And Lemmy… stays the same

I use podman, and the standalone tool “buildah” can build images from dockerfiles, and the tool “skopeo” can upload it to an image repository.

I’m a fan of beancount and it’s corresponding web interface fava.

Since the underlying format is human readable text, it’s easy to edit by hand, and you can send the raw file to your accountant as-is and they should have no issues understanding it.

TiddlyWiki might interest you. It’s an entire wiki stored in a single HTML file. You can even use it without a web server if you want (although a web server makes editing more convenient)

If you can’t be bothered to spend 1 minute to create an account, then you probably can’t be bothered to create an actionable bug report or a merge-able PR.

I’m not against federation in general, but gitlab isn’t twitter or reddit. It’s a utility for doing work, and I don’t see how it will do anything but grow the mountain of bloat on which gitlab is sitting.

Kind of lame that they’re wasting time on gimmicky features like this rather than stuff people have been asking for (like Conan registry support)

I self host Gitlab because I want to be in control of my private repos. If I wanted to release open source projects and collaborate with people, I would use the SaaS version. Public instances that encourage contributions like Gnome have open registration, but activating federation seems like it would just add a new layer of moderation headaches for very little real benefit.

Am I missing something? Besides marketing for Gitlab, what real benefits could this bring to users?

vim ~/.ssh/config

Is smallstep free to self host? Looking at their pricing page it’s kind of unclear, and their saas is pretty pricey.

Is there a way for admins to block an entire instance without actually defederating? I.e. all new accounts avoid seeing posts from that instance/community, but still can see comments, messages, etc from users on that instance.

Makes the story about ChatGPT passing the bar exam a lot less impressive.

This is the same as assuming anything written in Rust is secure. (i.e. it’s very wrong)

That looks like a cool setup, but I would never trust important data to some crypto shit (Storj) no matter what kind of track record they have.

Yeah rsync.net has always been pricey.

Mxroute is great. It just works, and there’s no sneaky fees, upsells, or any other bullshit.

I thought about doing something like this, but came to the conclusion that ActivityPub doesn’t make too much sense for a traditional blog. A static site generator with RSS is cheaper, easier to host, more reliable, and a better experience for users.

If I want it on the fediverse, I can just post a link on my mastodon account/lemmy communities. If I’m extra lazy, I can automate that part.

The main issue with the AP protocol is that there’s no way to see old posts. If a new user wants to see your blog content, their server might not have recorded older articles. It’s simply not a good protocol choice for publishing that type of content (IMO)

Wordpress+AP would solve that problem, but only because wordpress remains accessible as a regular website. Unless you want to integrate e.g. a comments/like system using AP identities, I don’t think it’s worth the hassle of maintaining a stack like that.

Plus, if you are publishing content directly to the fediverse, you need to worry about how your article’s formatting will render in the various fediverse clients out there. You’ll also need to worry about actually federating with other servers, and potentially being blocked for arbitrary/technical reasons you need to debug.

…those are just my initial thoughts on this idea. I’m interested to hear opinions from others who disagree and/or are running their own AP blog. SSG + RSS still feels like the winning combo to me.