Risk is also a factor re: self hosting.

• You’re exposing potential attack vectors, which is particularly concerning if self hosting = home hosting.
• Also with home hosting, it’s probably against your ISP’s TOS. It is for mine (I actually read it!). Will they do anything? Probably not. But it’s a risk.
• You could face legal issues if someone posts illegal content, since you’re hosting it. Even unwittingly.

Those concerns are what stop me. Because I otherwise think I’d enjoy hosting a little corner in the fediverse.

NixOS is a declarative distro. Meaning it you can declare pretty much every aspect of it from what software is installed to how the system is configured from a config file.

Using your calandar example, you can list Thunderbird (or whatever) as a package you want in the configuration and it will be installed. You can also use that same configuration on another machine and produce the same environment.

Relevant to the original point, since all your software is listed in a text file, you can easily see exactly what’s installed.

Void for desktop/laptop. These are the things I like about it.

• Rolling release
• Initial installation is minimal, and doesn’t foist a specific DE or other unessential software on me.
• No systemd
• Nothing similar to Arch’s AUR. I know a lot of people love it, but I do not. I mention as the distros are similar.

Debian for my server. But I plan to migrate to Devuan.

• Stable and well tested
• Huge package selection
• Pretty ubiquitously supported. If for whatever reason what you want to run isn’t in the repo, .deb packages and apt repos are often available.
• Minimal installation available.

They could just deny access without verification. But thinking more broadly there’ll certainly be ways to fool the system. But, shouldn’t have to in the first place.

There are a few qualifiers here. It’s for some users in UK and Australia trying to access sensitive content. And it sounds like it’s reaction to laws against youth under 16 accessing social media. In Australia, anyway. So the scope is currently fairly limited.

Should we be worried that this will pave the road for larger privacy abuses? Yes, of course we should. That scenario feels likely, in my opinion.

Is this enough to convince my friends to use a different platform? Not yet.

I’ll try this! I used to use caldav via my mail provider with DAVx5, but I had problems with it not retaining notification settings with recurring events.

I don’t know if that’s a problem with their caldav server, DAVx5, or my phone’s calendar. But worth trying with radicale and see if it works.

For those like myself who hadn’t heard of GoToSocial and are curious what it is but don’t want to watch a video, it is as you might guess an ActivityPub based microblogging platform. With a focus on smaller instances capable of running on low end hardware. According to their site, anyway. https://gotosocial.org/

It’s a novel idea. But despite the article’s claims this is not a practical alternative to a laptop in planes, coffee shops, etc. Nor is a minipc inherently more serviceable than a laptop as others have pointed out.

For traveling, if it’s a longer trip, it almost makes sense to me as you’d have it set up for a while. Though I’d do a mini ITX system. The ones with external power supplies and no drive bays or expansion slots are pretty small. But even then, I don’t feel like this would be significantly better than a laptop. And that’s a lot to buy for a niche use case.

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That’s a fair point.

I seem to recall scamming and similar were quite prevalent. I don’t know if that’s still the case. But even so, that doesn’t really have anything to do with the interface or functionality, I suppose.

A search of the comments didn’t turn up any mention of seedboxes. So I’ll throw that hat in the ring as an option.

Our local newspaper’s website has a classifieds section that’s well utilized.

Something on the same scale as Craigslist but more modern is lacking. But anything big and centralized like that will eventually go to shit. So maybe smaller regional sites should be the way to go.

On a Pi4.

I was running it on a VM on the home server but then any downtimes that machine had were also HA downtimes. Decided that mattered enough to run it on it’s own hardware.

Maybe self host your own VPN on a VPS and connect the jellyfin server as a client as well as any other devices you want to see that jellyfin server as other clients and configure the VPN server to not override your default routing and to allow clients to see each other? In my head I don’t think that would conflict with your protonVPN connection.

Your traffic would be encrypted between devices so I wouldn’t say https is nessesary and thus no certs needed.

The rubs that occur to me are that I’m not sure you can do this on a free tier VPS which is the only option I see given your financial limitations. And your devices all need to be able to connect to said VPN.

Edit: Slightly less worse English.

Conciseness and directness help.

As an example, there was someone I worked with that tended to ask around a question.

“What do you know about x? What do you know about y? What do you know about z?”

Instead of “How do I get from x to z?”

I think they just want to understand the underlying process. And I can understand that. But I wasn’t their mentor and it was at times frustrating.

Not suggesting OP is doing this. Just a general thought I had in regards to the question.

My tenuous understanding from an article I read about the AT protocol but barely remember is that it can’t be fully decentralized. I think you have to use bluesky for user authentication. And I think it said the hosting hardware requirements would be significant to the point where it’s not very feisable. I welcome corrections/clarifications.

Point is, assuming that’s reasonably correct, true decentralization isn’t possible. And by it’s nature as a big corporate owned site, enshittification is inevitable.

Give them some time to get it right! The Xerox Alto only came out 52 years ago.

Nope. I fiddle until it does what I want. If the thing I’m working on is complex or I’m struggling with it I’ll keep versions of configs. And I back up working configs via an rsync job. Which isn’t a particularly robust solution but I’m content with it for my needs.

This was 15+ years ago. I was driving with several friends. Among them was Jane (not actual names) who used to date another friend, John. Who was not present. This friend group in the car, while fairly mutual, was more Jane’s clique than John’s. Except me, who was closer to John. It occurs to me after writing that introduction to mention I had no romantic interest in Jane, not that kind of story.

Anyway, we started talking shit about and making fun of John in the car. I don’t remember how that got started or why I participated. I liked John and bore him no animosity at all. I guess just young and dumb and wanted to fit in.

Someone who was in the car told him about this and he called me out on it. I remember him being particularly bothered that I’d talk like that about him with his ex around others. Which, pretty understandable. I saw the wrong of it and felt like a real piece of shit. And that friendship never really recovered.

I don’t talk about people behind their back anymore or engage in any other kind of gossip.

Edit: couple changes for clarity.

Probably this is all very reactionary, NVIDIA’s stock will recover and they’ll remain a big player in the LLM space.

But I’m uninterested in LLM’s and would love to see price drops on GPU’s, so i hope there is a longer term moderate market loss for them in this space.