There seems to be mixed reactions to this suggestion. I don’t know enough to understand why.

Enjoy your Friday

Nice article.

why bother? Why I self host

Most of this article is not purely about that question, but I dislike clickbait, so I’ll actually answer the question from the title: Two reasons.

First of all, I like to be independent - or at least, as much as I can. Same reason we have backup power, why I know how to bake bread, preserve food, and generally LARP as a grandmother desperate to feed her 12 grandchildren until they are no longer capable of self propelled movement. It makes me reasonably independent of whatever evil scheme your local $MEGA_CORP is up to these days (hint: it’s probably a subscription).

It’s basically the Linux and Firefox argument - competition is good, and freedom is too.

If that’s too abstract for you, and what this article is really about, is the fact that it teaches you a lot and that is a truth I hold to be self-evident: Learning things is good & useful.

Turns out, forcing yourself to either do something you don’t do every day, or to get better at something you do occasionally, or to simply learn something that sounds fun makes you better at it. Wild concept, I know.

Contents

Introduction
My Services
Why I self host
Reasoning about complex systems
Things that broke in the last 6 months
Things I learned (or recalled) in the last 6 months

• You can self host VS Code
• UPS batteries die silently and quicker than you think
• Redundant DNS is good DNS
• Raspberry PIs run ARN, Proxmox does not
• zfs + Proxmox eat memmory and will OOM kill your VMS
• The mystery of random crashes (Is it hardware? It’s always hardware.)
• SNMP(v3) is still cool
• Don’t trust your VPS vendor
• Gotta go fast
• CIFS is still not fast
• Blob storage, blob fish, and file systems: It’s all “meh”
• CrowdSec

Conclusion

What self-hosted services did you set up passkeys on? How did setting it up go?

Is there a passkey setup that’s easy to self host? I think passkeys with a backup would be best.

I’m expecting that everything that the statistical models reveal or make convincing results about which benefit the owners of the models will be exploited. Anything that threatens power or the model owners will be largely ignored and dismissed.

The few laws that govern this type of activity will be strictly adhered to, right?

You should be aware that this is classified and marketed as a microcontroller, so it’s just a bootloader to some code with no OS or a RTOS.

Something like the RPi Zero is a SBC that’s relatively close in size.

The two rooms linked above are mirrored, so you can use either XMPP or Matrix, from any client you prefer, on pretty much any platform under the sun!

There’s no XMPP link in the README above the quoted statement.

Awesome! Best of luck to the new team!

Mp3 is a proprietary format on copyright. Some idiot ceo can came and change the rules, let’s add an ads mandatory for each decoder.

This is not true. Copyright is not relevant to an encoding standard. The standard has been unchanged for 26 years and all legal claims of patent rights related to implimentations of the standard have expired before May 2017.

@swooosh@lemmy.world you should probably know about this as well.

I’m very confused about what your requirements are based on reading your post and some of your responses to comments, but I’m going to suggest that you look into Quarto

Oh. I was thinking opensource and the organizations above that pay for Discourse to host for them a are non-profit. I don’t know why I read the post body and forgot about the title.

I guess programming.dev sorta fits except the UI is different. Maybe someone can create a frontend that mimics the Stack Overflow UI.

There are many Discourse forums for various programming related tools, services, and programming languages. I’ve shared 3 examples below.

https://discuss.python.org/

https://discourse.julialang.org/

https://discourse.jupyter.org/

You can use this as an opportunity to have a conversation about what it is about those movies that she likes. This could open up to a larger conversation where you can connect and grow your relationship as mother and child. Or she might just say something vague and simple and you can ignore the movies while they sit in a separate library.

I try to be positive here on programming.dev but someone gave you an incredibly thoughtful reply and you returned the favor with absolute disrespect. I think the only positive outcome here would be for me to simply block you and encourage others to do the same.

No.

The current incarnation of OpenOrb works well enough for two day’s worth of code, but I’ve got some future plans for it already

I’m going to throw this out there not being sure how true it is, but I find it interesting to think about.

XMPP is much more widely used than Matrix if you count WhatsApp (Meta/Facebook). ActivityPub is much more widely used than AT Protocol and nostr combined if you count Threads (Meta/Facebook). So reasons why people aren’t talking about XMPP include not wanting to recognize that Meta is hugely influential in this space and that most people don’t talk about the underlying protocols of the services and tools they’re use at all leaving a self selected group of people looking for alternatives with traction that don’t depend on Meta. Outside of WhatsApp, there’s not a lot of traction with any particular XMPP implementation. And none of the XMPP implementations have a Discord-ish organization of chat rooms that’s popular and familiar right now. Matrix has both right now (although I don’t think it will ever be more than a small niche in the mobile messaging space).

I’m fine with using Matrix for what it is. There are programming language communities that have been very helpful for me and a number of Lemmy related communities that have been nice to be a part of.

The obvious answer is to subtract 1 before applying the scaling factor.

It sounds like you’re describing a normal mentoring relationship.

Get started, make mistakes so you can learn. The best stack is the one you use to build things with. If you want to learn a new tool, use it. Otherwise, use what you’re familiar with.

Sign in with Google/Facebook/etc. bypasses the problem that ActivityPub isn’t all that popular (this may change with Threads but it’s unclear how that will play out). But I also think you’re overstating the hesitation most people have in creating an account for a service. Also, being a hobby project, it doesn’t necessarily need to be or desired to be popular right away. It doesn’t need to have all the features right away. It doesn’t have to be built in one try or architected perfectly.

Building a house (or any construction project) is notoriously impossible to be on schedule and on budget too.

Everything is one line of code in a turing machine.

Knowing nothing else about you or the new job offer, it makes sense to take the offer. But I’d rather know more than the information you’ve presented. The good news is that you do know more and can better determine if there are mitigating circumstances that make turning down the offer make more sense.

The claims and conclusions of this article are merely asserted rather than suported with evidence. (This is true of most of the articles I’ve seen claiming the opposite as well.)

Gitea wasn’t bought, the people running the project held the trademarks and decided to move the trademarks to a new for-profit entity they created in order to provide git related services for some fee structure that isn’t clear to me. Largely it’s CI/CD service that they are looking to sell.

Just say and lable it as your public git repo.

ex: “Here’s my public git repo.”

I don’t know if one is better than the other, but knowing that certain libraries are incompatible based on this bifurcation is a good thing to remember.

Whatever you’re not familiar in the digital textbook OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful

There’s a whole chapter on modules

There’s also a section on Monads

You should also know that there is a schism in OCaml ecosystem created by the libraries developed by Jane Street and the those developed by INRIA.

When you install a fresh OS and it asks you about keyboard layout, how do you get it usable for this sort of keyboard?

Does Linkwarden fit your intended use?

Hetzner Server auction worth it?

Podman supports Docker images and makes things easier for users in doing so.

It cuts both ways. Less commercial interest means only hobby level development (which can be high quality, but is typically slow and unpolished for users).

So you can spend your energy on making up the gap between the ease of use of the commercially supported software and the pure volunteer projects or you can have free time for things you’re more interested in and jump ship when they squeeze too hard for cash.

What makes it make sense in a work environment?

Even desktop is more resource heavy than it should be. But yes, mobile is much worse.

Perhaps they could create a community on programming.dev

Element is the thing that’s subpar (to be generous) compared to other chat apps. Element X is better for the features that have been implemented, but the current feature set is very incomplete.

Of course it isn’t seamless, but I have seen good and bad implementations.