I just saw this on F-Droid, will need to test it, but sounds like it could be really good: https://f-droid.org/packages/lu.knaff.alain.saf_sftp
I’m hoping, it works like mounting or FUSE on proper Linux, where you can just use normal applications to transparently access network files. Then you’d be able to use any old file manager app to actually work with the files…
You probably just misread, but just to note that SFTP is different from SMB. They’re similar in purpose, but basically competing protocols…
Yeah, I always found it really valuable to know a person on the other side. Obviously, they’re not immune to propaganda either, but even just seeing the differences in propaganda can teach you a lot, both about which parts may be untrue, but also how propaganda works.
For example, I once saw a guy on Mastodon, who posted a populist Indian news article and expressed his agreement. The article was about some policy the EU was discussing, following Putins attack on the Ukraine, which would’ve affected India.
That policy was controversial here in the EU. I don’t remember what policy it was, but I didn’t feel good about it, my country (Germany) didn’t support it, but the EU as a whole did agree to it.
Meanwhile, that article framed it as “Europe is doing a bad thing” and “the West is blah”.
Like, man, I doubt, I would agree with my neighbor about this policy, but somehow I’m being generalized into an amorphous blob, the size of half the fucking planet.
It dehumanizes. It makes it seem like we’re not open for discussion, despite us internally leading extremely heated discussions.
But of course, we do the exact fucking same. We talk about India collectively all the time, even though it is much larger than the EU, with 1.4 billion different opinions. You don’t hear “the East” as often these days, but you do hear “Asia”, which is effectively just as meaningless of a word.
And yeah, just seeing the inverse happen to me, made it instantly clear why this is shit, which I would not have even thought about, if I only ever read our news outlets.
Oh man, seeing folks suggest it as a Discord alternative always had me uninterested, because I don’t even use Discord and it just seemed like yet-another-standard.
Now I’m reading this really technical title for a talk which mentions XMPP and I’m instantly sold.
Well, to be honest, “Movim” also sounded like a VC-funded startup. Looks like it’s a bus-factor-of-1 open-source project instead, which I have significantly more trust in.
Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.
I mean, I typically see it used for installing applications, and so long as TLS is used for the download, I’m still not aware of a good reason why you should check the Bash script in particular in that case, since the application itself could just as well be malware.
Of course, it’s better to check the Bash script than to not check it, but at that point we should also advise to download the source code for the application, review it and then compile it yourself.
At some point, you just have to bite the bullet and I have not yet seen a good argument why the Bash script deserves special treatment here…
Having said that, for cases where you’re not installing an application, yeah, reviewing the script allows you to use it, without having to trust the source to the same degree as you do for installing an application.
Yeah, I’m all for a place like that existing, but it really doesn’t need to exist in my timeline, which I might scroll while I’m on the bus or such…
They cause a huge amount of load, deteriorating the service for everyone else. I’m also guessing the time ranges in the graph, where there’s no data, is when OP’s server crashed from the load and had to restart.
That kind of shit can easily trigger alerting and will look like a DDoS attack. I would be pissed, too, if I dropped everything to see why my server is going down and it’s not even proper criminals, but rather just some silicon valley cunts.
My best guess is that they don’t just index things, but rather download straight from the internet when they need fresh training data. They can’t really cache the whole internet after all…
Link for those wanting to subscribe from other instances: !Silksong@indie-ver.se
Terraform is proprietary. You want to the use the OpenTofu fork instead: https://opentofu.org/
I believe, Icecast ticks at least some of your criteria. It’s been around since forever, so it’s probably the most stable option and even a Pi1 is likely overkill for it. No idea how it holds up in terms of UI, app and Docker, though.
They do have a mirror on GitHub, but the main repo is on a self-hosted GitLab.
You’d have to rewrite the Git history to pseudonomize the author, which yes, is pretty bad, but I don’t see why you’d need to remove the code, unless they genuinely checked in their home address or such.
It’s a Linux concept. Basically, imagine you could have a Windows 11 PC with the Windows XP GUI or with the macOS GUI. In Linux, these kinds of different GUIs are just desktop environments, which you can install as you see fit.
Conversely, you can also have an OS without a desktop environment, which is basically what’s used on Linux server PCs.
Yeah, I don’t like when corporations put stuff like that into their ToS, but at the same time, I 100% understand why every open-source license under the sun has it. You’re giving it away for free, so you don’t want people to sue for more than you’re providing for free.
Mastodon.social is currently very much in the latter camp of giving things away for free. I also understand that a service is yet another beast than a piece of software, since they hold your personal data and may leak/sell it. But yeah, at this point in time, I wouldn’t want someone to be able to sue Mastodon.social out of existence. I guess, it depends a lot on how it’s formulated in the end…
It should be noted that theoretically, we don’t know how this external API is implemented. The vast majority of APIs are REST APIs and with REST APIs, there’s a decent chance that you can download an OpenAPI definition from the server which provides the API.
REST APIs are basically APIs which use HTTP(S) for transport and then there’s some specific rules how the API should be designed. Often times, these rules are not strictly followed and people still refer to such an API as “REST”, because they assume that any HTTP API is a REST API. But yeah, similarly the guides you’ll find will likely also work with general HTTP APIs.
Sounds to me like they’re not trying to create a website for now, but rather just process some data, which they can later display in a static webpage.
So, I’m guessing something like this:
+--------+ +---------+ +----------+
| Static | | Their | | External |
| Web |---->| Own |---->| API |
| Page | | Backend | | |
+--------+ +---------+ +----------+
But yes, unless there’s a lot of data to crunch, the design one would usually go for is rather:
+-----------+ +----------+
| *Dynamic* | | External |
| Web |---->| API |
| Page | | |
+-----------+ +----------+
So, the data calculations would happen in the user’s browser. You would still need some hosting for that webpage, but there’s lots of free services to put a simple webpage up.
And yes, when you go with that latter design, then JavaScript would be the typical choice. It’s still possible to do it with Rust, using WebAssembly (e.g. a colleague of mine has built a small statistics webpage which gets data directly from GitHub, using the Leptos framework), but it is definitely the less beaten path.
Having said all that, frankly, fuck the usual way of doing things. If you’re comfortable with Hugo for frontend work, then I think it’s legit to build a little backend to take over the dynamic part. Better to build a useful project and learn something than to get stuck trying to learn the ‘correct’ path of doing it. Especially if you’d rather learn about Rust than JS.
I’ve never used Facebook, but I’ve seen people say that Friendica is quite similar to Facebook (in case you care about that).
Yeah, the wording is confusing. A long time ago, there was no paid software, there was only software where you got the source code and other software where e.g. it was pre-installed on some hardware and the manufacturer didn’t want to give the source code.
In that time, a whole movement started fighting for software freedom, so they called their software “free”.
https://join-lemmy.org/ can help you find an instance based on your interests.
Just to say, though, I feel like 99% of the software we deploy is open-source for that exact reason. Projects generally start out small, where you try to evaluate some concept. You’re not gonna spend months to go through the purchase process of some proprietary tool, if you can help it…