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by drnick1 9mo ago
Why was this posted to HN? There is nothing new or original in the setup presented. People have been self-hosting all kinds of things on commodity hardware for decades, even things said to be "impossible" to self-host like email.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
The "consumer protections" of the EU basically amount to communism (i.e., state interference in private matters). So no, that's not a thing the U.K. should emulate.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Absolutely, and this is why one of the only viable options for truly private communication is Signal on a degoogled ROM like Graphene. Matrix also works, but you need your server.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Yes, locked bootloaders secure the profits of the manufacturers who want to run crapware on your device for their benefit. The hardware is theoretically yours but they won't allow you to use it in the way you want, it's shocking
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Came here to say this.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Literally thousands of games have been written in C, and all graphics APIs (OpenGL, Vulkan, DX) are C APIs, so it isn't weird at all. All major game engines are also written in C/C++.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> Smartphones are expected to get pricier for potentially years to come. "Smart" phones have ceased to be smart years ago. They are now instruments of mass surveillance, and the tech industry has convinced people that 1) you ne
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by drnick1 9mo ago
I think it just means "once powerful and important, but now practically irrelevant." England is a better example though.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> True as it may be that they are slow, I doubt it's caused by the use of dynamic programming languages. Yes it is. It's the same reason desktop GUI apps are now slower than Windows 95-era apps that were written in C.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Microsoft should just open source Windows at this point.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Yes, because C is, by virtue of its history and central role in the development of all mainstream operating systems, the lowest common denominator. Also, if I remember correctly, the first Rust and Go compilers were written in C.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Yes and no. Clearly what you said is true, but the more profound reason is that C just minimally reflects how computers work. The rest is just convention.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
I don't see that as a problem. C has been the bedrock of computing since the 1970s because it is the most minimal way of speaking to the hardware in a mostly portable way. Anything can be done in C, from writing hardware drivers, to GU
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> Mobile notifications for organizations with up to 10 users Why does the self-hosted edition have this restriction? If the software is truly OSS, the limit could be trivially patched. But this kind of restriction just does not inspire
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Absolutely. I don't have a blog but run my own email, several game servers, Matrix instance, Nextcloud and other internal services on a retired gaming PC. The total cost of my cloud subscriptions is $0, and no one is snooping on me. It
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by drnick1 9mo ago
On premises isn't only about saving money (that's not always clear). The article neglects the most important benefits which are freedom (control) and privacy. It's basically the same considerations that apply to owning vs ren
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Maybe things will finally go full circle and people/companies will restart self-hosting their infrastructure instead of farming out everything.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Yes, I have seen doctors and dentists ask for the SSN, and categorically refuse to provide it.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
The settings used by Arkenfox broadly mirror that of the Tor browser. If you find Tor usable, then Firefox with this config should be fine.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
This. Since Firefox claims to be a privacy-first browser, it should, by default, use the Arkenfox settings (report spoofed values for language, screen size, fonts, and many other attributes that aid fingerprinting), and include uBlock Origi
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by drnick1 9mo ago
It's all bug fixes it seems. What is surprising is that so many bugs remain even after all this time and effort. And no, for the most part these are not the kinds of bugs that are squashed by a rewrite in Rust.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> It's copyright law which should go away. This precisely. What started out as a way of rewarding authorship (of text, software, or other things) has mainly become a way of extracting rent -- see the music, movie, and software indus
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> and new maintainers aren’t stepping up because they can’t afford rent, let alone to devote their full time to FOSS work free of charge like a lot of older project maintainers do. What about the Rust rewrite (sudo-rs)? I think it shows
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by drnick1 9mo ago
I haven't tested this particular Thunderbolt SFP adapter, but my experience with a TP-Link 1Gbps USB adapter is that it adds about 4ms of latency. Far from being unusable and similar to WiFi perhaps, but worse than PCIe cards that shou
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by drnick1 9mo ago
I used to have an SFP28 Mellanox card in my home server, but went back to a simple 2.5G Ethernet port for the LAN side. The Mellanox card ran hot and needed an extra fan near it to dissipate the heat. It was cool but there was no real benef
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by drnick1 9mo ago
No thanks, too tied to Apple and closed source development models.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> That means you can't stream any of the mainstream services in anything like a half-decent quality. Maybe, but I don't think it's a big loss, and the *arr suite works just fine as a substitute.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
DRM is anti-consumer malware, so I hope not. There are other ways to source videos than paying a monthly fee forever for something that you will never own.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
It's nice that you can unlock the bootloader on these and flash Lineage if you want to limit snooping by Google. That being said, I think that you get more flexibility and performance with a mini PC and and air mouse. For one, stock (G
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by drnick1 9mo ago
But all the software is closed source, and there is little to no opportunity to verify all these security claims. You don't have the encryption keys, so effectively the data is not under your control. If you want to see security done w

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