Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
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I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
Computer touching, osx request
@aynish o yeah another good one: whatever menumeters got renamed to. I forget the name but there is an app that puts CPU,ram,disk,network usage in your menu bar on the top right and IMO its super useful
Computer touching, osx request
@aynish iterm2 helps, besides that I dont have much to say.
Configuring home and end keys to work as intended appears to be a never ending per-app struggle on osx. I dont have any links for that unfortunately but I was able to get it mostly working thru various stack exchange threads
I think this is in part because the success of the fediverse is unique; its kinda the only post-web-2.0, genuinely community-owned platform that exists and has mainstream-ish mindshare.
So that success excites a lot of people, everyone wants their idea to succeed in the same way. So I think when they say "fediverse" in this context, they aren't actually talking about the fediverse itself as much as they are trying to reference its success and promise.
"Fediverse" just rolls off the tongue a lot easier than "self hosted platform that allows 1 admin to easily onboard 100 users, then form a resilient and genuinely useful global network with other servers while retaining autonomy on their own server"
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@genevieve I've been looking for an ISP that does not allow you to forward ports, CGNAT, etc, I havent heard of one yet in the US. I think CGNAT is more common in Europe
@genevieve actually now that I think abt it, I havent tested the porkbun support code yet 😅 it blows my mind that a simple, easy-to-set-up dynamic DNS app supporting all popular providers doesn't seem to exist yet.
@genevieve IMO just forward the desired ports on your router to your server and set up dynamic DNS.
I just helped someone else who also has Verizon home internet do this last week and it worked great.
I have an over engineered dynamic DNS app that I use, so far it supports Gandi and porkbun: https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/dns-updater
@gabek works on desktop and mobile without an install, search is great, no deliverability issues, etc
Another reason is because gmail has the best email ui
@astrid why 🤮 for homebrew? Im asking from a position of ignorance lol
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We should turn all cargo ships into sailboats again. Almost zero emissions plus having to wait a month for your amazon order would incentive local business.
But above all that: Just imagine the amazing look of that beasts.
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nothing ruins my motivation to send fixes to your open source project more than to ask me to sign a CLA for it.
sorry guys I'm just not that interested in reviewing a legal contract just to improve your software for free
sry im very 🍻 right now but I hope what im saying makes at least a little bit of sense
Answer is, right now its a fucking man page, which starts with, "how to read this manual"
And I think we, as a whole, have to do WAYYYYYY BETTER
I 10000% feel this and agree with you, if anything I think your take doesn't go far enough ...
IMO the linux platform itself, the server itself, needs another layer to provide UI
Even if someone ships a binary, how many years of experience in linux sysadmin are they gonna need to make it so that the binary starts up again when they reboot the fcker ??
It's not like systemd has 1st party documentation or easy to use tooling or anything... Even IF we can get it to turn on, thats only half the battle... We really want to operationalize a program with a full lifecycle.... Wheres the UI for that ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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I've been trying to install Akkoma for three hours. https://gabekangas.com/blog/2022/06/ship-software-not-code/
the omniscient nutrition provider aggregator
AP/mastodon is so bizzare because its populated by ppl who really DONT want publishing, preferring privacy+control+community-ownership over discoverability.
But PUB is literally in the name!!!! And its in the design, too; it feels like there's a big effort to shoe horn essentially e2ee group chat into something that was absolutely never intended to be used that way.
IMO it might eventually come time to start over w/ a new protocol more like SSB. Separate the server convenience service from the data ownership and authentication.
I think bitcoin wallet ui (electrum) has a lot to teach us about how to make e2ee live up to its security hype without falling into the same usability black hole of gpg
And that doesn't mean everyone *has* to have that level of control/responsibility. Just that its always an option. Can still have a server that owns your privatekey and has "forgot my password".
@WizardOfDocs saying this in a way that kinda sounds like equivocation, its an insult to graffiti 😮💨
They are really not the same. Really, rich ppl graffiti looks like big ornate pieces that take many hours to complete and hundreds of dollars in premium spray cans... The kind of grafiti often pointed to to try to "legitimize" it as an "art form".
Advertising and graffiti are not the same KIND of thing.
Demo Day at layer zero is starting soon! just streaming some dashcam footage right now while we wait
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
