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by toastal 2y ago
For small projects, there are community & non-profit options that don’t require self-hosting. Alternatively, if your tooling is actually decentralized, then you don’t need to become a massive host & a bedroom PC can ‘host’ a project
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by toastal 2y ago
Is the ‘free’ part of open source not a priority? There is an AGPL license, but it looks like future contributors will be required to use proprietary services for this helping this project with Discord & Microsoft GitHub as the only com
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by toastal 2y ago
That works assuming you have the budget & technical friends
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by toastal 2y ago
How does a news site operate without plaintext? The body element is entirely empty. Is there no need for SEO or accessibility? At some point last decade the text-only version of the BBC was discontinued, but instead you can only compare to
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by toastal 2y ago
This is a really clever use of grid & a case where the named templates is actually well done instead of overused.
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by toastal 2y ago
…Just don’t commit your .envrc to a repository & add it to the .(git|hg)*ignore. Provide an example if you want, but don’t expect everyone to want to use your exact settings. This is for your personal environment.
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by toastal 2y ago
Sustainable brands don’t remove their headphone jacks then start selling wireless headphones that require more batteries & rely on firmware updates
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by toastal 2y ago
I’m on Posteo & it’s fine. I can recommend it, but I can totally understand wanting a host that lets you use your own domain name for portability (they have arguments against it).
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by toastal 2y ago
https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses These aren’t official (& hosted on a different, proprietary data siphoner), but there are attempts to add anti-AI clauses.
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by toastal 2y ago
There are cheaper options for Mail + CalDAV + CardDAV that don’t require nonstandard bridge apps.
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by toastal 2y ago
Great to it’s hosted on a free software forge too not locking in contributions! Not sure I always agree that feeds should have the full post tho. This not only (obviously) bloats the size of the feed, but there are valid reasons to want to
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by toastal 3y ago
Putting this on Microsoft GitHub is bound to get this project booted from the platform. Will we learn our lesson this time?
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by toastal 3y ago
Good thing there are alternatives to Matrix that use a lot less resources. It’s not just UX… Matrix by design is wasteful by requiring replication of all messages & attachments of all users in all chats across every server. Most can’t a
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by toastal 3y ago
since the* heavy Zstd compression
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by toastal 3y ago
Users that need special clients (accessibility, hardware, etc.). Users blocked by US sanctions. Users that have been moderated off the platform for something not in your community (account bans even happen accidentally). Users with privacy&
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by toastal 3y ago
If open source, free software is a good enough ethos for your code base, it should be good enough for your community communications. Supporting only a proprietary locks out a swath of users & Discord in particular is an information blac
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by toastal 3y ago
The cost of compression isn’t nothing. A lot of Linux distros have moved off of it for packages since they heavy Zstd compression was close enough on size while saving a lot of time & CPU bandwidth.
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by toastal 3y ago
If it’s static & can be edits to content that could easily render out as static (such as some reStructuredText files) I always reach for Soupault so I can create something super lightweight, bespoke for the job, but extendable with plug
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by toastal 3y ago
Now that Discord will start showing ads, is there any chance Bun will support a communication platform that is open & ad-free like IRC, XMPP, or Matrix?
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by toastal 3y ago
These projects do other non-gaming livestreams for certain events, meetings, etc. Twitch was just a game streaming platform for many years with more incidental gaming / just chatting now than not. Unless there’s a lot of pushback, this
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by toastal 3y ago
But our GMO (growth metric officer) outlined we must interact with the proprietary networks. Without algorithms, what will we trying to ‘hack’?
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by toastal 3y ago
RIP to all those FOSS projects that thought it was good to build their communities solely on proprietary chat. I don’t expect the average folk to understand the ethical, privacy, or ownership issues, but in the software community, I do. Now
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by toastal 3y ago
Versus myself that would see that there is a security/privacy concern & would immediately see if I can use an alternative.
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by toastal 3y ago
You can a) set up a gateway/bridge or b) contribute to those platforms to make them better so users like them more as the open+secure options are more worth the long-term investment into instead of making users choose between privacy
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by toastal 3y ago
> Why do you rob banks? > Because that’s where the money is — Willie Sutton, career bank robber, caught 11 times Perhaps there’s a better solution out there
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by toastal 3y ago
Why are users, especially technically-inclined ones, hellbent on using these proprietary services? Throw them all out if they are going to be this way since there are great alternatives. The last thing communities should do is build UIs a
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by toastal 3y ago
Can this handle patch stacks or is this just another pull/merge request model with all the flaws that entails?
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by toastal 3y ago
This was my knee-jerk too. It’s great to see some of the good bits of ML flow into new languages, but this isn’t some Rust-specific feature. As an annoying side-effect tho, it’s been harder to pitch FP in these existing spaces since now “we
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by toastal 3y ago
X11 supports 10-bit SDR… which Wayland doesn’t
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by toastal 3y ago
What makes folks thing landing pages like this should require JavaScript? Nothing here would need the dynamic capabilities of a scripting language, yet accessibility & SEO are hurt in the process.

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