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WT please fire your marketing people. I've received "specials" emails every day since the I made one purchase. Nobody needs that many floor mats. Trying to unsub, the page loads with so many trackers and other crap that it crashes because of my ad-blocker and DNS filter.

I was able to make it work in Librewolf but this is the kind of thing that drives away customers.

Have you ever left the Lemmyverse (or I guess r*****) for more than a few days and if so, why did you quit, how did it go and what brought you back?

It had to happen someday. I hope we can weather this and come back stronger in a few years.

EdIt: fixed a typo in the title

Portraitist Sarah Boardman, whose painting hung in the state Capitol for six years, says her business has been harmed by the president’s comments

I know this is happening because of a combo of my browser (librewolf) and my extensions (uBlock and Privacy Badger), but really it's because most larger concert halls in the USA and the ticket service they use online are owned by the most evil fucking corporation and I am fucking sick of it. I was going to buy tix for a local punk band's show but now my choices are:

• I have to drive 30 minutes to buy tix in person, Monday-Friday
• or sell my soul to these assholes

Just venting, no suggestions needed.

Immigration minister Marjolein Faber is planning to make a formal police complaint about a poster carried at last weekend’s anti-racism demonstration featuring a photograph of herself with a drawn-on Hitler moustache.

Just taking a minute to share this podcast with y'all. I know it's already in the sidebar here, but thought Alex & Chris deserve a shout out for their great show.

They talk about the week's news and their own experiences hosting at home. Listening to them talk tech makes me more confident about my hosting.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59033817

Reminder: Images good, words bad

I've searched around and can't find this but it seems like someone must have created this already. I am hoping to find a self-hosted image resizer app. I frequently need to take photos from my phone (etc...) and make them small enough to post online.

For instance, my lemmy instance (lemm.ee) only allows images in posts if they are smaller than 500KB but my phone's photos are always larger than that.

In a perfect world, I could just browse to a local server app, upload an image, select a size to resize it to, hit Go and then download the smaller image. It doesn't have to allow any other editing and it shouldn't store images long-term. I want to self-host so I don't have to upload my images to random web sites I know nothing about.

I would be happy with a FOSS desktop app I can install in linux too, but then I couldn't access it from my phone. The Android apps I found for this either look scammy or include tons of ads.

Anyone know of such a thing? Thanks!

EDIT - UPDATE:

Thank you for the great suggestions. I've installed Image Toolbox on my Android phone and that looks great. It both has a ton of tools but also makes this resizing task very straightforward. Not sure how I never found that before.

But for my desktop, I started writing a PHP app to run in my existing nginx web server. It runs the suggested ffmpeg command under the hood, and since I am the only user on this server, this works very well for me.

That's working now so I am going to tweak a few things and then use it for a while. (Before anyone asks, I started based on the Python recs here, but couldn't get it working (PIP couldn't add Flask because PIP couldn't find PIP???) and so switched to PHP since my local server was already using that from another home-made app. This (PHP) was not as hard as I was afraid it would be, with help from Duck Duck Go's AI chat bot.

collapsed inline media

I used my php app to shrink this file!

Thank y'all - this is resolved now.

A growing trend to dictate what journalists write, from the White House to the Washington Post and University of Colorado, poses an existential threat to our democracy

Spot on, imo