Services vary a lot on how they are deployed and their dependencies, etc. The knowledge I have (and honestly I don’t have much) I just built over time, tinkering with different set-ups and trying to debug problems when they arose. So I guess just choose a few difference services and try to get them working (choose low-stakes ones at first, where the risk of getting pwned or losing everything is very low). Docker can abstract away a lot, so maybe try more direct deployments if you are interested in learning.

Doesn’t your browser warn you before closing a tab where you have entered text in an input field?

Not a DE but AwesomeWM. I like its default aesthetic and it’s highly extensible using Lua which gives a lot of power to the user.

https://tasks.org/

• Lower upfront costs and quicker to set up as you don’t have to buy the hardware
• Don’t have hardware taking up space in your home
• Flexibility of being able to scale up or down your specs (or get rid of the VPS entirely) at the click of a button
• Don’t have to open your home network to the internet
• Better uptime (not your job to fix outages)

When I was young, I spent a lot of time playing Extreme Paintbrawl. I only learned years later that it had achieved notoriety as one of the worst video games of all time. Looking back it’s not hard to see why. But back when it was one of the very few games we had for PC, I got a lot of enjoyment out of it.

I was planning to sign up at BeeHaw because it seems pretty active and with high quality discussions. When I heard that it had defederated from Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world I decided not to sign up to any of those three as I would rather have access to all of them (though I can understand why BeeHaw defederated). So I just went with VLemmy.net as it was one of the recommended ones (on join-lemmy.org and the Awesome-Lemmy-Instances GitHub) and seems to be very broadly federated.

I don’t think it matters too much, though I think if you were signed up on the same instances as all your favourite communities it would be a bit more convenient.

Oh, great news! New Fairphone looks good, look forward to seeing the specs. I hadn’t heard of the Shiftphone before reading the article so will also look into that.

Would be really interested to hear any real life reviews from users of the Bangle.js 2. It looks great given its features and price point but would be interested to know if there is a catch somewhere.

It’s good that they mention the refurbished option. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you have, the second most eco-friendly phone is one someone else is getting rid of. Of course, the repairability promise of phones like the Fairphone is exciting and might make them a good bet longer-term.

I plan on using my current phone into the ground but I’m not sure what I will do when it finally dies. I think if there is a Fairphone 5 with modern specs by then, I would strongly consider it. I know constant new releases kind of goes against Fairphone’s philosophy so there might not be a 5 for a while, but with the Fairphone 4’s specs I would worry about how long it will remain useful. If there is not an improved Fairphone out by then, I would still consider a Fairphone 4 or would likely buy a refurbished Pixel.

-site:pinterest.* seems to work for me.

Interesting, thanks for the explanation. I thought it might be available as I can follow off-instance communities on Jerboa but I haven’t dug into the source code there to see how they do it.

Hi there, thanks for working on this! One thing I am trying to do is write a script that fetches all of a particular user’s subscribed communities (on any instance). It seems like a fairly simple thing but I can’t seem to find any library that offers that functionality at the moment, unless I am missing something.

Another thing I’d like to be able to do is follow a community on a different instance to the user’s local instance. I see Plemmy has a follow_community method but it’s not clear if it allows following communities on different instances.

Are these things that Plemmy does or will support? It wasn’t clear to me from the docs and am just wondering if Plemmy (or any existing library) will work for my use case.

Looks good! Is there a reason it currently only supports Python < 3.11?

I hate Discord full stop, because it’s a centralised proprietary platform just like Reddit and is going to hit the exact same issues one day, and it’s going to be even harder to recover all the conversations that have gone on there.

You mean the password manager as the central authority? You can self host a password manager using, eg, Vaultwarden.

Even if you use a trusted, paid commercial service, I think the risk of that happening is lower than on Reddit. Their business model is simpler and more transparent. They want to keep you as a customer so you will keep paying them. And there is less opportunity for them to ban you for political reasons when you’re not expressing yourself on their platform.

Yes, I agree. My comment was more a response to the parent comment’s suggestion that it is akin to a cup and string in terms of simplicity.

While I mostly agree with this, I would point out that mandatory TLS introduces a decent bit of complexity, both in implementing TLS itself (where you should really use one of the established TLS libraries in your language of choice) and in figuring out what to do with certificates (TOFU, etc).

It’s still a very simple protocol of course, but not quite so simple that you can negotiate a connecting manually over telnet, for example. (Some versions of netcat, on the other hand, do support TLS.)