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@[email protected] @[email protected]
Are you looking specifically for blogging *service* alternatives? Because blogs themselves are very easy to self-host, and there are a lot of good options. Off the top of my head:
* Netlify
* GitHub pages
* GitLab pages
* Neocities
* Wordpress.orgAnd the first few can all be combined with open-source static site generators (#gutenberg, #hugo, #jeckyll, #gatsby, etc.).
My own blog (https://www.codesections.com/blog) is an example of this stack (Gutenberg + Netlify)
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@hinterwaeldler The xkcd example is actually true! (with some caveats)
The same idea is what powers the CLI I wrote, #passgen, which generates xkcd-style passwords with insanely high entropy (perfect for when you can't paste from a password manager.) https://passgen.codesections.com/
I blogged about the details a couple weeks ago (https://www.codesections.com/blog/how-secure-is-pass-gen/), but the short version is that it depends on how many *words* are on the list you use to generate the password—not how many letters are in each word
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#passgen (my CLI for generating secure, random, and *pronounceable* passphrases, useful for having passwords that aren't a pain to type in when you can't paste from your password manager) now has a website:
https://passgen.codesections.com
(Actually, because I'm indecisive about the hyphen in the title and like 301 redirects, https://pass-gen.codesections.com works too)
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http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/why.html
These developers have created something that works, is modular, simple and it's a perfectly crafted piece of software.
However this doesn't have a lot of support currently, there are only 2 distro which implements the s6 suite:
#obarun distro is an arch-based distro which uses this init and supervision suite.
There are also efforts to support this on #exherbo.
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@[email protected] I share many of your interests!
I'm also a self-taught software developer (since I stopped being a lawyer) and, from your list, am interested in at least #meditaion, #webdev, #security, and #privacy. (Re the last two, I'm currently working on a command-line password generator, link below, which is getting fairly close to a v1.0.0 release.)
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Fascinating post by @codesections that highlights the pressures facing Mastodon moderators as new users flood the platform. Folks should consider that on a decentralized/federated platform, there is huge variance in the proportion of mods/users across instances. #contentmoderation #contentmoderators
https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-mobs-and-mastodon-mobs/
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@firebreathingduck There are many great observations in the post by @baldur, and in this video from @codesections (about the goals of programming groups at big tech vs developers creating "free software").
I see similarities in the tool stacks used in the #DataScience / #DataEngineering realm. It feels like there is a push to use no/low code, cookie-cutter, closed sourse, costly, inefficient, obfuscating tools that make it difficult to verify you're getting the "correct" answer, and a purposeful move away from craft and excellence. Commoditize, commercialize, and cross-#enshittify is the credo.
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@juliobiason I second #TheScottyRule or #ScottyScheduling, which perhaps goes hand in hand with #TheBoimlerEffect from the new #StarTrekLowerDecks animation series, which «encourages crew members to take shortcuts, not blindly follow the rules, and build in "[ #bufferTime ]" whenever they deem fit.»
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@Twelve iirc #aspell worked fine for me in the open source chat client #WeeChat.
Looks like #LibreOffice also uses Aspell though? Have you installed the aspell-nb package to get the Norwegian Bokmål dictionary (or aspell-nn for Nynorsk)?
Aspell also works in a standalone mode, so you could try manually checking text files with it to see if the issue is with aspell or with LibreOffice: http://aspell.net/man-html/Spellchecking-Individual-Files.html#Spellchecking-Individual-Files
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> Hello fediverse, here's my #introduction post.
Welcome to #fosstoden!
> I'm a software developer and a long time Linux/#FOSS user. I maintain packages in #Fedora, but recently been also exploring #guix.
I've been exploring #guix too, both as a user and by trying to update the #rakulang packages. It's a fascinating distro, but certainly has a learning curve.
Do you think you'll stick with it?
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> #FOSDEM21 is coming to an end and it was awesome as always 🤘
> we have an estimation of ~33.6k attendees for the conference and ~20k attendees for today
Congrats on the great turnout! I definitely had a good time – thanks for everyone's hard work.
I'm confused, though: from the closing talk, I understood that attendance was _down_ a bit from last year, which I thought was ~8.5k https://matrix.org/blog/2021/01/04/taking-fosdem-online-via-matrix
Was attendance actually way up, or am I misunderstanding?
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Actually, can any one tell me what "average reported frame damage" means? This is in the context of #wayvnc, and my "frame damage" starts out low, but pretty quickly climes to 95.9% and holds there -- and my screen starts flickering. I'm _assuming_ that those two are related, but I don't really know what "frame damage" means.
all the Internet results seem to assume that I'm concerned about damage to the frame of my car and I'm _pretty_ sure my car isn't involved in getting pixies to my monitor -
> I like VS Code. But I wish there was an easy place to log this bet, like #Metaculus or #GoodJudgementProject, superforecaster style. I’d bet long odds today that VS Code will be replaced in Lindy-time.
I haven't encountered that exact usage of "lindy-time" before – are you saying that you believe vscode's future lifespan is lower than its past lifespan? I.e., that it'll be essentially dead in ~5 years?
