Very relatable! I love the octopus in the background too. They show up everywhere :D

mblaze: a set of Unix utilities for processing and interacting with mail messages which are stored in maildir folders.

Toot: a CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon instances from the command line.

Newsboat: an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.

Dino: a modern open-source chat client (XMPP) for the desktop.

podget: a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron).

eldood: lightweight tool to find dates where everyone is free.

snac: a simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance.

beancount: double-entry accounting from text files.

Pass: a terminal based standard unix password manager.

• podget: TUI podcast aggregator, implemented as a couple thousand lines of bash
• mblaze: similar to mh - a suite of simple unix tools to work with email
• sxiv: lightweight image viewer
• pass: TUI password manager following the unix philosophy
• khard, khal, todoman and vdirsyncer: contact manager, calendar client, todolist and syncer, which are relatively simply implemented

I am currently setting up munin on my servers.

I like it so far - it’s old-school, lightweight and straightforward.

I have read so many posts like this, that try to explain why their company is a special case and why it could never happen to them, only to see the same thing happen again and again.

Tailscale are trying to insert themselves into the stack and become the go-to choice for this kind of networking. When their customers are dependent on it, of course they’ll start extracting rent and capturing as much as they can.

That’s their right, but it’s also a little condescending to pretend otherwise.

I for one would love to throw money at Mozilla, or any alternative, that has experienced developers behind it, doesn’t have conflicts of interest and acts on behalf of its users. This is why I donate to Servo, Ladybird and Dillo too (I know one of these is not like the others 😄).

I don’t think they’d reach their current levels of funding through donations, but it might be possible to get enough together to keep it on life support.

I know this wouldn’t be perfect, but surely better than losing it completely.

Tony Blair goes to bed clutching his driving license every night, but wishes it could be so much more. When he dreams, he dreams of a beautiful world of compulsory ID cards. When he wakes up, he remembers “ID cards are the answer!”, but seems to have forgotten the question.

Who funds the Tony Blair Institute again? Oh, it’s Oracle. Now, I wonder who would be administering the scheme.

I do think it is possible to implement ID cards in a way that respects democracy and privacy of its citizens. Unfortunately, knowing the record of our government with both parties in power, I just know it will be implemented in the worst possible way. Therefore, I think we should steer clear completely.

Do you think the government will get these questions right?

• Will this app support old phones that people can’t afford or don’t want to upgrade?
• What about rooted phones?
• What about phones that don’t run Android or iOS?
• Will people have the option of a physical hard copy? Would they have to pay for the privilege?
• Will it be optional (for now…) or forced on everyone? If optional, will some be excluded from many parts of society?
• Will it work offline?
• Will there be numerous bugs that prevent people from proving their right to be here, as there has been with the eVisa scheme?
• Will the amount of data it both collects and provides be the absolute minimum needed to prove your age or right to work?
• Will you have the right to both see, challenge and delete all the data that the government has linked to your ID?
• Will it be available in an open format, so that it is available to all and can be stored and verified using free software?
• Will the government spend money wisely on this project or syphon off millions to corrupt contractors?
• Will people be required to carry it at all times?
• Will storing all this information in a central location make it easy for to illegally share data between departments, as Musk did in the US?
• Will it start off just being used to verify your age and right to work, and gradually expand to all other areas of life including the ability to access content online?
• Will the scheme be administered in such a way, that you would be comfortable with Reform being in control of it?

Ultimately, they are not trying to solve problems, they are deciding they want ID cards, and flailing around trying to find ways to sell it to us.

This was a good watch. I liked the emphasis that you’re not paying for code per se, but paying to support a specific maintainer who is developing some code. In that context, already having a community around you, and doing a bit of self-promotion is important.

The same authour has another interesting video about the weird incentives around feature request bounties, which I enjoyed as well.

Sounds like a conspiracy from EA to make everyone think their graphics are better than they are :)

Looks very organised :) thanks for sharing!

Very nice! I tried a passenger+mail only game recently, I had everything connected, but each town was just paired with another similarly sized town.

When you say any train can get to any town - how do you decide your trains’ orders?

Also - do you have a screenshot of the track layout? Did you just evolve it over time or did you have a big plan from the beginning?

I host Synapse using this playbook. I can highly recommend it - the instructions are very clear and detailed and ongoing maintenance is straightforward too (just git pull and redeploy, and 5% of the time modify a deprecated variable).

As for how to delegate to a subdomain - that’s covered here. Basically - you set it up on matrix.example.eu and then have a “well known” file hosted at example.eu that tells other clients/servers where to look.