query}}&type={{lemmy.search}}&listingType=All&page=1&sort={{lemmy.timeframe}}"
    vars:
      - name: "lemmy"
        type: form
        params:
          layout: |
            Query: [[query]]
            Filter: [[search]]Time Frame: [[timeframe]]
          fields:
            query:
            search:
              type: list
              values:
                - All
                - Comments
                - Communities
                - Posts
                - Users
                - URL
              default: All
            timeframe:
              type: list
              values:
                - TopWeek
                - TopMonth
                - TopThreeMonths
                - TopSixMonths
                - TopNineMonths
                - TopYear
                - TopAll
              default: TopAll

Interesting. I wish Hangman would tell you what your missed word at the end was, though.