I *don't* like vscode but would take the other side of that bet
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@Truck @mplammers
> I'm constantly seeing braille (mis)used this way in many applications [which raises accessibility concerns]
Interesting. I'd never seen this technique before – I agree it'd be concerning if it caught on widely for the reasons you mention. (a minor Easter egg seems mostly harmless but, as you say, could give others the wrong idea).
#browsh uses the the UTF8 half-block (https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction/) – maybe that could be a more accessible alternative for some use cases?
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> #cloc is a source code line counter.
I'm partial to tokei, personally https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei
But cloc is good too :)
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> #cloc is a source code line counter.
I'm partial to tokei, personally https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei
But cloc is good too :)
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is ^^^^ #MicroFiction or just #MicroHistory ? :D
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@jordan31
> Any suggestions for Discord terminal clients? I'm in need of a decent one.
My understanding is that they block essentially all third-party clients, and the result is that there aren't any decent terminal ones. But I'd love to be wrong about that.
(I use #ripcord, which isn't officially supported either and isn't even a terminal client. But it's at least *some* improvement)
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@dwytemartin
> What's a good :fosstodon: alternative for discordapp?
Are you asking for an alternative to *discord* as a whole or for an alternative *client*/desktop app to use with discord?
If the former, you have lots of options (I personally like #matrix, but I've also heard good things about #zulip)
If the latter, you're pretty much out of luck—the discord ToS forbid third-party clients and I don't know of any good open-source clients (I use #ripcord, but it's not FOSS, sadly )
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Do any of y'all use #isync/#mbsync to pull down emails via IMAP?
I have it *mostly* working. But I'd like it to pull down my emails automatically, in the background.
That's easy enough to set up…*except* that I have the password to my inbox secured with a yubikey. So, right now, there's no way to pull new emails without pressing the yubikey.
Is there a good way to keep that password in memory without sacrificing *too* much security? (I.e., I don't want it in plaintext)
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@[email protected] @alexbuzzbee
> Just update and rerelease Scheme Shell.
Have you tried out #gash (guile as shell)? https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gash/
I haven't, but it's on the list—a lot of the same advantages as the original scsh
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> I bodged together a little script that gets my ip with wget ipecho.net - I then hooked into api.dreamhost.com (my domain and dns provider), compares that ip to the one in the dns record and if its changed, it pushes an update.
Yeah, that's not that different from the approach I've taken with #d5. The main difference is that d5 offers a self-hosted version of ipecho (and that it doesn't automatically push an update to the dns record, though that would be easy to add)
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Thus, with #d5, you *don't* get a pretty, human readable URL for your PC, just a way to access the current IP address. If you *want* a human-readable URL, you can combine d5 with DNS Lexicon and automatically update DNS records yourself. https://github.com/AnalogJ/lexicon
> is it such a good idea to send the username and password instead of a randomized string
The username & password are unique to d5; they're just a way to identify which IP address you want (more of a token, really)
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@grainloom asked how my #d5 project compares to #duckDNS, and I thought others might be curious
tl;dr: d5 connects you to your home PC without updating DNS records (or involve a 3rd party)
With DuckDNS, you set a cron job (or whatever) to ping DuckDNS's server. It stores your IP address in their DB and updates DNS records.
To connect to your PC, you run `ssh $NAME_YOU_PICKED.duckdns.org` (or something else if you're not using SSH). DuckDNS redirects this to the current IP of your PC
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Hmm, just encountered an odd crash with #xpra. I was connected just fine, but suddenly lost the connection and wouldn't restore it even after attempting to re-connect/restart the xpra server.
Turns out, it wasn't *xpra* that had crashed—it was x. And x had managed to crash in such a way that it was keeping the display I normally use occupied (but blank).
Restarting everything on a different `DISPLAY` solved the issue; all fine now, but a bit odd
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Just listened to today's #coderRadio—very shocked to hear that it's the final one.
Seven years is a long time for anything, especially a podcast—so I understand the decision.
Still, it feels like the end of an era and I'll be sad to see it go. Their recent series on 7 languages in (more than) 7 weeks has been a real highlight!
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> It gave the answer in seconds.
I can't find any way to change units.Have you tried… division?
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> I finally tried X forwarding for the first time. Very neat.
Agreed. I recently discovered #xpra, https://xpra.org/, which bills itself as "Screen for X". I like it even better than traditional X forwarding. (In fact, I'm using it right now in sending this toot)
I've also heard good things about X2go but haven't tried it (it's not in my distro's repo and I haven't gotten around to installing it)
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I'm not really sure why I have the #redit app installed. I know it's tracking me even more than if I used a browser.
In fact, as a reminder of that, it just analyzed all my browsing habits and provided a creepy recommendation of a new subreddit to follow.
Its recommendation? r/privacy
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@[email protected] @[email protected]
Oh, man, I wasn't expecting #SNOBOL to come up today. My parents programmed it back in the 70s before they left the programming field and got what they thought of as "real" jobs!