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Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads
- esskay 3y agoUseful but slightly odd to have a call for donations along with zero ability to see who runs it, how to contact them, etc.
- raspyberr 3y agoPretty sure that this is a project by Luke Smith but it really is a useful resource despite any meme imagery/political leanings.
- chrishannah 3y agoIt's by Luke Smith. https://lukesmith.xyz https://lukesmith.xyz
- unnouinceput 3y agoYou mean having privacy? I thought HN crowd is all about privacy. Also donation, as in opposite of having a gun to your head to part you with your money.
- esskay 3y agoYeah no I wasn't talking about privacy. I was talking about "Hey please donate, you cant contact me for any other reason, nor will I tell you if this is run by a developer who wants to help people out or if its a springboard to an unrelated commercial product that you will be funding." It's not exactly a bizarre concept to want to know who you're donating money to.
- unnouinceput 3y agoThen don't donate. Again, no gun at your head.
- _lvbh 3y agoDoes it matter who runs it if it’s useful?
- mathgeek 3y agoFor the person you replied to, it apparently does, or they wouldn’t have asked. There is no objectively correct answer to your question. Perhaps you meant “should”?
- brapachin 3y agoThis looks like an awesome resource and site. I’d love to become a landchad. But my main concern is setting up (and relying upon) and email server which is flagged as spam or even unreceived by outlook, gmail servers etc. Is this still a valid concern? Are there ways around this to setup a server and get into gmail and Microsoft’s emails good books? I’d love to become non-reliant on gmail. If anyone could provide their knowledge on this would be awesome
- bombcar 3y agoYou can start by having your email server “hide” behind gmail or friends.
- nstj 3y agoI’d be interested to hear a specific expansion on this point (“hide” how? etc). I think the gp raises some valid concerns.
- beardyw 3y agoHave your Gmail account pull emails from your in box, have Gmail send as if from your email address.
- bombcar 3y agoExactly this - in "Exchange" terms they called it something like "smart host" if I remember. But basically you use a major provider to do the final "connect to the internet at large" but everything is on your machine and you could change your outbound routing at anytime.
- nstj 3y agoSuch an obvious solution when you point it out that way. Thank you!
- unnouinceput 3y ago[flagged]
- thih9 3y agoDictionary.com's slang dictionary says[1]: > Chad is a usually disparaging internet slang term used for a popular, confident, sexually active young white male. Its female counterpart is Stacy, who is often portrayed as Chad‘s sexual partner. Use of Chad is associated with the incel community and the website 4chan to refer stereotypical alpha males. [1]: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/chad/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/chad/
- otabdeveloper4 3y ago> the incel community
- xondono 3y agoWether you like the origin or not (I don’t particularly care), I think it’s fair to argue “Chad” is pretty much common parlance on the internet at this point.
- mikrl 3y ago‘Chad’ is common across the whole cyberculture and I’ve seen it used by many of my IRL friends: male, female, cis, trans, left, right and none of whom hate women or are incels. It was popularized in the 2010s by ironic image macros like “the virgin ‘walk’ vs the chad ‘stride’ “
- thih9 3y agoThanks for the context; I wasn't very familiar with that expression or with its current usage, hence my surprise.
- xg15 3y agoI like the idea of the site, but yeah, the entire vibe around it throws me off - 4chan vocabulary (peasant/chad), call for donations in an obscure cryptocurrency, fully anonymous. Maybe I'm doing the site injustice, but it smells like being run by some 4chan/ancap/"don't tread on me" bro.
- user_named 3y agoIt's funny
- raspyberr 3y agoBut what about the technical content? Why are you so quick to jump to identities. And donations are the best way to give money - nothing is locked away and you get to choose. This style of site/information should be celebrated.
- Invictus0 3y ago[flagged]
- raspyberr 3y agoI appreciate the irony.
- xg15 3y agoI was mostly thrown off by the word "landchad", because "chad" does have a lot of bad connotations - at best it's childish, at worst it's associated with incels. The technical content looks great and yeah, I can applaud the person's cause. It's just that I don't think the challenges of running your own server were ever just technical - if people have a motivation to do something, they'll learn much more complex stuff. The thing is that there isn't a lot of motivation for ordinary people to setup (and maintain!) their own server if some cloud megacorp archieves the same. So I think, you also have to explain why you should want to run your own server as a non-nerd - and I think starting with 4chan might archive the opposite here.
- mezobeli 3y agoOh, great!
- m0rissette 3y agoI don’t think the web peasants will ever learn as much as you would growing up with and building servers at home. I wish you could still do stage 1 installs and things still didn’t work so nicely. That’s how I got my chops; you want a multi monitor setup on Linux better RTFM for X and figure out how to manually configure it and deal with the configuration randomly breaking until you chattr it. Learning I feel was easier when things weren’t as good as they are now. You get less time just troubleshooting in general which I think is really what I do, at the end of the day I describe what I do as “I solve problems”. Random rant for nostalgia over.
- marmaduke 3y agoWeb peasants will just have/find/create a different set of problems to solve, no?
- m0rissette 3y agoThat requires motivation to find vs forced to figure out.
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoIf learning to read or write was like that, sometimes the book is blank, or in a foreign language or the pencil sometimes makes a mark and sometimes does not. I agree partly - but mostly it's ok to learn like that when someone else is paying for your time (parents, employer whatever).
- meatjuice 3y agoThe method introduced here depends on third-party VPS, which is operated by person other than you. Hence it doesn't make you a complete "landlord".
- Waterluvian 3y agoIf you wish to make a website from scratch, you must first invent the Internet.
- prhrb 3y agoSelf-hosting guide is also there, slightly below in the page https://landchad.net/selfhosting/ https://landchad.net/selfhosting/
- meatjuice 3y agoOh, I didn't notice. Thanks for pointing out.
- shrubble 3y agoInteresting that there are a few tools I hadn't heard of on that page. Going to check out Yarr.
- benj111 3y agoWhy was this flagged???
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoProbably this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37622415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37622415 Stupid reason to flag but there it is.
- colpabar 3y agoIt is really disappointing that a free resource showing you how to run your own stuff on the internet has been flagged. Isn’t this the exact spirit of hacking? And for those complaining about the donation links, this isn’t the app store, it’s the internet.