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   by mro_name 4y ago

   you are not alone. 1973 Ivan Illich wrote 'Tools for Conviviality'[1], 1995 Niklaus Wirth 'A Plea for Lean Software'[2] just to name two. As to the industry, it has to stop before it eats up the planet. All it knows is e
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   by mro_name 4y ago

   it's awesome. If only the tooling were more offline, cross platform friendly. TCL is no easy dependency no more.
3. 153.▲
   by mro_name 4y ago

   if it's not for Jane Doe it's not 'social'. Is it? And I believe the self-hosting option inevitable. Including your own name (domain).
4. 154.▲
   by mro_name 4y ago

   uh, so used to careless naming that looking at primary didn't even occur to me. Lazy me.
5. 155.▲
   by mro_name 4y ago

   > warm fuzzies from being sure that, however screwed up the web server is, it cannot be confused[1] into revealing the secret keys when it does not have access to them in the first place. indeed a big one. THE big one. Usually I do watch
6. 156.▲
   by mro_name 4y ago

   what does datatracker stand for or is it just an arbitrary name?
7. 157.▲
   by mro_name 4y ago

   While I share your sentiment, some technologies automatically come with certain features. It's the (evtl. statically) compiled versus the scripted ones. And among the scripted again is one ubiquitous and can be lean on dependencies (sh
8. 158.▲
   by mro_name 4y ago

   http://IndieWeb.org/POSSE to a rescue.
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   by mro_name 4y ago

   congrats, what a cute name.
10. 160.▲
    by mro_name 4y ago

    yes, that would be it. I thought of stunnel. But that's extra moving parts.
11. 161.▲
    by mro_name 4y ago

    I love such focused, cooperative and mature tools. They do one thing well, play nicely and keep their promises. however, using lighttpd due to https.
12. 162.▲
    by mro_name 4y ago

    I wonder what they'd have said about tobias.luetke@ourdomain.com
13. 163.▲
    by mro_name 4y ago

    > No, we won't tell you what is good enough. that's like from a surreal comedy. That's how megacorps look down on humans.
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    everything only matters in context. In general.
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    around 2008 a german mass email and hosting provider holding chose every email address being a valid xmpp address, too. It was about 10 millions each for GMX.de and Web.de alone. They never managed to promote pleasant onboarding and finally
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    > "a fair bit of work" for them to read the standard robots.txt for "boring technical reasons". that's embarrassing. What other reasons should there ever be? Stop taking their money, stop using their shit. Turn y
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    that's what big organisations do, it' their DNA to flood and exhaust smaller ones. They just don't care about anybody not their scale. Ignorant egoists.
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    meanwhile found the template: https://darknet.mro.name/pub/brief-dina4.txt
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    I came to write my official paper letters with vi :hardcopy in 70ies RFC typewriter style. Helps to focus on the content. That's exactly what marketing dreads.
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    I vaguely remember Daniel Bernstein counting (C) language tokens rather than LOC. Experiences anybody?
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    I find even leaving them off pleasing. Don't run compputers 24/7, your brain doesn't, too. The smaller the scale (amount of people affected), the more sense do business hours make. Ot times of non-operation. Who cares if a pe
22. 172.▲
    by mro_name 4y ago

    > It's not just incompetence leading to technical bloat. it's bad decisions after all. How would you call that? Alien invasion?
23. 173.▲
    by mro_name 4y ago

    because humans are herd animals and mere repetition makes acceptance. If you understand, you don't oppose as fierce as you are obliged to as a good herd member. You may vent the wrong tunes.
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    I wonder what happened to RDF at BBC. There must have been an earthquake around 2014? I was deeply impressed and inspired to my toy-project radio recorder. Check $ rapper -i grddl -o turtle ' http://rec.mro.name/stations
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    apply composting and have things rot to obliviance. Do timed purges after various timeouts and keep only printouts 'forever'. Just a thought, however.
26. 176.▲
    by mro_name 4y ago

    indeed, once a task includes 'every', it's never simple. Or 'never' :-)
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    the basics are incredibly hard. Listen to a physicist explaining time, matter or energy.
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    > … the largest (about 63.5 kilobytes) … awesome! Scale to n=1! And development is hosted at codeberg!
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    whatever there may be, it's drowned in ad- and spyware.
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    by mro_name 4y ago

    > I tried to write a more thorough comment but also struggled with being coherent. how fitting. I guess it's always about neighbourhoods. In your street, in your pew, in your bookshelf, inside your brain, in your zettelkasten.