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Platypush 1.0 – a general-purpose, event-driven platform for automation-as-code(git.platypush.tech)
2 points by blacklight 2y ago|0 comments
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by blacklight 2y ago
I wrote a similar article a while ago: https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Deliver-articles-to-your... In my case the purpose was to share saved links to my e-reader and used Markdown as an intermediate format through
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by blacklight 3y ago
I raised many of the author's point about Sourcehut several times. I'm an, enthusiastic FOSS supporter who has always advocated for alternatives to Github. But Sourcehut seems to take the worst out of everything. It strips down al
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by blacklight 3y ago
What infuriates me is that often these "services" could be easily served through a simple web app. Provide a link or a QR code, let folks open the URL wherever they like, and stop bitching. But no, everybody requires a freaking na
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by blacklight 3y ago
Your point can be summarized as "We can't tax the rich, or they'll just go somewhere else". A.k.a. the Stockholm syndrome of extreme capitalist markets - we all know that it's not fair that Jeff Bezos pays zero on h
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by blacklight 3y ago
Before trying it in my lab, could the author elaborate on what's its killer feature? The README mentions that it's an alternative to both Dropbox and WeTransfer. My current alternative to Dropbox is Nextcloud, and my current alter
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by blacklight 3y ago
> Apple was offering an integrated product that it fully controlled and customers were fully aware of, and is thus, under U.S. antitrust law, free to set the price of entry however it chooses. I'm no expert in US antitrust laws, but
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by blacklight 3y ago
I definitely see the author's points, but I disagree with the proposed solution. Feed discoverability should be a basic browser feature, not something web developers need to actively implement, nor some information that users have to s
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by blacklight 3y ago
Why not just use UnifiedPush, which is already an open standard? Or, like other libre apps are doing, provide an option for external open providers, such as ntfy, Nextcloud Push etc.? I agree with the writer, SSEs have a lot of untapped pot
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by blacklight 3y ago
Too many links on HN are along the lines of "a proudly faceless company with nearly non-existant customer service has lost my data and it's not providing me with any support". Seriously, what else do you expect from Google? I
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by blacklight 3y ago
YouTube? Chrome? uBlock? Firefox? What's all this fuss about? Just avoid the youtube.com domain like pest, period. Set up a Piped instance or use your favourite one. You even get your playlists and subscriptions over RSS feeds instead
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by blacklight 3y ago
I said it already several times, but it's worth repeating. Stop using the youtube.com frontend entirely. It's enshittified beyond redemption. If they could replace it with a big ads billboard with no added value while leaving thei
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by blacklight 3y ago
The viewing-is-sharing model is indeed a problem of PeerTube - and, I'd argue, of any decentralized network based on a P2P mesh. But it definitely alleviates the content distribution asymmetry problem - by spreading the load on the vie
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by blacklight 3y ago
Just stop using the YouTube frontend. I've been running my Piped instance for a while, and there are many public Piped instances available on the Web as well. And, if you don't want the headache of running your own proxied instanc
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by blacklight 3y ago
> So if there hadn’t been a giant company with ample resources to subsidize YouTube all that time, who could have built a comparable video service and how would it have survived? My two cents: 1. Decentralization. I run my own PeerTube i
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by blacklight 3y ago
You could have probably created your own little wrapper on top of subprocess.Popen and dispatch stdout and stderr around. No need for an external library with bad tty/piping defaults just because it has a nice API (which needs to be tw
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by blacklight 3y ago
I've been long advocating to get rid of the mobile-first approach and instead embrace a width-agnostic paradigm. It is possible to ensure that a div or image doesn't stretch too much on desktop by setting the right max-width. It i
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by blacklight 3y ago
I love Python, but I also love the ability to tell what is what. I kickstarted a project in Python a decade ago that was wild on dynamic typing. As it passed a critical threshold of ~10k LoC, it became nearly ummaintainable. What's tha
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by blacklight 3y ago
I've been self-hosting it for years and I love it. I mean, being a MSSQL + .NET app it's quite an exotic beast in my self-hosting garden, but it definitely does its job without skipping a beat. I'm also happy to support them
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by blacklight 3y ago
Thanks! I use madblog for my blogs ( https://git.platypush.tech/blacklight/madblog ), it's a small CMS based only on Markdown that I implemented in my spare time. I make most of the thumbnails myself too - usually b
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by blacklight 3y ago
> The trouble is when a big customer wants to license or an investor wants to invest, they want to understand their risks, and that includes consideration of risks coming from ambiguous code ownership--or clear but problematic ownership
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by blacklight 3y ago
Have we already said it enough times that CLAs are awful and they deserve to die? They impose an unrequired additional legal burden on top of the standard software license. They often require voluntary unpaid contributors to offer free supp
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by blacklight 3y ago
If you're still using Chrome, then this is the shit you deserve, period.
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by blacklight 3y ago
"Forget editing /etc/hosts!" Right. Why would you edit a local file (or create a record on your own local DNS), generate your own self-signed certificate, and immediately get a website that can be tested on your machine,
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by blacklight 3y ago
I have tried Conduit in a small test installation, I liked what I saw, and I keep following its developments. However, I also spent a lot of time configuring my Synapse server with tons of bridges, so even though I totally get the need for
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by blacklight 3y ago
I'm sick of these guys trying to break the web. From now on it's personal. We need to make sure that Google gets very hurt, and ideally they are wiped out from our industry.
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by blacklight 3y ago
Why are those folks trying to sprinkle AI over everything, even when it's completely inappropriate? There's no AI involved in web crawling. If you come to my site, I'll tell you which pages you can visit/index, and which
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by blacklight 3y ago
I know some of the folks at Bending Spoons, and I'm quite confident that they'll manage to get something good out of Evernote - eventually. It's a team of smart folks that so far has managed to get all of their apps right. I
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by blacklight 3y ago
Is it open-source? Is it based on open protocols? Does it support federation? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then your product is irrelevant. It's nothing personal. It's just that I'm sick and tired of central
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by blacklight 3y ago
Reddit is pretty much dead to me after they decided to put a paywall on their API and after their CEO's embarrassing AMA. I'll keep using my libreddit instance until the API lasts, and then just delete any presence I have over the

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