Just ordered the PCBs for my second, custom layout split keyboard, the triboard. I’m also working on a service status watcher + page called swec. It will eventually be able to notify you through gotify whenever your services are down, and maybe even redirect clients to the status page. Some other features include custom downtime messages.

Wait… Its actually not bad. Apart from advertising WSL there’s some decent instructions for installing Linux in place of windows. This could be a tutorial not affiliated with Microsoft.

On X11 Linux, install redshift with your package manager. Run it.

Free software tells you “do whatever you want, you’re free” but open source completely misses the point: it means you can read the code, but not necessarily recompile, modify and redistribute. Plus the term was invented for the confusion that would come from it. For example, a lot of AI models like LLM’s claim they are “open-source”, which basically means nothing: it’s far easier to say that than to claim it’s a free model, because that would imply freedoms to modify, reuse, redistribute the training data, weight etc. (no AI model allows that for now, and there will probably never be one that does).

Unattended updates are 10x better because those programs allow you to only do security updates. Plus they are much more stable, and something like this would never happen on a stable distro.

I’m surprised this strategy was approved for a public server

The goal was to avoid getting hacked on a server that could have many vulnerable services (there are more than 20 services on there). When I set this up I was basically freaked out by the fact I hadn’t updated mastodon more than a week after the last critical vulnerability in it was found (arbitrary code execution on the server). The quantity of affected users, compared to the impact it would have if hacked, made me choose the option of auto-updates back then, even if I now agree it wasn’t clever (and I ended up shooting myself I’m the foot). These days I just do updates semi-regularly and I am subscribed to mailing lists like oss-security to know there’s a vulnerability as early as possible. Plus I am not the only person in charge anymore.

That’s what I learned :-)

Edit: no saying that isn’t rude

Yup. gives nickel back

Sorry, I forgot to convert my orgmode formatting to markdown. Fixed it

Here are a few nice ones, I can’t really pick:

“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” - John Maynard Keynes

(You can also apply this one to proprietary software vs. Free software (don’t say open source in my presence))

“The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees.” - Étienne de La Boétie

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” - Rosa Luxemburg

Use a non-chromium browser son that web environment integrity doesn’t work. (Librewolf)

I’m not a distrohopper, but GNU stow is delightfully simple. See my dotfiles as an example.

Here is the list: https://tarneo.fr/links/

I have a big list of random sites I found with wiby and Marginalia search. I’ll try to put it on tarneo.fr soon.

Hey, author here.

delightfuly minimalist

Thanks!

I just want to say that I will soon be trying to make that search engine, and I didn’t forget about it. For now I am finishing my college year and preparing for french exams, but as soon as that’s done I’ll be sure to start actually making it; though I don’t think it will be ready until a few months from now. Then we’ll have to wait for sites to get indexed, and that’s going to last even longer. I’ll also try to host mailman on renn.es and make a few mailing lists for this project, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed to get the announcement(s) ;-)

Great! Exactly what I did too, I’m keeping my account until they make the API changes and will participate in the flood of data deletion requests :-)

You deleted all posts and comments, right?

Right?

I am self hosting matrix synapse, it’s actually much easier than XMPP with SSL certs generated by Caddy. Ejabberd doesn’t play well with them.

EDIT: with docker.

Main computer: Arch (BTW) because I am a WM user (awesomewm) and AL has no bloat to remove. Also because of the AUR.

Servers:

• main server is a gentoo beast. I chose gentoo because systems was actually causing some problems and reporting a “degraded” status. OpenRC is really nice after years of systemd :-)
• second server, used for backups: NixOS, for no particular reason. I might install Debian 12 on it one day.

I wasn’t born back then, but it would have been the fact that search results weren’t total crap like today: only reddit seems to offer decent results if you don’t want sites like wikihow to come up… I wrote a more elaborate blogpost partly about it.