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by Kovah 3y ago
Do you have, by any chance, an invitation for Lobste.rs?
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by Kovah 3y ago
I think the main reason why this is not done actively in Germany, is missing people with expertise. Lots of old guys from the pre-internet era taking care of the technical systems. Unfortunately, the gov is not doing much to make at least o
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Ask HN: Self-hosted plant management like Planta?
1 points by Kovah 4y ago|0 comments
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by Kovah 4y ago
Looking into the dev tools also reveals that the page tries to load Google Analytics without consent. Not cool.
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Show HN: Versionfeeds – Custom RSS feeds for releases of your favorite software(versionfeeds.com)
1 points by Kovah 4y ago|1 comments
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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence (2015)(waitbutwhy.com)
1 points by Kovah 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Versionfeeds – Custom RSS feeds for releases of your favorite software
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by Kovah 4y ago
Thank you both for the suggestions! If Takahe or Akkoma don't require that many resources Mastodon needs it may be more feasible to host an own instance.
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Ask HN: Mastodon instance for businesses, orgs and side projects?
4 points by Kovah 4y ago|3 comments
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Project Is (Still) Abandoned(github.com)
4 points by Kovah 4y ago|0 comments
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by Kovah 4y ago
Given what happened to humanity in the past decades, I think this is completely shatter trust in everybody and everything. Once the first large news outlet mistakes a deepfake video for a real one and drops a big headline on it, it's o
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by Kovah 4y ago
Linus Tech Tips actually made a video about a fan that looks just like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY-gA_zA_os
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Ask HN: How do you backup your production databases?
6 points by Kovah 4y ago|5 comments
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by Kovah 4y ago
That's absolutely a valid point. However, if Github would have set something like this as a default, there would be a lot of people who would complain about it being too opinionated. Being open first with many options to customize and
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by Kovah 4y ago
Github isn't really the issue here, because it offers the tools to make this differentiation. Maintainers just have to use it. At Github, you can use issue templates that have a set of pre-defined questions and add labels to the create
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LinkAce – FOSS, self-hosted bookmarks tool, alternative to Pinboard, Raindrop(github.com)
4 points by Kovah 4y ago|0 comments
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by Kovah 4y ago
Oh they do copy this information! I became victim of such a fraud because the whole website looked really legitimate to me, and I am the "tech guy" in our family. Thing is: fraudsters create good looking websites and just copy all
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by Kovah 4y ago
Thanks for your reply. Do you have a suggestion for a tool that combines multiple feeds into one?
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Ask HN: A website that offers RSS feeds for software releases?
8 points by Kovah 4y ago|4 comments
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by Kovah 4y ago
Here you go: - https://cloudhiker.net/ - https://jumpstick.app/ - https://theuselessweb.com/ - https://www.viralwalk.com/ - https://www.boredbutton.com/ -
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by Kovah 4y ago
> And why is having a data center in Germany a selling point for some of these email providers? The EU, and Germany especially, have strong privacy regulations and laws to protect their citizens. Having a datacenter in the EU does not me
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StumbleUpon peaked 10 years ago – so why are we still nostalgic for it?(intheknow.com)
3 points by Kovah 4y ago|0 comments
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by Kovah 4y ago
If you would like to keep all your data private, self hosting is a good option. - LinkAce ( https://www.linkace.org ) - Linkding ( https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding ) - Wallabag ( https://githu
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by Kovah 4y ago
I think the issue with Gitlab resource usage isn't the application itself, but the sheer complexity of Gitlab and the amount of services needed to run the whole thing. It even starts Prometheus and Grafana and stuff like that. https:&
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by Kovah 4y ago
Like counts, be it likes alone or Reddit-style with downvotes, is the wrong mechanic for community-generated content, as it incentivises posting something "for a quick like". As explained in my other reply, Slashdot has a really h
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by Kovah 4y ago
Why is it necessary to measure quality? Slashdot is around for like decades, a real internet antiquity, and made it without any likes or view counts. Posts that generate a lot of comments are ranked higher, as one can assume it generates mo
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by Kovah 4y ago
IP and User Agent, for example. Goaccess[1], a tool to generate statistics from webserver logs, is capable of calculating unique users. Calculating unique views entirely on your own server without any of that data leaving it, is way more pr
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by Kovah 4y ago
I have left Dev.to long ago after being one of the early adopters. The quality of articles is going down every time I visit the site. And this is absolutely not surprising: Dev.to encourages clickbait and low effort articles. Likes seem to
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by Kovah 4y ago
Cookies needed to properly provide user authentication, i.e. user session identification, are counted as "technical necessary" cookies and do not need a cookie banner. You only need to ask for cookie consent, if you track visitors
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by Kovah 4y ago
I know it's a shameless plug, but if you are searching for cool websites I got you covered: spent 2 years building https://Cloudhiker.net , a StumbleUpon alternative.

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