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ptman,

nobsgames.stavros.io

ptman,
ptman,

I can only approve of people paying for services they use. It isn’t free to run. But there are several things to consider:

  • $1/year is very low, transaction fees for accepting that amount of money are high
  • It’s a low price for successful bots
  • Doesn’t remove ads (take money from subscribers or advertisers, not both, also print media)
  • Doesn’t give you better control over your experience. The paying customer should be the one being listened to
  • This is Elon Musk’s twitter we’re talking about, how long until he changes his mind again?

Another surge on mastodon? Countries, cities, public organisations should put up their own mastodon like EU, BBC and Germany have.

ptman,

I would also welcome decent micropayments (maybe digieuro?), so that you wouldn’t need to subscribe, but could pay 0.045€ for something without it being unfeasible because of fixed transaction costs.

ptman,

Linux is quite lightweight. Pick a distro that doesn’t run a lot of stuff by default. OpenBSD only runs sshd exposed to the network, AFAIR. Debian probably does the same. But really, the lightness comes from what isn’t running. NixOS, fedora, rocky, alpine are all decent alternatives.

ptman,

Make a spreadsheet of where your money is going.

paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

Or then you can just realize that the time you spend is spent not making money and you need to save time, not services.

ptman,
  • Flatness. UI controls need to be recognizable.
  • Theming/styling. A button should look like button.
  • Lack of menus. Discoverability is poor if you don’t have a list of things in an obvious place.
  • Gestures. Lack of discoverability.
  • Information density. I don’t care about huge margins and filler pictures. Content shouldn’t be crammed, but space should be used efficiently.
  • Mobile first. Especially if mobile use is only a fraction of actual use. Or maybe even if it is the majority of users, but not majority of use (operations, hours).
  • Simplicity. Make simple things simple, but hard things possible. Removing features can make your software useless.
ptman,

zram or a cloud instance with more ram paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

ptman,

Sweden is a monarchy, they have a king, not a president. But in this case it seems to be the prime minister

ptman,

Paper bags are worse, except maybe for microplastics. But they take more resources to create, and aren’t as recyclable as good plastic bags. You can use a canvas bag, but that takes even more resources to create. So you have to use the same canvas bag for years

ptman,

Riot games forced them to change the name.

ptman,

joinmatrix.org/guide/matrix-vs-discord/

ptman,

ISC license is free software according to gnu www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ISC

Is there no way to index discord chats? Is Matrix a viable discord alternative?

I was going through this wonderful thread lemmy.ml/post/4540882 and found many of you talking about discord as it’s a crime against knowledge for not allowing indexing on it. I think we are talking about indexing by search engines like DDG and Google here and I know that discord questions don’t show up in search results and...

ptman,
  1. Matrix is viable. There are view.matrix.org and soon archive.matrix.org for indexing by crawlers
  2. servers.joinmatrix.org isn’t quite the same as discord.com/servers. Joinmatrix lists matrix home servers, like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, … for email. But once you have an account on a home server, you can use the “explore” feature to browse rooms known to that server (or another that has public room directory). There is not central place to list all, since there is not single central matrix server. Same with lemmy. You need to use lemmyverse.net/communities
ptman,

cryptpad.fr

ptman,

Gandi is no longer a good choice

ptman,

Got bought

ptman,

Only posts? I like tags in slashdot/slashcode for moderation.

ptman,

cryptpad si quite good

ptman,

Thanks to sliding sync this is very snappy compared to old element.

Element X is built on the rust SDK which should support multiple accounts. github.com/vector-im/element-meta/…/1832

ptman,

what about an actually free alternative, like matrix + element?

ptman,

I see. I’m an old fart and couldn’t care less about gifs. But I do care about stuff being open instead of someone suddenly telling me the conditions have changed.

ptman,

cryptpad.fr is a decent alternative

ptman,

not open source, but source available

ptman,

Cryptpad is a decent google workspace alternative. Nextcloud is a popular one, but I’ve always had some problems with it.

ptman,

There are different kinds of documentation diataxis.fr

ptman,

I’ve read some old DOS manual. And several Linux books back from the days when Linux came on CDs alongside books.

ptman,

HP Microserver + openmediavault or similar.

ptman,

Put a superlinear tax on car size / weight. Big cars must be much more expensive than small ones. slate.com/…/electric-cars-hummer-ev-tax-fees-weig…

ptman,

Minimum, but it still doesn’t get below 23C in the winter

NASA moves a step closer to supersonic passenger flights (www.cnn.com)

In July, Lockheed Martin completed the build of NASA’s X-59 test aircraft, which is designed to turn sonic booms into mere thumps, in the hope of making overland supersonic flight a possibility. Ground tests and a first test flight are planned for later in the year. NASA aims to have enough data to hand over to US regulators...

ptman,

The problem is that those emissions cause more warming at that altitude. So fly just above treetops, please. oncarbon.app/articles/non-co2-effects-aviation you need to at least triple it

ptman,

=D

ptman,

Yeah, forgot the interrobang. But really, air travel is a problem. It needs to be minimized. Not increased. Especially not increased in amount of greenhouse gas emissions per distance flown per person

ptman,

Everyone has a (changing) tattoo on their forehead telling how many deaths are caused by their overconsumption of the planet’s resources.

All environmental externalities are included in all prices. Also currency is manipulated to prevent overconsuming the planet’s resources

ptman,
ptman,

Depends on your usecase

ptman,

I’m waiting for hetzner object storage (they were hiring some people for this a couple of months ago)

What are the current alternatives?

  • Idrive e2 $4/TB/month
  • Backblaze B2 6$/TB/month
  • Wasabi $7/TB/month
  • Cloudflare R2 $15/TB/month
  • AWS S3 $21/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
  • GCP $20/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
  • Oracle $25/TB/month
  • Azure $18.4/TB/month
  • DigitalOcean / Linode / Vultr ~ $20/TB/month
ptman,

Here are some:

ptman,

I really don’t care about them being in rust. Could we instead focus on something that rust aims to provide? Memory-bug-less? High quality? Performant? Dependency-free binary?

But my:

  • ripgrep
  • bupstash
  • helix
ptman,

It’s very convenient. Can be hosted yourself as well: github.com/beeper/self-host . I only use it for non-critical comms. The critical ones I keep on my own matrix server + bridges

ptman,

gitjournal.io

ptman,

Prevent password auth and setup sshguard. Wireguard is very nice in that it doesn’t support password auth.

ptman,

“Eldest, that’s what I am… Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn… He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.”

tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tom_Bombadil

ptman,

I welcome an European alternative to Visa/Mastercard/Amex. I think it could have some at-cost fees, especially to make shops that benefit from the system pay for it instead of all taxpayers. I hope it will respect privacy, and not just at first and then start on a slippery slope. Maybe this would then allow shopkeepers to price the different payment options. I think there is legislation now that price cannot depend on payment method.

ptman,

syntax error (the colon after print)

ptman,

nagios (and check_mk) are plain old tech. Newer ones have been built with lessons learned. zabbix I don’t like because configuration is in a database. prometheus is nice because it’s performant and configuration is in a file (which can be version controlled in git and deployed with e.g. ansible). Data in database, config in plain text files.

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