Terrible posting etiquette

Agreed!

Though it’s very widespread, sharing a link without a word of comment is as obnoxious as those people who send you emails with no text or subject and only an attachment.

I feel less alone knowing that someone else also hates this practice.

IDK if it’s the “best” way, but generally I just let ping run for a while and check the statistics at the end

Your worth is not determined by abstract internet points.

Sometimes people won’t get your message/point and downvote your contributions. The reason might be you not doing a good job at communicating (in my experience, it’s usually is that) or it might be them misunderstanding or you might not fit the community you are contributing to (eg. if your political view is not generally accepted in a community).

Don’t worry about one of your posts/comments occasionally getting downvoted.

If your contributions get downvoted consinsently (which seems to be the case from what you write? I don’t really are enough to go look at your account’s history), consider if continuing as you are is of any benefit to you and/or the community and if it’s still worth your time.

In case, try seeing if it’s a style/tone/manners/respect thing that you maybe want to improve on or if it’s just not worth it and it’s better to go somewhere else or stop entirely.

There is no law saying we must fit every community (I left communities and even an entire Lemmy instance for that).

Also, this discussion is entirely OT since it has nothing to do with programming, and I am reporting it as such. If it’s downvoted or ends up being taken down (I hope so), it’s not because of some conspiracy against you.

Sure thing!

(also, please do post about it when you eventually decide to switch to linux)

Setting up an OIDC provider isn’t particularly difficult, but you’ll have to run it as a publicly accessible server in order for tailscale to interact with it.

It looks like you can register at netbird.io with email and password.

In your shoes I’d setup that for now, and later look into OIDC or (probably better) into self-hosting nebula (or maybe netbird).

No idea what you are talking about… did you get an assignment to implement some CLI program and want ideas for what to do?

If this program was made in a language that supports creating packages for other programs (e.g. Python, Rust, NodeJS), should this program be a ‘package’, or should it be a standalone program that has a simple “setup” script?

I’d assume what you call “packages for other programs” would be plugins? In that case, unless you have a specific existing program you want to write a plugin for, then yours would be a standalone program.

About the “setup script”, if you mean that’s an installer of sorts, then no, your program must not necessarily have an installer (you or others may write standalone installers or packages for various package managers, but that’s another story).

To me it looks like “we believe in our product” companies are an endangered species

IDK about the current status of x86 with android, but last time I checked it wasn’t good.

Lineage might be your best bet… it supports a few androidtv boxes (most notably the nvidia shield) see https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

where SyncThing is overkill

I just have a dedicated shared folder between my phone and desktop and drop oneoff stuff there (it’s also easier to script this way)

For files I use syncthing (also for music/photos/notes/etc… syncing files is IMHO the way to go wherever applicable).

For sending links to my PC (eg. articles linked from podcasts’ notes) I used to rely on firefox sync, but I’m starting to distance myself from Mozilla so I am gonna experiment with wallabang.

For sending small notes to myself (stuff that I want to sort or act upon when I get to my PC), I’m using signal’s “note to self” but I’m investigating alternatives because signal doesn’t mark such messages as unread and so sometimes I forget I’ve sent some.

That’s called dogfooding, not self-hosting :)

Let me get this straight though: I’m not saying no project self-hosts their code (eg. IIRC both KDE and Gnome do), I’m just saying that the majority of FOSS projects (including those that are dedicated to self hosters) does rely on some sort of third party to host their source code.

I don’t think it’s fair to criticize a FOSS project just because they rely on a third party (even commercial ones) to publish their source code.

Yep but eksb’s comment was about selfhosting, not FOSS or ethics (same can be said for this community, although that’s less relevant than the specific comment of course)

Even that is questionable to say the least: while codeberg is the main fogejo contributor, the forgejo project and codeberg are separate entities with separate governance and funding.

I’ve blocked the bot because I find it’s more annoying that useful (I’m not complaining - just giving feedback).

That said, IMHO from that list you should remove the entries that:

• are ambiguous (eg: HA has 2 entirely different meanings in your list)
• have become words on their own (eg. DNS, HTTP, etc…): nobody cares what these expand to (think, NASA) and also knowing what these expand to doesn’t help at all (if you tell me that HTTP means “hyper-text markup protocol” will I not have to go read wikipedia anyways to understand what it is?)
• are often not used according to your definition (eg. IP is more often used to refer to an IP address rather than to the protocol) - of course you may want to amend the definitions instead

Also, you should keep the acronym expansion (“RAID” => “Redundant Array of Independent Disks”) from any comment you may want to add (“for mass storage”) and - since you are at it - provide relevant links to wikipedia articles and/or other resources.

PS: since a lot of entries in the list are not even acronyms… maybe you should consider renaming the bot to something related to “abbreviations” or “glossary”?

What self-hosted software you use is not hosted on some third party forge?

For the fellow community members who are not up to date with the latest AI BS trends:

• if you search for “speckit” you’ll land on https://speckit.org/ “Spec Kit - AI-Powered Specification-Driven Development Toolkit”
• if you’ve never heard of “spec-driven development” it’s because, far from being a noteworthy development practice like TDD or DDD, it’s just another word for “leave all coding to coding agents”

Last commit is 353988 and your flake.lock lists 353988… looks like it’s doing what it should?

Can you double-check? Did I misunderstand?

I clicked on them all so you don’t have to (well, so you can better decide what to investigate and what to ignore):

Ratty 3D Terminal
Is the compiz of terminal emulators
https://ratty-term.org/

TheyLive Adblocker
An ublock origin lite fork that replaces ads with slogans from John Carpenter’s 1988 film They Live instead of hiding them
https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker

TerminalPhone
CLI messenger (with voice messages) that operates over tor
https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/terminalphone

Cuda Oxide
“Rust-to-CUDA compiler that lets you write (SIMT) GPU kernels in safe(ish), idiomatic Rust”
https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html

Wario Synth
Browser-based midi player + search engine (doesn’t look like you can easily download the midi filies)
https://www.wario.style/

Jmail & EpsteinExposed
Epstein files search engine (seems very US-focused: I tried looking for a few non-US people and found nothing)
https://epsteinexposed.com/

Wikipedia Doomscroller
“pseudo social media feed that algorithmically shows you content from Simple Wikipedia. It is made as a demonstration of how even a basic non-ML algorithm with no data from other users can quickly learn what you engage with” (AGPL)
https://xikipedia.org/

Puter
I’m not 100% sure by looking at the homepage, but it would seem it’s a containerized desktop you can access via web (think webtop)
https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter

Honker
SQLite extension providing functionality similar to postgres’ notify/listen
https://github.com/russellromney/honker

Yes, these are 9 and not 10… Sorry, I only see 9 in “Topics Covered” above and I don’t want to go to youtube (I’ve already wasted spent enough time on this). If you can, pls integrate the list with the 10th project by replying here.

I’ve been thinking about AI and autonomous agents.

These days this is enough to stop me reading, but thanks for saying out that the article is about AI in the first sentence and spare me a click (declaring that in the title would be even better, but first sentence is pretty darn good).

Synchthing if I want local copies, otherwise I just mount sshfs shares from my nas (using sftpman as a helper)