What do the few people here who stop using Matrix altogether, replace it with? XMPP? Or do you just use Signal or the commercial messengers eveeyone uses?
hendrik
joined 4 years ago
I'm in the same boat. Keep me updated if you go forwards. I think I'm going to wait 2 more weeks or so and then make a decision. Community-driven sounds nice. I wasn't aware of cuntinuwuity yet. And yes, all the drama and burnt-out people isn't nice or healthy at all. It's a shame that this is the state of messengers these days.
It's likely not the end of Reddit, though. It's just going to be booming business for VPN providers. And other people will just upload their selfie. Last time I was asked to do something similar, I used AI to generate one and that worked fine.
I'm afraid that won't help. That was like 6 years ago and all the hardware isn't available any more. It's a Xeon 4 core, an affordable workstation/server mainboard that happens to be very efficient in idle, 48GB of RAM and a bunch of harddisks. I started out with 6TB and then bought the best size/price hdds, which should currently be somewhere in the 12-14TB range if I'm not mistaken?
I got the idea from the German computer magazine c't. They occasionally test mainboards and do recommendations for self-built home NAS, office or gaming rigs.
I think you're either looking for a tunnelling solution or a Web Application Firewall. And there are several options. ModSecurity, or SafeLine, BunkerWeb, Coraza, open-appsec. For (AI) crawlers and bad bots we have Anubis, Iocaine... or something like more traditional blocklists or something like OpenResty which is some modified Nginx plus modules...
The tunneling itself can be done with a simple reverse proxy like Nginx, Traefik, Caddy...
I've messed around a bit with ModSecurity. But I'm still looking for something aganist the crawlers.
I eventually moved to an energy-efficient PC. It has a large case and 6 SATA ports and lots of RAM. That replaced pretty much everything I had before. I try to buy the largest hdd I can afford every time I need a new one. And the old NAS and smaller harddrives get a second use as backup space and for experimenting.
I like YunoHost. That's an all-in-one solution to do the selfhosting for you. So you won't learn a lot about the intricate details of the tech, but you can install things with a few clicks. That's nice if you just want to use stuff. And that project has some track-record. I'm using it for years to self-host Peertube, Immich a Nextcloud and a few other things.
Oh man, I'm a bit late to the party here.
He really believes the far-right Trump propaganda, and doesn't understand what diversity programs do. It's not a war between white men an all the other groups of people... It's just that is has proven to be difficult to for example write a menstrual tracker with a 99.9% male developer base. It's just super difficult to them to judge how that's going to be used in real-world scenarios and what some specific challenges and nice features are. That's why you listen to minority opinions, to deliver a product that caters to all people. And these minority opinions are notoriously difficult to attract. That's why we do programs for that. They are task-forces to address things aside from what's mainstream and popular. It'll also benefit straight white men. Liteally everyone because it makes Linux into a product that does more than just whatever is popular as of today. Same thing applies to putting effort into screen readers and disabled people and whatever other minorities need.
If he just wants what is majority, I'd recommend installing Windows to him. Because that's where we're headed with this. That's the popular choice, at least on the desktop. That's what you're supposed to use if you dislike niche.
Also his hubris... Says Debian should be free from politics. And the very next sentence he talks his politics and wants to shove his Trump anti-DEI politics into Debian.... Yeah, sure dude.
Hmm... Would be interesting to find out what kind of effect that has on the average marriage or relationship 😅
Likely everyday stuff... Meeting minutes, phone or video conferences and such...
I meant both sex and gender. They regularly fail to tell me a lot for my own real life. I like some people and dislike others and it's easier for me to talk to / work with / collaborate or empathize depending on various circumstances. Personality traits, shared goals... Maybe sharing something or it's the opposite of that. I believe gender or sex or identity is a bit overrated and so is stereotyped thinking for a lot of applications. Or the need to conform to a stereotype. Dress and identify however you like, make sure to give your children an electronics kit, a plastic excavator and a princess dress... And unless that's really important for some niche application, don't feel the urge to look into people's pants and check what's in there.
I think AVC1 is another word for H.264. That's the oldest one with lots of hardware acceleration available in old devices and by far the biggest one in file size. VP9 should roughly be on a similar level with H.265. The main difference is that VP9 is supposed to be royalty-free and H.265 isn't. The best one is of course AV1. But that also takes considerably more resources to encode and decode.
M4A and webm both aren't audio codecs. They're file container formats. I believe m4a takes AAC audio. And webm is a more general container format and it takes video as well. I think audio will be either Vorbis or Opus. And Opus is fairly good, especially at low bitrates. There probably isn't a big difference to AAC, though.